The Soul-making School
A Jungian Map for Embodying the Feminine Soul
An Immersive 9-Month Program for Women
In the Lineage of Marion Woodman
Spring Equinox (March 18th) to Winter Equinox (December 16th) 2026
🌀 enrollment now open 🌀
“The feminine soul is what grounds us; it loves and accepts us in our totality.
Our challenge is to embody this.”
— Marion Woodman
Hi, I’m Sil.
I’m a mother, a grandmother, a crone, a best-selling author, a teacher, a retreat facilitator, and a coach for women.
I guide women in transforming their lives from the inside out.
“Sil’s presence opens the way for women to go where they wouldn’t have otherwise imagined they could go.”
— Marion Woodman
💌 “My whole life I have been searching for the level of holding, mirroring and containment present in this program and this teaching team.”
— Shela, student of the Soul-making School 2025
A LETTER FOR YOU:
Dear one seeking to EMBODY YOUR FEMININE SOUL,
My vision for this school first came into being a few years ago after I had a simple and profound dream. In the dream, Marion was alive and well, and I was assisting her in setting up a workshop (something I did from time to time when she was alive and teaching). I asked her how I could help and she replied, “I need a new container for my silverware.”
The Soul-making School is a container for Marion Woodman’s silverware. This online program is a container that provides access and guidance for conscious engagement with her lineage of love and wisdom for the next generations of students. Marion’s map of feminine archetypes – and the tools and practices she taught me along the way – are the ‘silverware’ for ingesting the nourishment of her teachings.
Before embarking on this work of becoming whole with Marion, my intense and messy big-heartedness felt like a stigma and I had learned to shun my own heart.
Marion taught me that difficult initiations are part of life, and that they are essential to the individuation process. My initiations included disordered eating and body shame, the difficult birth of my daughter, the dissolution of my unhappy marriage, and the initiation of stepping up to my true calling (and career) ... they were all moments that called me into the fire. They were moments when I learned to no longer shun my own heart and my life changed forever.
Marion gave me the support that I needed by showing me that these were rites of passage that were universal and could be transformative. She knew the territory: initiations had tenderized her heart and she was able- step by step- to embody her feminine soul and live her own life- not the one that had been projected onto her.
Marion was my guide in these fateful movements. She helped me to summon enough courage to step into the fire and do the agonizing and creative work of Soul-making.
Embodying our feminine soul is about being creative with how life happens to us and through us. Marion taught me about Soul-making by sharing the words of John Keats- a poet whom she loved. He wrote: “Call the world if you please ‘The vale of Soul-making’. Do you not see how necessary a world of Pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
For so many of us, we have past initiations that we have not fully felt our way through – and we know it. Dear one, it is not too late. Your unconscious, your dreams, and parts of your unmet heart and soul wait for you like precious not-yet-unwrapped packages. Will you go to the door and receive them, one archetypal stage at a time?
If you feel called to make and embrace your feminine soul – I invite you to keep reading and learn more about The Soul-making School — and if you feel aligned, I’d be honored to have you join us starting in March 2026!
Love,
Sil 🌀
💌 “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. The school is a vital anchor in my personal journey.”
— Shawna, student of Soul-making School 2025
Are you yearning for a space to more deeply study and embody the work of Marion Woodman in your life?
Are you longing for safe and soulful sisterhood?
Are you eager to understand and interpret your own dreams better? Are you passionate about myths, fairytales and the magical world of depth and meaning around you (seemingly unseen by some)?
Are you wanting to be held and guided by a wise crone in these years of your life?
Are you craving spiritual and emotional depth and grounding in community so that you can be a better resourced- and more mindful- activist in our chaotic world?
“Soul-making is allowing the eternal essence to enter and experience the outer world through all the orifices of the body … so that the soul grows during its time on Earth. It grows like an embryo in the womb. Soul-making is constantly confronting the paradox that an eternal being is dwelling in a temporal body. That’s why it suffers, and learns by heart.”
