The Invitation from the founder of Embodied Imagination®
Robert Bosnak, IAAP PsyA.
Conference Objective
Embodied Imagination® (EI), developed by Robert Bosnak, a seasoned international Jungian analyst, over the past nearly 50 years, is an original method that applies dreams, bodily symptoms, early memories, and creative imagination to psychotherapy, trauma experiences, medical health, artistic creation, AI technology, and dream research. The 2024 International Embodied Imagination® Conference will be held in Taiwan. The conference aims to showcase the dialogue and interdisciplinary applications of Embodied Imagination® among multiple professionals.
Conference Dates / Venue
Date :
July 31, 2024 to August 4, 2024
(Hybrid: online + in-person)
Venue :
National Changhua University of Education, Jinde Campus
(Address: No.1, Jinde Rd., Changhua City, Changhua County 50007, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Organizer
International Society for Embodied Imagination®(ISEI)、
National Changhua University of Education (NCUE)
Co-organizers
College of Education, NCUE; Department of Counseling and Guidance, NCUE; Community Counseling & Human Development Service Center, NCUE; Office of International and Cross-strait Affair, NCUE; Graduate Institute of Translation and Interpretation, NCUE; MOE-funded Artificial Intelligence Technology and Application Field Course Project; Taiwan Society of Analytical Psychology (TSAP); Taiwan Expressive-Creative Arts Therapies Association; Mind-Body Interface Laboratory., China Medical University (continuously updated)
Conference Programme
Online and in-person hybrid format,
(1) 2-days Pre-workshop (July 31 to August 1): will be led by Robert Bosnak, an international Jungian analyst certified by the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP), teaching "Alchemical Psychology," a Jungian archetype-oriented approach for the first time in Taiwan;
(2) 3-days conference (August 2 to August 4): The main focus on psychotherapy, planning a three-day conference on Embodied Imagination® and its interdisciplinary applications, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Arts, and Medicine.
Pre-Workshop: Alchemical Psychology
July 31-Aug.1, 2024
Robert Bosnak
The creative imagination is like an organism and dreaming is its most realistic embodiment. C.G. Jung found that this organism goes through identifiable processes of transmutation that are parallel to the alchemical imagery described by alchemists at a time when creative imagination and physical reality were still completely intermingled. This was the time in Europe before the 17th century when science began to separate subjective from objective reality. Because 15th century alchemists appeared to be unaware of this intermingled subject/object state in the way we currently view the world, the unconscious imagination was understood as to be embodied as states of matter.
By taking this alchemical imagination as the backdrop against which to view the unconscious processes manifest in dreaming, C.G. Jung and James Hillman were able to move away from contemporary models of psychological understanding such as healing, growth and cure to a background that puts our entire era in a different perspective. They had stumbled upon the continuous embodiment processes of Soul as an organism, the medium through which we experience the world around us. The result of this discovery in the world of psychoanalysis has led to ways in which psychotherapy and creative activity can lead to an essential increase in physical vitality and the feeling of being vividly and truly alive.
James Hillman was Robert Bosnak’s training analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich in the 1970s and Hillman’s work on Archetypal Psychology and Alchemical Psychology was expanded by Bosnak with a primary focus on the body as the living vessel for alchemical transmutation. Bosnak's method is called Embodied Imagination.
In this workshop Bosnak will elucidate the color scheme in alchemy as a chromatic manifestation of the refinement of the subtle body, a state of being that is both psyche AND body. He will describe how innocent green decays into rotten black from which emerges a shimmering of new impulses and the blues of sadness and loss, leading to the light-blue heavenly spark of a new momentum that travels through a silver reflective mirror to yellowing into fermentation in the physical body, concluding in a red burst of creative action.
And now imagine all of this happening not linearly but simultaneously! During this workshop Bosnak will work with dream material presented by participants.
Book Introduction：Alchemical Psychology combines all of Hillman’s papers on the alchemical imagination from 1980 to the present. Hillman called the early attempt to present his way of grasping this material, in the 1960s at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, “Alchemical Opus / Analytical Work.” His intention then as now is to give psychoanalysis another method for imagining its ideas and procedures by showing how alchemy bears directly on psychological life, more clinically immediate and less spiritually progressivist.
Source: https://www.springpublications.com/ue.html
Workshop lecturer：Robert Bosnak
Robert Bosnak, PsyA is a Jungian psychoanalyst who graduated from the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich in 1977. Past President of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, he developed the Embodied Imagination® method that is being applied by practitioners worldwide in therapeutic and creative endeavors. He is co-founder of Attune Media Labs, PBC, producing empathic artificial emotional intelligence as virtual companions. Author of 10 books of non-fiction and fiction translated into a variety of languages, Bosnak is faculty of the psychiatry department of the SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY.
