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Online, Via Zoom
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Regularly: $180
Discounted Price: $100
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Fridays, October 23, 30 & November 6, 2026
The Yellow Brick Road Keeps Unfolding is a three-part webinar series that follows Dorothy’s journey through The Wizard of Oz as a living map for Imago theory, personal growth, and clinical practice. From the adaptations that divide the original self to the crises that call us toward change, participants will explore the path from wounding and disconnection toward safety, integration, and renewed aliveness.
Across the series, participants will encounter the Four Functions of the Self—thinking, feeling, acting, and sensing—along with the core energy that connects them. Through teaching, visual models, guided reflection, and Imago-informed experiential practices, the series invites clinicians to reclaim disowned parts of themselves, restore relationship among their inner functions, and bring greater presence, compassion, and coherence to their work with clients.
Every timeless tale holds a hidden map. In the opening session, Dr. Fetterman uses Dorothy’s journey from Kansas to Munchkin Land to explore how original wholeness becomes divided through adaptation. Participants will examine the “Kansas” landscape of early wounding and orphaning experiences, the Four Functions of the Self, and the core energy beneath the adaptations that once helped us survive.
The tornado becomes a metaphor for the disruptions and crises that can unsettle familiar patterns and open the possibility of healing. Through guided practices—including Appreciating the Adaptive Self, a brief Retirement Ceremony, and Finding Your Inner Glinda or Wise One—participants will begin the Dialogue Journey from adaptation toward emotional shelter, resourcing, and integration.
In the second session, the journey turns toward Glinda’s essential question: “Who are you?” Rather than focusing only on what happened to us, this webinar explores the self that exists beneath wounds, defenses, and the messages we have absorbed from others. Using the Layers of the Self and Whole Self Projection Map, participants will consider how disowned qualities return through dark and golden shadows.
Drawing on Imago theory, Martin Buber’s I-It/I-Thou framework, and the integration of love and power, this session offers a path toward meeting ourselves and others as whole human beings. Guided Love and Power and Shadow Energy dialogues invite participants to reclaim denied aspects of self and discover the life energy within them. The session closes with the image of the Self as a symphony: not a perfect soloist, but a living whole in which every voice belongs.
The Yellow Brick Road does not end in Oz. It ends with Dorothy waking in relationship with the people she loves, carrying home within her. In this closing session, Scarecrow, Tin Man, Lion, and Toto return as interconnected functions of the Self: thinking, feeling, acting, and sensing. Participants will explore how early messages may have limited each function—and how each can be welcomed back into fuller expression.
Using the Round Table and symphony-orchestra metaphors, Dr. Fetterman offers a practical framework for restoring relationship among the functions of the Self without hierarchy or exclusion. Participants will practice creating healing messages for wounded or constricted functions through varied relational energies, including nurturant, playful, powerful, wondering, and mischievous. The series concludes with a felt experience of healing as remembrance: not becoming someone new, but returning to the wholeness that has been there all along.
Nedra Fetterman, PhD, is a licensed psychologist in private practice and a Senior Faculty member of the Imago International Training Institute, where she trains therapists nationally and internationally in relational and experiential approaches to healing and growth. With over four decades of clinical experience, Dr. Fetterman integrates Imago Relationship Therapy, archetypal psychology, and embodied, experiential practices into her work.
She is known for her ability to translate complex psychological concepts into accessible, meaningful frameworks that support both therapists and clients in moving toward greater awareness, connection, and wholeness. She taught for many years in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and served as a Senior Associate of the Global Dialogue Institute at Haverford College, contributing to the understanding of relational dialogue and interdisciplinary learning.
Dr. Fetterman teaches that healing occurs not in isolation, but within relationship—where disowned aspects of the self can be reclaimed and integrated. Her work emphasizes the development of safety, emotional attunement, and conscious dialogue as pathways to transformation. She is the author of Undivided: The Field Where Love & Power Meet, and her current work explores the developmental arc of relational healing—what she calls Coming Full Circle—a model of Tending, Trusting, and Flow that supports the emergence of a conscious, integrated, and relational self.
Dr. Fetterman blends clinical depth, poetic insight, and practical application, inviting others into a more conscious and connected way of living and relating.
Unfortunately, Continuing Education (CE) Credits will not be available for this webinar.
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