Imaginal Stone: Dreaming with Eyes Open
A workshop with Cyndera Quackenbush, M.A.
$20 ($15 for students, interns, artists) (reserve here)
Friday, May 18, 2012
7-9pm
Holos San Francisco Office
310 Third Ave. @ Clement St.
Deepen your connection to the Earth with billion year-old stones from Death Valley!
In this hands-on workshop, Cyndera Quackenbush will lead a projective meditation process where the group imagination engages with the Imaginal Stones. Stories within the stones are found and expressed in writing, drawing and oral storytelling. Shared and explored with the group, these earth-inspired waking dreams can reveal personal life themes or messages for the culture. While this process is projective, space is held for the stones to speak for themselves through their vivid, often intense, naturally occurring imagery.
The Imaginal Stone workshop challenges participants to be open to deep eco-collective questions: What, in these stories sparked from stone, might reflect realities in the anima mundi, the world soul? Can tending to these dream themes nurture, cultivate and ultimately bridge the gap between modern civilization and a very ancient planet?
Cyndera Quackenbush is the founder of Imaginal Stone, an organization bringing the beauty of billion year-old stones to the realms of art, education, and ecopsychology. As alumni of Pacifica Graduate Institute she is committed to the motto “for the sake of tending the soul of the world.” Cyndera is a gifted storyteller, workshop facilitator, and the current artist-in-residence at the Dream Institute in Berkeley.