The Longing

A one-hour exploration of Home as a living practice

What we'll explore together

We'll move through three threads:

The meaning of the longing - what philosophy, depth psychology, and the wisdom traditions tell us about why we ache for Home, and what that aching is actually for. We'll draw on poetry, literature, and the archetypal understanding of Home as something that lives in the imagination as much as in the world.

The experience of your imaginal Home - a short, guided visualization that invites you to encounter your own inner sense of Home. Not the house you grew up in. Not the place you're trying to get to. The one that lives in you, waiting.

What it means to tend it - a brief reflection on Home as a practice rather than a destination, and what it might look like to begin.

  • Who this is for

    Anyone who has felt the ache of not quite belonging to a place, a life, or a version of themselves.

    You don't need a background in psychology or any particular spiritual tradition. You need only be willing to slow down for an hour and be present with yourself.

    What you'll leave with

    You won’t find answers in an hour. But you will find something better: A felt sense that the longing you carry is not evidence of something broken, but of something deeply alive. And a beginning sense of how to work with it.

    Logistics

    Format: Online via Zoom
    Length: One hour
    Cost: Free
    Date:Coming Spring 2026 — join the newsletter to be notified


    A note

    This session will be recorded and made available as a free resource for anyone who wants to begin here. It is also the starting point for Coming Home, a small four-week series for those who want to go deeper. Details on that coming soon.

Coming Home

A Four-Sunday Series on the Interior Journey Toward Belonging

There is a moment most of us have felt, when something inside quietly shifts toward arrival.

There is no thunder clap of dramatic entry. No sudden resolution. Just a quiet settling like sand along the ocean floor. A sense, however fleeting, that you are no longer looking for something you cannot name.

The moment is no accident. It is the work of the soul - building, tending, and movement toward a deeper sense of Home.

Coming Home is a four-week exploration of this process. Drawing on depth psychology, poetry, philosophy, and the wisdom of the natural world, we will trace the interior journey toward belonging - not as a destination, but as a living, embodied practice to be cultivated. Each Sunday, we will move between concept and experience: ideas that orient, and practices that invite you to live into what is already alive in you.

This is not a course. It is a contemplative inquiry. It requires what all genuine inquiry requires: a sense of curiosity, and an intrepid willingness to look inward and transform.

  • What we'll move through together

    Sunday One — The Ground
    What does it mean to be at home in a body, in a life, in this particular moment? We begin with earth — with the question of where we actually are, and what we have been avoiding by staying in motion. Drawing on Jungian concepts of the Self and the work of return, we explore what it means to stop long enough to be with the ground beneath you.

    Sunday Two — The Dissolution
    Before something can be rebuilt, something must be released. This session explores the alchemical dimension of coming home - the necessary dissolution of the self we constructed in exile, and the freedom that exists on the other side of it. We work with poetry, guided visualization, and the images of fog, water, and the liminal space between.

    Sunday Three — The Imaginal Home
    Every person embodies an inner Home - not the house they grew up in, not the place they are trying to get to, but an truer image very much alive in the psyche. This session works directly with that image through guided visualization and reflection. You will leave with something of deep belonging - a felt, interior space that belongs to you and you to it.

    Sunday Four — The Tending
    Coming home is not a single event. It is not an origin, or destination. It is a practice. In our final session, we explore what it means to tend the interior life with the same care and attention we give to the outer world - and what becomes possible when we do. We close with integration, intention, and a sense of what comes next.

    Each session includes

    • An exploration of depth-oriented concepts through poetry, literature, philosophy, and the natural world - held lightly, not lectured.

    • A guided visualization or contemplative practice.

    • Workshop questions and reflections for your own deep dive between sessions.

    • A short resource list of poems, passages, and ideas to carry with you.

    • Space for questions and conversation.

    Who this is for

    People who sense there is more to the story of their own belonging than they have yet been able to articulate. No background in psychology or any particular tradition is required.

    What is required: genuine curiosity, a willingness to sit with questions, and what one participant once called an intrepid spirit of adventure.

    This series is small by design. Places are offered by application.

    Logistics

    • Format: Four live sessions via Zoom, Sundays. Each session is 75 minutes of exploration followed by 15 minutes of open conversation.

      -Sessions are recorded and available to all registered participants.

      -A resource guide accompanies each session.

    • Dates: Summer 2026 — specific dates announced to newsletter subscribers first.

    • Investment: Coming soon.

    • Places: Limited. Application-based.

    A note on the application

    This series is intentionally small. The application is not a selection process - it is an invitation to arrive already committed. A brief form asks you to reflect on your readiness to be present, do the work, and hold space for others doing the same. The quality of what we build together depends on each person who enters the room.

The Belonging Series

Co-created with Sabrina Santa Clara

Spring 2026. Details coming soon