Deep Imagery

05/07/2025

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Last Chance to submit a proposal to Imagery International's Virtual Conference. Many of our Deep Imagery Practitioners have presented at this conference over the years, including Steve Gallegos, Mary Diggin, Jenny Garrison and Margrit Jütte.

I know it is late notice, if you haven't seen this information already. But if you are interested, and cannot put a final proposal together by May 9th, 2025 also email the conference chair, Elaine Santos, at [email protected] and let her know you will be submitting a proposal.

https://imageryinternational.org/Conference-2025
CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Submissions are Due May 9, 2025

17th Annual Imagery International Conference

Awakening and Illuminating Our World with Imagery

Friday, October 17-Sunday, October 19, 2025

The 17th Annual Conference which will be held virtually on the Zoom Platform.

Submit your proposal here: https://forms.gle/zftvqJcBqUFDafxY9

Imagery International is excited to announce our theme, Awakening and Illuminating Our World with Imagery.

The Imagery International Conference brings together diverse imagery practitioners from various fields to share how they use imagery in their work, as it relates to each year's theme. Past presenters have included nurses, therapists, curanderas, artists, shamans, movement professionals, coaches and others. Shared practices ranged from guided, interactive, integrative imagery to hypnotherapy, dream tending, depth psychology, storytelling, movement experiences and more.

What do the words, "Awakening” or “illuminating” evoke for you? If you are inspired, we invite you to submit a proposal to share your imagery experience and practices in a workshop at this year’s conference.

To be considered, your workshop presentation must:

Align with our conference theme.
Include a course outline which reflects the use of both experiential activities and lecture, with the emphasis on experiential.
Fit within a 90-minute total timeframe, including 15 minutes for audience Q&A at the end. (Your presentation will be 75 minutes.)
Please note: All parts of the application must be completed when submitted. Otherwise, the proposal will not be considered.
The proposal deadline is May 09, 2025. However, the earlier we receive your proposal the better!

Please email [email protected] with any questions.

In order to submit your proposal, please have ready:

Name, address, email & phone number
25-50 word biography
Title of presentation and 150 word abstract
Detailed outline, for 75 minute presentation, including experiential elements
Three learning objectives for your presentation
Three citations to support your presentation
Upload-able resumé
Incomplete applications will not be considered.

Proposal Form: https://forms.gle/zftvqJcBqUFDafxY9

08/12/2023

Thank you all again for your generosity.
We had a good night last night in that both of us slept for about 4 hours. This was partly because of an additional medication we got for Steve and partly because a hospital bed was delivered at around midnight last night.
I am grateful for so much. The Red Willow Hospice staff who coordinated all of this. The HME driver who managed to find us after a long day of delivering medical equipment around Northern New Mexico. Our neighbors, Ed and Erika, who said call when it arrives, and came over to help.
I am grateful too for Steve’s daughter, Nikaya’s loving presence over the last days. She came early yesterday morning, before she had to fly home, to sit with Steve. Grateful too to her friend, Missy who came with her and talked with me about her experience of hospice care, and leapt into action sorting and tidying.
I am especially grateful to Rosalie, Steve’s sister, who helped us yesterday, and worked until she was exhausted. And to Kathy, her daughter, who, likewise, watched Steve and helped organize and tidy, until she had to stop.
Today, Steve and I are alone, together. Nikaya is safely home. Rosalie and Kathy are also on their way back to AZ. Steve would often tell me how valuable our partnership was to him, and what a good team we made. We still do. This particular passageway may not have been part of our expectation but our loving partnership, built and grounded in almost 30 years of knowing each other, still works.
I am also deeply grateful for the long years of journeys and Deep Imagery guides; for the healing that this beautiful man brought into the world through that visionary experience so many years ago. It still supports us and allows us meet this time openly, in deep relationship to the mystery that death is. A few mornings ago, Steve said he thought that death should make a formal appointment before it turns up.
Today he is quiet, sleepy, not yet really waking. So together we wait. Maybe he and death have made that appointment by now and only they know exactly when it will be.

