The Tao of Individuation Workshop with Mick Collins

Name: The Tao of Individuation Workshop with Mick Collins
Start: 2025-11-15T11:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-15T15:30:00+00:00
Location: Botanic garden of Cambridge

Schedule

Sat Nov 15 2025 at 11:00 am to 03:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Botanic garden of Cambridge | Cambridge, EN

The Tao of Individuation Workshop, Cambridge Botanical Gardens
Sat 15 Nov | Cambridge

This experiential outdoor workshop is designed to awaken the intimate relationship we all have with the natural world. Drawing on Taoist ideas we will engage with the dynamic processes of polarity and unity at work in our lives and in the world, which is perfectly symbolized by Yin-Yang.
Time & Location
15 Nov 2025, 11:00 – 15:00 GMT
Cambridge, 1 Brookside, Cambridge CB2 1JE, UK Cost £35 for nonmembers of Cambridge Jungian Circle and free for members
Details
This experiential outdoor workshop is designed to awaken the intimate relationship we all have with the natural world. Drawing on Taoist ideas we will engage with the dynamic processes of polarity and unity at work in our lives and in the world, which is perfectly symbolized by Yin-Yang.
The story of the Taoist Rainmaker will act as a guiding myth for the workshop, illustrating how our inner work is intimately embedded in an interconnected field. Using structured coaching exercises, we will engage in individual work to explore our unique relationship to the Tao, or ‘Way’. The exercises will focus on our dream-like interrelationship with nature. Taoist themes such Wu-Chi (primordial energy) and our engagement in the world via Wu-Wei (least effort) will also feature in the workshop. The exercises will be designed so that we can take time to reflect on our Original Nature and how this can connect to our processes of individuation. There will be some time allocated for group reflection.
✨ As this will be an outdoor activity in the Botanical Gardens, we are not able to predict the weather, so please ensure you wear warm clothing and waterproof boots, along with waterproof jacket/trousers.
✨ Please also bring a notepad and pen.
Biography
Mick worked for many years as an NHS occupational therapist in acute mental health settings and in a specialist psychological therapies team. During this time, he spent nine years training in Process Oriented Psychology. He then spent ten years working full time as a Lecturer and Director of Admissions within the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich, UK. Mick’s doctoral thesis (2012), along with his peer-reviewed articles and book chapters are mostly focused on the activation of our transpersonal potential and the process of renewal within experiences of spiritual emergence and emergency. Mick is deeply interested in how our transformative experiences inspire our personal processes of individuation, as well as our collective efforts to tackle the multiple crises in the world currently. Mick has written three books, The Unselfish Spirit 2014 (Scientific and Medical Network book prize winner), The Visionary Spirit 2018 and The Restorative Spirit 2022 (Scientific and Medical Network book prize winner). He was Author in Profile at the 2014 Hostry Festival and was interviewed about his work at the 2015 Hay Festival and on Conscious TV in 2016. Mick retired from UEA in 2015 and still teaches as an associate. He also works as a Holistic Coach.
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