What is the S/HE Creatrix Studies Forum? It is an online platform hosted by Mago Academy to gather and share information and activism among scholars and students whose work concerns the Cosmic Mother/the Creatrix/the Source.
November 14th 2026 S/HE Creatrix Studies Forum
Theme: The Resurgence of the Living Goddesses Through the Earthy Arts
Summary: How can clay and earth, in figurines, sculptures, and gardens, carry and convey the living wisdom traditions of Goddess cultures in contemporary contexts? In this interactive session, take in the rich visuals of Goddess sculptures, experience the loamy generativity of Goddess Gardens and dream healing, and experience Gimbutas’ teaching slides from the Opus Archives. These three scholar-practitioners grapple with how we can keep bringing forward the nurturing and generative gifts of Goddess cultures. By turns autoethnographic, scholarly, visual, and multimodal, join us in this adventure of sensing meaning and casting connections from the deep time and cultural origins across to the future beings. How can we heal and make real and anneal the living lineages? What do you find brings life to your own inquiries and reweavings?
Organizer: Marna Hauk, PhD, PDC
Time: Saturday November 14 at 12-2 PM PT
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Presenters
Marna Hauk PhD, PDC
Title: Regenerative Gardens of the Living Resurgence
Summary: What happens when farms and gardens take as their first regenerative design principle – to be sourced in the Goddess(es) and the living land? We’ll tour several garden installations, including hugelkultur experiments inspired by Gaia in Portland, Oregon, and a sixty-foot-long dragon-shaped permaculture polyculture garden that Guanyin rides in the Columbia Gorge. We’ll also visit the nascent incubation of a Hygeian dream healing garden. Taking inspiration from women in other times of suppression and patriarchal hostility, how can we embody and create living sanctuaries of matriversal dignity and joy, designing for wisdom-holding and the upliftment of women and the training of priestesses? How can the permacultural practice of polyvalent, multistoried guilds inspire communities of co-invention and co-creativity (including with the more than human) that are mutually nourishing and life-giving? Let us cultivate living wellsprings of resurgence and affirmation with the earthy arts of farm and garden, to restore, to nurture, to bless, to imagine, to heal.
Marna Hauk, PhD, PDC
Marna directs the Institute for Earth Regenerative Studies and facilitates Harmony Hill Farm, two acres of food-forage-fiber-medicine CSA in becoming, basking in the light of Mount Hood, near where the Hood River flows down to the Columbia, on the ancestral lands of the Chinookan and Wasco-Wishram Peoples. Marna serves on the faculty of Southwestern College and New Earth Institute. She also serves as a senior teacher of Dream Tending and a member of The Work That Reconnects Network. Co-editor of Community Climate Change Education: A Mosaic of Approaches and Vibrant Voices: Women, Myth, and the Arts, with 130+ refereed publications and presentations, Marna catalyzes learning contexts and nurtures scholarship and practice in dream healing and regenerative futures.
Eileen McDavid, LMFT
Title: Vibrant Goddesses Arts
Summary: Join us on this journey, taking in the amazing Goddess-based earthy art work of California mountain therapist and artist Eileen McDavid. Listen in to this living Goddess artist as she shares her process of creation, research, connection, and animation. Watch as she brings Ceres, Ereshkigal, Gaia, Kali, Sedna, Sophia, and more, to life. Encounter “The Great Mother” and “She Who Gives Love.” What inspirations might we gather for how we can connect with our own creative flows to kindle the regeneration of the ancient feminine?
Eileen McDavid, LMFT
Eileen McDavid, LMFT catalyzes Earthy Reflections, where Art and Nature come together, up in the mountains and among the trees of the foothills in the Sierra Mountains. Eileen hand-builds sculptures in clay on the theme of nature and the ancient feminine. She enjoys researching the feminine figures of ancient times, informed by training in Jungian therapy to surface ancient symbols. She paints her sculpture pieces with acrylics to achieve a broader band of color on the clay. Eileen holds gatherings of women for strength and support, integrating meditations, visualizations, and movement with symbol play. She also explores meaning through clay on wheel, collage, and Raku.
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Jamie Mayo, PhD, MSN, PMHNP-BC
Title: Exploring the Pre-Patriarchal Mythic Image of the Nurse: Dreaming Forward Ideas of Women, Healing, and Shamanism through Images of the Goddess
Summary: Nurses have been at the forefront of healthcare change throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The problems of today, including the mental health crisis and rising incidence of global chronic physiological diseases, call for the next reimaging of transformative models of care. Images of the woman nurse (healer, nurturer) in Western European cultures in the 19th and 20th centuries have been largely shaped by Christianity and shadowed by a patriarchal framework. Traditionally, these include archetypes such as healer, handmaiden, mother, angel, guardian and warrior. Exploring the pre-patriarchal image of the nurse (woman, healer, mystic, shaman) could be a necessary step in equipping the psyche of nurses for re-visioning the healthcare of tomorrow, informed by the wisdom of a matriarchal framework. Being with the images of Goddess within Gimbutas’ teaching slides and employing a Dream Tending approach to imaginal intelligence, we discuss a starting point for re-remembering and re-imaginging the nurse in the contemporary context.
Jamie Mayo, PhD, MSN, PMHNP-BC
Jamie is an advanced practice nurse who has a PhD in biology and is licensed as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner. She descends from Cuban, Lithuanian, and an English/Scottish lineage. She considers story as one of the key components of health and wellness. Jamie specializes in working with clients with PTSD and/or complex trauma. She is an EMDR trained therapist who has an advanced certificate in Integrative Psychotherapy for Trauma with additional training in psychedelic assisted psychotherapy and ketamine assisted therapy. In addition to therapy, she offers psychiatric medication management. She currently works in private practice in Big Timber, Montana and as an Assistant Professor at Montana State University. She also serves as an executive board member for OPUS Archives and Research Center.
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