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Onyx Pathways

Developing & healing in alignment to psyche.

6542 Regency Lane, Suite 109 · Eden Prairie, MN 55346

901 Twelve Oaks Center Dr., Suite 902 · Wayzata, MN 55391

https://onyxpathways.us/

Jurisprudence Wellness and Psychology

I.The Premise: The Lecturer's Lighthouse

What appears separate is whole. Psyche is soul — a house that cannot be divided. She adorns her windows with different curtains — tapestries of theory, for pedagogy.

The all-powerful judge changes the drapes and thus the light to grow. Epigenetics knows.

Be a Lighthouse for your judges. Choose your cases wisely to help the Judges Know Thyself, through felt bodies and resonant fields. Uplift the cases you've carried, to seminar-somatics that are not semantics in their effect. Enliven the stories you've carried so the gavel becomes a wand.

II.Theoretical Foundations

A.Object Relations & the Unconscious (Klein)

Melanie Klein — symbols, projections, unconscious phantasies, and internal objects.

B.Attachment & the Bonder — Two Parallel Pathways

(i) The In Touch Again Cycle (Saul / Hawkins / Nessy) — the multisensory bonder's work:

The Positive Cycle of Bonding and Attachment — the bonder's work, flowing from positive memory through the senses to attachment with future caregivers.

Bonding1Connect2Re-alert3Differentiate4In Touch with Self5Relearn Expression6Relearn Response7Repair Attachment8Bridge
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Connect — through positive memory

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Re-alert — the senses

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Differentiate — feelings and contain for safety

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In Touch with Self — the child in touch with self

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Relearn Expression — of feelings/needs

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Relearn Response — capacity to respond to attachment cycles

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Repair Attachment — the child's attachment process

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Bridge — attachment to future caregivers

(ii) Sierra's Model for Transfiguration of Personal Myths — from play, analytical, scholarly, and epic-cultural expertise:

A cyclical model — eight movements of transfiguration, flowing from the autobiographical story through ego–Self integration.

TransfigurationDetect the StoryBody ScansDifferentiate EmotionsTension ToleranceDissolve Ego SplitsIntegrateRepair ArousalHigher Consciousness

Detect the Story — building self-reflection and self-discovery of ego narrative and ego-relativistic patterning

Body Scans — body scans and sense perception — the sensate entry point

Differentiate Emotions — separating affect from the story the personality tells about itself

Tension Tolerance — deconstructing toward manageable shadows or ego dissonance

Dissolve Ego Splits — those tied to schematic thinking errors and autonomic nervous system activation

Integrate — properly understood and scaled events, with the emotions depolarized

Repair Arousal — autonomic re-regulation

Higher Consciousness — ecological peace, new relationship patterns with healthy sense-making, improved contact potential (Gestalt), a more unified ego field with integrated ego-relativistic identities, and progress on the ego–Self axis

C.Jungian Depth

Jungian projections, collective unconscious and consciousness, complexes, archetypes, the ego–Self axis with the Self as distinctly spiritual, and the individuation process. Kalff's distinction from the World Technique rests on Spirit / Eastern wisdom and the "free and protected space" as the defining condition of therapeutic containment and the relational field.3,4

D.Winnicott

The perpetual balancing of interior/exterior life, the false self, the persona, and the Good-Enough Mother.

E.Adlerian

The 4 C's (Crucial Cs: Connected, Capable, Counting, Courage), social interest / community feeling (Gemeinschaftsgefühl), and ego relativism — the self as non-absolute, socially and purposively constituted through the style of life.5,6 The social mask and social interest must amalgamate.

F.Gestalt

The I/Thou relationship, contact boundaries, and embodied resonance — the bodily field where therapist and client "feel" each other through interaffectivity, and the shared atmosphere is revealed and transformed.7,8

G.Movement Harmonics: Attuning to Self and Other Selves

Movement Harmonics: Attuning to Self and Other Selves for wholeness, integration, trauma release, emotional attunement, higher consciousness, and healthy mirroring & vulnerability.

