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Professional

July 2010:
With former student Katrina Martin Davenport I have written a basic terrapsychology curriculum designed to teach people to get to know the places where they live. We are working to implement this online via the Powers of Place Initiative.

April 2010:
It looks like John F. Kennedy University is going to have the first ecotherapy certificate program in the world: 24 units, eight classes, open to undergrads as well as graduates. I received my first training recently in how to set up online classes (the intellectual component of the program; it will also feature three-day intensives during which students will practice ecotherapy techniques under supervision).

As I do this I continue to collect chapters for my new terrapsychology anthology, to be published this summer by World Soul Books. I've got some outstanding work that has already been through one edit.

Also, I'm about to begin permaculture training. Very much looking forward to it.

February 2010:
I have received a grant from OPUS Archives to do scholarly work on "the new myth for our time": the emerging collective story or stories capable of making sense of our place in the world: a particularly urgent need in a time devoid of a working mythology and fragmented into oppositions and ruptures. To this end I am calling for a remapping of Earth in depth, through layers of story, folklore, and direct encounter place by place from the ground up. More to follow.