Theodora van Dun, MA

Anthropologist | Theologist | Writer | Speaker | Storytelling Coach

Theodora van Dun is a writer, scholar, speaker and storytelling coach with a background in cultural anthropology and a graduate degree in practical theology. Her work explores how humans create meaning through ritual, story, and symbolic thought, at the edge of science, culture, and the sacred.

She writes with clarity and depth on subjects where belief meets behavior and ideas take form through lived experience. Her essays and talks explore themes such as embodied knowledge, myth, and the psychology of transformation. Always with a critical eye and an open heart.

With experience in academic research, fieldwork, and spiritual care, Theodora brings an original voice to public discourse. She supports the expansion of consciousness for those with the inner capacity and sincere desire to grow, guided by curiosity, wisdom, and a deep love for humanity, and for the living world we are part of.

Her work moves through three living rivers: Humanity, the Sacred, and Story.

She studies the human psyche beyond the clinic, through dreams, breakdowns, obsession, spiritual longing, and the symbolic intelligence that often follows crisis. She writes about identity, shame, exile, reconciliation, and the digital body. Tracing how structures like language, class, and control shape our experience.

Her sacred lens is rooted in ritual, mysticism, and nature. She honors spiritual longing while remaining fiercely critical of dogma, purity politics, and spiritual bypassing. She believes ritual is a form of embodied intelligence and sees modern retreats as liminal spaces for true psychological and spiritual transformation.

Her storytelling turns lived experience into archetypal reflection. She writes to alchemize pain, to speak what others avoid, and to offer language where silence has become a wound. Through narrative, she explores both the liberation and the danger of the stories we live by.

As an experience collector and shapeshifter, Theodora moves fluidly between identities, disciplines, and states of consciousness. Her writing brings creative, scientific, cultural, and philosophical insight, paired with sharp critique and mind-opening inspiration.

She believes that ancient knowing and modern thought must walk together. That a closed mind is a suffering mind. And that real transformation begins when we take the subconscious, and our symbolic lives seriously.

She offers essays, talks, interviews, and retreats designed as transitional rituals. Supporting people to undergo meaningful personal transformation and emerge with a renewed sense of self and direction.