Myth Lit Webinar
🗓️ March 8, 2025
đź•™ 10:00 am Pacific Time
đź“™ The book: Mythmaking: Self-Discovery and the Timeless Art of Memoir by Maureen Murdock
Mythmaking: Self-Discovery and the Timeless Art of Memoir 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!
Myth Lit webinars create space for the myth community to read together, write together, and celebrate today’s mythological literature.
“We all need to tell our story and to understand our story. We all need to understand our passage from birth to life and then to death. We need for our life to signify, to touch the eternal, to understand the mysterious, to find out who we are.”
– Maureen Murdock, Mythmaking: Self-Discovery and the Timeless Art of Memoir
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About MAUREEN
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.
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.