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CERTIFIED DEEPTIME LEADERS 2024

The Deeptime Leadership program is a 9-month certification program that cultivates Deeptime Leaders, individuals who have a big-picture perspective that is aligned with the well-being and benefit of their communities, ecosystems, and the entire Earth Community. Through this program they have developed the skills, perspectives, and practices to guide individuals, groups, and organizations into alignment with a larger sense of purpose and contribution. They have also honed their skills through developing and implementing a personal project that expresses their own contribution to a better world in their own unique way. We at the Deeptime Network fully support and recommend these certificate recipients and invite you to be in touch with them about their work and their fields of interest.

For info about the upcoming DEEPTIME LEADERSHIP PROGRAM, click here

To see Deeptime Leaders and their work from our 2022 cohort, click here

Amanda Patt

BC, Canada

Primary Field of Application: Environmental education, the arts, spiritual development and following allurements to find what emerges

Project: Confronting the Secondary Biosphere, while making eco-art, leaning into an awe of the natural world, and leading into my calling to be a Science Monk!

Bio: UVIC undergrad BSc Geog/ES, RNS diploma (in-progress), worked in food service, landscaping, reception, and now looking to find work in the eco-spiritual unfolding (no website as yet)

Kelsey Dovico

Louisville, KY, USA

Primary Field of Application: Spirituality and ecopsychology

Project: Though I had an external Deeptime project, much of my engagement with the course material was in the sense of an internal formation. This course changed my worldview, my self-perception, my behavior, and in all these senses, my life. My external project dealt with learning to expand my senses in order to communicate with plant life and to tend to them lovingly with positive energy and intention. My internal Deeptime project was nothing short of reorganizing my psyche.

Bio: Kelsey is a nonprofit community leader, Fulbright scholar, dancer, and interfaith spiritual director. Her passions intersect in service to displaced and culturally marginalized communities, service to the land, and service to the animating Spirit that embodies us all. Connect with her at www.interfaithspiritualdirection.org

Francoise Bosteels

France, Niederbronn-les-Bains

Primary Field of Application: My primary field of application is education through art. My art form is open to people of all walks of life. I target by priority youth, students and children.

Project: Continue the deeptime journey through art form, targeting mainly youth, students and children.

Bio: Of Belgian origin, nurse and religious, I made India my home for 50 years. I started making dolls/figurines depicting people’s day to day life. In the course of time, the situations I found people and my own reflections and insights from life, gave more meaning and purposeful depth in the creation of dolls. They began to reflect Indian life not only with its breath-taking variety and unique beauty, but life with its gripping and enduring tragedies. Perhaps dolls/figurines like these could invite us to join hands across the world in dissent against further destruction of all living things and of Sister Earth herself. The Deeeptime experience offered me new depths in my understanding of the mystery of relationship to one self, one another, to the earth with all what grows and lives on her soil, to the Divine and the Mystery of an evolving universe we are part of. In exhibitions, many expressed that these dolls play a critical, transformative and humanizing role in society by touching and activating not only the head but the heart too. Living in France, the dolls continue their journey touching the heart of more and more people.

www.francoisebosteels.blogspot.com

Sheila Scotese Spremulli

Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Primary Field of Application: Econstellating “the human – at a species level, … by means of story” (Berry) through Prenatal Science Education, Environmental/Social Justice, and Healthy Advocacy via CHARTres 4 PEACE Contemplative LAByrinth prActivism™ and TRANSITus LABwork™

Project: There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendships between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.
Teilhard de Chardin

Drawn to deepen Teilhard’s vision of evolutionary consciousness, CHARTres 4 PEACE Contemplative LAByrinth prActivism, and it practical application TRANSITus LABwork, nest our origyn stories within the Deeptime Story of Cosmogenesis. Informed by Prenatal Science, critical reflection, shared dream experience, embr-eco-poetry, and autocosmology, TRANSITus LABwork claims, curates, cultivates, and (r)econstellates the voice of the prenatal self – that part in each of us that has been “in and of nature from the very beginning of ourselves” but, too often, silenced (The Ecology of Wisdom: Writings by Arne Naess).

