Motherhood Myth & Memoir
Explore the Shadows, Unearth the Wisdom, and Tell your Sacred Tale
*Saturdays beginning May 16th 2026*
Introduction
Before we entered the dark, dreaming waters of the womb, we began in the psyche of our mother. Not only in her—the one who first whispered our name, who rocked and suckled us into life—but in the vast lineage of mothers braided through generations. Their bodies and breath, their songs and silences, their prayers and sacrifices are woven into the great dreaming womb of this Earth.
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We carry their threads within us—wounds to be woven into gifts—shaping the way we live, the way we love, and the way we mother. And when we take up the pen to tell our stories, we do more than record memory—we re-member. We stitch together what was torn, we reclaim the voices once silenced, and we root ourselves again in the mythic architecture of the Great Mother.
This course is your invitation to listen deeply, to step into the mythic, and to craft your own memoir as a sacred act of healing, belonging, reclamation and rebellion.
What You’ll Experience
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Explore Archetypes & Myths – Study the archetypal Mother in her many forms—nurturer, creatrix, wild mother, crone—through myths, fairytales, and ancestral stories.
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Unearth Ancestral Wisdom – Reflect on the ways your lineage of mothers, their songs and silences, have shaped your life and story.
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Embrace Shadow & Light – Engage with the unspoken aspects of motherhood—loss, anger, sacrifice, and resilience—and discover the wisdom they hold.
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Discover Yourself through the Mother Archetype – Explore how life’s thresholds are invitations into the wild frontier of your own soul.
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Craft Your Memoir – Through guided writing prompts and reflections, begin weaving your experiences into a sacred personal memoir.
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Belong to a Community – Share in a circle of women walking this path together, each honoring the mythic journey of motherhood.
This program is for those who:
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have longed to write a memoir, or begin with shorter personal essays and reflections
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have already begun writing from life and want to bring greater depth, symbolism, and soul to the work
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feel called to cultivate a more mythic and archetypal consciousness in their writing
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want to honor the imagination as something sacred, intuitive, and alive
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desire the structure, witness, and companionship of a thoughtful writing community
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wish to work through the ancestral patterns that run through their lineage and life's story in order to alchemize, heal and transform for a new way of life
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have been called to dreamwork and altered states as a way to co-create and birth sacred projects
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This is for women, and men, mothers and non-mothers. This is for anyone who has ever been born from a mother.
Rose Wollf
Rose is a poet, fiction & nonfiction storyteller, and memoirist with over 15 years of experience teaching creative writing, literature and myth.
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As an animist studying, teaching and practicing the ancient wisdom traditions of Norse and Celtic origin, her work breathes in the intersection of spirituality and creative expression.
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She believes that everyone has a story in them, and the process of writing can be deeply healing, especially when guided and witnessed in the right supportive container.
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Rose offers her gifts of shamanic journeying, hypnosis and crystal dreaming to help individuals find their voice, clear away writing blocks and open the channel to receive inspiration, wisdom and the stories their souls are ready to tell.
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.
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Before this chapter, Amy spent more than two decades in television as an Emmy Award–winning producer and creative executive, shaping narrative and point of view. She now brings that same love of story into spaces where imagination and depth meet, supporting people in reclaiming voice, vitality, and a more intimate sense of self through story.
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Amy lives in New York with her family and is the mother of two daughters. She continues to find inspiration in books, nature, and the creative intelligence of dreams.
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In addition to co-teaching, Amy offers one to one dreamwork sessions in the course.
Course Structure
Module 1 – The Mythic Architecture of Motherhood
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Orient to the mythic lens: The Mother within and without
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Explore the ways myths, fairytales, and ancestral narratives have shaped our understanding of the Mother.
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Explore the Great Mother, our Earthly Mother, and the archetype in our collective unconscious
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Writing prompt: What does Mother mean? What feelings and associations do you have around mothering?
Module 2 – Mapping the Internalized Mother
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Who is our internalized mother? What is her voice?
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Discover the Mother figures depicted throughout human history from the old myths to the contemporary icons
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Reflect on the landscape and components of the Mother, what can we add to this overtime?
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Guided Journey: Let's meet your internalized mother by going on a guided journey within
Module 3 – The Architecture of the Mother Archetype
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We will discover the cycle and phases of the feminine and how it relates to the cycles of nature and our bodies
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Explore the way these relate to story and the structure of the memoir
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Discover the missing phases and faces of the triple goddess
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Writing prompts: How have the phases of my life been influenced by the mother/goddess archetype. How do I want to weave or reweave them into my future?
Module 4 – The Womb & The Birth of Story
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We will discover the womb as a physical and metaphysical portal gifting the mother with the magic of creation
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Explore places like Ginnungagap, the magical void in Norse Myth, and other mythical womb realms.
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What is the process and alchemy of creation? What is exchanged, sacrificed, transformed?
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Writing prompt: How does our internalized mother effect the way we create, how does she show up in the process?
Module 5 – The Shadow Mother
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We define shadow, reclaiming the term
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We explore the shadow side of the archetype-the dark mother: ambivalence, rage, grief, envy, depletion, loss of identity, enmeshment, control
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Explore myths & fairy tales depicting the devouring mother to reveal hidden wisdom.
