“Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination…”

-Mary Oliver, Wild Geese

What is Web Work?

Web Work is a weaving together of Transpersonal and Somatic Psychology with Animist, Earth Based Spirituality. It’s a truly embodied and integrated approach to healing that brings our nervous systems back into our ecosystems; and remembers the sacred living in the seemly mundane. Web Work offers a broader perspective on what's possible when it comes to staying well during the times we live in.

While the field of psychology has made quantum leaps in our understanding of working with our nervous system, its approach has nonetheless been influenced by dominant culture worldview; specifically materialism and individualism. When we shift to an animistic paradigm of inter-being we open up to the immeasurable support and guidance available in the living and unseen world. By combining both modern advancements with ancient, earth-based wisdom traditions, we can reach profound new depths in our experience of wellness and belonging.

The six tenets of WebWork are that healing comes through cultivating relationships with the wellness keepers in our physical and psychic ecosystem: our body, true self or soul, the living world, our well ancestors, the unseen world and community. My mission is to help women find an approachable and embodied path to reconnect to these dimensions of our web of life in the modern world. In doing so, we bridge back to the ways of living known to the wise women of our ancestral lineages before thousands of years of patriarchy, religious oppression, genocide and colonization.

My prayer is that as we connect to the vast and profound beauty, wisdom and love in the living and unseen world, we come to remember anew how much is possible. Further, that we become resourced enough to offer our gifts to a world that desperately needs them, sustainably, from a place of rootedness.

Future generations, if there is a livable world for them, will look back at the epochal transition we are making to a life-sustaining society. And they may well call this the time of the Great Turning.

-Joanna Macy