Saturday March 28, 11 am – 1 pm
Hart Ginsburg, LCPC and Danbee Kim, MSW
Held in-person at the Jung Center
$75 (includes art materials), CEUs: 2
*Limited to 15 participants.

This experiential workshop explores grief through the Jungian lens of active imagination and the symbolic life, using Korean ancestral flower practice as embodied engagement with loss and transformation. Participants will create “grief bouquets” that give material form to psychological content that resists linear narrative.

Korean flower practice—aligned with the Cocoji tradition of natural, seasonal arrangements—offers a symbolic vocabulary for what cannot be spoken directly. Its principles of seasonal attunement, negative space, asymmetry, and honoring natural form emerge from Korean cultural frameworks around grief as something carried and tended across time and generations, rather than overcome through linear processing.

The workshop begins with photographic meditations on flowers in transformation, establishing contemplative seeing as preparation for hands-on work. Participants then engage in flower arrangement as active imagination—allowing the psyche to speak through material, color, form, and symbol rather than concept. This process is grounded in Jung’s understanding that the psyche speaks in images and symbols, not only in concepts. The “symbolic life” becomes particularly essential in grief work.

*This workshop is intended for Licensed mental health professionals (LCSW, LCPC, LMFT, psychologists) and Jungian analysts working with grief, loss, and life transitions. Designed for clinicians who want embodied, symbolic methodologies to complement their practice, particularly when verbal processing has reached its limits or when working with intergenerational/collective grief. No prior experience with flower arrangement required.

About the Instructors

Hart Ginsburg, LCPC, is a therapist who strives to creatively support his clients through self-awareness, acceptance and empowerment. Over the past 15 years, most of his clinical work has been with immigrant/refugee populations, artists and others interested in developing existential awareness. Being inspired by witnessing the creativity of his clients, he started Digital Tapestries which develops abstract and existential art forms to broaden perspectives through films, art-therapy resources and experiential workshops.

Danbee Kim, MSW is a Korean American multidisciplinary creative, former youth worker and teaching artist whose practice centers on grief, addiction recovery, and forms of meaning-making that unfold across language, symbol, and material experience. Shaped by years of visual storytelling alongside grassroots organizers in Chicago, she works with symbolic and embodied practices, especially ones connected to her lineage. Her work approaches loss not as something to be resolved, but as a condition that reorganizes memory, relationship, and expression over time—holding space for language to return more precise, grounded, and accountable to lived experience.