Before you go further, please be sure you are applying for membership with YOUR REAL NAME, FIRST AND LAST, or if you are signing up as an organization, publisher, or project, list the organization name here; then list the name of the contact person in the next question.
AUSTRALIA
Which of the following best describes your proposed membership status? If you are signing up with your first and last name, please choose "Individual." Please do NOT choose one of the other options unless you are creating a profile page with a business or organization name
Individual
What are your main areas of interest?
Jungian Psychology, Archetypal Psychology, Mythology, Transpersonal Psychology, Art or Art Therapy, Shamanism
If you are signing up as an Individual Member, do you have a degree in Depth Psychology?
Other degree not listed here
If so, from what institution?
BA Southern Cross University, Australia
BA honours, University of New England, Australia
PH.D. Southern Cross University, Australia
Are you a licensed or clinical therapist?
no
Please share a little about yourself by way of introduction. What draws you to Depth Psychology and what are you looking for from this community?
I’m a storyteller. I inherited this oral-aural tradition from my Grandmother, who learned from her mother and eight older sisters and passed the skill, along with the tales she’d received, to me. Grandmother planted words, like seeds, into my soul, she spun story-threads, she knitted their gossamer into jumpers, crochet them into lace-shawls. Her tales edged curtains, hemmed handkerchiefs, slipped through the eye-of-the-needle and grew into flowers on plump pillows and tablecloths. She wound them around my fingers as I struggled to master knitting needles; she spooned them into my coffee and stirred them round and round … and I learned there is nothing life can throw at us that cannot be answered with a story.
Storytelling empowers change within us and in our communities; folktales make our minds flexible and creative, they broaden the scope of our thoughts and perceptions far beyond the limitations of our actual experience in every way. Stories build our ability to empathise, to be compassionate, to develop emotional intelligence. Folktales wake our imagination and show us that we can overcome fear, we can skilfully take control of our daily struggles and shift them to our advantage, and we can take charge of our lives, individually and communally, and change and shape a better course of world events. Folktales show us heroines and heroes who create nobler lives by thinking ‘outside the square’, finding courage, recognising allies, and acting with compassion, originality and a sense of humour.
I studied Visual Art, Storytelling, Recitation and Dramatic Art in Europe and Creative Writing in Australia. My passion for folktales carried me through a Ph.D. on Storytelling in Community Building.
What is your WEB SITE (IF you would like to promote it)?
https://www.storyvisionsource.com
If you have a Twitter, Facebook, Blog, or LinkedIn account and would like to have people "follow" you, list it here
https://au.linkedin.com/in/iris-curteis
Comments
Hi Iris. Welcome to the Alliance. I'm so glad you've found us. What a wonderful body of work you are immersed in. Do you have any audio or video footage of your work you can share here in the community?
Meanwhile, I think as you explore the community a bit you find a dynamic group of like-minded people who are all deeply drawn by the field of depth psychology. While there are many Jungian analysts and clinical psychologists here, our members come from many walks of life--artists, writers, doctors, healing professionals, counselors, students, business people, etc--so there is much cross-disciplinary knowledge and experience here to be shared.
On that note, there are many opportunities to engage as you browse the site. When you're ready to jump in, please feel free to post a topic for discussion in the forum, respond to someone else's post, or share a link to an article or web site you like.
Also, if you have time, you may want to consider joining the online book club—There's a new author each month, and you can jump in at anytime and participate at whatever level you wish. The Book Club is all done via writing in an open forum, so you can read all the comments that have gone on so far. In June we are featuring an anthology with an ecopsychological bent: "ReBearths: Conversations with a World Ensouled" with Dr. Craig Chalquist.
In case you need detailed help getting started and navigating the site, you can use the following link-- http://www.depthpsychologyalliance.com/page/navigating-the-site--and please don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions at all! I look forward to seeing you around the community. ~Bonnie Bright, Founder