Telios Collaborative

Telios Collaborative

Telios is a Greek word meaning
whole or complete.

The retreats and workshops I lead, the courses I teach, the mentoring and coaching I provide, and the stories I write aspire to help us awaken to our intrinsic wholeness. Together, we heal wounds that keep us from seeing our essential goodness and beauty, from knowing it in our bones. For the good of all, let's dismantle obstacles to our authentic, vibrant living.

Mission of Telios Collaborative

Through creative storytelling and storymaking, we explore depths, reveal power, heal wounds, nurture connections, and celebrate love, all this to fuel living that generates harmony and peace for all.

Experiences

Facilitated activities to unpack our personal and collective stories and to deepen our connections

Classes

Exploring wisdom traditions for answers to our 21st century Big Life Questions

Red Door Talks

Exploring the intersections of spirituality and psychology, mindfulness and authenticity, your story and mine, love and longing, being and becoming.

Speaking

Dynamic, relevant, challenging, and engaging keynotes and speeches

Mentoring & Coaching

Deep and compassionate listening as you discover and nurture your path

Writing

Written reflections on being human in a magical and troubled world

About Tom

Our Commitment to DEIB

Land Acknowledgment and Beyond

All the work done at Telios, whether in solitude or with others, begins and ends on land once inhabited and cared for by numerous First Peoples who settled on this continent thousands of years before people who look like me arrived on Turtle Island.

Telios Collaborative commits to continually moving beyond the words of acknowledgment to build and nourish relationships with the First Peoples of this sacred land.

Here is a growing list of resources we use to learn and teach about, connect with, and support our indigenous neighbors. Feel free to share this document.

Our Land Acknowledgment

We begin in gratitude for Mother Earth and Father Sky who sustain all life on this planet. We celebrate the entire web of life to which we are inseparably connected: animals and plants, mountains and waters, plains and deserts, forests and grasslands.

Transparency is essential to creating and nurturing life-giving community. So, we acknowledge the history of violence, displacement, migration, and settlement as well as policies of assimilation that bring us to this moment. We remember the indigenous peoples who lived here as caretakers of the land for thousands of years before people of European descent came to this territory. We particularly acknowledge the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde - the Umpqua, Mollala, Rogue River, Kalapuya, and Chasta peoples - and the Chinook People on whose sacred ancestral and unceded lands our homes and workplaces stand, as well as numerous other groups of First People who lived nearby, harvesting the abundance of the Columbia River region and the Willamette Valley: the Multnomah, Kathlament, Clackamas, Cowlitz, Tualatin and many other Peoples. We pay respects to their elders, past, present, and emerging. We acknowledge the Native peoples who live here now and continue to care for the Earth with many other current inhabitants. Together, we will continue honoring this sacred land for as long as we draw breath.

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