Global Matriarchs Gathering 2025

This year we will become conscious co-creators of our future.

We will joined by some amazing storytellers and teachers, including the incomparable Sharon Blackie, author of If Women Rose Rooted and Hagitude.

We will begin this co-creative process by writing new narratives that define the future that we most want to inhabit. Then, we will add ourselves to those stories so that we can visualize who we need to become to be capable of living in this new world.

As always, we will be holding our time together in a sacred manner embracing our intuition and allowing heart-based knowing and ancestral wisdom to guide us. We are looking forward to gathering close and holding one another as we collectively birth a new vision for our shared future.

Dr. Sharon Blackie is an award-winning and internationally bestselling author, and a psychologist with a background in mythology and folklore. Her highly acclaimed books, lectures and teaching programs are focused on reimagining women’s stories, and on the relevance of myth and fairy tales to the personal, cultural and environmental issues we face today.

As well as writing six books of fiction and nonfiction, including the bestselling If Women Rose Rooted, her writing has appeared in anthologies, collections and in several international media outlets – among them the Guardian, the Irish Times, the i and the Scotsman. Her books have been translated into several languages, and she has featured in programs by the BBC, US public radio and independent filmmakers. Her awards include the Society of Authors’ Roger Deakin Award, and a Creative Scotland Writer’s Award. Her most recent book, Wise Women: Myths and Stories for Midlife and Beyond was published by Virago in October 2024.

Sharon is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and an Honorary Member of the UK Association of Jungian Analysts, awarded ‘in recognition of the importance of lifetime achievement and contribution to Jungian ideas in the world’. She has taught and lectured at several academic institutions, Jungian organisations, retreat centres and cultural festivals around the world. She is online faculty for Pacifica Graduate Institute, California, where she teaches a Graduate Certificate Course on ‘Narrative Psychological Approaches to Finding Ourselves in Fairy Tales’ and other programs.

Sharon’s TEDx talk on the mythic imagination can be viewed here. Her much-loved publication ‘The Art of Enchantment’ is a Global Top Ten Literature Substack.

Sharon lives in Cumbria, in the far north of England, with her husband, dogs, hens and sheep. She is represented by Jane Graham Maw, at Graham Maw Christie Agency.

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