Tom McKinnon is a hypnotherapist, teacher, multi-media artist, sculptor, storyteller, consciousness researcher, and project animator.

He is an assistant instructor at the Pacific Institute of Advanced Hypnotherapy and has taught post secondary Fine Art for 7 years at Northern College in the subarctic community of Moosonee, University of Windsor and UBC Kelowna.

For the past 9 years he has been working on immersion research into traditional integrative spiritual/medicinal practices, particularly as related to the practice of Shamanism of the Amazon basin and Andean mountains. In 2008, he produced an in depth 2 hour documentary on plant spirit Shamanism for the CBC Radio program IDEAS.

“My interests as a teacher, therapist, consciousness researcher, storyteller, and artist all coalesce around an exploration of the function of narrative and image in the construction of cognition, identity and belief.”