Up: [[Expressive Art Ideas Using a Source]] Related: [[Associating and Amplifying a Dream]] Created: 2026-09-22 Updated: 2026-09-23 I was delighted to stumble across the work of Yasmine, a young art therapist working from a Jungian orientation. This is a multi-step exercise. #### Collage Begin by making a collage of images that appeal to you. Then pick out a part of the collage that feels most important. It might be a full image or part of an image. #### Active Imagination Engage in a short [[Active Imagination]] by relaxing yourself and holding the symbol in your mind. The symbol may move and change. Pay attention to whatever happens without forcing anything. If nothing happens, don’t worry about it. #### Paint or Draw Next, paint or draw whatever you experienced in the active imagination. Let your hand take charge. There’s no planning or decision making involved here. What you paint or draw might transform again from what was in the active imagination. That’s fine. Go with the process. If nothing was experienced in the active imagination, just make the symbol and see what happens from there. If you don’t know how to start, put on a timer for 15 minutes and don’t stop painting or drawing until the timer goes off. #### MindMap Give the symbol a word to clarify it, and put that word in the centre of a page. Use the most recent version of the symbol, so if it transformed during the active imagination or the image making, find the word that applies to that image. Write associations to the symbol, and then go further and write memories or thoughts from your own life. Finally, you can research collective associations to the symbol in order to get to its deeper roots. If doing this, remember to use [[Symbol Dictionaries, Not Dream Dictionaries]]. Note that this is the exact same process as [[Associating and Amplifying a Dream]]. > [!User] [How to Uncover your Inner Symbol: a Jungian Art Therapy Exercise](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d953ylV03p4) YouTube video