Laura Blakeman, Ph.D.
Laura Blakeman is a southwest desert-dweller who draws from her unique trans-disciplinary background in the performing arts, and her lifelong study of human flourishing, to invite worldview shift for individuals and collectives across the corporate and cultural sectors. She spent the early part of her life working as a somatic educator, producing dance events, live art immersions, and land-based programs that centered marginalized ways of knowing, doing, and being. Her academic work has bridged integral, developmental, and eco-depth psychology, complexity and systems theory, and transformative learning. Her doctoral thesis explored beauty as a catalyst for change. She is a co-founder and creative partner at the Wolf Willow Institute.
Events with Laura Blakeman, Ph.D.
Foundations of Wild Mind, Online Partnership with Centre for Climate Psychology - April, 2026April 8 - 30, 2026
Based on Bill Plotkin’s book, Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche, this 6 day program is an experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature. We will work with what we call the Nature-Based Map of the Human Psyche, which is, among other things, a comprehensive inventory of what can be right about a person, a “shadow” version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), mainstream psychology’s list of what can go wrong with people. Our wild minds possess astonishing resources, untapped potentials and depths that we might…
Soulcraft Journey - September, 2026September 17 - 24, 2026
Under the spell of magically labyrinthian Utah canyons, we invite you to convene with a band of wanderers, tricksters and pilgrims for a unique journey of soul. This September, we will gather for a Soulcraft Journey where, as a small community, we’ll enact a wild pilgrimage of soul through a dream-like landscape, and offer the canyons our attentions, unrestrained blessings and praise, our laments, tremendous questions, and our madcap and sacred ceremonies. Our consciousness-changing pilgrimage practices will move deeper into our bones and breath — and thus be more firmly rooted in us when we return to our everyday lives.…