2025
The characters we carry
Weekend magazine feature · Staff writer
A magazine writer attends a shadow work residential and writes home about it. A useful first-hand description for anyone who has been wondering what the room actually feels like.
Press & writing
For journalists, and for the merely curious.
Coverage of shadow work in the press, short writings by practitioners, and the press contact for the Institute.
01 · Coverage
2024
Les archétypes au quotidien
Inexploré (FR) · Contributing writer
French-language piece on shadow work for a general readership — a useful reference for European media coverage outside the UK and Ireland.
2023
In conversation: the roots of the Shadow Types
Conversation series · Recorded interview
An hour-long conversation between senior teachers of the lineage. On how depth psychology met facilitated practice, why the wheel has four energies, and why people keep coming back.
02 · Short writings
Short essays by practitioners — usually written for newer members of the community, but useful as a window for visitors too.
On holding the room without pathology
Senior trainer
A short note for new facilitators on the operating principle that does most of the work in this work — precision without labels.
Watching from the cheap seats
Practitioner, Belgium
On the difference between being run by a pattern and watching it from the audience — and how the noticing itself becomes the choice.
What we mean by gift and shadow
Trainer, UK
An attempt to keep the language honest — what is actually meant by an archetype's gift and its shadow, and what is not.
Press contact
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For interview requests, fact-checking, or to be put in touch with a practitioner who can speak to a particular angle — please write to hello@understandyourshadow.com, or use the contact form and flag the message as press. We reply quickly and we are happy to talk on background.
Photographs and bio sheets for individual practitioners are available on request. We do not photograph the work itself.
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