What You'll Learn
- Gain deeper understanding of fairytales' transformative potential
Fairytales of the Feminine
July 28, 2024 10:00 PM UTC
Dr Sharon Blackie is an award-winning writer of fiction and nonfiction, a psychologist who has specialised both in neuroscience and narrative, and a mythologist with a specialisation in Celtic Studies. Her unique approach to working with myth, fairy tales and folklore highlights the insights these traditions can offer us into authentic and meaningful ways of being which are founded on a deep sense of belonging to place, a rootedness in the land we inhabit. In early 2017 she founded The Hedge School: both an online space and a physical location in Connemara, for teachings in myth, wild mind and enchantment.
Learn moreJoin renowned author and mythologist Sharon Blackie for an enlightening webinar titled Fairytales of the Feminine. This webinar explores fairytales' rich connections to feminine archetypes and wisdom.
About this webinar
Gain deeper understanding of fairytales' transformative potential, learn to harness their narratives for personal growth and empowerment. Whether you are a storyteller, a seeker of wisdom, or simply enchanted by myth, this webinar promises to inspire and illuminate the path to feminine self-discovery.
Dr. Sharon Blackie's acclaimed books, lectures, and teaching programs focus on reimagining women’s stories and the relevance of myth, fairy tales, and folk traditions to today's personal, cultural, and environmental challenges.
About your teacher
Dr Sharon Blackie is an award-winning writer of fiction and nonfiction, a psychologist who has specialised both in neuroscience and narrative, and a mythologist with a specialisation in Celtic Studies. Her unique approach to working with myth, fairy tales and folklore highlights the insights these traditions can offer us into authentic and meaningful ways of being which are founded on a deep sense of belonging to place, a rootedness in the land we inhabit. In early 2017 she founded The Hedge School: both an online space and a physical location in Connemara, for teachings in myth, wild mind and enchantment.
Learn moreSharon was the founder and editor of EarthLines Magazine and is the author of The Long Delirious Burning Blue, If Women Rose Rooted and The Enchanted Life. She is now completing a collection of original fairy tales about shapeshifting women, Foxfire, Wolfskin, which will be published in autumn 2019. After several years as a crofter in the north-west of Scotland and the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Sharon returned to Ireland in 2014 and has recently traded an old stone riverside cottage in Donegal for a house among the hills, lakes and seaweed-strewn tidal inlets of the Connemara Gaeltacht. Her experiences on the westernmost edges of the Celtic fringe give her a unique perspective on the psychology of belonging, and our relationship with place.