Personal Growth Work

“[Mystery School workshops] invite you to step fully into yourself. They encourage you to seize your life. They challenge you to take your world in your hands and shape it according to your deepest beliefs. Our work is based on self-discovery and self-creation.”
--Cynthia Jones

Why do this work? Why grow? Why transform? These are not easy questions to answer. Personal growth, and the transformative change it leads to, is the foundation of the Diana's Grove leadership program, and a foundational piece of community building as well. Each person's reason to seek out personal growth, to risk transformation, will be their own.

"Live in the world today as you want it to be in the future."
-- Alice Walker

Do you desire to change the world? Does a dream, a destiny, call your name? Are you called to lead a group or an effort and need to become more than you are to do this work? These are all reasons that might lead you to the path of taking transformation into your hands.

"Magic is the art of changing consciousness at will."
--Dion Fortune

Diana's Grove Mystery School is a Mystery tradition that believes the only consciousness that anyone can truly change is our own. Diana's Grove classes, rituals, and intensives offer experiences that provide space and structure for personal growth. They provide a way to lead individuals to their own discovery. Who are you? What do you want to change into? What old habits do you wish to move past? Who is the self you would choose to be?

"The philosophy is that, by becoming who we are, who we choose to be, we will change the world…one person at time."
--Cynthia Jones

This spiraling process of self-discovery, self-creation, and individuation is made transparent through the mythic archetype of the labyrinth. Learn more about the Finding Your Center class and the use of the seven-circuit labyrinth in this process.

"Personal Growth....Self-realization, self-actualization, yes…but in the context of building relationships and sharing your life with others. Not personal growth just for yourself but personal growth so you can be more fully a part of a community, more acutely present in all of your relationships."
--Cynthia Jones

The experiential offerings of the Grove-style classes and rituals focuses on personal growth as a key piece of creating community. Community is created through authentic exchange, healthy process, Cornerstones, community ritual...community is created and sustained by people who are doing their personal work. Healthy leaders of community are more effective and empowering when they, too, stand on a strong foundation of personal work.

What are your dreams? What do you reach for? What gets into your way when you take a step towards your goals? These are the questions that the KC Mystery School, and the Diana's Grove creating community classes, will ask you. Are you ready to take responsibility for your own personal growth and development? Learn more about the KC Mystery School and other class offerings >>

“Our intention is that the life force that each of us raises within ourselves can be used to change the repressive patterns of a lifetime. It is that each of us can use our own energy to break the patterns that hold us back and ask us to be less alive and less vital than we can be. Those patterns are held in our muscles. They are held in the cells of our bodies. The energy that each of us raises in ritual moves through us. As it does, we are vitalized. We break free. More life force is available to us to take into the areas of our life that call us. "That which we seek, if we don't find it within ourselves, we will never find it without." By growing into ourselves, we have more to contribute to the world.”
--Cynthia Jones