The Creation of Our Universes
In search of our personal myth
From Chaos to Cosmos
A collective storytelling workshop on the origins of worlds.On my journey as a creator, I discovered that storytelling reveals its deepest power when it is shared. When imagination becomes collective, unexpected paths emerge, and stories begin to tell themselves.
Chaos to Cosmos is an invitation to embrace not knowing—the fertile space where wonder, discovery, and true knowledge begin.
Together, we will awaken the ancient storyteller within and listen at the threshold of the ProtoStory, where beginnings speak without end.
Through free association, mythic imagination, and archetypal exploration, participants will co-create a collective myth of creation. Each voice will contribute to the birth of a universe, weaving personal visions into a larger living narrative.
Using Archetype Cards as narrative catalysts, we will explore the timeless forces that shape stories across cultures and eras. What are archetypes? How do they move through us? How do they converse, collide, and transform one another?
From primordial chaos, a cosmos will emerge—one story, many storytellers.
Mythic Journey
Myths are human truths. For literally thousands of years they have inspired artists, poets, states people, historians, teachers, parents, children, indeed, all people who are moved by story. As opposed to lecturing at people, myths entice and enchant, instill wonder and delight, help to cope with loss, in short: they are narrative maps helping people to navigate the journey of their lives. And because they are formed of metaphor and filled with poetic insight, they are an integral part of teaching people to think creatively and critically. In a world where young people are bombarded with media and consumerist messages at every turn, myths can help them to think for themselves, to pierce beyond the veil of symbolic narratives, help them better discern lives of quality and delight for themselves, their families, and the societies that they themselves will grow up to shape.
– Ari Berk
The archetypes speak to us in the symbolic and metaphoric language of myth
When we open ourselves up to Mythic Imagination, we can see not only the essence of our inner stories but also the deeper meaning underlying the events that have shaped our lives. The workshop is inspired by the uniqueness and integrity of your stories, which, through your imagination and the surfacing of archetypal images, are transformed into origin myth, resulting in the birth of a new personal cosmos.