To listen to the voice of the Earth speak in myth and magic when our lives have become culturally overgrown and too small to develop the psychic imagination required for wise-relating and real change, is radical (re)pair. Mythopoesis, through earth-bound practices, generates meaning-making, draws forth our true natures as teacher-guides.
A lifelong apprentice to nature and psyche, Dr. Hilary Leighton is associate professor at Royal Roads University and an eco-psychotherapist in private practice. Her scholarship reflects the ethical dilemma, suffering and loss of our relationships with wildness and contemplates learning as an initiatory journey toward maturation and soulful belonging.