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WORKSHOPS & EXPERIENCES

Psychology becomes more interesting when you can see yourself in the story.

Real Talk Reset workshops bring Jungian psychology out of the textbook and into the stories, relationships, dreams, myths, characters, and experiences that already fascinate us.

Through conversation, imagery, reflection, audience participation, and interactive exercises, complex psychological ideas become something we can recognize in our own lives.

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THE EXPERIENCE

Not just a lecture.

The most interesting psychological ideas are often the ones we suddenly recognize in ourselves. That is why these workshops are designed around participation, curiosity, storytelling, and discovery rather than simply listening to someone explain a theory.

Depending on the topic and setting, a workshop may include audience polls, image association, fictional characters, myths, dream material, writing prompts, guided reflection, small-group conversation, archetype exercises, case examples, and audience discussion.

You don't need to know anything about Jung before you walk into the room.
The psychology comes alive through the experience.

SIGNATURE EXPERIENCES

Signature workshop experiences.

These workshop concepts can be adapted for different audiences, settings, and lengths.

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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SUPERHEROES

Archetypes, heroes, villains, and the stories we can't stop telling.

Why do superhero stories appear again and again across generations? This interactive workshop explores the Hero, Shadow, Trickster, Mentor, Ruler, Warrior, and other archetypal patterns through the characters and stories that populate contemporary culture.

Participants explore why certain heroes fascinate us, why compelling heroes so often need equally compelling villains, and what these stories may reveal about our own psychological lives.

Excellent for conventions & popular-culture events

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FROM GODS TO SUPERHEROES

The ancient stories are still being told. The costumes have changed.

Gods, goddesses, warriors, tricksters, monsters, journeys, battles, transformations, and impossible quests have fascinated human beings for thousands of years.

This workshop explores how archetypal patterns found in mythology continue to reappear in contemporary movies, comics, fantasy, science fiction, and storytelling. Participants are invited to recognize the ancient patterns hiding inside modern stories.

Mythology • Archetypes • Popular Culture

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WHY DOES THIS PERSON TRIGGER ME?

Complexes, projection, and the psychology of emotional activation.

Sometimes another person's behavior creates a reaction in us that feels much larger than the immediate situation. Why?

Through accessible Jungian ideas about complexes and projection, participants explore what emotional triggers can reveal, why certain relationship patterns repeat, and how becoming curious about our reactions can open a different kind of conversation with ourselves.

Relationships • Complexes • Self-awareness

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DREAMS ARE MESSAGES

Learning to listen to the symbolic language of dreams.

Dreams communicate through strange rooms, animals, strangers, houses, journeys, water, conflict, impossible events, and images we may not consciously understand.

This interactive introduction to Jungian dream work shows participants how to approach a dream with curiosity rather than immediately searching for a fixed interpretation. Through sample dream material and image exploration, participants experience how a dream can become a conversation rather than a puzzle to solve.

Dreams • Symbols • The Unconscious

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MEETING YOUR SHADOW

What the people and qualities we reject may reveal about ourselves.

The shadow is often misunderstood as simply the "bad" part of ourselves. In Jungian psychology, it includes qualities, impulses, capacities, and possibilities that may have fallen outside the identity we consciously recognize as ourselves.

Through characters, relationships, reactions, and guided reflection, participants explore what we judge, envy, idealize, reject, or repeatedly encounter in other people and what those reactions might reveal.

Shadow • Projection • Self-discovery

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IF YOUR LIFE WERE A MYTH, WHAT CHAPTER ARE YOU IN?

An interactive exploration of transition, identity, and the stories beneath our lives.

Are you leaving home? Wandering in the wilderness? Fighting the dragon? Descending into the underworld? Searching for something lost? Returning home? Becoming the ruler of your own kingdom?

Using mythic patterns as a playful framework, participants explore where they may currently find themselves in the story of their own lives. This workshop introduces archetypal psychology through experiences people already understand: change, uncertainty, challenge, loss, discovery, transformation, and return.

Myth • Identity • Life Transitions

INTERACTIVE BY DESIGN

From theory to experience.

These workshops are designed to be experienced, not simply observed.

Audience Polls

Respond to psychological questions and see how differently a room can experience the same situation.

Archetype & Character Exploration

Use familiar fictional characters and mythological figures to recognize psychological patterns.

Image Association

Explore what happens when different people encounter the same symbolic image.

Guided Reflection

Short prompts invite participants to connect the topic to their own experience.

Dream & Myth Exploration

Work together with anonymous sample material to discover how multiple layers of meaning can emerge.

Conversation & Q&A

Leave room for the questions and observations that emerge naturally from the audience.

WHY STORIES WORK

Stories give psychology a face.

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It can be difficult to understand an abstract idea such as the Shadow, the Hero, projection, a complex, or an archetype when we encounter it only as theory.

But show us a character, a myth, a relationship, or a story and suddenly we can see the pattern.

Popular culture gives us an extraordinary modern mythology. Superheroes, villains, fantasy worlds, science fiction, fairy tales, films, television, and literature continually recreate psychological themes human beings have wrestled with for thousands of years.

Sometimes we recognize ourselves more easily in a story before we can recognize ourselves directly.

AND MANY MORE

More conversations we could have.

The six signature workshops are a starting point, not the whole map. These are a few of the other directions we could explore together.

The Inner Cast of Characters

Who is running the show inside you?

The House in Your Dreams

Rooms, doors, basements, attics, and the architecture of the psyche.

The Hero and the Shadow

Why heroes and villains so often belong to the same psychological story.

The People We Keep Falling For

Attraction, projection, and repeating relationship patterns.

When the Past Walks Into the Room

How old complexes become activated in present-day relationships.

Which Archetype Are You Living?

Exploring the psychological energies dominating different chapters of life.

Why Did I Dream THAT?

A playful introduction to bizarre, recurring, and unforgettable dreams.

The Trickster

Chaos, disruption, humor, rule-breaking, and transformation.

These are possible topics that can be developed or adapted for your event, not a schedule of currently planned workshops.

ADAPTABLE

Built for different rooms.

Workshop content can be adapted to the audience, setting, and purpose of the event.

CONVENTIONS & FAN EVENTS

Archetypes, superheroes, mythology, fantasy, science fiction, dreams, villains, shadow, and popular culture.

CONFERENCES & PROFESSIONAL GROUPS

Jungian concepts, complexes, relationships, projection, identity, psychological patterns, and depth-oriented perspectives.

COMMUNITY & EDUCATIONAL EVENTS

Accessible introductions to dreams, archetypes, mythology, relationships, self-awareness, and psychological exploration.

PRIVATE GROUPS & ORGANIZATIONS

Interactive experiences developed around themes relevant to the group.

START WITH A QUESTION

Have an idea that isn't listed here?

Some of the most interesting workshops begin with a question. If your event, organization, convention, or group has a particular theme, we can explore whether a Real Talk Reset workshop can be developed or adapted around it.

Topics may draw from Jungian psychology, archetypes, mythology, dreams, relationships, complexes, shadow, identity, symbolism, and popular culture.

Tell me about your audience and what you want them talking about on the way home.

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A NOTE ABOUT WORKSHOPS

Real Talk Reset workshops are educational and experiential programs intended for learning, reflection, conversation, and personal development. They are not psychotherapy, mental health diagnosis, or treatment.

LET'S TALK

Let's create a conversation people remember.

Tell me about your event, your audience, and the idea you want to explore.

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