Holos 2019 Ecopsychology Conference

PRESENTERS (In order of appearance)

Jan Edl Stein, MFT 
is the director of Holos Institute as well as a licensed MFT in private practice in San Francisco and Marin. Jan is also Adjunct Faculty in East-West Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). Jan leads workshops and retreats that interweave meditation, active imagining, shamanic journeying and earth based contemplations. She has taught/presented at Sonoma State University, Grof Transpersonal Training Program, The Bioneers Conference, Esalen Institute, IONs, and numerous private venues. All of her work draws upon a lifelong study of spiritual traditions and healing practices of earth-based cultures and a deep love of the natural world. More information may be found at www.janedl.com.

Melissa Elgin was elected as Tribal Secretary of the Graton Racheria in January 2015 after serving a six-month appointment by the Tribal Council to fill a vacant seat through December 2014. She attended the Santa Rosa Junior College where she received her Associate Degree with high honors in 2010. She has been employed by the Tribe since March of 2013. Prior to working for the Tribe, she had worked at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital as an Emergency Room Admissions Representative for over 12 years.

Lorelle Ross has served five elected terms as a member of the Graton Racheria Tribal Council to further her commitment to building a healthy tribal community that values cultural and social development, health, education, and economic fortitude. Beginning when she was just nineteen, she has served as a Council Member, Treasurer, and currently is serving her second term as Vice-Chair.
Lorelle’s grandfather was one of Graton Rancheria’s original distributees. After the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria was illegally terminated in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, her Grandfather maintained ownership of one acre on the original Rancheria. The one-acre parcel is currently owned and held in fee simple by Lorelle’s mother Gloria Armstrong, who has lived on the land for over fifty years. Lorelle was also raised on this parcel and currently lives with her mother in the original wood frame house that was first constructed on the Rancheria approximately seventy years ago.

The Graton Rancheria community is a federation of Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo groups recognized as a tribe by the US Congress. The Miwok of west Marin County have, through the years, been referred to as Marshall Indians, Marin Miwok, Tomales, Tomales Bay, and Hookooeko.

Clare Dubois is the founder of TreeSisters.org, a women’s reforestation and culture-change organization dedicated to humanity’s emergence as a “restorer species.” For 22 years she has been facilitating body-based, experiential sessions designed to help participants shift consciousness and experience their interconnectedness with nature, the root of balanced leadership and action., a women’s reforestation and culture-change organization dedicated to humanity’s emergence as a “restorer species.” For 22 years she has been facilitating body-based, experiential sessions designed to help participants shift consciousness and experience their interconnectedness with nature, the root of balanced leadership and action.

Mutima Imani, MA is a Social Justice Visionary, Master Trainer and Facilitator working to Heal the Heart of Humanity by providing 21st Century Tools for Personal/Professional Development and Transformation. Imani is a Global Diversity Specialist who understands and inspires people to think locally while planning globally. Highly skilled at bringing diverse groups together to resolve conflicts, Imani works with people conducting Civic Leadership Training and Restorative Justice Circles. Imani has a Master’s Degree in Public Administration with an emphasis in Phenomenology; Imani is passionate about how all things work together and what humans can learn from the natural world.

Garret Barnwell PhD is a clinical psychologist practicing in ecopsychology in South Africa. For almost a decade he has worked for the humanitarian sector in Somaliland, Lebanon, Turkey and in South Africa focusing on issues such as detention, migration and violence. His research focuses on the psychological impacts of environmental degradation who are confronted by the extractive industry.

James Stark, M.A., F.E.S., is the co-director of the Regenerative Design Institute (RDI). He co-founded and currently co-directs the Ecology of Leadership program, preparing community leaders for the “Great Turning” of our era and the Art of Vitality program – – creating pathways to vitality, with Anna O’Malley MD.
James has committed his life to exploring how we — ourselves, our communities, and our species — might move into harmony with our true nature and re-ignite a deep connection with the rest of the natural world – we are nature. A large part of that work is focused on cultivating vitality in all areas of our lives -physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.

