A Jungian Approach to Spontaneous Drawing

Spontaneous Drawing: A Transformative Tool for Understanding Students, Revitalising Learning, and Strengthening Well-being in Your School

As a school leader, you face a growing challenge: students are increasingly overstimulated by technology, yet simultaneously disconnected from their inner world, their creativity, and often their learning. Many teachers report frustration, a decline in student engagement, and a lack of tools to truly reach learners whose attention and emotional presence feel fragmented or inaccessible. Spontaneous Drawing offers a powerful, research-informed method to reverse this trend.

Unlike traditional assessments or verbal expression, spontaneous drawing opens a direct window into students’ deeper intentions, emotions, thinking processes, and psychological needs. It is a universal medium — accessible regardless of age, culture, language, or even certain pathologies — making it an exceptionally inclusive approach for diverse classrooms.

For schools seeking to improve student wellbeing, strengthen relationships, support neurodiverse learners, and reinvigorate engagement, this course offers an immediate and long-lasting impact.

This training provides teachers with an authentic, dynamic, and psychologically grounded way to understand learners beyond surface behaviours. Your teachers gain tools that enhance attention, curiosity, self-expression, and emotional regulation — essential capacities in today’s classrooms.

What your school gains by investing in this course

◾A deeper understanding of students’ emotional and cognitive worlds
Your teachers learn how to read drawings through the lens of Carl Jung: the structure and dynamics of the psyche, patterns of psychic energy, spatial organization, colour symbolism, trauma indicators, and archetypal imagery. This enables earlier support, better pastoral care, and a more compassionate response to student needs.

◾Stronger student engagement and rekindled curiosity
Spontaneous drawing reactivates imagination — a core driver of learning that technology often suppresses. The method helps your teachers recapture attention, stimulate interest, and create learning moments that feel meaningful and alive.

◾A universally accessible tool for inclusion
Because spontaneous drawing transcends language and culture, it gives multilingual learners, neurodivergent students, and emotionally withdrawn pupils a powerful voice. This strengthens equity and allows all students to express themselves authentically.

◾Enhanced well-being for both students and teachers
Working with symbolic imagery and creative expression supports emotional processing, self-awareness, and resilience. Your teachers also rediscover the creative and intuitive dimensions of their profession, increasing professional fulfilment.

◾A unique professional skillset not found in traditional PD
Your teachers develop the ability to perceive symbolic meaning, identify archetypes, and understand the deeper narratives expressed in student work — capacities that enrich teaching across all subjects.

◾A long-term impact on school culture
The approach fosters more empathetic classrooms, healthier relational dynamics, and a learning environment where students feel seen, understood, and valued beyond their academic performance.

What the course covers

Your teachers will explore:

• The structure and dynamics of the psyche (Carl Jung)

• Reading drawings through patterns of psychic energy and spatial orientation

• Symbol formation and colour symbolism

• Trauma and spontaneous drawing

• Anthropological dimensions in children’s drawings

• The mythical level: mythology, legends, fairy tales, rites of passage

They will leave with:

• A deeper and clearer perception of the intention behind any drawing

• Tools to ignite interest and initiate dynamic, psychologically aligned themes

• A meaningful method for comprehension and assessment

• An entry point into endless exploration of archetypes, symbols, and imaginative realms

Spontaneous Drawing is not simply an art activity. It is a transformative tool for understanding students, reigniting engagement, strengthening wellbeing, and equipping your staff with new professional insight.

Investing in this course means giving your school a profound, human-centred method to support learners in ways that no digital tool or traditional pedagogy can replicate.

Duration: 2 full days, but it can also be given in a half-day or full-day format if requested. Supervision sessions can also be organized.

Audience: Suitable for both primary and secondary schools.

Certificate: Teachers will receive a certificate of Mastery