March 10, 17, 24, 31, 2026
Tuesday afternoons, 2:00 -4:00 pm (PST)
Presented by Marion Anderson, Ph.D.
Zoom Only
This experiential workshop will utilize painting as a means of helping participants explore the psychological experience of loneliness through a process of creating a series of images that amplify and represent their personal response to this theme. This symbolic representation of unconscious material is designed to help participants become more aware of their own material at both personal and archetypal levels. For mental health professionals, this process can be invaluable in training oneself to guide patients in their own journey of working directly with unconscious material as described by Jung.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe how the painting process can be used as a way of working with one’s personal imagery and can be of value in the therapeutic process.
- Describe some of the difficulties that might occur when a patient is expressing inner images through painting.
- Give an example of how working symbolically with inner images can help patients integrate and work more consciously with their shadow material.
- Describe how painting symbols from the unconscious can have a healing effect on clients by working more directly with defensive structures hard to access otherwise.
- Describe how this technique can be helpful during times of emotional transition.
- Describe how creating an image with the hands can stimulate a more active attitude and why this might be critical in working with patients.
- Give an example of how symbolic content expressed through painting images of the unconscious can help mental health professionals guide clients through trauma and crisis situations.
- Describe how to amplify an image within a group process.
Marion Anderson, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist, Jungian analyst, and certified Sandplay therapist (STA/ISST) in private practice in Santa Monica. She is a member of the faculty at the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, where she teaches Jungian theory, Sandplay, and Active Imagination, and offers painting workshops. A native German, she is a founding member of the Sandplay Society in Brazil, where she lived and practiced as a clinical psychologist for 13 years before moving to the US. She teaches and lectures nationally and internationally and is the author of several articles published in Psychological Perspectives and the Journal of Sandplay Therapy.
Attendance:
A Zoom link will be emailed a few days before the event.
Continuing Education:
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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.
Refund:
Requests must be emailed to administration@junginla.org at least 48 hours before the program begins. No refund will be issued otherwise.
March 10, 17, 24, 31, 2026
Tuesday afternoons, 2:00 -4:00 pm (PST)
Presented by Marion Anderson, Ph.D.
Zoom Only
This experiential workshop will utilize painting as a means of helping participants explore the psychological experience of loneliness through a process of creating a series of images that amplify and represent their personal response to this theme. This symbolic representation of unconscious material is designed to help participants become more aware of their own material at both personal and archetypal levels. For mental health professionals, this process can be invaluable in training oneself to guide patients in their own journey of working directly with unconscious material as described by Jung.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe how the painting process can be used as a way of working with one’s personal imagery and can be of value in the therapeutic process.
- Describe some of the difficulties that might occur when a patient is expressing inner images through painting.
- Give an example of how working symbolically with inner images can help patients integrate and work more consciously with their shadow material.
- Describe how painting symbols from the unconscious can have a healing effect on clients by working more directly with defensive structures hard to access otherwise.
- Describe how this technique can be helpful during times of emotional transition.
- Describe how creating an image with the hands can stimulate a more active attitude and why this might be critical in working with patients.
- Give an example of how symbolic content expressed through painting images of the unconscious can help mental health professionals guide clients through trauma and crisis situations.
- Describe how to amplify an image within a group process.
Marion Anderson, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist, Jungian analyst, and certified Sandplay therapist (STA/ISST) in private practice in Santa Monica. She is a member of the faculty at the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, where she teaches Jungian theory, Sandplay, and Active Imagination, and offers painting workshops. A native German, she is a founding member of the Sandplay Society in Brazil, where she lived and practiced as a clinical psychologist for 13 years before moving to the US. She teaches and lectures nationally and internationally and is the author of several articles published in Psychological Perspectives and the Journal of Sandplay Therapy.
Attendance:
A Zoom link will be emailed a few days before the event.
Continuing Education:
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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.
Refund:
Requests must be emailed to administration@junginla.org at least 48 hours before the program begins. No refund will be issued otherwise.
