Why I’m Here

For years clients, colleagues and friends have asked me, “Why don’t you have a website, why not create a blog?” I was waiting for some important paths to cross, for an intuitive “X” to mark the spot. I knew I wanted to continue my advocacy of combining ancient and contemporary technologies. I am a storyteller and a film producer, a licensed psychotherapist and an intuitive, integrative practitioner, a literary and comparative theologies scholar and a sacred theatre/activist performer.

When I was growing up in the country outside of Peoria, Illinois—this renaissance spirit was not only not appreciated--it was not allowed. At least not in a bright, questioning girl. So, I learned to listen to what I called my “Secret Self.”

Out of necessity, even desperation, I learned to refer to my “still, quiet voice within” as Buddhism so beautifully puts it. I needed to have something to dialogue with, a private council that no one could see or criticize me for. This counselor was my Intuition. Many of you will recognize this same childhood dynamic. Out of painful compensation our most creative expertise arises. This is when I also determined I would be an advocate for my and others’ right to be listened to, and to be heard.

The spoken word, relationship communications and civil discourse are all very important pieces of my work. And I have always been a writer. I had an Advertising/P.R. agency in Chicago, I wrote for and was Editor-in-Chief for magazines. I wrote speeches, TV, radio, journalism, educational texts and plays, poetry and fiction. And yet, I had not found the “X marks the spot,” the crossroads where my philosophy, writings and life coaching observations could best be expressed in a broader and deeper setting, especially with an international Tribe.

I had not found my way to marry ancient word-of-mouth technology with computer technology. Then I went to a writers’ workshop held in nearby Gunnison, Colorado. I had many other obligations that weekend, but something about the small, intimate and casual nature of the gathering appealed to me. I had also been intuitively aware that the guide for this new technology I had been seeking was already on the way to meet me.

At the conference an issue of WOMEN OUT WEST, a very new lifestyle magazine was on display. In it was a crisp, confident and encouraging article by Deborah Kunzie. She is a cutting edge webmaster from Florida and her article insisted that all writers could benefit from having a web-log. Her argument was the most compelling I had read.

Also, she is a renaissance woman - a photographer and a computer whiz, all rolled into one. And most important, she only worked with carefully selected “creative and unique” individuals. I contacted her immediately. We spoke on the phone and I knew I had found a Tribe member and perfect blog guide. Deborah is a Wise Woman and works, as I do, from the most ancient tradition, personal intuition, and the magical world of virtual reality. What you see here is Deborah’s wonderful design using photos from my garden on the East River. Thank you, Deborah for helping to create another life for my philosophy and integrative arts therapy process!

Marcie lives with her partner Mark, five cats and two horses on a secret island near Crested Butte, Colorado. An avid biodynamic gardener, Marcie creates and officiates marriage ceremonies, coming-of-age celebrations and many other rites of passage in her garden. “Wiseacre,” her cabin and land in the Elk Mountains, is the home of a National Wildlife Federation Sanctuary, events for the Crested Butte Wildflower Festival and the gathering place for many women’s and men’s retreats. With comments and personal stories, or to arrange a free phone consultation to discuss your counsel-coaching needs please visit Marcie@marcietelander.com.

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I have really enjoye...
Comment from: Terry (Guest)
I have really enjoyed the newsletter all summer and it has opened up some of my threative thinking.  Thanks.
Having an Inner Sanc...
Comment from: Meg (Guest)
Having an Inner Sanctuary is an absolute if you're a writer! It would be wonderful to have a roomy, neat and tidy office with glowing wood furnishings, an executive chair, green plants, books, etc., but even if you live in cramped quarters, a spot on the sofa near a sunny window can refuel your creative energy. I spent two years on my sofa, working hard to complete my MA degree in Writing Popular Fiction through a low-residency, on-line program through Seton Hill University. Just watching the squirrels, people walking by, the weather changing each season, and then taking breaks to get out for some fresh air, kept me going. And I can also say that art therapy is just as refreshing - if I miss my watercolor class once a week, my sense of color dims and my thoughts dull. Balance, that's the key. Cheers!
darling brilliant am...
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darling brilliant amazing you, I am so glad you have a website now and I can get hits of Marcie goodness. I so look forward to telling the world about you!!!! 
Hi Marcie, I was won...
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Hi Marcie, I was wondering if I could possibly get your e-mail from you because I had a few questions for you. I found your name on the interet somewhere and I feel like you could be of some help. It's nothing serious but I figured I would just check!

Thanks
I've known Marcie...
Comment from: Lee (Guest)
I've known Marcie for some 25 years. Which started in storytelling. And accelerated from there. A year ago at the planning board for The Institute of Theological & Interdisciplinary Studies here in St. Paul we we're casting around for speakers for our '09 - 10 season. I suggested Marcie but couldn't bring up words sufficient to describe her beyond psychotherapist, presenter, and dynamite. Trusting me as no one else at the table knew her, they began the arrangements for her to come and address us. "You won't be disappointed," I assured them, and no one was. She gave us, in form and substance, the magic of psychology's contemporary understanding of happiness, her topic: "How Are We Happy?" Her magic of course is spirit, the art of the thing. ...from my introduction of Marcie last Friday night: "I first met Marcie Telander some 25 years ago at a regional consortium of storytellers in Elkader, Iowa where she was an invited top teller. Such was the engaging marvel of her telling from the stage that afterward I could honestly only introduce myself with 'I'm Lee Rife; I want your power.' So she gave me that. Which is that I have all the power there is already here inside. Marcie has the science, but more the art of a true therapist. The science of it, like all science, is just a device to gain and hold focus. The art is to call up the enlivening spirit from the inside place, that 'Looks Within' place. So she pointed me to my vision quest, did not lead me, but me alone in my own time. Marcie is of such spirit transmission. Now that spirit, the spirit she helps reveal, has gone with me into technical presentations from Sacramento to Washington, DC; story telling from the North Woods to Nashville; and to my own blessed people on their ground, at their fire, in their territory in Tanzania, to whom I told the Give-Away story of our Plains Indians, the Maasai who then called me 'La-la'-she', Maasai brother. I'm so happy to be here with my inner circle. Believing that the truth may be expressed in a simple sentence and sometimes just one word, I want to tell you that Marcie is, in a word, delightful! Marcie, give it to us...
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Great job narrating the Vinotok stories on KBUT.com!
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