Hilltending: Finding the Way Back to Self and Earth
For Wholeness of Psyche, Body, and Earth
Hilltending is a depth psychological framework of ecotherapy and Jungian coaching to achieve and maintain wholeness of psyche, body, and earth through healthy relationships to ourselves and the world around us.
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Remotely wherever you are or in person at the Hilltending Campus Located in Dowling, Michigan. 50 minutes from Grand Rapids and Lansing, 20 minutes from Battle Creek and Hastings
find out more in a free 30 minute consultation
In this remote consultation, I will walk you through the Hilltending process and we can explore how Hilltending might help you reach your goals and desired results. I look forward to meeting you!
The Hilltending Process
Depending on your goals and desired results, I offer Hilltending services either as ecotherapy or as Jungian based coaching.
In Hilltending, the “Hill” is a layered metaphor. It might, at times, be an actual hill, but more often it is a feature of our inner topography, our psychological relationship with ourselves, others, and the world (including the natural and cultural worlds).
Hilltending as Ecotherapy and Hilltending as Jungian Coaching both utilize depth psychological techniques of coming into dialogue with the unconscious layers of psyche. Both modalities are engaged from within the same overall process. At the beginning of the Hilltending process, we will engage the first two phases (“Assessing the Terrain" and “Mapping the Topography"). In these initial sessions, we will get to know one another and listen to what psyche is saying. After this, the Hilltending process is fluid and dynamic and will unfold in a unique way for each individual and in each session.
Hilltending as Ecotherapy or Jungian Coaching?
Hilltending as ecotherapy empowers you
- to become more aware of and intentionally transform your deep relationship to the natural world
- to work with your ecological “shadow” and come to terms with associated emotional responses
- to recognize and enjoy the awe and beauty of being a member of the Earth Community without being overwhelmed and disempowered by ecogrief
- to find peace of mind and needed strength to develop creative ways of lowering your ecological footprint and contributing to the healing of the Earth
- to realize many of the same empowerments as in Jungian Coaching
Hilltending as Jungian coaching empowers you
- to become more conscious of the nuances of and transforming your psychological relationships to Self, others, and the cultural world.
- to identify inner “villains” and “allies” on your journey and integrate the meaning they hold for you
- to integrate seemingly opposites into creative and transformative development
- to more effectively meet life’s challenges and transitions at home, at work, in your inner life
- to make better decisions more aligned with your authentic self
- to be more comfortable in dealing with life’s inherent vulnerability, uncertainty, and ambiguity
- to find more balance between the intellectual/rational/scientific and the emotional/intuitive/relational aspects of life
Since working with James my life has changed in an epic fashion. It was so helpful to get the Hilltending perspective, and I am no longer the same person that I was before I began working with him. If you have the chance, I would do whatever you can do to make that investment in your well-being. You will remember it as a life changing decision.
-Mary S.
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