Painting A Fairytale
November 17, 2026
2:00 PM
The JUNG Institute of Los Angeles | 10349 West Pico Blvd. | Los Angeles, CA 90064 | 310.556.1193 x 1 | administration@junginla.org
From Body To Symbol: Somatic Movement And Image Making As Pathways To Meaning And Resourcing FOI
Presented by Leyla S. Bell, PhD, LMFT, ATR-BC, RSMT/E
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Integrating principles from somatic psychology, Jungian psychology, and creative expressive arts modalities, this in-person experiential workshop introduces participants to somatic movement and image-making practices that support access to implicit, embodied, and symbolic dimensions of experience. Through guided movement, visual expression, and reflective writing, participants will explore how bodily sensation, gesture, image, and symbol can give form to inner experience that may not be easily verbalized. Participants will have opportunities to practice techniques that support self-regulation, embodied attunement, and symbolic expression in clinical work. No prior art or movement/dance experience is needed. Art materials will be provided. Please wear comfortable clothing and bring a journal for reflective writing.
Leyla S. Bell, PhD, LMFT, ATR-BC, RSMT/E, is a licensed psychotherapist, board-certified art therapist, and registered somatic movement therapist and educator in private practice in Santa Monica, California. Her clinical practice, research, and teaching integrate Jungian psychology, somatic psychology, movement and dance therapy, and creative expressive arts. She has a particular scholarly and creative interest in Persian mythology and fairy tales, and in the ways mythic images, symbolic expression, and embodied experience can deepen psychological understanding.
- Identify two somatic movement and image-making practices that may support self-regulation, creative insight, and embodied therapeutic attunement.
- Describe how kinesthetic sensations, gesture, posture, and nonverbal expression may provide information about emotional states and implicit experience.
- Analyze how somatic movement and image-making may help individuals identify, differentiate, and symbolically express feeling states.
- Apply one somatic or image-making intervention to a clinical example involving psychosomatic symptoms or nonverbal emotional expression.
- Explain how integrating experiential and reflective practices may support clinical attunement, emotional differentiation, and symbolic understanding in psychotherapy..
In person. JUNG Institute of Los Angeles. Limited to 10 participants.
3 CE Credits Available. Psychologists, LCSWs, MFTs, LPCCs: The C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Nurses: The C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles is an accredited provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing. Registered Nurses may claim only the actual number of hours spent in the educational activity for credit.
Requests must be emailed to publicprograms@junginla.org at least 24 hours before the program begins. No refund will be issued otherwise.
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