Workshop Introduction：
James Hillman was a past master of alchemical psychology. This field uses metaphors derived from ancient alchemy to elucidate deep structures in the creative imagination. We tend to forget that creative processes are not random. Imagination embodies along lines that become apparent when we ponder the frequently incomprehensible images of alchemy.
The book, Alchemical Psychology, covers a lifetime of studies and is quite difficult to read by someone who is not deeply steeped in alchemy, the work of C.G. Jung or James Hillman. Robert Bosnak has studied these thinkers for well over 40 years.
James Hillman was the primary training analyst of Robert Bosnak, who developed the field of embodied imagination: the way in which images can be felt in the body and shape our embodied condition.
The workshop goes through the major contents of Alchemical Psychology. For those who have tasted these mysteries, there is no way back. One is haunted by them for life. It was so with Jung, Hillman, and with Bosnak as well. It will happen to you if you’re open to it.
2024 Embodied Imagination®: Emergence, International Conference of Dialogue with Embodied Imagination® Among Multiple Professionals Pre-Workshop | ||
Jungian Archetypal Psychology: Alchemical Psychology Workshop | ||
Beginner (31st July) | Advanced (1st August) | |
0900-1200 | Archetypal Psychology and Alchemy | The Color Phase Transitions of Alchemical Psychology |
1200-1330 | Lunch | |
1330-1630 | The Transformative Journey of Alchemical Psychology | Practical Applications of Alchemical Psychology |
Contents of Alchemical Psychology
- Chapter 1: The Therapeutic Value of Alchemical Language: A Heated Introduction
- Chapter 2: Rudiments
- Chapter 3: The Suffering of Salt
- Chapter 4: The Seduction of Black
- Chapter 5: Alchemical Blue and the Union Mentalis
- Chapter 6: Silver and the White Earth
- Chapter 7: The Yellowing of the Work
- Chapter 8: Concerning the Stone: Alchemical Images of the Goal
- Chapter 9: The imagination of Air and the Collapse of Alchemy
- Chapter 10: the Azure Vault: Caelum as Experience
Conference Agenda
2024 Embodied Imagination®: Emergence, International Conference of Dialogue with Embodied Imagination® Among Multiple Professionals Pre-Workshop | ||
Jungian Archetypal Psychology: Alchemical Psychology Workshop | ||
Beginner (31st July) | Advanced (1st August) | |
0900-1200 | Archetypal Psychology and Alchemy | The Color Phase Transitions of Alchemical Psychology |
1200-1330 | Lunch | |
1330-1630 | The Transformative Journey of Alchemical Psychology | Practical Applications of Alchemical Psychology |
2024 Embodied Imagination®: Emergence, International Conference of Dialogue with Embodied Imagination® Among Multiple Professionals | |||
Psychotherapy Experience | |||
AI and EI | Arts and EI | Medicine and EI | |
Day 1 (2nd August) | Day 2 (3rd August) | Day 3 (4th August) | |
0900-0915 | Check-in | ||
0915-0930 | Welcome and Opening | Announcements | Announcements |
0930-1100 | 1st Keynote Generative AI Hallucination, Dreaming, Large Language Models(LLM) | 2nd Keynote EI & Collective Trauma Attack of September 11, the March 11 Tohoku Tsunami in Japan, the Global COVID-19 Pandemic, and the April 3 Hualien Earthquake in Taiwan | 3rd Keynote Body Philosophy |
1st Speaker Dialogue Generative AI and EI | 2nd Speaker Dialogue Psychotherapy and EI | 3rd Speaker Dialogue Psychosomatic Medicine and EI | |
1100-1115 | Coffee/Tea Break | ||
1115-1245 | Dreams and Body Symptoms： 5-8 EI experiential groups (In-person + Online) | Dreams and Body Symptoms： 5-8 EI experiential groups (In-person + Online) | Dreams and Body Symptoms： 5-8 EI experiential groups (In-person + Online) |
1245-1400 | Lunch (included) | ||
Poster Presentation | |||
1400-1530 | Panel Discussion A Generative AI Emotional Companion System and Text Emotion Recognition | Panel Discussion B Movies, Theatre, Acting and EI | Panel Discussion C Acupuncture and EI |
1500-1600 | Tea Break Gathering | ||
1600-1700 | Oral Presentation | Oral Presentation | Panel Discussion D Neuroscience and EI |
1700-1800 | Dinner (not included) | 1700-1730 Reflection/Closing Session | |
1800-1930 | Welcome Party (light snacks and drinks included) | ||
Day 1 August 2, 2024 (Friday)
2024 Embodied Imagination®: Emergence, International Conference of Dialogue with Embodied Imagination® Among Multiple Professionals | ||
Time | Psychotherapy Experience | |
AI and EI | ||
Agenda | Speaker/Panelist/Moderator/Discussant | |
0900-0915 | Check-in | |
0915-0930 | Welcome and Openin | |
