Welcome to Underworld Guide, dedicated to supporting your exploration of psyche.
The work I offer is in a relatively new field; a branch of depth psychology rooted in the understanding that a person’s soul is their unique, ecological niche. I believe we are each ensouled, and as we undertake soul's initiatory journey we are transformed into a deeply authentic Self. Over time and by trusting ourselves to the alchemical process, we learn to serve this Earth as creative visionaries who contribute to a never-before-seen, life-enhancing society.
The underworld of a person’s psyche is where we hide our greatest and most terrible potentials. Carl Jung noted in his decades long study of this unconscious realm that without integration of our unconscious, underworld material, individual lives - and the lives of whole societies - will be unwittingly controlled by it. Because we have neglected the ancient wisdom of this profound psychological journey, the institutions of modern society have only bad advice for the person living at this threshold where both longing and terror begin to dismantle the life to which they desperately cling.
Your experience of this work will most effectively unfold through some combination of guided immersive experiences, small group workshops, and 1:1 mentoring. As a guide, I facilitate groups as we wander the wilder realms of nature and psyche, where we will often practice dreamwork, take deep imaginal journeys, and ceremoniously offer ourselves more fully to the shape-shifting practice of soul-making.
As a mentor, I work closely with those who are at one of life's most difficult thresholds, sometimes recognized as a Midlife Crisis. This is a season of psychological upheaval that can begin in Western society as early as the age of 25, but is more often prolonged, indefinitely, over a lifetime. At this threshold, soul is signaling that a person’s first adulthood is ready to come to an end, and a deep transformation is ready to begin. Through scheduled, weekly mentoring sessions, I accompany you on this necessary psychological descent to discover “the truth at the center of the image you were born with”, to quote poet David Whyte.
Dreamwork Training
Online and Ongoing · Tuesdays · 7:00PM-8:15PM · $20
Drop in for an online experiential training group focused on working with dreams as living images.
Each session, I will ask for volunteers to share a dream and become an active participant in the dreamwork.
I will also provide instruction and support for learning to track your dreams and work independently with the dream images.
Dreamwork offers a direct entry into the underworld of psyche and imagination.
As a dreamwork group, we agree to hold one another’s dreams in the strictest confidentiality.
Please express your interest in this group and when we have enough participants I will reach out to schedule.
Mentoring
In Person and Online
In mentoring, we practice attuning to the language of soul, in the depths of dreamwork or exploring the emotional textures of the psyche. As your mentor, I am in service to the emergence of your most authentic self - the soul.
I welcome you to begin a mentoring relationship with me, without previous experience as a participant in nature-based depth psychology - though this will require a bit of orientation. There will be reading, and you’ll be expected to spend a few hours alone each week in local, semi-wild places with suggested invitations designed to support your journey.
Mentoring is a real commitment from both parties to a life-changing relationship.
To begin a conversation about working together, please complete the mentoring inquiry.
Mentoring fees are $75
Sessions typically last 60-75 min
Parent Council
In Person · TBD
Council is a space to practice speaking and listening from the heart.
As parents, we are often carrying a lot of responsibility. Beneath the busyness of our lives we may also be struggling to find time for self-care.
Council is a sacred space, a time set apart from the usual kinds of conversations we have around the neighborhood. Its a space to speak what is deeply true for you, and to be listened to without fear of judgement. Its also a place to practice listening from the heart to the thoughts and feelings of others, without judgement or the need to offer advice or fix their problems.
To learn more about council, or to register please fill out the inquiry form below.
We’re building something special, but it will take generations.
This human-induced polycrisis is unraveling Earth’s systems at an unnerving pace. Our disconnect from the animate world has never been more apparent. Humans are largely unable to cope with overwhelming emotions that come from knowing we are devastating the very ecosystems that make life possible on this planet.
The Dominator Culture has tipped its hand, revealing for all to see the greed that drives multinational corporations to extract and exploit our planet’s resources. In the coming decades, billions of human lives will be under threat of starvation because of the increasing climate catastrophe. Artificial Intelligence in the hands of for-profit corporations will neither provide equitable nor sufficient solutions; while placing hope in AI means permitting data centers to consume massive amounts of planetary resources.
The future looks quite bleak. But this is why we now need to turn our attention to the creation and preservation of soul-centric cultures in local communities around the world. This effort may be small, but its not insignificant. We have the opportunity to explore the potentials of human imagination and discover new possibilities for a future civilization deeply rooted in the land, resounding with soul, and sharing in Earth’s wisdom.
I have no great plan for how to bring this to pass. But I know it won’t happen if we don’t start coming together with an intention to process our pain in healthy ways, to seek guidance from our own intuition and the wisdom of Earth elders, and invite others to join us along the way.
If you’d like to explore belonging to such an audacious effort, please reach out! We are taking steps to clear space and time in our lives to host community meals, build friendships, and grow in relationship with our ecosystem.