Connecting Sandplay

SUNDAY
JUNE 5
MORNING
8:30 – 10:00
WORKSHOPS/
PRESENTATIONS
(cont’d)
10:00 - 10:30
STA COnFerenCe PrOgrAm
Alchemy: Healing the Human Soul
Dyane Sherwood, PhD, JA, ISST/CST-T (Oberlin, OH)
C.G. Jung wrote:“Without the soul the body is dead, and without the body the soul is unreal.”
In a richly illustrated presentation, we will explore some of the evocative imagery
and symbolic language that the alchemists used to convey their probing of the mysteries
of matter and through it their quests for transformation of the human soul. Our focus will
be on images from a beautiful Renaissance illuminated alchemical manuscript, the Splendor
solis. Its images show us that the seeker of transformation of the human soul must go
beyond heroic values and enter into a new relationship to the world of nature. Its imagery
shows that patriarchal values had become too one-sided, and that there was a need for
redemption of the Feminine Principle of embodied relatedness. Both themes are found in
the sandplay of contemporary patients.
LeveL: InTermeDIATe, ADvAnCeD 1.5 HOurS Ce
10:00-10:30 MIDMORNING BREAK
10:30 - 12:00
PlENARY
ClOSING PRESENTATION
Embodied Consciousness
Judy Zappacosta, mA, LmFT, ISST/CST-T (Capitola, CA)
In ancient times, rhythms of the
earth offered resonance, symmetry
and unity to the universe. Paracelsus,
through alchemy, Jung, through his
explorations of the unconscious, and
quantum physicist Linus Pauli all
recognized that spirit lived in matter,
as the lumen naturae, or the light in
nature. This concept has grown over
time into a unifying principle within
the universe. Integrating spirit and
matter, in sandplay and with embodied
consciousness, brings contact
with this timeless aspect of transformation.
This closing session invites
the practice of bringing spiritual impulse
close to the body and exploring
its natural expression with heart and
meaning.
LeveLS: ALL 1.5 HOurS Ce