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StoryCarrier is the old job—the one who can diagnose a ritual out of the interaction around a story in community. They know the medicines of welcoming, initiation, grief and praise—how to hear the guidance of ancestors and how to dance with the wild energies. 

We are talking about old myths. They used to guide individuals and communities through times of jeopardy by connecting people with the deep powers of community and nature.

A StoryCarrier, by this understanding of the term, is also a ritual maker. Ritual done in response to the telling of the myth is the human part of the conversation. The StoryCarrier is only the vessel for the wisdom of the ancient ancestral storehouse in myth to be delivered to the human community who are currently alive.

The mentorship is open to join at the beginning of any six week semester, and to leave at any point, but we expect that the process will be engaging for a year or even more. It is a guided process with 3 one on one calls per semester as well as the weekly 2 hour zoom meetings and informal conversations in the cohort.

You will meet good people similar to yourself, on a path to seriously revive the depth of this old vocation called by many names: the Griot (West Africa), Bard (Celtic), Fili/Seanchaí (Irish), Ashik/Ashough (Turkic), Pingshu (China), Maggid (Jewish), Dengbêj (Kurdish), Kobzar (Ukraine), or Mo'olelo (Hawaiian).

Zoom meetings follow six week cycles, and as a mentee, you will help to organize live events in your location.

You will be strongly supported by:

• leadership from senior StoryCarriers of 30 years exp.

• a deep focus on three mythic stories / semester

• repeated practice during the weekly calls

• three one on one sessions each 6 week semester

• written outlines to support your further notes

• the opportunity to host live events in your location

• small group size

• Sunday evening Australia, Sunday morning Europe

• Meet an interesting and supportive cohort

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Sliding scale per semester is

Scholarship supported: $397 AUD |€222 Euro

Regular Tuition: $444 AUD |€249 Euro

Angel support Tuition: $497 AUD |€277 Euro

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Sundays—Perth 16h00 | London 09h00

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From wherever you are starting from, the practice is likely to be dynamic, by turns heartwarming and challenging—bringing you closer to the character that is you.

SYLLABUS

Like Stepping into the Old Stories

There is a world wide resurgence of interest in old tales and their telling. Something badgers our bones and scratches an ear calling us to pay attention. Truth be told, an old myth or story seeks to pass on and uncover the renewable sources of wisdom, resiliency and inclusion to each generation. It wants to be generous.

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You will learn how to uncover the particular guidance a myth is meant to give to each listener personally. Not a moral of the story, for myth never really does that. Not a general advice, for the wisdom is peculiar to the moment.

The modern world breeds unbelonging, misdirection of gifts and purpose, ancestral disconnection. All of these griefs are present when people gather. A StoryCarrier is helps to unravel of these complexities and "wicked problems," and facilitate re-belonging, re-orientation to purpose, re-connection with ancestors.the Working in a group shows everyone the riches of the "storehouse" hidden in each tale in a way much deeper than mere entertainment.

​​Facilitated by Randy Jones, author of "Medicine Without an Expiry Date: Indigenous Remedy for Modern Trouble," and senior mythologist Tim "Tricky, Dunn."

Find more background at https://www.wildgenius.guide/