2025 Online Learning Immersions with Ann Amberg, M. C. S., M. A.
Self, Sovereignty and Solitude for Women
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“A space must be maintained or desire ends” —Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet p. 26
Do you sacrifice your feelings and real needs at the expense of your soul life?
How do you envision your house of the psyche? Is it big enough for your true self?
Sovereignty and solitude are regenerative resources for life. In this four-part online immersion program for women, centered in the life-affirming context of depth psychology, transpersonal practices, and Jungian ways of knowing, we invite you to explore the gentle cultivation of solid self containment and grounded presence as we deepen our capacity for experiencing meaningful solitude. Whether we are parents, partners, or on our own, the shifting cataclysmic reality of our time demands that we embrace change, ambiguity, and loss, releasing self-sabotage to voice our truth.
This program draws from the rich resources of myth, embodied soul experience, story, fairy tales, and women's literature. Hestia, goddess of home and hearth, lives at the center of our ever-glowing inner fire. In the spirit of Hestia, our soul calls us home; all parts of ourselves are welcome. A depth psychological approach to our loving connection with others equally recognizes its opposite: separation and solitude, masculine and feminine; both aspects are valued for gathering in the psyche’s creative focus. The intention woven into every moment of our time together in this program is to encourage an enduring presence of eros, our natural life force, in healing communication with the everyday self, the transpersonal Self, and with the soul of the world: the anima mundi.
In the sanctuary of contained space, each online session will include presentation, reflection and interactive time in small group conversation. Over four weeks, we will deepen into four areas of inner feminine knowing:
Session One: understanding our relational potential with the transpersonal/Jungian Self
Session Two: stories, images, experiences and capacities that root our beingness in true sovereignty
Session Three: how sovereignty can enable spaciousness and rich, generative solitude
Session Four: ample time for integration
In between sessions, there will be opportunities to apply self-designed practices of Self, sovereignty and solitude. Participants are encouraged to chart dreams, draw out emergent images, and observe everyday interactions with others (including other-than-humans). By strengthening our boundaries and claiming our sovereignty we draw the world into ourselves, paradoxically becoming more available for intimacy with all of life. Accessing our true nature and unique sensitivities to others, we can then show up with our voice and integrity to respond creatively to the complex challenges of earth and human systems in flux.
Thursdays, May 22 - June 12, 2025, 1-3pm Pacific time.
Contact Ann at annamberg4@gmail.com with questions or to schedule a free 15 minute Connect Call to determine if the Self, Sovereignty and Solitude program is a good fit for you (optional).
Registration is now closed.
See Course Details below for fees and more information.
To learn more, save your place, or be added to the mailing list, contact Ann at annamberg4@gmail.com
Spaciousness and Self-Containment
In an uncertain, hyper-masculine, polarized world, we may feel overwhelmed or push ourselves to keep going while feeling out of touch with our deepest selves. We can call on inner and outer allies, using our intuitive and somatic discernment to strengthen ways of knowing that prioritize our soul-making, rooting into a vision of wholeness sustained by a subversive, caring and practical love.
Entering into solitude, grief, self care, and setting boundaries to protect healing processes constitute our natural birthright. In our time together we will draw from literature, myth, film, our own stories, fairy tales, and Jungian concepts including the role of eros and the feminine in individuation. We’ll look at archetypal images of sovereignty: Queen, Hestia, Kore goddess, Artemis and others; and the reconciliation of feminine/masculine in the psyche. Fully inhabiting our feminine integrity, we will invite a re-imagining of grounded spaciousness and self-containment that nurtures well-being and generative relationships.
Imagination and Presencing
We will consider perspectives on loneliness, loss, energy hygiene, health, technology and cultural anxieties as portals to new ways of knowing ourselves in the context of a richly entangled world involved in mysterious transformative procesess. Our symbolic imagination lives as a real location in space and time. It mediates the relationship between ego self, others, and the gods.
