“Deep Imagery” - a presentation by Frank Coughlan

Name: “Deep Imagery” - a presentation by Frank Coughlan
Start: 2025-09-04T09:30:00+10:00
End: 2025-09-04T11:00:00+10:00
Location: St Mary's Anglican Church, Kangaroo Point

Schedule

Thu Sep 04 2025 at 09:30 am to 11:00 am

UTC+10:00

Location

St Mary's Anglican Church, Kangaroo Point | Brisbane, QL

Deep Imagery

A Presentation by Frank Coughlan
Thursday, September 4th, 2025 | 7.30 - 9.00pm
Venue: St Mary’s Anglican Church Hall,
455 Main St, Kangaroo Point, Q 4169
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Deep Imagery

For Psychologist Steve Gallegos (1934 – 2023), a personal and professional interest in dreams and imagery led him to the discovery of Deep Imagery as a personal growth and healing modality. In the early days of interacting with his internal imagery, a forgotten childhood trauma was healed. The process of Deep Imagery emerged from his own unconscious and taught itself directly to him. He began working with clients through Deep Imagery and found that most people felt it to be a process already existing within themselves but that had been unconscious to them. It felt natural.
In this talk, I will describe in more detail how the process came to Steve Gallegos. I will mention some of the ways the process can be and has been used in the USA, Europe and here in Australia.
In the second half of the evening, I will offer a guided relaxation and a brief opportunity to invite an animal, your animal, and journey with it. There will be absolutely no pressure to “get” an animal. If an animal or image does not come, just enjoy the relaxation part. But don’t dismiss whatever comes no matter how slight or insignificant it may seem. Animals or images can appear in a clear or a very vague way. One journey is not better or worse than someone else’s. I will invite a few people from the audience afterwards to share their experiences.
Deep Imagery fits easily into a Jungian framework having similarities with active imagination and a respectful, non-judgemental attitude towards the unconscious.

Presenter | Frank Coughlan
I first came across Deep Imagery in Dublin 1988 at a time when my work in statutory child protection social work was extremely stressful. A therapist I had been seeing at the time guided me in my first animal imagery journey which gave me an immediate sense of relief and deep connection with my inner self. From the very next weekend, I attended Deep Imagery workshops by Margaret Vasington, a therapist who visited Dublin from the USA a couple of times a year. By 1993, when I emigrated to Australia, I had begun the three year training in Deep Imagery with Margaret in Ireland. From my new home in Australia, I travelled to complete the training with Deep Imagery Founder and psychologist, Steve Gallegos at his centre in New Mexico, USA. Deep Imagery has been a hugely important part of my work and my life ever since, in individual sessions in private practice, in group work and in Animal Imagery Festivals. A monthly Imagery group I started in 1996 in Brisbane at the Quaker Meeting House has morphed through COVID into an online group with many of the original group still attending to this day.
Currently living in Ballina, NSW, apart from Deep Imagery commitments, I work part-time as a counsellor in an early mental health support program for children up to 12 years, Mijung Jarjums (happy kids) Kids In Mind. I also counsel teenagers at Headspace in Lismore, NSW, both in the employment of Social Futures. Past positions in Australia included, Supervising counsellors at Kids Help Line in Brisbane, Caretaker of the Quaker Meeting House in Kelvin Grove and not forgetting a rewarding period as President of the C.G. Jung Society of Queensland for 5 years!