— Marion Woodman
Imagine yourself…
gathering live every week or so (from anywhere in the world and in the comfort of your own home) with a soulful sisterhood community committed to learning more about Marion Woodman’s work and lineage.
allowing yourself to be masterfully held by a wise crone and her team of wise women — you feel self-acceptance, self-love, and self-compassion — even for the so-called gnarly parts of you.
connecting with a community of women who, like you, are hungry for depth and have done a lot of inner work, so everyone is a teacher. in sisterhood, you remember more and more in your bones that you’re not alone and that sisterhood can be safe and nourishing.
deepening into your Jungian lineage, working with dreams, a fairytale, and the symbolic world- and identifying archetypal parts of you, and your lived experience, that you couldn’t name before.
and through this deepening… your life shifts around you – from gentle ripples to big waves of change – your calling, your family, your lineage… and starts to feel like the creative process that it is and was meant to be.
having a lived experience of what “the personal as political” means and feeling empowered to live that in our burning times.
feeling a growing confidence in who you are and who your are becoming, and you’re more and more living your own life, and not the one that was projected onto you.
this is the path of the Soul-Making School.
💌 “The school offered me a map to my own inner landscape, a way of understanding myself with depth, compassion, and clarity that I’ve never had before.”
—Fernanda, student of Soul-making School 2025
What’s Included in the School Program:
Core content:
2-4 live calls a month led by Sil & Sandra (Jungian teaching, dreamwork, and guest teachers) — all recordings and notes available within two days after class if you can’t join live
This includes: 13 Jungian teaching calls with Sil going deeply into Marion’s teachings, 9 Dreamwork calls with Sil to teach you how to interpret your own dreams, 3 deep dives into the archetypal world of myth with Sandra exploring the fairytale of The Handless Maiden, and 6 guest teachers bringing their own wisdom to our community
Optional rich community connection in Circle with Jessi
Bonus content:
Alchemy of the Heart— A pre-recorded class with Sil & Sandra on the individuation process
The Soul-making Dreamwork Guides — two in-depth PDFs to take you deeper into home practice of dream interpretation with Sil’s summation of the dreamwork teachings of Marion Woodman and CG Jung
Marion’s Swan Song — private access for School students to the recording of one of Marion’s last talks at Omega Institute
Early access to any new openings in Sil’s and Sandras’s 1:1 practices and in-person retreats
💌 “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 of the Soul-making School 2025
What We Cover Together:
This program is an experience in Feminine weaving and teaching style.
Sil is the lead facilitator on most calls. Assistant teacher and storyteller, Sandra Hilton, will be guiding us through an embodied experience of working with The Handless Maiden- a fairytale of individuation. Movement teacher Rochelle Schieck, will be offering embodiment practices to integrate Marion’s teachings even deeper into your body and life. Several guest teachers join this core team, and together they create a lively, interactive, and intuitive approach to learning — with time for contemplation, embodiment and integration.
Sil and Sandra also teach through working 1:1 with a few women during most sessions as they guide them in processing what is arising for them and the group.
At the core of the curriculum of Soul-making School is what Sil calls “Marion’s Map”: The Feminine Spiral.
The Feminine Spiral
AKA “Marion’s Map”
You might ask, what is “Marion’s Map”?
We are often taught that the feminine cycle is the phases of biological or life phase development that a woman moves through in her lifetime: maiden, mother and crone. While I have deep reverence for those who work consciously with the miracle of the female body (my first line of work was as a gynecological nurse practitioner), my work as an elder- a crone- is inspired by the many years I studied with Marion Woodman. Her work was devoted to the soul: where spirit and matter (the body) meet.
