Yes.

The most efficient investment is a one-time contribution of $1,000. This represents a savings of $200 off the standard request ($200/session).

There are then three plans of varying length:

• 2 months = $550 / month = $1,100 total
• 3 months = $400 / month = $1,200 total
• 6 months = $240 / month = $1,440 total

You will see these options offered and can select your preferred path at checkout.

Please note: this is not a subscription; it is a commitment. This ensures that the financial energy of the container remains stable while providing you with the flexibility to manage your cash flow over the course of our year together.

Also, please remember that Ecotone Academy is a private membership association. Your financial contributions are not "payment for service," but instead fees for membership in a club that includes certain benefits.

For more, see the next FAQ about how the investment is calculated.

Great question! I'm a big fan of financial transparency.

The basic math goes like this:

• Six sessions x $200 session $1,200
• If you contribute the entirety up front, you get one session free ($1,000 total)
• As your preferred payment plan lengthens to 2, 3 or 6 months, there is a premium that scales sequentially, representing totals of $1,100, $1,200 and $1,440 respectively.

The inclusion of the Ecotone Academy library is both a bonus and important support. As we work together, I will invite you into certain practices which are described and explained within the the Craft or Apothecary programs.

The foundation for the calculation is this: 

In financial terms, what do I need in order to live a life that allows me to show up as my best Self, as one who is stable enough to support others?

From there, I consider what feels like fair energy exchange. It is an important part of our dynamic that we both have skin in the game. 

In so many ways, the relationship and evolution we both experience through our sincere engagement in the process is priceless, but nonetheless, for now, we live in a world in which $USD are required to acquire food and shelter, so here we are.

If you have further questions about money stuff, please don't hesitate to ask.

Also, please remember that Ecotone Academy is a private membership association. Your financial contributions are not "payment for service," but instead fees for membership in a club that includes certain benefits.

The outcomes are a direct function of your engagement.

This is not a passive program; it is a collaborative initiation. Because this work is truly bespoke, I do not promise external trophies like a specific job title or a romantic partner. These are just some of the potential side effects of a much deeper shift.

However, I do guarantee that you will emerge with a specialized suite of skills:

• Self Energy: The concrete skill of self-regulation and stabilization, allowing you to remain centered even in the eye of the storm.

• Enhanced Pattern Recognition: You will gain the ability to track the unconscious motivations directing your life and decode the gross and subtle messages the living world offers as guidance.

• Archetypal Insights: An intimate awareness of the universal forces animating your specific personality, moving you from fighting your nature to mastering it.

• Dream Craft: I can confidently promise that you will remember more dreams and know how to use them to deepen, expand and accelerate your evolutionary path.

• Eco-Awakening: You are likely to experience a fundamental shift away from an egocentric identity to an ecocentric orientation. You will move through the world with a deep sense of belonging within the cosmic ecosystem, not just your social or family structures.

The "Result" is a permanent shift in your center of gravity.

While I cannot predict the exact form your new life will take, I can guarantee that these paradigm-shifting tools will forever change how you interact with reality.

The IFSS process is designed to integrate into your high-functioning life, not to overwhelm it with one more thing to do. We move at the speed of Soul, not the speed of a syllabus.

The Structural Rhythm:

• The Private Intensive: Plan for six 75-minutes sessions. We can meet every week, every other week, or every month. This cadence often evolves throughout the process — beginning weekly and becoming more spacious as the year unfolds. You are also welcome to schedule as many 30-minute check-in sessions as you want or need.

The Living Practice: There is no mandatory homework. However, this work only works if you practice enacting it on a daily basis.

• Daily Anchors: Small, high-impact Craft practices like Dream Craft, toroidal field meditation, or organic time management (15–30 minutes per day).

• Experimental Threshold Crossings: Weekly or monthly invitations exploring your personal edge-zones — such as a guided wilderness wander, a courageous conversation, or a self-designed ceremony (1 to 6 or more hours, depending solely on you)

Most of my clients find that the Time Craft and self-stabilization skills they learn actually reclaim hours of their week by eliminating the friction of indecision, anxiety, and unprocessed noise.

Ideally, this is not an additional burden but the establishment of a smoother, more efficient way of moving through the world.

On the surface, it isn't.

It's Zoom calls and prerecorded educational content. Pretty basic in that way.

However, you will not find this combination of modalities anywhere else. The IFSS paradigm is unique in the world (so far as I can tell).

The theoretical foundation offers a coherent paradigm that can radically shift your understanding of how reality works on every level, if you let it.

The practical invitations are unconventional. Many long-time seekers at risk of being jaded find it refreshing. They say they've never experienced anything like it.

Ultimately, I suppose the main differentiating factor is me. Hi, I am Telfer and I'm a wild one.

My name means "to destroy without malice," and this is what I do — gently encouraging people to send expired identity structures and outdated habits to the compost bin of their personal history.

This requires equal measures of courage and compassion.

I am not afraid to lovingly poke at your self-misperceptions and persistently inquire about potential blind-spots in order to illuminate your innate wholeness. 

