SUNDAYS July 4, 11, 18, and 25 at 6 - 8 pm New York EST / 11 pm - 1 am London UK time / 12 midnight - 2 am Brussels Europe time

All classes will also be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time

PLEASE NOTE: ONLY PREVIOUS ATTENDEES OF ELEANOR’S ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE SELF COURSE ARE ELIGIBLE FOR THIS FOLLOW-UP COURSE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING.  

Picture this: We go back within, for more! Your mind contains an inexhaustible store of imagery, and the more often you access it, the freer and more surprising you find it to be. Its walls are elastic and stretch as you re-enter. Its contents, if we follow (even sceptically) Jung’s theory of the Collective Unconscious, are not limited to your own experience but extend to cover the memories, beliefs, dreams and visions of countless others who have gone to make up our human cultural heritage. 

For those who know that the first excavation left much to be uncovered, Eleanor welcomes you for a second time to her experimental Jungian art and creativity studio, with a new offering of readings, art prompts, Jungian themes, collective unconscious explorations and tools for retrieving your hidden imagery from behind the barriers that our past personal experiences and the pressures of current ways of life erect. You will be in the good company of fellow Archaeologists of the Self from the eight iterations of the course, and the unique group dynamic of those whom synchronicity has united over scissors and glue sticks makes each class special and different. 

No repeats! Participants will be offered a NEW MENU of poets, writers, filmmakers and artists for inspiration, new passages and concepts from Jung to study, can try different media to work with, and a new approach to personal sketchbook / journal keeping. Where some Jungian ideas were touched on too briefly in the previous course we will take them further as art tools: the Shadow, the Archetypes, House, connection to ancestors. By the end of the month you will have a new body of work, a new found faith that your creativity will never dry up, a clear idea of where to excavate next and a curiosity about your own inner imagery that seems to well up endlessly. In a culture that encourages procrastination, perfectionism, scarcity-thinking and competitiveness, the hidden truth is that with the right tools we can be prolific makers, writers and communicators even if what we make is not always what we set out to make. 

COURSE ACTIVITIES

• Group online draw / paint / collage sessions (extra 1 hour checkin class on the three Thursdays as before)

• Keeping a journal of dreams and waking visions

• Identifying inner sub-personalities and exploring THEIR creative voices ( what if each archetype in you had a different art style? )

• A private online gallery for the group, of work and work in progress

• Making personal objects inspired by Carl Jung’s memoirs, creations and buildings

• Film recommendations of some dreamlike classic works (Fellini, Bruce Bickford, the Brothers Quay, Jan Svankmajer)

• Discussion of archaeology and cultural memory

• Generating more handmade and digital images and artifacts, trusting the hands to solve problems that tax the intellect

• Final presentation of your second Museum of the Self over Zoom drinks

• Focus on deepening the wellsprings of creativity and imagery, trusting your subconscious to come up with the art, clearing blocks, developing confidence and expression.

Eleanor Crook is a sculptor and wax modeler who works between the UK and several international medical museums. She is an art tutor a number of UK's major art schools and an art educator in various European medical museums. She trained in sculpture at Central St Martins and the Royal Academy Schools, working from life and as a medical artist in the dissecting room. She is artist in residence at King’s College’s Gordon Museum of Pathology and the Vrolik Museum Amsterdam. Her work is in the collections of the Science Museum London, Gordon Museum of Pathology Guy's Hospital, the Museum of Pathology at the University of Padua, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society London and the Hunterian Museum Royal College of Surgeons of England. Her specialism is handmade effigies, baroque bronze and eerie lifelike waxes.

Images, in order: 1. C. G Jung, 1919, Illustration from The Red Book: "This is Atmavictu, the old one, after he has withdrawn from the creation"; Edward Beyer, 1858, The Tapestry Room, Weyers Cave, Augusta; Albrecht Dürer, 1514, Melencolia 1