0930-1100 | 1st Keynote Generative AI Hallucination, Dreaming, Large Language Models(LLM) | Keynote Speaker： Robert Bosnak (International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) Jungian Analyst; Founder of Embodied Imagination®) |
1st Speaker Dialogue Generative AI and EI | Moderator/Discussant： Chen, Yi-Shin (Professor in the Department of Information Engineering at NTHU) | |
1100-1115 | Coffee/Tea Break | |
1115-1245 | Dreams and Body Symptoms： 5-8 EI experiential groups (In-person + Online) | International Society for Embodied Imagination® Certified Faculty (See Faculty Introduction) |
1245-1400 | Lunch (included) | |
Poster Presentation | ||
1400-1530 | Panel Discussion A Generative AI Emotional Companion System and Text Emotion Recognition | Panelists： Robert Bosnak (Attune Media Labs Founder and President) Lynia Huang (Bamboo Technology Founder and CEO) Chen, Yi-Shin (Professor in the Department of Information Engineering at NTHU) Moderator： Chen, Shu-Chuan (Assistant Professor at the Tainan College of Nursing) |
1530-1600 | Tea Break Gathering | |
1600-1700 | Oral Presentation | (The thesis presentation schedule will be announced on July 15th) |
1700-1800 | Dinner(not included) | |
1800-1930 | Welcome Party (light snacks and drinks included) | |
Day 2 August 3, 2024 (Saturday)
2024 Embodied Imagination®: Emergence, International Conference of Dialogue with Embodied Imagination® Among Multiple Professionals | ||
Time | Psychotherapy Experience | |
Arts and EI | ||
Agenda | Speaker/Panelist/Moderator/Discussant | |
0900-0915 | Check-in | |
0915-0930 | Announcements | |
0930-1100 | 2nd Keynote EI & Collective Trauma Attack of September 11, the March 11 Tohoku Tsunami in Japan, the Global COVID-19 Pandemic, and the April 3 Hualien Earthquake in Taiwan | Leynote Speakers： Robert Bosnak (International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) Jungian Analyst; Founder of Embodied Imagination®) Kazuko Ikuno (Senior supervisor of International Society for Embodied Imagination®) |
2nd Speaker Dialogue Psychotherapy and EI | Moderator/Discussant： Machiel Klerk (Jung Platform Founder and CEO) | |
1100-1115 | Coffee/Tea Break | |
1115-1245 | Dreams and Body Symptoms： 5-8 EI experiential groups (In-person + Online) | International Society for Embodied Imagination® Certified Faculty (See Faculty Introduction) |
1245-1400 | Lunch (included) | |
Poster Presentation | ||
1400-1530 | Panel Discussion B Movies, Theatre, Acting and EI | Panelists： Per Nordin (Current Chairperson of International Society for Embodied Imagination®) Janet Sonenberg (Professor of Theater Arts at MIT) Kim Gillingham (Actor Trainer and Dreamworker) Maeve Dermody (Australian Actress; Practitioner of International Society for Embodied Imagination® ) |
Moderator： Robert Bosnak (International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) Jungian Analyst; Founder of Embodied Imagination®) | ||
1530-1600 | Tea Break Gathering | |
1600-1700 | Oral Presentation | (The thesis presentation schedule will be announced on July 15th) |
Day 1 August 4, 2024 (Sunday)
2024 Embodied Imagination®: Emergence, International Conference of Dialogue with Embodied Imagination® Among Multiple Professionals | ||
Time | Psychotherapy Experience | |
Medicine and EI | ||
Agenda | Speaker/Panelist/Moderator/Discussant | |
0900-0915 | Check-in | |
0915-0930 | Announcements | |
0930-1100 | 3rd Keynote Body Philosophy | Keynote Speaker： Yang, Rur-Bin (Academician of Academia Sinica) |
3rd Speaker Dialogue Psychosomatic Medicine and EI | Moderator/Discussant： Wang, Hao-Wei (International Association for Analytical Psychology, IAAP Jungian Analyst; President of Taiwan Society of Analytical Psychology, TSAP) | |
Discussant： Robert Bosnak (International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) Jungian Analyst; Founder of Embodied Imagination®) | ||
1100-1115 | Coffee/Tea Break | |
1115-1245 | Dreams and Body Symptoms： 5-8 EI experiential groups (In-person + Online) | International Society for Embodied Imagination® Certified Faculty (See Faculty Introduction) |
1245-1400 | Lunch (included) | |
Poster Presentation | ||
1400-1530 | Panel Discussion C Acupuncture and EI | Panelists： CHEN,WU-CHIANG (A pioneer in Five-Season and Six-Climate theory and I-Ching acupuncture in Taiwan) Robert Bosnak (International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) Jungian Analyst; Founder of Embodied Imagination®) Research presenter： Kan Chen (International Society for Embodied Imagination® Certified Therapist) |
Moderator： Kenji Uzuki (International Society for Embodied Imagination® Certified Therapist) | ||
1530-1600 | Tea Break Gathering | |
