Cheryl Leslie-Sullivan, Ph.D. , LPC

· My strengths include a continuous desire to know (truth-seeking) which involves a circular process of research, asking question(s), investigating possible answers using the intellect and the imagination, arriving at a personal and potential collective truth, and then, the process inevitably begins again.

· I have an interactive and facilitating style of teaching (mentoring). I prepare to facilitate a class, a course, a seminar/workshop in the same way as I seek truth. Then, I encourage participants to follow the same process by assigning and suggesting resource materials (text books, novels, psychology/philosophy/theology books, film, poetry, etc.) that are in keeping with the focus or theme and also broadens the focus into other disciplines and areas of knowledge. Participants are also encouraged and given the freedom to "think outside the box" and follow their own curiosities. Evaluation of learning is through articulation verbally, and in writing— in group discussion, in individual and group presentation, and in essay format.

· I espouse the process of active imagination (Jung) that becomes an activation of the imagination, wherein one can have a deeper experience of dreams and engage spiritual beings; an experiential process that catalyzes individuation: a sacred inner marriage from which arises the Self and provides the platform and courage to live our True Self.

· A personal interest of mine is Yoga, as a spiritual and physical practice. Before Yoga, I practiced Tai Chi for several years. Both Yoga and Tai Chi are linked to my interest in the religious and spiritual practices of the East: Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism. I am curious how Gnosticism, Jewish, Sufi, and Christian Mysticism, Taoism, Hinduism, and Shamanism are interrelated. I am interested in Depth Psychology, specifically Jungian and archetypal psychology and mythology and life experience, as symbolized in dreams and their influence and direct relationship to self-awareness and self-transformation through personal life story as personal myth.