{"id":108,"date":"2022-10-29T00:00:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T04:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/differencedesignlab.com\/wordpress\/?p=108"},"modified":"2022-11-30T19:10:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T00:10:53","slug":"about-us1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mythicimagination.org\/main\/about-us1\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT US"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every culture, every people, every religion is an accumulation of its stories, legends and myths. It is these myths \u2014 told and retold from generation to generation \u2014 that help us to understand each other, to structure our lives, and to navigate the future.<\/span><\/p>\n

Every life is a story and a story can change the world.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Hidden away in the inner nature of the real person is the law of his life.<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

If the work that you\u2019re doing is the work that you chose to do because you are enjoying it, that\u2019s it. But if you think, \u2018Oh, no! I couldn\u2019t do that!\u2019 that\u2019s the dragon locking you in.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 Joseph Campbell, from The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers<\/p>\n

Mission Statement<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Mythic Imagination Institute is a 501c3 social profit enterprise whose purpose of is to reunite people, primarily through art and immersion, to the accumulated wisdom of humankind that lives in stories and mythology and thereby to:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Encourage creative response and imagination<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Help to make sense of our individual lives by seeing the stories within them<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Inspire and produce new works of art<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Engender understanding and respect for others<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Serve as a free zone for inter-disciplinary conversation and activity<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Foster a diverse community whose common knowledge of the world\u2019s stories creates an unusual ability to transcend boundaries and take pleasure in difference<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Nurture and grow the imagination through the understanding and the making of metaphor<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Cultivate experiences and activities of mythology, archetype, and narrative<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Make friends.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mythic Imagination Institute\u2019s events are full of life, unique learning and people who do fascinating, provocative, meaningful work.\u00a0<\/span>Participants include everyone from Nobel Peace Prize Laureates to a Mayan shaman; US senators to organic farmers; musicians, teachers, designers, doctors, NGO workers.<\/span><\/p>\n

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MII creates and sponsors projects. Our first signature project has been the Mythic<\/strong> Journeys<\/strong> Performance Festivals & Conferences. (These have become legendary in and of themselves.) The festival conferences bring together a wide group of people from different disciplines, cultures and professions. Mythic Imagination also produces<\/p>\n

Mythic Imagination Board of Directors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Dahlan Robert Foah
\n<\/a>Chairman of the Board<\/p>\n

Honora Foah
\n<\/a>President and Creative Director of Mythic Imagination Institute<\/p>\n

Ty Defoe<\/p>\n

Maureen Eke<\/p>\n

Katherine Freer<\/p>\n

Ari Berk
\n<\/a>Chair of the Content Committee for Mythic Imagination<\/p>\n

Mythic Imagination Advisory Board<\/strong>
\nDr. James Hillman; Honorary Chairman in memorium
\nDr. Michael Vannoy Adams
\nRebecca Armstrong, M. Div.
\nDr. Coleman Barks
\nPhil Cousineau
\nDr. Nor Hall
\nDr Sam Keen
\nDr. Stephen Larsen
\nJohn and Caitlin Matthews
\nCathy Sheperd, MA
\nDr. Bradd Shore
\nDr. Chris Synder
\nCharles Vess
\nRobert Walter
\nTerri Windling
\nJane Yolen\u00a0
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\n<\/a><\/strong>Michael Karlin
\n<\/a>Founder of Mythic Imagination Institute<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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