Shadow Work for Conscious Relationships

This interactive presentation about shadow work explores how the unconscious erupts in our lives and sabotages our relationships in repetitive arguments, criticism, distancing, projections, addictions, and life transitions. It explains why the shadow forms in childhood, how to detect it when it emerges, and how to use this practice to make a conscious relationship with it and choose different outcomes. We will explore three examples in depth, including times for self-reflection.

Have a pen and paper ready.

Learning Objectives
This course is intended to help you:

1. Detect when the shadow erupts and sabotages conscious intentions
2. Identify the cues that a particular shadow has emerged from the unconscious
3. Personify it as a shadow figure
4. Trace its roots in childhood origins
5. Create a conscious relationship with this hidden figure
6. Learn to meet its valid needs

Suggested Reading

• Meeting the Shadow by Connie Zweig and Jeremiah Abrams
• Romancing the Shadow by Connie Zweig and Steve Wolf

Instructor
Connie Zweig, Ph.D. is a retired Jungian-oriented therapist and author of Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the Shadow. Her award-winning book, The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul, extends Shadow-work into midlife and beyond and explores aging as a spiritual practice. Her book, Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path: The Dance of Darkness and Light in Our Search for Awakening, extends shadow-work into religion and spirituality. See conniezweig.com and her
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