Fairy Tale Conference
Finding Our Way Home:
Universal Tales of Confinement and Redemption
Saturday, May 15, 16 2026
Saturday, May 15, 16 2026
Saturday, May 16 & 17 2026
Live via Zoom. Registered participants will receive all lecture recordings.
This conference will be presented in English with simultaneous translation in Russian.
$85
*All current Beginner and Advanced Fairy Tale students do not register, the conference is included in the class tuition*
*All current Beginner and Advanced Fairy Tale students do not register, the conference is included in the class tuition*
"Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.”
-Charles Dickens
While the world of fairy tales, dreams and fables continues to teach us about the natural archetypal rhythms of life, we have stopped listening to these voices. Without the guidance of the Self, we are taken over by the irruptive forces of the dark unconscious. Drowning out Psyches call for a life of; decency, kindness, morality and justice, are the siren’s song leading us to our untimely demise.
Jung was a visionary who called on humanity to find our way back to soul, yet once again, we are caught in the vortex of an archetypal possession, living with an even greater estrangement from what matters most in life. Jung, and M.L. von Franz’s more than 50 years studying the wisdom of fairy tales, called us to undertake a profound inward journey into the depths of the unconscious, where the Self resides. These ancient stories serve as invaluable maps for our inner pilgrimage, back to what truly matters, guiding us with kindness, wisdom, and hope, into the depths of the psyche and soul.
Within these stories we find a way home, to soul, and to those mercurial and benevolent helpers so often found in fairy tales who under the cover of darkness accompany and guide us in our journey to The Self. Here as in the story of Amor and Psyche and many other tales, these figures appear when we most need them, offering promise and a way towards a life of liberation and transformation.
M.L. von Franz reminds us that, "In many myths and fairy tales, there is not only difficulty in getting into the Beyond but terrible difficulty getting back."
Jung was a visionary who called on humanity to find our way back to soul, yet once again, we are caught in the vortex of an archetypal possession, living with an even greater estrangement from what matters most in life. Jung, and M.L. von Franz’s more than 50 years studying the wisdom of fairy tales, called us to undertake a profound inward journey into the depths of the unconscious, where the Self resides. These ancient stories serve as invaluable maps for our inner pilgrimage, back to what truly matters, guiding us with kindness, wisdom, and hope, into the depths of the psyche and soul.
Within these stories we find a way home, to soul, and to those mercurial and benevolent helpers so often found in fairy tales who under the cover of darkness accompany and guide us in our journey to The Self. Here as in the story of Amor and Psyche and many other tales, these figures appear when we most need them, offering promise and a way towards a life of liberation and transformation.
M.L. von Franz reminds us that, "In many myths and fairy tales, there is not only difficulty in getting into the Beyond but terrible difficulty getting back."
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