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Writing prompt: How does the shadow mother show up in our stories, in our capacity for creation, creativity, nurturing and soverignty?
Module 6 – Gifts in the Wound
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How has maternal shadow gifted us our medicine and path?
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Introduce the Crone and the intersectionality of wounding
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Explore the paradox Lisa Marchiano describes in her novel Motherhood: how the most difficult experiences of motherhood often become the deepest sources of wisdom.
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Connect with Toko-pa Turner's idea of exile as initiation into wholeness.
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Writing prompt: Trace one wound in your mother story and imagine what gift or calling it is asking to become.
Module 7 – The Crone’s Calling
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Recognize the crone as initiator in mythology and folklore throughout time
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Explore the Crone's ledgands and lessons
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Writing prompts: How has loss, letting go, or release become a doorway into a new identity? When has the Crone shown up to strip you of everything to initiate you forward?
Module 8 – The Ancestral Tapestry
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Connect to the mothers who came before you—their stories, songs, silences, longings, and sacrifices.
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Explore the threads present in your matriarchal lineage, and how you are holding them now.
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Writing Prompt: What pattern did you inherit in this lifetime? How has this story been woven through time? What is it asking for you to do?
Module 9 – The Mother of All: Belonging to the Earth
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Reclamation of the Mother archetype within the body of the Earth.
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Explore ecological parallels, conscious mothering and how our individual and collective stories of the mother might change to create balance and soul alignment
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Guided Journey: we will journey to meet the mother of all
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Writing prompt: Who is this mother really? Who is she to you? What are her messages for you? What does she wish to help you birth into the world?
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Closing ritual
Why this Matters Now
For centuries, the Mother has been silenced, controlled, extracted from. The great mother goddesses of creation were nearly erased from our history, replaced with the language of dominion and compliance to a lord. These wounds ripple forward into our mothers, into us, and into the very body of the Earth—now bearing the scars of a culture severed from its source.
A culture that could stare in the face of a mother holding her lifeless baby taken from her in genocide and either feel powerless to support her or look away in blame.
We live in a time of unraveling: mass extinctions, ecological collapse, and the resurgence of authoritarianism threaten not only the Earth but the very fabric of human belonging.
The diminishment of the Mother—her voice, her body, her wisdom—is mirrored in the diminishment of our planet and our societies, our bodies.
When the Mother is silenced, life itself becomes disposable.To remember the Mother is to remember ourselves. To write our stories through her archetype is to reclaim what has been stolen, to tend the wounds of lineage, and to restore the sacred balance that has been forgotten.
In sharing our stories with one another, we weave a new collective myth—one rooted in reciprocity, reverence, and repair. At this threshold in history, our voices matter. By telling our stories, we come together not only to heal ourselves, but to imagine and usher in a future where the Mother is honored again—within us, between us, and in the living Earth we belong to.
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Memoir and Myth share the same terrain. They ask the same fundamental questions that keep us dreaming: Who am I? Who are my people? What journey have I been given? What is mine to create and discover? Where and with who do I belong? Why am I here?
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At the heart of any powerful memoir is voice, the living current of the writer’s presence on the page, and her ability to draw the reader into a world through image, memory, texture, and felt experience. A good memoir does not simply recount what happened. It opens a doorway. It gathers the fragments of a life and listens for the deeper pattern moving beneath them.
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Like myth, memoir begins with the understanding that our lives are both singular and shared. Beneath the particulars of our upbringing, our families, our losses, longings, loves, and thresholds, there are themes that belong to all of us. When we tell the truth about where we come from, who shaped us, what wounded us, and what called us onward, we place our lives within an ancient lineage of storytelling and meaning-making.
Your Sacred Story Awaits
By the end of this course, you will hold a draft of your memoir—a woven story of shadows and wisdom, of wounds and blessings. But more than that, you will be participating in a greater act of remembering.
In tracing your life through the mythic architecture of the mother, you reclaim what has been stolen, tend the wounds of lineage, and restore to yourself the voice and worth that history has too often denied.
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Memoir helps us make sense of our lives not by flattening them into neat conclusions, but by revealing the deeper architecture beneath experience. It shows us how our personal story may belong to a larger, mythic pattern.
Even when a writer is not consciously working with myth, those deeper archetypal threads often rise to the surface anyway, because the soul is always seeking meaning, and story is one of the oldest vessels we have for finding it.
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Enrollment Options
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Interactive, Live Course with Cohort - $999
Includes live seminars, group cohorts and workshops, shared discussions, and guided feedback on your writing.
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Self-Paced, Recorded Experience -$444
Access all course materials, writing prompts, and resources at your own rhythm.
(Only Available Winter 2027)
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Plus Dreamwork or Mentorship-$2699
Interactive Live Cohort, plus choose between either a monthly 1:1 dreamwork session with Amy, or a 1:1 personalized mentoring and manuscript editing session with Rose.
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Premium Mentorship & Dreamwork -$4499
Interactive Live Cohort, plus a monthly 1:1 dreamwork session, and a 1:1 personalized mentoring and manuscript editing session.
*Prices Vary* *9-12 Month Payment Plans Offered*-15% Early Bird Discount offered through March 2026*
We do not want to turn people away due to financial stress or restriction, so please reach out if you need financial aid.
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