Jennie Wakefield, MA, RSME (she/her) is an associate teacher of Tamalpa Institute and uses its Life/Art Process to approach several areas of her interest from an embodied perspective. She leads movement-based expressive arts circles from her home studio in Greenville, SC using movement, writing, and drawing to explore and deepen relationships between psychological life, social issues, and creativity. As a Senior Lecturer in the English Department at Clemson University (retired, emerita), she taught Composition and Humanities courses, which often explored connections between body, creativity, symbol, and the built and natural environments. She is a contra dance caller and views this accessible communal dance form as real-time experience of dance’s archetypal role as community glue and ritual. She completed Haden’s Dream Leader training in 2009 and has returned to Haden to facilitate workshops in embodiment, call Saturday night contra dances, and facilitate dream groups at the summer conference.
