Join us for an immersive 2-day workshop facilitated by the founders of the Light Dark Institute, Tani Thole and Leslie Rogers. You’ll experience first hand how the very things that you have been judging and fearing most can become the source of unprecedented fun, connection, power and creativity.

Why Would You Want To Explore Your Darkness?

When you are trying to approach someone you’re attracted to, have a productive interaction with someone who triggers you, or create a thriving organization, it is easy to have the process get sabotaged and crumble when your unconscious shadows bump up against each other and rub each other the wrong way.

You’ve probably done a lot of “work” on yourself: Focusing attention on how you’d like to be different, what you’d like to change, and how you’d like to evolve. So why do you still suffer? Why can you still hear your inner critic saying “You’re no good”, “You’re unworthy” and “You’re hopeless”?

The answer is in the shadows. It is where you can’t see. No matter how skilled you are at healing what you can see, it doesn’t help you with what you can’t see.

That’s where we need an environment safe enough for us to push our edges lovingly, and honest enough to bring the beauty of the sword to cut through the excuses we don’t even know we are making.

Life is more enjoyable if you can get free of your conditioning.

What Are Darketypes™?

Playing with Darketypes™ (Dark Archetypes) means engaging specific characters from our inner worlds that we typically go to great lengths to avoid. It sounds scary but that’s what makes it fun too.

In this 2-day experience you’ll explore the 10 major Dark Archetypes, including...

  • The Needy Wretch who comes up inside us and sabotages our attempt to talk to someone we’re attracted to…

  • The Violent Destroyer that bubbles just under the surface in us when we have a triggering interaction with a family member…

  • The Covert Manipulator inside of us that uses people to get what we want when we feel ashamed to be seen... 

These Darketypes™ often cause us great distress when left unexamined. When we can learn to identify the Darketypes™ we are unconsciously acting out and react to them playfully when they arise in ourselves and others, the result is incredibly freeing. 

In the “Playing with Darketypes™” workshop you will learn practical tools for finding this freedom, and for turning these most challenging archetypes into goldmines of creativity and connection.

What You’ll Learn:

  • Profound methods of glimpsing the deepest truth of who we really are

  • Get the Light Dark Institute’s "Darketypes™ Map” - a system of different Darketypes™, how they relate to each other, how to play with them and the gifts they each bring

  • Ways to spot, identify and play with Darketypes™ in yourself and others

  • How to cultivate a sense of humor and playfulness in areas where you normally feel bound, fearful or ashamed

  • Begin the process of transforming your blind spots and challenging your invisible assumptions

  • Integrate powerful strategies for facing your fears

  • Learn how to express your Darketypes™ in ways that lead to connection rather than disconnection