Luminous Woman
LUMINOUS WOMAN® PROGRAMS
OFFERED BY
Chelsea Wakefield, PhD, LCSW
Greeting to all women seeking to live more deeply and to discover the luminous light within that will guide you on the pathway of your life!
WHAT IS IT ALL ABOUT?
This work developed in response to a growing interest in exploring women’s journey of individuation, which differs from a man’s. For a long time, a woman’s developmental journey has been defined in a way that does not encompass the depth of a woman’s experience, the challenges and inner conflicts a woman faces, the burdens a woman carries as she travels the path of girl to woman, motherhood, partnership, career, and the later stages of life as a woman begins to feel old and feel irrelevant or develops into a Luminous Eldress
The Luminous Woman programs encourage women to discover their unique essence, get their taproot into their inner resources, develop an inner guidance system that they can trust with confidence, appreciate and care for their bodies, live by their natural rhythms, and to discover and integrate more of the archetypal potentials that are available to every woman.
There is a process for this, and the Luminous Woman programs will guide, encourage and undergird you in the development of your fullest potential – living into who you were born to be.
This work was originally based on the four archetypes of the feminine outlined by Antonia (Toni) Wolff) Carl Jung’s closest intellectual companion, who wrote an important essay on four “umbrella” archetypes of the feminine – Mother, Hetaira, Medial Woman, and Amazon. I have taken Wolff’s original four-quadrant model and adapted it for modern women looking at how a woman lives into the archetypes of Mother/Creator, Embodied Lover/Companion, Mystic/Intuitive, and Warrior/Achiever/Strategist. The work has continued to develop over the years while retaining my original understanding of these four realms of expression.
The Luminous Woman essay has travelled the world since it was originally written in 2009. The Weekend has changed the lives of hundreds of women, and with the advent of Covid, the experience is now available online! We have gone into our depths, struggled, and grown during this difficult time. I look forward to when we can gather the community again in the future and celebrate and continue to share our inner light with each other and to deepen and grow some more!
OFFERINGS – WAYS YOU CAN JOIN US
If you want to be a part of any of these, join my mailing list so that you can be notified of when each of these is beginning. I will also offer “Ask Me Anything” zoom webinars occasionally that you can join to learn more, meet the woman in this community and ask me anything!
Women’s Weekends
Coming back after Covid!
30 Days Luminous
An initial orientation to the power of archetypal living and getting your taproot into the deep feminine.
Luminous Living
A 90-day program to establish deepen your understanding and embody the concepts.
Luminous Reunions
For graduates of the weekend or the 90-day program. Currently on-line.
JOIN US IF YOU WANT TO:
- Learn about the many archetypes of the feminine
- Discover your current archetypal profile – the archetypes you have lived into consciously and unconsciously.
- Learn more about the unique developmental passages on a woman’s journey and how you can avoid the common quagmires.
- Deepen your personal spiritual practices that will increase your “listening” capacity and your ability to live from a calm core.
- Discover resources that already exists in your archetypal depths.
- Experience living as a more present, joyful and sensually embodied woman.
- Develop a sense of trust and confidence that your center will hold throughout the storms of life and the challenges of loving.
- Transcend wounding, relinquish past hurts, and live into a deeper identity.
- Learn about “shadow work,” and develop the confidence and integrity that shine from the eyes of women who have gleaned the lessons and gold of their “shadows.”
- Deepen and improve your relationships as you learn to see beyond projections, steady your emotional reactions, and love from your depths.
- Immerse yourself in the joys of sharing wisdom, stories, laughter and the sensual pleasures of good food in the weekend.
- Experience women in genuine mutual appreciation, giving and receiving, “listening each other into life”.
- Join the growing community of awesome graduates who gather in Reunion zoom calls and during Reunion Weekends!
WHO IS CHELSEA WAKEFIELD?
I am a psychotherapist, a writer, a teacher, and someone whose life has been dedicated to an exploration of how we can live more meaningful, purposeful, love-filled lives. I am currently employed as an Associate Professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences where I am the Director of the Couples Center. You can visit my website there if you like https://psychiatry.uams.edu/the-couples-center
I have practiced in the field of mental health since 1999, and while I continue to study and teach cutting edge clinical perspectives, it is my study of the depth psychology of Carl Jung, that undergird my approach to working with people as well as my own understanding of life as a journey of individuation – we are here to live deeply and fully, and that each of us carries within us unique gifts that we can contribute that will help heal the world. I credit my years in Jungian analysis for the ultimate healing of deep wounds of my past, and the discovery of my deeper purpose in the world. I have been part of the long-term faculty at the Haden Institute www.hadeninstitute.com since 2000. I have loved teaching there, where I see how a depth journey, and the practice of dream work can change people’s lives.
I have written three books, which you can find online, or order from your local bookstore. All relate to growth and archetypal living:
Negotiating the Inner Peace Treaty- Becoming the person you were born to be (link)
In Search of Aphrodite – Women, archetypes and sex therapy (link)
The Labyrinth of Love – The path to a soulful relationship (available this April/May from Chiron Publications)