The Great Work of Your Life

Re-mapping the terrain of your inner life

for pleasure, presence and delight

A Free Crone-led 90-Minute Workshop with Sila Read

in the Lineage of Marion Woodman

January 27th from 12-1:30pm EST.

Is this you?

You…

• are afraid you’re not living your own life

• worry that maybe you’ve missed the “Great Work of Your Life” and yet hunger to make a soulful contribution that matters in these times

• are aware of repeating symbols and synchronicities that feel like they won’t leave you alone and feel like messages from your soul, but you’re not sure how to make sense of them (such as a repeating image in a dream — your mother’s blue nightgown, a body symptom — like an ache in your throat, patterns in your waking life — the same dynamics playing out with different friends over many months)

• often feel overwhelmed by the state of the world — and you deeply desire practical and regenerative ways in which you can be the change you want to see in the world.

• are passionate about Marion Woodman or the Jungian archetypal world — and wish you knew more — but hunger for deep, nuanced teachings that don’t reduce the Feminine to a gender binary or 1950s gender roles (making them yet another tool of the Partriarchy)

• are always the ‘sensitive’ one or the ‘intense’ one — whether it’s work, family or friends — you’re used to feeling too much, and while you get theoretically that this is a positive thing about you… you struggle to actually feel that your ‘too muchness’ is of value to the world.

• may have been in therapy— and have a spiritual life— and you wish there was a path that combined the best of both the psychological and spiritual.

• Finding all this surface bullshit in the psychological and spiritual world… tired of all these spaces that don’t hold nuance and depth, and honor the wholeness of their experience

• Tinged with climate and collapse… despair, grief, overwhelm and rage – not sure where to bring it… why isn’t everyone feeling this? Is my sensitivity too much?

• What do I do in collapse times?

• I feel a call to do and be something more right now… but what do I do? What’s mine? What’s enough? (A bit blurry, distracted, too much octopus arms)

• There was magic and mystery and stories in my childhood… but it’s been a while (hiding from an enchanted world because it feels childlike, immature) but they long for stories and myth and the alive soul filled world

• They’re in a midlife threshold, reckoning with their relationship to power, body, voice, patriarchal pressures, and what… the great work of their lives will be – choice point: will i go quietly and invisibly into the later years of my life? And try to keep my youth for patriarchy? Or will I step into the great work of my life? And my leadership? (midlife women needs crones)

Studying Jungian Psychology with Marion Woodman quite simply changed my life. Before my training with Marion, I often felt grief about the path of my life — that perhaps I’d ‘missed it’ — whatever that feeling was of satisfaction and delight and ‘making an impact.’

Rather than make me wrong, Marion gently mirrored me and taught me that the Feminine was lost in our culture… TEACH ON WHAT THE FEMININE IS.

When do we hear about the great work of a woman? Feminine reframe of ‘the great work of your life’ – Magnum Opus/Beethoven/Philosopher's Stone/Alchemy

Marion gave us these directions:

“Take time to listen to your dreams, to write them down. Take time to recognize that there are things going on within you that need to be felt, or said, or lived, or grieved. Pay attention to these things both in yourself and in the people in your life. Pay attention to the authentic self.”

I’ve learned that my own Great Work includes: XYZ

What if the Great Work of Your Life is something that you’ve never considered? And it’s calling you now?

It’s radical and it’s true.

Dream with me…

You want to feel:

• held by elders as your learn to love your sensitive heart for real.

• like you have Jungian tools that center you in your truth, and strengthen you so that you can live from that truth more of the time in more of your relationships (parenting your kids, your marriage, friendships, etc.)

• safety in slowness and savoring the mystical beauty and synchronicity of this world.

• more connection with sisters and peers who are soulful — they’ve done their inner work too — and they can hold the paradoxical experiences of being in a body and being hungry for spiritual depth without spiritually bypassing.

• like you’re continuing to answer the call of your soul in this lifetime — and part of that is learning how to embody the feminine within Marion Woodman’s lineage.

To be met with depth and nuance by teachers and community

• To have a crone teaching and holding her

• Real, wise sisterhood

• Meet these times with courage – in a way that does not abandon your needs, your heart, and your body

• A lineage with real love – that embraces wholeness and difference and maturity

• Steward their life with depth – how do I know what’s mine?

• A new way to meet the grief and death of these times of collapse – a lineage that prepared for this

• Beginning to learn and build new Feminine tools for these times, to find deeper value in the parts of ourselves we’ve learned to culturally and intimately shun… that’s exactly needed for us to rise right now

• More self love and value – worthiness

• Feel more clarity and presence with yourself

• Be curious and open yourself up more to enchantment and awe (it may be childlike, but not childish)

Where We’ll Go Together:

• Expand your capacity for meeting the truth (aka paradox) without collapsing

• The heart-felt value of the Feminine principle – applied to the world and your most intimate personal self (worthiness, value, self trust)

• Noticing synchronicities, symptoms and symbols – begin to unpack what your soul is actually asking of you (and reclaiming awe, magic and mystery)

Alchemists take in the “hazardous waste” of human experience and return it to the world as nourishment, refreshment, and beauty. Catherine MacCoun, On Becoming An Alchemist

In this free 90-minute workshop, we’ll be gathering together to learn Jungian tools to create more safety in your inner world & Feel the Power oF your sensitive heart.

Topics will include: individuation, soul-making, holding the tension of the opposites, tools for building psychological safety and containment within yourself, falling back in love with the magic and mystery of the waking and dreaming world, and the importance of collective stories, dreams and myths.