Martin Shaw, PhD is author of the award-winning Mythteller trilogy (A Branch From The Lightning Tree, Snowy Tower, Scatterlings), he founded the Oral Tradition and Mythic Life courses at Stanford University, whilst being director of the Westcountry School of Myth in the UK. He has introduced thousands of people to mythology and how it penetrates modern life. For twenty years Shaw has been a wilderness rites of passage guide, working with at-risk youth, the sick, returning veterans and many women and men seeking a deeper life.

His translations of Gaelic poetry and folklore (with Tony Hoagland) have been published in Orion Magazine, Poetry International, Kenyon Review, Poetry Magazine and the Mississippi Review. Fresh for 2019 will be his new book, The Night Wages, and his Lorca translations, Courting the Dawn (with Stephan Harding). His essay and conversation with Ai Weiwei on myth and migration will be published by the Marciano Arts foundation in early 2019.

http://www.drmartinshaw.com 

Craig Chalquist, PhD is a board member of Holos Institute, Associate Provost of Pacifica Graduate Institute, and author of several books at the intersection of psyche, story, nature, place, and imagination. Visit his website at Worldrede.com.

Mary Good, MFT   is a holistic counselor, ecotherapist and certified California Naturalist. In her private psychotherapy practice, Mary helps her clients to reconnect with their inherent wholeness through mindfulness, somatic exercises, here-and-now awareness and compassionate insight. She loves to work with clients in outdoor sessions, with nature as her co-therapist. Mary seeks to inspire others to connect with Place, by getting to know their bioregion through natural and indigenous history, folklore and direct contact with the land and its inhabitants. When not in session, she enjoys writing, gardening, wildcrafting and tending her flock of 15 chickens. She lives in Sebastopol, CA with her husband and daughter. http://marygood.squarespace.com/

Anna O’Malley, MD,  is an Integrative Family and Community Medicine physician, and a believer in the Medicine of being in relationship with the Earth.
Anna has long nurtured a vision of having a healing center grounded in ecological principals. Where healers move beyond “doing no harm” and work for healing on every level, including planetary. Where reverent reciprocity guides us toward healing and wholeness.
This vision led to her founding Natura Institute for Ecology and Medicine in the Commonweal Garden. Through Natura’s programs in permaculture, herbal medicine, and transformative healing, Anna is exploring a deeper meaning of Medicine and the role of healer in society.
Anna holds an inclusive vision for the transformation of medicine, informed by her work with the underserved and incarcerated. Her primary care practice allows her the profound privilege of being a healer in a village, the opportunity to cultivate community as Medicine, and the gift of witnessing the cycles of life.

Dr. Josef Ruzek retired as Director of the VA National Center for PTSD Dissemination and Training Division in April 2018. Joe is an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Co-Director of the Center for m²Health at Palo Alto University. He has edited several volumes on treatment of PTSD, including Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies for Traumaand Caring for Veterans with Deployment-Related Stress Disorders: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Beyondand is a past member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. Joe specializes in early intervention to prevent the development of PTSD, disaster mental health, dissemination of evidence-based treatments for PTSD, and development and evaluation of Internet- (e.g., My Sonoma Strong) and smartphone-based interventions (e.g., PTSD Coach) for trauma survivors.

Rachael Vaughan, MFT is a licensed psychotherapist with a bilingual practice in San Francisco and Marin county. She holds an MA in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, California, as well as an MA in Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. She has studied at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. Born in Asia and raised primarily in Europe, Rachael has a lifelong, passionate interest in issues of culture, identity and inclusion as well as a deep love of the world. Her teaching is informed by multiple cultural perspectives, as well as post-colonial and feminist theory, and she writes the Ethnopsychology Blog. Rachael also holds a Permaculture Design Certificate and has an active interest in eco-psychology, grounded in gardening, nature art and rural life with a large dog. She is a member of the Shambhala lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.

                           
Duane Elgin is an internationally recognized speaker, author, and social visionary who looks beneath the surface turbulence of our times to explore the deeper trends that are transforming our world. In 2006, Duane received the International Goi Peace Award in Japan in recognition of his contribution to a global “vision, consciousness, and lifestyle” that fosters a “more sustainable and spiritual culture.” For the past three years, he has been the executive director of a project that has brought together more than a dozen “Great Transition Stories” that offer new cultural narratives for our collective imagination and that can serve help guide us toward a sustainable and meaningful future. 

