Waking the Well presents
A LIVE WOMEN'S STORYTELLING GATHERING
The Madness of Mis
De-Armoring & Opening to Receive
Re-membering Repressed Archetypes in the Female Psyche
storytelling ✹ mythic reflection ✹ archetypal movement
IN PERSON
Saturday, Dec. 14th, 5:45pm - 9pm ET
Gainesville, FL — Location TBA
ONLINE
Sunday, Dec. 15th, 10am - 1pm ET
Recording will be made available.
A story of shapeshifting, heartbreak, and healing love, The Madness of Mis is an ancient Irish folktale on what can happen when grief hardens in a woman’s heart, and how it can heal and open to receive again.
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In this mytho-somatic women’s gathering, we will weave the medicines of story, image, and movement to breath life into calcified heart-spaces, and re-member innocence and power in the female body.
A HEALING STORY:
This gathering is for women who...
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​crave gathering with other women in-person or online around the oldest medicine of story.
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want to bypass the rational mind by working with non-ordinary ways of healing and knowing — myth, image and movement.
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has hardened at some point in response to pain, but quietly longs for someone to cross the fortress of your heart to help you soften and open again.
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wants to break the cycle of repressed grief/anger towards men that attracts, seeks out, and recreates more of the same disappointing experiences with the masculine.
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struggles to receive and trust in love, but wants to remember how.
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is carrying an old grief, an old lament, an old anger, an old fear, and wants to release this energy from the body in order to welcome in a new era of undefended love.
The gathering includes:
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live
storytelling
Enter the healing enchantment of story. Hear an ancient Irish folktale and let it work its magic on you through images that curiously pull strings in your heart.
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mythic reflection
Learn how to locate yourself in the story. Work with the myth's images to hear bespoke meaning and guidance for your life from your unconscious mind.
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archetypal movement
Pull the story into the soma. Open to the body as an innate portal of knowing, merging images with movement to liberate stuck energy, pain, and love.
What Past Participants of Brielle's Storytelling Programs Say...
Meet your facilitator...
Brielle Elise, MA — Scholar of Myth, Transformational Coach for women (PCC, ICF)
Weaving storytelling with transformative coaching, Brielle midwifes women along their archetypal "Heroine's Journey" — their initiatory return to wholeness by healing the extractive masculine within and re-membering the creational power, undefended love, and fierce wisdom of the world's long-repressed feminine ground. She draws from 8+ years in private practice, thousands of hrs of 1:1 sessions and group work, post-graduate study in the mythopoetic imagination under the supervision of mythologist Dr. Martin Shaw, and the salt and grit of her own Heroine’s Quest into the paradoxical mysteries of the deep feminine.
“There is a fund of ancient knowledge in our very bloodstream, if we but knew it. The secrets of the runes, the megalithic stones, the mysterious process we call language— our ancient foremothers understood them – are there in the flowing blood, witnessed to by such oracles as myth, symbol, tradition, parable, fairy tale, ritual and legend. I am not talking here of what is known as the supernatural or of extra-sensory perception. No, I speak of the substantial bloodstream and the body that contains it, microcosm of the macrocosmic planet and all its running rivers. In every tradition, every religion, the body is the essential alchemical vessel in which everything happens..."
~ P.L. Travers, What the Bee Knows