Past courses
Previous CAPS courses
9–10 May 2026
Weekend Seminars with Prof Toshio Kawai
A weekend of seminars with Prof Toshio Kawai — bringing Japanese dreams, myths, and fairy tales into dialogue with Jungian thought, a close reading of Jung's Transcendent Function, and a clinical group supervision on dreams. Reading materials were provided to participants in advance.
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March – September 2026
The world of fairy tales from a Jungian and psychological perspective
Fairy tales are more than just stories; they reflect the fundamental experiences shared by all people, regardless of background. They act as a universal language that helps us make sense of life's biggest challenges. By looking at the symbolic meaning behind these tales, we can find guidance for our own lives. Each character represents a different part of our personal journey, helping us understand our path toward maturity and wholeness.
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October 2025 – February 2026
Journey toward the Self
Explore the psychological and Jungian journey toward the Self through a series of four live online seminars with Renate Daniel — tracing the concept from Jung's foundations to its meaning for individuation today. Each seminar stands on its own; the full programme is listed below.
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6 July 2025
The Nature of the Psyche
A seminar exploring Jung's understanding of the psyche — its structure, its energy, and its expression in symbol and image.
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24 May 2025
Working with Images
Working with Images — a Jungian perspective on therapeutic imagery, set in comparison with psychoanalysis, CBT, family therapy, and client-centred therapy. A transformative course designed to help therapists, counsellors, and mental-health professionals deepen their understanding and use of images in practice.
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2 March 2025
Crossing Thresholds: Jungian Perspective, Archetypes, and Transformative Figures
Where the previous course described the threshold, this one asks who we meet there. Jung's claim is that transitions are patterned: the psyche has old forms for crossing, and they appear most insistently when a person is between one self and the next. We will meet the guide, the trickster, the shadow, the wounded healer. These figures are not decoration. They are how the psyche tells us where we are.
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5 January 2025
Betwixt & Between: The Psychological Importance of the Concept of Liminal Space
This course explains that the in-between is not a gap to be endured on the way somewhere else. It is a psychological condition in its own right, with its own structure and its own possibilities. In liminal states, role, status, identity, and certainty all become provisional; disorienting, and also what makes real change possible. The threshold is not a flaw in the passage. It is where the work happens.
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