Speaker
Dr Sharon Blackie
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. In early 2017 she founded The Hedge School: both an online space and a physical location in Connemara, for teachings in myth, wild mind and enchantment.
Sharon was the founder and editor of EarthLines Magazine and is the author of The Long Delirious Burning Blue, If Women Rose Rooted and The Enchanted Life. She is now completing a collection of original fairy tales about shapeshifting women, Foxfire, Wolfskin, which will be published in autumn 2019.
After several years as a crofter in the north-west of Scotland and the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Sharon returned to Ireland in 2014 and has recently traded an old stone riverside cottage in Donegal for a house among the hills, lakes and seaweed-strewn tidal inlets of the Connemara Gaeltacht. Her experiences on the westernmost edges of the Celtic fringe give her a unique perspective on the psychology of belonging, and our relationship with place.
Media #
Consciousness & Spirituality, Story-Telling & Narrative
The Mundus Imaginalis Is Real—but How Do We Access It With the Modern Mind?
Article with Tammy Gan, Charlotte Du Cann, Dr Sharon Blackie & 1 more
Sunday 24th July 2022
Consciousness & Spirituality, Story-Telling & Narrative
What Is the Power of the Mythic Imagination?
Article with Tammy Gan, Sophie Strand, Dr Sharon Blackie & 2 more
Tuesday 7th June 2022
Consciousness & Spirituality, Story-Telling & Narrative
How Can We Upend “knowing”?
Article with Tammy Gan, Dr Rupert Sheldrake, Peter Owen-Jones & 5 more
Wednesday 25th May 2022
Consciousness & Spirituality, Activism & Leadership, Health & Wellbeing
The Call of the Wild Feminine: Month 3
The Call of the Wild Feminine Online Event with Dr Sharon Blackie, Minna Salami, Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo & 5 more
Tuesday 23rd November 2021
Food & Farming, Consciousness & Spirituality, Activism & Leadership, Economy & Decentralisation, Health & Wellbeing, Story-Telling & Narrative
Introducing Advaya Talks: Podcast
Article with Dr David Luke, Pat McCabe, Martin Shaw & 10 more
Tuesday 19th October 2021
Consciousness & Spirituality, Activism & Leadership, Health & Wellbeing
The Call of the Wild Feminine
The Call of the Wild Feminine Online Event with Dr Sharon Blackie, Angharad Wynne, Lyla June Johnston & 25 more
Tuesday 28th September 2021
Food & Farming, Consciousness & Spirituality, Activism & Leadership, Economy & Decentralisation, Health & Wellbeing, Story-Telling & Narrative
A Journey Home
A Journey Home Online Event with Charles Eisenstein, Merlin Sheldrake, Rev. Mariama White Hammond & 41 more
Tuesday 2nd February 2021
The Re-Enchantment Series: Unlocking Magic & Inspiring Action
Re-Enchantment Workshop with Dr Sharon Blackie, Mac Macartney , Angela Voss & 8 more
Monday 8th October 2018
Dreaming the Land & Native Spirituality
Re-Enchantment Talk with Dr Sharon Blackie, Mac Macartney
Monday 8th October 2018
Mythic Imagination: The Power of Storytelling and Mythology
Workshop with Dr Sharon Blackie, Dr Joanna Gilar, Jay Griffiths & 2 more
Saturday 30th September 2017
Sharon Blackie: Listening to the Land’s Dreaming
Video with Dr Sharon Blackie
Saturday 30th September 2017