The Soul-making School
A Jungian Map for Embodying the Feminine Soul
“The feminine soul is what grounds us; it loves and accepts us in our totality.
Our challenge is to embody this.”
— Marion Woodman
An Immersive 9-Month Program in the Lineage of Marion Woodman
Spring Equinox (March 18th) to Winter Equinox (December 16th) 2026
🌀 next enrollment open ON February 25th, 2026 🌀
Hi, I’m Sil.
I’m a mother, a grandmother, a crone, a best-selling author, a teacher, 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 this level of holding, mirroring and containment. I am eternally grateful to myself for trusting my intuition and leaping into this sacred lineage with Sil.”
— Shela, student of 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 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?
Sandra Hilton- storyteller extraordinaire- will be assisting me in teaching you about these archetypal stages this school year through the fairytale Vasalisa the Wise. She has assisted me at The Soul-making School, and my in-person Exquisite Tenderness retreats, and I can’t wait for you to experience her wisdom and magic.
If you feel called to make and embrace your feminine soul – by learning how to meet the inevitable initiations that come your way – I invite you to keep reading and learn more about The Soul-making School here on this page. If you feel an aligned fit, I’d be honored to have you in class starting in March!
Love,
Sil 🌀
“I would tell a woman considering the School that if she is looking for a safe, nurturing space to heal, evolve, and deepen her relationship with her inner life, she will be held with great care here. If she is willing to offer her time, attention, and openness to the process, I believe she will be deeply moved. The gifts of this School unfold gently and often unexpectedly — but in ways that feel deeply needed.”
—Shawna, student of Soul-making School
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 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.”
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.
in sisterhood, you remember more and more in your bones that you’re not alone and that sisterhood can be safe and nourishing.
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.
Imagine yourself…
finding a community of women who, like you, are hungry for depth and have done a lot of inner work, so everyone is a teacher.
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.
Imagine yourself…
feeling grounded in your own embodied nature with an archetypal map of your inner landscape and you have practices that support your ongoing exploration.
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.
finally feeling like you have the tools to walk kindly and consciously through the fire that the individuation process brings… and more deeply embody your feminine soul.
Imagine yourself…
coming to know the map is not the territory, and have practices and company to be able to feel into your own personal territory and truly know it deeply and lovingly.
having a lived experience of what “the personal as political” means and feeling empowered to live that in our burning times.
“The school exceeded anything I could have imagined for myself when I first joined. It didn’t just meet my goals and desires—it expanded them. It offered me a map to my own inner landscape, a way of understanding myself with depth, compassion, and clarity that I hadn’t had before. Just as importantly, 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, student of Soul-making School
What’s Included in the School Program:
Alchemy of the Heart: What is Soul-making? A pre-recorded class with Sil & Sandra on the individuation process
What Sil calls “Marion’s Swan Song"- a recording of one of Marion’s last public talks which The Omega Institute has given students of Soul-making School access to
13 Live Jungian Teaching Calls on the archetypes and tools in ‘Marion’s Map’ with Sil and embodiment practices and small breakout groups to integrate the teachings
Sandra’s fairytale exploration of Vasalisa the Wise, with a guided journey each semester
9 Live Dreamwork Calls with Sil to bring you deeper into your own dream practice
6 Guest Teachers- Hojin Kimmel, Bethany Saltman, Kimberly Ann Johnson, Dr. Fanny Brewster, Rochelle Schieck & Adam Reid
Community connection hosted on Circle with Jessi
Recordings of all classes if you can’t attend live and lifetime access to recordings
Notes from Jungian Teaching & Dreamwork classes
Two Dreamwork Guides that Sil has compiled from Marion Woodman and CG Jung’s teachings
Early access to any new openings in Sil’s and Sandras’s 1:1 practices and in-person retreats
“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, student of Soul-making School
What We Cover Together:
This program is an experience in Feminine weaving and teaching style.
Sil works with dreams and Sandra with the fairytale Vasalisa the Wise. Their style of teaching together is lively, interactive, and intuitive- with time for contemplation, ebodiment and integration.
Sil also teaches through working 1:1 with a few women during most sessions as she guides 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
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 feminine way (whatever your gender is). 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 found it really powerful to be part of a community of women with such a shared orientation toward soul, psyche, and embodiment. Hearing the depth of other women’s experiences —and the ways the material was landing in their lives — brought a richness and resonance that deepened my own learning. Looking back to when I first joined, I notice that 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
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 work of the Maiden/Mother archetypal dyad and we are 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 delight in- and cherishing in- all the perfectly imperfect younger parts of you that long for the security that unconditional love can provide.
We will also focus on many ways we can ward off the energy and influence of the archetypes 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 bodies 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 our guest teachers for the semester. In their presentation together Delight: Cultivating and Embodying Inner Security, Kimberly and Bethany will expertly weave attachment research together with the work of embodying the feminine soul.
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 work of the Virgin archetype and we are 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? She experiences sovereignty through the hard work of answering these questions– answers that come by differentiating the voices of her unconscious.
There is also a kind of magic that comes with this hard work which Marion expresses so beautifully here: “Once the question is in consciousness, the answer is constellated in the unconscious… The answer often lies in the unconscious waiting for the question to be consciously asked.”
Hojin Kimmel, Zen Buddhist teacher and Abbot of the Fire Lotus Zen Temple of NYC -and also a co-teacher at Sil’s in-person retreats- will be our special guest teacher for the semester. During her presentation, she will take us into a contemplative embodied experience of the Royal Ease pose- the pose that Quan Yin, 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.
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 final semester brings us into the archetypal energies of the Conscious Crone: one who Marion said can be “crowned” for her age and wisdom of experience and her 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. Women of all ages have access to archetypal crone energy though, 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.
