Shannon Yockey, LCSW, is a Jungian analyst with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and teaching member of International Society of Sandplay Therapists and Sandplay Therapists of America. In practice for 30+ years in Fort Collins, Colorado, she founded the Colorado Center for Jung and Nature Studies, presenting nationally and internationally on depth psychology, nature, sandplay, and alchemy. Her writing includes “Tending the Garden of the Soul: Entering the Mundus Imaginalis Through Dreams, Nature, and Sandplay” in the Journal of Sandplay Therapy and the forthcoming chapter “Bowing to the Nigredo: Honoring the Blackness in the Work,” in Living with Fire.

PRESENTATION: Listening to the Animals, Finding Our Way Home to Soul
In the second half of life, the burdens of modern living have often disconnected us from our instincts, our emotions, and our capacity to live wholly. This lecture on Listening to the Animals explores how encounters with animals and the natural world — in dreams and waking life can return us to soul, restoring wonder and experiences of the numinous, and leading to a more embodied way of being.