Goddess Makers in the Marketplace: Creative Feminine Wisdom for Culture Shaping Careers Certificate Course

(12 CECs)

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Describe why creative feminine wisdom matters now and the collective cultural shift that is providing the impetus for the reemergence of the archetypal feminine in the marketplace and culture space.

• Apply a knowledge of archetypes of the feminine to a personal assessment of ways of being that synthesize skills and expertise developed by training and experience with    relational intelligence, empathy, collaboration, and community, cyclical rhythms, and intuitive wisdom as core tools for leadership and creativity in all areas of work and expression.

• Describe how patriarchal structures have systematically devalued relational, emotional, creative, and soul-centered ways of being and the resulting disconnection from self, others, and the natural world.

• List and apply foundational depth psychological concepts to begin reclaiming and empowering the feminine principle within themselves, their professional lives, and their organizations and communities.

• Demonstrate differentiation between archetypes as fixed roles and archetypes as dynamic psychic structures within depth psychological theory.

• Apply an archetypal framework to examine how feminine consciousness can be expressed across diverse vocational contexts.

• Assess embodied feminine authority from hierarchical models of power by identifying key psychological, relational, and archetypal features of each.

• Apply a feminine authority framework to assess how clarity, receptivity, boundary, and voice shape leadership within one’s vocational context.

• Assess a depth-psychological approach to vocation, developing a richer, more authentic understanding that extends beyond conventional career definitions to encompass their unique contributions to culture and community.

• Apply depth-psychological tools, particularly those rooted in imagination, to uncover, envision, and bring their vocational calling and authentic Self into the world.

• Explain different forms of feminine wisdom and intelligence, develop a practice and skills that strengthen connection to them, to create a balance between different and complementary ways of knowing, being, and relating, with the goal of true wholeness coming from honoring the full spectrum.

• Describe how creative feminine wisdom can be consciously and intentionally integrated into a career and vocational path that will influence culture, including education, therapy, leadership, the arts, social change, entrepreneurship, and public life given one’s specific gifts, talents, and life purpose.

• Analyze how patriarchal models of success shape women’s vocational identity, self-worth, and definitions of fulfillment.

• Apply a feminine satisfaction framework to evaluate a vocational threshold, transition, or life decision according to one’s own wishes, needs, values, and embodied knowing.

• Write a personal vocational myth that integrates insights from across the program into a coherent vision for one’s culture-shaping work.

• Analyze internal patterns that undermine one’s vocational plans and apply depth-psychological tools to address them, while clarifying next steps to bring their work into the world.