A WRITING COURSE FOR THOSE BORN TO A MOTHER
Mother
Myth & Memoir
A transformative course that guides souls through the exploration of the great mother and her many faces by studying myths, fairy tales, and ancestral wisdom — and writing their own sacred story.
STARTS
May 16th, 2026
FORMAT
Small group · Zoom
OPEN TO
All · Any gender
NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED
Writing or otherwise
TAUGHT BY
Rose Wollf & Amy Savitsky
"Mother is not a role. It is a living portal, a rite of passage — one of the great initiatory thresholds, and a breathing presence weaving the fabric of creation. And she has a story that wants to be told through you."
— ROSE WOLFF
WHAT THIS COURSE IS
Your mother
is a myth.
There is a story beneath your story. Beneath the sleepless nights and the beauty and the grief and the love that bewilders you with its size — there is a mythic pattern, ancient and universal, that holds the meaning of what you have lived.
Mother Myth & Memoir is a small-group course that guides individuals through the exploration of their own experience of being mothered, mothering and the journey of living in a somewhat motherless society by studying the myths, fairy tales, and ancestral wisdom that have always held this truth. Through reflective discussion, guided writing prompts, and shamanic practices, you will craft your own personal memoir — uncovering the sacred stories of your life, discovering that what you have lived is not only yours. It belongs to our collective song and has patterns that have been woven since the beginning of time.
This course is for those who senses that something enormous happened to her when she became a mother, or senses that their own experience with their mother has shaped who they've become, or knows that we must reclaim this living archetype, this divine force of creation and destruction — and has not yet found the language to name it. It is for the seeker who is still in the middle of their own unfolding, and for the one who is far enough out to look back and finally understand what it was. It is for those who want to write, and for the one who has never written a word but feels something pressing at the door.
You do not need to be a writer. You do not need to have done any spiritual work. You only need to be willing to peel back the layers, and explore your experience honestly and tenderly.
THE MYTHIC LENS
The archetypes
we will meet
These are some of the mythic figures we will encounter in the course — each one a mirror for a different face of the mother and how we experience her.
The Great Mother
The abundant, nourishing, creative force — the mother in her fullness, her power, her capacity to sustain and bring forth life.
The Devouring Mother
Kali, Baba Yaga, the witch of the dark forest. The face of motherhood that consumes, that demands, that breaks open — and the healing that waits on the other side.
The Great Mother
Demeter searching for Persephone. The mother who has lost — a child, an identity, a version of herself — and the underworld she must walk through to find her again.
The Wise Elder
The mother who has been through the fire and come out the other side carrying something new. The grandmother. The ancestor. The medicine woman.
The Maiden Mother
The new mother — bewildered, broken open, falling in love in ways she never expected, discovering a self she didn't know was waiting.
The Ancestral Mother
The mothers who came before — the lineage, the wounds, the gifts, the stories that move through us whether we know them or not. The healing that rewrites the pattern.
THE SHAPE OF THE COURSE
What we do
together
I
The mythic mother — an introduction
We orient ourselves in the mythic landscape. What is myth, and why does it matter to your specific story? We begin to see the archetypal and ancestral patterns alive in our own experience.
II
The fairy tales that hold us
We study the fairy tales that have always contained the experience of the mother — their darkness, their wisdom, and what they are still trying to tell us. Writing prompts help you begin to locate your own story within them.
III
The wound and the gift
Every mother carries something she received from her own mother — a wound, a gift, or both woven together. We explore this inheritance and begin to understand how it has shaped your own mothering experience.
IV
Shamanic journeywork — meeting your lineage
A guided shamanic journey to meet your internalized mother figures, the mothers of your lineage — to hear their voice alchemize their messages, and receive blessings, wisdom, and begin the healing of what has been passed down.
V
Writing your memoir
With the mythic lens now firmly in place, we write. Guided prompts lead you through the writing of your own sacred memoir — the stories that gifted you the wisdom and medicine you now hold.
VI
Reading and witnessing in circle
We close by reading to one another — sharing what we have written and receiving the gift of being truly witnessed in our stories. This act of witness is itself a form of healing.
YOUR GUIDES
The women
holding this circle
WRITING GUIDE &
SHAMANIC PRACTITIONER
Rose Wollf
Rose is a poet, shamanic practitioner, licensed RTT therapist, and memoirist with over 15 years of experience teaching creative writing, literature, and myth. As an animist studying and practising the ancient wisdom traditions of Norse and Celtic origin, her work lives at the intersection of spirituality and creative expression.
She brings shamanic journeying, hypnotherapy, and Crystal Dreaming into the course to help participants find their voice, clear writing blocks, and open the channel to the stories their souls are ready to tell.
DREAM & MYTH GUIDE
JUNGIAN ANALYST IN-TRAINING
Amy Savitsky
Amy Savitsky is a Jungian Analyst-in-training at the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, drawn to the places where storytelling, psyche, and transformation meet. Her work weaves together dreamwork, archetypal inquiry, and creative expression — inviting people into deeper relationship with their inner worlds and the symbolic language of the unconscious.
Before this chapter, Amy spent more than two decades in television as an Emmy Award–winning producer and creative executive. She now brings that same love of story into spaces where imagination and depth meet. Amy also offers one-to-one dreamwork sessions within the course. She lives in New York with her family and is the mother of two daughters.
THE STRUCTURE & PRICING
How we
deliver
MYTH & JOURNEY CLASS
ONCE PER MONTH
Myth, Theme & Exploration
The deeper container. We explore the month's archetype, the myth, and theme together — through guided discussion, shamanic journeying, dreamwork, and reflection. You will leave with a deeper understanding of the mythic layer of your own story, and a writing prompt to work with before the next session.
THE WRITING WORKSHOP
ONCE PER MONTH
Writing, Craft & Feedback
The craft workshop. We gather as writers — bringing in pieces from the homework, sharing drafts, asking questions, and receiving feedback in circle. We also explore the mechanics of memoir itself: structure, voice, point of view, and how to transform lived experience into literary truth.
Enrollment options
The course runs from 16 May 2026 to 16 January 2027. Flexible plans available — choose the payment structure that works best for you.
Monthly Payment Plan
Spread over the length of the course
From $111/month
12 month plan available
Pay in Full
Best value--single payment for the
full course
From $949.05
5% Discount
Add-on 1:1 Mentoring with Rose or
1:1 Dreamwork with Amy
From $150 per session
Booked directly with Amy or Rose
Monthly individual sessions or add on by request
Add-on 1:1 Dreamwork with Amy & Mentoring with Rose
From $399 per month
Includes course plus individual sessions
Two monthly individual sessions with both Amy & Rose
Payment plans and sliding-scale options available for those who are genuinely called to this work. Write to Rose at rose.e.wollf@gmail.com before the cost decides for you.
I came to this course carrying a complicated relationship with the word "mother" because of my own. Through the archetypes, the fairy tales, and the shamanic journeys, I began to understand the invisible architecture of my own story, where I had inherited wounds I thought were my own, and where I had been living inside someone else's myth without knowing it. I wrote things I had been carrying for years. It was more than a writing course. It was a reckoning.
C.A.
Motherhood Myth & Memoir participant
JOIN THE WAITLIST
Your story
is ready to
be written.
Registration is open. The course runs from 16 May 2026 to 16 January 2027, with two workshops per month on Saturdays. Multiple payment plans are available — from monthly installments to pay-in-full. If you have questions before enrolling, write to Rose directly at rose.e.wollf@gmail.com.
"Every mother is living a myth. This course is the space to finally read it — and to let it read you."
— ROSE WOLFF
From $111/month · flexible enrollment plans available · Sliding scale on request