It was woven long ago in threads
Woven: Telling the Heroine's Journey
…Of tales told in the dim reaches of time of the feminine heroic, a tapestry of beauty, valor, and power. Spinning the ancient stories of the heroine’s quest, weaving them in our time, we tell their wisdom in our own words.
INVIGORATE YOUR WORK & SOUL IN 2025
Heroine's Journey for Writers and Creatives
January 25, February 1 and 8
Saturdays, 9 – 11 AM PST
Three 2-hour Sessions
Want to know how to create a heroine’s journey story with the underlying magnetism of its age-old archetypal patterns?
Gather ‘round the hearth fire circle! Listen to tales of the heroine’s journey told in the style of the oral tradition. Respond in your written voice to create new settings, characters, and plots with surprising depth and appeal.
In this exciting, interactive, three-session workshop with Woven founder Kate Farrell we will:
- Explore the unique challenges of the heroine’s journey found in ancient, feminine fairy tales.
- Learn how to use elements of the feminine quest in your creative writing for any genre—fiction, nonfiction, memoir, and more!
- Compare the hero’s and heroine’s journey and discuss three basic benchmarks of the feminine quest in tales that date back millennia to matriarchal cultures:
– Treachery: Entanglements and Jealousies
– Into the Wilderness: Escape and Initiation
– Return: Recognition and Self-Attainment - Tap into the primal Slavic tale, “Baba Yaga & Vasilissa the Brave,” a foundational story. We’ll translate its archaic challenges with prompts and writing exercises. We’ll use the narrative arc of the heroine’s journey, its basic motifs, key characters, and tropes to create a new script.
Registration is limited so sign up soon!