Using Myth to Gain Insight with Kwame Scruggs Ph.D
Join award-winning mythologist Kwame Scruggs, Ph.D. for a powerful 6-hour immersive experience that reveals how myth can illuminate your inner world, sharpen your emotional intelligence, and guide your journey with clarity and purpose.
Course Details & Format
Today, science and psychology confirm what ancient storytellers always knew—myths reflect the deep structure of the human psyche. In this course, you won’t learn myth. Over 6 hours (2 x 3 hours), you’ll experience myth as a mirror that reveals the invisible patterns shaping your life.
📆 19th & 20th May 2026
🕓 12PM-3PM EST (daily)
🎙️ Live Event
🕖 6 Hours (2x 3 hours)
💳 $199
Who This Training Course Is For
Therapists, counselors, and clinicians seeking a deeper reflective tool
First responders and public safety professionals navigating high-stress emotional landscapes
Coaches, educators, and leaders committed to personal mastery
Anyone at a crossroads in life or identity
Anyone drawn to myth, story, or inner transformation
You don’t need prior knowledge of mythology.
You only need curiosity—and a willingness to explore your inner world.
For therapists, counselors, and clinicians • 8 Modules • Two ‘live’ 3-hour sessions delivered via Zoom (one session each day).
Discover the Hidden Architecture of Your Inner World
1. How Myth Reflects Your Unconscious
Learn why your reactions to mythic stories reveal core emotional truths and hidden assumptions.
2. Emotional Insight Through Story
Your responses—what moves you, what disturbs you—become powerful indicators of internal patterns.
3. Recognizing Archetypal Themes in Your Life
Identify where you are in your own hero’s journey: the wound, the call, the threshold, the trial, the helper, the return.
4. Dialogue as a Tool for Understanding
Learn how reflective conversation unlocks clarity, compassion, and self-awareness.
5. Using Insight to Navigate Real Decisions
Transform symbolic understanding into grounded action in relationships, leadership, and personal growth.
6. A Repeatable Framework for Lifelong Growth
Walk away with a method you can use again and again—anytime you need direction or deeper understanding.
What You'll Learn from Dr Kwame Scruggs's Course
Through masterful storytelling, guided reflection, and emotionally resonant dialogue, Dr. Scruggs leads you on a journey into the symbolic world of myth—helping you uncover your own beliefs, reactions, wounds, strengths, and thresholds.
🎓 Myth, Meaning & the Human Psyche
“Why do stories that are thousands of years old still feel personal?”
Focus:
- Myth as a psychological mirror rather than a literal story
- How humans make meaning across different life stages
- The distinction between story (plot) and symbol (psychological truth)
- Why myth persists as a tool for orientation, not explanation
✅ Key Outcome:
Participants understand myth as a living psychological language and begin using it as a tool for self-reflection rather than interpretation or belief.
🎓 Emotional & Critical Ways of Knowing
“What am I reacting to, and what does it say about me?”
Focus:
Emotional reactions (resonance, discomfort, fascination, longing) as meaningful data
The felt sense as an entry point into insight
Identifying assumptions, beliefs, and internal narratives beneath reactions
Finding meaning without literalism or over-analysis
✅ Key Outcome:
Participants learn to balance emotional awareness with critical reflection, allowing insight without overwhelm, detachment, or self-judgement.
🎓 Patterns, Themes & Reflective Inquiry
“Why do the same themes keep showing up in my life?”
Focus:
- Identifying recurring mythic themes such as abandonment, belonging, sacrifice, power, betrayal, and courage
- Linking symbolic themes to real-world relationships and decisions
- Recognising personal values hidden inside emotional responses
- Using a structured reflective inquiry method to pause, question, and clarify meaning
✅ Key Outcome:
Participants gain a repeatable method for recognising patterns and translating emotional reactions into clear psychological understanding.
🎓 From Insight to Action
“How do I use this without it staying abstract?”
Focus:
- Translating symbolic insight into practical experiments
- Turning themes into value-aligned next steps
- Small, doable actions that create real change over time
- Guided practice using a myth or fairy tale
- Creating a personal Myth-to-Meaning action plan
✅ Key Outcome:
Participants leave with a grounded, personal framework that turns mythic insight into lived change, not just reflection.
This Training Is For...
