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Live appearances & teaching programs
Below, you’ll find information on any current live events, as well as online lectures and teaching programs.
Please visit the self-study page for on-demand courses and workshop recordings.
LIVE ONLINE PROGRAM AT THE KOSMOS INSTITUTE
THE SOUL’S CODE: CALLING AND ITS NECESSARY ANGELS
October 9 – 30, 2025
In his bestselling book The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling, archetypal psychologist James Hillman declared: ‘Each person enters the world called.’ Each of us, in other words, has a ‘calling’: we came into the world – to this particular place, at this particular time – for a reason.
In this four-week program, we’ll delve deeply into the concept of calling, and work with ways of revealing and remembering what it is that we’re here for. To express our calling is to allow ourselves to uniquely express one mode of being, one unique way of embodying what it is to be human, one facet of the creative life force of the universe. How might we uncover the unique gift that we each bring to the world at this time?
RESIDENTIAL WOMEN’S RETREAT AT BROUGHTON SANCTUARY, YORKSHIRE
A PSYCHE THE SIZE OF EARTH
23 – 28 February, 2026
During this retreat, we’ll learn how to fully participate in what psychologist James Hillman called ‘a psyche the size of Earth’. We’ll go out and listen to the land’s dreaming, and in the process, we’ll find ourselves getting dreamt. Through story, journeying, writing, map-making and land-based practices, we’ll explore the imaginal in the land, questing for the richly mythic and archetypal Otherworld of native British and Irish traditions. The work we’ll do is rooted in mythology and archetypal psychology – but above all, it’s rooted in a deeply grounded participation in the land where our feet are planted. We’ll learn to re-enchant ourselves, to restore the more-than-human element in our sense of self, and to weave ourselves more deeply into the living stories of our places.
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Forthcoming appearances and lectures
October 10, 18.30. ‘An evening with Sharon Blackie’, live at Westwood Books, Sedbergh. Tickets here.
November 15, 10.00 – 12.00 CT. ‘Hags and Wise Women: Older Women in European Myth and Fairy Tales’ (Hybrid event). Jung Center of Houston. Information and tickets here.
November 22, 14.00 – 16.00. Online lecture: The Guild of Pastoral Psychology. ‘Older Women in European Myth and Fairy Tale: An Archetypal Analysis.’ Information here.
December 6, 10.00 – 16.00. Live daylong workshop, ‘Calling and the post-Heroic Journey’ via Alternatives London. Info and tickets here.
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