About Craig Chalquist, PhD

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Author, Deep Educator, Speaker, Loreologist

 

Greetings! I am a professor, academic program director, author, and consultant who writes and teaches at the intersection of psyche, story, and imagination, with one foot in the academy and the other in the world. As a loreologist, I explore the limits and possibilities of the personal and collective stories we navigate by in order to deepen, expand, or replace them so we move from being confined by them to authoring them.

 

I coined the term “terrapsychology” to describe the study of how our natural surroundings can manifest intimately in human psychology. I also coined “enchantivism,” a form of storytelling that moves from human injustice to a vision of how we most desire to live as a global community. 

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A former Associate Provost at Pacifica Graduate Institute and former full professor in the Department of East-West Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, I've designed and launched more than forty psychology, philosophy, mythology, and ecotherapy courses for graduate students and undergrads. I earned my Ph.D. in depth psychology, and my master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy, which I practiced for nine years. I am working on a Ph.D. in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at CIIS.

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Founder of the world’s first ecotherapy certificate program, I'm on the board of Nature120 and Holos Institute and on the editorial board of the journal Ecopsychology. I'm also a member of the American Philosophical Association and an ambassador to Jung Platform. My books include Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind (edited with Linda Buzzell; Counterpoint, 2008), Myths Among Us: When Timeless Tales Return to Life (World Soul Books, 2018), and Terrapsychological Inquiry: Restorying Our Relationship with Nature, Place, and Planet (Routledge, 2024), now out in a second edition.

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My work in the world is in service to creating and supporting the sustainable, just, and delightful communities of belonging we are capable of dreaming together and scaling up. (Check out my Medium.com article "If I Had the Funding: Addressing a Worldwide Crisis.")

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Check out my YouTube channel. Also, my novel Soulmap is now available on Kindle.

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Here is a list of my recent presentations and public speaking engagements.

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Learn about what I offer as a consultant. I'm also a core member of the consulting firm Psychworks. 

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So just what is loreology, the foundation from which I work?