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Joel Kroeker
(Online)

Jungian Music Psychotherapy: An Approach to Individuation Through Musical Processes (Workshop)

Saturday, February 21, 2026

1:00 – 4:00 pm

Welcome to this exploration of the relationship between Music and Psyche. This kinship connection has been a long-held fascination of mine and I feel that the experience of being “in music” feels a lot like being “in a dream.” The relationship between musicking and dreaming has informed how I hear and experience the world. Music is a territory or location for psycho-spiritual development, which transcends language, offering us a chance to hear what cannot yet be seen within ourselves. Music is a waking dream with a soundtrack and I’ve found it to be a rich realm for deeply contemplative practice.

After working psychotherapeutically with hundreds of patients, families and groups, sharing music with audiences around the world and my own eventual formulation of Archetypal Music

Psychotherapy, my passion for this enigmatic alchemical relationship between Music and Psyche still burns as bright as ever, and I’m thrilled that you’re considering joining us in this exploration.

Joel Kroeker is a Swiss-trained Jungian psychoanalyst on faculty at the CG Jung Institute Zurich, a clinical supervisor and author with a private practice based in Victoria, BC. Drawing on over 25 years. of diverse experience Joel devotes part of his practice to training and supervising international practitioners in his original modality of Archetypal Music Psychotherapy across North and South America, China and Europe. He currently serves as a journal reviews editor for the Journal of Analytical Psychology and divides his time outside of clinical hours between parenting, musicking, teaching and writing. His book, Jungian Music Psychotherapy: When Psyche Sings is a finalist for the IAJS (International Association for Jungian Studies) book award and has also recently been released in Portuguese. His website is www.joelkroeker.com