III.Training Progression9

Theme 1 — Foundations of the Symbolic Field

Powers: Self-Expression, Access to the Unconscious, Therapeutic Relationship, Self-Regulation

The World Technique — bridge to Gestalt Play Therapy and sandtray semi-directive and directive prompts with live clients/research assistants

Kalff distinguishing from the World Technique — Spirit / Eastern wisdom, psyche, and the free and protected space

Psyche and the individuation process — introduce differentiation (present in Sandplay, introduced formally in Gestalt)

Theme 2 — The Inner Object World

Powers: Catharsis, Abreaction, Stress Inoculation, Stress Management, Attachment

Klein — object relations, paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions, projective identification, unconscious phantasy

Bowlby / Ainsworth → In Touch Again — the Positive Cycle of Bonding and Attachment; sensory re-awakening (smell, taste, sight, touch, sound, vestibular/proprioceptive); the bonder's work

Winnicott — interior/exterior balance, false self, persona, the Good-Enough Mother

Jungian projections, collective unconscious, complexes, ego–Self axis

Theme 3 — The Social & Relational Self

Powers: Social Competence, Empathy, Moral Development, Creative Problem Solving

Adlerian — 4 C's, social interest, ego relativism; the social mask and social interest amalgamate

How Winnicottian and Adlerian phenomena interact with Gestalt contact, the I/Thou relationship, and contact boundaries

How Sandplay reveals social-identity functioning, ego strength (Adlerian), schematic worldview, and archetypal phenomena

Empathy differentiated: Rogers vs. Steiner — physical consciousness, art as etheric, eurythmy as nervous-system integration, visuospatial processing and topographical memory

Theme 4 — Applied Depth: Case, Child & Body

Powers: Positive Emotions, Counterconditioning Fears, Resiliency, Accelerated Psychological Development, Self-Esteem

Dedicated units and case reviews — wounded mother, father, and child archetypes

Dedicated focus on child development and Jungian theory

Movement and breathwork — eurythmy, psyche, and the relational field

IV.Proposed Faculty Cluster — Invitation to Collaborate

Dr. Regina Driscoll, PhD, CST-T ✱

Certified Sandplay Therapist–Teacher; lead instructor, Minnesota Sandplay Therapy Group Alchemy and Sandplay Conversations 2025–26 (nigredo/albedo/rubedo, coniunctio, the four elements — calcinatio, solutio, coagulatio, sublimatio).

Patrick V. Faggianelli, PhD, MDiv ✱

Psychologist (CA Psy 19259); Jungian, Existential, and Psychodynamic orientations; Saybrook Graduate School (1995); co-presenter, "The Wise Body Approach in Sandplay Therapy" (Sandplay Therapists of Hawaiʻi); third-degree black belt in Aikido; mindfulness and somatic experiencing of breath, flow, and body movement within the session.

Maria Ellen Chiaia, PhD, MFT (MFC19355) ✱

Child and Adult Jungian Psychoanalyst, C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco; relational field, nonverbal states, imagination, and spirit in the journey; artist working with creative process for writers, poets, and performing artists; psycho/spiritual practitioner.

Lucia Azevedo ✱

Jungian Analyst, Brazilian Society for Analytical Psychology (SBrPA/IAAP); Certified Sandplay Therapist and Teaching Director, Brazilian Institute for Sandplay Therapy (IBTSandplay, ISST); President of IBTSandplay 2020–2024; Sandplay and indigenous myths, the transference field in Sandplay, cultural aspects of Sandplay in Brazil, symbols in Jungian analysis.

Heather Lesley-Swan, Dip. Law, Dip. Counseling ✱

Faculty, C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles Jungian Sandplay Training Program 2025–27; presenter, "The Body in Jungian Sandplay."

