What you will receive:

• 4 Live Webinar Sessions with Q & A
• 4 Links to the Recordings
• 4 CECs

The Exodus is an archetypal journey of healing from collective trauma and reconnecting with the sacred in the wake of catastrophic loss. As we are awakened through numinous experience, we reconnect with the Self’s guiding wisdom. The archetypes in the Exodus story show us how to grieve the losses engendered by trauma, reconnect with the wellsprings of ancestral memory, discover the light hidden in the darkness of what may have been disowned in our family and cultural lineages, and soften defenses developed in response to trauma. We are transformed by wisdom gathered through the journey of suffering and post-traumatic growth.

The workshop explores the interrelationship between Jungian theory, Jewish mysticism and the role of the Sacred Feminine in moving from a state of alienation created by personal and collective trauma to a restoration of the connection with the Self. We explore how the archetypal arc of the Exodus story shows us how to heal through:

• reconnection with our capacities for embodiment, feeling and imagination;
• opening to the numinous;
• a healing of our ancestral lineages;
• a descent into the depths;
• the healing power of redemptive grief; and
• rebirth to an expanded consciousness

This Course is Ideal For:

• Those interested in understanding mythic stories about healing intergenerational and collective trauma
• Those interested in understanding more about the Sacred Feminine in Biblical myth
• Those interested in understanding the role of the Feminine in healing collective trauma
• Those interested in understanding the relationship between Jewish mysticism and psychology

Course Overview:

(Weekly Titles/Themes)

1. A short overview of Jewish mysticism including Jungian perspectives on kabbalah, and Jungian views on transgenerational trauma.
2. The experience of exile and awakening through the relatedness of the Sacred Feminine
3. Healing cultural complexes and reconnection to the Self
4. The Sacred Feminine (Serach bat Asher) as a guide to ancestral memory; Lilith and the redemptive power of collective grief; the Shekhinah and Miriam as symbols of rebirth

Week 1 – Introduction and Overview of Course
Overview of Jewish mysticism

• Jungian perspectives on Jewish mysticism
• Jungian views on transgenerational trauma
• Jewish mystical perspectives on transgenerational trauma

Discussion Questions and Q&A

• Journaling Prompt and Time for Journaling
• Group Sharing

Week 2 – Exile
Check in From Previous Week- Thoughts, Dreams, Questions

• The experience of exile in post-modernity
• Exile and its meaning in our own time

The Feminine and Healing From Exile:

• Awakening from the trance of exile through the relatedness of the Feminine
• The archetypal story of Miriam and the Copper Mirrors

Discussion Questions and Q&A

• Journaling Prompt and Time for Journaling
• Group Sharing

Week 3 – The Self
Check in From Previous Week- Thoughts, Dreams, Questions

• Moses as Archetype of Connection to the Self
• Discovering the relationship with the Self through numinous experience

Injury to the Ego-Self Axis

• cultural complexes and the loss of connection to the Self
• healing cultural complexes and restoring the Ego-Self axis

Discussion Questions and Q&A

• Journaling Prompt and Time for Journaling
• Group Sharing

Week 4 – Pathways to Healing
Check in From Previous Week – Thoughts, Dreams, Questions

• Reconnection with ancestral memory (the archetype of Serach)
• Descent as pathway to individuation (the archetype of Joseph)

Discussion Questions and Q&A

• Journaling Prompt and Time for Journaling
• Group Sharing

By the End of This Course, You Will Be Able To:

CEC Learning Objectives:

• To identify five psychological concepts related to transgenerational and cultural trauma.
• To integrate three concepts relating to the healing impact of the cultural collective unconscious.
• To analyze five Biblical archetypes through the lens of Jewish mysticism and Jungian theory.
• To understand the role of the Sacred Feminine in the Exodus myth
• To demonstrate how reconnection to the cultural collective unconscious supports healing of transgenerational and cultural trauma.

References:

Books

Cooper, David. God Is a Verb: Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism. (NY: Riverhead
Books, 1997).

Drob, Sanford. Kabbalistic Visions: CG Jung and Jewish Mysticism, 2d ed. (London and NY:
Routledge, 2010).

Edginer, Edward. The Bible and the Psyche: Individuation Symbolism in the Old Testament. (Toronto: Inner City Books, 1986).

Fershtman, Shoshana. The Mystical Exodus in Jungian Perspective: Transforming Trauma and
the Wellsprings of Renewal (London: Routledge, 2021).

Kluger, Rivkah Scharf. Psyche In Scripture (Toronto: Inner City Books, 1995).

Novick, Leah. On the Wings of Shekhinah: Rediscovering Judaism’s Divine Feminine. (Quest
Books, 2008).

Schwartz, Howard. Tree of Souls : The Mythology of Judaism, Oxford University Press, Inc.,
2004. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/pacgradins-ebooks/detail.action?docID=273316.

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

Judith Dowling (2018) Lost Voices of the Feminine, Jung Journal, 12:2, 52-67.

Robin Eve Greenberg (2022) The Kabbalah Dance, Jungian Analysis, and Home in Soul,
Jung Journal, 16:4, 70-96.

Lancaster, B. L. (2018). Re-veiling the revealed: Insights into the psychology of “enlightenment”
from the Kabbalah. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 37 (2).

Naomi Ruth Lowinsky (2014) Self-Portrait with Ghost: The Art of Lament and
Redemption, Jung Journal, 8:3, 37-65.

Lance S. Owens (2018) C. G. Jung and Erich Neumann: The Zaddik, Sophia, and the Shekhinah,
Psychological Perspectives, 61:2, 133-151.