Online Workshops
The Map is Not the Journey – ONLINE ONLY!
Many thanks to those who have contacted me over the last several months inquiring as to when I would be offering workshops again. Let’s start with a re-connection and first step…
There are more “maps” for healing than ever these days. Many are enticing approaches which are well-intended yet not particularly conscious. I am reminded of the aphorism “when someone’s been trained to use a hammer, everything looks like a nail”.
There are a lot of hammers (and hammerers) out there in the world of “healing”. Often it’s more about what they have to teach then what we need to learn, to move past our limitations, to heal. I know, I was hit by many hammers early on in my journey, even judged and made to feel wrong when I didn’t respond/conform to a particular approach.
And I collected a lot of maps too. Some very seductive, many quite expensive yet few which led me to a conscious connection with my soul’s journey.
All of this has led me to be a distiller but not of the spirits we drink. Sorting through myriad hammers and maps helped me focus on the question “is my waking state life in alignment with the calling of my soul?” That’s all I really care about because if I am in alignment with my soul everything takes care of itself. Yes, everything.
And though my ego often was at odds with my soul and I suffered much from choosing (mostly unconsciously) the ego-directed life I learned that all of it is part of spiritual training.
I also learned that, absent miracles, consciousness is required for authentic transformation and healing. Otherwise we are mostly just treating symptoms. As Carl Jung said, the problem with the unconscious is…it is unconscious. Paraphrased, we are not aware of what we don’t know. And that is true for all of us no matter our academic qualifications, certifications or levels of expertise. What we aren’t aware of is assigned to our Shadow where it directs our fate. And left in the unconscious, left un-integrated, it causes all sorts of pain and suffering.
If my waking state life is not in alignment with the calling of my soul, what (patterns) are operating in the unconscious that alienates me in this way? What are these karmic challenges I have been gifted with? (in contrast to the common victim consciousness of what is wrong or bad about what happens in our lives). How do they provide an opportunity to heal, to experience at-onement and joy?
Beginning with reading “Man’s Search for Meaning” 47 years ago I have learned that life on earth is a most amazing laboratory in which we have the chance to apply the lessons of consciousness and spirituality, of power and of Love. Through decades of experience with Master Teachers, Jungian Analysis, working with individuals and groups and as giver and receiver of at times horrible woundings, I offer my Self as Guidance for Healing to those who are called to a deeper Journey beyond the spectacular light of surface consciousness.
So I want to hear from those who want to be involved, who want to be active participants in their own conscious growth and healing. Let’s start with an online meeting to talk about how best to serve your journey given the many doorways into deep soul work available from my offerings.
(These donation-only re-connection sessions are offered in order to gain insight and input from you. Subsequent focus sessions will be offered at a reasonable fee. When COVID restrictions allow we will resume our in-person group gatherings. Participants are required to use both video and audio connection to attend).
RSVP here for only ONE of three scheduled sessions:
Saturday, February 27, 2021 from 10:00am to 11:30am MST
Monday, March 1, 2021 from 7:00pm to 8:30pm MST
Wednesday, March 3, 2021 from 7:00pm to 8:30pm MST
(I scheduled sessions on three different dates in order to better accommodate those wishing to attend. Please RSVP to ONLY ONE of the three scheduled sessions for this event as the content will be the same for each session.)
Previous Workshops not currently scheduled…
Dream Meaning Laboratory – ONLINE ONLY!
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” – Carl Jung MD
For this Saturday, May 9, 2020 event from 10:00am to 11:30am MDT please click here
THIS EVENT IS AN ONLINE VIDEO MEETING ONLY!
We will be using the Zoom online meeting service. You will receive instructions for attending after registering for this event.
This event is open to all whether or not you have previously attended our Adventures in Consciousness: Dreams – The Language of Our Soul or a prior Dream Meaning Laboratory.
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” – Carl Jung MD…and dreams, as a privileged unveiling of our soul, offer a unique and profound opportunity to make the unconscious conscious.
This practicum workshop is an opportunity to gain insight into the meaning of your own personal dreams using soul pattern work, image symbology and intuitive guidance. We will work with actual dreams shared by those who attend.
You will experience…
•Changing states of consciousness to engage and develop your inner dream interpreter
•Opening to dream work, interpretation, translation engaging archetypal and personal approaches.
•Live “hands-on” dream work with your own dreams
This Dream Meaning Laboratory is for those who would like to learn how to interpret their own dreams and how dreams help us heal. We will experience working with participants’ dreams so please have your dream journal available if you have one.
