Hollyhock Presenters

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Our presenters are curated for their quality, depth, integrity, and alignment with our educational purpose. Since 1982, a distinguished faculty of authors, educators, activists, artists, performers, and practitioners have shared their work at our Cortes Island campus and in Vancouver.

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Kimberly Mascaro, PhD

Kimberly R. Mascaro, PhD, LMFT is a California licensed holistic psychotherapist, centering the spiritual, ecological, and the somatic. She is also a two-time nonfiction author, visual artist, meditation facilitator, and university faculty with over 20 years of professional experience in the field of mental-behavioral health. Dr. Kim is passionate about wellness and self-care, holding certifications in Hypnotherapy, Yoga Nidra, and Integrative Mental Health. She is the author of Dream Medicine: The Intersection of Wellness and Consciousness (2021) and Extraordinary Dreams: Visions, Announcements and Premonitions Across Time and Place (2018) published by McFarland. Having been a student of both Western and Eastern Mystery Traditions for almost half of her life, Dr. Kim’s presentations and workshops are rooted in consciousness, dreamwork, mediation, and self-care. Her research on dreams has been presented and published in the USA and Europe. Contact her at ConsciousChimera.com

Events with Kimberly Mascaro, PhD

Conscious Dreaming: Embodied Wisdom through Liminal Dream Play
May 17 - 22, 2024

We are more than our ordinary, waking-life self. Liminal dreaming has been long practiced by many as a way of exploring extraordinary states of mind, expanding creativity, managing anxiety, and developing intuition and inner-wisdom. Join Dr. Kimberly Mascaro at Hollyhock, for a generative and restorative experience while exploring the potential…