Surprise! Here comes the Trickster!: David Strabala. EP 246

It isn't surprising that my guest today, David Strabala (STRAY ba la), identifies with the archetype of the trickster in stories, or that this energy called him to make the award-winning feature documentary, "What Is Synchronicity?"  He carried a trickster role from birth, as the surprising 13th child of parents who were 50 and 46.  As tricksters often do, he has crossed many boundaries in his life, starting with the two generations he straddled -- those of his siblings and of his nieces and nephews, five of whom are older than he is.  On the way to making his synchronicity film, he threaded career boundaries as a journalist, clinical social worker and storyteller.  He brings both personal and professional  stories of the trickster today for healing our world.   www.whatissynchronicity.com   

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Our host Dr. Bernard Beitman is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to attempt to systematize the study of coincidences. He is Founding Director of The Coincidence Project. His book, and his Psychology Today blog, are both titled Connecting with Coincidence. He has developed the first valid and reliable scale to measure coincidence sensitivity, and has written and edited coincidence articles for Psychiatric Annals. He is a visiting professor at the University of Virginia and former chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He attended Yale Medical School and completed a psychiatric residency at Stanford. Dr. Beitman has received two national awards for his psychotherapy training program and is internationally known for his research into the relationship between chest pain and panic disorder. Learn more at https://coincider.com.