Four Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom

Mondays December 16, 2024 - January 6, 2025
8:00 - 9:30 PM ET (NYC Time)
$95 Paid Patreon Members / $115 General Admission

PLEASE NOTE: All classes will also be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time

Do you enjoy the holiday season, but wish there were a different way to honor it?  Are you interested in a deeper approach to the concept of the “New Year's resolution”?  

Have you tried to make New Year’s Resolutions and they don’t stick? Frustrated by having the best of intentions but no clear way to follow through? This course will help support your mid-winter resolution-building by exploring the science behind how and why our goals do or do not work, and suggest techniques and embodied practices for bringing your goals to fruition.

Using the mythopoetic lens of the seasons and the new year, this course will marry the elements of midwinter mythology into a new kind of personal celebration of the season focusing on personal rituals, meditation, and goal-setting exercises.

Through this course, we will explore the time of mid-winter as one of hibernation; important for dreaming, for reflection, and for intention setting.  Like bears hibernating to preserve their energy, mid winter’s early nightfall give us time to focus inward on the light in our hearts and lives.

Each class will include illustrated lectures, group rituals, meditations, and practical exercises for goal-setting for the next year that build from one session to the next. There will also be optional homework assignments designed to facilitate goal-setting exercises. As the end of the class, students will leave with a detailed 90-day plan and goals for the next three months, an accountability plan, and clearly articulated “north stars” to help guide next steps.

Alicia King Anderson has a Ph.D. in Mythological Studies and Depth Psychology. Her dissertation on The Storyteller Archetype explores the responsibilities of storytellers. She is a mythologist and instructor based in the Land of Enchantment. Alicia’s fictional works and fairy tale retellings have been published in seven anthologies. 

Images: 1) Saturn holding an Infant and a Scythe, from The Seven Planets, Heinrich Aldegrever, 1533; 2) The New Year 1896, José Guadalupe Posada Mexican, 1896