Active Imagination With Music [LECTURE]
2026-03-13 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Denver)
by Rich Ryan

Music is the most direct and mysterious way of conveying and evoking feeling. It is a way of connecting one consciousness to another. I think the nearest thing to telepathy is making music together. –Oliver Sacks

Carl Jung discovered the process he later named Active Imagination during his “encounter with his unconscious.” This journey led him to a 16-year project that ultimately culminated in the creation of The Red Book. Active Imagination has been elaborated upon and utilized through writing, painting, drawing, dancing, and sandplay. However, the application of Active Imagination through music has not been extensively explored or documented.

Music offers a rich projective field for engaging with the unconscious and the process of individuation. It functions as an archetypal and instinctive phenomenon, operating autonomously within the psyche.

The Friday evening program will demonstrate that music serves as a portal to the unconscious and acts as an archetypal force for accessing the collective unconscious. I invite you to explore this idea with me and share a musical experience through Jung’s method of Active Imagination by listening to music together.

In the Saturday workshop, we will delve deeper into the Active Imagination process using several short, selected pieces of music. Materials will be available for you to respond to your experiences through drawing and writing, and one particular piece of music will serve as a prompt for movement, dance, or spontaneous expression.

RICH RYAN, PhD LCSW trained at the Jung Institute of Los Angeles where he is a member analyst. He is also a member of the Interregional Society of Jungian Analysts and the C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe, where he is the incoming (2025) president and teaches in the Analyst Training Program. Rich is licensed in New Mexico and California and currently practices in Santa Fe and California. He is available for supervision, consultation, and analysis in person or by telehealth.

Get Tickets to Register

Select one of the ticket options below. Online registration ends on Friday, March 13, 2026 at 9:00 am Mountain Time.

If you registered to attend online via ZOOM, The ZOOM link will be sent out on Friday, March 13, 2026 at 12:00 pm Mountain time.

This lecture will be video recorded. Everyone who registers will receive access to the video one week after.

**Note: You must attend the LIVE lecture — either in person or online via ZOOM — to receive CEU credit (ie: no CEUs offered for only watching the video recording after the event).

In-person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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Active Imagination With Music [WORKSHOP]
2026-03-14 09:00 - 13:30
by Rich Ryan

Music is the most direct and mysterious way of conveying and evoking feeling. It is a way of connecting one consciousness to another. I think the nearest thing to telepathy is making music together. –Oliver Sacks

Carl Jung discovered the process he later named Active Imagination during his “encounter with his unconscious.” This journey led him to a 16-year project that ultimately culminated in the creation of The Red Book. Active Imagination has been elaborated upon and utilized through writing, painting, drawing, dancing, and sandplay. However, the application of Active Imagination through music has not been extensively explored or documented.

Music offers a rich projective field for engaging with the unconscious and the process of individuation. It functions as an archetypal and instinctive phenomenon, operating autonomously within the psyche.

The Friday evening program will demonstrate that music serves as a portal to the unconscious and acts as an archetypal force for accessing the collective unconscious. I invite you to explore this idea with me and share a musical experience through Jung’s method of Active Imagination by listening to music together.

In the Saturday workshop, we will delve deeper into the Active Imagination process using several short, selected pieces of music. Materials will be available for you to respond to your experiences through drawing and writing, and one particular piece of music will serve as a prompt for movement, dance, or spontaneous expression.

RICH RYAN, PhD LCSW trained at the Jung Institute of Los Angeles where he is a member analyst. He is also a member of the Interregional Society of Jungian Analysts and the C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe, where he is the incoming (2025) president and teaches in the Analyst Training Program. Rich is licensed in New Mexico and California and currently practices in Santa Fe and California. He is available for supervision, consultation, and analysis in person or by telehealth.

Get Tickets to Register

Select one of the ticket options below. Online registration ends on Friday, March 13, 2026 at 9:00 am Mountain Time.

This event is in-person ONLY.

In-person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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The Archetype of the Kore-Virgin in the Life of Georgia O'Keeffe [LECTURE]
2026-04-10 19:00 - 21:00
by Sarah Hoagland

What does it mean for a woman to be a Virgin-spiritually and psychologically-one-unto herself?

For a woman’s individuation to unfold, the archetypal patterns of the Kore arise as “inner necessity.” Georgia O’Keeffe eschewed the cultural conditioning of her times by following the still small voice of her creative inspirations to become who she was. In Jung’s essay, “The Psychological Aspects of the Kore” (CW9i para 306), Jung suggests that the Kore archetype could be a Supraordinate personality or Self figure for women.

