Leigh Melander

Leigh Melander, PhD is a story weaver, a ridiculous revolutionary, and an inveterate meanderer. Why go straight ahead when there are always delightful side paths to explore?

She is most excited about helping people to look deep into mythos and imagination to bring their most beloved wild ideas to life.

She is lucky to have an extraordinary launching pad, a Catskills retreat center on an historic estate called Spillian: A Place to Revel. Spillian offers events to mark moments of deep imagination and celebration in people's lives, and is, incidentally, one of Leigh's big wild ideas.

Leigh has been a writer and performer; a strategic planning and marketing consultant; and has worked in community in a host of ways, from building sustainability tools to asset-based family resource centers. She is deeply committed to working to create a regenerative world.

Her doctorate is in cultural mythology and psychology. She served on the Board of Directors of the Joseph Campbell Foundation and as the founding editor of their Myth Blast essay series. She has published numerous articles and the book Psyche’s Choice: The Frivolous Revolution; was featured on the History Channel as an expert on my; and hosts the Myth America Podcast.

More about her consulting and writing work at leighmelander.com.

Myth America podcasts at mythamericaradio.com (and wherever podcasts are broadcast including here on Amazon!)

More about Spillian at spillian.com