Beneath the Surface:
A 3-Day Depth Pyschology Summit

August 5, 6 & 7 · Live online · Replays available · Free to attend

You’ve done the work. You’ve gathered the tools. You may have studied, practiced, healed, trained, facilitated, supported others, or spent years trying to understand yourself more honestly.

And still, there are places where the old frameworks begin to feel too small.

The same patterns repeat. The ah’ha insight doesn’t integrate into changed behavior. The nervous system may understand safety in theory, but not yet in the body. The mind may know the story, but the deeper psyche is still speaking through symptoms, dreams, projections, relationships, longings, defenses, and the parts of us we learned to exile in order to belong.

This is where depth work begins.

Join us for a free 3-day exploring how depth psychology can help us move beyond surface-level coping and into a more symbolic, embodied,, and soul-centered relationship with healing, transformation, and the unconscious.

Why depth,
Why now.

So much of modern healing culture teaches us how to cope, regulate, function, and improve. These tools matter. They can help us survive, stabilize, and find language for what we have lived.

But coping is not the same as transformation.

In many ways, we are being taught to heal just enough to keep functioning inside a culture that often asks for the bare minimum of our aliveness. Enough regulation to keep producing. Enough self-awareness to keep adapting. Enough coping to keep going.

But not necessarily enough depth to understand what is happening underneath.

Not enough space for wholeness. Not enough reverence for the unconscious. Not enough time to listen to the body, the dream, the symptom, the longing, the grief, the pattern, or the part of us that refuses to keep performing wellness while something deeper remains unseen.

Depth psychology begins with a different premise: that what lives beneath the surface is not simply something to eliminate, manage, or overcome. It is often the most important thing to listen to and understand.

The parts of us we hide, exile, defend against, or project often carry intelligence. The patterns we repeat are rarely random. The places where we feel stuck may be invitations into a deeper conversation with the psyche.

This summit is an invitation to step beneath the surface and begin listening to what lives underneath.

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What You’ll Experience

Across three days, you’ll be invited into a deeper way of seeing, listening, practicing, and holding space. Together, we’ll explore:

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Why many healing and self-development frameworks plateau when they stay only at the level of cognition, behavior, or technique

How shadow, archetypes, dreams, projection, somatic awareness, and the unconscious shape the way we relate to ourselves, others, and the world

What it looks like to bring depth psychology into coaching, therapy, facilitation, creative work, and everyday life

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Somatic and imaginal practices that help bridge insight and embodied integration

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What Inner Compass Academy feels like from the inside through sessions with teachers and alumni

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How to begin reading patterns as meaningful, not simply problematic

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Connecting with a community of therapists, coaches, seekers, and space-holders walking or curious about a similar path

This is not about adding one more tool to your toolkit.

It is an invitation to relate to healing, transformation, and space-holding from a deeper level.

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What’s Happening Each Day

Day 1 — Depth + Initiation

Wednesday, August 5 · 9–10:30am PT
Teacher: Vanessa Bennett
Theme: Moving beyond the surface — why depth psychology changes everything.

Day 2 — Shadow + Transformation

Workshop 1: Thursday, August 6 · 9–10:30am PT
Teachers: Emily Cervini + Madeleine Downey
Theme: What lives beneath — shadow, projection, and the unconscious forces shaping our lives and relationships.

Most healing frameworks focus on what we can see, measure, explain, and manage. Day 1 asks a different question: what if the patterns keeping us and the people we support stuck are not simply problems to solve, but invitations to go deeper?
Together, we’ll explore what depth psychology is, how it differs from more surface-level approaches, and why working with the psyche — shadow, symbol, soul, dreams, archetypes, projection, and the unconscious — opens doors that coping strategies alone often cannot.
You’ll leave with:
- A clearer understanding of why depth psychology matters now
- A new lens for reading your own patterns and your clients’ patterns as meaningful, not merely problematic
- A felt sense of the Inner Compass Academy approach and whether this is the deeper framework you’ve been looking for

Transformation does not happen by only working with what is already visible.
Day 2 moves into the material that lives beneath the surface: shadow, projection, relational patterns, dream images, and the archetypal forces shaping how we see ourselves, our clients, and the people around us. We’ll explore why real change asks us to meet what has been disowned, defended against, hidden from consciousness, or carried in the body.
You’ll leave with:
- A deeper understanding of shadow that goes beyond “limiting beliefs” or negative traits
- A clearer way of recognizing projection and unconscious material in ourselves and the people we support
- Insight into how symbolic, dream-based, and archetypal work can support lasting transformation

Alumni Workshop

Workshop 2: Thursday, August 6 · 10:30-11:30am PT
Teachers: Aimee Chung, ICA Alumni
Theme: Alumni workshop:Trauma, Relationship and the Depth Perspective.

