Mythic Lives: Living Our Deeper Story, Part 1

Tuition:$895 if paid by May 26th; $995 thereafter
Fee includes materials, Sunday dinner and workshop lunches/snacks
Maximum number of students: 20
20 hours of credit
What: 3-day on-site workshop, with follow-up teleconference
When: July 10-12, 2006
Where: La Porte, CO (north of Ft. Collins)

Would you like to paint a picture of a larger life and deeper purpose for your clients? If so, join us for an extraordinary three-day adventure into the world of personal mythology, set against a backdrop of towering mountains and rich ranch land. In the fabled setting of an old ranch house turned retreat center, you will eat, breathe and tell stories, using your own life story as the playground. You’ll also share your insights with colleagues, and learn how to reframe your clients’ pathologies to heroic mythologies. The result? A rich experience professionally and personally.

As a coach or practitioner, you will also leave with some tangible takeaways:

A positive way to reframe client transitions and challenges
A proven methodology to use with diverse populations
A non-threatening way to access deeper levels with your clients
An easy way to target specific emotional client challenges
Tools to use with clients such as:
- Personal Mythology Map

Mythic Compass
Life Story Map
Personal Legacy Profile
Tribal Laws Dictionaries
Tribal Legacy Profile

Personal growth for yourself as a coach or practitioner
A practical framework to complement unique modalities
Ideas for applying Mythic Lives, Part 1 techniques to your practice
Deep relationships and community with colleagues
20 continuing education units if you are a coach
Part 1 initial Mythic Lives facilitator training

The Roots of Mythic Lives:

This unique life-story methodology is grounded in transpersonal psychology, feminist theory, narrative therapy, mythology and writing. Thus, you may recognize pathology’s concepts repackaged and re-languaged. Complexes are mythic patterns, issues are dragons, childhood trauma is the dark forest, and those who enter it—your clients—are heroes. The work of living a conscious life is also enlarged to include and celebrate the spiritual tasks mythology teaches.

Specifically, in Mythic Lives, Part 1, you will learn:

What mythic codes are and how they appear in a life
How to decode personal mythic clues for deeper meaning
Where your life story fits in a larger mythic/spiritual context
How your own authentic story got lost beneath other stories
What you must do to unearth that lost, authentic story
How to reframe “victim” to “hero” for yourself/your clients
How family legacies shape a life and what to do about them
How to see the fiction of the morals of your stories
How to choose tribal legacies that optimize emotional health

Who Should Attend

This workshop is for life coaches, executive coaches, therapists, alternative practitioners, social workers, educators and clinicians.

About the Workshop Leader/Developer

M. Carolyn Miller, M.A., is an author, educator and personal mythologist whose graduate work, and personal desire to live more authentically after facing multiple losses, resulted in Mythic Lives. A former corporate trainer, Carolyn is a working writer who leads personal and professional workshops, retreats and keynotes on the role of “story” in our lives. She is also a personal growth columnist and author/creator of personal development books, games and tools, including The Woman Who (Lost and) Found Her Wings, and the forthcoming Mythic Lives: Using Personal Mythology to Reclaim Your Authentic Story. For more information on Carolyn or this program, please visit www.mythiclives.com.

About the Workshop Co-Facilitator

Patrick Williams, Ph.D.,CEO and founder of the Institute for Life Coach Training, has been a licensed psychologist since 1980 and an executive coach since 1990. A former Coach U senior trainer, he founded The Institute for Life Coach Training in 1998 and has trained 1500+ helping professionals. Pat teaches graduate-level coaching classes, chairs the coaching psychology program at the International University of Professional Studies, and is co-author of such works as Therapist as Life Coach: Transforming Your Practice and Total Life Coaching: 50+ Life Lessons, Skills, and Techniques to Enhance your Practice and Your Life.

For more information about the workshop, please download the PDF file containing logistics information.

Are you still unsure about exploring the adventure of your life? If so, join us for a free teleconference on May 3, 2006, 6 p.m. EST to chat with Carolyn Miller and Pat Williams, the program facilitators. Register for the call and receive the teleconference phone number and instructions.

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