The 21st century requires each of us to navigate our way through a world of bewildering personal and social change. Your personal mythology - comprised of beliefs and motivations that operate largely outside your conscious awareness - is the internal guidance system that shapes your journey. The more effective your guiding mythology, the better equipped you are to meet the challenges your life presents.
Joseph Campbell's The Power of Myth interested millions of people in ancient mythology and its relevance to our lives today. According to Quadrant, the journal of the C.G. Jung Institute, Stanley Krippner's work takes people "a giant step further" than the Campbell series. Campbell himself referred people to Dr. Krippner's workshops, saying they achieved "an intriguing synthesis of a mythological perspective with contemporary psychological methods."
Personal myths guide an individual in the same way cultural myths guide society, and both are constantly evolving. This workshop will help you midwife the birth of a new guiding myth more fitting, more vital, more spiritually attuned to your journey. Drawing on methods from a spectrum of systems, including Jungian psychology, Gestalt therapy, psychosynthesis, ancient spiritual disciplines, and modern clinical practice, Dr. Krippner will lead you through a sequence of experiences designed to transform dysfunctional myths, while reaching into inner depths for visions that nourish and inspire. This workshop will show you how to transform your guiding mythology so it may become an ever more life-affirming map. Please bring a journal and record your dreams prior to the workshop.
Stanley Krippner is an internationally renowned researcher in the fields of consciousness, dreams, shamanism, and spiritual healing. At Maimonides Medical Center, he did research on extra-sensory effects in dreams. In 1972, he began teaching full-time at Saybrook Graduate School, designing the curriculum in Consciousness Studies. In 1973, he was elected President of the Association for Humanistic Psychology and in 1983 became President of the Parapsychological Association. He has written about his encounters with indigenous and spiritual healers on five continents, and he's also written or co-written over 700 articles and 15 books, including Personal Mythology, Extraordinary Dreams, The Mythic Path, Dreamscaping, and Broken Images, Broken Selves. We are honored to welcome the return of this distinguished research scientist and outstanding teacher.