MMTT 2.0 CURRICULUM (subject to change and variate as we meet the moment).
Week One “Welcome to Midlife Midwife Teacher Training.” A Foundational Introduction to the work, its origins, and the phases of the Midlife Metamorphosis. Learn the basics of Rites of Passage and find your Midlife Phase. Meet Sarah, each other, and the Support Team of Midlife Midwives.
Week Two: Foundational Teachings Integration.
Week Three. “A Misogynist Mystery: The Missing Autumn Season.” Patriarchy buried women’s Autumn Season for a reason. All our spiritual lives, most of us have only known the Triple Goddess Archetype of “Maiden (Spring), Mother (Summer), Crone (Winter).” But this model is incomplete: because Mother Earth has four seasons, and so do we. So where did Fall Go? Why did patriarchy bury her below? Remember the Buried Autumn Season and the Enchantress Archetype. How can we learn from teachings of the Autumn Season and Tree?
Week Four: Autumnal Woman Integration
Week Five . “The Midlife Split.” This is it, where the road splits. This is where your head and heart enter a rift. This is the beginning of the end of it all. The writing is on the wall; your tower is about to fall. This is the beginning of the end of your First Act, when your first life masks are starting to crack. How do we trust the process when most people are telling us to fix ourselves in a hurry and “fix” ourselves and go back to who we used to be. Meet Hecate, the Goddess of the Crossroads, She Who Supports & Guides women at Midlife to Choose the Unlived Life.
Week Six. Midlife Split Integration.
Week Seven. “Midlife is the Great UnMasking.” UnMasking from the First Act to Free She Who Lies Beneath and Hear what She is Asking. Hear stories of Midlife UnMasking + Learn the UnMasking Ceremony.
Week 8. Unmasking Ceremony Practice + Integration.
Week Nine. Our bodies are changing like Trees and Becoming “Invisible.” Women were told we had a patriarchal shelf life, but the truth is we enter a magical, spiritual world after Midlife. Deconstructing our Patriarchal Ageism and Misogyny. Implementing Midlife Muses for Inspiration. Re-honoring the mature feminine + feminine aging, decentering patriarchal men, and living through a pro-aging Matriarchal Lens. Where does the patriarchal man live inside of us? Evicting him and returning to the Goddess.
Week Ten. “Invisibility” + Midlife Muse Integration.
Week Eleven . “Grieving Summer.” Do something our mothers never got to do: honor the death of the Archetypal Mother, Her Season’s End, and the Archetypal Mother You. Honoring the grief of our recent past and having compassion for how hard we tried to make it last. Learning to Release our First Act and patriarchal Identity like Autumn Trees letting go of their leaves.
Week Twelve. Integration of Summer Grieving and the First Act Leaving.
Week Thirteen. “The First Act Funeral.” OFFICIATING FIRST ACT FUNERALS. We can’t move forward unless we have honored Her. Guide Women in curating a First Act Funeral Ceremony. Support women in laying down their First Act Lives, with love, honor and intention.
Week Fourteen. Integrating the First Act Funeral
Week Fifteen. BUILDING THE SECOND ACT. From the Depth of our Darkest Night comes the Light. Learning the Alchemy of our Darkest Night of our Midlife Rites. Accessing the Inner Enchantress/ Autumnal Woman/ Second Act Us and Listening to What She is Asking of Us.
Week Sixteen. Integrating the Second Act Archetype Teachings.
Week Seventeen. The Matriarchal Masculine. Co-Taught with Megan Callahan & Kamya O’Keeffe. “What about the men?” After we have decentered patriarchal men, we remember men who once centered and protected Earth, women and children. The Enchantress has the power to Make Men Matriarchal Again.
Week Eighteen. Integration. Matriarchal Masculine Integration.
Week Nineteen. INNER TEEN SPIRIT: Midlife is a return to teen hood: Sometimes called the Second Adolescence or Cougar Puberty. Learn to access & ten to the Inner Teen. Practice repair & tending to her, and accessing her Unlived Dreams
Integration. Inner Teen Integration.
Week Twenty. Coming Into Butterfly Consciousness. Learn to Officiate the Second Act Blessing Way. Honoring with Ceremony the woman birthing from the ash of her First Act.
Week Twenty One. Integration of Butterfly Consciousness and Second Act Blessing Ways.
Bonus Call. Orienting Toward Elder. A talk by Crone Rites of Passage Guide Kamya O’Keeffe on the Teachings of the Crone.