May 18th – December 7th, 2024
8 Monthly Online Classes with Sharon Blackie | Offered Live via Zoom
Program Description
What you will receive
- 8 Live Webinar Sessions with Q & A
- 8 Links to Pre-recorded Learning Sessions with Sharon Blackie
- Learning Resource Guide
- Graduate Certificate
- 8 CECs*
- You work in mental health or are a student or practitioner of depth psychology, and have an interest in learning how to use narrative psychological methodology in your practice.
- You’d like to deepen your work by learning to identify the archetypal and narrative elements in fairy tales which illuminate the process of individuation.
- You’re interested in exploring mythic and archetypal patterns in your own life by working with fairy tales and narrative psychology techniques.
- You’re looking to connect with the many faces of the archetypal feminine in fairy tales.
- Identify narrative approaches to life stories
- Explain the origins and functions of fairy tales
- Identify the psychological processes which might be reflected in fairy tales
- Catalog narrative elements and archetypal patterns in a sample fairy tale
- Acquire knowledge of a variety of frameworks which illuminate a woman’s journey through life
- Identify the challenges you have faced in separating from parental influences
- Detect the psychological challenges that are faced during initiatory experiences
- Reveal the initiatory experiences in your own life, and the characters, tools and gifts which have populated them
- Integrate the various stages and challenges of the Fairy-Tale Heroine’s Journey into your own story
- Identify what the Return means for you
- Take a fairy tale of your choice and reimagine it
- Write your own life story as a fairy tale
- Establish strategies for introducing story material into your work
- Select appropriate stories to mirror psychological experiences that you are facing or working with in your practice
- Draw up a plan for using these techniques to deepen your understanding of your life story
- Acquire techniques for telling stories in informal settings
- Acquire an understanding of narrative psychology ideas and methodologies
- Use narrative techniques in your work and everyday life
- Identify the ways in which fairy tales can illuminate the process of individuation and foster understanding of psychological patterns and processes
- Identify archetypal patterns and characters in fairy tales
- Develop methods and resources for connecting with the archetypal feminine in fairy tales
- Apply the Fairy-Tale Heroine’s Journey framework to the transformative events and encounters in your life story
- Write your own life as a fairy tale, working with a range of narrative element and archetypal patterns
Program Details
Dates
Saturdays, beginning May 18; 8:00–09:30 AM PST/11:00 – 12:30 EST/16.00–17.30 UTC
Live session dates:
- Saturday May, 18
- Saturday June, 15
- Saturday July, 13
- Saturday August, 10
- Saturday September, 14
- Saturday October, 12
- Saturday November, 9
- Saturday December, 7
Registration
$695.00 – Pacifica Student Rate
$895.00 – Pacifica Alumni, Full Time Students, & Senior Rate
$1095.00 – General Rate
$30.00 – Continuing Education Credit (CECs) Fee
You have the option of putting down a 50% deposit when registering for the program and paying the remaining balance in installments of your choice until August 23, 2024. You can select this on the registration form.
Limited scholarship and reduced tuition opportunities are available for this program. Please email retreat@pacifica.edu to request a Financial Assistance Application.
Participants requesting Continuing Education Credits (CECs) for Online programs must attend all live sessions (offered via Zoom) in order to receive CECs. Please make sure that your Zoom account name matches the name of the attendee requesting CECs.
All of the live Zoom sessions will be recorded and made available to everyone registered for the program. If you watch the recordings and keep up with the online discussion forum you will qualify for the certificate of completion. Live attendance to the Zoom sessions is not necessary unless you are looking to obtain Continuing Education Credits.