What I call the Feminine Spiral- or “Marion’s Map”- is archetypal psychology’s answer to biology– and marks the inner journey we can consciously go through in our lives. Marion reimagined- through her own process of individuation and those of her clients- the three psychological stages as Conscious Mother (an archetypal dyad that includes relationship with the inner Maiden), Conscious Virgin, and Conscious Crone. Each semester of the school is devoted to one of these three inner, archetypal stages.
So, how is a map also a spiral? CG Jung’s words here might help you understand this paradox: “The spiral in psychology means that when you make a spiral you always come over the same point where you have been before, but never really the same, it is above or below, inside, outside, so it means growth."
Marion called this paradoxical way of growing as the way of the feminine principle. She wrote:
“Linearity does not come naturally to me. It kills my imagination. Nothing happens. No bell rings. No moment of here and now. No moment that says yes. Without these, I am not alive. I prefer the pleasure of the journey through the spiral. Relax. Enjoy the spiral. If you miss something on the first round, don't worry. You might pick it up on the second—or third—or ninth. It doesn't matter. Relax. Timing is everything. If the bell does ring, it will resonate through all the rungs of your spiral. If it doesn't ring, it is the wrong spiral— or the wrong time— or there is no bell.”
💌 “I’ve gained self-acceptance, and a growing inner confidence of who I am becoming. The Soul-making School was above and beyond any expectations I had.”
— Natalie, student of The Soul-making School 2025
Exploring Our Semesters Together:
Spring Semester:
Conscious Mother
Security vs Anxiety
“Feminine consciousness rises out of the mother, and you have to be grounded in that, because without it you’d just be blown away by spirit. Feminine consciousness, as I see it, means going into that grounding and recognizing there who you are as a soul. It has to do with love, with receiving—most of us in this culture are terrified of receiving. It has to do with surrendering to your own destiny, consciously—not just blindly, but recognizing with full consciousness your strengths, your limitations.” — Marion Woodman
Our first semester is devoted to the inner healing work of the Maiden/Mother archetypal dyad and we will be working consciously with this ‘tension of opposites’: Security vs Anxiety.
As spring blooms around us in the waking world of the Northern Hemisphere, perhaps your inner Maiden can come out and play, trusting that she will be mirrored and contained at last- that she will be received- by your inner, positive, Conscious Mother. You will learn to have greater access to what often feels impossible to find: true cherishing and delight in all the perfectly imperfect younger parts of you that long for the security that unconditional love can provide.
We will also focus on the many ways we can ward off the energy and influence of the archetypes of the Negative Mother and Death Mother - both inner and outer- particularly in the ways that these archetypal energies impact our nervous system (anxiety), creative process, how we feel about our body and food, how we experience sisterhood, and how we can or can’t receive love from ourself and others.
Kimberly Ann Johnson, author of Fourth Trimester and Call of the Wild and Bethany Saltman, author of Strange Situation: A Mother’s Journey Into the Science of Attachment will be the guest teachers for this semester. In their presentation together Delight: Cultivating and Embodying Inner Security, Kimberly and Bethany will expertly weave attachment research together with practices for embodying delight.
Summer Semester:
Conscious Virgin
Sovereignty vs Servitude
“Women are, by nature, disposed to relationship and connectedness; yet true relationship cannot be embraced until a woman has a deep sense of her at-one-moment. Without this essential independence from all roles and bonds, she is a potential victim of servitude.” — Marion Woodman
Our second semester is devoted to the inner healing work of the Virgin archetype and we will be working consciously with this ‘tension of opposites’: Sovereignty vs Servitude.
Marion often spoke about how she was at a loss for finding a more beautiful or accurate word than “virgin” to describe this psychological stage. She knew it was a tricky word, but felt its non-sexual definition – virgin like a virgin forest – described the essence of this archetypal stage. The natural balance of a forest in nature – a metaphor of a whole and complete psychological ecosystem full of seeds and possibilities.
