My aspiration:
All my work focuses on reimagining our guiding stories, melting down their lore to liberate humane, expansive, and Earth-honoring possibilities.
Venues:
Harvard Radcliffe Institute - New School at Commonweal.org - Ards Friary - American Philosophical Association - Teton Leadership Center - NPR - Graduate Theological Union - Mythologium - Cambridge Jungian Circle - Bren School at UCSB - Joseph Campbell Foundation - Friends of Jung groups - Jumpstart Mastery - Technological University of the Shannon - Mind Body Training Institute - London Arts-Based Reearch Center - National University - CIIS - IONS - Pacifica Graduate Institute - Santa Barbara City College - Shue Yan University - Royal Roads University - Columbia School of Business Alumni - Canadian Ecopsychology Network - Jung Platform - Pomona College - Schumacher College - The Wildling Museum - Highground Hackers - University of Guelph Radio - KQED - KWMR - WEAA....
Read my article "Imagination: The Engine of Possibility" at the blog of the American Philosophical Association.
I walked outside to take a break from work and saw this...wow.
Current Obsessions
Exploring the intersection of story, psyche, place, imagination, myth, and dream.
I am honored to be a scholar in residency at Commonweal, where we build new futures together.
A new kind of academy for teaching cultural change through imagination, story, creativity, and possibility.
My Assembling Terrania Cycle is set in the near future. How can our species grow to its fullest stature?
Four-week online classes on topics like inspiring change, leading with wisdom, and personal myth.
An online community for creatives, visionaries, healers, dreamers, and everyone wanting to make deep change.
Keep up with the work of reimagining, storytelling, reenchanting, possibility detection, mythologizing, and play.
I think the thing that utopian visions do for us is they shake us out of the status quo. They shake us out of thinking that the world as we live in it today is fixed, that it can’t change. And it’s the dreamers, it’s the utopians who are able to move us forward.
－Kristen Godhsee
If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives.
－Ben Okri
The dead are dead. The great and mighty go their way unchecked. All the hope left in the world is in the people of no account.
－Ursula Le Guin
Throughout my whole life, during every minute of it, the world has been gradually lighting up and blazing before my eyes until it has come to surround me, entirely lit up from within.
－Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
