Everything you need to introduce Telfer.

Short bio, 50 words

Telfer is a Wild Mind Guide, Doctor of Divinity and the founder of Ecotone Academy, based in qathet, British Columbia. Weaving IFS-informed parts work, Vedic Astrology and nature-based soul work, he helps people read their hardest seasons as ecotones: the wild edges where an old life ends and a truer one begins.

Medium bio, 150 words

Telfer is a Wild Mind Guide, teacher and the founder of Ecotone Academy, based in qathet, British Columbia. He has trained with the Animas Valley Institute to be a Wild Mind Guide since 2018, holds a Doctor of Divinity and an Ayurvedic Doctor-level certification, and has studied Vedic Astrology since 2009.

His original framework, Internal Family Solar Systems, builds on Richard Schwartz’s Internal Family Systems and reads the planets as archetypal parts of the psyche. He is the former President of the Colorado Ayurvedic Medical Association and former Event Director for Dr. Zach Bush.

His conviction is simple: you are part of a larger whole, and a whole made of parts. Health and happiness come naturally when all the parts are in harmony. Through Ecotone Academy, he guides people from the part they play to the whole they are.

Read-aloud intro, about 15 seconds

My guest today is Telfer, a Wild Mind Guide and the founder of Ecotone Academy. He helps people make friends with change by reading their hardest seasons as ecotones, the edges where new life is most likely. Welcome, Telfer.

Credentials

Wild Mind Guide / Doctor of Divinity / Vedic Astrologer / Founder, Ecotone Academy / qathet, British Columbia

Long bio, 300 words

Telfer grew up with anxiety and depression and spent years searching for what actually helps. That search became his life’s work. He has studied Vedic Astrology since 2009, completed more than 4,000 hours of Ayurvedic training from 2014 to 2018, and has trained with the Animas Valley Institute to be a Wild Mind Guide since 2018. Along the way came IFS training, HeartMath certification and a Doctor of Divinity, earned with a dissertation on Internal Family Solar Systems. This original framework builds on Richard Schwartz’s Internal Family Systems and reads the planets as archetypal parts of the psyche, orbiting the Self like the Sun.

Telfer served as faculty at Alandi Ayurveda Gurukula from 2019 to 2024 and has presented for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association. He is the former President of the Colorado Ayurvedic Medical Association and former Event Director for Dr. Zach Bush. He produced and hosted four Colorado Ayurveda Conferences and four Journey Immersion retreats.

Today he lives in qathet, British Columbia, and runs Ecotone Academy, a school for people crossing the edge between an old story and a new one. In ecology, an ecotone is the place where two habitats meet: the edge where things fall apart and new life is most likely. Telfer helps people read their hardest seasons the same way, so they can make friends with change instead of fighting it. He also writes the Wild Mind Guide Substack.

His conviction is simple: you are part of a larger whole, and a whole made of parts. Health and happiness come naturally when all the parts are in harmony. His work guides people from the part they play to the whole they are.

Please don’t use “Dr.” before Telfer’s name or present him as an Ayurvedic practitioner. Ayurveda is background training, and he doesn’t offer Ayurveda consultations. Internal Family Solar Systems is IFS-informed and credits Richard Schwartz.