Exploring Your Personal Myth

A transformational journey blending Gothic literature, Jungian psychology, and creative symbolism, through online experiences and intimate retreats in Barcelona

Welcome to the journey

Understanding your personal myth is one of the most powerful ways to move toward inner peace.

I know exactly what it feels like to want to "stop the world and get off." During life transitions, it often seems like no one truly knows how to help, and even fewer are willing to go to the depths with you.

For the past five years, I’ve been on a deep journey of self-exploration, trying to understand why the so-called “dark night of the soul” descends upon so many of us—and how to find light within it.

After completing many courses and a Master's degree, reading countless books, writing essays, attending and presenting webinars, guiding others, and exploring my own story, I’ve created a myth roadmap as a way of coming to terms with my personal myth and making meaning from it.

My name is Alicia, I am an English philologist with a Master in Jungian psychology, and I offer workshops and intimate retreats designed for self-exploration and inner reconnection.

If you're navigating a season of change, loss, a career crisis, illness, a relocation, or simply the feeling of "I don’t know who I am right now", and you’re drawn to exploring it through symbolic and narrative perspectives, this space is for you.

"What we are to our inward vision, and what man appears to be subspecie aeternitatis, can only be expressed by way of myth. Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science. Science works with concepts of averages, which are far too general to do justice to the subjective variety of an individual life."

Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl G. Jung

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Unearthing your story can help you restore your understanding of life, death and the in-betweens. Learning to free yourself from what doesn't resonate with you takes courage, patience and a lot of curiosity. Living a "non-life" can make you invisible to yourself. Discover your true identity and break free from what constrains you by exploring your personal myth.

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Descent Work

In this living, evolving space, you are invited to unearth the hidden layers of your being through ancestral stories, archetypal images, and creative soul-work.

Gothic tales, those shadowy companions of the human psyche, guide us like breadcrumbs through the forest of the unconscious. In them, we meet what we fear, what we long for, and what we’ve forgotten. They speak of thresholds, taboos, brokenness, and transformation.

My workshops and retreats are a call to step away from surface living and descend into who you truly are, rooted in nature, myth, imagination, and embodied creativity.

The Workshops and Retreats Invite You To:

Listen to the quiet voice that speaks through symbols, stories, dreams, and the land
Discover your own truth in everyday moments, subtle exchanges, and intuitive insights
Express your inner world through collage, clay, sand play, painting, writing, movement, crochet, or silence
Reclaim exiled parts of yourself through deep reflection and connection with archetypal patterns across cultures and time

This is not therapy; this is Descent Work: a mythopoetic journey into depth, imagination, and the sacred.

Steeped in a lifelong study of the Gothic, myth, and symbolic language, my workshops and retreats offer intimate, soulful experiences for those drawn to the luminous hiddenness of the human experience.

You’re not coming here to be fixed; you’re coming here to remember.

Exploring Your Personal Myth

Online Workshop - Step 1

Art as a Mirror of the Unconscious

What if your drawings or words were speaking the language of your soul?

In this workshop, we will dive into creative expression to listen to the symbols that emerge from within. No artistic skills are needed, only curiosity and a willingness to explore. Through guided exercises, and reflection, we will allow the unconscious to speak back to us. This is a space to explore, not to perform. A space where your inner myth begins to show its face.

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Online Workshop - Step 2

Gothic Literature as a Communication Tool

Gothic literature is rich in symbolic language that speaks directly to the unconscious.

In this workshop, we will journey through Gothic texts from all times as soul-listeners. We’ll explore the figures we fear as through reflection, dialogue and intuitive writing. You will get learn tools to name and engage with the inner characters that shape your mythic story. This is an invitation to read yourself through the Gothic lens.

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Online Workshop - Step 3

Your Personal Shadow

The Shadow we carry is a part of us waiting to be acknowledged.

In this workshop, we will gently explore desires, fears, wounds, and strengths we may have rejected. Using guided reflection, creative exercises, and symbolic language, we will be aware of our Shadow and see it as another part of us. Acknowledging what lives in the dark is a courageous step toward inner freedom.

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Online Workshop - Step 4

Death and Transformation

Death is a physical event and a symbolic transformation: endings are changes that ask us to let go of who we were.

In this workshop, we will explore death as a natural part of life’s cycles. Through dreams, images, writing, and reflection, we will see death as a portal to transformation. We will hold space for what is dying and open the door to what wants to emerge. This is a space for those seeking a deeper relationship with life, inner and outer changes and its rhythms.

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Dreams and Synchronicities

Symbols are the language of the soul. Listen to them and the outer world speak, in signs, patterns and coincidences.

In this workshop, we will learn how to approach dreams as living messages. Exploring dream images, motifs, and emotional tones helps us connect with life's synchronicities. This is an invitation to deepen your intuition and to see how your inner and outer worlds are already in conversation. When you listen to your dreams, life begins to dream you back.

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Personal Descent and Self-Discovery

Meaningful journeys begin with a descent into the depths of the self. Just as it happens in myths.

In this workshop, you will begin your own personal descent to face what has been silenced, recover lost parts of yourself and listen for the myth that wants to be lived through you. Using guided exercises, symbolic exploration, and creative mapping, you will shape the mythic road map that honours your story and your becoming. This is a journey of remembering.

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In a world that rarely gives space for inner work, Cal Couper offers myth-based retreats and symbolic workshops to help you reconnect with your inner truth. Guided by story, archetypes, and creative ritual, we help you explore the sacred meaning in your life transitions.

Alice in Gothic Land (Alicia Domínguez Pérez)

A Living Myth in the Making

Cal Couper began as a home project. It was a shared

dream between my husband and me, back in 2005.

In 2015, it became part of our livelihood when we realised

how much potential our trilingual home had for immersive

summer camps and language exchanges. Laughter echoed

through the house and the outer space. The energy was

pure magic.

But in 2018, everything changed. My husband suffered a

stroke at the end of the summer and was diagnosed with

cardiomyopathy. Then, at the end of 2019, came the

pandemic and in 2020, we moved our work online. What

followed was burnout, financial strain, and a deep existential crisis. To add to the mixture, I was diagnosed with Lyme disease in 2024 after a tick bite that brought to the surface other chronic conditions I was suspicious of. The descent into the underworld began.

If there's anything I can be certain of, it is that the dark night of the soul is as real as the sun in the sky. In both my husband’s descent and mine, our house also transformed. It went from a place of joy and activity to a space haunted by memory and quiet grief. Decay set in. The floorboards sagged, and the animal cages stood empty. Our outer world began to mirror the unravelling of our inner selves.

But, as in every true myth, even in stillness, a new call has begun to stir. From that silence, something alchemical started to emerge. A return to a new soul forged through the fire of grief.

Cal Couper is now a soulful sanctuary for those in transition. Whether you're navigating loss, illness, career change, or simply the feeling of “I don’t know who I am anymore,” this space invites you to explore your personal mythology through creativity, dreams, symbols, and story.

Here, Gothic tales and Jungian psychology meet clay, mosaic, writing, and rituals of the soul.

We welcome you to reconnect with the truth that lives in your depths, in a place where you’ll sleep beneath the vast Catalan sky, eat nourishing meals prepared with care, be held by the quiet rhythm of nature and hold meaningful conversations. This house was never meant to be perfect—it was always meant to be true.

We invite you into our imperfect home for a journey to the soul, where the personal and the archetypal meet.

In helping you find peace within its corners, you help breathe life back into this space. Together, we'll make it whole again.

Welcome to Cal Couper. Welcome to your living story.

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