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Sugaring the Psyche: Crafting Sweet Narratives from Life’s Essence
April 26, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm PDT
We begin by identifying personal “Mother Trees”— key stories, myths, or figures that have influenced our growth and understanding of the world. Next we tap into a story stream and experience the calling forth of sap in a story by focusing on title, opening, characters, symbols, and archetypes. We use the alchemical process of “sugaring” as a metaphor for extracting and sharing the wisdom gained into fairy tale translations that can support and inspire others. Rendering insight into action, we then explore why we need fairy tales now more than ever before, as we learn how to let a fairy story have its way with us.
Related Lecture: From Sap to Syrup: Distilling Wisdom from the Forest of Fairy Tales
Muriel McMahon, M.Ed., is a Zurich-trained Jungian analyst with a vibrant international online praxis. Dedicated to understanding Traditional and classical teachings within the context of contemporary society, she is interested in universal patterns and structures in nature, literature, myth, ceremony, and ritual. Muriel offers online dream exploration seminars, fairy tale seminars, in-person experiential intensives, and serves as a faculty member with a number of online academies. A sought-after teacher and a Keeper of Stories, Muriel is also a faithful steward of a 100-acre wood in West Grey, Ontario, Canada, where she dreams, writes, cooks, carves icons, and surrenders to the mystery ever-unfolding.
