Description

Becca Tarnas
(Online)

Jung’s Red Book and Active Imagination (Workshop)

Saturday, March 21, 2026

1:00 – 4:00 pm

In this workshop, participants will dive deeply into exploring the meaning of certain key visions and fantasies in C.G. Jung’s Red Book, interpreting the text and images in communal dialogue. The core of the workshop will be a guided group practice of active imagination, followed by a writing and drawing exercise that will allow participants to come into an objective relationship with the images that arise during the practice.

Breakup of Workshop Hours:

1:00–2:15pm – Introduction to theory and technique of active imagination; reading of segments from C.G. Jung’s Red Book and discussion and interpretation of the contents.

2:30–4:00 pm – Guided group practice of active imagination; following this experiential exercise, participants will record their experience in writing, drawing, or both, depending on their inclination.

Integration of exercise in active imagination, with participants sharing their experiences with the group; this will be followed by a reflection back on the theories presented in the first segment, to see how the theory and practice are in dialogue and mutually inform one another.

Becca Tarnas, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Her research interests include depth psychology, archetypal studies, literature, philosophy, and the ecological imagination. Becca is an editor of Archai: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology and author of the book Journey to the Imaginal Realm: A Reader’s Guide to J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. She is currently researching and writing a biography of Stanislav Grof, one of the co-founders of transpersonal psychology.