Myth Lit Webinar with Maureen Murdock, PhD

by Maureen Murdock grounds the practicalities of writing memoir in the supporting structures of myth. You’ll find craft guides and writing prompts organized around life’s important questions and themes to guide you on the mythic journey of writing your own story.

Join us on March 8 to discuss Mythmaking!

Maureen Murdock, PhD, is a family therapist and the author of the best-selling book, The Heroine’s Journey, which explores the rich territory of the feminine psyche. This groundbreaking book, her response to Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces, has been translated into twenty-three languages, including Farsi. She created a photo essay called “Changing Woman: Contemporary Faces of the Goddess” to highlight the various ways women honored the goddess in their work and lives in the 1980s.

Murdock was Chair and Core Faculty of the MA Counseling Psychology Program at Pacifica Graduate Institute and teaches memoir with Jennifer Selig in Pacifica’s program “Writing Down the Soul.” She is the author of Unreliable Truth: On Memoir and Memory; Fathers’ Daughters: Breaking the Ties that Bind; Spinning Inward: Using Guided Imagery with Children; and The Heroine’s Journey Workbook. She started teaching memoir writing in the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program in 1990 and edited an anthology by her students entitled Monday Morning Memoirs: Women in the Second Half of Life. Her new book, Mythmaking: Self-Discovery and the Timeless Art of Memoir was published by Shambhala in 2024. For more about Maureen’s work, visit her website at maureenmurdock.com.

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