You know you're in an Ecotone when...

• You check all the boxes, but it still feels hollow. From the outside, your life looks successful — the job, the house, the relationship — but on the inside, the identity you've constructed is a constriction. You feel trapped by the role you've spent your whole life creating.

• You know why you’re stuck, but you’re still stuck. You've spent thousands on therapy and self-help. You know your own issues inside & out. You've processed your story and can track your patterns. You have a perfect map of the prison, but you're still locked in your cell.

• Your social life is starting to suck. Your familiar friends aren't that interesting anymore. The predictable script of a dinner party bores you. Conversations that used to be fine are now a drain on your life force.

• You’re going through the motions, but for what? You move through your daily schedule — making coffee, answering emails, running errands — but you're battling a persistent, haunting sense of meaninglessness.

• You're afraid the best days are behind you. Your dreams are fading into the distance. They seem irrational and unrealistic in this chaotic modern world. You grieve what might have been and have little hope that anything major is ever going to change.

• You know there must be something more than this. You feel drawn toward a more authentic way of being but it’s too abstract to compete with the mundane demands of your Google Calendar.

Most people will tell you that you’re having a mid-life crisis or that you just need a vacation.

I’m here to reassure you that there is nothing wrong. 

You have arrived at an Ecotone.

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 Craft Ecosystem

The Crafts overlap. They are mutually referential, each interwoven into the others. They create a coherent system for accurate comprehension of your true nature as it relates to Nature as a whole.

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.