How to Use Jungian Dream Analysis and Meditation to Build Powerful Scenecraft

Joseph Campbell once described psychologist Carl Jung's writings about dreams as examining x-rays of the spiritual state. Dreams are engines to turn complex or unconscious ideas into powerful images. This workshop teaches writers how to replicate that process in creative writing. It uses meditation and writing prompts to identify Jungian archetypes in the writer’s dreams or nascent ideas. Then, the students will learn how to harness those archetypes using elements of scenecraft to create more gripping scenes with greater psychological, emotional, and visual power. This course is taught by Jerry Lee Davis, an author, screenwriter, and playwright with over 20 years’ experience teaching meditation, and Henry Lien, an author and writing instructor with 20 years’ experience as an art dealer representing artists working in Jungian themes.