Presenters

Dr. Chanti Tacoronte-Perez is a Cuban-American artist-author, ritualist, and non-clinical depth psychologist. She believes that images speak a profound language; her work serves as a translator of the unseen and an advocate for the imaginal. Her teachings embrace and celebrate imagination, creativity, dreaming, and deep rest.

Deborah Egger, M.S.W., is a training and supervising analyst at the International School for Analytical Psychology in Zurich, Switzerland (ISAPZURICH). She holds undergraduate degrees in Religion and Psychology from Hendrix College and a Masters in Clinical Social Work from the University of Arkansas. She teaches regularly on the topics of transference, developmental psychology, psychodynamic concepts, and the role of relationships in individuation. She has a private analytic practice in Stäfa, Switzerland.

For Elise Waters Olonia, teaching yoga is the culmination of many experiences and passions. For over 15 years, she has explored many styles of yoga, including ashtanga, yin, hatha, hot yoga, restorative, and others while also exploring the slow movements of Qigong and Tai Chi. Having a passion for education, Elise continues to take courses and workshops to expand her personal and professional practice. As a certified Chopra Meditation teacher, she leads group and private Primordial Sound Meditations and is a facilitator with the Social Justice Book Club in Taos, NM, helping to foster meaningful dialogue.

Frances Hatfield, Ph.D., LMFT, is a poet and senior analyst in private practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She teaches in the analytic training and public programs at the C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe and the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, where she was certified. Her essays and poetry have been widely published and anthologized. Her book of poems, Rudiments of Flight (Wings Press, 2013), won the 2013 Gradiva Award for poetry from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. She is currently writing a book based on her doctoral work on the archetype of Dionysos.

Greg Mahr is a psychiatrist actively involved in trauma, sleep, and psychedelic research in the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit. In 2022 Greg published The Wisdom of Dreams: Science, Synchronicity, and the Language of the Soul with Routledge Press, and his academic book The Psychological Treatment of Acute Trauma will be published in 2025 by Guilford Press.

Gregory Cajete, Ph.D. (Santa Clara Pueblo), Native American educator dedicated to honoring the foundations of Indigenous knowledge in education. He is a Professor of Native American Studies and Language, Literacy and Sociocultural Studies at the University of New Mexico. Author of five books, including: Look to the Mountain: An Ecology of Indigenous Education (1994) and Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence (2000).

Heather Taylor-Zimmerman has a PhD in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute with a dissertation on Jung’s art-based method. A published international visionary artist, Heather runs a nonprofit school and retreat center for creative eco-psychological healing. Heather and Greg Mahr have co-authored a book and card deck recently published by Inner Traditions.

Dr. Helge Osterhold is a Professor of East West Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. Dr. Osterhold maintains a depth-oriented psychotherapy practice with a focus on life transitions and, time permitting, writes on matters of psyche and culture—his recent articles were published in the Journal of Analytical Psychology.

Joel Crichton is a Jungian Psychoanalyst, living and practicing in Victoria, Canada, and trained at the C.G. Jung Institut in Zürich. A classically-trained actor, he worked in theatre for over a decade and has a deep appreciation for the creative process and its necessities. He is the author of the upcoming Jungian Shakespeare: Coming Down to Earth (Routledge), and creator of the iPhone/Android app Retell, which teaches depth psychology through stories.

Jürgen W. Kremer, PhD, clinical psychology from the Universität Hamburg, Germany. Previously dean at Saybrook University and the California Institute of Integral Studies. Tenured faculty at the Santa Rosa Junior College and Academic Coordinator for the Indigenous Science and Peace Studies program at the UN University for Peace, Costa Rica. His books include Abnormal Psychology: Understanding the Complexities of Psychological Suffering; Ethnoautobiography; Transformations of Consciousness (co-ed.); Culture, Consciousness, and Healing (co-ed.).

Naomi Mandsager Bartley, Ph.D., is a retired psychotherapist, long time student of Jungian psychology, environmental advocate and aspiring regenerative farmer. Her heritage lies in the Scandinavian Lutheran immigrant farming community established in the Midwestern United States during the 1800s. Naomi is also a local Water Protector, profoundly inspired by Minnesota Anishinaabe-Ojibwe Elder, Great-Grandmother Mary Lyons.

Penelope Youngblut is a graduate of Harvard College; the University of California, Berkeley; the Guild for Spiritual Guidance; and the C. G. Jung Institute (2004). She is a Training and Supervising Analyst with ISAPZURICH where she travels twice a year to give lectures, seminars, and exams to students. A favorite is her experiential seminar in active imagination similar to the workshop she is leading for this conference. When she is not in Zurich, Penelope lives and has a private practice in Round Hill, Virginia.

Jungian analyst Rodney Waters trained at ISAPZURICH and has been a professional pianist and recording artist for over forty years. He has performed internationally and curated numerous Jungian-themed presentations and concerts for the Jung Center in Houston, Texas and The Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California.
www.rodneywaters.com

Tenor Kenneth Gayle performs in opera and concert throughout the United States. Recent highlights include the NYC premier of “PAX” by John Cornelius at Carnegie Hall. He serves as Director of Music and Fine Arts at Unity of Houston, and on the Board of Directors for the Apollo Chamber Players.

Ruthann Duncan is a psychotherapist in private practice in Eugene, Oregon. Trained in Marriage and Family Therapy, she is widely read in Jungian analytical psychology and her clinical work is informed by this approach.

Ursula Kremer, Ph.D., Meridian University. Her work is focused on creativity, imagination, liminality, relationality, and transformation. After teaching 15 years in the schools, she worked as an intern with HeartMath Institute on the Coherent Classroom Project. In-depth study with Native Elders from this and other continents has been central to her healing and educational work. Ursula has published and presented on her work and has trained as a clown and artist.