An new collaboration with SoulAtPlay
Reinventing Home is pleased to bring you a series of interviews on home as sanctuary from SoulAtPlay, a platform that connects people interested in depth psychology, embodiment, and expressive arts. This online community promotes deep conversations about home as a source of beauty, intimacy, mystery, and play, with talks by experts and a series of journal questions or conversation starters. Each talk is broken down into bite-sized segments so you can listen at your leisure.
Below, we feature a talk with the Jungian analyst James Hollis: “Nostalgia and Longing for Home.” This presentation will help you explore your own experience of home and consider the notion that home is not just a physical place, but something centered deep within. In short, it’s related to that thing we call character or soul. This introductory class is free.
“We’re continually adding new themes, and how we relate to home is one of our major themes.,” says Oxana Holtmann, the founder of SoulAtPlay, “What you get is a presentation by an expert, transcripts and audio files, and some questions to explore on your own. You also have the opportunity to share your ideas with other members of our community. Most of these programs are the price of an expensive book.”
Your guiding story
Home is also a place where we forge our concepts of intimacy and creativity. Below is a teaser for another conversation with James Hollis. In this class, you will excavate your childhood memories, learning which ones have become roadblocks, keeping you from your full potential, and which ones can guide you toward a rich and vital life. Hollis draws on the writing of novelist James Agee, and poets Anne Sexton and Dylan Thomas, to show how our childhood stories contribute to our creativity. He also asks: What is our unfinished business? And what stories hold the most potential for connection and continued growth? We hope you will enjoy this introduction to SoulAtPlay.
For more on the work of James Hollis, see Reinventing Home’s podcast The Art of Living in Uncertain Times.
