Sharon Blackie
‘A beloved and highly respected thinker and a legend in the ecofeminist and nature writing world’
POSITIVE NEWS
‘She knows her archetypes, knows her Jung, knows her fairytales and knows her neuroscience, and is sick of being patronised by men who don’t’
THE SUNDAY TIMES
‘Sharon Blackie ventures further than most of us have the courage for, and then comes back with a map’
MELISSA HARRISON, AWARD-WINNING NOVELIST AND NATURE WRITER
‘Her books, including word-of-mouth hits such as If Women Rose Rooted and Hagitude, are a beguiling mix of memoir, mythology and eco-feminism – manifestos for a better way of living.’
the guardian
‘The spiritually averse need not be alarmed. In person, there is nothing wafty about this steely but softly spoken 65-year-old former academic and psychotherapist’
THE GUARDIAN
‘My standout interview of the year’
Matthew Taylor, broadcaster, CEO of the Royal Society of Arts and host of its ‘Bridges to the Future’ podcast
Dr. Sharon Blackie is an award-winning and internationally bestselling author, speaker and teacher. She’s a former neuroscientist and a psychologist with a background in mythology and folklore, and her work is focused on the mythic imagination and its relevance to the personal, cultural and environmental issues we face today. She is the founder and director of the Nostos Institute, which offers a rooted, intellectually rigorous and deeply imaginative path to personal and collective re-enchantment.
As well as writing seven books of fiction and nonfiction, including the bestselling If Women Rose Rooted and Hagitude, her writing has appeared in international media outlets and she has featured in programs by the BBC, US public radio and independent filmmakers. She was recently the subject of a profile in the Guardian newspaper here. Sharon is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, an Honorary Member of the UK Association of Jungian Analysts, and has taught and lectured at many academic institutions, retreat centres and cultural festivals around the world. Her much-loved publication and community, and former Top Ten Global Literature Substack, The Art of Enchantment, has just been relaunched as an independent platform at https://theartofenchantment.org, and reaches over 60,000 people.
The Art of Enchantment
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Stories are the stars we navigate by; their lessons are deep and rich. Anywhere, there may be a door to another world: learn to look for it. Always leave a trail of breadcrumbs to find your way out of the dark wood. Don’t maim yourself trying to fit into the glass slipper which was made for someone else. Gold is never a good goal. Never take your skin off and leave it unattended.
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NOSTOS – A SPIRITUAL HOMECOMING
Nostos is a project that was founded to raise awareness of the oldest spiritual traditions of the West – beautiful ideas and practices steeped in philosophy, myth, creativity and the embodied imagination – which have been a defining thread in the complex weave of our Western lineage for more than two and a half millennia. We’re lifting these traditions out of the academic and theoretical spheres in which they’ve largely been confined, and combining them with cutting-edge ideas and practices from contemporary (primarily Jungian and post-Jungian) depth psychology and related mythopoetic disciplines. Our aim is twofold: first, to offer a groundbreaking curriculum for cultivating the mythic imagination; and second, to trace a living, spiritual desire path that responds to the challenges and opportunities of today’s world: an exploratory path that passes through and beyond personal transformation, opening into a dancing, animate cosmos saturated in the divine.
We’re gathering a community of the curious: learners and seekers who would like to explore these ideas with us – and who’d like to help us develop them. At a time when many feel spiritually unanchored, Nostos provides something rare: a rooted, intellectually rigorous and deeply imaginative path to personal and collective re-enchantment.
WHAT’S ON
SELF-STUDY
Transformative courses and webinar recordings designed to lead you into a deeper awareness and understanding of your own unique mythopoetic journey through this life.
HAGITUDE
A woman’s journey through midlife and beyond
This self-study program explores the ways in which we might flourish at midlife and beyond, in the decades that so often are portrayed as a time of decline.
EVENTS AND LIVE PROGRAMS
Find out where Sharon is lecturing, teaching, reading, or otherwise hanging out.
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