Spiritual Threads in Psychotherapeutic Work

Portals and Pathways: Accessing the Messages from the Unconscious

In this talk Viv Fogel reflects on how high intensity states, often arising from early trauma, can be experienced as either life-negating or life-affirming, and containing a struggle between them. They can manifest in the dream-body, somatically, energetically, interpersonally, creatively and transpersonally – embodied, or dis-embodied, ancestral, transgenerational or archetypal – and often holding encoded messages which can be accessed without re-traumatization. Weaving stories from clients and her own journey Viv demonstrates ways of engaging with these energies whether internal or archetypal, also touching upon how clients can create energetic boundaries and the portals through which the ‘wise unconscious’ or the numinous can be discussed.