Woven: Telling the Heroine's Journey
2nd Edition Newsletter, January 2, 2024
Welcome to the Second Edition of the Woven Newsletter, January 2, 2024!
Happy New Year!
This is a FREE monthly newsletter of a venture founded by Kate Farrell, Woven: Telling the Heroine’s Journey.
Its goal is to explore the hidden terrain of the heroine’s unique quest found in the pre-literate, oral traditions—and how the age-old, foundational fairy tales, folktales, and myths can empower us, reframe our life stories, and inspire new creative work. We are starting 2024 with a wide range of classes and more in the works.
Upcoming Courses 2024
For Immediate Release: An Online Class
Don’t miss this online class starting soon! Begin the new year by taking a first step on your feminine quest with an exciting online class starting next Tuesday, January 9 - 30, 2024. Taught by Kate Farrell, it is designed for every thoughtful writer: Journaling the Heroine’s Journey and sponsored by Story Circle Network, “Where Women Become the Authors of Their Own Lives.”
In this four-week class with two-hour sessions, we’ll tap into the age-old, foundational myths and fairy tales of the heroine’s journey to explore their current meanings. Discover how their benchmarks relate to your life story through journaling.
Registration is limited so sign up today. More here: https://woventales.net/online-classes/
“This class was the best writing and mythology course I have ever taken. Kate Farrell’s guidance led us on a well-organized and intuitive experience where we encountered the tales, ourselves and each other on a very deep level. Through the class activities, I found my perceptions of self, society and story interweaving and unveiling new truths.”
~Story Circle Network, April 2023
Winter Retreat
Deepen your quest by reserving your place for the Telling the Heroine’s Journey Winter Retreat, February 23-25, and join us in the historic delta town of Suisun City, CA for three days of sharing ancient stories of the heroine’s journey and relating them to our own life stories, hosted by the dynamic storyteller, Cyndera Quackenbush, in her cozy Victorian home with co-presenter, Kate Farrell.
Registration is limited. Learn more HERE https://woventales.net/winter-retreat/
The retreat will encompass creative storytelling, writing, and sharing old and new tales of the heroine’s journey. Learning from the stories and one another, we will gather in a spacious Victorian home to listen, create, and leave with a better sense of our path forward.
You will emerge with fresh perspectives and meaningful insights as we venture on the Heroine’s Journey—telling it together!
STORYTELLING: A WORKSHOP SERIES WITH KATE FARRELL
Join Kate at the San Francisco Public Library, West Portal Branch, this coming Saturday, January 6th to begin a monthly series. Develop your creative voice in telling your life stories.
Personal, ageless, inclusive, the art of storytelling is for everyone. If you are a parent, grandparent, teacher, librarian, author, or speaker, this workshop is for you. With step- by-step coaching and partner sharing, you’ll find your own storytelling style for personal or professional use. All it requires is your authentic voice and a love of stories. More information on the entire series: https://woventales.net/in-person-classes/
ALL WORKSHOPS: SATURDAYS, 2:00 – 3:30 PM | FREE and Open to the Public.
Sign up for each workshop or for the entire series! Due to limited space, registration is required. Call 415-355-2886 at the West Portal Library to reserve your seat. Email: wpomgr@sfpl.org
Storytelling in the New Year
An Essay by Kate Farrell
When I hear “once” there is only now—a present time or a moment “upon time.” It conjures all those tellers and listeners, strikes a beginning chord, a gathering.
Inside a story told long ago, I hear the voices echoing in the words, the narrative casting a long line into the past or is it a timeless place, after all?
Inside the story I am many voices: the teller who holds the tale in memory and meaning, the framework of its weaving, the tapestry of story. But I am also each character: the wicked witch, or the sweet child, or the wolf.
Inside a story, I see you and welcome you because we are safe here. The story holds us as it brings us along its arc of action, letting us feel together, a trembling, a truth, a happily ever after.
We can live vicariously inside one another’s stories, their life lessons, precious memories of love and loss, adventure and survival.
But the tales that have lived long and true can help us find a bedrock of knowing and hold us up with the wonder of wisdom as they speak on and on ...
About Woven
The idea for WOVEN grew from Kate’s memoir, as she blended motifs and archetypes of the heroine’s journey with events of her first forty-two years. Kate became aware of the power of the heroine archetype, but also realized that it was hiding in plain sight. She began teaching classes on the heroine's journey, finding a rapt audience in translating its ancient motifs to modern women and to one’s life story. Encouraged by partners and co-presenters, Kate established Woven to more effectively share the wisdom of feminine quest tales.
Women live in challenging times. Digging deep, hitting the bedrock of our shared journey through the mythic language that Joseph Campbell gave to the modern hero, we will explore our own heroic path through the suppressed and almost destroyed archetypes of the feminine quest.
Visit woventales.net and be transported to another world that blends ancient and modern in a richly textured and brightly colored journey of its own. This magic was created by Kate with the help of a brilliant graphic designer, Nichola Americanos: elationbydesign.com
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