The questions the inner Virgin asks from her wild and true instinctual nature are: Who am I? What are my values? What are my needs? Am I true to myself? Do I betray myself? What are my feelings? Am I capable of love? Am I true to my love? We begin to experience sovereignty through the essential work of answering these questions– answers that come by learning how to differentiate the voices of our unconscious.
Kimberly Ann Johnson, author of Fourth Trimester and Call of the Wild and her upcoming book Erotic Seasons, is a guest teacher for this semester. In her presentation on Sovereignty & Soma, she will be guiding us in embodiment practices that will help us to make sovereignty a daily, moving, breathing, lived experience.
Dr. Fanny Brewster, Jungian analyst and author and crone, is our second guest speaker for this semester. She will be presenting on Living Sovereign.
Fall Semester:
Conscious Crone
Love vs Despair
“The crone is the woman who has faced crossroads in her life and has chosen to live with acceptance and love, rather than closing down with resentment. She has expanded into life, losing the ego drive and opening to the full energy of the unconscious. She is a surrendered instrument, living out of her soul. She is an instrument through which the god and goddess energy moves. She comes from love, rather than from ego power.” — Marion Woodman
Our third semester is devoted to the inner healing work of the Crone archetype and we will be working consciously with this ‘tension of opposites’: Love vs Despair.
This final semester brings us into the archetypal energies of the Conscious Crone- finding her in our hearts and also in community. A crone’s age and wisdom of experience gives her the ability to ‘see with her heart’.
Dying Into Life is the subtitle of Marion Woodman’s book Bone, which is the published journal of her harrowing– and ultimately liberating– experience with cancer. She survived cancer, and for her the real liberation was no longer fearing death. Marion described the crone experience like this: “To the Crone, detachment is not indifference. It means she has lived, and suffered, and, having suffered, can draw back and see with her heart.”
The reason why older women have more access to the love and liberation of the Conscious Crone is because they have more years than most to have cycled through conscious initiations. Yet women of all ages have access to archetypal crone energy, where it can be born out of surrendering to the pain of their initiations and into a new reality where they are strong enough to stand to their own creative experience.
Hojin Kimmel, Zen Buddhist teacher and crone, will be our first guest teacher for this semester. During her presentation, she will take us into a contemplative embodied experience of the Royal Ease pose- a pose in which Guanyin, the goddess of mercy and compassion, is often depicted. We can explore an embodied experience of sovereignty and consider a post-colonial exploration of one’s inner royal nature and how from that position we are better able to “hear the cries of the world.”
Dr. Fanny Brewster, a Jungian analyst and crone, will be our second guest speaker for the semester. In her presentation On Love we will gather and talk not only of a Battered Feminine, but also of the wisdom of becoming and being an Elder who is grounded in sovereignty and love. She will guide us in how to meet the inner and outer battering of body and soul with the fierce love of a Crone.
💌 “I am so grateful to have finally found my way to a community of this caliber in my life. I have been searching a long time and it truly felt like home. That home was not without moments of insecurity around whether or not I truly belonged there — but those feelings were always held in tenderness and acceptance, as I witnessed Sil and the teaching team all holding each individual woman in both her self-doubt and her glory every session. Sil teaches by example what it is to teach and lead with the consciousness that I strive to lead with.”