Coleen LeDrew Elgin is the co-director with Duane Elgin of the Great Transition Project and is directing a film project that explores the psychological and spiritual implications of existential risks, particularly from climate disruption. For more than 12 years her documentary work focused on pioneers of consciousness and spiritual path. She directed Science and Sacraments: Psychedelic Research and Mystical Experiences (2012). Coleen has an MA from the California Institute of Integral Studies in Anthropology and Social Change with a focus on learning communities. A long-time meditation practitioner, she has immersed herself in a number of Wisdom traditions including Vajrayana Buddhism. 

Sarah Scheld works with the MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) Public Benefit Corporation to coordinate and develop curriculum for their MDMA Therapy Training Program, which educates health professionals to provide MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD in approved settings, including Phase 3 clinical research trials. Her work also focuses on ethics, accessibility, and social justice initiatives in psychedelic science. As a graduate of the California Institute of Integral Studies and an ongoing student of Hakomi and Somatic Experiencing, she continues to train in experiential psychotherapy, trauma resolution, and working with expanded states of consciousness. Sarah is passionate about the role of trauma awareness and the skillful use of psychedelic medicines in challenging oppression and helping to heal people, communities, and environments.

Jamie McHugh, RSMT is a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist, somatic coach, and visual artist living on the Mendocino coast. The creator of Somatic Expression® – Body Wisdom for Modern Minds, Jamie has guided somatic-expressive encounters with the natural world for the past 25 years in the United States and Europe. www.somaticexpression.com

Susan Karle, MFT & Certified Forest Therapy Guide. In her psychotherapy practice, Susan combines her expertise in treating anxiety, depression, trauma and grief with her passion for partnering with Nature. Having valued a relationship with Nature her whole life, she is thrilled to extend Healing practices to her clients that include connecting to the Wild. For the past 5 years Susan’s been guiding individuals and groups in Shinrin Yoku/Sensory Immersion Walks.   Most recently, she has led “Honoring Loss and Resilience” Walks for Fire survivors. Susan feels privileged to help this vulnerable population to regain a grounded, embodied sense of safety and trust.

BREAKOUT WORKSHOP LEADERS

Mary Good, MFT  In her private practice as a holistic counselor and ecotherapist, Mary helps her clients to reconnect with their inherent wholeness through mindfulness, somatic exercises, here-and-now awareness and compassionate insight. She loves to work with clients in outdoor sessions, with nature as her co-therapist. Mary seeks to inspire others to connect with Place, by getting to know their bioregion through natural and indigenous history, folklore and direct contact with the land and its inhabitants. When not in session, she enjoys writing, gardening, wildcrafting and tending her flock of 8 chickens. She lives in Sebastopol, CA with her husband and daughter.

Constance Washburn, MA is a facilitator, educator, community organizer and program designer she brings together diverse groups to experience the depth of their interconnection to the web of life, to generate vision and facilitate collaborative efforts to meet the needs of participants and Earth. She is currently co-leader and facilitator of the Spiral Journey- a Facilitator Development Program in the Work That Reconnects and on the core Weavers Team of the Work That Reconnects Network. She served as Education Director at the Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT) and Marin Organic for almost 20 years and co-founded and directed, the Marin Agriculture and Education Alliance which brought together countywide agricultural and educational organizations. She has a MA in Education and Theater, certificates in the Ecology of Leadership, Permaculture Design and Transforming Business, Society, and Self from U.Lab MITx. She is a mindfulness/ meditation instructor in the Vajrayana Tradition and a long time yoga practitioner and have completed 3 yoga teacher trainings.

Renée G. Soule, PhD has been developing and teaching ecopsychology for over 30 years. Her path as an ecopsychologist began at Sonoma State University where studying Wilderness Psychology required prolonged stints in wilderness settings. She has been teaching Nonviolent Communication in San Quentin for over 12 years and also works with recovering addicts. A primary focus of her work engages environmental crises as an initiation presaging and promoting a new level of maturity commensurate with the challenges we face. What do these tragic crises invite us to become?

Aimee Lewis-Reau, CoFounder & Creative Director Born and raised in southeast Michigan, Aimee is a certified Scholè Yoga Instructor and RYT 200. She DJs on the side and takes delight in making crowds dance, because Alice Walker said it best: “Hard times require furious dancing.” Aimee received her Bachelor’s degree in English from Central Michigan University before obtaining her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Georgia College & State University.

