Rewriting the Myths of Time
July 16, 23, 30, August 6, 2025
Lifelong Learner Membership Rate: $39 | Offered Live via Zoom
Program Description
This course is designed to examine, liberate, and reconfigure the mythic and archetypal images and stories of time functioning in our lives. The time of modernity yokes together understandings of self and the other with colonial-technological narratives of progress. It has helped ordain the hegemony of the Eurowestern capitalist order. We will consider the politics of time and link to the lineages and tellings of time that draw us into repair and revitalization. In the process, we will reflect on and transform our relationships to work, rest, play—and, life and death.
What You Will Receive:
- 4 Live Webinar Sessions with Q &A
- 4 Links to the Recordings
- 4 CECs
This Course is Ideal For:
- Individuals interested in understanding the relationship between control and cultures of time.
- Individuals seeking to be aware of their relationship to time and timelessness.
- Individuals exploring decolonial possibilities.
Course Overview:
Week 1: Ways of Seeing Time
Week 2: Coloniality, Modernity, and Time
Week 3: Rituals of Work, Rest, and Play
Week 4: Right Relationship to Time
Learning Objectives: (For CECs)
- Critically analyze dominant cultural constructions of time, including their roots in colonial-modern paradigms, and assess how these constructions shape individual and collective experience.
- Articulate the relationship between time, identity, and power, with particular attention to how capitalist and Eurowestern frameworks influence concepts of productivity, rest, and linear progress.
- Identify alternative, ancestral, and decolonial temporalities that foster reciprocal and regenerative relationships with self, community, and the more-than-human world.
- Describe reflective and creative practices to transform personal and cultural relationships to time, work, rest, play, and mortality, inspired by mythological, ritual, and philosophical approaches.
Course Addendums:
Bibliography, Reading List, PDFs, Creative Prompts/Reflective Questions, Films to Watch:
Han, Byung-Chul. The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering. Translated by Daniel Steuer. Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2017.
Hersey, Tricia. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto. New York: Little, Brown Spark, 2022.
Holmes, Barbara Ann. Race and the Cosmos: An Invitation to View the World Differently. Harrisburg, PA.: Trinity Press International, 2002.
Nanni, Giordano. The Colonisation of Time: Ritual, Routine and Resistance in the British Empire. Manchester, New York: Manchester University Press, 2012.
“Values,” Haudenosaunee Confederacy. https://www.haudenosauneeconfederacy.com/values/
Von Franz, Marie-Louise. Time: Rhythm and Repose. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1978.
Program Details
Dates
July 16, 23, 30, August 6, 2025, 12:00-1:00pm PT
Online 4-week course with Dr. Monica Mody
Registration Fees
- $0.00 – Pacifica Extension Student Membership Rate- ONLY FOR CURRENT PGI STUDENTS ENROLLED IN A DEGREE PROGRAM
- $112.50 – Full Time Students, Seniors (65+), Pacifica Alumni
- $125.00 – General Rate
- $39.00 – Lifelong Learner Membership Rate- ONLY FOR LIFELONG LEARNER MEMBERS
- $30.00 – Continuing Education Credit (CECs) Fee
Participants requesting Continuing Education Credits (CECs) for Online programs must attend all live sessions (offered via Zoom) in order to receive CECs. Please make sure that your Zoom account name matches the name of the attendee requesting CECs.
The presentations will be recorded and shared after each session for those unable to attend live.
Membership Pricing
As a Member of our Pacifica Degree Student Membership program, you can receive free access to this webinar series! To register and receive your special member-only, code please click here.
(Please note that the Pacifica Degree Student Membership program is only for current students at Pacifica Graduate Institute enrolled in a full-time degree program).
As a Member of our Lifelong Learner Membership program, you can register for this series for just $39! To register and receive your special member-only code, please click here.
Student Members and Lifelong Learner Members can input their member-only code in the DISCOUNT CODE box on the registration form to receive their membership pricing.
About the Teacher
Dr. Monica Mody is Assistant Professor and Chair of the Mythological Studies MA/PhD Program at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her areas of specialization include decolonial, indigenous, and women of color paradigms and epistemologies; Anzaldúan frameworks; earth-sourced and feminist spirituality and ritual; poetry, divination, oracular speech, and arts-based research; and nondual embodiment, in conversation with ancestral lineages from South Asia. Her books include Wild Fin (Weavers Press, 2024), Bright Parallel (Copper Coin, 2023), and Kala Pani (1913 Press, 2013). Other creative and academic work have been widely published and presented in journals and edited books, at international and US-based conferences, and through invited talks. Her doctoral dissertation, on decolonial feminist consciousness in South Asian borderlands, was awarded the Kore Award for Best Dissertation in Women and Mythology conferred by the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology. She has further been a recipient of Cultural Integration Fellowship’s Integral Scholarship, the Sparks Prize Fellowship (Notre Dame), the Zora Neale Hurston Award (Naropa), and a TOTO Funds the Arts award. Dr. Mody is affiliated with the Doctoral Program in Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership at Southwestern College Santa Fe and with the Women’s Spirituality Program at California Institute of Integral Studies, and offers public classes at Morbid Anatomy. More at www.drmonicamody.com.
General Information
Cancellations
Cancellations 14 days or more prior to the program start date receive a 100% refund of program registrations. After 14 days, up to 7 days prior to the program start date, a 50% refund is available. For cancellations made less than 7 days of program start date, no refund is available.
For additional information, including travel, cancellation policy, and disability services please visit our general information section.
Continuing Education Credit
This program meets qualifications for 4 hours of continuing education credit for Psychologists through the California Psychological Association (PAC014) Pacifica Graduate Institute is approved by the California Psychological Association to provide continuing education for psychologists. Pacifica Graduate Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Full attendance is required to receive a certificate.
This course meets the qualifications for 4 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Pacifica Graduate Institute is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (#60721) to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs. Pacifica Graduate Institute maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Full attendance is required to obtain a certificate.
For Registered Nurses through the California Board of Registered Nurses this course meets qualifications of 4 hours of continuing education credit are available for RNs through the California Board of Registered Nurses (provider #CEP 7177). Full attendance is required to obtain a certificate.
Pacifica Graduate Institute is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs. Pacifica Graduate Institute maintains responsibility for each program and its content. Full attendance is required to receive a certificate.
Continuing Education Goal. Pacifica Graduate Institute is committed to offering continuing education courses to train LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs to treat any client in an ethically and clinically sound manner based upon current accepted standards of practice. Course completion certificates will be awarded at the conclusion of the training and upon participant’s submission of his or her completed evaluation.
CECs and Online Program Attendance: Participants requesting Continuing Education Credits (CECs) for Online programs must attend all live sessions (offered via Zoom) in order to receive CECs. Please make sure that your Zoom account name matches the name of the attendee requesting CECs.
For those who meet the CEC requirements, CE Certificates will be emailed out 1 month after the course.
Registration Details
July 16, 23, 30, August 6, 2025
Number of Classes: 4 Classes
Class Length: 1.5 hours
Class Time: 12-1pm PT
CECs: 4
Participants requesting Continuing Education Credits (CECs) for Online programs must attend all live sessions (offered via Zoom) in order to receive CECs. Please make sure that your Zoom account name matches the name of the attendee requesting CECs.