No prior dreamwork experience necessary. (This is not a lucid dreaming workshop)
For more than two decades Jon trained in Dreamwork, Consciousness and Healing Work with W. Brugh Joy, MD. He also participated in the Dream Patterning Program offered by the Jungian Analyst Michael Conforti, PhD through his Assisi Institute. Additionally, Jon was an analysand of J. Marvin Spiegelman PhD, a Jungian Analyst and Author who attended the Jung Institute in Zurich Switzerland during Carl Jung’s last years.
Previous Workshops not currently scheduled…
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” – Carl Jung MD
For this Saturday, May 9, 2020 event from 10:00am to 11:30am MDT please click here
THIS EVENT IS AN ONLINE VIDEO MEETING ONLY!
We will be using the Zoom online meeting service. You will receive instructions for attending after registering for this event.
This event is open to all whether or not you have previously attended our Adventures in Consciousness: Dreams – The Language of Our Soul or a prior Dream Meaning Laboratory.
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” – Carl Jung MD…and dreams, as a privileged unveiling of our soul, offer a unique and profound opportunity to make the unconscious conscious.
This practicum workshop is an opportunity to gain insight into the meaning of your own personal dreams using soul pattern work, image symbology and intuitive guidance. We will work with actual dreams shared by those who attend.
You will experience…
•Changing states of consciousness to engage and develop your inner dream interpreter
•Opening to dream work, interpretation, translation engaging archetypal and personal approaches.
•Live “hands-on” dream work with your own dreams
This Dream Meaning Laboratory is for those who would like to learn how to interpret their own dreams and how dreams help us heal. We will experience working with participants’ dreams so please have your dream journal available if you have one.
No prior dreamwork experience necessary. (This is not a lucid dreaming workshop)
For more than two decades Jon trained in Dreamwork, Consciousness and Healing Work with W. Brugh Joy, MD. He also participated in the Dream Patterning Program offered by the Jungian Analyst Michael Conforti, PhD through his Assisi Institute. Additionally, Jon was an analysand of J. Marvin Spiegelman PhD, a Jungian Analyst and Author who attended the Jung Institute in Zurich Switzerland during Carl Jung’s last years.
Healing From The Heart Center – ONLINE Only!
Now more than ever is the time to open to healing deeply from the Heart Center. Learn how all life challenges and crises (including the coronavirus) provide an initiation into the opportunity for healing.
“I’ve been searching to find a way through the pain and suffering, the disappointments and the losses. Your Heart Center workshop gave me a new way to see my life and how each and every life experience offers an opportunity for healing.” – Tricia K.
“Thank you for sharing this work. It truly is life renovating once we get past, as you say, our “filters of surface consciousness”. I am so grateful I met you.” – Vanessa N.
An awakened Heart Center is an essential component of authentic healing of body, mind, soul and spirit. The Heart Center is inclusive and integrative. It makes no comparisons, no judgments and requires no performance or competency. It is the ultimate expression of Unconditional Love and allows us to occupy our Soul in extraordinary ways. An awakened Heart Center is the doorway to our true Self.
•Learn how to more fully open your Heart Center and enter Presence, the real Power of Now
•Learn how an awakened Heart Center is essential for authentic healing to wholeness
•Learn about and experience Heart Center Meditation and its attributes of Compassion, Healing Presence, Innate Harmony and Unconditional Love
•Learn and experience how to engage, navigate, redeem and celebrate Life’s most difficult physical, mental and emotional challenges
This approach to the Heart Center was originated by W. Brugh Joy MD, Mystic, Healer, Teacher and Author in the mid-1970’s. In my 20 years of work wth Brugh, we included an awakened Heart Center and Heart Center Meditation as a portal through the personal ego to direct connection with the Divine. From this place we are resourced to engage, navigate, redeem and celebrate Life’s most difficult challenges.
In this workshop we will also learn and practice the Heart Center Meditation and commune with the feeling state experiences of each of the four attributes of the Heart Center…Compassion, Healing Presence, Innate Harmony and Unconditional Love and their individual meaning and expression in our lives.
We will have time to address individual health challenges, conflicts, blockages, etc. and how to engage and redeem them with a Heart Centered approach.
This workshop has been the initiation for many on the path of authentic healing of body, mind, sound and spirit. Come join us for this special opportunity to connect deeply with your Self and Soul!