LaUra Schmidt, CoFounder & Director Of Operations Hailing from mid-Michigan, LaUra is a graduate of Central Michigan University with a BS in Environmental Studies, Biology, and Religious Studies. She earned her MS in Environmental Humanities from the University of Utah. She’s a Climate Reality Leadership Corps member and finds inspiration in natural landscapes and honest, open-hearted dialogue.

 David Talamo, MFT is founder of Wilderness Reflections, a Certified Hakomi Therapist and has over 40 years experience as a wilderness guide. Dave is a pioneer in the field of ecotherapy and trains students locally and internationally in Wilderness Reflections’ unique blend of mindful, body-centered ecotherapy.

Cyndera Quackenbush, MA is a storyteller, educator and reflection card reader originally from Joshua Tree, California. She is the creator of the Story Through Stone Reflection Deck and Reflection Card Reading Method and practices in Pacifica, Bay Area. A Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute (For the Sake of Tending Soul in and of the World) has shaped her life’s work assisting individuals uncover their deep underlying wisdom through the power of play, story and reflection using natural imagery. She has presented most recently for the British Association of Art Therapists in Bath, England and has also offered workshops at the International Association of the Study of Dreams, The Study of Myth Symposium, and the Dream Institute of Northern California. Learn more at storythroughstone.org

Kathren Murrell Stevenson, PhD specializes in reconnecting humans to the Living Whole, where we experience ourselves as individuals connected through relationship and belonging in the web of life.  As a practiced guide for personal and planetary transformation, her approach is grounded in her understanding of the principles of ecology, personal studies with indigenous wisdom teachers, twenty years of study and practice in embodied awareness modalities, and deep immersion in nature. www.wisdomecology.com. As an adjunct instructor at CIIS, Kathren has enjoyed teaching “Plants and People: Exploring Nature through Relationship” and “The Ecology and Poetry of Trees”. A certified yoga teacher and bodyworker, she taught weekly yoga classes for over a decade and led workshops and retreats in Yoga, Arts, and Ecology. Kathren holds a Ph.D. in Plant Ecology from U.C. Davis and a B.A. in Biogeography from the University of Texas at Austin.

Niki Sylva is passionate about empowerment through information-resourcing and harm reduction for individuals, communities, and the environment. She facilitates peer integration circles in her community and coordinates educational programming for Botanical Dimensions Ethnobotany Library in Occidental, California, occupied ancestral land of indigenous Coast Miwok and Pomo peoples.

Jennifer Owens, LCSW is the Co-Founder and Wellness Director of Bridge Counseling and Wellness, an integrative mental health and wellness center in Louisville, KY. She is also the founder of the Shinrin Yoku Society of Kentuckiana and leads guided forest bathing experiences across the state, partnering with local parks, state nature preserves and non-profit organizations. Owens specializes in an outdoor-mindfulness based, somatic approach to individual therapy. Often crediting her adventures in the backcountry to her recovery from severe panic and anxiety, Owens has a lifetime of experience in the wilderness including kayaking, backpacking, hiking and solo wandering. Passionate about reconnecting humans with their inner and outer wild nature for the increased wellbeing of ourselves and our planet, she facilitates retreats, nature-connection groups and workshops on topics including Forest Bathing and Ecotherapy. Jennifer is a Kentucky Master Naturalist and has studied with the Earthbody Institute, Animus Valley Institute and is currently a student at the Wildcraft Forest School on her way to becoming a certified Yasaei Shinrin Yoku Guide. She is also an adjunct faculty at the University of Louisville teaching Human Behavior in the Social Environment.