Trauma is more than what happens to us. It shapes how we relate to ourselves, to others, and to the world around us. In this workshop, we’ll explore how depth psychology offers a different way of understanding trauma—not simply as something to overcome, but as an experience that leaves symbolic, emotional, and relational imprints on the psyche. Aimee will also share how her training through Inner Compass Academy has influenced the way she approaches healing and the work she now brings into the world.

Day 3 — Somatic + Imaginal Integration

Workshop 1: Friday, August 7 · 9–10:30am PT
Teacher: Tauné Lyons
Theme: Bringing it into the body — how depth psychology becomes something we live, not just understand.

Insight alone does not create integration.
Day 3 brings depth work into the body, the imagination, and lived experience. Through somatic and imaginal practice, we’ll explore how healing becomes something we embody, not just something we understand conceptually, and how this deeper integration can support both our own lives and the people we hold space for.
You’ll leave with:
- A direct experience of somatic and imaginal practice, not just a conceptual understanding
- A clearer sense of how to bridge insight and embodied integration
- Practical language for bringing this approach into your own life, work, or space-holding practice

Alumni Workshop

Workshop 2: Friday, August 7 · 10:30–11:30am PT
Teacher: Spencer Spellman, ICA Alumni
Theme: Alumni Workshop: Depth Psychology as a Bridge to Your Future Self

In this alumni-led session, Spencer shares how Inner Compass Academy and depth psychology became a bridge into a more conscious and integrated life, touching not only his work, but his identity, relationships, creativity, and sense of purpose.
Drawing from his background in philosophy, travel writing, photography, storytelling, coaching, and content marketing, Spencer reflects on how depth psychology can inform both traditional and non-traditional paths. His session offers a real-world glimpse into how this work can become part of what you offer, how you create, how you listen, and how you live.
You’ll leave with:
- A grounded example of how ICA shapes life and work beyond the classroom
- An expanded sense of what your own path could look like with a depth framework underneath it
- A glimpse into how alumni are integrating this work into coaching, facilitation, creative practice, and everyday life

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Meet Your Guides

Inner Compass Academy is led by a collective of teachers, therapists, coaches, artists, somatic practitioners, and spiritual guides — each bringing a different doorway
into the work.

Together, they offer a grounded, multidimensional approach to depth psychology, embodiment, spiritual psychology, relational healing, and ethical space-holding.

For this summit, you’ll be learning from four of our core faculty members and two graduates from Cohort 1 of the Academy, each offering a different lens on what it means to bring depth psychology into practice, relationship, and everyday life.

Vanessa Bennett, LMFT

Founder, Inner Compass Academy · Author · Depth Psychotherapist

Vanessa is the founder of Inner Compass Academy and a practicing depth psychotherapist whose work bridges Jungian psychology, embodiment, spirituality, and cultural critique, helping people move toward greater wholeness.
Emily Cervini, AMFT

Depth Psychology Practitioner · Dream Tending & Animist Psychology

Emily blends dream tending, animist psychology, and ritual to help people cultivate a deeper relationship with the psyche through image, symbol, story, and imagination.
Madeleine Downey, RCC

Depth Psychology Practitioner · Shadow Work & Trauma-Informed Practice

Madeleine integrates Jungian psychology with trauma-informed and narrative approaches, helping people recognize, relate to, and reclaim the parts of themselves they have learned to exile.
Taunē Lyons, LMFT, SEP

Somatic Experiencing Practitioner · Imaginal & Somatic Developmental Repair

Taunē weaves somatic experiencing, imaginal practice, and developmental repair to help people deepen their relationship with themselves, others, and the more-than-human world.
Spencer Spellman

ICA Alumni · Coach, Facilitator & Workshop Leader

Spencer integrates depth psychology, positive psychology, storytelling, and contemplative practice to help people live with greater meaning, authenticity, and purpose.
Aimee Chung, LSW

Trauma-Informed Social Worker · Coach & Educator
With more than 30 years of experience, Aimee brings a trauma-informed, culturally grounded approach to helping people understand their roots, reconnect with themselves, and move toward lasting healing.

Who This is For

This summit is for therapists, coaches, facilitators, space-holders, students, creatives, seekers, and anyone drawn to the deeper work of transformation.

It is for you if you know healing cannot be reduced to tools, techniques, or quick fixes.

It is for you if you feel drawn to depth psychology, shadow work, dreamwork, somatics, archetypes, the unconscious, and the symbolic life, but are not sure where to begin or how to integrate these frameworks into your work or life.

It is for you if you hold space for others and want to do so with more skill, humility, integrity, and depth.

It is for you if you have done your own inner work and are ready for a framework that honors psyche, body, spirit, relationship, and culture as interconnected.

It is for you if your current approach is reaching its edges, and you sense that something more symbolic, embodied, relational, and soul-centered is being asked for.

You do not need to be a therapist to attend. You only need a willingness to look inward, stay curious, and approach this work with care.

Join Us

You’re invited to join us for three days of depth, dialogue, embodiment, and soul-centered practice.

Come learn with the teachers and alumni of Inner Compass Academy, experience the work from the inside, and begin listening for what lives beneath the surface.