Questions? Call Jon McIntosh at 970-292-6820 or jon@jonmcintosh.com
No prerequisite is required.
Adventures in Consciousness: Dreams – The Language of Our Soul
“Jon’s Dream Workshop was amazing. I learned more than any of the dream books I had read. Highly recommended!” – Janelle W.
“Wow. What an awesome experience of connecting with my Soul. I had no idea dreams carried so much valuable information” – Marianne D.
The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends. – Carl Jung, MD
Dreams are a privileged unveiling of our unconscious Self and the language of our Soul as messenger of Spirit. Discover the meaning in this language and learn how dreams serve to balance and heal relationships, personal and work problems and health challenges and more.
You will learn…
•Why we dream and how dreams serve us
•The relationship between dreams and Psyche, Soul, Self, Shadow
•How dreams heal us
•Elements of dream interpretation
You will experience…
•Examples of actual dreams and how they provided valuable information and guidance
•Live “hands-on” dream work with your own dreams (no obligation to share yet this is past participants’ favorite part of the workshop!)
•Changing states of consciousness to engage your inner dream interpreter
•Expanded awareness of who and what You are
This Dream Meaning Workshop is for those who would like to learn how to interpret their own dreams and how dreams help us heal. We will also experience working with participants’ dreams so please bring your dream journal if you have one.
No prior dreamwork experience necessary. Comfortable clothing and an open heart recommended. (This is not a lucid dreaming workshop.)
No prerequisite is required. Comfortable clothing and an open heart recommended.
Questions? Call me at 970-292-6820 or jon@jonmcintosh.com
Mindfulness, Meditation and More! – ONLINE Only!
By giving your full attention to this moment, an intelligence far greater than the egoic mind enters your Life – Eckhart Tolle
It’s been a little less than a year since I attended your workshop and my life has deepened in ways I never imagined. You deeply touch people in ways I don’t think you realize. – Tanzina
Best short workshop ever! Thank you for offering this locally. – Jess R.
Your mindfulness workshop opened me to more than my full-day workshop at a famous mindfulness training center in California, and at a fraction of the price. Thank you Jon. – Marjorie W.
Mindfulness meditation offers the opportunity of bringing attention to present experience, wondrously deepening those experiences and moving through the mind’s entanglements with past and future. A mindful approach, as initiated by mindfulness meditation practice, renovates and renews our day-to-day experiences and provides benefits which include stress and anxiety reduction and profound en-joy-ment.
Mindlessness meditation offers the opportunity of moving through all of the mind’s entanglements, of letting go of all that is noticed in order to connect with the deeper Self and Soul. Mindlessness meditation practice inducts us into a peace beyond all understanding, of the experience of essential Being.
We will explore both mindfulness and mindlessness meditation with both instruction and meditative experiences. We will also learn about Transcendental Meditation®, guided meditation, Vipassana Meditation, Sum Faht Meditation and Heart Center Meditation as originated by W. Brugh Joy, MD.
Questions? Call Jon McIntosh at 970-292-6820 or jon@jonmcintosh.com
The practice of entering any type of meditation supports changing states of consciousness, an essential skill in learning to disidentify from our problems and accompanying anxiety in order to connect more deeply.
Meditation helps us learn how to be profoundly receptive and in accord with all that is, to be set free from the control, criticism and judgment attributes of ego.
No prerequisite necessary. Beginning meditators and mindfulness practitioners encouraged to attend!
How the Coronavirus Serves Our Spiritual Development – ONLINE ONLY!
All of this is happening for very specific reasons related to our individual and collective states of consciousness and our potential for spiritual development. It is not present due to any malice nor as any type of punishment.
It is NOT just about a disease to get rid of.
The Coronavirus reflects a transmission of consciousness in biological form from the Spiritual Hierarchy in order to provide the opportunity to individually and collectively experience powerlessness and vulnerability so that we may more consciously face our fears, more consciously connect with our selves and others, more consciously connect with our own souls as messengers of spirit and to more consciously learn about compassion and Unconditional Love.
This is time to move deeply into the Heart Center for ourselves and others, to heighten and harmonize Compassion, Healing Presence, Innate Harmony and Unconditional Love.
Yes, unconditioned, Unconditional Love.
Life (transpersonal Life not small individual life) lives through us and through multiple embodiments of our soul. Right now we are experiencing but one of those many embodiments. Life does not have a preference as to whether or not we stay alive in this current embodiment. It seeks to serve the soul contract that each and every one of us have whether we are aware of it or not.
