restore your mytho-poetic mind 

"You find yourself constantly surprised at what appears on the page. Stories and poems begin to write themselves..."  Sue McBurnie; Click here to read more testimonials 

 Online & Classroom Course 2025

The imagination is born in stages. In ‘The Writer’s Passage’ we follow these stages through a living encounter with the great myths and stories of the world. ​Every lesson is an invocation of the poetic, a way to connect with what is most creative in the history of humankind. The shift in perspective demanded by such exercises is, in itself, deeply liberating. The writer’s scope is enlarged by merely trying on the soul-skin of a different time, culture and personality— to serenely reformulate the eightfold path of the Buddha or hurl oneself into the battle fury of the Vikings; to tangle with the verbal eroticism of Sappho, become the pure Parzival of the medieval epics, or the devil in Goethe’s Faust, is an unmatched gymnastic for the creative writer.

As a writer you will be led, step by step, to write out of inner pictures. You will begin to fathom the vast biography of the poetic and experience how it is like a living being that wants to continue its creative life through you.

Module One of The Writer’s Passage is called THE MOTHER OF TONGUES. It leads the writer into the childhood of language and the power of sound. It makes its way from the realm of wishes, lies and boasts into the animal archetypes, folk tales and primal myth.

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Cost  AUD 330  / AUD 280 (concession) for 7 sessions

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