1600-1700 | Panel Discussion D Neuroscience and EI | Speaker： Jason Lulejian (Psychiatrist; Assistant Director of Valera Health ) Moderator： Tsai, Pei-Shu ( Professor and director at the Graduate Institute of Translation and Interpretation and the Graduate Institute of Technology and Adolescent English at NCUE) |
1700-1730 | Reflection/Closing Session | |
Conference Registration / Fees
Online registration is open from now
until July 15, 2024
Jungian Archetypal Psychology: Alchemical Psychology Workshop 7/31：Beginer 8/1：Advanced ( Sign up for one day only for 7/31 beginner workshop) | 1-Day Workshop (7/31, 6H) | 2-Day Workshop (7/31 & 8/1, 12H) |
USD | ||
Nonmembers | $147 | $200 |
Member or Students | $132 | $170 |
Three People, Three Days Group Discount (No restrictions on identity combination) | $114/per person | $144/per person |
$341/per group | $432/per group | |
3-Day Conference (8/2-8/4) | |||
Nonmembers | $195 (original price $233) | ||
Members or Students | $175 (original price $187) | ||
Group Discount (No restrictions on identity combination) Pay for three participants and get two free 【for a total of 5 participants】 | $95/per person (original price $187) | ||
$475/per group (original price $562) | |||
1-Day Conference | |||
All members- One-day Conference | $115 | ||
Conference Contact Information
gcncue50@gmail.com
Conference Transportation Informatio
During the conference period from July 31 to August 4, complimentary shuttle bus service will be provided between Taichung High Speed Rail Station, Windsor Hotel Taichung, and National Changhua University of Education Jinde Campus. One morning and one evening shuttle bus will be provided each day. The exact shuttle bus schedule will be announced before the conference.
The registration fees for this conference do not include accommodation. However, special hotel discounts and reservation services will be provided. Participants are responsible for contacting the hotel directly for reservations and related services. If you need assistance, please contact the conference.
Call for Papers
The International Society for Embodied Imagination®(ISEI)、 Department of Counseling and Guidance, National Changhua University of Education (NCUE) are pleased to announce the "2024 Embodied Imagination®: Emergence, International Conference of Dialogue with Embodied Imagination® Among Multiple Professionals" to be held from August 2 to August 4, 2024. The conference theme is Embodied Imagination® and its interdisciplinary applications, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Arts, and Medicine. We welcome scholars and practitioners from related fields, as well as master's and doctoral students from related departments and programs, to submit oral and poster presentations.
Conference Theme (Limited to one submission per person): Embodied Imagination® (EI), developed by Robert Bosnak, a seasoned international Jungian analyst, over the past nearly 50 years, is an original method that applies dreams, bodily symptoms, early memories, and creative imagination to psychotherapy, trauma experiences, medical health, artistic creation, AI technology, and dream research. We welcome submissions for presentations that relate to the following themes of the conference and the aforementioned areas where Imagery Embodiment can be applied:
- Psychotherapy & Embodied Imagination® (Psychotherapy & EI)
- Artificial Intelligence & Embodied Imagination® (AI & EI)
- Arts & Embodied Imagination® (Arts & EI)
- Medicine & Embodied Imagination® (Medicine & EI)
Important Schedule for paper
Item | Important Schedule | Instructions and Precautions |
Submission Deadline of Chinese and English Abstracts | From now until June 30, 2024, at 23:39 |
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Announcement of Abstract Review Results | July 12, 2024 |
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Deadline for Submission of Full Papers of Oral Presentations and Updated Poster Abstracts | July 22, 2024 | Instructions for Full Oral Paper Presentation:
Instructions for Poster Presentation:
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Announcement of the Conference Paper Presentation Agenda | July 15, 2024 | Individual Presentation Time:
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Conference Registration | From now until June 15, 2024 | Important Notes for Presenters:
Copyright Authorization: Presenters are required to sign and return a Copyright Authorization Form. Failure to do so may result in the organizers withholding acceptance of the paper. |
Conference-related Certifications | Before August 31, 2024 |
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