An Immersive Evening with Theresa Holleran

Live Event Program

Friday, November 3rd, 2023

Saturday, November 4th: Our companion Depth Workshop: From Darkness to Light, Stillness to Dancing is sold out.

Presenter: Theresa Holleran, LCSW

Theresa Holleran, LCSW has been a Depth Psychotherapist, teacher, and facilitator for almost 50 years. She has taught graduate courses in Transpersonal Psychology, Eco-psychology, and Process Work, and has co-created national and international retreats and sacred journeys in both urban and wilderness settings on themes of embodied healing and transformation, suffering, wisdom and resilience, gender, ecology, and spirituality, and the Sacred Inner Marriage. She currently works with individuals, relationships, groups, and communities in her private group practice at Mountain Lotus Counseling in Salt Lake City.

Her work is predicated on knowing that each person has an inherent destiny that can be revealed through the exploration of the unconscious and its effects on consciousness and that personal individuation is directly tied to the fate of our planet.

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Live Music: Amanda Lynn Jones

Amanda Lynn Jones has roots in Americana with blues, country, and rock influences. Jones is likened to John Mayer for her excellence in guitar playing with bluesy vocal influences of Beth Hart and Chris Stapleton. Her range is wide with the additional soft side vulnerable vocals singing haunting lyrics pulled from her experiences as a childhood trauma survivor that take you on a journey. Her early experiences included years of isolation in childhood and a silencing of her own voice over the years. She was able to survive and cope as she picked up the electric guitar and taught herself how to play at the age of 15. Through recovery she has now regained her voice to speak out as an advocate for trauma survivors through her story and her music.

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Featured Artist: Randee Levine

Randee Levine has spent the majority of her life exploring Art and Psychology. She has always been drawn to the fluid edge between the implicit and explicit. Randee has her BFA from SUNY Purchase and a Master’s Degree from the Process Work Institute, where she trained with Jungian Analyst, Dr. Arnold Mindell and colleagues. Randee works as a Facilitator and Creative Coach with individuals, partners and teams. She shows and sells her artwork at Phillips Gallery.

Randee lives with her husband, Chris and their dog, Josie.

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Opening Poet: Rachel White

(drawing by Jim Stiles of the Canyon Country Zephyr)

Rachel White writes poetry to praise the mysteries of creation. She studied at the University of Utah, and has received awards from the Utah Arts Festival, Sageland Collaborative (formerly The Wild Utah Project), and the Southampton Writers Conference. Her poems have appeared in anthologies published by Torrey House Press, The Ecological Citizen, and the South Florida Poetry Journal. A chapbook, the velvet earth after rain, will be published later this year by the Utah Poet Laureate, Lisa Bickmore, and Moon in the Rye micropress.

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Incantation

Heaven is an empty house with sun streaming in,
and white clouds that gather, part, silently re-form and thunder,
rain; drops rustle birds in the trees, wind weaves light under leaves
and drifts through the open door where you are, and you are there
and you are there, with me.

Existence

In reality the universe
collapses all light
and dark— has done
so many times—
amassed, it implodes,
explodes, expands—
dispels all forms
and names —even
yours— & matter
in every direction—
yet things persist—
everything that is—
though the particular
is used up, dissolved
away to begin again
a process of assembling,
of molecules fluorescing,
an opalescent unfolding
of growth and becoming—

As within, so without — as above, so below

Soon.
Until then
listen for me
in the wind-brushing
pines that sway on a ridge
over vast and echoing chasm
and say to you what you already
know— your own whispering
thoughts lighter than breath
before it forms words
silent in the invisible
dimension where is
your soul, a formless
fire that burns away
shadow, and feels
the way ahead
toward what
it is that
seeks
to be.