Friday, March 28, 2025, Westward Look Inn, Tucson AZ
New Storytelling: Rethinking Film, Social Media, and Exploitive Technologies
How do mythic women arise in the storytelling of popular culture? Can stories in modern media capture ancient or indigenous knowledge accurately? Can we restructure our relationships with social media and make use of technologies in the service of a sentient earth? These are questions posed by our panelists.
- Who You Callin’ Wicked?: Tending Elphaba, Champion of the Sentient Earth, April Heaslip
- Resurrecting Stories of Care, Reciprocity, and Interconnection: Decolonial and Indigenous Dialogues on Technology, Monica Mody
- Restorying Richness: Transforming Scarcity and Creating Abundance Through Narrative Storytelling, Â Aven Whitehorne
- The Bear in the Machine, Susan Wright
April Heaslip, PhD, earned her doctorate in Mythological Studies with emphasis in Depth Psychology (Pacifica Graduate Institute), an MA in Social Ecology (Goddard College), and a BA in Psychology & Women’s Studies (West Chester University) after studying at the Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Brazil. Her forthcoming book is Regenerating the Feminine: Psyche, Culture & Nature. She teaches Interdisciplinary Studies & Popular Culture with Southern New Hampshire University.
Monica Mody, PhD, teaches and writes at the intersections of liminal knowing/language, earth-based wisdom, and decolonial frameworks of wholeness. She is an Assistant Professor in Pacifica Graduate Institute’s M.A./Ph.D. Mythological Studies Program and is also affiliated with the CIIS Women’s Spirituality Department and Southwestern College’s Visionary Practice and Regenerative Practice PhD Program. She is the author of Wild Fin (Weavers Press), Bright Parallel (Copper Coin), and Kala Pani (1913 Press).
Aven Lumi Whitehorne (they/them) is a writer and a doctoral student at the California Institute of Integral Studies and at Viridis Graduate Institute. Their graduate work focuses on using narrative storytelling to create and sustain cultural change in this time of climate chaos.
Susan Wright has an MA in Theology from Bexley Hall Episcopal Seminary. She is currently in her third year of doctoral studies in the DJA program at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She serves on the board of the Colloquium of Violence & Religion, the academic association deviated to the work of René Girard. Her research focuses on the depth psychological sources of systemic misogyny.
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