You are here.
But where is that?
Welcome to Ecotone Academy
A source of wise guidance for powerful people seeking
a trustworthy roadmap 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: Choose your archetype.
Select from the options below which most accurately describes you right now.
I am...
I hold space for others as a therapist, counselor, nurse, doctor, shaman, elder or any form of healing practitioner, whether holistic or biomedical, licensed or complementary / alternative. Note: if this is true for you, please select this option, even if another choice also feels accurate.
I have read the books, attended workshops, been in therapy, and am generally doing the work through a consistent (if not constant) practice of self-inquiry and proactive evolution. Mysterious realms are familiar territory. I am already fluent in the language of Soul.
My familiar life seems to be cracking open. My job, relationship or sense of Self is in a state of upheaval. My usual habits and coping mechanisms no longer work. Old patterns are becoming more problematic. Life is changing and I'm unclear what to do or what happens next.
I am just dipping my toe in the deep end of self-discovery. I am genuinely interested in personal growth, metaphysics (maybe?) and the big mysteries, but I'm wary of the weirdness and it feels more like a casual curiosity than a life-defining pursuit.
I am generally content. I don't often trouble myself with the ultimate meaning of life or feel mystically compelled to find my true self. I find meaning in the more tangible aspects of life, like family, friends, fulfilling work, fun hobbies. That's plenty for me to be happy.
The road ahead...
1. Select your Archetype
- Find yourself in one of the five options above.
- If you don't identify with any of them, tell me about it!
2. Find the Trailhead
- Each archetype links to a unique, self-reflective activity consisting of five simple questions.
- It takes 2-5 minutes.
- You receive instant feedback and (at least) one wild idea about what to do next.
3. Take the Threshold Test
- When you're ready to go further, the Threshold Test is a 120-question eco-psychological self-diagnostic 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.
4. Respond to the Call
- Upon completing the Threshold Test, 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.
5. Choose your Path
- This is the moment of truth. ((dramatic pause))
- In our 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."
Pssst... this is where you scroll back up to find your Trailhead.
Or just click here.What'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 the U.S. 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 weird, wonderful, infinitely mysterious wilderness of soma, psyche, Spirit & Soul.
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.
