Gifts and Wounds

Healing and Creativity in Troubled Times

Michael Meade's new in-depth course explores the ancient understanding that each soul born bears both natural gifts and core wounds. As the world around us becomes more conflicted and divided, and we become more vulnerable to levels of anxiety and fear, our inner gifts try to become more conscious to us and our core wounds seek to be healed.

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YOU WILL LEARN

  • How even the most caring parents inevitably betray the vulnerable souls of their children and do so with surprising accuracy.
  • How areas that become spell-bound in childhood turn out to be essential for emotional and spiritual growth later in life.
  • How woundedness is not a static state, but a dynamic condition through which we grow.
  • How attending to our inner wounds leads us to finding parts of ourselves that are not wounded.
  • How our inborn talents and gifts are intended to become channels through which vitality and creativity flow into our lives and also into the world.

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  • 4+ Hours of Video

    Compelling presentations, stories and commentary with Michael Meade

  • 10 Audio Sessions

    Related audio that deepens and elaborates core themes

  • 150+ Pages of Related Writings

    Extensive excerpts from Michael Meade books and essays

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COURSE OVERVIEW

An ancient understanding of human nature includes the sense that each soul born will bear both natural gifts and core wounds. As the world around us becomes more conflicted and divided and we become more vulnerable to levels of anxiety and fear, our inner gifts try to become more conscious to us and core wounds seek to be healed.

As many wisdom traditions illustrate, each person carries within the knowledge and medicine they most need. Yet, in order to activate the inner medicine we must face the inevitable traumas suffered early in life. The territory of gifts and wounds inevitably involves our parents and issues of family fate.

Fears of abandonment and overwhelm, along with family spells and neglect will arise again at each critical turning point in life. Not because we are deficient or somehow unworthy, but because the true adventure of life involves both awakening to our gifted nature and learning to heal from within.

In allowing ourselves to be vulnerable a deeper wisdom can come to us and live through us. When we invoke the archetypal energies of the wounded healer, our deepest wounds can be seen as a womb through which we become reborn as initiates taking up the paths of healing, transforming and becoming more creative.

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COURSE CURRICULUM

Course Introduction

Course Introduction

  • Welcome to the "Gifts and Wounds" Course
  • Mobile App

SESSION 1 - The First Agreement of Life

Part 1 - Timeless Healing, Timely Wisdom (VIDEO)

  • Opening Song - Nene / Introduction
  • The Origin of the Soul - African Folktale
  • Fortuna - Roman Myth
  • The Second Wound: Family & Fate

Part 2 - Q&A  with Michael Meade (VIDEO)

  • Question 1: Why wouldn't souls just stay in the other world, rather than enter the Earth-bound journey, especially since that involves wounds and pain?
  • Question 2: Is the family wound just about biological connection to a child, or does what you suggest apply to anyone in a parental role in a child's life?
  • Question 3: We seem to live in a culture of each man for himself. Is this healing of inner wounds a solo journey, or is it richer in a loving partnership situation?
  • Question 4: Were the wounds that people brought into the world misinterpreted by the church as original sin, and do they thus contribute to our forgetting, so that we do not realize that our souls may heal ourselves?

Part 3 - Audio Recordings and Written Material (ASSETS)

  • Audio: Nene - Full Song
  • Audio: Nene - Commentary
  • Audio - The Two Agreements of the Soul
  • Book Excerpt: Origins of the Soul
  • Book Excerpt: Tabula Rasa and Acorn Theory

SESSION 2 - The Nature of Gifts and Wounds

Part 1 - The Wound is a Womb(VIDEO)

  • Cracking the Shell of the Ego
  • Personal Story

Part 2 - Q&A  with Michael Meade (VIDEO)

  • Question 1: Is healing a path, does it have an end or does it transform into something else?
  • Question 2: Does the second wound involve intergenerational, inherited trauma?
  • Question 3: Can the wounds felt after the traumatic loss of a loved one, and the grieving process, be different for each person, and be transformative in terms of reconnecting with or recognizing our original soul's journey?
  • Question 4: Are we all experiencing collective wounds in the world today?

