Bonnie, Thank you for putting this inquiry group together.  It is good timing for me as I am finding myself continually standing at different crossroads, and my depth conviction is that exploring our shared journeys and recognizing some crossroads together, along with our individual places and talents, we will open some co-creative dimensions to foster specific embodied moves into whole-making for our planet.  My past experience is anchored in the business world, from real estate renovation and sales, corporate business development as well as art gallery management and sales.  After my time in the early SF dot.com tech world, I was lucky enough to be able to find the Depth Psych. program at SSU, where a sense of the Imaginal came back into my life, resurrected from my BA in Comparative Religion, aeons ago.

After a very rich two-year immersion and much longer thesis writing time with a wonderful Depth Psychology Cohort in the Sonoma State U. program in 2008,  I have been living for the past three years in the Valley of the Moon,  in Sonoma County, which was by chance the first place I ever visited in California outside of a city.  I remembered how much I was taken by the land and the rising full moon that I saw - augmented by a great meal and barrel tastings at family-owned Ravenswood Winery, in the aptly named valley.  Sense of place is very important to me, and I have really come to be aware of a sense of homelessness, the displaced from feeling one with the Earth, especially during the great climate disruptions we (I) have been experiencing. 

One area that has been of keen interest to me is in languaging and creating bodily felt-sense metaphors to convey the state of the ecosphere (inner and outer) to 'normal' people.  This certainly is part of the depth psych work I want to do in the world.  I used to volunteer for a non-profit in Marin whose mission was about stopping underwater noise pollution and saving whales and dolphins and fish from deadly sonar, etc., through public education.  This set the stage for me in exploring psyche in community via different paths of communication with felt-sense, imaging and metaphor.  George Lakoff (political genius who brought the concept of metaphor and framing issues into the forefront) used to come talk to our little group.

Now I have had a web domain on hold called Empowered Imagination... I am interested in somehow working with people, companies, groups, etc. in ways of fully inhabiting all of our faculties to co-create solutions for the climate crisis, whose root seems to be our disconnected sense of being, or homelessness.  One direct route which i am exploring is in how to enrich our native proprioceptive abilities, to learn to map our physical, mental, emotional and soul body beyond our current prescribed patterns, so we may open to expanded co-creative ways of tending our Home.  I have come to appreciate tacit knowledge: "The most powerful learning comes from bodily experience," Nonaka and Takeuchi, The Knowledge-Creating Company, 1995.  And this mapping must go all the way to the Infinite, as Bonnie put on the home page of the DPA site, this Jung quote, which I love:  "...In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential we embody, and if we do not embody that, life is wasted." (MDR, 1989, p. 325) 

I have been focused on broadening out my depth repertoire by boldly going into what is my inferior function - the Sensate -  within the last few years by immersion in somatic work, energy Aikido, interpersonal neurobiology and proprioception, with some amazing teachers in the SF area, as well as really diving into personal depth work with the Jung book group of the last 3.5 years now (self-organized and still ongoing, more or less!) and by participating in a for three years now with a cohort of people from around the country in Integral Transformative Practice.  It seems that my aim is to weave practices to deepen embodiment of 'the greater field' through transformative experiences of body, heart, mind and soul.