Elizabeth Schofield-Bickford, MFT

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Elizabeth Schofield-Bickford, MFT

I am a Certified Child and Adult Jungian Analyst CGJILA/IAAP and a Certified Sandplay Therapist STA/

I have a private practice in Santa Monica where I see children and adults.

08/29/2023

Edith Sullwold Memorial Lecture
“Afraid of Things That Are in Flight:
Birds, and Sometimes Families”
October 7 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Zoom Only; Prepaid Cost: $50.00 – $70.00
Presented by Rob Tyminski, DMH, author of The Psychological Effects of Immigrating: How does immigration affect the mental health of children whose parents have moved to another country? A desire to offer their children better lives is often a main motivating factor for many immigrant parents. Children can come to symbolize parents’ wishes for this promising future, a bit like stars in the night sky shining out of the darkness. Yet sometimes, parents bring with them remnants of their past that linger within a family as secrets and untold stories, such as of traumatic events before or during their migration. Attendees will be encouraged to engage in discussion about their perspectives on the psychological effects of immigration.
Go to junginla.org to get your tickets now!

08/07/2023

PLAY // Von Franz reflects on the place and role of play in the evolution of human consciousness. Comparing human to the rest of the animal queendom, she explains how infant animals play much more as do adult ones, who are “much too harassed by the worries of survival.” Zoo animals too play much, much longer and more frequent than animals in the wild, she writes. Von Franz completes Jung’s theory here on the origin of the evolution of human consciousness being rooted in an “overplus of instinctual energy” that we no longer use for survival.

“Play is certainly the beginning of all spiritual and civilizing conscious occupations. This is not Jung‘s idea but my own guess: that the prehistoric geometrical lines and scratchings we have found—which are even older than the cave paintings—were put there by a rhythmical movement or banging which probably was some kind of playful amusement. This would mean the people dwelling
in those caves felt relatively safe from attack by other animals. Since they had fire, they could light their cave and if they weren‘t too tired after hunting all day, perhaps on winter nights, they sat together. What did they do? They began to bump against the cave walls and to make lines or rhythmically scratch patterns. Then slowly, they began fantasizing into these etchings, and there finally emerged those famous Paleolithic cave paintings. So you could say those marks represent a more consistent or continuous form of awareness, the beginnings of consciousness.”

— Marie-Louise von Franz in Archetypal Patterns in Fairytales, p. 40-41.

I would add that this rhythmic play could have also been a state of trance and dance, a primordial shamanic kinship between worlds and to the more-than-human world to which primordial wo/man had an entangled relationship. In this view, play and worship become intimately interlinked in the evolution of human consciousness.

Post written by Farânak Mirjalili

07/18/2023

ARAS Teen LA is at Liberty Worth’s Stitch Salon at her studio in Los Angeles. Today we are learning about the moments and memories captured in each stitch in and out of time, up through the fabric of the cosmos and back down again.

04/25/2023

Amazing news! Our application deadline for the ARAS Summer Program has been extended to June 1st!!! ☀️🌻😎🎨

The collections of ARAS explore human creative expression through signs and symbols, archetypes, and images of art and historical objects that span across cultures, geography, and time. ARAS offers a unique opportunity to connect with symbols in art and culture through research. Students discover the world through images by exploring these ideas in both the ancient and contemporary world. The Archive includes 17,000 images from all over the world and from all epochs of human history accompanied by scholarly commentary. Our mission is to bring awareness to the power of symbolic images and the profound role they play in our lives today.
ARAS Teen LA is an intensive FREE two-week art program for teens age 14-17 in Los Angeles.

Participants will:
Go on an inner journey with symbols to grow a deeper understanding of
themselves and others
Explore a symbol that speaks to them by using collage, poetry, and journaling
Create original works of art inspired by universal symbols
Participate in field trips to museums, galleries, nature reserves, and artist
studios
Learn how to use libraries and archives
Meet with working artists
Present their final work that expresses the meaning of their symbol in their
lives
Program dates are July 10-21, 2023 (Monday through Friday for two weeks)
10am-3pm in person at the CG Jung Institute of Los Angeles.
This is a FREE program with all supplies included!

Application 👉🏻
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSchTztY1YIwKT4EofFWZUjkJId3wHVF3lfBDvXjSJ1jTOTDyQ/viewform

For more info 👉🏻
arasteenla@junginla.org

Our website 👉🏻
https://junginla.org/words-images/arasteenla/

The application deadline is June 1st, 2023!

