Join us for an immersive evening of transformation featuring depth psychotherapist, Theresa Holleran, intertwined with art, poetry and live music.
Immersive Evening: Entering the Chrysalis, The Soulful Art of Transformation
Friday, November 3rd
6:30-9:00 pm
University of Utah Union Center Saltair Room
200 Central Campus Dr, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Opening Poet: Rachel White
Live Music: Amanda Lynn Jones
Visual Artist: Randee Levine
Schedule:
6:30-7:00 pm – Live Music & Art Mingle
7:00-8:30 pm – Talk by Theresa Holleran
8:30-9:00 pm – Community Social
Tickets $10 in advance | $15 same day / at the door (if available)
Supporting and Professional Members get in free!
1.5 CEUs available for Utah Mental Health Professionals ($5 or free for Professional Members)
Sometimes we are hurled by devastating and unforeseen life circumstances into the chrysalis. Sometimes the call comes from the still small voice within. And sometimes it comes from the insistent lamentations from those parts of us that are longing, depressed, anxious, grieving, and devastatingly lonely.
“Without an understanding of myth … without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries of life as meaningless mayhem.” – Marion Woodman
Our world is teetering on madness and annihilation. Yet, there are moments of astounding beauty, inspiration, and hope. Living this paradox is our invitation to find the rituals and containers that can hold us as the old forms are disintegrating.
“It is the twilight zone between the past and the future that is the precarious world of transformation within the chrysalis. Individuals who accept the chrysalis have accepted a life/death paradox, a paradox which returns in a different form at each new spiral of growth. If we accept this paradox, we are not torn to pieces by what seems to be intolerable contradiction. Birth is the death of the life we have known. Death is the birth of the life we have yet to live.” – Marion Woodman
Together, we will move through an experiential evening of myth, dreaming, storytelling, poetry, lecture, and dialogue as we explore the mysterious call to enter the chrysalis and initiate the transformational journey. We will illuminate the archetypal pattern of this journey trusting that each of us has an inherent drive towards wholeness, integration, and transformation.
“The cave you fear to enter, holds the treasure you seek.” – Joseph Campbell
Like the caterpillar, may each of us and the citizens of our world heed the call, surrender, and find our way into the new life.
About Theresa Holleran, LCSW:
Theresa has been a Depth Psychotherapist, teacher, and facilitator for almost 50 years. She has taught graduate courses in Transpersonal Psychology, Eco-psychology, and Process Work, and has co-created national and international retreats and sacred journeys in both urban and wilderness settings on themes of embodied healing and transformation, suffering, wisdom and resilience, gender, ecology, and spirituality, and the Sacred Inner Marriage. She currently works with individuals, relationships, groups, and communities in her private group practice at Mountain Lotus Counseling in Salt Lake City. Her work is predicated on knowing that each person has an inherent destiny that can be revealed through the exploration of the unconscious and its effects on consciousness and that personal individuation is directly tied to the fate of our planet.
Sponsorship starts at $100 and is available for this event
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