work and practice
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Groups & Workshops
ACCEPTING MEMBERS:
Living Intentionally with Mortality Workshop - Starts June 12th
Reading Liberation Psychology - NEW BOOK - Hospicing Modernity Starts 6/15
Elder Ring - 10 weeks, Friday afternoons - Start date TBD.
Depth & Mysticism Study Group: NEW BOOK: The Way of Chuang Tzu by Thomas Merton. Starts 6/6
Honored to be teaching one of the modules in this Pacifica Graduate Institute extension course: Aging as Spiritual Practice: A Rite of Passage for Stepping into the Elder Archetype - Certificate Program in Conscious Aging
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Consultation
I offer brief or intermittent online individual support, assessment, coaching, vocational mentoring, or spiritual direction:
for people negotiating transitions in career, or life-stage, and can help clarify changing priorities in the face of collective stresses
for therapists, clergy, professessed reglious and other helping professionals
for artists and creatives to support their projects and negotiate blocks
for those facing life-threatening diagnoses
for those who are seeking integration support after psychedelic therapies
I have had many specialties and sub-specialties over the course of a 30 year career and I am usually able to quickly determine if I think I can be of use, or offer considered referrals
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Community
Community Discussion Archives - one-time, recorded events: Ninety minute facilitated public discussions on negotiating collective and
cultural challenges such as Mortality, Uncertainty, Moral Injury, Community Resilience and Turning Points
Discernment & Emotional Function
Wednesday May 22nd 5:30 Pacific, 8:30 Eastern -
Writing
Essays: Current and archived writings I think of as more considered, for general readership, freely available online or by email
Ebooks: Essay collections assembled to accompany workshops - available for general purchase
The Good Thief Dilemma: a memoir, a meditation and an investigation through the mysteries of spiritual abuse, an unfolding project
Seminar & Lectio: a twice monthly online subscription essay series.
If you are new to my work I want to tell you about what I do and why:
To learn more about my stance and values please visit my About page
All of my services are offered on a pay-what-you-can by donation basis:
You can donate to support pro bono services for those experiencing hardship
or learn more about my reimbursement model here.
Publications & Interviews
Articles and interviews on subjects including the study of dreams, white guilt, transracial adoption, pandemic grief, and living with cancer - written by myself or highlighting my work - are available on platforms such as:
Time Magazine: Climate Change is Changing How We Dream
Santa Fe NM Public Radio KSFR Interview: Grief, Loss, Mortality and Living Well - interviewed by Dr. Melanie Harth
Slate: Once, I had a mind like a steel trap, brain fog changed everything
The New York Times: The limits of my empathy with Covid deniers - a conversation with Tressie McMillan Cottom
New York Magazine: I was always terrified of wasting time. A cancer diagnosis made me reconsider
The New Yorker: It’s in dreams that Americans are making sense of Trump
National Public Radio, Here and Now: How to acknowledge mistakes and learn from them - interviewed by Jeremy Hobson
Time Magazine: The realities of raising a kid of a different race
OTHER PROJECTS
The 45 Dreams Project
I have collected and sorted over 3000 dreams about Donald Trump and the Trump administration through this blog, private emails, personal communications, and via the @45dreamsproject twitter feed. This site shares the first fourteen of twenty-eight chapters examining the themes and patterns that emerged. You can read more about this dream collection here in the New Yorker.
The Climate Dreams Project
I am actively collecting dreams, about our unconscious instincts and responses to the planetary crises we must all face. You can submit dreams anonymously by commenting at climatedreams.com. I also collect publicly shared climate dreams via Twitter @climatedreams
ORGANIZATIONS
Climate Psychology Alliance of North America
I am an active member of CPA-NA, and a volunteer on their media committee. Please visit their website for more information about climate aware training and opportunities to participate.
Lymphoma Research Foundation
I am on the Advisory Council of the Lymphoma Research Foundation. If you or a loved one are impacted by blood cancer you can find the latest information, research, and support services for patients and caregivers and survivors here.