Writing from Earth’s Landscapes:
A Mythic Journey
with Mary Reynolds Thompson
Workshop
Saturday, January 20, 2024
11 am - 1:30 pm Eastern Time (USA), on Zoom
Please convert to your Time Zone
This Program Will Be Recorded.
The recording link will be sent to you within 72 hours after the live event.
Program Cost: $60
Welcome!
A 2 -min Introduction
“Earth, isn’t this what you want,
an invisible re-arising within us?”
–Rainer Maria Rilke
Take a creative journey through five archetypal landscapes that reveal your soul’s patterns and potential through nature’s images and metaphors.
This journey roots your mythic story in five Earth archetypes. In writing from these ancestral landscapes, your personal search for meaning becomes part of the dream of the Earth, gaining a fierce potency that awakens you to a deeper meaning and purpose. The deserts, forests, oceans and rivers, mountains, and grasslands are aspects of your wild soul that, once awakened, help bring to the surface a vitality and authenticity that our modern, overly domesticated culture tends to suppress in us.
This session will be mainly experiential. You’ll write, reflect, explore, listen to meditations, and emerge with a rich understanding of how these landscape archetypes, or soulscapes, hold vital aspects of your own inner terrain waiting to be discovered.
Exploring our relationship to the Earth from an archetypal perspective, not only strengthens our desire to live according to our own true nature, but to protect the very body of the Earth in which our imaginations, sense of self, our creativity and even our spirituality are deeply entwined.
Who Is It For
Those interested in:
Writing and poetry as a spiritual practice
Our relationship with nature
Ecotherapy and forest bathing
Rewilding their creativity
Creating a nature-based practice
Your Instructor
Mary Reynolds Thompson
Mary Reynolds Thompson, Founder of Live Your Wild Soul Story, is an award-winning author, internationally recognized speaker, and a facilitator of poetry and journal therapy. A pioneer in the spiritual ecology movement, her focus is on the transformative power of landscape archetypes and nature metaphors to reveal our true purpose and right relationship with the planet. Author of The Way of the Wild Soul Woman (Findhorn Press, 2024) and Reclaiming the Wild Soul, a 2015 Nautilus Award-winner, Mary’s writings have also appeared in numerous other publications and anthologies. Through her books, courses, and talks, she reaches creatives, change-makers, and seekers who long to awaken to their most courageous and Earth-connected selves and have the impact they desire.
www.maryreynoldsthompson.com
“With the urgency of Rachel Carson and the lyricism of Terry Tempest Williams, Mary Reynolds
Thompson brings startling clarity to the myriad ways the earth’s archetypal landscapes mirror our
own pain, struggles, resources and triumphs.”
– Kathleen Adams, Director, Center for Journal Therapy, Inc.; Editor, Expressive Writing: Foundations of Practice
Workshop
Saturday, January 20, 2024
11 am - 1:30 pm Eastern Time (USA), on Zoom
Please convert to your Time Zone
This Program Will Be Recorded.
The recording link will be sent to you within 72 hours after the live event.
Program Cost: $60
What You Will Learn
Rewild your imagination and spark your earth-born creativity
Awaken to the power of Earth’s metaphors as wise guides and ancestors
Align your personal path with the dream of the Earth
A nature-based writing practice that will bring greater clarity to your life path
Be inspired by poetry, writing prompts, and imagery that is deeply rooted in the wild soul
“explores ‘the breath of wildness’…”
“Mary Reynolds Thompson explores ‘the breath of wildness,’ the reality of kinship that exists just beyond the reach of the senses. She has commenced what Thomas Berry called the Great Work of the 21 st century: reconnecting to the rest of the natural world, for meaning. For soul.”
— Richard Louv, The Nature Principle and Last Child in the Woods
“full-round rapport with the more-than-human terrain…”
“Mary Reynolds Thompson works simple magic to bind our broken souls back into full-round rapport with the more-than-human terrain.”
— David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous and Becoming Animal
“…infuse us and make us whole again…”
“With ingenuity and subtlety, Mary Reynolds Thompson guides us in ways both old and new to enter Earth’s archetypal wildscapes and allow them to infuse us and make us whole again.”
— Bill Plotkin, Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche
Workshop
Saturday, January 20, 2024
11 am - 1:30 pm Eastern Time (USA), on Zoom
Please convert to your Time Zone
This Program Will Be Recorded.
The recording link will be sent to you within 72 hours after the live event.
Program Cost: $60