PAST EVENTS:
A Presentation/Class of my Thesis
“Coming to Love: Awakening Madness into Madeness:
A painter’s Journey into the Underworld”
This presentation relates the experience of coming to know the unconscious through, dreams, active imagination and the process of the creative act. The resulting creativity is presented in the form of paintings that express a relationship with the divine. All of the paintings came out of the author’s descents into the underworld, which were brought on by loss. Further explored is how creativity becomes a way to help a person through this loss, as well as, a way to connect with the unconscious in order to find out what is needed to be born out of the descent.
WHEN: Five Thursdays,
October 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29, 2020
TIME: 7:00 to 9:00
COST: $150.00 for the series
WHERE: Online via Zoom
PLEASE CONTACT: Karen at kewill@shaw.ca or (780)908-6819
Karen Williams, MA
R. Psychologist
A Creative Workshop:
Mask-Making from Your Dreams
Come explore your greater potential
through creating an animal or inner
figure from your dreams in the rustic For more info or to register call
country setting of the historical St. (780) 908-6819
Margaret’s Church. In this workshop Karen Williams, MA, R. Psychologist
we will create our experience of this
‘other’, who is wanting voice,
expression & relationship with us
--the dreamer-- through the mask.
Art/dream experience not necessary!
Supplies included.
When: Friday & Saturday, Aug 18th & 19th
Where: St. Margaret’s Church
Wye Road & Rg Rd 203
Time: 7pm-9pm (Fri.) & 10am-4pm (Sat.)
Cost: $150.00
WINTER DREAM GROUP
WHEN: Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016 to Wednesday, March 9, 2016. Ten Wed. evenings (Jan. 6, 13, 20 & 27th; Feb. 3, 10, 17, & 24th & March 2 & 9th)
WHERE: 9316 98 St., Edmonton, AB
TIME: 7:00 to 9:00 pm
COST: $295.00 for the ten sessions
LIMITED SPACES: Register by calling KAREN at (780)908-6819
Come Explore your greater potential through exploring the portal of your dreams in this group setting. We will explore the hum of where the dream is speaking to you--opening doors to your creative expression of this deeply important relationship to your inner Self. Previous dream work is unnecessary--only an interest in your dreams and a desire to learn more about them. We will work in a supportive and safe environment where each participant will be invited to share their dreams and also benefit from the other group member's questions, reflections and insights about the dreams--thus allowing for everyone to be enriched by the experience of working with each other's dreams.
KAREN WILLIAMS, MA, R. PSYCHOLOGIST
Animals and the Dream Creative Workshop
WHEN: Sunday, November 22, 2015;
WHERE: 9316 98 St., Edmonton
TIME: 10:00 to 4:00 pm
COST: $150.00 (includes supplies)
For more info or to Registrar call KAREN at (780)908-6819
Come explore your greater potential through exploring the animals in your dreams in this creative workshop. We will paint, draw and express our experience of the animals whom have come to us as living presences, bearing instinctual wisdom for us the dreamer. Art/dream experience not necessary! Supplies included.
(please note this is a new date)
FALL DREAM GROUP
WHEN: Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015 to Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015. Ten Wednesday evenings (Sept. 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30; Oct. 7, 14, 21 & 28 & Nov. 4th)
WHERE: 9316 98 St., Edmonton, AB
TIME: 7:00 to 9:00 pm
COST: $295.00 for the ten sessions
LIMITED SPACES, Register by calling KAREN (780)908-6819
Come explore your greater potential through exploring the portal of your dreams in this group setting. We will explore the hum of where the dream is speaking to you--opening doors to your creative expression of this deeply important relationship to your inner Self. Previous dream work is unnecessary--only an interest in your dreams and a desire to learn more about them. We will work in a supportive and safe environment where each participant will be invited to share their dreams and also benefit from the other group member's questions, reflections and insights about the dreams. Allowing for everyone to be enriched by the experience of working with other's dreams--as often our dreams speak of what we do not know about ourselves and seeing other's dreams can therefore be quite beneficial to our own learning.
________________________________________________________________
Presentation:
A Becoming: Psychological Reflections on the Feminine
June 13, 2015, U of A, Faculty of Secondary Education
13th Conference of Research in Jung and Analytical Psychology, Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies; On Nature and the Feminine: Psychological and Cultural Reflections
_________________________________________________________________
DREAM GROUP
WHEN: Wednesday, April 22, 2015 to Wednesday June 10, 2015.
Eight Tuesday evenings (April 22nd & 29th, May 6th, 13th, 20th & 27th, June 3rd & 10th)
WHERE: 9316 98 St., Edmonton, AB
TIME: 7:00 to 9:00 pm
COST: $225.00 for the eight sessions
Come explore the greater potential in you through exploring the portal of your dreams in this group setting. We will explore the hum of where the dream is speaking to you--opening doors to your creative expression of this deeply important relationship to your inner Self. Previous dream work is unnecessary--only an interest in your dreams and a desire to learn more about them. We will work in a supportive and safe environment where each participant will be invited to share their dreams and also benefit from the other group member's questions, reflections and insights about the dreams. Allowing for everyone to be enriched by the experience of working with other's dreams--as often dreams speak of what we do not know about ourselves and seeing other's dreams can therefore be quite beneficial to our own learning process.
_________________________________________________________________

WORKSHOP:
CREATIVITY, HEALING AND THE DREAM
DATE: Sunday, February 22, 2015
WHERE: Strathcona Community League
10139 87 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB
Parking Entrance on 86 Ave.
Lounge Room 2nd Floor
Use Ramp Entrance North side, 2nd Floor
TIME: 10:00 to 4:00
COST: $150.00 (Incl. supplies)
PLEASE CALL KAREN FOR MORE INFO
AND TO REGISTER::
(780)-908-6819
Come explore the greater potential within you through creating the images from your dreams in paint or pastel. Participants are asked to bring a dream or dreams--recent or from the past as early as childhood. Art supplies included. Art experience not necessary.
Karen Williams, MA
R. Psychologist
____________________________________________________________________________________________________
Presentation: Creativity, Healing & The Dream
Friday February 8, 2013
7 - 9 pm
University of Alberta
Rm. 2-115 Ed. North
Sponsored by The Jung Forum of Edmonton
Co-sponsored by The Dept. of Secondary Education
"Dreams show us how to find meaning in our lives, how to fulfill
our own destiny, how to realize the greater potential of life within us."
- Marie Louise von Franz
The Way Of The Dream
Almost 28 years ago, I dreamt of a beautiful plum woman flowing as she moved through the forest. Hers was a special gift, for with her paint brush, she could touch both nature and paper at the same time.
I took up that paint brush and through painting the images in my dreams–I found a great healing. I would like to present through some of these paintings, the experience of coming to know what von Franz describes as the greater potential of life in us. Exploring this art through the work of Carl Jung, not just as theory--but lived experience.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------