—Ryan, student of the School 2025
Our Program Call Schedule:
We meet On WeDNESDAYS at 1:00pm EST for 90 minutes. OCCasionally we Meet on Fridays for Some Guest speakers
All Classes are REcorded If you Can’t attend Live
Spring Semester:
March 18th Teaching with Sil, Sandra & Rochelle
March 25th Teaching & dreamwork with Sil
April 8th Teaching with Sil
April 15th Delight & Secure Attachment with Guest Speaker Bethany Saltman
April 22nd Fairytale exploration with Sandra
April 29th Teaching & dreamwork with Sil
May 6th Security & Soma with Guest Speaker Kimberly Johnson
May 13th Teaching with Sil
May 20th Teaching & dreamwork with Sil
May 27th Teaching & closure with Sil & Sandra
Summer Semester:
June 17th Teaching with Sil, Sandra & Rochelle
June 24th Teaching & dreamwork with Sil
July 8th Fairytale exploration with Sandra
July 15th Sovereignty & Soma with Guest Speaker Kimberly Johnson
July 22nd Teaching with Sil & Hojin
July 29th Dancing in the Flames & The Creative Process with Guest Speaker Adam Reid
August 7th (Friday) On Sovereignty with Guest Speaker Dr. Fanny Brewster
August 19th Teaching & dreamwork Sil
September 9th Teaching & closure with Sil & Sandra
Fall Semester:
September 23rd Teaching with Sil, Sandra & Rochelle
September 30th Teaching & dreamwork with Sil
October 7th Fairytale exploration with Sandra
October 21st Embodying Royal Ease & Compassion with Guest Speaker Hojin Kimmel
October 28th Teaching & dreamwork with Sil
November 11th Teaching with Sil
November 20th (Friday) On Love with Guest Speaker Dr. Fanny Brewster
December 2nd Teaching & dreamwork with Sil
December 16th Teaching & closure with Sil, Sandra, Hojin & Rochelle
“Since she [The Crone] has not been present in the culture, she has not been readily accessible to the conscious awareness of modern women. Without her, even the dynamic symbols of Virgin and Mother are distorted. The Crone in a woman is that part of her psyche that is not identified with any relationship nor confined by any bond. She infuses an intrinsic sense of self-worth, of autonomy, into the role of virgin and mother, and gives the woman strength to stand to her own creative experience.”
— Marion Woodman
Wondering how to know if this program is the right fit for you?
I trust you to explore and land in your own knowing — and, reading this below may be helpful.
This program is likely for you if you resonate with some or all of these:
the idea that within each teaching session Sil weaves in a reminder that the personal is political, inspired by CG Jung’s words that: "The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others"
you’re drawn to Jungian psychology and have heard about the teachings and lineage of Jungian scholar Marion Woodman, and you may have read one of her books (and you also may have had a hard time understanding it!) listened to her audios, or watched her documentary, and want to dive deep!
you’re excited to access an online program from the comfort of your home and have the capacity to drop into deep presence while on calls (without significant distractions)
the themes of the archetypal psychology, alchemy, personal myth, conscious initiation and individuation… land for you on a body and/or soul level — and this journey feels deeply personal and needed
you’re nourished by the idea of being held by a wise crone and her team
you’re excited to show up to each session ready to learn!!
being in community with other soul seekers in this lineage sounds like heaven
you’re able to make the program investment at this time
This program is likely NOT for you if you resonate with some or all of these:
you’re not really sure who Marion Woodman and what Jungian psychology is about, and/or you haven’t explored her work/Jungian work before
you’re feeling in a state of personal emergency/crisis/rawness at this time and you’d be better fit for 1:1 support or some immediate care to help you center or heal (being in a shared group space might not be the best fit!)
you only like in-person programs and don’t like online spaces
you’ve never really been in shared group experience before or don’t feel confident this dynamic would be supportive for you
the program investment is not financially doable for you at this time
💌 “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 of the Soul-making School 2025
Meet Our School Team
(In order of appearance):
Sil Read
(she/her)
Lead Teacher & Dreamwork
Sil is a mother, grandmother, crone, co-author of Mothering & Daughtering, a teacher, a facilitator for retreats, and a Jungian coach for women. She has been a women’s health nurse practitioner and psychotherapist. Sil had the incredible good-fortune of learning from the master teacher, and elder, Jungian author and analyst Marion Woodman. She completed Woodman’s BodySoulRhythms certification program (co-taught with Mary Hamilton and Ann Skinner) in 2008. In this program she was trained in dreamwork, archetypal psychology, and the art and science of listening to the wisdom of the body.
