C. Michael Smith

Director of Crows Nest Wilderness Retreat and Conference Center, Dowagiac, Michigan. Director of Crows Nest Centers for Shamanic Studies International: Paris, France; Mean, Belgium; Payzac, France; Capetown, South Africa., Iquitos and Tarapoto, Peru. www.crowsnestshamanism.com Keynote speaker and workshop teacher in the field of Jungian psychology and shamanic studies. Currently working on four continents, and teaching in premier retreat centers in France and Belgium. Lecture and keynote at major Jungian events and conferences. Scholar and Research Consultant to graduate students and writers in the fields of Jungian psychology, shamanism, myth and ritual, and transpersonal psychology, and has served for years on doctoral committees of Pacfica Graduate Intitute, Argossy University and Andrews University. He has lectured in the University of Chicago Divinity School in Healing Systems Across cultures, and taught Jung and Shamanism at the Chicago Theological Seminary. He has led more than 200 workshops and retreats world-wide, with attendances ranging from 30 to 200 people, and co-facilitated festivals with more than 1,400 attendees for the Cercle de Sagesse Ancestrale and the Cercle de Sagesse de l’Union, Paris and Cogolin, France.