Breathing Fire: A Wild Power Workshop for Women
March 9 to 11, 2018
Facilitated by Leigh Melander, Ph.D., Spillian Co-Founder
Are you burning to change your life and the world? Join us for Breathing Fire: A Wild Power Workshop for Women.
In most cultures, women have been traditionally defined by three roles: maiden, mother, and crone. Each is a powerful metaphor, each has value, but they all live within society’s expectations. They are often as much about how the world sees women as they are how we see ourselves.
There is another metaphor, one that acknowledges women’s power, our wildness, and how we often stand outside the constructs of society.
And that is dragon. Filled with fire, with possibility, with fortune, and with danger, dragons refuse to be bound by rules.
How do we see and embrace this power in ourselves, even when we aren’t sure we can? How can we learn to ride this fire enough so it doesn’t burn ourselves or the people around us? And at the same time, how can we understand that its very nature resists being tamed? How can we navigate the risks of unleashing this fire in a world that is often terrified by it?
Explore your own fair fierceness through story, movement, and imagination.
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Breathing Fire: A Wild Power Workshop for Women
Friday evening, March 9, at 7 PM to Sunday March 11, at 11 AM
• Attendees are welcome to arrive any time Friday afternoon after 3 PM.
• Please bring comfortable clothes that you can move in.
• Commuters welcome for the workshop registration fee. Lodging is available onsite.
Workshop Fee: $275 until March 7, 2018. $345 after that date.
Includes all chef-made meals, sessions, and materials.
Lodging in Spillian Mansion: $225-$275
Spillian offers eight delightful rooms. You can learn more about them here and make your choice on the registration page.
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About Leigh Melander, Ph.D.
Leigh has an eclectic background in the arts as well as consulting in strategic planning, outreach and marketing, and event planning for over 20 years. She has performed, and taught and facilitated explorations of imagination and creativity internationally, working with individuals and groups to help them find their way to bringing their wild ideas to life.
Her undergraduate degree is in performance, literature, and history from Penn State, and she studied writing by invitation with Nobel Poet Laureate Derek Walcott at Boston University. She has a doctorate in cultural mythology and psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and wrote her dissertation on frivolity as an entry into imagination. She has has appeared in various media outlets, including the History Channel, as a mythology expert, and has published articles in Spring Journal, The Routledge International Handbook of Jungian Film Studies, The Mythology CD-ROM. She hosts a weekly radio show on an NPR affiliate and podcast: Myth America, an exploration into how myth shapes our sense of identity and serves as the Vice President of the Joseph Campbell Foundation and the editor of their MythBlast series.
