Deep Imagery — Workshop
In-person event only
To Book:
Pay cash on the day or pre-pay by direct deposit and email your payment receipt and booking information (your name, phone number, and the name of the activity you wish to attend) to
events@jungqld.com.
Direct Deposit Details:
Account Name: C.G. Jung Society of Queensland
BSB: 313 140
Account No.: 12363389
Reference: Please use your name as the reference
When Steve Gallegos (1934 – 2023) began developing his training process for people to become guides in Deep Imagery, he wrote: “My focus was to bring the participants through experiencing the entire process themselves before we entered into any intellectual description. It is thus a profoundly experiential process. It is based first of all on experiencing ones aliveness and all of its components and then bringing these components into a wholeness whose direction is fully tangible.”
The emphasis is the same for anyone entering the imagery process as either an individual client or in a group: An imagery journey is experiential. If in the process of, say meeting a bear in your imagery, you may be tempted to think what a bear means, what its symbolism stands for in western society or mythology. In the journey, you should seek to preference the experience of observing and listening to and communicating with your animal, being guided by it. You are meeting with your animals or images, not society’s idea of an animal. You are connecting with a deeper part of yourself.
Most people who try Imagery easily get the hang of it. It is a gentle and relaxed process often including humour. It may take you to challenging inner places to heal or advance your inner growth: it knows when you are ready. Imagery can lead to energetic movements in your body.
The workshop will begin with a check-in and introduction of the process. Then guided relaxation, a journey, and coming back into the circle to share (always optional). That can take up to an hour depending on numbers attending. Then through the day, the journeying and sharing continues maybe two or three more times.
What to Bring:
The workshop will have lunch and tea breaks at appropriate intervals. Please bring lunch to share.
Bring a notebook and pen to write some notes about your journeys. Bring a yoga mat or similar to lie on the floor for journeys or use a chair. Wear comfortable clothes. Maximum number of workshop attenders is 20.
Presenter |Frank Coughlan
I first came across Deep Imagery in Dublin 1988 at a time when my work in statutory child protection social work was extremely stressful. A therapist I had been seeing at the time guided me in my first animal imagery journey which gave me an immediate sense of relief and deep connection with my inner self. From the very next weekend, I attended Deep Imagery workshops by Margaret Vasington, a therapist who visited Dublin from the USA a couple of times a year. By 1993, when I emigrated to Australia, I had begun the three year training in Deep Imagery with Margaret in Ireland. From my new home in Australia, I travelled to complete the training with Deep Imagery Founder and psychologist, Steve Gallegos at his centre in New Mexico, USA. Deep Imagery has been a hugely important part of my work and my life ever since, in individual sessions in private practice, in group work and in Animal Imagery Festivals. A monthly Imagery group I started in 1996 in Brisbane at the Quaker Meeting House has morphed through COVID into an online group with many of the original group still attending to this day.
Currently living in Ballina, NSW, apart from Deep Imagery commitments, I work part-time as a counsellor in an early mental health support program for children up to 12 years, Mijung Jarjums (happy kids) Kids In Mind. I also counsel teenagers at Headspace in Lismore, NSW, both in the employment of Social Futures. Past positions in Australia included, Supervising counsellors at Kids Help Line in Brisbane, Caretaker of the Quaker Meeting House in Kelvin Grove and not forgetting a rewarding period as President of the C.G. Jung Society of Queensland for 5 years!