Marion Woodman’s unique Jungian lineage focuses on bringing the archetypal Divine Feminine into our embodied, earthly lives. Sil considers Marion’s lineage her lineage - her spiritual motherline - and it has been her lifeline and alchemical container during difficult times. Woodman helped her to find infinitely resilient places in herself and to cultivate inner capacity for patience, courage and compassion.
As the lead teacher in the School, Sil leads almost every call and guides the teaching team and community throughout the year.
Sandra Hilton (she/her)
Assistant Teacher & Story Teller
Sandra is a mother, integrative therapist, Jungian coach, and witness to those on the inner journey. She has studied with Sil for several years in the lineage of Marion Woodman.
In midlife, Sandra answered the call to become a therapist and left her work as a lawyer. She also trained as a modern Medicine Woman with shaman Christa MacKinnon.
Discovering Marion's work has helped Sandra to deepen her practice of embodying the conscious feminine through dreams, archetypes, and the symbolic world- particularly in the realm of fairytales and myths. She is passionate about helping women discover and decipher these archetypal stories in order to uncover- and more consciously live- their own personal myth.
Sandra will be weaving the fairytale The Handless Maiden into our journey of individuation in The Soul-making School.
Rochelle Schieck (she/her)
Embodiment Teacher
Rochelle Schieck is a mother, artist, embodiment guide, and author devoted to offering invitations to cultivate embodied presence, nourish our nervous systems, deepen our personal relationship with nature, and practice relational skill-building. Founder of Qoya Inspired Movement and author of Qoya: A Compass for Navigating an Embodied Life that is Wise, Wild and Free, she has guided over 6,000 movement classes, trained hundreds of teachers and led 120+ retreats over the last 17 years.
Inspired by Marion Woodman's teachings through Sil, and her time as a student in Soul-making School, Rochelle is honored to be part of this offering. She will be guiding movement sessions and inviting us to engage with our own body as the portal through which the soul speaks and transformation unfolds.
Hojin Kimmel (she/her)
Assistant Teacher & Semester Three Guest Teacher on Compassion
Jody Hojin Kimmel is a Zen Buddhist monastic and teacher in the Mountains and Rivers Order, and the Abbot of the Zen Center of NYC-Fire Lotus Temple in Brooklyn. She is devoted to the path of easing stress and suffering, freeing the body-heart-mind, and rediscovering our natural state through the practices of meditation, compassionate inquiry, and creative processes.
Hojin is a rare example of a contemporary Zen teacher who uses artistic practices as her primary means of teaching. And through years of study and collaborative teaching with her co-crone Sil, Hojin feels a deep affinity with the work of Marion Woodman in her use of intimate language — metaphor, arts, myth, humor, and dreamwork (to name a few) to explore our being human.
Throughout 2026, Hojin will be teaching an online Ango Art Practice which is a wonderful complement to our work with dreams and archetypal imagery, on some Fridays from 10:30-12:00 EST. We will share the dates and details of her offerings in our community Circle.
Hojin will be a guest speaker for the Conscious Crone semester. During her presentation, she will take us into a contemplative embodied experience of the Royal Ease pose- a pose in which Guanyin, the goddess of mercy and compassion, is often depicted. We will explore an embodied experience of sovereignty and consider a post-colonial exploration of one’s inner royal nature and how, from that position, we are better able to “hear the cries of the world” and respond with compassion.
Jessi Larssen (she/her)
Community Support
Jessi is an entrepreneur and creative spirit who loves bringing ideas to life. A lover of all animals—especially dogs—she has been guided to a deep desire to work with our natural instincts and energy bodies. Owning her own business for the past 14 years has been an education in learning to wear many hats.
While holding big questions and facing a crossroads, Jessi discovered Sil’s work and the lineage of Marion Woodman. Her desire to bring her creativity and skills to this work led to her role in community support and retreat events production.
