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I am now in the mid-stream of my life. What I have
learned up until now I learned best through experience
but have also done a lot of reading, attended a number
of relevant workshops, and experienced various
modalities of psychotherapy. Much of my process of
self-exploration and transformation is through working
with the Jungian "road map," including dreams and
archetypes.
Looking back, I realize that my burning desire since
very young was to understand myself and others,
though the route was circuitous. Starting as an Art
major, I got my Bachelors degree in Accounting. I
married and lived in France for 16 years where my
three sons were born. I moved to Ashland, Oregon in
2001. I received my Masters in Transpersonal Studies
in 2005 from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
in Palo Alto, California.
What excites me most in life is exploring ways to
empower people (that includes myself!) through
education, mentoring, and transformation. To that end, I
teach film and other courses at Southern Oregon
University Extended Campus Program. I also facilitate
a women's study group called "Cultivating the Orchid,"
and am working on several book ideas, one on the
transformational power of film. As a volunteer at the
local high school, I generate discussions in an
alternative classroom on such topics as paradox,
assumption, black and white thinking, romantic love,
and shadow.
I have come to believe in the transformative power of
questioning, not answering. What happens to us when,
as Rilke says, "we love the questions themselves as if
they were locked rooms or books written in a very
foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which
could not be given to you now, because you would not
be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything.
Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in
the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live
your way into the answer."
learned up until now I learned best through experience
but have also done a lot of reading, attended a number
of relevant workshops, and experienced various
modalities of psychotherapy. Much of my process of
self-exploration and transformation is through working
with the Jungian "road map," including dreams and
archetypes.
Looking back, I realize that my burning desire since
very young was to understand myself and others,
though the route was circuitous. Starting as an Art
major, I got my Bachelors degree in Accounting. I
married and lived in France for 16 years where my
three sons were born. I moved to Ashland, Oregon in
2001. I received my Masters in Transpersonal Studies
in 2005 from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
in Palo Alto, California.
What excites me most in life is exploring ways to
empower people (that includes myself!) through
education, mentoring, and transformation. To that end, I
teach film and other courses at Southern Oregon
University Extended Campus Program. I also facilitate
a women's study group called "Cultivating the Orchid,"
and am working on several book ideas, one on the
transformational power of film. As a volunteer at the
local high school, I generate discussions in an
alternative classroom on such topics as paradox,
assumption, black and white thinking, romantic love,
and shadow.
I have come to believe in the transformative power of
questioning, not answering. What happens to us when,
as Rilke says, "we love the questions themselves as if
they were locked rooms or books written in a very
foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which
could not be given to you now, because you would not
be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything.
Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in
the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live
your way into the answer."
