Lynnaea Lumbard, PhD, is a transformational psychologist, interfaith minister, wilderness guide, community weaver, social artist, and strategic philanthropist.
Her journey began during her time at Stanford in a course called Consciousness and the Human Potential, launching her into the emerging field of humanistic and transpersonal psychology. She trained in a wide range of practices, including the Hoffman Process, Reichian Therapy, encounter groups for social change, NLP, psychosynthesis, psychodrama, gestalt therapy, voice dialogue, conscious evolution, depth psychology, energy work, and council.
In 1986, Lynnaea co-founded Temenos Associates, a national workshop organization that offered introductory consciousness intensives, trainings in enneagram, voice dialogue, and dreamwork, as well as 12-day retreats focused on Awakening the Heart, Embracing the Shadow, and Opening the Third Eye.
Relocating to Boulder, Colorado, in 1995, she became a founding minister of All Seasons Chalice Church, creating a spiritual community around StarHouse. She co-led 12-day Vision Fasts in the Utah desert before co-creating a four-year mystery school based on the Medicine Wheel, integrating body, soul, mind, and spirit through life’s seasonal cycles.
Lynnaea then began focusing on the wounds of the collective psyche, adapting archetypal patterns of individual transformation to cultural healing processes. Her work with NewStories emerges from a desire for humanity to move beyond old paradigms, embracing greater wholeness as individuals and cultivating a compassionate, conscious relationship with Earth and all life.
Currently, Lynnaea curates NewStories to illuminate and share narratives and practices that support a life-affirming future. When she’s not writing or speaking, she collaborates with small teams to strengthen and synergize the growing new stories movement through hosting and facilitating workshops and social change gatherings.