Join us on Thursday, April 29th for An Evening in Conversation with Phil Cousineau, author of The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seekers Guide to Making Travel Sacred!

Phil Cousineau is an award-winning writer and filmmaker, teacher and editor, lecturer and travel leader, storyteller and TV host. His fascination with the art, literature, and history of culture has taken him from Michigan to Marrakesh, Iceland to the Amazon, in a worldwide search for what the ancients called the “soul of the world.”

He has more than 25 books and 15 scriptwriting credits to his name; the “omnipresent influence of myth in modern life” is a thread that runs through all of his work. His books include Stoking the Creative Fires, Once and Future Myths, The Art of Pilgrimage, and The Hero's Journey

Cousineau is an inspiring speaker and has been the keynote presenter at major conferences as diverse as the Ansel Adams Centennial Celebration in Yosemite National Park and the European Unitarian Universalist’s Fall Retreat in the Netherlands. He has been invited to lecture at distinguished venues such as the University of California, Berkeley; the University of California, Los Angeles; Stanford University; Pacifica Graduate Institute; the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago; the Swedenbourg Library; Syracuse University; and the University of Tennessee.

He has collaborated and appeared with many of the great thinkers and philosophers of our time, including mentors Joseph Campbell and Huston Smith, as well as Robert A. Johnson, James Hillman, Brian Swimme, Robert Bly, Brother David Steindl Rast, Marija Gimbutas, Angeles Arrien and others. He enjoys collaborating with musicians and artists such as David Darling, R.B. Morris, and Gregg Chadwick.

Cousineau has appeared as an expert on CNN, The Discovery Channel and Fox News. An on-camera expert for BBC-2’s Joseph Campbell: Hollywood’s Myth Master tribute and the Fox Network special, Star Wars: The Legacy, Cousineau has also been featured on Public Radio's The Savvy Traveler, PRI's The World, CBC's Cross Country Check Up and many other syndicated radio programs. He has been interviewed for articles in Time magazine, Newsweek and The New York Times. He appeared on the Hallmark Channel's New Morning Show sharing his views on subjects such as the "soul of place" and "the creative fire." Look for his expert commentary and mythic take on movies among the special features on the DVDs of Constantine, Double Indemnity, the deluxe Superman boxed set, The Natural, Wonder Woman, and Justice League, among others.