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Growth, Healing, Fulfillment Mindfulness based counseling, psychotherapy, and coaching in Northern Colorado offering group and individual services.

Specializing in the Hakomi Method of mindfulness based, body centered psychotherapy to help you explore yourself deeply.

10/27/2026

Join us for a free screening and discussion of the film GROUP: The Schopenhauer Effect on Wednesday, December 2, 2026, 5:30-8:30 PM in Fort Collins, CO.

Every Story Has a Voice - A Thriller of the Psyche.

An unscripted look into the room most people don't get to see unless you're part of a therapy group.

GROUP – The Schopenhauer Effect takes you inside the inner sanctum of group therapy. What begins as a study of connection devolves into a high-stakes standoff when a newcomer enters the circle with a hidden motive. As sexual tensions and philosophical clashes surface, the group must decide: are they subjects in a story, or is the truth of the room too dangerous to share?

We will begin the evening with a brief welcome, orientation, and intentions for our time together. We will view the film as a community and discuss what is illuminated about groups through our thoughts, feelings, and reactions afterward. Group facilitators Carrie Haynes, Andrew Brimhall, and Chuck Hancock will lead the discussion and Q+A.

Space is limited, so RSVP now to save your seat: https://forms.gle/UdjCuWaLayjQQctT9

Location: CSU Health Network - 3rd Floor - 151 W Lake Street, Fort Collins, CO

More about the film: https://www.groupthefilm.com/

More about the facilitators:

Andrew Brimhall: https://health.colostate.edu/staff/andrew-l-brimhall/

Carrie Haynes: https://carriehayneslpc.com/

Chuck Hancock: www.innerlifeadventures.com

10/22/2026

The final four plates of the Splendor Solis present a surprising conclusion to the alchemical journey.

Plate 19 depicts the dark sun above a landscape of felled trees. Plate 20 moves into the disorder and spontaneity of children at play. Plate 21 portrays women washing, beating, wringing, and drying clothes. Plate 22 concludes the manuscript with a red sun rising over the city.

From a Jungian perspective, these images can be read as a final psychological movement: the loss of an old source of meaning, the recovery of experimentation and play, the repeated work of bringing insight into ordinary life, and the emergence of renewed embodied vitality.

The sequence does not promise perfection. It suggests that individuation requires us to return continually to darkness, imagination, relationship, repetition, and participation in the collective world.

The work begins by searching for the hidden material, and ends when we are transformed enough to recognize how we all live together beneath the same sun in a healthy way, holding both our differences and similarities with reverence.

Chuck Hancock, M.Ed., LPC, LMHC, is a licensed psychotherapist and Analytic Psychology Training Candidate practicing in Colorado and New York, guiding individuals, couples, and groups into greater wholeness.

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10/20/2026

Plates 12–18 of the Splendor Solis connect seven planetary rulers with scenes of collective life and a sequence of transformations inside alchemical vessels. It's not about astrology or mysticism; it's about developing a whole personality and recognizing and differentiating between your personal work, societal influence, and forces bigger than any of us.

This video offers a framework for reading these extraordinarily detailed images without reducing them to either astrology or individual personality types. The planet represents an archetypal organizing force. The surrounding landscape shows how that force enters culture, relationships, occupations, and institutions. The vessel depicts the contained alchemical process, which can be interpreted psychologically as the individual’s developing relationship with the archetypal field.

Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury, and the Moon represent different symbolic climates. Each can organize individuals, analytic relationships, therapy groups, and collective life.

The planetary plates therefore present the psyche as nested within relationships, culture, nature, and a larger symbolic cosmos. Individuation does not free us from archetypal forces. It helps us recognize and participate in them more consciously.

Chuck Hancock, M.Ed., LPC, LMHC, is a licensed psychotherapist and Analytic Psychology Training Candidate practicing in Colorado and New York, guiding individuals, couples, and groups into greater wholeness.

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10/18/2026

Ritual from a Jungian Perspective: How It Heals and When It Becomes Harmful
Ritual Can Transform You or Help You Avoid Transformation

From a Jungian perspective, ritual gives embodied symbolic form to psychological transitions that rational understanding alone may not accomplish. It can contain grief, mark an initiation, support the relinquishment of an old identity, and create dialogue between consciousness and the unconscious.

But ritual is not automatically therapeutic. It can become spiritual bypassing, magical thinking, compulsion, archetypal inflation, cultural appropriation, or an overwhelming encounter with unconscious material.