Marion Anderson, PhD ✱

Certified Jungian Analyst (C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles / IAAP); Certified Sandplay Therapist–Teacher (CST-T, STA/ISST); Licensed Clinical Psychologist (PSY 26988); Santa Monica; Jungian analysis and psychotherapy since 1996 (30 years in practice); Sandplay, dream work.

Beverley Zabriskie, MSW ✱

Jungian Analyst, New York City; founding faculty member and former President, Jungian Psychoanalytic Association (JPA); 2007 Fay Lecturer, Texas A&M University (Emotion and Transformation: From Myth to Neuroscience); 2002 Psychoanalytic Educator of the Year (IFPE); author, "Energy and Emotion: C.G. Jung's Fordham Declaration"; Egyptian Mythology; Pauli–Jung correspondence (Atom and Archetype).

Farânak Mirjalili ✱

Zürich-trained Jungian Analyst (IAAP); Sandplay therapist; researcher and educator on alchemy, mysticism, and the emerging feminine; founder, Anima Mundi School; Hilversum and online.

Christopher Wagner, MA (Cantab), PhD ✱

Doctoral dissertation on the foundations of Jung's alchemical thought; editor for the Philemon Foundation (Jung's Polzeath Seminar 1923, Swanage Seminar 1925); COSCA-certified counsellor; diploma in counselling and psychotherapy, University of Edinburgh; presenter, "Jung's Psychology of Alchemy" (Philemon Foundation, September 2026).

V.Confirmed Field Experts

Barbara Turner, PhD, RPT-S, CST-T

Author, teacher, and founder of Sandplay Training with Barbara Turner; Registered Play Therapist–Supervisor (Certificate No. S396); Certified Sandplay Therapist–Teacher; dedicated to the dissemination of Jungian Sandplay Therapy training to mental health clinicians. Focused area: Jungian Sandplay Therapy — the symbolic process, the role of the therapist, and the free and protected space.

Ellen H. Saul, MS, LP, CST-T

Licensed Psychologist; Certified Sandplay Therapist–Teacher; Co-developer, In Touch Again, Inc. Focused area: multisensory play therapy for healing attachment wounds — the Positive Cycle of Bonding and Attachment, sensory re-awakening, and the bonder's work carried forward from the original methods of Agnes (Nessy).

Nancy G. Hawkins, PsyD, LP

Licensed Psychologist; Co-developer, In Touch Again, Inc. Focused area: multisensory play therapy curriculum — structured six-session sensory progression for attachment repair, differentiation of feelings, and the restoration of the child's capacity to respond to attachment cycles.

Sierra Carter, LICSW-S, RPT

Individual, child, and family psychoanalyst (Jungian, Kalffian, Gestalt, Adlerian); Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker–Supervisor; Registered Play Therapist; Jungian analyst and Sandplay candidate; former Guardian ad Litem. Focused area: the Model for Transfiguration of Personal Myths — narrative differentiation, complex-deconstruction, autonomic repair, and ego–Self integration; bridging psychoanalysis, neuroscience, and the legal system.

VI.The Structure of Engagement — A Visual Model

TWOJSENSORY WAYOpeningREFLECTIVEMiddleRHYTHMIC WAYClosingGuided In Touch AgainSensory re-awakeningLecture & CaseReviewsEurythmy RhythmInterhemispheric

Sensory Way (Opening): Guided In Touch Again activity — multisensory re-awakening, attachment grounding, and the bonder's work as the entry into the body's knowing.

Reflective Way (Middle): Lecture and case reviews — theoretical foundations, symbolic process, and the cognitive integration of depth-psychology material.

Rhythmic Way (Closing): Eurythmy rhythm — visible speech and music as interhemispheric integration, regulating the nervous system and sealing the session in coherence.

With gratitude and anticipation,

Sierra Carter, LICSW-S, RPT

Onyx Pathways

https://onyxpathways.us/

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