Mythogenesis with Robert Walter

Madrona is delighted to partner with Red Butte Garden to offer this transformative full-day workshop with Robert Walter.

Mythogenesis: Where the inner world meets the outer world

“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.” – Joseph Campbell

Community grows within the container of myth. Shared beliefs, dreams, and visions are the roots that sustain our collective endeavors. Our sense of belonging is born from an underlying narrative, stories which will determine whether we endure and thrive within the interdependent human and more-than-human universe. 

Join us for a full-day experience of mythogenesis, the formation of personal and communal myth, with Robert Walter, Joseph Campbell’s former editor and friend and long-time director of the Joseph Campbell Foundation. 

Joseph Campbell famously remarked: “What you do, you do with play. The Universe is God’s play.” Together, we will move through Bob’s signature “playshop,” an interpersonal exploration of mythmaking through storytelling, deep listening, and the melding of shared understanding, all while embraced in the beauty of nature at the threshold of spring. 

“The inner world is the world of your requirements and your energies and your structure and your possibilities that meets the outer world. And the outer world is the field of your incarnation. That’s where you are. You’ve got to keep both going. As Novalis said, ‘The seat of the soul is there where the inner and outer worlds meet.” ― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

Saturday, March 21st

10:00 am-5:00 pm

The Rose House at Red Butte Garden & Arboretum

300 Wakara Way

Salt Lake City, UT 84108

Tuition: $125 (just $100 for Red Butte Garden Members!)

Workshop Full? Join the waitlist in case of last minute cancellation: hello@madronacollective.org

Includes 7 CEUs for Utah Mental Health Licenses, with approval from NASW Utah

Don’t miss out on the Friday evening dialogue the night before!

Robert “Bob” Walter was Joseph Campbell’s editor, publishing partner, and good friend for the last ten years of Campbell’s life. When Campbell died in 1987, Bob was named his Literary Executor and Executive Editor of his collected works. In 1990, Bob and Jean Erdman, Campbell’s widow, co-founded the Joseph Campbell Foundation, which Bob helmed for the next 32 years. Bob is a Founding Faculty Fellow at California Institute of the Arts, was a Founding Trustee of United Religions Initiative, worked for a decade in the professional theater as a director, production manager, and playwright. He has shared his signature PlayShops worldwide for more than four decades. In 2017, Bob and his family relocated to Mexico City, where they currently live. For more information: www.bobwalter.life

Thank you to our local partner!

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