Sovereignty - The Queen, the King, and the Sacred Marriage
About this Event
NOTE NEW TIME! Earlier than other workshops this season.
This five-hour experiential workshop explores sovereignty as the inner capacity to govern one's life with integrity, self-trust, and self-belonging. Drawing from Jungian psychology, dreamwork, mythology, alchemy, and the psychology of love, participants will explore sovereignty not as domination or independence, but as the ability to remain rooted in oneself while fully engaged with life, instinct, relationship, and the demands of the world.
The workshop follows a developmental arc: Instinct to Containment to Sovereignty to Relationship to Sacred Marriage.
We begin by exploring the distinction between power and authority, self-rule and domination, and heroic striving versus mature stewardship. Through reflective and experiential exercises, participants will consider where they have ceded authority to fear, conditioning, inherited expectations, or unconscious patterns.
From there, we move into the archetypal territories of the Sovereign Queen and Sovereign King. Through guided imaginal work, reflective writing, active imagination, and group dialogue, participants will encounter these inner figures and explore their relationship to authority, desire, creativity, responsibility, vitality, and self-governance. Particular attention will be given to the Queen's task of reclaiming authority and self-definition, and the King's task of developing a conscious relationship to power, service, emotional responsibility, and stewardship.
Dreamwork becomes a bridge into the symbolic life of the psyche as we explore how sovereign, instinctual, and transformative images emerge through dreams. Drawing on the image of the tiger, we will consider sovereignty as a relationship with instinct—not its domination or suppression, but its conscious containment and integration.
The final portion of the workshop explores Eros, projection, and the alchemical Sacred Marriage through the myth of Psyche and Eros, and the alchemical coniunctio. Participants will engage in dream inquiry, journaling, projection work, guided visualization, pair dialogue, and active imagination as they explore how intimacy changes when it arises between two sovereign centers rather than from a search for completion.
Together we will explore how instinct becomes contained, how containment gives rise to sovereignty, how sovereignty transforms relationship, and how the sacred marriage emerges as an ongoing practice of holding opposites: freedom and commitment, power and tenderness, instinct and consciousness, self and other.
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Welcome to Season 18 ~ Archetype
This season, our Friday evenings will have more audience engagement and participation. You will have the opportunity that evening to begin what we will dive into fully the next day, Saturday, in embodied, highly interactive exploration and practice- together! This season follows Jung's concept of archetype: a universal, inherited pattern of thought, image, and symbol that lives in the collective unconscious of all human beings. These deep mental blueprints shape how we feel, dream, and act, and they show up in myths and stories across every culture.
Consider investing in yourself each month this season. Give yourself an entire immersive, transformational experience with like-minded, like-hearted community. Renew your heart and soul. Dive and play with us, as Jung himself did, in the ether of soul and self. We will be weaving Jung's teachings deeply into our explorations.
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Sovereignty: Meeting the Inner Queen and King
Friday, November 13th, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
UMOCA Theater
20 S. West Temple, SLC, UT 84113
Opening Poet: Rachel Hodge
Live Music: Cherry
Local Artist: Kirsten
Sovereignty - The Queen, the King, and the Sacred Marriage
NOTE EARLIER TIME : Saturday, November 14th, 11:30 am - 4:30 pm
Full Circle Yoga and Therapy
1719 S Main Street, SLC, UT 84115
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TICKETS:
$20 Advance Tickets | $25 Same Day, if available (Your 1 ticket (PLUS ONE for this event!) free for Members and Sponsors)
$70 (Members: $50) BEST PRICE!
$75 Advance Tickets | $85 Same Day, if available
(Members: Your 1 ticket is $50 and comes with a PLUS ONE for this event
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Schedule: Friday Evening Lecture
6:30 – 7:00 pm: Live Music & Art Mingle
7:00 – 8:30 pm: Lecture with Robert Waggoner
8:30 - 9:00 pm: Community Social
Schedule: Saturday Workshop
11:15am: Arrive at Full Circle Yoga and Therapy
NOTE DIFFERENT TIME FROM OTHER WORKSHOPS!
11:30-4:30 pm: Depth Workshop
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1.5 CEUs & 5 CEUs available (per event) for Utah Mental Health Professionals ($5 or free for Professional Members)
Connect within an open community as we explore the cultivation of spirit and soul. We hope to see you there!
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About Our Presenter:
Stacey Shelby, Ph.D., is a depth psychotherapist, author, speaker, and educator. In her private practice, she works with individuals online as they navigate life transitions, relationship challenges, anxiety, and questions of meaning. She serves as adjunct faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute in California and is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) in Canada. She is a certified clinical dream tender and has studied extensively in plant medicine and yoga traditions. An entrepreneur, she is the founder of two therapy clinics and an AI therapy app.
Drawn to depth psychology by a desire to be in service to the deeper dimensions of human experience, Stacey's work attends to both practical realities and the symbolic language of the soul as it emerges through dreams, relationships, symptoms, life transitions, and everyday experience. Her approach fosters greater self-trust, emotional clarity, and inner authority—so clients can move forward with steadiness, insight, and a stronger connection to their lived experience.
www.drstaceyshelby.com
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Generously supported by our season sponsors: Golden Braid Books, Fallow Renewal Jungian Life Coaching, The Nomad Literary Magazine, Sugar House Distillery, Liberty Broadband, and Amanda Butler LMFT
Thank you to our in-kind partners: Kings Peak Coffee Roasters, DeVon Stanfield, & Full Circle Yoga & Therapy
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 55.20 to USD 92.55
