Slideshows on Psyche, Depth, and Place:
Planetary Psychology - Sanity in the Balance:
This presentation begins with a research overview of how mental health and well-being depend on environmental and planetary health. Next it looks at "ecotherapeutic" methods for restoring psychological and ecological balance and offers successful examples of this at the community level as well.
Planetary Psychology - for Activists:
Learn what social science research has to say about effective ways to educate the public about how to respond to the environmental crisis of our time. Includes suggestions for teaching critical thinking and problem-solving skills and for presenting ideas and "best practices" findings.
Deep California - Legacies of Conquest into Images of Homecoming:
After giving a brief exposition of the facts and history of California, we proceed northward along Camino Real looking at the clusters of resonant stories and metaphors on our way to the top, where we consider the questions: How can I live here gently and sustainably? How does my story fit California? What does this place need from me?
Terrapsychology - Re-engaging the Soul of Place:
Based on the presenter's book by that title, this slideshow looks at the origins of the deep study of the connections between people and places, some of its methods, current work being done in this new field, and possibilities for expanding it into an everyday sense of living among storied, animated landscapes as much a part of us as we are of them.
C. G. Jung - Planetary Psychologist:
In this presentation we will look at how Jung not only left us the outlines of a general psychology, but a planetary one as well: a "terrapsychology" capable of describing our relations with the nonhuman world as well as with each other.
All slideshows come in "small" (45 minutes) and "large" (2 hours) versions and can be adjusted to fit your timeframe. We can also craft a slideshow for you on a topic you wish to know more about.
Contact Craig Chalquist, PhD
Author, Presenter, Depth Psychologist [bio]