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Building on his recent book Embodiment: Creative Imagination in Medicine, Art and Travel, Robert Bosnak will explore the ways in which images in dreams and flashback memories present themselves as quasi-physical environments in which we unexpectedly find ourselves. These dreamed environments and their inhabitants behave in an apparently intelligent fashion. The craft of embodied imagination is to create an interaction between waking intelligence and the embodied intelligences encountering us in the creative imagination of dreaming, memory, and art.

Using the innovative techniques developed by the practitioners of embodied imagination, participants will be given demonstrations of the work and practical exercises to learn for themselves. A presentation of theory ranging from phenomenology, alchemy, neuroscience of memory, and complexity theory to the works of C.G. Jung, Henry Corbin, and sense memory techniques in theater, will be woven in throughout. Participants will learn to use the hypnagogic state of consciousness to facilitate flashbacks giving direct access to dreaming and memory. They will come to appreciate, if they haven't already, the intricate intelligence of the involuntary creative imagination, which presents itself to us day and night in our sense of past, present, and future. It is the first reality we know.

Robert Bosnak, PsyA, is a Jungian psychoanalyst who left his native Holland in 1971 to study in Zurich at the C.G. Jung Institute. He had his psychoanalytic practice in Cambridge, MA, from 1977 until 2003. He currently lives and works in Sydney, Australia, while training therapists, actors and other artists worldwide in the embodied imagination method he has developed, based on the work of Jung, Hillman, Corbin, and Stanislavski. In 2006 the International Society for Embodied Imagination was founded in Guangzhou, China, which now governs training programs in Los Angeles, Shanghai, Sydney, and Online. His methods have been used as a rehearsal technique by various theater companies, including the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford. He is the co-founder in 1997 of www.cyberdreamwork.com the first interactive site for real-time voice and video work with imagery. He co-organized, with Pacifica Graduate Institute, the 2007 conference Imagination and Medicine, which was aimed towards the establishment of an integrative medical healing sanctuary in Santa Barbara. Proceedings from this conference will be published by Spring in 2008. His latest book, Embodiment: Creative Imagination in Medicine, Art and Travel, was published by Routledge in 2007. He is past-president of the International Association for the Study of Dreams.

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