Location
Hornby Island, BC
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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, Clinical Psychology, Mythology, Ecopsychology, Somatic Psychology, Transpersonal Psychology, Dreamwork, Shamanism, Breathwork
If you are signing up as an Individual Member, do you have a degree in Depth Psychology?
M.A., Other type of Psychology
If so, from what institution?
East-West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies.
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?
When I was just seven years old I was first haunted by a phantom in a dream. I was lucky enough then to find a depth-oriented school counsellor, who invited and encouraged me to engage with the spirit and ask what it wanted in my room. Whether she did so knowingly or not, this amazing woman (a mentor until today) introduced my little psyche to lucid dreaming, and liberated me to the world of depth psychology. Since then I, like so many others in these over-rational times, have skirted the edges of the numinous in modern Western paradigm, socially acceptable ways. While truly attracted to the mysteries of Life, I found my way to an academic study of science, ecology and agriculture, an arena where I figured I could be acceptably in relation with the unknown, and not a 'flake'. This turned into permaculture and ecological restoration (and in-the-closet art and spirituality), and then finally after many rationality-defying experiences, honey-dipped in Gaia, to an MA at CIIS and 300-hours of training in massage therapy, where I could probe the mindbodyspirit with more liberty to ask and discover and develop a greater breadth of my integrated callings. Having finished the MA in May 2015, I've moved back up to Canada where my family is starting up a holistic farming, arts, and healing project on a tiny magical island. From this community I seek to continually engage, develop, and practice my inquiry and offering, learning ever more, and sharing what I discover. I hope to both discover mentors and inspirations, and perhaps offer the same to others. Broadly, I seek to share support on the never-ending unfolding of each of our depth paths.
Do you belong to any other online Psychology-related communities or orgs? If so, which?
I ran a permaculture-based non-profit for several years called Livingland. Soon enough I realized that environ'mental' problems, and their solutions, are just that, 'mental', so I embarked on a 2-year sojourn with East-West Psych at CIIS. Now graduated, depth psychology and related themes are being integrated into the work that Livingland does. So, my own organization, Livingland is a psychology-related project and community.
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Greetings Ryan and welcome to the Alliance! I hope you will find it a place of support, community and nourishment of your many depth psychological pursuits and interests.
We are an international community of over 4,300 members from all walks of life, all sharing interest and experience working with the unconscious, dreams, the archetypal realm, and the many other branches and roots of our field of inquiry. There is much cross-disciplinary knowledge and experience here to be shared and explored. We hope you will dive in and share some of your experience, your questions and your reflections.
Upcoming events can be found under the explore button. And there are many listed and more in the works for this new year.
And finally, fellow board member Donna May and I will be hosting an online Deep Meet and Greet to welcome you and other new members to the Alliance. It would be great to see you there and get to know you a bit more at that time. The next Deep Meet n Greet is this Tuesday, January 12 at 5PM PDT. You can find more details and RSVP for the event here if you think you can make it.
In the meantime, I look forward to seeing you around the boards & please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.
In Soul,
Mark, Board Member
"Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us."
--Carl Jung