welcome
to
the heroine’s journey
dismemberment
shedding
dissolution
death & breath
black hole & birth
spiral descents
alive flowerings
the heroine's journey
is not straightforward
not a linear (or even circular)
path
it is
finding home
with the other-than-human
navigating
by intuition
& desire
journeying
into underworlds
wild
body
earth
a journey
into and down, in and in and
through and blooming
again
and again
and again again again
this is not a pretty process
it is deepest beauty
& everyone
is welcome
Many frameworks exist for the Heroine’s Journey. These models are beautiful and insightful… and incomplete. They give us some orientation, but they are not the territory.
We are the territory.
In this course, we’ll honor these lineages without being confined by them. We’ll briefly explore these existing frameworks, and then we’ll listen for the map that wants to reveal itself through our own journeys.
Together, we’ll co-create a mythic map that has never existed before.
in our six-week journey:
Guided by old tales, group councils,
body-knowing, Earth-listening,
& the wise trickster wisdom
of our own storytelling
we will conjure, unveil, imagine, concoct,
& tell of how we’ve felt and feel
the heroine’s journey
unfolding in & as our lives
What can we find in these stories & ways
to help ourselves & others
navigate the fertile dark ?
How do we dance even deeper
with the unseen
& body & Earth ?
What
can we offer one another
on this mystery path ?
nourishment & guidance
& in this season of the course, we’ll open especially into
finding home in the other-than-human worlds
body, earth, & unseen as initiators
& what underworld might truly mean…
our itinerary
Six sessions
Tuesdays, May 26th — June 30th
11 AM — 1 PM Pacific
$600–$200 sliding scale
Zoom
Every other session, we’ll hear an old tale (very likely “The Descent of Inanna,” “The Madness of Mis,” and “The Handless Maiden,” though these might shift depending on the emerging energy of the group. ) And we won’t listen passively: we’ll move, howl, mutter, and express ourselves during the story as much as our bodies and spirits want to.
After each story, we’ll council about
In-between sessions will include personal storytelling, ritual, guided inner exploration, group conversation + council, gentle movement, writing, time outdoors + with the land, altar-and-art-making, and other ways that may reveal themselves as we synergize together in this journey.
These sessions are open to everyone, no matter your gender identification.
For those who can’t make it, recordings will be available after each session.
about your (human) guide
Kirsten Louise Webb is a professional storyteller, theatre (and other sorts of) artist, ritualist, writer, and facilitator whose work does jigs and makes pots of tea at the crossroads where imagination, body, story, mystery, and the living Earth interweave in infinite ways. Through long seasons of living nomadically and entirely on the land, chronic illness & healing, underworld journeys, unfathomable beauty, and and always always making art and ritual and story, she has learned to deeply listen for what wants to emerge through bodies, human and more-than-human ecosystems, creativity, and life itself.
She was a cofounder, original faculty, core storyteller, and former head of The School of Mythopoetics; has guided women’s circles throughout the world; and graduated from Yale, where she studied
anthropology, queer and experimental
women’s literature, writing, and theatre.
Kirsten is also a wildcrafter and herbalist,
has assisted with initiation and wilderness
rites-of-passage journeys, and is a trained
carrier of Way of Council. After the past
year following intuition throughout the
world, she’s gladly landed for a bit back
amidst the cedars, mountains, eagles,
berries, and seas of the Pacific Northwest.
