I shared a couple of essays in the past few weeks: This one on Basarab Nicolescu’s book on physics and spirituality: From Modernity to Cosmodernity , and I freed this essay from behind a paywall about Elise Boulding’s work on the sociology of violent cultures and eras and how they engender more aggression in all of us who are embedded in them, and how we might need to begin to practice “gentling”

UPCOMING GROUPS & WORKSHOPS:

STARTS OCTOBER 9th

Room for 2 more members!

Dream Work Consult Group For Mental Health Clinicians

Bi-monthly On Fridays @ 11am Pacific, 12noon Mountain, 1pm Central, 2PM Eastern

This is a biweekly clinical consultation, discussion and peer support group via Zoom, organized for psychotherapists and mental health clinicians to share and amplify dreams that emerge in their practices - client’s dreams and/or practitioner’s dreams - to explore the clinical, and personal and collective implications of our dreaming and to tend to the valuable spiritual, creative, and psychological content that grows from them.

This is really my heart’s work and I’d love for folks to join me here, or share this with others who may be interested!

DREAM, ART AND IMAGE

STARTING OCTOBER 28

10 sessions, Wednesday evenings

This is also an additional session of a workshop that filled up quickly and we are accepting applications for the next round:

We will explore some of the richness of visual dream work: How dream aspects can show up in composition, color, shape, perspective, etc. We will also explore the act of creating such imagery from dream material, and how this is its own process of relationship and analysis, worth doing in its own right.

No artistic background required!

DREAM WORK AND TAROT

STARTING NOVEMBER 3rd

Facilitated by shea in the catskills and Martha Crawford

6 sessions, Tuesday afternoons at 4:00 Pacific, 5:00 Mountain, 6:00 Central, 7:00 Eastern

What do dream work and tarot have in common? Are they discreet or complimentary practices?

How might spontaneously produced symbols that emerge in night dreams relate to the synchronicity of pulling arcanum from an oracle deck?

Both offer the opportunity for contemplative and creative practice, but they are community and collective processes too.

6 sessions, Tuesday afternoons at 4:00 Pacific, 5:00 Mountain, 6:00 Central, 7:00 Eastern

COMMUNITY RESOURCES

if we have worked together and you are building a pay-what-you-can community group

or offering a service

and you would like me to spread the word, please feel free to use this boost request form.

Do you need administrative assistance?

shea has been supporting me in tackling administrative tasks that have become increasingly onerous for me in the past few years - and if you are also having challenges with executive function, with calendaring and scheduling or task initiation I’ve found them to be attuned, supportive and effective and recommend them with no reservations if you need similar assistance.

Admin Services: You know your systems are working for you when they're coherent with how you want your work to feel—for you + for the people who engage it. This is something AI can't do. shea enjoys creating systems that make others' creative, esoteric + intuitive work shine.

Relational Technologies Virtual Workshop with Elena Solano

We are living in a time of change, reorientation and collapse. Skillful relational strategies are needed to build something new with one another. In the workshop, we’ll discuss relationship technologies and sit together with creative prompts and practices. Bring your imagination, a notebook, art supplies, a tarot deck and/or anything else you’d like to use during our time in the workshop. get details + registration info. Offered twice a month! Join anytime!

And finally, if you’ve had a dream about the climate crisis, about our currently political circumstances, about Artificial Intelligence, or had a visit from a dead loved one in a dream - please consider sharing them at my new project: Collectivedreaming.org

And visit the Visual Arts archives to see some haunting new submissions!

Wishing you a peaceful season of transition.