The Friday evening lecture will examine these ideas and show how O’Keeffe arrived at creating her own painting style. We will consider her initial intent of creating forms that she felt were particular to the psyche of a woman, a definition she quickly abandoned in order not to be seen exclusively as a woman or woman’s painter. We will consider O’Keeffe’s own words and the evolution of her experimental charcoal drawings of 1915 in her effort to paint as a “Virgin”—spiritually and psychologically—“one-unto-herself.”

In Saturday’s workshop, “The Kore Archetype in Women’s Individuation and Creative Process,” we will explore what it means for a woman to become “one-unto-herself” with O’Keeffe’s example in mind. Through writing prompts for reflection and sharing together, we will reflect on the ways the values of the Kore Archetype relate to your own lives, and personal myth. We will view in more depth O’Keeffe’s paintings and explore the nature of creative process and identity development. We will ground these experiences in the body and include time for free play with line, color and form.

SARAH HOAGLAND, MA, LPC is a certified Jungian Analyst and has been in private practice in Portland, Oregon since 2004. She is a member of the PNSJA (Pacific NW Society of Jungian Analysts) and received her Diploma from the CG Jung Institute/Zurich in 2021. She has a MA in Pastoral Counseling and is a certified Spiritual Director. She is also a certified Marion Woodman Leadership trainer and has a special interest in exploring creative process and women’s individuation. She is a long-time Yoga practitioner and emphasizes the mind/body connection and the somatic unconscious in her clinical practice. She uses a variety of expressive arts in her work with clients.

Get Tickets to Register

Select one of the ticket options below. Online registration ends on Friday, April 10, 2026 at 9:00 am Mountain Time.

If you registered to attend online via ZOOM, The ZOOM link will be sent out on Friday, April 10, 2026 at 12:00 pm Mountain time.

This lecture will be video recorded. Everyone who registers will receive access to the video one week after.

**Note: You must attend the LIVE lecture — either in person or online via ZOOM — to receive CEU credit (ie: no CEUs offered for only watching the video recording after the event).

In-person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

Open Google Map

The Kore Archetype in Women’s Individuation and Creative Process [WORKSHOP]
2026-04-11 09:00 - 13:30
by Sarah Hoagland

What does it mean for a woman to be a Virgin-spiritually and psychologically-one-unto herself?

For a woman’s individuation to unfold, the archetypal patterns of the Kore arise as “inner necessity.” Georgia O’Keeffe eschewed the cultural conditioning of her times by following the still small voice of her creative inspirations to become who she was. In Jung’s essay, “The Psychological Aspects of the Kore” (CW9i para 306), Jung suggests that the Kore archetype could be a Supraordinate personality or Self figure for women.

The Friday evening lecture will examine these ideas and show how O’Keeffe arrived at creating her own painting style. We will consider her initial intent of creating forms that she felt were particular to the psyche of a woman, a definition she quickly abandoned in order not to be seen exclusively as a woman or woman’s painter. We will consider O’Keeffe’s own words and the evolution of her experimental charcoal drawings of 1915 in her effort to paint as a “Virgin”—spiritually and psychologically—“one-unto-herself.”

In Saturday’s workshop, “The Kore Archetype in Women’s Individuation and Creative Process,” we will explore what it means for a woman to become “one-unto-herself” with O’Keeffe’s example in mind. Through writing prompts for reflection and sharing together, we will reflect on the ways the values of the Kore Archetype relate to your own lives, and personal myth. We will view in more depth O’Keeffe’s paintings and explore the nature of creative process and identity development. We will ground these experiences in the body and include time for free play with line, color and form.

SARAH HOAGLAND, MA, LPC is a certified Jungian Analyst and has been in private practice in Portland, Oregon since 2004. She is a member of the PNSJA (Pacific NW Society of Jungian Analysts) and received her Diploma from the CG Jung Institute/Zurich in 2021. She has a MA in Pastoral Counseling and is a certified Spiritual Director. She is also a certified Marion Woodman Leadership trainer and has a special interest in exploring creative process and women’s individuation. She is a long-time Yoga practitioner and emphasizes the mind/body connection and the somatic unconscious in her clinical practice. She uses a variety of expressive arts in her work with clients.

Get Tickets to Register

Select one of the ticket options below. Online registration ends on Friday, April 10, 2026 at 9:00 am Mountain Time.

This workshop is in-person ONLY

In-person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

Open Google Map
