THE ARCHETYPES

The Inner Council is an archetypal model of subconscious interaction used to discover deeper aspects of soul purpose. By opening these narratives, we begin an adventure toward the realisation of our personal myth—the meaning, challenges, and gifts we have chosen to embody in this lifetime.
Rather than allowing these themes to play out unconsciously through our relationships and routines, this module creates a safe space to explore them with awareness. Through symbolic dialogue and guided imagination, participants learn to unravel the mysteries of their personal mission and bring insight into everyday life. For Inner Child practitioners, this module expands the practice with advanced tools for working with the archetypal field, bridging psychological and spiritual dimensions of healing.

This module builds upon the foundations of the Inner Child Workshop and Mentoring Program. We recommend that participants have already established:

If you are unsure of your readiness, your practitioner will help assess when the timing feels right.

Please note: The module is delivered through theory, practice and demonstration. Interacting with the subconscious is purely results based and requires active and attentive attendance from yourself and the ability to give clear feedback to the practitioner as you progress through the module.

In this module, we open a protected space where other aspects of the psyche or “inner council members” can emerge safely. These may appear as mythic figures, ancestors, animal guides, or symbolic archetypes that represent deeper layers of your personal and collective story.

Through dialogue, reflection, and guided process, we learn to:

“The primary, and irreducible, language of these archetypal patterns is the metaphorical discourse of myths. These can therefore be understood as the most fundamental patterns of human existence. To study human nature at its most basic level, one must turn to culture (mythology, religion, art, architecture, epic, drama, ritual) where these patterns are portrayed.” – James Hillman

The term archetype describes a broad spectrum of inner forms and characters that arise from the personal and collective unconscious. They may appear as:

When these archetypal forces are in balance, we experience meaning, empathy, and purpose. When they become distorted or overloaded, they generate defense mechanisms such as repression and dissociation. Through the inner council dialogue, we restore this balance and re-establish harmony between the archetypes, allowing vitality and insight to return. This journey is both psychological and spiritual, a path of purification and integration that aligns emotional, energetic, and ancestral dimensions of being. As we accept the responsibilities that come with deeper knowledge, we become grounded residents of our own inner domain and discover the healing power of embodied imagination.

Participants learn the principles and practices of active imagination as taught by Carl Jung, Henry Corbin, and later expanded by imaginal scholars such as Gilbert Durand and Rafael López-Pedraza.

Depending on your journey and intentions, your practitioner may draw from:

Although dreamwork overlaps with these approaches, this module focuses specifically on conscious engagement within the imaginal space rather than dream interpretation.

The inner council practice itself is a form of active imagination where a setting provides the most potent meeting place for interaction with archetypes or wisdom keepers. We further utilise our Inner Child to engage in a reconciling dialogue of mutual respect and reciprocity, allowing the deepest of the subconscious to approach. The archetypes then often demonstrate integration techniques by inviting us on investigations and adventures which weave narratives through our conscious and subconscious.

Working with the archetypes is an act of remembrance, a return to the living language of the soul. Through dialogue with these inner figures, we come to recognise that what we once called “myth” is the intimate architecture of our own being. Each encounter restores a forgotten piece of wisdom, each symbol reawakens meaning. As the Inner Council expands, life itself becomes the temple of our learning. The archetypes do not ask for belief, only for attention. When we listen, they reveal the hidden order of our story and remind us that the sacred and the human have always been one.

Although there are many overlaps, we do not discuss the specifics of dream interpretation in this module.

*These prices are a guide for practitioners, please contact your practitioner for their prices.

Archetypal therapy approaches imagination as the primary reality and regards the images and forms that arise within it as living presences, to be taken seriously, though not literally. Rather than applying external psychological models, the work develops a sense of soul, traversing the imaginal middle ground where symbolic expression leads to integration of fragmented aspects of self.

More an art than a science, archetypal therapy requires the sensitivity to recognise mythic terrain, not to interpret it, but to move within it. The therapist’s role is to hold a poetic and rhetorical awareness of archetypal forms, characters, and settings, allowing the images to reveal themselves on their own terms through active imagination. This module offers a grounding in these perspectives, guiding practitioners toward a personal understanding of myth and metaphor as living processes of healing.