“Whoever carries over into the afternoon of life the law of the morning must pay for it with damage to the soul.” (Jung 1931, CW 8, ¶787)
This webinar, for people 50+, teaches us how to shift our identity from midlife Hero to wise Elder, or from role (what we do) to soul (who we truly are). This workshop can help you discover how to shift your identity from doing, achievement, and image, to your spiritual essence, who you really are-from role to soul. It teaches how to move through late life as a rite of passage, releasing past forms, facing the unknown, and emerging renewed as an Elder. We explore the internal, unfamiliar terrain of soul-the subtle yearnings that appear in images and fantasies, the ways we respond or fear to respond to those messengers, and the symbolic meanings we glean from them. You can deepen your self-knowledge and eventually shift from denial to awareness, self-rejection to self-acceptance, obligation to flow, and distraction to presence. This is the deeper dimension of age, the universal journey of individuation, even the unfolding of advanced stages of human development, which are described in every spiritual tradition as the purpose of late life.
CONNIE ZWEIG, PHD, a retired Jungian-oriented therapist, is co-author of Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the Shadow. Her book, The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul, extends her work on the unconscious for people 50+. It won the 2022 Gold Nautilus award, the 2021 American Book Fest Award, and the 2021 Best lndie Book Award for best inspirational non-fiction. Her new book: Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path: The Dance of Darkness and Light in Our Search for Awakening, is available now.
