Last night’s Friends of Jung Friday lecture featuring Phil Cousineau was inspiring, electrifying, and insightful. The title of the topic was “The Secret Life and Death of Sisyphus.” As Cousineau pointed out, Albert Camus ends his essay on Sisyphus with “The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill Read more…
Two news sessions of Re-Imagining Our Relationship with Mother Earth have been scheduled for March at Mission Trails Regional Park and in April at the Tijuana River Valley Regional Park. Check out the Events page for details.
On December 2, I led a workshop organized by my great friend, Jennifer Simpson, called “Re-Writing Our Relationship With Mother Nature.” One of the participants was a Certified Nature Therapist with the Association for Nature and Forest Therapy. He had great ideas for helping people engage more deeply with nature Read more…
On Thursday, October 4, I participated in my first Ignite . What is Ignite you ask? People speaking on topics they are passionate about in a fixed format, 20 slides that advance very 15 seconds, and 5 minutes to talk. Yup that’s all you get. No notes. No words on Read more…
On October 15, the San Diego region gathered for an Alumni Mixer at Koi Zen Cellars. Many of use were meeting each other for the first time. That’s the thing with an alumni association, you don’t all attend at the same time or in the same program, but a connection Read more…
Ignite is this global phenomenon where communities come together and share what I call “lightening” talks. In other words, each talk is 5 minutes with 20 slides. That’s 15 seconds a slide. As a speaker for Ignite San Diego #8, my talk is on “Why Myths Matter.” It is incredibly Read more…
Caregiving.com is a caregiver support website. As part of their national conference, they are sponsoring a caregiver innovation award. I have submitted the Imaginal Mythology Workshop for Caregivers, but I need your support. Voting on the submissions is happening now through midnight (eastern time) on Friday, September 22. Out of 8 Read more…
Those of us not in Texas are watching with sadness and fear as torrential rains flood Texas. Stories abound on the internet of how strangers are helping strangers, former enemies are working side by side to help each other, and people are coming from around the country to help those Read more…
My Ph.D. dissertation was done as an on-line workshop for family caregivers — specifically adult woman caring for a parent. I’ve now reworked the on-line workshop to be for all caregivers, with a focus towards unpaid caregivers. The workshop is now self-paced and will be available on August 21. To Read more…
In June of this year, I quite my high paying job as a database administrator to create space for a new career as a mythologist. What’s a mythologist you ask? The short answer is a mythologist is lover of mythology. I believe mythology is part of our consciousness even if Read more…