Myths & The Creative Life

Workshop: Myths & The Creative Life

Focusing on our Creative Life brings us closer to our true selves, emancipating and freeing us, restoring our confidence, passion, and vitality for life.

Explore three timeless stories that, when woven together, unleash our creative potential as women. These stories remind us of who we truly are, reveal our deepest dreams, and dismantle what is holding us back from stepping into a space where we can fully claim ourselves.

Join this workshop for an enlightening journey into the heart of your creative life and unleash the creative force within you through powerful storytelling.

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Introduction

Women are soulful and creative beings, but sometimes something holds us back, preventing us from feeling the courage and ability to claim our creative Self.

The stories in this workshop will remind a woman of her power, her ability to create, and the immense gifts she can offer to others and herself. It will awaken and unleash her Creative Life which nourishes a woman on all levels: emotional, soulful, mental, and economic.

The Creative Life is not only about a specific work in the world, but it’s about a deep understanding that everything stemming from our hearts and flowing from our hands is part of our creative self: cooking, painting, tending to a home, caring for and raising children, studying, nurturing a marriage, gardening, writing, weaving, developing a business and so forth…

The Creative Life

"Gifted women, even as they reclaim their creative lives, even as beautiful things flow from their hands, from their pens, from their bodies, still question whether they are writers, painters, artists, people, real ones. And of course they are real ones even though they might like to bedevil themselves with what constitutes “real.” A farmer is a real farmer when she looks out over the land and plans the spring crops. A runner is real when she takes the first step, a flower is real when it is yet in its mother stem, a tree is real when it is still a seed in the pine cone. An old tree is a real living being. Real is what has life."

Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Workshop Content

During the workshop, you will experience the storytelling of the Central American folktale of La Llorona, the Greek myth of The Three Gold Hairs, and the Celtic tale of Fox Woman, followed by a broader discussion and symbolic interpretation that empowers and guides women to reconnect with their Creative Life. There will be time for conversation, questions and small exercises.

A few of the themes we will work with:

Sovereignty of the Soul
Balance between the archetypal feminine and masculine within
Protecting our Creative Life
Equilibrium between cycles of action and cycles of rest
How to nourish our vital self
Symbols: Pelt, Home, River, Children, Death, Hairs, Forest

and more...

Join us to question and reflect: What can you do today to nourish your creative self? What is blocking you from claiming your creative work? How can you balance times of creation and times of incubation?

A woman's creativity is her greatest treasure, as it enriches her on multiple levels: spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and economically. It continuously flows with limitless possibilities, serving as a source of renewal and vitality, fulfilling our yearning for a profound and untamed existence.

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What Will You Gain

A new way of relating to your Creative Life

A wide understanding of symbols and motifs within myths and stories

Unblock the elements that are keeping you from claiming your Creative Self

Deep insights into what you can do to embrace your Creative Self

Opportunity for healing the creative feminine force within you

A community of women at all stages willing to connect, share, and support each other

About Your Facilitator

Maria Souza

Maria Souza is a Writer, Mythologist and Educator. Maria is the author of the mythopoetic book Wild Daughters and is a member of the Joseph Campbell Foundation Myth Maker Network. She is the host of the podcast Women and Mythology in which she shares and interprets myths and fairy tales. Maria has been delivering programs on mythology since 2016.

She has researched and studied mythology under the world-renowned mythologist Dr Martin Shaw, she holds a postgraduate degree in Ecology and Spirituality from Schumacher College and Trinity Saint David, UK and she completed a year long course on Indigenous Subjects at Schumacher College. Originally from Brazil, she has worked for 7 years in the Brazilian Amazon with the indigenous peoples and Conservation Units.

"Thank you so so much, Maria! It was such an amazing workshop. I needed this inspiration so badly. You are very eloquent and structured and it helped me to see where my energy is going up and down. With that being said I finally decided to make a little announcement on my page which I was afraid to do for so many years. Thank you so much, I’m very happy I ‘met’ you on my way to my creative life.

Yesterday, I finally realized that when I don’t bring my creative ideas to life, I become like La Llorona—lost and sorrowful. But I don’t want to be her; I want to be the brave, fearless Fox Woman. This realization filled me with so much internal power and courage that, after the workshop, I put my fears into a box and opened another one where I had stored The Pelt. I’ve always wanted to share what I’ve been learning and reading, and the tools that help me get through tough days. But I’ve been too shy and fearful. However, yesterday, looking at you and listening to the stories you shared with us, I realized it’s now or never."

Kristina Shan

Purchase the Workshop

INCLUDES

2 Hour Workshop Recording - Available for One Year

E-book with a summary of the seminar, stories, exercises, and bibliography (downloadable)

Workshop Presentation (downloadable)

Certificate of Participation (upon request)