Mythopoetic Journey-Solstice Workshop
Buy Tickets“Sounds like something Neo would attend in between battling Morpheus.” -Michael Willis
A Generative Writing Workshop with Maria Garcia Teutsch
June 20, 2025
The first day of Summer. The threshold of light. A call to the divine within.
Join us for a guided writing experience that invites you to step into your own personal mythology. On this longest day of the year, we will explore the sacred conduits that connect us to our inner divinity—those totems and symbols that have shaped our lives and spirits.
Through a series of intuitive and imaginative writing prompts, participants will be encouraged to name and invoke these mythic figures, drawing from the deep wells of both individual and collective psyche. This workshop transcends traditional creative triggers—love, sex, food, psychedelics, wine, art, dance, music—and instead journeys into the inner sanctum of your creative soul.
What to Expect:
A safe, generative space for poetic exploration
Writing prompts designed to awaken personal mythology
Opportunities to share and receive guided feedback
A mythopoetic approach to creativity and transformation
Whether you are a seasoned poet or just beginning your journey, this workshop is an invitation to enchantment, to awakening, and to opening pathways between the self and all sentient beings.
Our personal histories are singular and yet draw upon all of the symbols each has collected over the course of our lives. Amidst this chaos how can we come to understand ourselves and our place in the continuum? We will turn to poetry as a way to generate meaning from events that may in themselves remain meaningless unless we use the medium of poetry as a collective response in conversation with filmmakers, songwriters, painters and artists across the millennia.
The Summer Solstice reminds us of the cycle of new beginnings, and the importance of recognizing symbol and ritual as a way to further make meaning out of a world of chaos. In the mythopoetic register of self-understanding we find no singular events, but confluences of meaning.
The writings from this workshop will be the basis for a potential flow of poems, stories, plays, films, essays and songs.
Mythopoetic Journey with Maria Teutsch
Via Zoom link (after registration)
June 20, 2025
10:00 AM PST
1:00 PM EST
7 PM Berlin time
“The currents of history move in the direction of self-understanding, but the idea of what self-understanding means changes too. The historical-semiotic object is geared towards a mythopoetic concept of history.”
from Infinite Signs, A Historical Semiotic, by River Atwood Tabor