Jessi lovingly designed and oversees an exquisitely beautiful and organized hub on the Circle platform, where students can access all school materials, and connect with each other from across the world.
Bethany Saltman (she/her)
First Semester Guest Teacher on Mutual Delight & Secure Attachment
Bethany Saltman can’t believe she gets to work with people on their books every day. Her critically acclaimed first book, Strange Situation: A Mother’s Journey Into the Science of Attachment (2020, Random House) was named one of the Top Science Books of 2020 by New Scientist, has been published in six countries, and is included in psychology syllabi around the world. As a literary agent and co-host of the BOOKBOUND podcast, Bethany is obsessed with the art of the nonfiction book proposal and with helping women claim their author-ity. She is also a Brown-University certified leadership coach, and lives in the Catskills of New York and in Manhattan with her husband, college-aged daughter (when she visits), and their two standard poodles.
In her presentation Mutual Delight & Secure Attachment she will expertly weave attachment science with cultivating an inner experience of delight.
Kimberly Ann Johnson (she/her)
First Semester Guest Teacher on Security & Soma and Second Semester Guest Teacher on Sovereignty & Soma
KIMBERLY ANN JOHNSON is a sexological bodyworker, Somatic Experiencing practitioner, postpartum advocate and culture worker. She works at the intersection of birth, sex and trauma helping women heal from birth injuries, gynecological surgeries, and sexual boundary violations. She is the author of Call of the Wild, the early mothering classic The Fourth Trimester, Reckoning co-authored with Stephen Jenkinson, and the upcoming Erotic Seasons: Tuning into the Rhythms of Women's Spirituality and Sexuality (St. Martin's, 2026). She is the creator of MotherCircle, the steward of Mothering the Bones, and leader of Activate Your Inner Jaguar. She is the host of the Sex Birth Trauma podcast with over 1.7 million unique downloads over the past 9 years.
Inspired by Marion Woodman's teachings through Sil, Kimberly is delighted to be bringing embodiment practices into the Soul-making School curriculum.
Adam Reid (he/him)
Second Semester Guest Teacher: Dancing in the Flames & The Creative Process with Marion & Ross Woodman & Andrew Harvey
Adam Greydon Reid is an actor, director and filmmaker. He made the documentary film Dancing in the Flames about Marion Woodman: "a film about the greatest mystery of life and the woman who understands it like no other". It was hailed by Vagina Monologues creator Eve Ensler as a “wise and uplifting work of art.” Adam is a comedic storyteller at heart, who, no matter what the genre, crafts stories with truth and authenticity. He was recently certified as a narrative therapist by the London School of Narrative Therapy.
Fanny Brewster she/her
Second Semester Guest Teacher on Crone Insights and Inspiration on Experiencing Sovereignty & Third Semester Guest Teacher on Love
Dr. Fanny Brewster is a Jungian analyst and a Professor at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her many groundbreaking books, including Racial Complex: A Jungian Perspective on Race and Culture, African Americans and Jungian Psychology and, Archetypal Grief: Slavery’s Legacy of Intergenerational Child Loss, have helped readers to come to terms with Jung’s ongoing struggle to explain the cultural complex hobbled by his own biases. Dr. Brewster has undertaken the work of renewing and widening Jungian thought to include Africanist perspectives. She addresses the importance of elders as we go about the necessary work of evolving consciousness.
Dr. Brewster will bring her wise crone perspective to bear in her two presentations: In Conscious Virgin semester she will present On Sovereignty and in Conscious Crone semester she will present On Love.
Dr. Brewster speaks about how women are often said to be the wise keepers of the Circle. If so, what might this look like as we age? What myths of the Feminine, can guide us today as we witness the oftentimes battering of the Feminine through societal laws and centuries-long oppression of one kind or another? We will gather and talk not only of a Battered Feminine, but also the wisdom of becoming and being an Elder who is grounded in sovereignty and love, and how conscious eldership may be the medicine for our times.
