Navigate Big Transitions with Courage, Clarity & Soul.

Your old life no longer fits, but the new one hasn't arrived yet.

Turn uncertainty into evolution with the precision of natural law and the wisdom of soul.

Everything is waiting for you.

Welcome to Ecotone Academy

An ecosystem of cutting-edge education and experiential wisdom for sincere seekers moving through career shifts, relationship changes, and the quest for deeper meaning.

You are in the right place.

If you’re here, you are in a significant transition...

Your career is at a crucial crossroads...
A cherished relationship is changing...
Parenthood approaches and you are excited but anxious...
The death of a loved one is a major wake up call...
Life is confronting you with stronger and stronger signals that there must be something more than this...

You’ve achieved the degrees and the titles, yet you feel a strange thinness in your daily life.

There is nothing wrong — you are in-between states of being.

This is what it means to be in an Ecotone.

What's an Ecotone?

In nature, an ecotone is the edge zone where two ecosystems meet. It is a liminal space of radical change, potential danger, and unparalleled vitality.

The ecotones of dawn & dusk represent the height of animal & insect activity; the ecotone of the estuary bridging river & ocean is a flurry of varietous life.

In human development, it represents the transformative threshold between stages of life and states of being, Graduations, unions, promotions, parenthood, separations and passings are some of the human ecotones.

Find out which phase of the Journey of Soul Initiation you’re in.

To know where you are is to know where to start.

The Threshold Test is a free, in-depth self-diagnostic tool rooted in ecopsychology that provides a detailed map of your psyche & clear compass to guide your evolutionary adventure.

You will receive personalized feedback about your current brilliance and blind-spots, providing you with the tools you need to cross the threshold into your next stage of life.

Stop guessing where you are. Pinpoint your exact coordinates on the journey from who you were to who you are becoming.

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A membership program for those navigating significant transitions.

Ecotone Academy is not a traditional school or a disconnected catalog of self-improvement classes — it is a dynamic ecosystem dedicated to personal & planetary evolution.

The Ecotone approach is more than just theory and practice — it is a whole way of being, a way of seeing and moving through the world.

Lingering in the liminal space without a map is where people get stuck, sometimes for years. Ecotone Academy is the map.

What Happens at Ecotone?

Through precise study, practical experiments & wise guidance, as an Ecotone Academy member you will discover:

The exact chapter of your life story you are currently navigating;
How to get comfortable with discomfort and discover the particular wisdom hidden in the mysterious circumstances you encounter in this chapter;
How to cultivate the calm, curiosity & courage to embrace all the experimental threshold crossings required to move your plot forward;
How to maximize the opportunities & miss the pitfalls inherent to the psycho-spiritual development of your whole cast of characters;
How to deepen into & thereby accelerate your passage through the liminal space between books, composing your next installment in the series with confidence, clarity and mature creativity.
How to find your authentic mythopoetic identity and enact your soul-assigned role as an author of the upcoming cultural renaissance for the planet and her people.

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The Program

Ecotone Academy is a Private Membership Association accessible to all sincere seekers.

It is an annual program with rolling enrollment and three tiers of membership.

The curriculum consists of four core Crafts. These are:

The Structure of Soul

Learn the pattern language through which creation speaks. Use it to communicate with your own biofield, become your own center of gravity and choose which energies are allowed to spin in your orbit.

The Architecture of Life

Discover the Five Types of Time and learn to use them to suit your purposes. Study the many maps of time and follow their guidance to the time-bound treasures that you seek. Organize your life according to organic time.

The Geometry of Consciousness

Befriend and embody the universal archetypes that are longing to deliver their gifts through you. Develop skills to self-regulate and stabilize within the swirl of psycho-emotional stimuli engulfing us on a daily basis.

The Secrets of Psyche

Cultivate a conscious relationship with the mysterious Dreammaker in order to receive and act upon the life-giving information embedded in your nightly excursions into the underworld.

The Craft Ecosystem

The Crafts overlap. They are mutually referential, each interwoven into the others. They create a coherent system for accurate comprehension of one's Self as it relates to Nature.

Practiced in an integrative way, the Crafts form a vast & magnificent landscape, rich with soul-level significance. They are the essential skills and provisions necessary to explore this mysterious territory and safely reach unknown shores.

