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DISCOVERING THE STORIES WE LIVE BY
A SEMINAR WITH CRAIG BARNES AND MARILYN MASON
March 6-10, 2008
Mabel Dodge Luhan House, Taos, N.M.
When our personal or cultural stories are based upon power, dominion and heroics, the images they suggest for successful living are certain to create problems. Stories of one person’s power require another’s corresponding lack of power and such imbalance distorts, damages, and corrupts the harmony or fulfillment that we seek in our lives. Whether between women and men or between any of us and the land, or between strangers or ethnic groups, the stories that have given rise to this imbalance and lack of harmony are today in desperate need of repair.
Mending relationships often requires not only addressing our personal specifics but also addressing the long, storied past that has shaped our cultural history. When women and men can bring these unstated, inarticulate, myth-filled tales of old to consciousness, we can begin the process of reshaping them to our modern intentions. We will therefore, in our days together, move between our personal stories and those inherited cultural myths of gender, heroics, dominion and subordination and these tales will lead us all the way back to earliest civilization, even before the Trojan War. Journeying both backward and forward we will begin to forge more authentic selves. When, finally, we rediscover the stories that nourish life rather than seek to dominate or conquer life, we will find that the discovery itself is revolutionizing, liberating and inspiring.
Our time will include lectures, experiential exercises, small and large group discussion, and slides from our ancient history.
The Place:
Mabel Dodge Luhan House, Taos, New Mexico, is an historic inn and conference center that has accommodated many of the great art and literary minds for the past eighty years. Its rich cultural heritage is enhanced by adobe charm, quiet patios and tree-lined acequias.
The Dates:
Friday evening, March 6 through noon, Monday, March 10, 2008
The Costs:
$1100. shared room
$1250. single occupancy
Fee includes lodging, all meals, tips, and seminar materials, including two books.
The Facilitators:
Craig Barnes is a former trial attorney, now an author, playwright, lecturer and public radio commentator. Craig’s book, published by Fulcrum, In Search of the Lost Feminine: Decoding the Myths that Radically Reshaped Civilization, has been awarded the USA Best Books Award, (cultural anthropology),was First Runner Up for the Eric Hoffer Award (culture), and is a finalist for Foreword Magazine’s Best Book of 2006 in Women’s Studies.
Marilyn Mason, Ph.D., is an author, consultant, philanthropy advisor, advocate, friend of women’s history, psychologist and founder of Journeys Unlimited. One of
Marilyn’s books, published by Harper, is Making Our Lives Our Own: A Woman’s Guide
to the Six Challenges of Personal Change.
For registration and further information please contact:
Marilyn Mason
Mason & Associates
369 Montezuma Ave., #199
Santa Fe, N.M. 85701
505.820.6306
A NONREFUNDABLE DEPOSIT OF $400. IS DUE BY JANUARY 10, 2008
A full schedule will be sent upon registration.
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