TO REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE PLEASE CLICK HERE

CONFERENCE FEES: 

• Full Conference Weekend and  partial conference registration now available
  
• Late fees for registrations on or after March 28
  
• Tickets for only the Saturday evening program with Martin Shaw will go on sale March 25 (as available)

FULL WEEKEND (includes lunch Sat and Sun, Dinner Saturday and evening program with Martin Shaw):
  $388 (regular)    $408 (late – after March 28, 2019)

SATURDAY DAY PROGRAM ONLY (includes Sat lunch – no dinner or evening program)
or, SUNDAY DAY PROGRAM ONLY (includes lunch)

$184 (regular)    $195 (late – after March 28, 2019)

SATURDAY FULL PROGRAM  (includes lunch, dinner and evening program with Martin Shaw)
 $229 (regular)   $240 (late – after March 28, 2019)

SATURDAY EVENING ONLY WITH MARTIN SHAW:  SOLD OUT

DISCOUNTS:  (For full day or weekend conference registrations)

Seniors (over 65), use PROMO code SENIOR for a 15% discount
Interns and full-time Students, use PROMO code STU_INTERN for a 15% discount 

Need more help making this affordable? Contact us for work/trade partial discounts.  We have a limited number of work trade positions and the amount of discount will lessen as the conference date gets closer.  Priority discounts go to students, interns and people just starting careers.
We promise to work with you to make this affordable as best as possible!

EXTRA ADD-ONs:

CEU certificates:

• $12 for BBSE licensees per each day

LODGING AT EARTHRISE IS CURRENTLY FULL

We suggest looking for lodging nearby in Novato or Petaluma

(There are also many lodging options off campus in or around the Petaluma/Novato area that may be more reasonable)

CEU certificate: ONE PER DAY

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CANCELLATION POLICY

Refunds minus a $50 handling fee is possible for any cancellation received via email (events@holosinstitute.net) no later than March 15, 2019

Refunds minus a $150 fee is possible for any cancellation received via email after March 15, 2018 but BEFORE March 25

ABSOLUTELY No refunds for cancellations received after March 25, 2018.

THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS TO THIS POLICY

If you can… Please, Please consider making a donation to our scholarship fund which we will use to support scholarships to people who would love to attend but may not be able to afford the full fee. Even a donation of $20 – $50 will be much appreciated by a young steward of the land.
AND, any donation is 100% tax deductible.

This conference takes place on the campus of the Earthrise Retreat Center which is part of the Institute of Noetic Sciences.
101 San Antonio Road
Petaluma, CA 94952 USA
It is located just 30 miles north of San Francisco on a campus of 195 acres of rolling hills at the border of Marin and Sonoma Counties.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION ON PLANNING YOUR VISIT

The pre-conference workshop on Friday takes place on the land and in the dining area.
The main conference takes place in the West Room Conference hall.
We encourage you to come with sturdy shoes for walking outdoors and dressed in layers.
Both Saturday and Sunday attendance includes a hearty lunch at the center.
Dinner is also available on Friday evening and on Saturday between the day program and the evening session.
Lodging onsite is available for Friday and Saturday nights (Sunday as well if you let us know well in advance).
If you are staying overnight on campus, you may wish to bring a bathing suit to enjoy the large hot tub.

DRIVING DIRECTIONS MAY BE FOUND HERE

If you are arriving by public transportation and need help getting from a drop-off point to campus, let us know via email and we will do our best to coordinate with you and help you with this.
If you require handicapped parking please let us know.  There are a very limited number of these available which we can reserve.

Continuing Education Credits

The conference meets the qualifications for 7 hours of continuing education credit each day for MFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Holos Institute is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists  (CEPA #90905) to sponsor continuing education for the licenses listed above.  Holos Institute maintains responsibility for its programs and content.
RNs may be able to get CEU credit honored by their licensing board (please check your board).

The cost of each day’s CEU certificate is $12 for BBSE licensees

At the end of this conference, participants will be able to:

• Explain the fundamental position of ecopsychology
• Recognize how family history sets patterns of implicit bias.
• Describe cross-cultural understanding of practicing Ecopsychology in sacred places that have experienced political trauma
• Name at least one way in which mythic stories provide a powerful ethical lesson
• List 5 core principles of individual counseling to assist those affected by disasters related to climate change.
• List 3 ways in which key psychological defenses block action on climate change
• List at least 3 ways ecological grief and trauma impacts clients
• And, according to the breakout sessions chosen, will be able to:
  ~Apply a technique that increases trust and immediacy of contact with the natural world
  ~Lead a sensory-imaginative engagement with nature
  ~Describe an application of ecotherapy specif to addressing trauma