A psychologically grounded ritual is symbolic, bounded, consensual, culturally respectful, and connected to practical responsibility. It does not replace transformation - it helps us recognize and participate in it.

Has a ritual ever helped you live through a transition? Or have you seen ritual used to avoid the deeper work?

If you’re interested in Jungian psychology, shadow work, individuation, existential psychology, authenticity, and a deeper relationship with self and others, subscribe for more videos.

Chuck Hancock, M.Ed., LPC, LMHC, is a licensed psychotherapist and Analytic Psychology Training Candidate practicing in Colorado and New York, guiding individuals, couples, and groups into greater wholeness. Chuck practices Jungian-informed, depth-oriented relational therapy that supports individuals, couples, and groups in exploring unconscious patterns, dreams, and embodied experience for meaningful change

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10/15/2026

Splendor Solis: Seven Parables vs. Seven Planets
The First Cycle Transforms the Person; The Next Reveals the Relationship to the World Around Them

Plates 5–11 of the Splendor Solis: The Seven Parables portray a complete mythic cycle of psychological transformation. Buried material is excavated, unconscious life grows, the old king drowns, the shadow emerges, the opposites unite, the new unity is dismembered, and the sage is rejuvenated.

Plates 12–18 revisit the transformative process through the seven classical planets. Each plate connects a planetary chariot above, collective human activities outside the flask, and an alchemical transformation inside the vessel.

From a Jungian perspective, the sequence connects the archetypal, collective, interpersonal, and intrapsychic dimensions of experience. The Seven Parables transform the person; the Planetary Plates reveal the larger symbolic fields within which that transformation occurs.

If you’re interested in Jungian psychology, shadow work, individuation, existential psychology, authenticity, and a deeper relationship with self and others, subscribe for more videos.

Chuck Hancock, M.Ed., LPC, LMHC, is a licensed psychotherapist and Analytic Psychology Training Candidate practicing in Colorado and New York, guiding individuals, couples, and groups into greater wholeness. Chuck practices Jungian-informed, depth-oriented relational therapy that supports individuals, couples, and groups in exploring unconscious patterns, dreams, and embodied experience for meaningful change

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10/13/2026

Splendor Solis Plate 11: Rebuilding a Life After an Ordeal
You Don’t Return as the Person You Were Before

Plate 11 of the Splendor Solis, the Seventh Parable, depicts an aged sage immersed in a heated bath while an attendant tends the fire and a dove rests above him.

Following the dismemberment of Plate 10, the image portrays decoctio: the sustained cooking, circulation, and reunion of the separated material. From a Jungian perspective, it represents psychological integration - when insight becomes embodied through repeated emotional, behavioral, and relational experience.

The attendant resembles the analyst or therapy group. Neither can create transformation for another person, but each can help maintain the containing vessel and the degree of emotional heat needed for change.

Rejuvenation does not restore the old personality. It produces renewed vitality through a more conscious and flexible organization of the person.

What have you understood intellectually that you are now being asked to live emotionally and relationally?

If you’re interested in Jungian psychology, shadow work, individuation, existential psychology, authenticity, and a deeper relationship with self and others, subscribe for more videos.

Chuck Hancock, M.Ed., LPC, LMHC, is a licensed psychotherapist and Analytic Psychology Training Candidate practicing in Colorado and New York, guiding individuals, couples, and groups into greater wholeness. Chuck practices Jungian-informed, depth-oriented relational therapy that supports individuals, couples, and groups in exploring unconscious patterns, dreams, and embodied experience for meaningful change

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10/11/2026

Splendor Solis Plate 10: Why Wholeness Falls Apart
The First Union Must Be Broken Apart

Following Plate 9’s conjunction of the opposites, this disturbing image reveals that the first experience of wholeness is not the completion of transformation. The united material must be separated, examined, and reorganized. One insight doesn't change our life; we have to continue the work.

From a Jungian perspective, Plate 10 resembles the work of differentiating an overwhelming experience into its component complexes, projections, affects, defenses, memories, and archetypal influences. In analysis and group therapy, this creates greater consciousness and freedom, provided the process occurs within adequate psychological containment.

The goal is not fragmentation. It is a more conscious and embodied form of wholeness.

What experience in your life feels like one overwhelming truth, but may contain several different psychological realities?

