The Heroine’s Journey: Creating Our Next Chapter, Thursdays Oct 30, Nov 6, Nov 13, 5:00-7:00 PM at the library. Polly Mahoney and Karen McCall will facilitate this three-part series. Sign up online at https://forms.gle/hD8hqVKxeU86Mopc9 or at the desk at the library.
As we grow toward elderhood, we have the opportunity to shed confining cultural expectations, to become more fully ourselves or, perhaps, rediscover our authenticity, and to boldly claim our deepest desires and longings. Knowing that our time on earth is finite, do you know what no longer serves you? What is it that you yearn for? If you were fearless, what would you do with “your one wild and precious life?” Dr. Sharon Blackie describes the heroine’s journey as something quite distinct from the hero’s journey in that the heroine’s journey is more interior, intimately connected to nature and always involves community. She tells us that ancient traditions honored the layered complexity of life, recognizing the invisible world of mystery, the intellectual world of humans and the vivid sensuous world of our animal kin. In a supportive, non-judgmental gathering of sisters, we will endeavor to access this complexity with story-telling, ceremony, imagery, poetry, meditation, sound, silence and open-hearted discussion.