The Mythic Imagination Institute is a non-profit organization based in Atlanta, Georgia, whose purpose is to encourage a creative response to life, both individual and collective, through storytelling and mythology: "Every life is a story, and a story can change the world." The Institute's main vehicles for achieving this purpose are conferences, performance festivals, lectures, and educational classes.
Past events organized or sponsored by Mythic Imagination Institute include:
The
Mythic Journeys conferences in 2004 and 2006 in Atlanta.
In 2008, the MII offered a one-year certificate program in Applied Mythology, in partnership with the
New York Open Center.
In 2009, Imaginal Cells Filmworks in partnership with MII premiered the documentary film Mythic Journeys, based on interviews conducted at the 2006 Mythic Journeys conference.
The Mythic Imagination Institute's official website features an online, quarterly magazine Mythic Passages, which includes contributions from renowned scholars, artists, poets, and performers.