Living Your Personal Myth
A learning community devoted to the conditions that make practitioners — and the people they work with — feel more alive, more real and more fully present.
Not another workshop. A place to keep learning together.
This four-day pilot introduces practitioners to an ongoing learning cohort that can continue meeting in Tuscany. The work combines embodied practice, psychological and mythic inquiry, clinical consultation, group process and the lived experience of being together at Dojo Bianco.
The emphasis is not on collecting more techniques. It is on developing the practitioner’s capacity for presence, spontaneity, complexity, surrender and vital encounter.
Experiencing over understanding.
Understanding matters. But the work asks what can only become real through lived experience — in the body, in relationship, in the group and in the moment.
Personal Myth
What brings you most alive? What captivates your attention, vitality, curiosity, freedom and creative expression — and what keeps you from following it?
Embodied Presence
Developing a felt, vital presence that can hold novelty, uncertainty and the possibility of something new emerging in the encounter.
Being & Becoming
Moving beyond insight alone toward the lived feeling of becoming more real, more oneself and more available to life.
Complexity & Surrender
Working with paradox, countertransference, uncertainty and the capacity to let go of knowing in order to enter wonder and reverie.
Myth, Senses & Passion
Exploring the dimensions of experience that make therapeutic material tangible rather than merely abstract.
Vitalizing The Work
Shifting from the limiting wish to be helpful toward a presence that is available, responsive and capable of meeting another person fully.
Learning is only one part of the day.
Mornings move between meditation, embodiment, teaching and demonstrations. Group discussion and reflective work support integration. Afternoons can open into walks, horse time, hiking and the Italian countryside. Evenings return to the table and to community.
The place is part of the process.
The group lives and works inside Dojo Bianco: the lodging, meals, fields, horses, quiet and beauty are not background scenery. They create the conditions in which work, play, rest and reflection can belong to the same experience.
Michael Mervosh
Michael is a licensed clinical psychologist and long-time individual and group psychotherapist. His work brings together psychological depth, myth, nature, group process and embodied transformation. He founded the Hero’s Journey® Foundation, created Vitalization Training, and served as co-founder and lead trainer of PsychoEnergetics Training from 2008 to 2024.
“It is more important to me that my presence be felt as vital, rather than my interventions be correct.”
September 10–13, 2026
Arrivals Wednesday evening · Group begins Thursday morning · Concludes with lunch Sunday · Limited to 10 participants.
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