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Week 1: Your Story
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Calling and Your Mythic Journey
This first week I speak about:
- My own personal story
- The theme of identity
- Different lenses we can see our lives through, such as literal, symbolic, mythic and energetic.
As I mention in the recording, I specifically offer these weekly talks from a non-linear and unplanned place.
May they support an exploration of how to allow the unknown and the unseen to inspire, guide and shape the way that you engage your gifts.
From this place we can always refine and make presentable as needed per each situation.
By exploring in this way first, we give ourselves the foundation of soul before bridging the mystery of who we are into the world.
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Week 1 Interview
Interview on Calling and the Mythic Life with Francis Weller
This interview sets the tone and the frame of this whole seven week journey. It is a real treasure!
Francis speaks of important topics such as:
- The relationship between career, vocation and calling
- The importance of relationship and community in discovering our calling
- What we hunger to hear and know
- The importance of our failures and shortcomings
- The role of reverence and solitude, and more…
Here is a short bio if you are not familiar with Francis:
Francis Weller, MFT, is a psychotherapist, writer and soul activist. He is a master of synthesizing diverse streams of thought from psychology, anthropology, mythology, alchemy, indigenous cultures and poetic traditions. Author of Entering the Healing Ground: Grief, Ritual and the Soul of the World, he has introduced the healing work of ritual to thousands of people. The core of his work is creating pathways to reclaiming our indigenous soul, what psychologist Carl Jung called the “unforgotten wisdom” that resides in the heart of the psyche. To further this work, he founded and directs WisdomBridge, an organization that offers educational programs that seek to integrate the wisdom from traditional cultures with the insights and knowledge gathered from western cultures.
I invite you to listen to this interview when you have time to soak it in like warm summer sun.
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Gathering Your Story:
As Ms. Bird mentioned in the welcome video, the Mystery is one of our central portals to clarity of calling. Let’s explore ways that you may already have received guidance, insight, inspiration, and knowing about how your calling, or unique way of belonging in the world, has expressed itself throughout your life experience.
- What are your earliest memories in nature? You don’t need to understand anything about how this might connect with your calling at this point. Simply become receptive to what memories arise and write them down in as much detail as possible.
- What is your deepest longing? Is there something that you cannot seem to get away from? How has this shown up throughout your life?
- What were the three most transformative experiences of your life?
- Are there any patterns or themes you notice as you ponder these questions?
Expressing Your Story:
The visual exercises are the basis for the work. If you care to take it deeper and wider, you can also explore the somatic and earth-based invitations.
- Visual Expression: Choose one or more themes or images that feel important from the gathering phase. On a poster board or large paper of some kind, place the images in a location on the paper that feels right to you. If you prefer to draw the images that works too. No need to be an artist. Just allow the image to come out on its own terms. This can be used as the beginning of a collage that you can add to each week. You might find images in a magazine, on the Internet, or perhaps from a card that you have kept for years that speaks to something with which you deeply resonate. Place these images somewhere that you can see them throughout the week. Let them inform you, stir you, and awaken your imagination.
- Somatic Expression: Choose one image, or better yet, let it choose you. Where does it live in your body? How does it want to move? Are there sounds or words that want to arise?
- Earth-Based Expression: Begin a conversation with nature in relation to your calling. Share what you have discovered thus far to a nature being. It could be a stone, a plant, a body of water, or the night sky. You might do this through words, movement, song, or silence. Nature and Soul are the deepest of allies in calling. I am leaving this wide open to your own imagination and exploration.
Tracking Your Story:
Track what you have noticed as you have been gathering and expressing this week.
Inner Eye: Did any images arise that caught your attention, surprised you, enlivened you or disturbed you in any way?
Inner Ear: Did you notice whispers of the soul arising as you gathered or expressed? What did you hear?
Kinesthetic: How did your body feel during this process? Did your body speak? If so what came into your awareness?
Inner Knower: Do you know something about yourself that you did not know before you began this process?
It can be helpful to also track:
- Archetypes:
- Symbols:
- Patterns:
- Synchronicity
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