workshop
Intraspective Archetypal exploration — Group Therapy
Intraspective Archetypal Charting is a depth-oriented group process that invites participants to explore and integrate the unconscious through archetypal characterization, shadow work, guided active imagination, and expressive mapping.
Rooted in depth psychology and informed by contemporary neuropsychology, this work is enriched by ancient practices of storytelling, myth, and symbolic ritual. It creates a living dialogue between psyche, soma, and soul. Where patterns are not just understood, but experienced, embodied, and transformed.
Participants learn to recognize recurring narratives and inner characters as meaningful adaptations, intelligent responses shaped by both lived experience and nervous system patterning. When brought into awareness, these patterns become pathways toward integration and wholeness.
Within this experiential container, individuals identify core emotional imprints, inner conflicts, and archetypal intelligence while cultivating self-compassion, psychological clarity, and embodied awareness. The process bridges modern therapeutic frameworks with ancestral ways of knowing, inviting participants to reframe their struggles as part of a larger, meaningful human story.
Through symbolic mapping and expressive engagement, each member charts their inner world, discovering how archetypal forces, relational experiences, and neurobiological patterns weave together to shape their lives.
This is not simply therapy; it is a mythic initiation into the language of the unconscious, where imagination, the nervous system, and psychological insight converge to restore meaning, coherence, and creative vitality.
You don’t need to be fixed you need to be
witnessed, remembered and found in the
intraspective imaginarium of your
psyche.
seek the space between waking and dream.
seek the space between waking and dream.
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Scroll to the right to discover what the intraspective imaginarium offers
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![People sitting on cushions and blankets in a cozy outdoor space with string lights, potted plants, and a wooden fence. Taking part in a group psychotherapy session in the Intraspective Imaginarium at Mindful Maelstrom Wellness Clinic]()
This isn’t group therapy as usual. It’s Soul Cinema. A midsummer night’s dream where you meet the cast of your unconscious — one archetype at a time. Each week, we step into a living myth. We gather beneath the open sky — barefoot, comfy, present — and let ourselves be carried into the unseen.
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![Six women participating in an intraspective meditation lying on their backs with eyes closed, resting on orange pillows, arranged in a circle.]()
One week you’ll meet a guardian, fierce and true. The next, a seducer , magnetic and wild. Then an Innocent, unguarded and pure. We cycle through each tribe, character by character — until your full mythic entourage reveals itself.
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![A woman with long curly hair sitting cross-legged on the floor, guiding intraspective meditation using a microphone, surrounded by white singing bowls inside a cozy room with plants and furniture.]()
We begin with a sound-bathed descent under the stars, letting vibration and story guide you inward. Through active imagination — the Jungian practice of dialoguing with the unconscious — you meet the appointed character who’s been waiting to return.
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![Two hands holding each other, one with a black and silver beaded bracelet and the other with painted nails, over a blue and white striped fabric background.]()
We gather in circle to reflect on what arose — with no pressure to share, only presence. Then we move inside. There, we begin to explore the character who emerged.
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![Women seated around a table engaged in archetypal personification through the creative act of collage.]()
You’ll chart their voice, posture, values, longings, shadows, and symbols — giving shape to what once lived in the dark. Once named, we bring them to life. In the final stretch, we create.
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![A stack of magazines on a table with one magazine partially open, showing a cartoon character on the cover.]()
This is Soul Mapping— a dreamlike process of scrapbooking, collage, poetry, paint, movement, and voice. Mics are open for any character who’s been waiting to voice through you. You’ll receive a scrapbook to begin charting your archetypal timeline — your living inner mythology.
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![A woman playing crystal singing bowls during a guided Intraspective meditation during a Group Therapy session.]()
Come as often as you’re called. Weekly. Biweekly. Monthly. But know this: The more you come, The more of you you’ll meet. No experience needed. No talent required. Bring your book back each time. Just come comfy and curious.
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![Two people holding hands, one with a gold wedding ring, lying in bed with beige and cream blankets]()
Leave with more of your soul reclaimed. This is your invitation to remember who you are — not through talking, but through dreaming, creating, and becoming. We meet on most Thursdays Until your myth is whole. Come meet the night within you.
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![A design displaying the words "psyche", "soma", and "soul" in large white block letters, overlaid in pink cursive. With text at the bottom reading "Intraspective : Imaginarium" in pink cursive.]()
WANNA JOIN?
If you’re in the Toronto area and ready to explore group therapy with Kristina, click “Grab Your Seat” to reserve your spot.
If you’re curious but not quite ready, click “Learn More” to fill out a short form. Kristina will reach out to learn more about what you’re looking for and help you decide if group therapy is the right fit.