Presentations, Talks, Interviews

Who says introverts don't like to speak in public?

It's important to me to keep bridging the gap between higher ed and the world we all actually live in. I do this with in-person and online slideshows, webinars, speeches, interviews, classes, training sessions, and any way I can think of to bring you "the deep stuff" I've had the privilege to study and write about.

Presenting

"Lamplighting: Change through Story, Inspiration, and Vision," presented at the LABC Art of Storytelling Conference at Oxford, UK (May, 2025).

"Imagination is Alchemy: Fiction for Wisdom and Making Change" presented to the London Arts-Based Research Centre (May, 2025).

"Our Worldviews Need Therapy: Reimagining the Stories that Guide Us," keynote presentation to the conference on Dreams and Creativity: Living Ecologies of Connection (Natural Spirituality Regional Gathering, February 2025).

"Ecoresilience, Restorying, and an Ethic of Care" presented to Harvard Radcliffe Institute (September 2024).

"Mythopoetics of Enchantment: Fiction and Imagination for Lasting Change" presented to the International Society of Mythology (June 2024).

"Restorying Leadership" keynote presentation to the Teton Leadership Center (September 2023).

"The Hero's Journey: Ordeal," presented to Modern Day Riflemen and Jumpstart Mastery (September 2023).

"Terragnosis: Yesterday's Folklore, Today's Earthly Wisdom," keynote presentation to the Fates & Graces Mythologium (July 2022).

“Storied Nature: When Myths Heal the Split Between Us and Everything Else,” presentation to the Fates & Graces Mythologium (July 2021).

“When Outside is Inside: Terrapsychological Inquiry,” presentation for the Graduate Theological Union conference Visions for a Viable Future: Sustainable Societies (March 2021).

“The Healing Wisdom of Nature,” presentation at Wildling Museum, Solvang, CA (2018).

“Storytelling Nature Myths: A Project of Reenchantment,” presentation at OPUS Archives for the Joseph Campbell Foundation Mythological RoundTable, Santa Barbara, CA (2018).

“Enchantivism: Story, Myth, and Image for Action in the World,” presentation for the conference Emerging (Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies), Portland, Oregon (2018).

“A Folklore of Hope: Storytelling for Reenchanting the World,” keynote for the conference The Anthropocene and Beyond, Shue Yan University, Hong Kong (2018).

“Storytelling Eco-advocacy” presented to students of Royal Roads University (Victoria, BC August 2016).

“Our Aphroditic Cosmos: Joining Science and Myth,” keynote at the invitation of Brian Swimme for the Cosmology and Love Conference (San Francisco, April 2015).

“All the Stage is a World: Performing the Landscapes Performing Us,” keynote, North American Drama Therapy Association 35th Annual Conference (October 2014).

“From Violence to Peace: The Inside Story,” presentation to Highground Hackers (San Francisco, December 2013) with Dr. George Mohler, District Attorney George Gascón, and Mayor Ed Lee.

Other presentation venues: Sonoma State, California Institute of Integral Studies, Schumacher College, Santa Rosa Community College, JFK University, Prescott College, Columbia School of Business (Bay Area), Sun Gallery, NY Open Center, Institute of Noetic Sciences, KWMR Radio, WEAA Radio, University of Guelph Radio, Holos Institute, Center for the Healing Arts, International Society for the Study of Dreams, Joseph Campbell Society (Sacramento), Jung Institute of Los Angeles, Jung Society of the Triangle.

Workshops and Interviews

"Land All Around Us: Using Imagination as a Tool of Wisdom and Transformation" presented at Commonweal (May 2025) as part of a visiting scholars residency there.

"Archetypes of Planet and Place" presentation to the Eugene Friends of Jung (September 2024), "Your Personal Myth and Archetype" to the Phoenix Friends of Jung (December 2023), and "Archetypes of Planet and Place" to the Cambridge Jungian Circle (November 2023). The Place workshops are always customized for where they are presented.

"Reading the World: Eco Knowing through Imagination, Story, and Folklore," presentation and interview with the Canadian Ecopsychology Network (March 2023).

Terrapsychology Inquiry training for the Technological University of the Shannon (March 2023).

"Narcissism": eight online classes for managing it, sponsored by Jung Platform (April-June 2022).

Ecotherapy and ecoanxiety interview with Craig Chalquist and Linda Buzzell, hosted by Mind Body Training Institute (August 2022).

“It’s Hard To Think About Climate Change During A Pandemic. Here’s How To Stay Engaged,” NPR, Laura Klivans interview (April 2020).

“Essential Reconnection with Deeper Self and Earth,” The Poetry of Predicament Podcast (April 2020).

​Banerji, D., & Chalquist, C. (2020). “End of Days or End of Daze?” PCC Forum (April 2020).

Interview: “Californians Turning to Meditation and Mindfulness (Even More than Usual)” KQED News (April 2020).

“Essential Reconnection with Deeper Self and Earth,” The Poetry of Predicament Podcast (April 2020).

"Welcome to Hel: Navigating Times of Mythic Collective Illness," webinar discussion sponsored by the Pacifica Graduate Institute Alumni Association (April 2020).

​“From Eco-Anxiety to Ecoresilience: A Big Ideas Talk” at the California Institute of Integral Studies (March 2020).

“Exploring Dreams and the World Inside You” public programs workshop at the California Institute of Integral Studies (February 2020).

Daylong Workshop: “Exploring Dreams and the World Inside You,” CIIS Public Programs (February 2020).

Guest teacher at the Bren School, University of California at Santa Barbara (2017-2019).

“Earthrise in the Heart,” presented at the conference Seizing an Alternative: Toward an Ecological Civilization, Pomona College (June 2015).

Interviewed by KQED for their article “Climate Change Despair is Real. Here is How You Fight It” (October 2019).

​“Storytelling Beyond the Hero” workshop at Santa Barbara City College for the 12th annual Nonviolent Communication Conference (2019).

Interviewed for Time Magazine article “A Prescription You Can’t Fill at the Pharmacy” by Jamie Ducharme (2018).

Interview about Immanence Journal by the Joseph Campbell Foundation (2018).

“Enchantivism: Transmutation through Inspiration,” a four-session online/in-person workshop (Pacifica Graduate Institute, October 2017).