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Join the Heroine's Journey, a 5-month initiation into your archetypal feminine ground ✨
A FREE LIVE 3-PART STORYTELLING SERIES
The Handless Maiden:
Initiation in the Underground Forest
Navigating the Mysteries of the Archetypal Woman's Quest
Descend down and in to the Subversive Power of your Archetypal Feminine Ground through Storytelling ✹ Postfeminism ✹ Imagination
with Brielle Elise, MA — scholar of myth, transformational coach for women, storyeller
October 3rd + October 10th + October 17th
Thursdays, 5pm - 7pm EDT
REGISTER NOW FOR FREE:
When shown the model of the Heroine's Journey, Joseph Campbell said: “Women don’t need to make the [Hero’s] journey. In the whole mythological journey, the woman is [already] there. All she has to do is realize that she’s the place that people are trying to get to...”
Come listen to a tale…
Of a woman who like many of us suffers psychic dismemberment at the hands of the Old Father, and wanders into the deep woods in search of herself...
Nothing but the other-than-human world and the wisdom of her wounds to guide her as she navigates the meaningful but often confusing path of the Heroine’s Quest — the archetypal journey of women's initiation away from the one-sided masculine topside world, descending down and in to the mysteries of her own truer way.
Journey with her as she surrenders to the unknown, receives support from mysterious places, and encounters the archetypes of maiden, mother, and crone on her way to growing back her own hands….
Modern women are in the midst of an initiation...
We hear the call to slow down, to stop extracting our energy, bodies, and souls for the sake of production, and to re-member the deeper parts of ourselves that we suppressed, starved, or entirely abandoned in order to feel safe and good enough in a masculine topside world…
Our creative, soulful, yearning-for-love parts are calling, scratching softly (or loudly) at the door of our lives, asking us to let go of that which no longer serves us, and descend down and in to the dark, gritty mystery of our archetypal feminine ground, which mystifies us as much as it calls us inward…
Whether it is:
letting go of a job that no longer serves you,
slowing down to prioritize rest or play,
finally diving deep into a creative calling,
or embracing a long-suppressed yearning for love...
We feel scared to answer the call and walk into the unknown…
But as we continue gripping to the safe, familiar purgatory of the known, something within no longer allows us to continue the self-denial that we have tolerated all our lives.
We find ourselves more sensitive, more teary, more tired, more in-touch with the fears and desires that we were once too numb on autopilot to feel...
I believe that women — being the intuitive, between-world creatures that we instinctually are — are at the forefront of humanity’s mythic story:
That we are being asked to embody, through the micro-myth of our personal lives, the universal transformation that humanity-at-large is being invited to step into.
The ways of the extractive-masculine are no longer serving the world, and we feel this truth in our tired female bodies which long for a deep exhale...
The catch is:
the extractive-masculine now lives within us....
We are being invited to heal this primordial wound from the inside-out, allowing the deep intuitive wisdom-power of the female body (as earth/woman/womb/soul) to spring forth and birth a new way.
We have successfully proven ourselves in the realms of independence and masculine-creativity, but now the next stage of feminine consciousness is pressing into this world— the stage of sacred interdependency: the masculine-ego in sacred union with the feminine soul.
From exhausting over-functioning to allowing our bodies and wombs to set the pace...
From protective hyper-independence to opening to the strength in vulnerability…
From repressing our feeling-body to trusting the oracular wisdom of our pain...
From hiding our medicine in fear to generously, patiently sharing it with the world…
Your creaturely-soul is scratching at the door, will you trust and answer the call?
The Journey
In this live 3-part storytelling experience, we will explore two folktales, The Handless Maiden and The Madness of Mis, to illuminate your 'Heroine's Journey' — the archetypal journey of women's modern-day initiation away from the one-sided masculine topside world, and down and in to the mystery of your own true nature as you define and realize it. Opening to the numinous power of the stories' symbols and archetypes, you will be guided to "hear" the ways that the stories are distinctly guiding you at this junction of your life to illuminate your path ahead. Woven throughout the journey we will explore post-feminist perspectives on the next evolution of female consciousness — what comes after the stage of independence and masculine creativity for modern women. We are free to work and achieve in the world, but do we feel free within to rest, play, love, and receive?
Thursdays, 5pm - 7pm EDT online on Zoom
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Art by Laura Makabresku
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This 3-part series is for you if....
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You hear a whisper within inviting you to slow down your life and feed the malnourished parts of you that you repressed in order to achieve.
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You want to put down the over-working shell that you (intelligently) built to feel safe in a man’s world so that you can discover who you truly are.
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You feel uncertain about the path ahead and unclear about your deeper contribution to life, and sometimes feel scared and pressured to “figure it out.”
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You love myths, stories, and symbols and want to open to their medicine to hear the guidance of your soul and help you “see in the dark.”
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You are ready to put down the myth of female inferiority that has led you to derive your value from your doing-ness, and instead discover the value and bliss of your un-striving female energy or being-ness.
