The archetypes speak to us in the symbolic and metaphoric language of myth
When we open ourselves up to Mythic Imagination, we can see not only the essence of our inner stories but also the deeper meaning underlying the events that have shaped our lives. The workshop is inspired by the uniqueness and integrity of your stories, which, through your imagination and the surfacing of archetypal images, are transformed into origin myth, resulting in the birth of a new personal cosmos.
The Mandala Matrix
⨀ Ritual clay workshop where participants create a personal mandala in naturally pigmented earth using ancient techniques of mosaic and inlay. Through symbol, color, and sacred geometry, each mandala becomes a material reflection of the maker’s inner landscape. The work is then fired and returned to its creator as a lasting artifact of transformation.
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Decode Your Mythology
⊐⨀ The Path of Unlearning
Those who honor the call of unlearning step into the unknown, lightened, able to walk further.
“We must unlearn the constellation to see the stars.”
#unlearn #creative_engagement
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Archetype of wholeness
⊐⨀ The Inner Journey
Summon the elder who waits in your depths—the storyteller born before time. Sit beside the ProtoStory, the first fire, and let its sparks shape your words.
#archetypes #free_association #inner_narrative
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The Sacred Circle
Transform your stories into an epic poem, a myth, a legend, or a prayer.
#ancient_technique #inlay #mosaic #polychrome_terracotta
The artwork will be birthed entirely without preparatory drawings, themes, or preconceived ideas.
It is a physical manifestation of psychic integration, constructed purely from the inside out. Beginning at the bindu—the absolute center of the Self—the composition naturally expanded outward, dictated entirely by intuition.
Mythic Journey
Myths are human truths. For literally thousands of years they have inspired artists, poets, states people, historians, teachers, parents, children, indeed, all people who are moved by story. As opposed to lecturing at people, myths entice and enchant, instill wonder and delight, help to cope with loss, in short: they are narrative maps helping people to navigate the journey of their lives. And because they are formed of metaphor and filled with poetic insight, they are an integral part of teaching people to think creatively and critically. In a world where young people are bombarded with media and consumerist messages at every turn, myths can help them to think for themselves, to pierce beyond the veil of symbolic narratives, help them better discern lives of quality and delight for themselves, their families, and the societies that they themselves will grow up to shape.
– Ari Berk
There was a muddy centre before we breathed.
There was a myth before the myth began,
Venerable and articulate and complete.