About Cyndera Quackenbush, MA

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Cyndera Quackenbush was born and spent her childhood in Joshua Tree, California. She credits the desert landscape for gifting her with an expansive and playful imagination. Having also been given a unique inheritance from her father, Cyndera is the creator of the Story Through Stone Reflection Cards and Story Stone Play for children. She is the author of a chapter on this subject in the 2022 anthology Nature-Based Play and Expressive Therapies: Interventions for Working with Children, Teens and Families.

She has a master's degree in Counseling Psychology, with an emphasis in Depth Psychology, from Pacifica Graduate Institute.

 

 

Cyndera, an engaging storyteller and speaker, has presented Story Through Stone workshops for a variety of populations. In addition to her own local retreats, she has also presented in the US and internationally at the following Institutions and Conferences: 

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• North American Association of Environmental Education

• Association for Environmental & Outdoor Education (CA)

• Jung Society of Austin

• Purusha Yoga School, San Francisco

• International Coalition of Girls' Schools

• Yorkshire Festival of Story (Settle Stories, UK)

• Burke's School, San Francisco

• SoulAtPlay

• Inside Out Children and Nature Network

• Beatnik Art Lounge, Joshua Tree

• Holos Institute, San Francisco

• Hamlin School, San Francisco

• International Art Therapy Conference

• The British Association of Art Therapists

• International Association for the Study of Dreams

• California Institute of Integral Studies

• Dream Wolf Bereavement Center, Netherlands

• Study of Myth Symposium at Pacifica Graduate Institute

• Faithful Fools, San Francisco

• Dream Institute of Northern California, Berkeley

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