How can the themes of "impossible tasks" and building community in these women's fairy tales inform our approach to contemporary challenges, both personal and societal?

Dr. Sharon Blackie reveals how these stories, passed down through generations of women, showcase heroines who are far from the insipid princesses we often imagine. These tales depict strong, resourceful women overcoming impossible tasks and building supportive communities. Learn how these ancient stories still resonate today, offering insights into resilience, mutual support, and thriving in a challenging world.

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ABOUT DR. SHARON: Dr. Sharon Blackie is an award-winning writer of fiction and nonfiction, a psychologist who has specialised both in neuroscience and narrative, and a mythologist with a specialisation in Celtic Studies. Her unique approach to working with myth, fairy tales and folklore highlights the insights these traditions can offer us into authentic and meaningful ways of being which are founded on a deep sense of belonging to place, a rootedness in the land we inhabit.

After centuries of suppression, the voice of the feminine in its diverse forms and expressions is demanding to be heard again. This shift in consciousness from the dominant masculine to a balance between the two energies, as well as beyond that binary, has long been predicted as part of the solution to the chaos our planet currently faces.

Such a transformation will beckon a new paradigm where dominance over the natural world is replaced by a recognition of the connection of all living things, while at the same time recognising the importance of such qualities as instinct, trust, nurture, creativity, and other forms of power left out of wider cultural conversations.