04/12/2023

🎨📚♥️🧠☀️check out the CG Jung Institute of Los Angeles’ free summer program for teens!!!!
🌴Find out more at https://junginla.org/words-images/arasteenla/

03/27/2023

We are very excited to announce our summer program for teens, a collaboration of ARAS (The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism) and the Hilde Kirsch Children’s Center. ARAS Teen LA is a free two-week art program in Los Angeles for teens ages 14-17. Participants will go on an inner journey with symbols to grow a deeper understanding of themselves and others.
Explore a symbol that speaks to them using collage, poetry, art and journaling. And much more…. Artwork-Ophelia Bickford 2018.
More details at junginla.org/words-images/arasteenla/
Application deadline is April 15, 2023.

03/16/2023

Unit Three of our Jungian Sandplay Training Program (Jungian Sandplay With Children) will begin on Saturday, April 29th! ♥️😄🧠
Seminars will be on Zoom only, once a month on a Saturday from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm with half-hour break for lunch.

04/29: Working with Children from a Jungian Perspective, presented by Audrey Punnett
05/20: Treating Trauma and Anxiety in Children with Jungian Sandplay, presented by Elizabeth Schofield-Bickford and Sachiko Reece
06/24: Complex Clinical Issues, presented by Maria Ellen Chiaia

This is a comprehensive, two-year training program, taught by Jungian analysts and designed to promote the study and practice of sandplay therapy. It includes an introduction, history, and practical guidelines for sandplay therapy, as well as the application of Jungian theory, the study of archetypal and symbolic material found in dreams, mythology, and fairytales, and the movement of libido as it appears in sandplay scenes to express the individuation process. Seminars incorporate case material of children and adults to amplify and highlight theoretical underpinnings. Completion of the program meets all coursework requirements for Sandplay Therapists of America (STA) and International Society for Sandplay Therapy (ISST).

The training curriculum is organized into six areas of study that are designed to sequentially deepen the participant’s understanding and use of Jungian sandplay. Each unit contains three 6-hour seminars taught by Jungian analysts who are also certified sandplay therapist-teachers.

To register or look for more information, go to Jungian Sandplay Training Program 2022-2024 - The C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles (junginla.org)

11/24/2022

Please come and explore the Max and Lore Zeller Library Book Sale at the CG Jung institute in Los Angeles. Holiday gifts are waiting to be discovered and taken home for someone you love or maybe even for you!!!

09/13/2022

Unit 1 Foundations of Jungian Sandplay (Videoconference only) is open for enrollment!
The CG Jung Institute of Los Angeles is proud to announce Unit One of its Jungian Sandplay training program!

This is a comprehensive training program taught by Jungian Analysts and designed to promote the study and practice of sandplay therapy. Seminars incorporate case material of children and adults to amplify and highlight theoretical underpinnings. Completion of the program meets all course work requirements for Sandplay Therapists of America (STA) and the International Society of Sandplay Therapy (ISST).

For more information,

https://junginla.org/events/sandplay2022-2023/

08/28/2022

Curious about Sandplay?

For those interested in learning more we are proud to offer our 2-Year Sandplay Training Course.

The first 3 classes are open to the general public and are offered at a reduced cost to nonclinicians who wish to learn more about Sandplay. These classes provide an overview of the history, use, and symbolic aspects this unique therapeutic method.

For clincians and licensed professionals, this program offers the chance to learn from Sandplay Therapists of America and International Society for Sandplay Therapy-certified practitioners while earning CEs and STA credits.

This is a comprehensive, 2-year training program, taught by Jungian analysts and designed to promote the study and practice of sandplay therapy. It includes an introduction, history, and practical guidelines for sandplay therapy, as well as the application of Jungian theory, the study of archetypal and symbolic material found in dreams, mythology, and fairytales, and the movement of libido as it appears in sandplay scenes to express the individuation process. Seminars incorporate case material of children and adults to amplify and highlight theoretical underpinnings. Completion of the program meets all coursework requirements for Sandplay Therapists of America (STA) and International Society for Sandplay Therapy (ISST).

The training curriculum is organized into 6 areas of study that are designed to sequentially deepen the participant’s understanding and use of Jungian sandplay. Each unit contains 3 6-hour seminars taught by Jungian analysts who are also certified sandplay therapist-teachers.

Seminars will be on Zoom, once a month on Saturdays from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm (PST) with a half-hour break for lunch.

Unit 1 is open to the general public. Units 2-6 are offered to licensed clinicians and students in the process of training for licensure in the mental health professions.

For more information or to register, visit https://junginla.org/events/sandplay2022-2023/

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