Join the master class
“Tarot Without Fortune-Telling. A Journey to the Self”
Date: 31 July 2021
Time: 11:00–15:00
Price: $10
Format: in person and online
Sign up: 067 613 10 88
Aims of the master class:
- An introduction to the Tarot system, its structure and its concept of the development of individuality in the context of the Major Arcana
- Linking the levels of the psyche with the archetypal symbolism of the Major Arcana
- Assessing the levels of the psyche: working with self-esteem, the self-concept and shadow content; identifying current requests, inner conflicts, active complexes and authentic needs; finding and recognising resources, potential, abilities
- Psychological correction of mental patterns and of habitual emotional and behavioural responses
- Developing a broad, systemic approach to the growth of personality and individuality
- A chance to link the material and spiritual sides of personal growth through the Major Arcana of the Tarot
- Broadening your view of so-called “unscientific” methods of exploring the psychological, personal and spiritual sides of human life
- Exploring and putting into practice what the Tarot can do in psychological assessment and correction, in overcoming inner conflicts and in a person’s all-round development
In the master class we will reveal the potential of the Major Arcana of the Tarot as a tool for gaining wholeness — a tool that opens the way to individuation and to unfolding a person’s potential and natural gifts.
The term “individuation” came to us together with other concepts of Jungian psychology: “archetype” and “collective unconscious” — terms introduced by C. G. Jung. Thanks to him, today we can engage with the deep layers of the unconscious and gain new possibilities for growth.
The collective unconscious is the accumulated psychological experience of all humankind, repeated by our ancestors since the most ancient times, repeated by us and to be repeated by our descendants. In other words, the collective unconscious is a vast ocean of psychic energy through which an ordinary person’s life can be transformed beyond recognition.
An archetype is the form that psychic energy takes as it rises from the depths of the unconscious; it forms the instinctive basis of human patterns and models of behaviour. Meeting archetypes in their own reality, a person makes particular choices every day and every second, responding to their surroundings in one way or another.
Working with Tarot cards, a person attunes to natural energetic rhythms that the psyche perceives through the archetypal image of each arcanum.
C. G. Jung held that a person’s main task is to become aware of their own Self.
That is, to become aware of inner opposites, to accept oneself unconditionally and to overcome inner conflicts. The way to the Self is the path of individuation — the path of self-knowledge and of accepting your inner world without fear, denial or prohibition. Inner freedom means gaining the Self as the guiding centre of the personality.
One of the ways that help you walk the path of individuation is working with the Arcana of the Tarot!
What the master class covers:
- A brief introduction to the Tarot system and its structure
- A brief overview of Jung’s theory of personality
- The structure of the psyche according to Jung
- Key concepts: the collective unconscious, archetype, individuation
- The archetypes: Inner Child, Mother, Father, Ego, Persona, Shadow, Anima and Animus, Self, Spirit
- The Major Arcana and the Hero’s Journey (Banzhaf) — the concept of the Soul’s development through the Major Arcana of the Tarot
- a structural model of the levels of psychic space
- exercises: “My Individual Path of Growth”, “A Message from the Shadow”, the art practice “The Path to the Self” and others.
In his book “The Hero’s Journey”, H. Banzhaf uses the Tarot arcana to describe every stage of a person’s path of individuation, from the very beginning to the end.
Using the Tarot in psychological counselling — living through the archetypes and engaging with their facets — makes it possible to unlock a person’s full potential!
The Tarot Arcana are connecting elements that bring the conscious and the unconscious together into a single whole, helping you accept yourself and grow up psychologically.
No special knowledge of psychology or of the Tarot is needed to take part.
This master class is for those who:
- are looking for new, interesting, unconventional tools for exploration and assessment
- are interested in psychology, depth psychology and Jungian thought
- work in a helping practice, in counselling or in other psychological support
- are looking for ways to talk with the subconscious and get to know themselves
- want tools for spiritual growth seen through the lens of psychology
- are interested in the Tarot but don’t know where to start
- want a structural model of self-development and the development of individuality
- want to spend time among like-minded people
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