Among the earliest recorded European beliefs is the idea that each of us is born with a ‘calling’: we came into the world – to this particular place, at this particular time – for a reason.

This philosophy can be traced at least as far back as Plato, who suggested that before each of us is born, our soul selects a purpose and a pattern for us to live out during our time on Earth. Plato also believed that each soul is accompanied into this life by a ‘daimon’: a spiritual companion, a ’necessary angel' who acts as a ‘carrier of our destiny’ and helps to ensure we fulfil it.

And so we all have this hidden but innate vision which expresses who we truly are: a kind of concealed invisible potential. We might think of it as an acorn. The acorn, like any seed, carries within it the image of, and the potential to become, the oak tree that it might eventually be – given the circumstances that would allow it to flourish.

To express our calling is to allow ourselves to uniquely express one mode of being, one unique way of embodying what it is to be human, one facet of the creative life force of the universe.

In this workshop, we’ll delve deeply into the concept of calling, and work with ways of revealing and remembering what it is that we’re here for.

We’ll explore these questions:

– How might we uncover the unique gift that we each bring to the world at this time?
– How can we work with the mythic imagination to illuminate our ground of being, and the nature of our work in the world?
– How can subvert our cultural obsession with the individualistic Hero by committing to a post-Heroic Journey: one which has calling, and meaning, at its heart?