If you’re interested in Jungian psychology, shadow work, individuation, existential psychology, authenticity, and a deeper relationship with self and others, subscribe for more videos.

Chuck Hancock, M.Ed., LPC, LMHC, is a licensed psychotherapist and Analytic Psychology Training Candidate practicing in Colorado and New York, guiding individuals, couples, and groups into greater wholeness. Chuck practices Jungian-informed, depth-oriented relational therapy that supports individuals, couples, and groups in exploring unconscious patterns, dreams, and embodied experience for meaningful change

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10/08/2026

Splendor Solis Plate 9: When the Opposites Become One
Wholeness Begins When You Stop Choosing Only One Side

Plate 9 of the Splendor Solis, the Fifth Parable, depicts a crowned and winged hermaphroditic figure holding an egg and a reflective disk.

Alchemically, the figure represents coniunctio: the union of solar and lunar, masculine and feminine, fixed and volatile principles. From a Jungian perspective, it symbolizes a personality becoming capable of containing previously divided qualities without eliminating their differences.

In analysis and group therapy, a similar “third” may emerge when conflicting realities remain in relationship long enough to generate a possibility that neither side possessed beforehand.

This union is not the completion of the work. The egg must still develop, and the newly formed unity must undergo further transformation.

What two qualities have you treated as mutually exclusive that may actually need to become part of the same life?

If you’re interested in Jungian psychology, shadow work, individuation, existential psychology, authenticity, and a deeper relationship with self and others, subscribe for more videos.

Chuck Hancock, M.Ed., LPC, LMHC, is a licensed psychotherapist and Analytic Psychology Training Candidate practicing in Colorado and New York, guiding individuals, couples, and groups into greater wholeness. Chuck practices Jungian-informed, depth-oriented relational therapy that supports individuals, couples, and groups in exploring unconscious patterns, dreams, and embodied experience for meaningful change

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10/04/2026

Splendor Solis Plate 7: When the Old Ego Must Drown
The Part of You That Once Ruled Can No Longer Lead

Plate 7 of the Splendor Solis, the Third Parable or Drowning King, depicts an old ruler submerged in water while a youthful, androgynous royal figure stands in the foreground.

From a Jungian perspective, the image can represent solutio: the dissolution of a rigid ego attitude that once organized the personality but can no longer support further development. This is not necessarily ego destruction. It is the ego’s recognition that it is not the whole psyche.

In analysis and group therapy, familiar identities and relational roles may need to loosen before more flexible and inclusive forms of psychological authority can emerge. The

What identity once protected you but may now be preventing your development?

If you’re interested in Jungian psychology, shadow work, individuation, existential psychology, authenticity, and a deeper relationship with self and others, subscribe for more videos.

Chuck Hancock, M.Ed., LPC, LMHC, is a licensed psychotherapist and Analytic Psychology Training Candidate practicing in Colorado and New York, guiding individuals, couples, and groups into greater wholeness. Chuck practices Jungian-informed, depth-oriented relational therapy that supports individuals, couples, and groups in exploring unconscious patterns, dreams, and embodied experience for meaningful change

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10/01/2026

Splendor Solis Plate 6: Why Growth Cannot Be Forced
You Cannot Manufacture the Person You Are Becoming

Plate 6 of the Splendor Solis, The Philosophical Tree, represents vegetatio: the alchemical process of organic growth and animation.

From a Jungian perspective, the tree portrays individuation as development emerging from unconscious roots. From personal history, inheritance, instincts, complexes, and archetypal life. Analysis cannot manufacture this growth, but it can cultivate the conditions in which arrested or neglected capacities begin to develop.

In group therapy, growth also emerges through the relational field rather than through individual effort alone.

This is one quick psychological takeaway from an image containing far greater symbolic and alchemical depth.

What might already be trying to grow through you that your conscious plans have not recognized?

If you’re interested in Jungian psychology, shadow work, individuation, existential psychology, authenticity, and a deeper relationship with self and others, subscribe for more videos.

Chuck Hancock, M.Ed., LPC, LMHC, is a licensed psychotherapist and Analytic Psychology Training Candidate practicing in Colorado and New York, guiding individuals, couples, and groups into greater wholeness. Chuck practices Jungian-informed, depth-oriented relational therapy that supports individuals, couples, and groups in exploring unconscious patterns, dreams, and embodied experience for meaningful change

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