A workshop with Tiffany Lazic
Cost £45
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Arguably, regardless of era in human history, a constant in our existential quest and questioning has involved how to face the unknown. How to gather the courage to face the dark, the end, the abyss, the Great Mystery. If there is one thing that links modern humans with our ancient forebears, it is the need for comfort and guidance around those irrefutable and inescapable experiences that touch us all. The ancients, however, seem to have understood the need for valued and stalwart guides in such times. The Greeks had a specific name for them: psychopomps or “the guides of souls”. These pathfinders and wayshowers – these archetypal energies of liminal transition – specifically knew the particularities of the passages between the realms, between our world and the Otherworld. Though named differently, every culture has some sort of mythology that offers advice and guidance on how to transition from one experience of reality to another.
But, as we well know from other arenas, especially in Paganism and psychology, archetypes are not static, nor are they confined to the temporal mists. They are perpetual and adaptive. In exploring the energy and function of psychopomps from a modern perspective, they not only serve as a hand in the dark for those approaching death, they offer great wisdom to those who are affected by death on how to navigate grief. Even more, remarkably and brilliantly, they are highly adept at offering the light of hope for those who are trapped in the dark of depression, anxiety and despair.
This immersive workshop presents an introduction to psychopomps as they appear in the mythology of ancient peoples including those in Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Welsh, Irish, Indian, and South American mythos. The morning session presents a specific framework for working with the different categories of psychopomps both in grief and Shadow work. The afternoon session moves that framework into ritual experience, inviting release of that which may keep us stuck in grief, trapped in shame, or caught in anxiety. Psychopomps can often be approached with resistance, even fear. But cultivating the courage to meet them affords an opportunity to reveal what profound wisdom they have to share.
Tiffany Lazic (RP, BAA) is a Registered Psychotherapist, Spiritual Director, and Certified Havening Techniques Practitioner with a private practice in individual, couples, and group therapy. She is the founder of the Soul Alchemist Academy offering online courses in personal transformation, energy healing and psychopomps work. She is the author of The Great Work: Self-Knowledge and Healing Through the Wheel of the Year (May 2015), The Noble Art: From Shadow to Essence Through the Wheel of the Year (October 2021), and Psychopomps and the Soul: Traversing Death and Life for Healing and Wholeness (due for release May 2025). Tiffany is an international presenter and retreat facilitator. In 2022, she transplanted her deeply entrenched Canadian roots to the welcoming shores of Anglesey in Wales, a move that fulfilled a lifelong dream.