Ancient courage for modern challenges
We are lost. There is no doubt.
Mountain leader guides tell us the very worst thing we can do when we get lost is look at our map...
We'll convince ourselves the map fits the terrain, even in the face of contrary evidence, just to escape the feeling of being lost.
The trappings of modernity help us to escape the feeling with distractions and arbitrary markers of success and material gain.
Recalling Fire exists for those who are ready to admit we are lost.
To move towards uncertainty.
To 'get better at being lost'.
And in doing so, to dare ourselves to meet the challenges of our times.
What brings you here?
Individuals at a crossroads...
You're not who you were, but you're not sure what comes next. You're not looking for quick or slick ways forward, you want to make something of the challenge you've overcome, to find meaning, to trust yourself, to belong in your own story.
Our events range from evenings to residential events. Small groups. Ancient myth. As the winds of uncertainty get higher, this is the work of deeper roots for stronger trees.
Leaders and organisations who want to dare differently...
You've tried team days and strategy off -sites, followed the trends, read the books, but something still needs to shift. The challenges you want to face are more fundamental. Not just efficiency hacks or updated ways of working, but thresholds for your entire culture.
Mythocartography is our practice of working alongside ancient stories to navigate uncertainty. We work with teams, leaders and movements at genuine cultural thresholds not with workshops, but with the kinds of encounter that change how people see. To organise a moment for your people, book a 30-minute call.
For those drawn by something harder to name...
You carry weight in the world. You can affect real change. You've done the leadership programmes, the coaching, the strategy work, but there's a gap between the way you lead and the changes you want to see. Your competence is actually holding you back, keeping you camouflaged, keeping you safe. The daring is bubbling in you, but something foundational needs to shift before you dare.
This is an invitation into wild terrain, enough food to last us a few days and a small number of people who are ready to navigate genuine uncertainty from a place deeper than strategy.
If you already have a sense of this work and want to go further, write to us with and tell us why now is the moment.
Not sure yet? Begin here...
You might find something for you in...
The podcast. Snippets of our work and interviews with our allies. Something to nourish you for the next few steps on your way.
The essay. 'Getting better at being lost': What this work is and why it matters.
Wisdom isn't learning something new, it's being reminded of what you've always known.
Testimonials
Mesmeric, deeply moving and uplifting for a tired soul. Those moments of stillness and reflection are still viscerally with me now.
What a beautiful evening. Thank you for the nourishment. I was moved to laugh and cry. I leave feeling more whole than when I arrived.
Anona Dawson, Dorset Wildlife Trust
Participant, Urban Biodiversity
Working alongside mythology
Mythocartography is the practice of working alongside ancient myth to navigate a world whose maps are failing. Not using myth as a tool or resource material, entering into it.
There is a difference, and that difference is the whole of the work.
Read/listen to Getting better at being lost for an introduction to Mythocartography.
For comment, questions and proposals, be in touch.
Weeping at the crossroads
We are journeying together through the valleys of a choking planet, suffering crises of fear and separation and obfuscation. Which way can we turn?
Wolf knows. She's howling for us to take a sharp exit from the path we're stumbling down and pause. Listen.
Once, fireside storytelling was the heart-song of a community, the meeting place of elders and youngers, ancestors and descendants, wisdom and vitality. A place to see ourselves in one another, history and nature.
In these times of confusion, intolerance, crisis...
We can call it back.