“Each life is wrapped around longings set inside dreams, wound into the fabric of our souls. We die for a lack of knowing how big our longing truly is, and we die from allowing our true longings to be diminished by the banality of life and the ways in which we continue to abandon ourselves.”
~Michael Meade
~Michael Meade
So many of us are experiencing a sense that we are lingering in “spaces that are too small and shabby for the grandeur of our spirit” (John O’Donohue). We may have abandoned our true longings, or at best, tucked them away in the security of our journals or explored them freely only in the safety of our therapist’s office. Still, we may be experiencing what Martin Luther King, Jr. called “the fierce urgency of now,” the desire toward self-actualization that would have us give way and sway to our deepest dreams and longings. If not now, then when?
In this course, we will
Saturday Session
Sunday's online Zoom day will consist of 2 three-hour sessions, from 9:00-12:00 and 1:00-4:00, with breaks within the session, and time spent off-screen journalling.
Online Modules
For five weeks following the course, a new module will open online every Monday containing a video presentation by Jennifer, handouts, and suggested journal topics to deepen your exploration of your own longings. Participants will have access to the material for three months.
In this course, we will
- Explore thirteen archetypal longings, those longings that come with being human
- Name our own true longings, the ones wound into the fabric of our souls
- Discern different loci for our longings, including the personal, the physical, the relational, the familial, the cultural, the political, the vocational, and the spiritual
- Uncover and discover what gets in the way of the fulfillment of our longings, the ways we abandon ourselves, and why
- Explore our addictions to things like perfection, safety, conformity, and many more which keep us from our truest self-expression
- Return to childhood, and look at how “the tyranny of shoulds” (Karen Horney) took hold then
- Recover our longings, and renew our vows to live our life in accordance with them
Saturday Session
Sunday's online Zoom day will consist of 2 three-hour sessions, from 9:00-12:00 and 1:00-4:00, with breaks within the session, and time spent off-screen journalling.
Online Modules
For five weeks following the course, a new module will open online every Monday containing a video presentation by Jennifer, handouts, and suggested journal topics to deepen your exploration of your own longings. Participants will have access to the material for three months.
"It remains the dream of every life to realize itself, to reach out and lift oneself up to greater heights. A life that continues to remain on the safe side of its own habits and repetitions, that never engages with the risk of its own possibility, remains an unlived life. There is within each heart a hidden voice that calls out for freedom and creativity. We often linger for years in spaces that are too small and shabby for the grandeur of our spirit."
~John O’Donohue
~John O’Donohue
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Jennifer Leigh Selig, PhD, is a depth psychologist, an educator, and an author who resides in California, but who travels and teaches all over the country and internationally. Her deepest longing is for connection, which is the reason she loves teaching with all her heart. Read more about her here.
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