Archetypes of Voice 3 day Workshop: Wynyard, Lutruwita/Tasmania

10-12 Jan 2025

Archetypes of Voice

The original Greek meaning for the word archetype is ‘original pattern’ and refers to the typical or usual way of something existing. It’s now used almost like a metaphor, an example of a thing/place/person/reality. Psychologist Carl Jung is the one who brought the word archetype into the mainstream narrative by using it in his theory of the human psyche. He identified 12 universal, mythic character archetypes that reside within our collective unconscious, with all humans each tending to have one dominant archetype that represents our personality.

These 12 original archetypes were the Ruler, Creator/Artist, Sage, Innocent, Explorer, Rebel, Hero, Wizard, Jester, Everyman/Orphan, Lover and the Caregiver. Each archetypes reflects a way of being and creates a metaphorical way of understanding ourselves and others more deeply. Each of these archeyptes comes with information inherent to it’s ‘original pattern’. Desires, Fear, needs, talents etc.

I personally have always identified most closely with the orphan archetype (officially called ‘The Everyman’)…

THE EVERYMAN

Motto: All men and women are created equal
Core Desire: connecting with others
Goal: to belong
Greatest fear: to be left out or to stand out from the crowd
Strategy: develop ordinary solid virtues, be down to earth, the common touch
Weakness: losing one’s own self in an effort to blend in or for the sake of superficial relationships
Talent: realism, empathy, lack of pretence
The Everyman is also known as: The good old boy, regular guy/girl, the person next door, the realist, the working stiff, the solid citizen, the good neighbour, the silent majority.

Since Jung popularised this way of perceiving as a tool for deeper recognition, the concept of archetypes has been used in many ways by many philosophers, thinkers and teachers across the most recent decades. And as a way of deepening my relationship with my own voice I began to identify ‘Archetypes of Voice’…

In my exploration I’ve been spending time with the following (FYI these are not a scientific based, exhaustive, or peer reviewed selection of ideas!)

The Tired Voice
The Insecure Voice
The Scared Voice
The Begging Voice

The Sensible Voice
The Motivator Voice
The Rogue Voice
The Misunderstood Voice

The Maternal Voice
The Angry Voice
The Silent Voice
The Fierce Voice

Say no more, I'm in!

THE DETAILS

Day 1 6 - 8pm AEDT Opening Circle, intention setting

Day 2 9 - 5pm AEDT Session Work, including song sharing circle

Day 3 9 - 4pm AEDT Session Work, including song sharing circle

Also included: Workbook, lunches (x2 days), delicious snacks (x3 days), candle, songbook, daily group ocean swim (optional), surprise gifts!!

Not included: Accomodation, breakfast, dinner, flights/transfers (See FAQ’s for options and info on organising all of these things!

THE WHO

The Archetypes of Voice 3 day workshop is trauma informed, neuro - affirming and gender inclusive. This workshop is open to all adults over the age of 18 years.

Session work will include deep investigations into our own archetypes and will suit those interested in deep personal exploration. Group sharing will always be optional.
All musical participation is non-performance based which means there is no requirement to have a musical background, identify as ‘musical’ or feel confident in expressing your voice or your musicality.
Unfortunately babes in arms won’t be able to come along to this particular workshop.
Our workshop space has a wheelchair accessible entry but does not contain an accessibility friendly toilet (sorry!)

THE WHERE

Our retreat space is a light filled, spacious ‘ex cricket club turned Alli delight’ in Wynyard, Lutruwita/Tasmania.

Lutruwita is the Rightful name for the tiny island at the bottom of so-called Australia, and Wynyard is a small town with a very small town vibe (think cafés, a couple of shops, river walks, beachside with bush only a few minutes drive away.

Retreat Space is located at 59A Jackson St, Wynyard.

Nearby accomodation options, car rental options and all other details are specified in the FAQ section.

It's a yes xxx

“It was everything I could have ever wished for and sprinkles of everything more. I felt so safe, so nurtured, so held in the environment of true inclusivity. I was able to be seen and heard in a way that let me connect back to myself in the most profound and deepest way.”

— Jess ‘Remembering Your Voice Retreat’ participant.

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Archetypes of Voice 3 Day Workshop

$700.00

One time

Workshops are steeped in self accountability of needs and trauma informed community care.

Here is an invitation to begin a brand new relationship with your voice, to nurture it like a newborn, to accept it and understand it’s needs and to commit to walking a path of self exploration that will challenge, and delight.

Exploring our voice archetypes will give us information about our patterns, our needs, what we lack, what we desire, and it will create the foundation for a new relationship between ourselves and our voice. One centred in respect, honesty and truth. A relationship that gently lets go of shame, baggage and conditioned beliefs.

Our voice is our identity in sound, it is one of the most profoundly recognisable parts of who we are and how we participate in the world (even for those of us who are non speaking), yet we were never taught why we have a voice, how to care for it, how to harness it as an ally, how to love and nurture it. In fact for most of us, our relationship with our voice was founded in childhood comments such as '“children should be seen and not heard, if you don’t have anything nice to say don’t say anything at all and stop being so… ‘insert word here’!”

As young children our brain/body/nervous system learns that using our voice ‘incorrectly’ damages our attachment with our primary caregiver, which threatens our survival. We grow up believing we have an inherent need to use our voice in particular ways, and we experience fear and shame when our voice fails us or we are unable to wield it the way we perceive is best.

But your silent voice is needed, and enough.

Your rogue voice is needed, and enough.

Your angry voice is an ally.

Your Begging voice is desperately trying to get our attention.

All of the parts of your voice have a purpose, they wouldn’t exist otherwise.

Meet Allison Davies, (BMusBEdMasMusTher)

Alli is a former Neurologic Music Therapist who stepped out of the allied health system after 2 decades and now focuses on enacting societal change by dismantling harmful musical myths.

She is currently authoring her first book and is an international speaker on trauma informed music experiencing and music as a regulatory tool.

Our Western world pedestal’s western music, which comes with high expectations and standards to be considered ‘good enough’. But music is more than the education and performance industries and should not require commitment and skill to exist.

For the most part, unless our parents could afford piano lesson, or we joined a band at school or we can read music we tend to identify as ‘non musical’. But the truth is that the brain is a musical organ.

To be human is to be musical. And once we step into our full power as musical beings our lives will transform in ways we never knew were possible.