Crafting Tales for a
REENCHANTED WORLD
ABOUT
I bring deep learnings out of the classroom and therapy office directly to you, who seek the kinds of knowledge, vision, inspiration, and practical application that can grow beneficial lasting change.
MISSION
To open storied paths that guide, inspire, and liberate the imaginative human energies that transmute selves, relations, and organizations beyond stuckness and toward creation, purpose, and meaning.
PHILOSOPHY
Our peace with ourselves, the quality of our work, and the health of our communities depend on the kinds of stories we tell ourselves and each other and how consciously and creatively we author them.
DECLARATION OF ENCHANTMENT
When the powers of imagination come under attack by mass commodification, by religious fundamentalism, by intellectual mechanization, by political opportunism, by fiscal greed, by cynical disparagement, or by any other ideological enemy of what should be respected as a primary source of personal and collective liberty, it is incumbent upon us to defend these powers by making explicit how they engender our humanity.
We can live a few weeks without food, a few days without water, and a few hours without shelter in an inhospitable clime, but we cannot live for even a moment without some movement of imagination in mind and body. To restrict its enlivening flow is to cripple the wellsprings of health, vitality, and sanity.
“Enchantment” as used herein refers to the mood of eager, inviting wonder: a precious gift of the free uses of imaginative capacities such as fantasy, awe, reverie, foresight, fancy, vision, play, and invention. Enchantment is a self-evident basic right. An assault on enchantment is an assault on the human spirit.
CRAIG CHALQUIST, PHD
Author, Deep Educator, Loreosopher
Dr. Craig Chalquist is a professor, author, storyteller, and consultant who writes and teaches at the intersection of psyche, story, ecology, and imagination, with one foot in higher ed and the other in the world.
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LIVE AND VIRTUAL PRESENTATIONS
COURSES IN
DEEP PSYCHOLOGY
These courses focus on symbol, story, imagination, dream, and
myth as vital expressions of the wholeness of human consciousness.
COURSES IN
LIVING SYSTEMS
These courses contain concepts and practices for healing the perceived
splits between self and world, culture, and nature, and mundane and sacred.
