I am core faculty for the Department of Consciousness and Transformative Studies at John F. Kennedy University (East Bay, CA). I'm also a research and thesis adviser and a dissertation coordinator. I've taught classes in depth psychology, ecopsychology and environmental studies, mythology, dream, Jung, systems theory, and related topics at five Bay Area campuses and have also trained psychotherapists in brief therapy, family therapy, and various approaches to doing therapy. I've also set up a Deep Sustainability specialization for our master's degree in Consciousness Studies at JFKU.

 

East Bay, CA.

 

When I saw the school emblem and motto I knew I had to visit the place. Once I had I knew I had to go. After a year at Pacifica I knew that my original goal of learning to do psychotherapy from a depth perspective was no good for me anymore: I had lost all desire to work in or try to reform the psychology industry and was free to pursue other goals. (Came across some Taoist writing around this time that felt affirming, something about one of the emperors of China going off to study on his own to be a better leader, but when he came back "he had lost his interest in the empire.") 

 

It has helped me get published and teach. My degree has served me very well indeed.

 

I look at the world and myself through the lens of the depth perspective that everything is alive, animated, and permeated by mythic structures. I live in a magical cosmos, one to which I feel I belong. And I regard Jung's suggestion to dream the myth onward in modern dress to be a core task of depth psychology.

 

The proud look on Mary Watkins' face when she handed me the flowers and called me Doctor. What a rite of passage. That was the summit of a miraculous four years (I did a year in Clinical before switching to Depth). I miss the comradeship of my cohort. 

 

 

In the Shadow of Cross and Sword: Imagining a Psychoanalysis of Place  

 

Terrapsychology: Re-engaging the Soul of Place (Spring Journal Books, 2007). 

Deep California: Images and Ironies of Cross and Sword along El Camino Real (iUniverse, 2008).

Ecotherapy: Healing with Earth in Mind (Sierra Club Books, 2009).

Storied Lives: Discovering and Deepening Your Personal Myth (World Soul Books, 2009)

The Tears of Llorona: A Californian Odyssey of Place, Myth, and Homecoming (World Soul Books, 2009).

 

You can order my books from my website Chalquist.com.

 

 

Pretty much everything related to adult ed, psychology, depth, and the environment. Also, California history, ecology, folklore, and geology. 

 

I've been facilitating meetings with former depth psych students to discuss how to bring depth knowledge into the realm of career and actual work in the world. I plan to expand these salons to include students from a variety of consciousness-focused schools and programs, including Pacifica.

 

  

 

www.terrapsych.com