For most of human history, myth was a durable mode of knowledge transmission, kept alive and resilient by communal storytelling. Practical information about survival and sustenance was nested within compelling narratives that prized the epic stories of multi-species communities over the monologues of human individuals. In this weekend exploration we will reroot together several popular myths back into their ecosystems in order to recover their original wisdom.

We will then look to our own narrative ecologies, revitalizing myth as a way of keeping alive our map of relationships with place and with more-than-human community. Myths were once the maps of communities intimately dialoguing with their environment. But the rise of empire depended on the uprooting of these life-giving stories. Deracinated from their context and from the renewing respiration of communal storytelling, these stories ossified into abstraction and reinforced the anthropocentric hyper-individuality and colonial capitalism of today. 

In three powerful, intimate sessions we will together:

*Resurrect myth as a way of honoring our ecological contexts and relationships.

*Compost the uprooted myths of domination and human supremacy.

*Create our own Mythic Maps of our personal ecologies.