The Windhorse International Network
In 1981, a small group of Naropa University-trained psychotherapists formed a home-based clinical team to support a client of Edward Podvoll, MD, in Boulder, Colorado. What was a small, spontaneous response to a particular therapist-client situation slowly evolved over the next thirty-eight years into the “Windhorse Project.” As of 2019, the Project has grown into a loosely organized network in the United States and Europe. At the time of this writing in 2019, there are also several other Windhorse-style initiatives now in early development.
It is noteworthy that this extended network is self-regulating and does not have an overarching supervisory authority. Each community has developed within its own cultural ecology, developing its unique structure and character. We simply share a common approach to bringing out our own and each other’s sanity and to offer Windhorse-style care for people in extreme states of mind. International community members gather every few years at one of the centers for a conference, the most recent of which was held in the summer of 2019 in Boulder.
The Windhorse Legacy Project provides consultation, training, and learning resources to nurture these centers and to attend to the evolution of the Windhorse approach. Many community members have written papers on their work, which are now gathered and published, in an ongoing way, in our growing archive.
