Applied Mythology Graduate Certificate 2025

John Bucher, Joanna Gardner, Stephanie Zajchowski, Devon Deimler, Li Sumpter, Sandra del Castillo
Start Date: 26/06/2025
End Date:14/08/2025
Scheduled course
Online

Overview

“We are all part of the old stories; whether we know the stories or not, the old stories know about us.”  —Leslie Marmon Silko

The Advanced Training Certificate in Applied Mythology brings together expert myth practitioners with participants eager to understand the multiple ways which myth structures not only storytelling, but psyche itself.  Recorded learning sessions will usher you into the world of mythology, where deep sources of wisdom can illuminate contemporary turns of life and fate. Live, weekly interactive sessions with master teachers will help you learn to recognize the mythologic patterns that are influencing not only world events, but your own individuation process.

Drawing on the sacred stories of many times and places, this Advanced Training Certificate invites you to apply what you learn to a variety of life areas, including self-development, love and family life, work and career, spirituality, consciousness, and personal creativity. You will also learn and practice the crafts of storytelling—including the science behind why it’s so effective—and ceremony creation for workshops and professional presentations.

Explore the inner, storied dynamics of current events: politics and power, science and technology, the media, the environment, religious and spiritual traditions from around the world, all from the standpoint of ready comprehension (no academic expertise required), everyday relevance, and practical application.

This online, 7-week Certificate course is designed so that both clinicians as well as story lovers from any location or time zone can participate.

By the End of This Course You Will Be Able To:

  1. Identify how mythic motifs recur in contemporary technology.
  2. Experience your own relationship with myth as a useful metaphor for exploring the psyche and its teleology toward wholeness.
  3. Increase your attunement to the mythic world around you and its impact on you (intrapersonally, interpersonally and transpersonally)
  4. Better understand the dynamics of mythic sensibilities and how they manifest in times of chaos, inspiration and transformation.
  5. Become acquainted with the spectrum of qualities the Dionysian mythos presents within the context of a mythic pantheon.
  6. Critically and creatively apply a Dionysian lens to the transformative encounters of one’s own life and/or the challenges of our contemporary and future world.
  7. Transcend popular and established mythic models of consciousness and human journey with the intent of moving from an individual structure to a collective structure.
  8. Survey narratives focused on collective journeys that have been recurrent in popular culture through the framework of mythic cycles frequently explored in mythological studies.
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