Bio: Sheila, a Prenatal Science Educator/Artist, worked as a L&D nurse and DONA Birth Doula before designing CHARTres 4 Peace LAByrinth pRebirth teaching puzzle in 2015. Her teaching labyrinths support the Cenozoic-to-Ecozoic Era transition. Watch her Mythologium 2023 – Prenatal Theseus and the TRANSITus LAByrinth™ recording. Find her limited edition laser-cut labyrinths and download her TRANSITus LABwork™ poster and Susan Alexjander’s TRANSITus Nova Magnificat™ womb-like soundscape at https://www.chartres4peacelabyrinth.com/

Bruce Rippe

Masonville, Colorado USA

Primary Field of Application: Earth Literacy, The Great Work

Project: Writing HOW LOON LEARNED TO FLY was the focus of my emergence project. It is a 5200-word Deeptime story about creativity, wisdom, subjectivity, courage, self-discovery, connection, friendship, community, diversity, collaboration, perseverance, gratitude, whole-heartedness and how we all came to be.

Bio: I am a lifetime learner fascinated by Earth and the Universe Story. I enjoy organic gardening and studying all aspects of my bioregion in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. My 41-year career practice was as a Board Certified Chaplain in the healthcare setting.

Gretchen Gundrum

Seattle, WA

Primary Field of Application: Yet to be determined, but likely consulting and education.

Project: Autocosmology: Just a Speck of Dust in the Universe ~ A Memoir Through an Evolutionary Perspective

Bio: I hold a Ph.D. in depth psychology and am now retired from 25 years of private practice as a psychologist and spiritual director. I was adjunct professor for 13 years at the School of Theology and Ministry at Seattle University . My latest joy is my great-granddaughter, Kaia!

Lorenna Bousquet-Kacera

London, Ontario, Canada

Primary Field of Application: Eco-spiritual Education and the Arts

Project: I brought to the 7-month Mentorship I offer the Question: How do we deepen resonance with the creative dynamics of Nature and the Universe, embrace the mystics’ journey and re-imagine a new story for humanity through through eco-somatic processes and love for life.

Bio: My Metis heritage and spiritual journey have shaped my life and work. I’m co-founder of The Living Centre and founder of Shamanu: Earth Wisdom Teachings (est 1989) which weaves together Eco-philosophy, Cosmogenesis, Earth poetry, and Eco-somatic practices. www.thelivingcentre.com

Cindy Dixon

Paso Robles, California

Primary Field of Application: The arts – bringing the DeepTime story into our local community via salons – music and evolution.

Project: Tell the story of DeepTime through songwriting. Collaborate with husband on music projects, including public events to showcase songwriting and DeepTime perspective.

Bio: I am a pianist and piano teacher. I also write and compose. My background includes marketing/sales in high-tech space.

Richard Arnold

Australia

Primary Field of Application: Faith community leadership (Christian/Protestant)

Project: I have recently published my book called “Kingfisher Family Tell Us Your Story”.
In this book, the Kingfisher Family tells their story of how they have emerged in relationship with all life since the journey of the Universe began over 13.7 billion years ago. The 10 members of the Kingfisher Family in Australia, each tell part of the family story as well as their own individual story.
Collectively, they explain how interdependent and inter-related they are with other beings, including humans. They particularly mention the challenges to their unique ecological niche due to the actions of human beings. They call on humans to respect their right to exist and thrive.

Bio: I am a retired Minister in the Uniting Church in Australia. My current emergences involve sharing the New Story to my faith community so that it can embrace a new way of understanding and caring for Mother Earth. I also convene the Australia-wide Steering Group to reduce carbon emissions to zero by 2040 across the whole church.

Kacey Carmichael

San Anselmo, USA

Primary Field of Application: Deeptime Experiential Arts Alchemist

Project: Many emergences… here’s a favorite: developing and offering the expressive and meditative art of Authentic Movement as a Cosmogenesis Deeptime practice.
~ In Authentic Movement we deepen our experience of Differentiation, Subjectivity, and Communion.
~ Moment to moment, in embodied presence, we practice following our Allurements.
~ With awareness, we slip into the flow of the Universe unfurling through us, as us.