Dear Friends, As many of you are aware, Steve Gallegos, my beloved husband, my … Mary Diggin needs your support for Steve's end-of-life medical & care costs

08/12/2023

I’ve updated our GoFundMe story. Steve is home under hospice care with the Red Willow Hospice in Taos, NM.
Here is the updated story text and below, a link to GoFundMe.
As many of you are aware, Steve Gallegos, my beloved husband, my best friend, is dying. He has metastatic liver cancer. We brought him home yesterday and are under hospice care.
Steve has hepatic encephalopathy. This means that his liver is no longer functioning with any efficiency. Toxin buildup in his bloodstream causes neurological damage. He is suffering from dementia. It is a challenging passageway, physically and mentally. He can’t walk well. He falls. He doesn’t sleep at night. He doesn’t understand his limitations. So we both end up stressed as I try and keep him safe and he hates the restrictions.
It is difficult for me to see how fast Steve deteriorated. Illness, even cancer, horrendous as it is, doesn’t bother me as much as the dementia that is part of this illness. Each day I let go a little more of my own expectation, my own hope that it will loosen its grip, that my beloved Steve will return more fully, and that lactulose, the medication, will work a miracle. At times, he seems more present voicing his thoughts, laughing, and remembering. I am grateful for these lucid moments in the sea of confusion and know they will pass.
Part of me feels sad that the consciousness he hoped to embrace this passageway with is not possible. No journeys, no guides in any way accessible at least from what he says. There have of course been beautiful moments like the morning he spontaneously spoke of or prayed or surrendered his body to the light. Or when he speaks of his love for me and what it means to him that I married him. Or of his love for his daughter Nikaya, or for Rosalie, his sister.
But this is what the universe has given us. I can only trust it will be the best path to his death.
I am currently his only caretaker. He needs 24/7 care and supervision. He is what the medical people call a sundowner. He gets very active at night. He doesn’t sleep but tries to get out of bed and go places constantly. Every few minutes for hours through the night, he gets up and gets out of bed. I fell into a deep exhausted sleep at about 4 am this morning and he managed to get out of bed, into the corridor where he fell. Thankfully, he wasn’t injured, but we had a tense half hour or more as we tried to work together to get him on his feet and to walk back to his bed.
I cannot do it all. I need help, and I need help from people who know how to be with his condition. I also need some tradespeople who can help me create a safe space in which he can walk, and to place some safety barriers, rails, stair rails, grab barsetc. I need to purchase the materials. That means I need to employ a few people. These costs are not covered by insurance.
(Eligio Stephen) Steve Gallegos has offered himself and his Deep Imagery work to the world for over 40 years. He has given himself and his time, generously, heartfully, and caringly.
He never turned anyone away for any reason.
We ask that the greater community now support him as best you can.
His life expectancy is between 0-6 months but I doubt he will last anything close to 6 months. However, he might. Hence the unknown as regards the exact amount we need.
Here are the details I know.
Costs to date, over the last 4 months: $15,000. On credit card.
Anticipated costs:
Hospital Stay last week: $26,000. The hospital business office says that the final tally will be more because not everything is in yet.
Caretakers: I have been quoted between $25 and $40 per hour. I need someone for either overnight or day time care/supervision. The estimates are as follows:
Ideally, 1 caretaker for 8 hours overnight for 7 nights.
Cost per week is between $1400 and $2240.
For 1 month: $5600 and $8960
Ideally, 1 caretaker for 21 hours each week, 3 hours per day @ $25 per hour.
$525 per week; $2100 per month.
Tradespeople:
Minimum of 12 hours at $30 per hour: $360
Minimum of 6 hours skilled labor at $50 per hour: $300
Cost of goods/materials: $600
Funeral Costs: between $1200 and 8000
If Steve Gallegos were to die in the next few days, we would still need about $43000 to $50000. Including funeral cost.
For 2 weeks, including caretaking and expenses: $47,610 Plus funeral costs.
For 1 month, including caretaking at the lowest rates and expenses: $51,460 Plus funeral costs
This does not include the final tally from the hospital as they cannot give it to me yet. Nor does it include the more expensive rates for caretaking. Nor does it include the costs should Steve rally and live for 6 or 8 weeks more.
I am grateful to everyone who has helped.
Thank you,
Mary, Steve’s wife

Dear Friends, As many of you are aware, Steve Gallegos, my beloved husband, my … Mary Diggin needs your support for Steve's end-of-life medical & care costs

08/07/2023

Hi Everyone, As many of you know, Steve has been diagnosed with metastasized ca… Mary Diggin needs your support for Steve's end-of-life medical & care costs

05/27/2023

A short video in which Mary Diggin, Ph.D. speaks about Deep Imagery as a journey of self discovery.

05/27/2023

https://youtu.be/1vXmhiBsBMg

A short video in which Mary Diggin, Ph.D. speaks about Deep Imagery as a journey of self discovery.