Depth work online and in Portland and Hood River Oregon
RADICAL | the fundamental nature. Wild, daring, at the root.
RADICLE | the first root a seed sends down. It anchors the seedling and becomes the taproot.
How I work
I work with people to find the live edge in their process.
In a forest, the most life is not in the thick interior or the open clearing. It is at the edge between them, where the two meet. That margin is where the growth is. The same is true of a person. The live edge runs between your depths and what has not yet formed.
At that edge sits what complexity science calls the adjacent possible: not every future, but the next ones reachable from where you stand. This is social ecology, practiced in the relational space between us. We find the live edge, in you, around you, and beyond you, and notice what is beginning to emerge.
That we may surrender to life and create radically in service of our communities and the earth.
Tools we use
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Somatic Inquiry
Core beliefs live in the body rather than the reasoning mind which is why insight alone changes so little. Working to slow down and track what the body reports as it happens we can listen to wisdom more accurate than the stories you may have been telling. These stories are protective rather than pathological. Each took its role when it was needed. We learn what they have been guarding and let them set down work they have long outgrown.
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Family Constellations
You come from a system and you are still inside it. It has its own rules about who belongs, who came first, and how what is given comes back into balance. When one of those is out of order, by someone excluded or unspoken, by a child who took on a burden that was never theirs, the system carries the breach forward. Someone later picks up a pattern they did not choose and cannot explain. We find what was displaced, restore it to its place, and the person carrying it is free to set it down.
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Ritual and Nature Based Practices
Ritual marks change and makes it real. It shifts perspective and holds what ordinary life has no structure for. It is also the oldest way we have of taking our place in a living system rather than standing outside it. This work happens in relationship with the ecosystem you actually live in. I work with sound, with tobacco, and with what is already at hand. Our Ritual tools are the world you are already made of and standing in.
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Preparation and Integration
A psychedelic or expanded state can dissolve the separation between a person and the living world. Psychedelic and other work in expanded states is a catalyst but it does not supply the container to hold what it reveals. That ground is built slowly and in relationship, and it is the heart of the work.
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Enneagram
The Enneagram, in the depth tradition rather than the personality-quiz one, describes the particular way a person's attention narrowed early in order to survive. It names what you habitually reach for, what you cannot see, and the specific shape your defenses take under pressure. It is uncomfortably accurate and it is not a category to live inside. Used well, it maps the door out of the pattern.
About Renee Jenkinson
My work is devoted to the loving diversification of our beliefs, identities, and interconnections. I grew up in the wilds of the western US and Hawai’i and now split my time between Portland and the slopes of Mt Hood/Wy'East on land I have shared with four generations of my family.
My practice is grounded in nearly three decades as a wilderness guide and teacher. I have worked one-on-one with clients in personal process since 2009, and have served as founding director for multiple organizations working in wilderness immersions, rites of passage, storytelling, and outdoor education. I serve as a teacher and pathway dean and coordinator for the AWE Foundation’s Ecstatic Mysticism program’s school of the Web of Life and I also direct Pacific Wilds, which provides remote medical training and consulting in risk management and place-based programming, and leadership.
I hold a Bachelor's in Public Health and a Master's in Integrative Psychedelic Therapy. I am a graduate of AWE's Psychedelic Therapy Training, a three-year program of study and apprenticeship in Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Gabon. I am a Wilderness EMT with training in Hakomi Method and Somatic Experiencing, and am a Mbanji Bwiti initiate. I am committed to unlearning and relearning as I continue in this work.