Bio: Kacey Carmichael, MA, MEd, sees the Universe unfolding as YOU! She delights in helping you experience this directly, through embodied creative and meditative arts. To this she brings the dynamic synergy of her experience as an expressive arts psychotherapist; ordained interfaith minister, ritual leader and spiritual counselor; Certified Deeptime Leader; Waldorf educator; mindful yoga and meditation teacher; mother; cosmos lover; and lifelong mystic, writer, and dancer. Grounded in her rigorous education at Harvard and Yale as well as decades of artistic and contemplative practices in several modalities and traditions, she’s known to help people enter into deep creativity and intuitive knowing. She works with individuals and groups, creating community and together celebrating the creative ecstasy of the 14 billion year brilliant beloved unfolding we are. In the 90’s Kacey wrote a book called Going Direct, on the writing that emerges from the practice of Authentic Movement. In decades of practicing and teaching AM, she has developed this into a Deeptime Cosmogenesis practice. She has some availability for expressive arts-based deeptime/spiritual counseling, movement and writing groups, and retreat, ritual and ceremony leadership at
[email protected]

Karen Kudebeh

Denver, CO (also Port Angeles, WA)

Primary Field of Application: Experiences and Educational Materials that ground us in Place and Possibility– in the Here and Now. Retreats, Presentations, Classes…

Project: 1. Researching and traveling to New Jersey to present the Deeptime 6-direction Story of Place at the Horn Antenna celebration on April 20, 2024, and
2. Teaching a 3 session online class to 10 Deeptime graduates on “Centering in Time and Place” during the month of July 2024.

Bio: Karen is founder of TimeTrace, Inc, dedicated to possibilities that arise from knowing that We All Belong. Her programs and educational materials reinforce this understanding by placing the participant in the Center of Time (“Now”) and in the Center of Place (“Here.”) She visualizes Time in spirals, where the Present Moment is located in the Emergent Center, grounded in the Past and energized by Possibilities for the Future.

www.timetrace.com

Jennifer Morgan, president and founder of the Deeptime Network, is an award-winning author, storyteller, and educator inspired by the work of Teilhard de Chardin, Maria Montessori, Thomas Berry, and Brian Swimme. Her Universe Story Trilogy — Born With a Bang, From Lava to Life, and Mammals Who Morph — are used in classrooms around the world, particularly in Montessori schools as part of the Cosmic Education Curriculum, and have received the Teachers Choice Award, Nautilus Semi Finalist, highest ratings from AAAS and endorsements from Jane Goodall, Neil de Grasse Tyson, astronaut Edgar Mitchell, Thomas Berry, Brian Swimme and others. She is Vice President of the American Teilhard Association. Her life inspiration is to foster emergence by helping to link a planetary nervous system of people immersed in this radical new understanding.

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Stephan Martin is an astronomer, educator, and author who has taught astronomy, physics, and consciousness studies at colleges, universities, and learning centers across the US for over twenty-five years. Between 2003-2008 he studied directly with Brian Swimme and others at the California Institute of Integral Studies, out of which came his first book Cosmic Conversations, in which he held dialogues with scientists, spiritual teachers, and cultural creatives on the nature of the universe and our role in it. Since then he has led workshops on the New Cosmology at seminars and retreat centers across the US and Europe and has been active in exploring multidisciplinary approaches to exploring the universe. He is currently adjunct faculty in the Consciousness and Transformative Studies graduate program at John F Kennedy University where he teaches a course on “Cosmology and Consciousness.” Steve is also a co-director of the continuing care program at the Center for Spiritual Emergence in Asheville, NC where he assists clients in living more conscious lives from an expansive perspective.

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Brian Thomas Swimme is director of the Third Story at the Human Energy Project, which seeks to disseminate the cosmology of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. He is professor emeritus at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. A specialist in gravitational dynamics, his work for many years has been to bring the context of story to our understanding of the 13.8 billion year trajectory of the universe. Such a story, he feels, will assist in the emergence of a flourishing Earth community. He is the author of several well known and influential books and is co-author with Thomas Berry on The Universe Story and with Mary Evelyn Tucker on the award-winning book and film Journey of the Universe. His latest book is Cosmogenesis.

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Penny Andrews, D.Min, MA, has had a lifelong interest in spirituality, creativity and consciousness as paths to intuition and deeper knowing. This passion led to the study of forms of art as meditation at the University of Creation Spirituality. She is an ordained interfaith minister, and during her career as a hospital chaplain applied a variety of healing modalities in her work with patients and family caregivers of all spiritual backgrounds. A retreat leader and Earth activist, Penny been actively involved in Creation Spirituality, The Work that Reconnects, the Earth Charter and DeepTime studies. Currently, she guides a weekly Work that Reconnects meditation, offers a monthly webinar with Gail Ransom called Creation in Crisis, serves on the board of directors of Creation Spirituality Communities, is a regular speaker at a local Unitarian Universalist congregation, and provides spiritual companioning for others. She is co-creating a food forest on the drumlin in Wisconsin where she has lived for 30 years. She’s a certified Deeptime Leader with the Deeptime Network.