Dr. Fanny Brewster, a Jungian analyst, will be our special guest speaker for the semester. In her presentation on Aging With Wisdom: Conscious Crone as Keeper of the Circle, she will help us to explore how best to age and grow in wisdom. Women are often said to be the Keepers of being wise and 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 society 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.
“I am so grateful to have finally found my way to a group 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 you all holding each individual woman in both her self-doubt and her glory every session. You taught by example what it is to teach and lead with the counsiousness that I strive to lead with. I am eternally grateful for this map and am taking it with me, though the markings are not quite yet etched in stone.”
—Ryan, student of the School
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 & Rochelle
March 25th Teaching & dreamwork with Sil
April 8th Teaching with Sil, April 22nd Fairytale exploration with Sandra
April 29th Teaching & dreamwork with Sil
May 6th Guest Speakers Bethany Saltman & Kimberly Johnson Security & Soma
May 13th Teaching with Sil
May 20th Teaching & dreamwork with Sil
May 27th Teaching & closure with Sil, Sandra & Hojin
Summer Semester:
June 17th Teaching with Sil & Rochelle
June 24th Teaching & dreamwork with Sil
July 8th Fairytale exploration with Sandra
July 15th Kimberly Johnson Sovereignty & Soma
July 22nd Teaching with Sil & Hojin
July 29th Dancing in the Flames & The Creative Process with Adam Reid
August 7th (Wednesday) Fanny Brewster on Sovereignty teaching
August 19th Teaching & dreamwork Sil
September 9th Teaching & closure with Sil, Sandra & Hojin
Fall Semester:
September 23rd Teaching with Sil & Rochelle
September 30th Teaching & dreamwork with Sil
October 7th Fairytale exploration with Sandra
October 21st Hojin on Compassion,
October 28th Teaching & dreamwork with Sil
November 11th Teaching with Sil
November 20th (Wednesday) Teaching with Fanny
December 2nd Teaching & dreamwork with Sil
December 16th Teaching with Sil & 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, 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 School
Meet Our School Team:
Sil Read
(she/her)
Teacher & Dreamwork
Sil is a mother, grandmother, crone, co-author of Mothering & Daughtering, a teacher and a coach for women. She has been a gynecological 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. The genius of Woodman’s scholarship and her personal loving containment were crucial for Sil’s developing a capacity to meet difficulties with patience, courage, and compassion. By showing Sil how to honor her difficult passages as deeply meaningful and universal- essentially rites of passages- Woodman helped her to find infinitely resilient places in herself and to create her own alchemical container.
Sandra Hilton (she/her)
Assistant Teacher & Story Teller
Sandra is a mother, integrative therapist, coach, and witness to those on the inner journey. She has studied with Sil for several years in the lineage of Marion Woodman and brings a Jungian and relational approach to her practice.
Sandra’s professional journey began in the corporate world with almost 25 years of experience as a lawyer and business leader. She answered the inner call to retrain as a therapist over a decade ago and is also trained as a modern Medicine Woman with shaman Christa MacKinnon. She now combines the groundedness of the therapeutic, the worldliness of coaching and the magic of the shamanic.
Discovering Marion's work and then being able to work closely with Sil to deepen her practice and embodiment of the conscious feminine through dreams, symbols and archetypes, has transformed Sandra's life and work. She continues to be on her own journey to wholeness, as she supports others in theirs. She is devoted to learning to trust and honour the feminine and loves holding space with and for other women who are curious and hungry and longing to come home to what Marion Woodman called the "throne of our own heart".
Hojin Kimmel (she/her)
Second Semester Special Guest Speaker will be presenting on Sovereignty: Embodying the Royal Ease Pose
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.
Hojin will be teaching an online Ango Art Practice: Encountering Everywhere which is a wonderful complement to our work with dreams and archetypal imagery, on some Fridays from 10:30-12:00 EST this spring and summer. We will share the dates and details in our community Circle.
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. It was everything she had been searching for after exploring various modalities and healing systems. Viewing both our inner and outer lives through the lens of Marion’s work—using a Jungian approach, dreams, metaphors, and myths—felt like a homecoming and a profound remembering for her.
Kimberly Ann Johnson (she/her)
First Semester Special Guest Teacher: Security & Soma and Second Semester Special Guest Teacher: 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.
Bethany Saltman (she/her)
First Semester Special Guest Speaker presenting on Delight: Cultivating Inner Secure Attachment
Bethany Saltman can’t believe she gets to work with women 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 five countries, and is included in psychology syllabi around the world. As a bestselling book coach 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 with her husband, teenage daughter, and their two standard poodles.
Fanny Brewster she/her
Second Semester Guest Speaker: Crone Inspiration on Sovereignty and Third Semester Special Guest Speaker on Love & Compassion with Hojin Kimmel
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.
In her presentation, Dr. Brewster will help us to explore how best to age and grow in wisdom. Women are often said to be the Keepers of being wise and 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 society 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.
Rochelle Schieck (she/her)
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 Read and the Soul Making School, Rochelle is honored to be part of this offering, guiding movement sessions and inviting each person to engage with their own body as the portal through which the soul speaks and transformation unfolds. You can learn more about her work, retreats and trainings at www.qoyainspiredmovement.com.
“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
“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 here among all of us holding the tension and making the unseen, seen. I'm in love. Literally!”
—Bianca, student of Soul-making School
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, May 6th & 13th & 20th & 27th
Second semester: June 17th & 24th, July 8th & 15th & 22nd & 29th, August 5th & 19th, Sept 9th.
Third semester: September 23rd & 30th, October 7th & 21st & 28th November 11th & 18th,
December 2nd & 16th.
The calls are 90 minutes and will be recorded and available on the Friday after the session.
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: 150-250 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!
Ready to join us?