Part 3 - Audio Recordings and Written Material (ASSETS)

  • Audio: On the Road to Wholeness
  • Book Excerpt: Gifts and Wounds
  • Book Excerpt: The Two Agreements

SESSION 3 - Your Genius is Calling

Part 1 - Inner Spirit, Natural Talents (VIDEO)

  • The Gift of Genius

Part 2 - Q&A  with Michael Meade (VIDEO)

  • Question 1: If you've been a people pleaser all your life as a result of childhood trauma and over adaptation, and now you're in midlife and have not lived up to your own potential, and now you are facing old age, have you failed your soul's mission?
  • Question 2: My daughter died last August. She was special needs, so my purpose and identity were intimately woven with being her mother, her friend, her mentor, & that leaves me with a loss of identity. But maybe I never had a strong identity in any case.

Part 3 - Conclusion and Closing Song (VIDEO)

Part 4 - Audio Recordings and Written Material (ASSETS)

  • Audio: The Spark of Genius
  • Audio: The Call of Genius
  • Book Excerpt: The Roar of Awakening

SESSION 4 - Breaking Spells

Part 1 - Awakening and Redemption (OR Core Forgetting and Rites of Redemption (VIDEO)

  • Opening Song - Azisona / Introduction
  • Spells & Curses
  • Rumpelstiltskin - German Fairytale
  • Personal Story

Part 2 - Q&A  with Michael Meade (VIDEO)

  • Question 1: Is it possible to grow up in a family without spells?
  • Question 2: How do things like trauma and past experiences cast spells that continue forward?
  • Question 3: Are these kinds of changes a slow process or can it be immediate?
  • Question 4: Does breaking a spell involve fully healing from our traumas first? Can you fall back under the spell?
  • Question 5: Even though we are trying to break early-life spells and having some success, a feeling of unworthiness can still hold us down.
  • Question 6: Can you speak about the binding aspect of the spell binding?
  • Question 7: I found the spell and trauma of the mother wound to be particularly hard to heal due to its inherent taboo or contra natura essence. Do you have a story that addresses this?

Part 3 - Audio Recordings and Written Material (ASSETS)

  • Audio: Breaking Spells - Part 1
  • Audio: Breaking Spells - Part 2
  • Audio: Breaking Spells - Part 3
  • Book Excerpt: Stopping in Time

SESSION 5 - Eros and Calling

Part 1 - Guided by Love (VIDEO)

  • The Wound of Eros
  • Milarepa - Tibetan Buddhist Story

Part 2 - Q&A  with Michael Meade (VIDEO)

  • Question 1: How does the mother/daughter spell differ from the mother/son spell?
  • Question 2: How can we talk with our parents about the trauma we suffered being raised by them, even if they were loving, without traumatizing them? How do we express our pain to them without inflicting pain on them?
  • Question 3: How might spells move from parent/child into marriage/children?
  • Question 4: I felt excluded from my family of origin in many ways, and yet now I feel that being the black sheep has actually served me as a free thinker. Is embracing the spell and learning to live with it the same as breaking it?
  • Question 5: Is part of the mystery of the spells their paradoxical nature? When thinking of my mother spell, there are definite aspects of both over-mothering and under-mothering wrapped up in the same package.

Part 3 - Audio Recordings and Written Material (ASSETS)

  • Audio: The Return of Eros
  • Essay: What You Love Is The Cure
  • Book Excerpt: The Prison We Are In

SESSION 6 - Deep Roots of Healing

Part 1 - Learning from Chiron (VIDEO)

  • Archetype of the Wounded Healer

Part 2 - Q&A  with Michael Meade (VIDEO)

  • Question 1: Can you speak about people with cultural and political power who rose out of a sense of Eros, but who seem particularly subject to the distortions of power and addictions?
  • Question 2: Can you elaborate more on why the spell comes back?
  • Question 3: Can we be under a collective archetypal spell or psychosis? How does one first break it and loosen its grip, personally and then perhaps collectively?

Part 3 - Conclusion and Closing Song (VIDEO)

Part 4 - Audio Recordings and Written Material (ASSETS)

  • Audio: The Wounded Healer
  • Audio: A Ritual for Each Other
  • Book Excerpt: A Tale of Two Villages
  • Book Excerpt: Dancing to Be Whole Again
  • Michael Meade Biography
  • About Mosaic Multicultural Foundation
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