resources

Adoptee/foster resources

  • Celia Center, celiacenter.org - a 501c3 non-profit organization offering online and in-person support groups, resources, education, and events for all members of the foster care and adoption constellation. Visit celia-center-adoption-constellation.mn.co to join their Mighty Network platform for support group participation and more.

Adverse Childhood Experiences

  • Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology by Donna Jackson Nakazawa – an important book about complex trauma in early childhood that includes significant information about healing practices for survivors.

books

Jungian psychology - dreamwork - Myth - Symbolism - archetype

  • Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Carl Jung

  • Inner Work, Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth, Robert A. Johnson

  • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype, Clarissa Pinkola Estés

  • The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell

  • The Queen’s Cloak, a Myth for Mid-Life, Joan Chamberlain Engelsman

  • Eating in the Light of the Moon, Anita Johnston

  • The Book of Symbols, Reflections on Archetypal Images, ARAS (Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism)

Fairytale - Science Fiction - Fantasy

  • Time Quintet, including A Wrinkle in Time and A Wind in the Door, Madeleine L’Engle

  • The Chronicles of Narnia, 7 book series, including The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis

  • Tolkein On Fairy-stories, edited by V. Flieger & D. Anderson

  • After Life, Jack Thorne adapted from Hirokazu Kore-eda, National Theatre London

Movement - Creative Embodiment - Flow

  • Free Play, Improvisation in Life and Art, Stephen Nachmanovitch

  • The Art of Dreaming, Jill Mellick

  • Your Body Speaks it’s Mind, Stanley Keleman

FILMS

  • Miyazaki’s Spirited Away, Hayao Miyazaki, 2001, Studio Ghibli

  • Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams, Akria Kurosawa, 1990, The Criterion Collection

  • Strawberry Mansion, Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney, 2021, Music Box Films

  • After Life, Hirokazu Kore-eda, 1998, The Criterion Collection

DREAMWORK AND SPIRITUAL DIRECTION CONFERENCES

  • Natural Spirituality Regional Gathering, NSRGathering.org, a 501c3 organization offering annual conferences for dreamwork practitioners and spiritual direction