If you write,
would love to write
or have a story begging to be written . . .

Then join us for an extraordinary weekend of self-reflection and creative magic. This is the second time Maureen Murdock has facilitated for A Woman's Way and she is BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND.

Maureen Murdock is a psychotherapist, writing teacher and the author of six books, including The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness, a groundbreaking book which revealed a broader understanding of the female psyche on both a personal and cultural level.

Maureen Murdock's research on myth and memoir culminated in her most recent book, Unreliable Truth: On Memoir and Memory. Maureen believes that memoirists are our contemporary mythmakers and that the popularity of memoir in our culture today reflects the universal desire to find meaning in the mystery of our lives and to understand our unconscious choices, actions, and dreams.

Beginning with the concept that memory is a particular angle of perception which shapes our sense of identity, in this writing retreat we will examine how the memories we tell establish our sense of self. It is not the factual truth of our memories that is necessary for crafting them into memoir but the emotional truth of our experience that begins to reveal the underlying patterns of our lives.

Myth owes its longevity to its power to express typical human emotions that have been experienced throughout successive generations. Memoir owes its popularity to its ability to portray these same enduring feelings in a contemporary individual's life. Both myth and memoir arise from the human need for connection. Myths use symbols and gods and goddesses to explore such themes as heroism, betrayal, the search for the mother/father and the beloved. Memoirs explore the very same themes in the stories of our every day lives.

"The way we tell our life story is the way we begin to live our life." ~ Maureen Murdock

Maureen Murdock is a Jungian-oriented psychotherapist in private practice in Santa Barbara, CA. She was Chair and Core Faculty of the MA Counseling Psychology Program at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara and teaches memoir classes and workshops internationally. She is the author of the best-selling book, The Heroine's Journey, as well as Fathers' Daughters: Breaking the Ties that Bind; Unreliable Truth: On Memoir and Memory; Spinning Inward: Using Guided Imagery with Children; and The Heroine's Journey Workbook. She edited an anthology of memoir writing entitled Monday Morning Memoirs: Women in the Second Half of Life and her books have been translated into over a dozen languages. Her website is www.maureenmurdock.com.

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