Finding yourself in a story, a song, a painting makes you strong. Full Description: Aboriginal people have a gift for story- telling. Coming from an oral tradition, they learn about life and discover who they are, where they came from, by listening to stories of their elders. Sadly, not all young people get that opportunity. This course will teach you to recognize yourself in the stories that others tell, in the music and painting they make. It is called archetype. All people have created archetypes. All people live archetypal stories. Heal by learning to recognize that you have the same archetypes to experience as everyone does. The smartest person, the most educated, the fastest runner, the richest musician. We all live the same inner stories in our own ways. Find yours. Compare it to the stories of others. Belong to the world. It is your right. Carl Jung, a psychologist and philosopher spent his life exploring the power of archetype, the stories that exist in art, in music, painting, song, story. He believed archetype to be more important to healing a damaged soul than any other aspect of life. The archetypes are the stories humans have been living since the beginning of human life on this planet. The stories we are living have not really changed and there is a path that one must follow to complete the journey of life. There are three parts to the journey: First we live the archetypes that teach us how to get along in the world. Then we progress onto living the archetypes that let us explore our inner world, our soul world. And finally, we are ready to live the archetypes that allow us to use our gifts and share them with others. Recognizing the stories we are living ourselves and seeing them in the arts, listening to others who live some of these archetypes will sharpen and make real our realization that we are like all others in this world. That we belong and have the right to claim our place just as others do. People yearn to belong, want to feel a part of their world, not alienated from it. This course offers a valuable lesson and opportunity to know that you belong and are as significant as anyone living and doing anything anywhere. The course will run for four weeks. In that time there will be four 2 hour Zoom meetings. There will be two exercises to do on your own. You will be asked to examine some form of art to learn to recognize the story that art is telling. You may already know some myths which tell the story of an archetype. You will also be invited to speak to someone you know, it might be and elder you admire. You can discuss the issue of naming people in your culture. Discover how that is much like archetype. This is not a new learning for you really. It has been your custom for a very long time. What you are doing, is finding out that it is a worldwide custom, a custom called the collective unconscious. All humans do it. It is just not recognized by many settler cultures.