The Storywork Sessions: Women Who Run With The Wolves [online]

The Storywork Sessions are a series of workshops, run monthly online, for women interested in working with myths and stories - particularly those to do with creativity, gender, sex, feelings and relationships. Whilst there will definitely be reading happening in these sessions, and in between them, this is not a reading group in the traditional sense. Instead, it's an opportunity to actively work with these myths and stories: to trace their manifestations in our own lives; their patterning of our own experiences and to explore how they might free, expand and deepen our sense of ourselves as storied beings.

The first storywork sessions will be devoted to Women Who Run With The Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés [1992], an exploration of myths, stories and archetypes of the wild woman and a meditation on the consequences when women deny their own wildness. Each month, we'll touch into a different story with the book, working too with pop culture, tarot, our felt senses and ritual around the themes presented by that month's story.

These sessions are for you if:

• you are interested in myth and story and in doing myth and story work
• you feel creatively  blocked/stuck/uninspired/depleted
• you identify with or are interested in feminist and feminine modalities
• you are looking for a community that is predicated on feminist, queer, anti-racist and animist principles
• you identify as a witch/witchy/witch-curious

No prior knowledge of the book, or training in myth/story work is needed - you can take the book chapter-by-chapter, month-by-month.  Group sizes will be capped to ensure a quality of experience for all participants.

The offering:

• 1 hour 45 minute sessions with the rest of the group
• suggestions, provocations and exercises to work on between sessions
• a supportive community
• access to recorded sessions [for the online group]
• a deepened understanding of myths, archetypes, and stories and their application in your own life

Who I am:

I am a trained storyworker, teacher and writer with over 15 years' experience working in academic and public settings.  I write about motherhood, ritual, bad feelings, sex, music, feminism, academia, and literature.  I am also a tarot reader and trainee wild therapist.

Cost:

This offering comprises 16 sessions in total: one per month. Each session costs £20 [£15 for low waged]. Sessions are booked, and can work, individually. However, the best experience of these workshops will be had by attending as many of them as you can. As such, I am also offering a variety of payment plans for the whole course. See tickets for details.

Dates:

Dates are as follows [all sessions take place from 7pm until 8.45]:

Part 1:  [Chs 1-6] 

24th January 2023

21st February 2023

21st March 2023

18th April 2023

9th May 2023

20th June 2023

Part 2:  [Chs 7-12] 

18th July 2023

15th August 2023

12th September 2023

17th October 2023

21st November 2023

19th December 2023

Part 3: [Chs 13-16]  

16th January 2024

20th February 2024

19th March 2024

16th April 2024

Payment and refund policy:

Payment for each block entitles you to all the sessions in this block and access to any accompanying material [including recordings of the sessions if you miss them]. Refunds will be provided up to one week before the start of each blokc and will not be provided once the block has started.