Dr. A.’s talk is called “The Steward Asks the Question”
Mythology offers intrinsic cyclic opportunities to reconnect, reassess, and recreate our personal, cultural, and global narratives. To accept this eternal invitation to re-creation and rebirth we must begin with the acknowledgement of our place in the natural world. If life as we know it is to survive, humanity must revision itself as one-of-the-many, as a steward, and not overlord of life on Earth. In 2020, increasing extreme weather events and the pandemic gave us a taste of where life out-of-balance is leading. It has also given us a chance to look within and realign our priorities. Mythology was born of human experience and our need for meaning-making amidst the eternal cycles of birth-life-death and rebirth. Myth can lead us into accord with universal principles of life. Myth can lead to the healing of the wasteland, if we ask the right questions. The first question must be, what is our place in the natural world?
About Dr. A.
Dr. A. is a cultural mythologist, women’s mentor and coach, speaker, and writer. Andrea received her Ph.D. from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is the creator of The Midlife Re-Boot! Method, a program developed to guide women to recreate themselves and rediscover their true north at midlife. Her work engages with the current re-emergence of the archetypal feminine, at a time when nature and the earth, themselves symbols, metaphors, and embodiments of the sacred feminine, are under existential threat from climate change. Dr. A. has been a featured workshop facilitator and speaker at women’s events and the College of the Canyons Women’s Empowerment Conference and the Popular Culture, American Academy of Religions, Women in Mythology, and the Mythologium conferences. Dr. A’s mission is to guide, consult, and mentor women to fulfill their potential and become their most authentic selves in service to themselves and others.
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