Developing our relationship with solitude can substantiate inner sovereignty— our divine right to occupy our inviolate beingness as a sanctuary; a vessel of transformation that nurtures ourselves and nurtures kinship with the human and the earth community. This integrated autonomy is not static but a sacred presencing process that beckons us into reception of an ageless transpersonal sense of Self, the great circle of life, death, and regeneration.
Course Details
Course Details
The Self, Sovereignty and Solitude online immersion program meets four Thursdays: May 22, 29, June 5, 12, 2025, 1-3pm Pacific time. Each 2-hour session will include in-depth presentation, interactive group time and small-group break-out conversations. All presentations are recorded and the video recording provided with relevant resources in follow-up emails.
Fees:
Standard: $190
Student: $150
Scholarship provider: $275
A deposit of $100 holds your place, payable via credit card, PayPal, or Venmo If you paid a deposit, I will email you an invoice for the balance due by May 21, 2025.
Groups of 4 or more registering together are eligible for a discount at $179 per person.
Last day to register: May 19
Participants are encouraged to attend all live online sessions. Presentations are recorded and participants will have access to the videos, relevant links and resources. Participants receive discounts on individual consultations, Deep Imagery and dreamwork.
Cancellations:
Cancellations received before May 21 are refunded the full program fee. We ask participants to commit to the entire course; to preserve the cohesion of the cohort and flow of the learning process we do not offer a drop-in option.
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2025 Self, Sovereignty & Solitude program dates:
May 22, 2025 Session One: Self
Understand the divine nature of the Jungian Self and the ego’s role in individuation
Explore new perspectives on the function of imagination and the nature of archetypal experience
May 29, 2025 Session Two: Solitude
Meeting loneliness, waiting, navigating loss and grief, darkness, in-betweenness, releasing, the paradox of generative emptiness
Boundaries, commitment, containing the souls’ radiant spaciousness and presence, inhabiting the somatic knowing field
Eros and beauty as accompaniments to solitude
June 5, 2025 Session Three: Sovereignty
Making room for the possibility of being reshaped; discernment, courage, centering, establishing temenos
Archetypal stories of sovereignty: Queen, Artemis, Kore, literature and myth
June 12, 2025 Session Four: Integration
Heiros gamos: transmutation of the inner feminine and masculine
Inner and outer practice: interweaving of Self, sovereignty and solitude as divine source
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Disclosure and Legal Disclaimer:
Please note I am a Jungian consultant and advisor, and certified Deep Imagery guide. I am not a trained analyst or licensed psychotherapist. Participants struggling with substance addictions or in rehab. are discouraged from enrolling.
By agreeing to use my services you agree that you have read and understand that all sessions and reflections are subject to interpretation. Ann Amberg will not be held accountable for any interpretations or decisions made by the recipient based on advice or reflections provided. These experiences are for inspirational and healing purposes only and any insights gleaned in a session should not take the place of your own best instincts, or responsible medical/psychological, legal or financial advice. You must be at least 18 years of age to use these services.
Please contact me with any questions: annamberg4@gmail.com. I look forward to accompanying you on your journey.
“Of all the risqué behavior I indulged in during my youth, the period I spent not just single, but actively embracing my aloneness somehow feels like the most transgressive act of all.” — Lucy Scholes, A Woman Alone in London: On the Literature of Solitude
Ann Amberg, M.C.S., M.A. is a Jungian consultant, teacher, holistic learning program designer and course facilitator in nature-based soul work. She holds degrees in Environmental Studies: Integral Ecology, Contemporary Spirituality and Depth Psychology. She has facilitated Powers of the Universe and Archetypal Earth & Cosmos leadership groups live and online since 2001 in the US, Canada, UK and Europe. She is currently researching her dissertation on eros and beauty in our relationship with the natural world in the Jungian and Archetypal Studies PhD program at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Formerly an art director, book designer and creator of leadership development programs she is a certified Deep Imagery guide, artist, ritualist and inner leadership consultant living on Whidbey Island, WA.
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