California Institute of Integral Studies

Department Member, Transformative Studies

Thesis Title: A Prism of Followership (working title)

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As we proceed through the present cultural transformation, I think it is most important that some of us in academia make it our business to “translate” our observations and the outcomes of our research into dialects and mediums that can reach those who are actually accomplishing the work. Scholarly formats notwithstanding, I believe it is important for our work to also be read, understood and appreciated beyond the academic community.

I am engaged in transdisciplinary scholarship that acknowledges and explores the intersections where contemporary mythologies and academic disciplines meet; where cultural creatives dialogue with social scientists about possibilities. I want to contribute to the growing body of research and literature that will encourage and inspire tomorrow’s transformative agents.

I believe that cultural transformation is enabled by contemporary mythology, and vice versa. Collectively, we are composing a new narrative about agency (autonomous "doing") that is informing and influencing our relationships as well as our decisions. This mythogenesis resides in the surrealism of our dreams, emerges in our imagination, and finds expression in our stories.

Storytelling is a means for suggesting considerations that might be far more threatening otherwise. Fictionalization introduces a critical distance between observation and experience within which imagination can be brought into play.

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