Call Me Love: Exploring Gender, Power, and the Planet
April 6-8, 2023
Facilitated by Leigh Melander, Ph.D.
Spillian Co-Founder
A private workshop for members of Regenerative Nexus.
A deep dive into how the stories we tell of gender and power might be turned on their heads to shatter the boundaries between female and male, human and nature to re-imagine and regenerate our world together.
Idea Vessels
call me love
Three Little Words, with Sir Ian McKellen
words, words, words
Words With Etymological Juice
the stories we tell | the stories that tell us
Myth | Archetype |Story
honoring and healing wounds
Gentle Destabilization | Inviting Vulnerability | Savoring Uncertainty
blowing up binaries
Beyond Either | Or… and beyond Both | And
containing wild multitudes
FeMale ~ HumaNature | We Are All the Things
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The Circle of Togetherness
About Leigh Melander, Ph.D.
Leigh has an eclectic background in the arts as well as consulting in strategic planning, community outreach & marketing, and event planning for over 20 years. She has performed, and taught and facilitated explorations of imagination and creativity internationally, working with individuals and groups to help them find their way to bringing their wild ideas to life. She spent 13 years working in asset-based community building in communities across California, and with students, faculty and a wide range of artists and activists at the University of California Santa Barbara’s MultiCultural Center.
Her undergraduate degree is in performance, literature, and history from Penn State, and she studied writing by invitation with Nobel Poet Laureate Derek Walcott at Boston University.
She has a doctorate in cultural mythology and psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and wrote her dissertation on frivolity as an entry into imagination. She has has appeared at various conferences and on media outlets, including the History Channel, as a mythology expert, and has published articles in Spring Journal, The Routledge International Handbook of Jungian Film Studies, The Mythology CD-ROM. She hosted Myth America®, a weekly radio show about how myth shapes our sense of identity on an NPR affiliate for three years and is transitioning to a podcast, and served as the Vice President of the Joseph Campbell Foundation and the editor of their MythBlast series for four years. Her first book in the Frivolous Revolution series, Psyche’s Choice, has been released as on Amazon, with additional books coming in 2023.