- Therapists, counselors, and clinicians
- First responders and public safety professionals
- Coaches, educators, and leaders
- Anyone at a crossroads in life or identity
- Anyone drawn to myth, story, or inner transformation
Meet Your Course Instructor
Kwame Scruggs, Ph.D
Kwame Scruggs, Ph.D. is an award-winning cultural mythologist and teacher who uses myth to connect with both youth and adults. He offers a variety of personalized workshops and guided groups, often set to the beat of a drum, stopping at critical points, creating introspection and critical thinking with a keen focus on the art of listening.
Scholar of Myth & Meaning
Dr Kwame Scruggs, PhD, is a scholar and educator whose work focuses on myth as a psychological and philosophical tool for understanding human experience.
Drawing from depth psychology, literature, and symbolic analysis, his teaching explores how myths function as mirrors of internal life rather than historical explanations or belief systems.
His approach helps learners engage myth as a living language of meaning, identity, and transformation across the lifespan.
Psychological & Symbolic Lens
Rather than treating myth as metaphor or morality tale, Dr Scruggs teaches myth as a symbolic system that reveals emotional patterns, values, and unconscious assumptions.
Participants learn to attend to their internal reactions — resonance, discomfort, fascination, and longing — as meaningful data rather than distractions.
This lens allows insight to emerge organically, without over-intellectualising or collapsing symbols into literal interpretations.
Structured Reflective Method
Central to the course is a clear, structured method for reflective inquiry that integrates emotional awareness with critical thinking.
Dr Scruggs guides participants through identifying assumptions, narrative scripts, and recurring themes that shape perception and decision-making.
This method provides a repeatable way to pause at key moments, name insight clearly, and avoid both detachment and over-identification.
Insight Into Lived Action
“Using Myth to Gain Insight” is designed to move understanding beyond abstraction and into lived experience.
Participants learn how to translate symbolic insight into value-aligned actions, small experiments, and practical next steps.
The course culminates in guided application using myth or fairy tale material, resulting in a personal Myth-to-Meaning framework that supports clarity, flexibility, and intentional change.
Using Myth to Gain Insight
A powerful 6-hour (2 x 3 hours) immersive experience that reveals how myth can illuminate your inner world, sharpen your emotional intelligence, and guide your journey with clarity and purpose.
Course Investment
$199
6 Hours • Live Instruction
- Emotional Thinking
- Critical Thinking
- Themes That Repeat
- Translating Insight Into Action
Course Summary
About
Using Myth to Gain Insight invites participants into a structured exploration of mythology and fairy tales as tools for psychological insight, meaning-making, and purposeful living. Through an integrative approach that combines emotional thinking (felt resonance and inner response) with critical thinking (examining beliefs, patterns, and assumptions), learners will practice engaging mythic narratives as mirrors for personal development and professional reflection. Participants will identify recurring themes that influence decisions and relationships, and learn a practical inquiry method to translate mythic insight into grounded, values-aligned action.
Agenda
🕖 6 Hours
Agenda:
Module 1 — Why Myth Still Works
Module 2 — Emotional Thinking
Module 3 — Critical Thinking
Module 4 — Integrating Both Lenses
Module 5 — Themes That Repeat
Module 6 — Structured Reflective Inquiry (Method)
Module 7 — Translating Insight Into Action
Module 8 — Application Practice
- Guided engagement with a myth or fairy tale
- Written reflection and takeaway summary
- Your personal “Myth-to-Meaning” action plan
Your Instructor
Kwame Scruggs, Ph.D. is an award-winning cultural mythologist and teacher who uses myth to connect with both youth and adults. He offers a variety of personalized workshops and guided groups, often set to the beat of a drum, stopping at critical points, creating introspection and critical thinking with a keen focus on the art of listening.
Core Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
Describe at least two ways myths and fairy tales can be used as meaning-making frameworks to support psychological insight and growth.
Differentiate between emotional thinking and critical thinking when interpreting mythic narratives, and identifyat least one clinical benefit of integrating both approaches.
Analyze a myth or fairy tale to identify at least three recurring personal themes (e.g., beliefs, values, behavioral patterns, relational dynamics) and summarize how these themes influence daily decision-making.
Apply a structured reflective process to myth engagement by generating at least three inquiry questions and formulating one actionable takeaway that supports purposeful behavior change or therapeutic self-awareness.
Course Brochure
CE Approvals
TBD