We will discuss how the coronavirus serves our spiritual development and how to work with any anxiety, fear and reactivity we may experience.
Where: Online Zoom Meeting
After registration yet before the event you will receive instructions on how to connect with the online meeting.
Questions? Call me at 970-292-6820 or jon@jonmcintosh.com
PAST ONLINE EVENTS NOT CURRENTLY OFFERED…
Women Being Real – ONLINE ONLY EVENT!
This gathering provides a special opportunity for women to come together and share the burdens of Life, to receive unconditional love and support no matter the challenge or affliction. The roles we play as wife, lover, mother, friend, co-worker often have us engaged in various forms of image management. Tonight is about being real with our sisters, about contacting, owning and expressing often long lost parts of Self.
We explore experiences our souls have brought to us and seek to begin a process of authentic healing and redemption. If tonight’s participants are interested, we may continue this group on a regularly scheduled basis. This is a sacred container for women and requires each of us to honor privacy and confidentiality of the content of this group.
This group is facilitated by Mary Rust and Angela Reilly.
Questions and RSVP please to Mary Rust at 970-541-1625 or Angela Reilly at 970-238-0477 or via email. Sign-up here!
No prerequisite is required.
Heart Center Healing and Meditation Workshop – ONLINE ONLY EVENT!
An awakened Heart Center is an essential component of authentic healing of body, mind, soul and spirit. The Heart Center is inclusive and integrative. It makes no comparisons, no judgments and requires no performance or competency. It is the ultimate expression of Unconditional Love and allows us to consciously occupy our Soul in extraordinary ways. Heart Center Meditation is the doorway to authentic holistic healing and our true Self.
•Learn how to more fully open your Heart Center and enter Presence, the real Power of Now
•Learn how an awakened Heart Center is essential for authentic healing to wholeness
•Learn about and experience Heart Center Meditation and its attributes of Compassion, Healing Presence, Innate Harmony and Unconditional Love
•Learn and experience how to engage, navigate, redeem and celebrate Life’s most difficult challenges
The practice of Heart Center Meditation also enables the ability to…
PAUSE – CENTER – SHIFT
Experience the benefits of changing states of consciousness, an essential skill in learning to disidentify from our problems and worries and to connect to Self more deeply.
OPEN AND ALLOW
Be profoundly receptive and in accord with all that is, to be set free. No resistance.
Come join us online for this very special opportunity to connect deeply!
No prerequisite necessary. Beginning meditators encouraged to attend.
Dream Meaning Workshop (and How Dreams Help Us Heal) – ONLINE ONLY EVENT!
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” – Carl Jung MD
Dreams are a privileged unveiling of your unconscious and the language of the Soul as messenger of Spirit. Discover the meaning in this language and learn how dreams serve to balance and heal relationships, personal and work problems and health challenges. You will learn…
•Why we dream and how dreams serve us
•The relationship between dreams and Psyche, Soul, Self, Shadow
•How dreams heal us
•Elements of dream interpretation
You will experience…
•Live “hands-on” dream work with your own dreams! (so please bring your dream journal or start one now!)
•Changing states of consciousness to engage your inner dream interpreter
•Expanded awareness of who and what You are
This Dream Meaning Workshop is for those who would like to learn how to interpret their own dreams and how dreams help us heal. We will experience working with participants’ dreams so bring your dream journal if you have one! No dreamwork experience necessary. (This is not a lucid dreaming workshop.)
Questions and RSVP please to Mary Rust at 970-541-1625 or Jon McIntosh at 970-292-6820 or via email
No prerequisite or dreamwork necessary.
Adventures in Consciousness I ONLINE – Introduction to shifting and expanding states of personal consciousness
Join me for online this six-week introductory journey into a deeper understanding and experience of who and what we are. We will walk together with the Mysteries of Life and learn how aspects of power/powerlessness, competency/inadequacy, personal defenses, acute and chronic illness, accidents, instinctual energies, job loss, personal problems and relationship challenges all serve our soul’s unfoldment and provide an opportunity for healing. You will be introduced to the four attributes of the Heart Center as an essential gateway into engaging deeper material, dreamwork as a privileged unveiling of the psyche, shadow work as an essential journey on the path to wholeness and humor as a way to enjoy all of it!
Not currently scheduled!