The Well at The End of The World ~ a two hour gathering exploring what being at and tending “The Well” might mean and why it matters in these times.
Friday 27th October 2023
5.30pm to 7.30pm UK time
Online
By Donation
“It’s almost impossible to be ‘healthy’ if you define it as a relationship with yourself without acknowledging that you’re part of a larger ‘culture’ including both the human and nonhuman” ~ Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
Through myth, archetypes and somatic experience, this two hour session explores what being at, and tending “The Well” might mean, and why it matters. Beyond fixing and curing, how might we engage with a deeply restored experience of healing and health?
Mythically, Wells were “tended” in ancient Britain by “The Well Maidens”. The Maidens were “the voices” of the Well Waters and their specific role was to offer nourishment and a drink of “Well-Water” from their golden cups to passing travellers. But as the story has been told, the Well Maidens were raped, and their golden cups stolen. The sacred Wells abandoned, they fell into disrepair and access lost to their watery depths.
Myth and indigenous stories are often dismissed as whimsical fancy while the lies so ubiquitous in our political culture are referred to as myths. Myths may be many things, but they are not lies. An aspect of this work is restoring proper integrity to ancient myths and indigenous stories.
The beings in indigenous stories, and the archetypes in myths, are energetic presences we can recognize and engage creatively and powerfully in ourselves. They can enable us to help bridge the facts of our current crisis to the deeper truth of a prior reality from which we have become separated.
Beyond an absence of symptoms, what might a deeper sense of “Well Keeping” physically, emotionally and mentally involve during these times?
Olivia Crooks will join me to co-facilitate this time together.
To register or to find out more please follow this link to Eventbrite or email me.
