inside out
Reclaiming Heart and Spirit
Through the Challenges of Our Time

INSIDE OUT
Reclaiming Heart and Spirit
Through the Challenges of Our Time
Join us on a six-month journey to uncover and release the potential and will for transformation deep within ourselves, our communities, and the more-than-human world.
Drawing on Psychosynthesis and the Work That Reconnects, we will explore practices of self-awareness, belonging, will, and ecological identity.
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Facilitators: Molly Brown & Mark Skelding
Mark Skelding
Mark Skelding
Mark Skelding
Mark Skelding
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Format: 6 months · One weekend per month · Online · Sliding scale; some scholarships available
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Time: Two 3-hour modules · Fridays/Saturdays · 3–6pm Pacific
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Dates: Feb 6–7 · Mar 6–7 · Apr 10–11 · May 1-2 · Jun 5-6 · Jun 26-27
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Between sessions: Suggested readings + journaling
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JANUARY 30, 2026: the course will start in 7 days time.
Late registrations are possible: please use the links below.
These are complex and often confusing times. The world may be moving toward an evolutionary shift impacting the way we humans relate to each other and the more-than-human world. Some of us are feeling called to act, but are uncertain what may be meaningful or effective; some of us feel the weight of our aloneness, unsure where to turn. Still others are overwhelmed by grief or fear and may find themselves revisiting their old coping mechanisms of self-doubt, distraction, or opportunism. Some may be thrilled and excited by a new world dawning, yet still feel strangely disconnected.
Join us on a journey through these times of enormous challenge, to uncover and release the will and potential for transformation deep within ourselves, our communities, and the more than human world. We will draw upon the powerful insights and practices of Psychosynthesis and the Work That Reconnects to support our journey together.
This course will benefit anyone who seeks to make a difference in community and the larger world. Whether you are a counsellor, therapist, a mental health or social work professional, an activist, a seeker and/or find yourself deeply concerned at what is emerging in the world today, this course is for you. You will experience a grounding in Psychosynthesis and Deep Ecology theory and practice, which will enrich your life and work. If you have already trained in Psychosynthesis or the Work that Reconnects, Inside Out will deepen your experience of synthesis between these powerful, life-affirming approaches.
Molly and Mark recorded a conversation about this recently.
Module Themes:
Modules run monthly over two days (dates above), 3 hr sessions.
First day - more towards the individual; second - more towards the collective
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Beginning: self-awareness within the global context
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Strengthening one’s center and identity within today's world
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Setting our sights: Living will - fully
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Aids and mischief in our path: subpersonalities; emotions and needs
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Ecosystemic Awakening– (interconnectedness with all life, and within the diverse global human community)
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Enlivenment: in service of Life
Leadership is no longer the property of leaders … any more than the wind belongs to the trees whose leaves are rustling
The human mind is not some otherworldly essence that comes to house itself inside our physiology. Rather it is instilled and provoked by the sensorial field itself, induced by the tensions and participations between the human body and the animate earth… By acknowledging such links between the inner, psychological world and the perceptual terrain that surrounds us, we begin to turn inside-out, loosening the psyche from its confinement within a strictly human sphere, freeing sentience to return to the visible world that contains us. Intelligence is no longer ours alone but is a property of the earth; we are in it, of it, immersed in its depths.
David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous
Your Facilitation Team
Molly Brown, M.A., M.Div. lives in Mt Shasta, CA with her husband Jim. In her work as a teacher, writer, workshop facilitator, and life coach, she draws on Psychosynthesis, the Work That Reconnects, and ecopsychology, and specializes in working with activists.
She is author of Unfolding Self: The Practice of Psychosynthesis, and Growing Whole: Self-realization for the Great Turning, and co-author of two books: Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects (with Joanna Macy), Coming Together in the Great Turning: Collective Liberation and Work That Reconnects (with Aravinda Ananda and Kurt Kuhwald, released late 2025). Molly edits the online journal, Deep Times: A Journal of the Work That Reconnects, and co-directs the Spiral Journey Facilitator Development Program.
Studying with Psychosynthesis founder, Roberto Assagioli, in 1973, Molly transcribed several of his papers, including the Fifth Force, which foresaw a more inclusive, trans-disciplinary approach to self, psyche and world.
Her other publications include: Held in Love: Life Stories To Inspire Us Through Times of Change (co-editor Carolyn Treadway); and Lighting A Candle: Collected Reflections on a Spiritual Life.


Friends for over 20 years, Molly and Mark share a deep appreciation of the power of relationship with self, other and the living world to generate the well-being, joy and acceptance. These qualities maintain purpose, creativity and trust in a time of breaking and transformation.
Mark Skelding, M.Ed; Dip. Psychotherapy
is a facilitator, psychotherapist, and long-time teacher of Psychosynthesis. With over 25 years’ experience in guiding individuals and groups through depth work, he brings a presence that is both spacious and clear, intuitive and grounded. This course draws on decades of work in transpersonal psychology, somatic inquiry, ecopsychology and will-centered transformation.
A faculty member of the NZ Institute of Psychosynthesis from 2005 – 2017, Mark is now chair of the Association for the Advancement of Psychosynthesis, based in N America and has an international online practice.
He keeps an irregular publication - Exploring the Blue - of thoughts and wonderings on Substack. A Salt Spring resident since 2020, he is part of the Madrona Integrative Clinic in Ganges, BC, Canada.
Get Involved
The program takes place online in monthly modules in two 3-hour sessions on Friday and Saturday afternoons or evenings in North, Central, and South America (3 to 6 pm Pacific time), and Saturday and Sunday mornings in Western Pacific, Aotearoa, and Australia.
Dates:
- in the Americas: Feb 6-7, March 6-7, April 10-11, May 1-2, Jun 5-6, Jun 26-27
- in the Western Pacific: Feb 7-8, March 7-8, April 11-12, May 1-2, Jun 5-6, Jun 27-28
Cost:
$1150, with a sliding scale between $1250 (for those able to help support scholarships) to $650. Please pay at the highest level possible for you, to enable others with fewer resources to participate at a lower fee-and assure that the course facilitators receive adequate compensation for their labor.
Maximum enrolment for the program is 25 so that we can all see each other on the Zoom screen. We request a deposit of $400 to secure your place in the program (less for scholarship recipients). The deposit is refundable until January 30, when the balance of your payment is due (or a payment plan is in place).
The button above begins the registration process for the course in full, and secures your place as numbers build.
This is a recording of a recent introductory webinar where we addressed the course, the facilitators, our influences, thinking and approach, had some Q&A, and offered an experiential taster to a small group!
We look forward to meeting you.
