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The Rise of Jung in Me
An Individuation Journey for Everyone
A presentation by Dr Toula Gordillo
Individuation is ongoing for us all. Sometimes we have unrecognised complexes in our shadow. Sometimes they are recognised, but we don’t know how to integrate them. In this presentation, Dr Toula describes her own individuation journey leading to the creation of Story Image Therapy (SIT®) and its psychospiritual adjunct, SIT Shadow Work™. She will describe her stages in the process, including the recognition, embrace and ultimate integration of complexes in her adolescent shadow that caused her pain as an adult. She’s emerged more resilient than before, and now wishes to teach others what she has learned through her sojourn travels through ‘the dark night of the soul’.
When there’s an ego death, projections are pulled back. There is a unification between our thinking and feeling functions, and an alchemical process begins. Dr Toula’s individuation journey is the subject of her recently published book, The Rise of Jung in Me. In it, she outlines not just her own SIT Shadow Work™ voyage, but she also offers six case studies of young people whose lives were transformed through the practical application of SIT Shadow Work™.
About the Presenter
Dr Toula Gordillo Dr Toula is a practicing Clinical and Jungian psychologist. She’s also a former teacher, specialist Guidance Officer, Intensive Behaviour Support, and Head of Student Services in some of Queensland’s largest high schools. Triggered at age 38 by events in her employment, her unconscious hero/heroine’s journey to Self-commenced. It was not until age 48, however, when she re-experienced familiar feelings (complexes in her adolescent shadow) that her conscious journey inward began in earnest.
As her individuation progressed, she started using Story Image Therapy (SIT®) to heal her complexes. Among other methods, she began journaling. The Rise of Jung in Me is the outcome of her journaling process… what she now calls first-person Jungian action research.