My approach is fundamentally playful, rooted in sincere curiosity and unconditional positive regard. There are truly no bad parts of you — only those with benevolent intent employing misguided strategies in service of your survival.

You're beyond that now, and it's time to reassess and reassign those parts so that their superpowers can help finally thrive.

The only prerequisite is your lifelong experience of being you.

You do not need any academic credentials or history of self-study. We only need your presence.

• Practical Application: Any academic concepts are introduced solely to support your ability to embody a more authentic, ecocentric way of being. We aren't here to study; we are here to enact.

• Integrating the Past: We will incorporate every aspect of your previous work — whether that includes years of therapy, plant medicine journeys, meditation, yoga, or professional pursuits. We treat your past experiences as raw material ready to be shaped into a truer you.

• A Baseline of Belonging: You are already a native-born Earthling. Our work simply reminds you how to speak the language of your own personal ecosystem.

• The Only Thing: The bare-minimum, non-negotiable requirement is that you bring your whole self — including all the shadows, gifts, confusion, and ambition. We use all of it.

No. It is something fundamentally different.

While the effects of this work are often deeply therapeutic, IFSS is not psychotherapy, or medical treatment. It is not a substitute for licensed psychiatric care.

• The "Anti-Therapeutic" Edge: Much of modern therapy is designed to stabilize and reinforce your existing identity — helping you merely cope with a life that may no longer fit. In contrast, IFSS work is initiatory. We are often looking for the very shifts (or collapses) that traditional therapy seeks to prevent, recognizing them as the necessary labor pains of your evolution.

• Healing vs Wholing: Our focus is not on "fixing" something wrong with you, but on reawakening all the things that can go right. You do not need to be healed, you just need to cultivate your innate wholeness.

• Complementary Support: If you are currently working with a therapist or psychiatrist, IFSS is perfectly complementary to that work. I am happy to collaborate with your therapist as appropriate, as you please, all while remaining within my professional scope of practice as a Doctor of Divinity and Wild Mind Guide.

If you are navigating a significant life transition — divorce, career collapse, or a loss of meaning — this is exactly where IFSS is most effective.

However, this work requires a certain baseline of internal resilience in order to keep everyone safe-enough.

If you are in an acute clinical crisis (active self-harm or severe instability), we require that you are also under the care of a licensed medical professional.

We start this journey based on a shared commitment to see it through, but I recognize that life is dynamic and unpredictable.

If external events interfere with your capacity to continue, we navigate that transition with the same integrity we bring to the work itself.

• The Six-Month Safety Net: You have six months within which to complete six sessions. This provides a wide window of opportunity to drift in and out of the work, flowing with waves of intensity and retreat. There may be periods where you're deeply engaged, having extra sessions, doing the practice and enjoying late nights in the library. There may be others where you have zero bandwidth for anything other than making it through the day. It's all okay and a natural part of the process.

• The Personal Pause: If you need to step away for a more significant period, we can design a custom "holding pattern" — scheduling check-ins at specific intervals to determine the most wise and courageous moment to re-engage.

• The Final Threshold: If it becomes necessary to stop the work entirely, we will hold a formal concluding session to compost the experience and ensure we depart as friends, with your dignity and insights intact.

• The Integrity of Investment: Ecotone Academy operates with a firm no-refunds policy. This policy protects the energetic conatiner and ensures my full availability for our contracted time. All financial arrangements are clearly codified in the mutual commitment we agree to at the outset.

Gemini NotebookLM is a service offered by Google.

It allows you to create a custom language model (AI program) by uploading specific sources. It does not draw anything from the wider internet — only information contained in the given sources (unless instructed otherwise).

For our purposes, I create a unique Notebook for each of my clients. Each Notebook contains a default set of source material that informs the IFSS modality.

It includes stuff like: classical texts of Ayurveda and Vedic Astrology; references from my training with the IFS Institute; the complete catalog of Wild Mind work by Bill Plotkin; and all the original writing I've done to flesh out the details of IFSS.

It will also include everything we learn about you as an individual. I will train it on the information received through your intake process (Threshold Test, Inventory, IFS Scale and Self-Reflections). I will also upload the transcript of each of our sessions together.

This allows the Notebook to provide specific, personalized feedback throughout your process. It can remind you of invitations offered, or even suggest new ones. It can provide insight into your astrological anatomy or reflect on your overall circumstances.

I have even experimented with asking very specific, "random" questions about my life and it comes up with some useful and rather innovative reflections and suggestions.

Most importantly, your Notebook is 100% private to you. Not even I can see how you interact with it. You have a unique portal where you can ask questions and converse with it and it stays exclusively with you.

I will say: though I am generally skeptical, this is the best use case for AI that I've found.

And, if you have any questions or concerns about it, I totally get it, and I am happy to have that conversation. Your Notebook is absolutely an optional feature of the IFSS program.

If you have questions, comments, concerns, confusion or enthusiasm that is not addressed here, please reach out!

You can send a note through this contact form, or email me:

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