You are here.
But where is that?
Welcome to Ecotone Academy
A source of wise guidance for powerful people
seeking an accurate, individualized trail map
through the treacherous & tantalizing territory of
personal evolution in alignment with living systems.
Let's begin...
On the journey of personal evolution, there are many paths.
The only place to begin is where you are right now.
If you're ready, let's start by finding your precise, present-moment coordinates.
"You walking, your footprints are
the road, and nothing else;
there is no road, walker,
you make the road by walking..."
First step: The Threshold Test
- The Threshold Test is a 120-question eco-psychological self-diagnostic questionnaire offering a comprehensive view of your psycho-spiritual orientation.
- It takes 20-60 minutes.
- You receive a lot of in-depth insight including fancy graphs reflecting your brilliance, your blind-spots and your current stage on the journey to Soul.
- The only investment requested is your time, attention and email address.
The road ahead...
1. Take the Threshold Test
- Find a cozy, quiet place.
- Ready your journal and a cup of tea, if you please.
- Give yourself at least 30 minutes uninterrupted.
- Respond as honestly as you can. Courage!
2. Review Your Results
- Immediately upon completing the questionnaire, you will receive a smorgasbord of feedback.
- Go slow. Read carefully. Take notes.
- What lands? What feels off? What thoughts, feelings, memories or sensations arose in the process? What questions remain?
3. Respond to the Call
- When the first two steps are done, you are invited to schedule a 1-on-1 session.
- We will review your results, explore your circumstances and discuss what sort of skillful experiments you might do to deepen, expand or accelerate your evolutionary process.
- I request an investment of $47 for this 30-minute call, with a few caveats you should know about:
- This is not a sales call. It is a true guidance & reflection session. You will walk away with personal invitations & practical recommendations.
- Though it's says 30 minutes, I always set aside a full hour to allow spaciousness in case we're really getting somewhere.
- If $47 is too significant a financial barrier, reach out. I would rather review your results with you than collect that fee.
4. Do the Experiment
- When you've enacted one or some of the invitations discussed in our initial conversation, let me know.
- I will send you a link to schedule a second session, free of charge.
- We'll talk about how it went, what you discovered, and what to do next.
5. Choose your Path
- This is the moment of truth. ((dramatic pause))
- In our second 1-on-1 session, we'll talk about what might be your very best next move.
- Sometimes that involves working with me, individually or as a member of the Council or Commons.
- Sometimes you already got everything you need and we say a fond fare thee well for now.
- Sometimes you're ready to change your name and move to the Yukon. Who am I to say? Only you can know.
"Either you will
go through this door
or you will not go through.
If you go through
there is always the risk
of remembering your name...
The door itself makes no promises.
It is only a door."
Ready to begin?
Take the Threshold TestWhat's the big idea?
Who are you? What is this?
The Big Idea
Life evolves through alternating phases of chaos & order.
The transition from one phase to the next is called an ecotone.
In nature, an ecotone is the edge zone between two ecosystems — areas of unparalleled biodiversity and danger — where two forms of order collide into ecstatic chaos.
Ready or not — there are times when the established order of your life devolves into chaos.
Like it or not — life compels you to change phases.
You do not get to choose when this happens.
You can only choose how to navigate it.
At Ecotone Academy, we study living systems and practice eco-awakening in order to remember that chaos is part of the natural order.
That way, we can move through the wild modern world with calm, awe and courage, carrying both the intellectual understanding and the embodied experience of being intimately, inextricably interwoven within the web of all beings.
That's the big idea.
Make sense? Sound good?
Next question...
My name is Telfer.
Or Telf.
Son. Brother. Uncle. Friend. Mentor. Mentee. Dog dad to Rigby.
Doctor of Divinity. Wild Mind Guide. IFS-informed Ayurvedic Doctor. Professional Astrologer. HeartMath Certified Practitioner. B.A. in English & Creative Writing focused on ethnomusicology and mythopoetics.
Scottish. Irish. Canadian. Born in North Carolina. Former resident of Tokyo, Bogota, Denver, the Inner Hebrides, Odemira and Nosara.
Currently swimming the waters and walking the land known as tiskʷat AKA the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia.
Finally...
This is an Ecotone.
A website is a portal.
You are on one side of the screen, peering in.
I am on this side, calling out.
In between us is an ecotone.
Many get the call. Few choose to step through.
The choice is entirely up to you, but let's be clear:
- If you hear the call, it means my voice is merely an echo of your own, reverberating through entangled space-time, speaking to some part of you that is ready to be reanimated, like a scheduled wake up call from the front desk of your deepest longing.
- If you heed the call, I promise only to welcome you to the other side, show you the multidimensional maps and walk beside you as we wander together through the infinitely mysterious wilderness of what it means to be wholly human at this weird, wild, wonder-filled moment in Earth time.
Melodramatic as it may seem, it's a true fact that by reading this right now, you are at a threshold.
"What shape waits in the seed of you
to grow and spread its branches
against a future sky?"
Everything is waiting for you.
Ready to take a leap?
Start close in,
don’t take the second step
or the third,
start with the first
thing
close in,
the step
you don’t want to take.
Take the first step.