THE STORY IN THE DARK: Hamnet
The storytelling in great films can crack us open and connect us.
Each month, I choose a film for us to watch in advance of the class. I also send you the storytelling structure for the Tender-Hearted Warrior Journey.
This month's film is Hamnet, a gorgeous evocation of the painful power of grief to crack us open to the deepest discomfort and yet connect us. It's the story of the beautiful chaos of a woman's heart, a line Jessie Buckley used to describe the heart of Hamnet in her Oscar acceptance speech for this film.
Hamnet is now streaming, so you can watch it at home, with the storytelling structure as your guide.
When we gather online, we talk about what moved us, the lines that have lingered, and what images in the film mirrored our own experience.
We'll also talk about the framework of the film, step by step, to understand the story of the film more fully.
If you long for the company of other people to discuss the meanings you saw in certain scenes and articulate what shifted inside you after living in that film, then you'll feel at home here.
If you cannot attend the workshop live, you'll receive a recording after the workshop.
“The journey is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of change within us; the uncanny discovery that the seeker is the mystery which the seeker seeks to know. The hero journey is a symbol that binds, in the original sense of the word, two distant ideas, the spiritual quest of the ancients with the modern search for identity, always the one, shape-shifting yet marvelously constant story that we find.”
—Joseph Campbell
What is the Story of The Tender-Hearted Warrior Journey?
You know this story. You just might not know its structure by heart yet.
There is a universal, foundational narrative pattern at the heart of every powerful story, found in mythological stories from across all times and most places, modern novels, and powerful films.
Joseph Campbell spent his life mapping this structure across the world's mythologies. Carl Jung found it in the collective unconscious. This journey of letting go of old stories is at the heart of Buddhist practice. Modern neuroscience is writing the story of neuroplasticity in how we process change and trauma.
The Story of the Tender-Hearted Warrior Journey is informed by this lineage of thinking—and, in particular, shaped for the journey of women in perimenopause and beyond who are waking up to their own power.
In the midst of this hellfire chaos of living in a country under the control of people desperate to dehumanize and make decisions based on the grip of grasping, insatiable greed—we need these deeply human stories more than ever.
If you cannot attend the workshop live, you'll receive a recording after the workshop.
The price for this workshop is $25.
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