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8 Wednesdays: 6:00 – 8:00 pm ET on Zoom
Beginning October 7, 2026 (excluding November 25)
There is no single-session registration available.
Fall 2026 Contact hours: 16 CE contact hours for licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists for each seminar. For licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists applying for CE credit, students must attend all 8 sessions.
This is an online seminar using the Zoom platform.
A Zoom invitation will be emailed to enrolled participants shortly before the first class session.
This advanced seminar is open to the general public as well as to professionals.
Familiarity with basic Jungian dream theory (e.g., compensation, amplification, individuation) is assumed; no background in somatic psychotherapy, neuroscience, or Hakomi is required.
The C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, Inc., SW CPE, is recognized by New York State Education Department's State Board of Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0350. The C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts. #P-0015, and licensed creative arts therapists, #CAT-0068.
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Seminar 1: Fall 2026
8 Wednesdays: 6:00 – 8:00 pm ET on Zoom Beginning October 7, 2026 (excluding November 25)
There is no single-session registration available.
Instructor: Wen-Yu Cheng, PsyD
Dreaming the Living Psyche:
Jungian Dreamwork through Neuroscience, Somatic Approaches and Mindful Imagination
This advanced seminar explores how Jungian dreamwork can be understood and practiced in the twenty-first century. Remaining firmly grounded in Jung's original theory of dreams, the course places analytical psychology in dialogue with contemporary empirical dream research, affective neuroscience, and embodied and somatic approaches to psychotherapy. Participants will examine how these perspectives enrich — rather than replace — Jung's understanding of dreams as symbolic expressions of the psyche and vehicles of the individuation process.
The seminar's central premise is that Jung was not only a symbolic thinker but also an empirically minded clinician. His concept of psychophysical parallelism treated psyche and physiology as complementary expressions of a single underlying reality. Through close readings of Jung's own writings — including his interpretation of Dr. T. M. Davie's epilepsy dream, the Tavistock Lectures, and his later reflections on the possible neurophysiological basis of the archetypes — participants will see how directly Jung anticipated conversations that depth psychology and neuroscience are still having today. This claim is not merely historical. Recent empirical work — Christian Roesler's Structural Dream Analysis research project, Konstantin Rößler's 2025 IAAP Congress review of Jung's dream theory in light of modern dream research, and Mark Solms's affective-neuroscience account of consciousness in The Hidden Spring — shows contemporary science circling back toward positions Jung staked out nearly a century ago. The seminar treats this convergence as an invitation, not a verdict: a chance to think freshly about what dreams are and what they are for.
Designed for Jungian analysts, psychotherapists, and advanced students of depth psychology, the seminar integrates theory with clinical demonstration and experiential practice. Each unit builds toward the seminar's culminating arc, in which three contemporary, body-centered approaches to dreamwork are presented in turn: Tina Stromsted's Embodied Active Imagination (Authentic Movement), Barbara Holifield's Somatic Experiencing–informed approach, and the presenter's own integration of Hakomi-informed somatic mindfulness into Jungian analysis — together offered as contemporary responses to a question Jung himself left open.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this seminar, participants will be able to:
1. Articulate Jung's foundational concepts of dream interpretation, including the compensatory and prospective functions of dreams, symbolic amplification, objective and subjective levels of interpretation, dream series, and individuation.
2. Describe Jung's empirical method and his concept of psychophysical parallelism, including his diagnostic use of dream imagery and his later speculations on the neurophysiological basis of the archetypes and the Self.
3. Compare Jungian dreamwork with Freudian, relational, cognitive, and cross-cultural approaches to dreams.
4. Summarize key findings from contemporary dream research and affective neuroscience and evaluate their implications for Jungian dream theory.
5. Describe the neuroembodiment of the psyche within the analytic process — how attending to one's own bodily experience enhances a therapist's receptivity to signals from the inner world of self and other, and how somatic awareness, affect, and the therapeutic relationship itself carry the symbolic, instinctual, and implicit dimensions of a dream.
6. Apply a range of contemporary somatic and mindfulness-based approaches — including Stromsted's Embodied Active Imagination (Authentic Movement), Holifield's Somatic Experiencing–informed, trauma-attuned approach, and the presenter's own Hakomi Method — to deepen access to the creativity and wisdom of dreams through movement, art, writing, and dialogue, bringing increased awareness to the vital links between body and psyche, and to support present-moment attunement through moving and witnessing, enhancing emotional attunement and somatic empathy.
FACULTY
Presenter and Guest Faculty
This seminar is led by its presenter across all eight sessions, with two guest faculty each leading a dedicated session of their own: Tina Stromsted (Session 6) and Barbara Holifield (Session 7).
Wen-Yu Cheng, PsyD — Presenter Wen-Yu Cheng, PsyD, is a licensed psychologist based in Washington State and a Jungian analyst, neuropsychologist, and certified Hakomi therapist. He is an adjunct lecturer at Shih Chien University in Taiwan, and he serves on the boards of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, the C. G. Jung Foundation of New York, and the Hakomi Institute.
He trained and worked clinically at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, and the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. A lifelong practitioner of insight (Vipassana) meditation, he currently teaches the Hakomi Method for the Hakomi Institute of China and leads mindfulness meditation for the Transitions Support Group for individuals with spinal cord injury at Mount Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Cheng's interdisciplinary work sits at the intersections of analytical psychology, Buddhist psychology, somatic mindfulness, and clinical neuropsychology — the very synthesis this seminar is designed to teach.
Tina Stromsted, PhD, MFT, SEP — Guest Faculty, Session 6 Tina Stromsted is a training analyst at the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, a dance/movement and somatic psychotherapist, and an international teacher. Director of the Soul's Body Center and co-founder of the Authentic Movement Institute, she is a long-time faculty member of the Marion Woodman Foundation, Jung Platform, and Pacifica Graduate Institute. She has co-facilitated Active Imagination in Movement sessions at IAAP Congresses for more than two decades, and draws on fifty years of clinical practice at the intersection of depth psychology and embodiment. She is the originator of Soul's Body®, an integrative approach to embodied depth psychology, active imagination, and the creative arts.
Her new book, Soul's Body: Active Imagination, Authentic Movement, and Embodiment in Psychotherapy (Routledge, 2025), is the focus of her dedicated session in this seminar, where she presents Authentic Movement and DreamDancing as pathways into dream material and embodied clinical work.
Barbara Holifield, MSW, LMFT, SEP — Guest Faculty, Session 7 Barbara Holifield is a training analyst at the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and a certified practitioner of Somatic Experiencing. She taught somatic psychology for two decades at the California Institute of Integral Studies and is an international teacher of Authentic Movement. Her work lives at the intersection of Jung and the body, bringing together somatic experiencing, affective neuroscience, relational psychoanalysis, and the wisdom of the bodily-felt sense. Whether working with affect, trauma, or the nonverbal dimension of the numinous, she incorporates bodily felt experience into Jungian analysis.
Her new book, Being with the Body in Depth Psychology: Development, Trauma, and Transformation in the Unspoken Realm (Routledge, 2024), is the focus of her session in this seminar, where she discusses how she weaves somatic approaches into her clinical work and dreamwork.
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TUITION Tuition for the Fall 2026 8-week seminar is $540. Please note that there is no single-session registration. This program will not be recorded.
$540 Dreaming the Living Psyche
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