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You are tired of the narrative that you are “not feminine enough,” yet you feel a genuine desire to return to your more relaxed, creative, intuitive side and understand what “the feminine” truly is beyond outdated stereotypes
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You feel caught in a frustrating purgatory of desiring-and-avoiding a creative calling; you want to untangle the blockages and feel safe enough to birth your creative-child into the world at a pace that your nervous system can handle
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You are interested to heal your deep mistrust in the Masculine as God/Life/mortal man and expand your capacity to receive so that you can stop striving and relax into the exhale of masculine provision and sacred union.
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Part 1.
The Handless Maiden:
Initiation in the Underground Forest
Navigating the Archetypal Woman's Quest​
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Thursday, October 3rd, 2024
5pm - 7pm EDT
In this online gathering, we will work with the Handless Maiden folktale to illuminate the often confusing initiation journey that so many modern women are meaningfully struggling through today: leaving the world of the extractive masculine behind so that you can relax into the bliss, creativity, and ease of your true nature.
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Understand how modern feminism was a necessary but incomplete stage in the evolution of female consciousness and what the next stage might invite us into
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Hear a mythopoetic lens of the meaning being expressed through the crises of our times
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Learn about the archetypal Heroine’s Quest and which stage you are at along journey so that you can deepen into trust of your process and the perfection of your path.
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Learn how to work with a folktale to hear the guidance of your own soul at this junction of your life​
Part 2.
The Madness of Mis:
De-Armoring and Opening to Receive.
Re-Membering Repressed Archetypes in the Female Psyche
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Thursday, October 10th, 2024
5pm - 7pm EDT
In this online gathering we will hear the story of the Madness of Mis and listen to how the story's symbolism is speaking distinct, prescriptive wisdom for your life. We will explore various archetypes and symbols of the feminine, paying special attention to the multifaceted, positive nature of the Maiden within, practicing archetypal somatics to unlock repressed powers in the female psyche.
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Understand the unconscious archetypes at the root of your patterns of over-functioning and/or feminine collapse so that you can compassionately understand yourself and meet your needs
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Fill the void in your female psyche through feminine archetypes and symbols to paint a multidimensional face of the primordial feminine
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Use the framework of archetypes, their gifts and shadows, as a blueprint for wholeness and liberating vital life-force energy in your body
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Experience the exhale of the Sacred/Innocent archetype, and the fullness of the Virgin (in the oldest sense of the word — "all-one-in-herself")
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Understand ​why it’s not about being “more feminine" and how modernity gaslit us from our primary need for safety
Art by Laura Makabresku
Part 3.
Waking the Well:
Emergent Feminine Leadership in the Aquarian Age
Opening to the Wisdom of the Imagination
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Thursday October 17th, 2024
5pm - 7pm EDT
In this online gathering we will continue working with archetypes and symbols, paying special attention to the Crone and the symbolism of the Aquarian Age — the age of the water-bearer — and what it means for you to "carry water" into a thirsty world. This gathering is primarily for “emergent discussion”, in which we, myself included, will make ourselves students of what is collectively emerging in the field via questions and sharing on what the stories, symbols, and archetypes brought up for us along this 3-part experience. This will also be a time to inquire more about Brielle’s upcoming 5-month mythopoetic “Heroine’s Journey” program which begins in November.
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Have an experience of the ancient animistic practice of 'Waking the Well' and see what the Well speaks
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Explore the symbolism of the Aquarian Age — the age of the water-bearer — and your role in it
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Experience the nourishment of emergent discussion within a community of sincere women
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Bring your questions and sharings from the 3-part experience; understand what is next for you in your journey
Meet your facilitator...
Brielle Elise, MA — Scholar of myth, storyteller, Transformational Coach for women (PCC, ICF)
Through a combination of storytelling, somatic practice, and transformational coaching, I midwife women along their Heroine's Quest: the archetypal journey of women's initiation into their archetypal feminine ground and true nature as they define and realize it. I draw from 9+ years and 2800+ hours of 1:1 transformative coaching and seminar-experience, post-graduate education in the mythopoetic imagination, 10 years of study in Vedic spirituality, and the salt and grit of my own Heroine’s Quest into the paradoxical mysteries of the deep feminine. The inspiration of all my work is to advance women's evolution into what I see as the third stage of collective feminine consciousness: sacred interdependence, the holy union of opposites — masculine and feminine, this world and otherworld, ego and soul — so that we can be water-bearing women of the Aquarian Age, carrying water into a thirsty world through our work, play, and love.
The Handless Maiden:
Initiation in the Underground Forest
Navigating the Mysteries of the Archetypal Woman's Quest
A Free 3-Part Initiation into your Archetypal Feminine Ground through Storytelling, Postfeminism and Imagination
Thursdays, 5pm - 7pm EDT
October 3rd + October 10th + October 17th
REGISTER NOW FOR FREE:
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