Explore a Resilient and Earth-Centered Worldview with Visiting Scholar Craig Chalquist
Course Material
Invitation to Land All Around Us
In this invitation to Land All around Us, Summer 2025 Visiting Scholar Craig Chalquist invites us to join him as he embarks on his residency. In his worldview, imagination, story, and creativity let us tune in on a Greater Conversation unfolding continually within us and with the land around us. He asks: How are we called to respond deeply and soulfully to our turbulent time? Might that response include joining others to weave into being a new worldview?
Imagination as a Tool of Wisdom and Transformation
In this introductory lecture from Summer 2025 Visiting Scholar Craig Chalquist, meet him, and learn how imagination has been used in various traditions as a source of wisdom and change-making. To prepare for this lecture, bring an example of a dream with some aspect of nature in it. What about this dream inspires(d) you? How has that inspiration changed you?
Dreaming the Soul of the Earth: Re-imagination as a Remedy for Our Times
In this conversation with 2025 Summer Visiting Scholar Craig Chalquist, Host Susan Grelock Yusem talks with Craig about how we can approach land with curiosity and how we can work with our imagination to re-envision our relationship with the land all around us.
Walk, Dream, Write: Writing Workshop
Join us for writing, dreaming, and discussion about the earth around us in this culminating event with our 2025 summer visiting scholar Craig Chalquist.
A Terrapsychological Glance at Bolinas, California
In this playful terrapsychological exploration of Bolinas, California, Summer 2025 Visiting Scholar Craig Chalquist exemplifies how his worldview brings the land around us to life, affecting our decisions, thoughts, and our relationship with the land itself.
A Call for an Earth-Honoring Worldview
In this concluding article, Summer 2025 Visiting Scholar Craig Chalquist summarizes his residency experience, which exemplified for him how imaginative modes of consciousness allow us to perceive places, beings, buildings, and the elements, normally considered mute objects, as speaking presences, and how tending the living presence of place helps assemble a worldview that centers Earth, humaneness, justice, equity, reenchantment, participation, and imagination.
Craig Chalquist, PhD
Craig Chalquist, Ph.D. is program director of Consciousness, Psychology, and Transformation at National University and a former associate provost and several other administrative and leadership roles. His background includes group counseling, depth psychology, mythology, ecopsychology, terrapsychology, and philosophy and wisdom studies. He presents, publishes, and teaches at the intersection of psyche, story, nature, reenchantment, and imagination. He has published more than twenty books, including the hopeful Lamplighter Trilogy. His motto is: “Converse with everything!” Visit Chalquist.com.