Residential M.A. in Women's Spirituality Events
Here are just a few of the courses offered within the program. For a full list, please read the full curriculum.
Creative Writing Workshop I
Students bring their own creative writing work to the group to be read and discussed by the cohort and the instructor. Students develop performance skills, self confidence and the skill of critiquing by workshopping each other's writing and presentation.
Creative Writing Workshop II
Students bring their own creative writing work to the group to be read and discussed by the cohort and the instructor. Students develop performance skills, self-confidence and the skill of critiquing by workshopping each other's writing and presentation. Students have the freedom to delve into any subject, and any style.
Art as a Sacred Practice I
This class is a visionary painting workshop that teaches students how to access their internal imagery and articulate it in the form of narrative painting. Using the medium of acrylic paint, visioning and active imagination, and personal storytelling, students explore their own image/interpretation of their personal medicine woman, or healer
Visioning Your Life's Work
The purpose of this class is to empower students to choose, activate, and take action on their Life Work and teach them how to help others create a vision plan. Students will design a visionary Life/Business Plan, create a Foundation for their work, and set goals and timelines.
Art as a Sacred Practice II
Students deepen their practice by designing a personal spiritual discipline through writing and then creating the image that represents their visionary selves. Students develop a personal legend and explore the ways they see themselves manifested in art and story informs their decision making and can shift their perceptions. Course work
Spiritual Autobiography
Spiritual Autobiography focuses on the role of story-as inspiration and as a component of feminist research. Each student traces her spiritual lineage, awakening within herself a sense of perspective, personal integrity and a ground of being. This course explores psychological and spiritual development themes in women's lives including
Uncommon Kinship
Uncommon Kinship class teaches students methods to transform cultural differences into common practices that cultivate kinship. The class is designed to give the students tools and methods to work for social change. Students engage in experiential and ritual methods for reaching across diversity to find kinship. We engage in deep
Lifecycle Rituals
This course explores some of the reasons humans construct ritual, and why lifecycle rituals in particular are so important in this culture. Students are given a sense of the basic elements of creating a ritual, both personal and communal, so that they have the building blocks for establishing their own sacred spaces. Readings and research
The Ancestral Journey
This course offers an overview of the formulation of spiritual culture in the Diaspora, encompassing what has been retained in contemporary practice from Yoruba, Akan and Congolese traditions. Students learn how these traditions formed the basis of spiritual belief and practices in Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, the Caribbean and the southern United
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