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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 I've 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. In 2010, I founded The School of the Examined
Life, through which I teach and facilitate classes and workshops
that examine the unconscious (shadow), relationships, life-stages,
and emotions through the lenses of personal experience,
theoretical writing, self-help insights, and film. I have found film to
be a powerful lens through which people can better understand
themselves and others.
Currently I am teaching courses both in my private studio and at
Southern Oregon University's OLLI program in Ashland. I have
created programs for high school students on such topics as
paradox, gender issues, assumptions, black and white thinking,
romantic love, and shadow. I am a frequent contributor to the
Ashland “Daily Tidings.”
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."
now I learned best through experience but I've 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. In 2010, I founded The School of the Examined
Life, through which I teach and facilitate classes and workshops
that examine the unconscious (shadow), relationships, life-stages,
and emotions through the lenses of personal experience,
theoretical writing, self-help insights, and film. I have found film to
be a powerful lens through which people can better understand
themselves and others.
Currently I am teaching courses both in my private studio and at
Southern Oregon University's OLLI program in Ashland. I have
created programs for high school students on such topics as
paradox, gender issues, assumptions, black and white thinking,
romantic love, and shadow. I am a frequent contributor to the
Ashland “Daily Tidings.”
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."
