- Event Date: 28/10/2026
Write Your Undiscovered Self – 5 week online course, 28/10 – 25/11, 6-8pm
Event Details
- 18:00
- online
- From £150
Event Description
Join Write Your Undiscovered Self – a five-week online programme grounded in Jungian psychology led by writer & Jungian arts-based researcher Dr Rachel Newsome to learn how writing and imagination can be used as tools to access the unconscious, untether creativity and expand your sense of possibility.
Wednesdays 28/10 – 25/11, 6-8pm.
Over the five weeks you’ll receive an introduction to key Jungian concepts and will have an opportunity to encounter the creative unconscious through an exploration of your joyful child self, your wise great self and the hidden emotions behind your shadow self with a view to exploring the lessons of each while also imagining an expanded, grounded ‘future self’.
The focus of the programme is on process, rather than outcome, and on what comes up in the writing, rather than craft, skills and technique. This means that you don’t need any previous writing experience to benefit from the course and there will be no pressure to read anything out.
Sessions will include:
• An accessible introduction to key Jungian concepts including the collective unconscious, the archetypes & active imagination.
• Short writing exercises that will last approximately between 5 and 15 minutes.
• Small group discussions
• Weekly worksheets
• Recordings of each session
Who Is It For?
• Those on a journey of self discovery who are interested in learning writing techniques to support psycho-spiritual growth and who are comfortable with diving deeper
• Writers & creative practitioners interested in expanding their practice and range
• Therapeutic practitioners and professionals in health, social care, education, the arts & creative industries who would like to learn more about how writing can be a form of healing.
Course guidelines
Participants will be invited to:
• Take responsibility for your experience by engaging with the material at a level
that feels right for you
• Avoid ‘over-disclosing’ matter that is particularly painful or private
• Consider where you might get outside support if anything difficult comes up
• Practice CARE – confidentiality, attention, respect & empathy – with others.
About Dr Rachel Newsome
I’m a writer, teacher, public speaker & Jungian arts-based researcher with a PhD in writing-as-inner-work. I have over twenty years lecturing experience in Higher Education and now am an independent teacher & writer and run a programme of depth writing workshops, courses & retreats online and in person throughout the year. I’m a Seed Talks expert speaker, serve on the Editorial Team of the London Arts-Based Research Centre, am Co-Editor of forthcoming Routledge publication The Creative Psyche: Between Spirit & Matter and love to dive deep. I explain by doing over my Substack, Dreaming Awake.
rachelnewsome.co.uk
https://drrachelnewsome.substack.com
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