Susan Evergreen Hericks, PhD has an artistic and psychological approach to being human. Her day to day work involves supporting graduate students who are becoming healers and clinicians. An artist and lover of beauty medicine, ceremony, and social justice, she has a varied background in academia (English, Theology/Ethics, Depth Psychology), rites of passage work and wilderness guiding, ceremonial play and art, and sex positive education.

Evergreen has been active in her local community with numerous projects including co-designing Ojai's annual community Mandala, which involves hundreds of painters of all ages. On a smaller scale, Evergreen loves creating original masks and painting on large cardboard. Her current passions are for sharing poetry as medicine, dreamwork practice with anyone who wants to do it, and creating a family of odd masks and costumes in which to visit her fellow humans with joy and mystery.

Dr. Fred and Evergreen's wide-ranging conversation today explores the following:

• The roles of ceremonial play and art
• Evergreen's role in creating the annual Ojai Community Mandala
• The medicinal potential of poetry
• How poetry is economical
• Exploring dreams as a window into our souls and psyches
• Growing comfortable with "weirdness"
• Taboos of discussing human sexuality
• Loss of ritualistic and ceremonial practice in our culture
• The cyclical nature of everything
• How Evergreen received her name
• Finding the Yes, and managing the No
• Choosing what brings you alive...or not

Episode Length: 00:59:08

EVERGREEN HERICKS' RESOURCES

Contact

Facebook > https://www.facebook.com/susan.hericks

Email > evergreen.hericks at gmail dot com

Video, Ojai Day Mandala 25th Anniversary > https://vimeo.com/240087142?fbclid=IwAR2JJgWRlTMp78Nij01tdjZBRMSm3cO1kBMt4Wm904Nv9Ew3D-JyyT1SNv0

Photos > see below

ALSO MENTIONED ON TODAY'S SHOW

Ojai Day Mandala Artists (Facebook) > https://www.facebook.com/Ojai-Day-Mandala-Artists-561732330552601

Jane Hirshfield poem, "The Weighing" >

Text > https://poets.org/poem/weighing

Video > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyqXGL7ArKM

Pádraig Ó Tuama poem, "The Facts of Life"

Text Audio > https://onbeing.org/poetry/the-facts-of-life

Video > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tZX4wLYYDQ

Poetry Unbound (podcast) > https://onbeing.org/series/poetry-unbound

Recommended book for dreamwork, Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth by Robert A. Johnson > https://www.amazon.com/Inner-Work-Dreams-Imagination-Personal-ebook/dp/B002SVQCUG

Dream Guides Annie Bloom and Niles Haggeman > https://buffalodreaminglodge.com

Rites of Passage work via Animas Valley Institute > https://www.animas.org

WELCOME TO HUMANITY RESOURCES

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