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Lisa Verni, LCSW, is a seasoned psychotherapist, deeptime consultant, writer, artist, and dancer who loves helping people live their authentic lives through alignment with the Universe. Stephan Martin sees her as a ‘cosmic lamplighter’ because of her particular gift of reflecting back people’s radiant energy to develop their allurements. Lisa holds degrees in Business/Marketing and Clinical Social Work from NYU, and is a Certified Deeptime Leader. In completing her Emergence Project, Lisa created an artistic and therapeutic offering called “Dancing with the Pain”. It is meant to inspire hope and understanding through the embodiment and expression of a Deeptime Perspective. It can be found at www.dancingwiththepain.org. Lisa lectures on topics such as ‘Applying A Deeptime Perspective to Psychotherapy’ and ‘On Creative Process’, and will be joining us throughout the program to share her Emergences. Please feel free to contact her directly at [email protected] for mentoring and Deeptime Conversation.

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Gerardo López-Amaro joins us from Mexico where he engages in activist scholarship around Buen Vivir, ecopedagogies and practices of re-existence. He explores ways to highlight the experiments to co-create viable alternatives to the current system and address the global challenges of our times. He is a PhD candidate in Anthropology and Social Change by the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) of San Francisco, where he wonders about the possibilities for the emergence of the pluriverse even in dense liberal societies learning with grassroots movements. He is also part of the Steering Committee of the Ecoversities Alliance.

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Orla Hazra, PhD currently lives in Sarasota Florida after recently returning from ten years in Mumbai, India. While in India she developed a curriculum to renew the Ignatian (Jesuit) Pedagogical Paradigm, applying it at St. Xavier’s College and at Tarumitra, an ecoliteracy center in Patna. Her academic formation in recreation leadership, addiction counseling, and spiritual direction, led her into a PhD program in Religious Education, from Fordham University; her research becoming a model for educational reform considering the fourfold wisdom conversation suggested by Thomas Berry — science, religion, women and indigenous peoples. She is a founding board member of the Deeptime Network and is delighted to be witnessing the model in practice, healing our trauma of separation.

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Kacey Amrita Carmichael, MA, MEd, sees the Universe unfolding as YOU! She delights in helping you experience this directly, through embodied creative and meditative arts. To this she brings the dynamic synergy of her experience as an expressive arts psychotherapist; ordained interfaith minister, ritual leader and spiritual counselor; Certified Deeptime Leader; Waldorf educator; mindful yoga and meditation teacher; mother; cosmos lover; and lifelong mystic, writer, and dancer. Grounded in her rigorous education at Harvard and Yale as well as decades of artistic and contemplative practices in several modalities and traditions, she’s known to help people enter into deep creativity and intuitive knowing. She works with individuals and groups, creating community and together celebrating the creative ecstasy of the 14 billion year brilliant beloved unfolding we are. She has some availability for expressive arts-based deeptime/spiritual counseling, movement and writing groups, or retreat, ritual and ceremony leadership at [email protected]. In the 90’s Kacey wrote a book called Going Direct, on the writing that emerges from the practice of Authentic Movement. In decades of practicing and teaching AM, she has developed this into a Deeptime Cosmogenesis practice.

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Elena Pardo: Educator, cultural manager and promoter of intra- and intercultural education in urban and rural areas of the Cusco Region, Peru. She is director of CEPROSI and speaker at conferences, forums and events at regional, national and international levels. Promotes the Watunakuy (international seed event) that has been held for 19 years at the Raqchi Ceremonial Center, an international meeting for the exchange of collective healing and the exchange of seeds. He is a member of the Watunakuy Ayllu Network and the Ecoversities Network.

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Yona FrenchHawk is a full-blooded Cherokee Wisdom Keeper and Ceremonialist. He was born and raised on the Qualla Indian Boundary and is an enrolled member of The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in the Great Smoky Mountains in Cherokee, N.C., the Cherokee Indian Reservation. Yona offers his BirdClan gift of song, storytelling, plus insights into the prophesies and ceremonies of the Eastern Cherokees. This knowledge bridges the ancient past with the deep future. We honor their voices and visions of ancestors by sharing the abundance life has to offer. Yona offers individual sessions to assist in being present in one’s current journey while connecting with ancestral healing. Yona helps to connect with one’s roots to truly live an organic green way of life and embrace the legacy of connecting cultures by understanding what fruit to bear according to our roots.For more info:http://www.yonafrenchhawk.com/

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