#10 – Dr. Dennis Patrick Slattery’s keynote speech, “Healing into Wholeness: Healing as Myth and Method”
Here’s an excerpt from the abstract:
“This presentation will explore the power of a contagion as a large encompassing metaphor, to heal as it wounds. Such a pollution can be an occasion, even opportunity, for the gods to enter the arena to provoke us into a level of awareness that we could not have understood without an invasive infection that inflects our lives into a greater mytho-spiritual consciousness.”
#9 – Professional networking!
If myth is your thing, this is your conference. The Mythologium is the perfect place to meet new mythologists and re-connect with old friends. Connections like those can lead to speaking, writing, and/or teaching opportunities, not to mention friendships and fantastic conversation.
#8 – Creative camaraderie!
When you gather with the community of mythologists, your ideas will meet new ideas, and everyone’s ideas will mingle together and lead to even more ideas that might never have emerged otherwise. It’s a creative playground for your mythic mind!
#7 – It’s been a tough year.
Your self-care has never been more important than it is right now. Yes, yours. And as we know, self-care means soul care. The conversation of mythologists is an oasis for the soul, where you can refresh yourself with wisdom, insight, and inspiration all having to do with this year’s theme of Myth and Healing.
#6 – The dopamine rush of learning!
At the Mythologium, everyone has something to teach everyone else, and everyone has something to learn from everyone else. That exchange happens when each of us opens up to giving and receiving. Then the flow of ideas is electric! If you love learning, you’ll love the Mythologium.
#5: Hear from some of today’s myth makers!
This year’s Myth Makers panel features the novelist Jamie Figueroa and the poet Dr. Raïna Manuel-Paris. Jamie and Raïna will share selections from their work, as well as reflections on myth, healing, and their creative process.
#4: Delve into the topic of “Confronting Colonialism and White Supremacy in Myth,” a panel sponsored by the Pacifica Graduate Institute Alumni Association.
On this panel:
- Dr. Rosalie Nell Bouck will present on “’Held Embrujadas’: Reading Mesoamerican Myths of Femininity as a Radical Response to Contemporary Colonialism.”
- Sea Gabriel will present a talk called, “Who’s Your Daddy? The Norse, The Nazis, and The World Stage.”
- Dr. Brandon Williamscraig will address “The Myth of Peace and Conflict Done Well.”
#3: Revitalize your connection with nature through the “Myth and Restoring Ecological Consciousness” panel, sponsored by iRewild.
On this panel:
- Kayden Baker-McInnis will present on “Rewilding the Cultural Imagination to an Ecological Consciousness.”
- Dr. Craig Chalquist will present on “Storied Nature: When Myths Heal the Split Between Us and Everything Else.”
- Jennifer Degnan Smith will present on “The Shape of Water: Restoring Ecological Consciousness.”
#2 – Explore the ancient connection between the body and myth in the Joseph Campbell Foundation’s discussion of “The Myth of the Body and the Body of Myth.”
In this panel, leaders from the Joseph Campbell Foundation will be in conversation with each other and with Renda Dionne Madrigal, PhD, a Turtle Mountain Chippewa clinical psychologist, around Campbell’s ideas concerning myth and healing, as well as practices from the cultures and traditions he studied, including those of First Nations people.
#1 – Activate your mythic imagination!
This year’s Mythologium features 50 mythologists speaking on 18 different panels. Panel topics range from Mythic Healers to Healing Tales of Wonder, Healing Psyche and Soma, and many, many more.
We can’t wait to join you in this immersion in the images and metaphors of myth and healing!