Space Craft is the foundational practice for the subtle self-awareness required to successfully engage with the other Crafts. It serves as the trailhead and dedicated resting points on the journey through soul.
Time Craft describes the quantity and quality of resources available for the journey. Time and energy are interdependent. To practice the Crafts well, we must have access to sufficient time, attention and intention.
Mind Craft offers a map and compass for navigating the mysterious terrain of your psyche. We use Time to orient the compass, and Space Craft allows us to scan the whole map and measure the route from one point to another.
Dream Craft excavates the treasures identified on the Mind Craft map, bringing to the surface subtle mindstuff to be shined upon by the light of your time-bound Mind through the practice of Space Craft.

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A task without a vision is just a job.

A vision without a task is just a dream.

A vision with a task can change the world.

Telfer | Wild Mind Guide

Telfer & Rigby are the co-founders of Ecotone Academy. The name Telfer comes from Scottish ancestry and means "one who destroys without malice."

Telfer is an architect of unmaking, using ecological principles to help high-achieving people dismantle old stories and turn the chaos of change into a precision-guided evolution of the soul.

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Telfer | Wild Mind Guide

Telfer & Rigby are the co-founders of Ecotone Academy. The name Telfer comes from Scottish ancestry and means "one who destroys without malice."

This is Telfer's gift — helping wise people kindly destroy outdated identities so they can move through the world as their more authentic, ecocentric Self and find their true place of belonging within the web of all beings.

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Sierra says:

"Working with Telfer has been more insightful and supportive than I could have imagined.

"He brings together an incredible breadth of knowledge and skills, combining his various disciplines to provide guidance that is unique to the individual, precise for the moment, and impossible to find elsewhere.

"Over years of working together, Telfer has provided me with key insights that led to breakthroughs in the physical, spiritual, and professional realms."

Jonah says:

"I was looking to feel more stable in my self, in my thoughts.

"I definitely feel a lot more calm. [Working with Telfer] is really solidifying.

"Just walking around, I am able to get into the center of my head and feel more confident dealing with stress and obstacles.

"I feel like I know more about what it means to be alive and practice intentional living and not find myself so confused by it all."

Sarneet says:

"I feel like a renewed person. I have my dignity back. This anchor is to stay.

"I am reconnected to my own power source. It’s working. I feel secure, less anxious AND have tools to unleash my potential without fear of it being stolen or abused.

"One year I’ve been with you and my life has changed. I can’t imagine how much momentum I’ll have after another year. I feel like I can dream and achieve and have goals again."

Kirven says:

"It has been very therapeutic for me. I have evolved tremendously these past weeks, and I had to thank you. It's changed how I operate every single day. And that's a big statement for me. I am literally on a different level.

"Whatever you're doing is connecting. So beautiful. I feel really great about continuing and I want it to mean a lot to you, because it sure means a lot to me. I'm so grateful.

"And please make sure to say that I did not do this as an advertisement! I wasn't prompted."

Take the Threshold Test

This is not your average personality quiz...

The Threshold Test is a free, in-depth self-assessment rooted in ecopsychology that provides a map & compass for your inner wilderness.

Inspired by the Wild Mind model of nature-based health and wholeness, the Threshold Test is designed to pinpoint your exact coordinates on the Journey of Soul Initiation — revealing whether you are currently in the Preparation, Dissolution, Soul Encounter, Metamorphosis or Enactment phase of your journey.

You will receive personalized feedback about your current brilliance and blind-spots to guide your next steps on your unique life path.

To know where you are is to know where to start.

You will discover:

Your Wild Mind Profile (Self vs. Protectors): Measure the current strength of the four facets that compose your innate wholeness. You will also identify the specific "Inner Protectors" (sub-personalities) that are currently hijacking your life to keep you "safe" from the transformation that awaits.
Your Coordinates on the Descent to Soul: Are you doing the necessary groundwork? Are you in the terrifying free-fall of unmaking? Are you enduring the alchemical fire of the chrysalis? Pinpoint exactly which of the Five Phases you are currently inhabiting.
Your Hidden Blockages: Receive a mirror reflecting exactly how your ego is currently trying to abort your journey, avoid the heavy lifting of true adulthood, or prematurely rush the process.
Your Immediate Next Steps: Instantly receive a highly customized results page featuring dynamic insights, targeted journal prompts, and specific nature-based practices tailored to your exact phase to help you navigate the threshold with confidence and grace.