💌 “The work gave me a key—especially through DreamWork—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 of Soul-making School 2025
“There is no sense talking about ‘being true to yourself’ until you are sure what voice you are being true to. It takes hard work to differentiate the voices of the unconscious.”
— Marion Woodman
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Program Investment:
Monthly: $97 x 9 months
Pay in full: $873
Frequently Asked Program Questions:
When are the calls? Will there be recordings?
Most calls are on Wednesdays at 1:00 pm EST. Occasionally we meet on Fridays.
First semester: March 18th & 25th, April 8th & 22nd & 29th, May 6th & 13th & 20th & 27th
Second semester: June 17th & 24th, July 8th & 15th & 22nd & 29th, August 7th & 19th, Sept 9th.
Third semester: September 23rd & 30th, October 7th & 21st & 28th November 11th & 20th,
December 2nd & 16th.
The calls are 90 minutes and will be recorded and available within a couple of days.
Can I register for one or two semesters and not all three?
No. The school is a nine-month commitment where each semester builds on the previous one.
Will there be homework?
We will include notes from the session with the recording of the class, and they often include questions and prompts that you may want to work with. Circle- our community hub- is also a place to take the work deeper. Bottom line: there are no school ‘requirements’ except for the pre-work (Alchemy of the Heart recording), and attending class live or watching the recording at your own pace. If you want to go deeper, there will always be opportunities.
Is this a professional training? Am I certified in working with Marion’s lineage after this?
This is a personal experience for those wishing to deeply incorporate Marion’s map and lineage into their lives. You may also be a professional who feels inspired by what you have learned here and takes it deeper into your work life. This is not a certification. A certification program is in the works and will emerge in the years to come. The Soul-making School will always be the first step of any professional training that Sil leads: we do the personal first.
How large is the group?
Our best estimate for the size of the group is: 100-150 women
Is there a community connection part of this program? How do I stay connected?
Yes, we will have an online forum for everyone to stay in touch throughout the program. Jessi will be overseeing the forum and can help you to navigate Circle. Sil and Sandra will come in as they are able!
More Words from Past School Students:
💌 “Sil holding the archetypal map of the psyche as architecture, the container, the bones if you will, and Sandra holding the liminal, myth-poetic element, the content that arises inside the container worked beautifully. I was a bit skeptical about the myth in the beginning, but I have experienced how powerfully connecting with it has been. Feeling into the archetypal figures in the myth has helped me connect with those energies and experiences in my own life, and has created a sense of meaning and also timelessness--like these are those life tasks that everyone on the journey must complete in her own way.” — Sophia
💌 The school has 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
💌 “The community has been transformative. Being in relationship with women who are committed to their own inner work has allowed me to see myself mirrored in ways that are honest, illuminating, and deeply moving. The work itself has changed me, but the presence of this community has been equally life-altering.” – Fernanda
💌 “I remember entering the Soul-making School on the first day. I could feel the powerful presence of the group through the screen, and I had this feeling of "I have arrived. I would recommend it to anyone looking for embodied crone mentorship, empowered sisterhood, and meaning-making in a world that wants us to look away from the truth, that feminine consciousness will save us.” — Ryan
💌 “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 Soul-making School, I learned to relate to them differently — as expressions of my psyche and as something I can actively work with.” — Shawna
💌 “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
💌 “Being part of Soul-making School has been life-changing for me. 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
💌 “The impact of Soul-making School 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
💌 “It’s powerful to be part of a community of women with such a shared orientation toward soul, psyche, and embodiment in these times. Hearing the depth of other women’s experiences —and the ways the material was landing in their lives — brought a richness and resonance that extraordinarily deepened my own learning.” — Emer
💌 “My experience was a subconscious sanctuary made perfectly relevant to my lived experience as a mature and dreaming woman seeking my wholeness. Soul-making School is so appropriately named as I have gathered parts from everyplace ever inside and around. 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
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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/