This workshop is an experience in Feminine weaving and teaching style.

Sil is the lead facilitator with Sandra as her assistant, and Rochelle at times inviting us into our bodies together. Their style of teaching together is lively, interactive, and intuitive — with time for contemplation, embodiment and integration.

You’ll also have an opportunity at the end of the workshop to learn more about Sil’s online home & program — The Soul-making School — if you’d like to journey deeper with embodying the Feminine in Marion Woodman’s lineage.

Words from Sil’s Students:

💌 “My whole life I have been searching for the level of holding, mirroring and containment present in Sil’s teaching team.” — Shela, student

💌 “I’ve stepped into my parenting with greater consciousness and awareness, and reclaimed threads of my creativity I’ve been longing for without knowing how to reach. Sil’s teachings are a vital anchor in my personal journey. I learned things I had never known before — insights that helped make sense of feelings and intuitions I’ve carried for a long time but didn’t yet have language for. I’ve always felt closely connected to my dreams, but before this program I tended to see them as interesting, strange, or occasionally predictive. Through Sil’s work, I learned to relate to them differently — as expressions of my psyche and as something I can actively work with.” — Shawna, student

💌 “Through Sil, my relationship with Marion’s work has become more embodied and integrated — it now feels like a living framework that accompanies me in my life.” – Emer, student

💌 “I’ve gained self-acceptance, and a growing inner confidence of who I am becoming. Sil’s teachings are above and beyond any expectations I had.” — Natalie, student

💌 “The School was my first container that was participatory and led by many women; the structure itself considered principles that are not at all common in our one-guru-one-truth society. It brought me so much inspiration for myself to work and create together with other women and I felt the pressure of individualism and overdrive melt, mainly in my own practice.” — Maria, student

💌 “The work gave me a key—especially through dream work—which has become a living, breathing dimension of my inner life. Dreams are no longer separate from waking reality; they are just as real, just as instructive, and now deeply integrated into how I move through the world. This weaving of inner and outer life, psyche and body, symbol and lived experience, has created the most beautiful and meaningful landscape I have ever inhabited.” — Fernanda, student

💌 “Sil’s groups have been an incredible grounding in community of like- minded women - led with so much skill and love, with a good dose of magic woven in beyond what any of us could have imagined. It feels like it has given my own porous spiritual life a structure and landing place to feel so much less alone.” — Jess W

💌 “I loved being in a group of women who feel deeply as I am and think about life deeply. I felt included and validated, I stopped viewing my way of being in the world as something wrong and flawed, because I just see and feel so much stuff others around me don't even consider.” — Maria, student

💌 “Being held in a community of loving women, led by a wise Crone, and exploring Marion's teachings has resonated deeply in my soul. It has been a homecoming, and the missing piece for my rediscovery of my spiritual core. Relational healing has happened as I have allowed myself to lean into this beautiful community, take risks, and share myself. In my outer life, I have felt empowered to listen to my intuition and make some significant life changes that have been needed for several years now.” — Jennifer, student

💌 “The impact of Sil and Marion’s work in my present life is that it has added a new layer of meaning to, literally, everything. Learning how to be in my body, how to read my experiences through a symbolic lens and not take things so personally, plus learning for the first time ever, that my sleeping hours are communion time with the Goddess, who is in constant communication with me from a loving standpoint.” — Tere, student

💌 “My experience was a subconscious sanctuary made perfectly relevant to my lived experience as a mature and dreaming woman seeking my wholeness. I am not sure I have known safe sisterhood and a mother’s consistent loving tone the way I could hear among all of us holding the tension and making the unseen, seen. I'm in love. Literally!” — Bianca, student

Meet Our Workshop Team:

Frequently Asked Program Questions:

• When is the workshop?

  February 25th from 1-2:30pm EST (on Zoom).

• is there a recording if i can’t join live?

  Yes! But come live if you can — it’s magic to be together in real time.

• WHEN IS THE NEXT FREE WORKSHOP?

  Sil teaches one free workshop a year (right now), this is it.

• WILL I BE ABLE TO ASK SIL A QUESTION? CAN I BE PRIVATE AND HAVE MY VIDEO OFF?

  Sil teaches in a lively, interactive and weaving style and often works 1:1 with a handful of people during a group workshop. You can choose to be as private, quiet, interactive, or vocal as you wish throughout the communal parameters of the call — you exactly how you are is welcome.

• Do i need to know about jungian psychology or marion woodman to join this call?

  It’s strongly encouraged that you be passionate about the symbolic work of Jungian Psychology and know something about it — and perhaps be curious about Marion before the call. There are no specific pre-reqs, just an invitation to be passionate!

• is this for psychologists or professionals?

  This is for all people passionate about Jungian psychology and Marion Woodman! You may also be a professional who feels inspired by what you have learned here and takes it deeper into your work life.

Artist Credit: Elisabeth Moss

Elisabeth Moss is a painter and certified expressive art facilitator whose work has evolved over four decades as a practice of making the sacred visible. Working primarily with water-based paint and collage, her paintings emerge through deep listening and intuitive dialogue with the unseen. Each canvas becomes an altar where color, archetypal imagery, and layered marks unfold as a visual prayer.

Her paintings are offered in a spirit of reverence, celebrating the Holy. It is her heartfelt wish that they offer a sense of healing and beauty, supporting the co-creation of community in relationship with one another and the natural world. https://www.instagram.com/elisabethmossart/ & https://www.elisabethmoss.com/