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Phil Cousineau
 Phil
Cousineau is a writer, teacher, editor, independent
scholar, documentary filmmaker, travel leader, and
storyteller. His life-long fascination with art,
literature, and history of culture has taken him on many
journeys around the world. He lectures frequently on a
wide range of topics-from mythology, film, and writing,
to beauty, creativity, travel, and sports. He has
published 25 non fiction books and has 15 scriptwriting
credits to his name. Currently he is the host of the
much-praised 10 part “inner travel” series, Global
Spirit, on LINK TV, which is also streamed on
the web at
www.globalspirit.tv.
"The discussions on LINK-TV's 'Global Spirit' series
are sorely needed in this dispirited and disenchanted
world. In many ways it is more important than journalism
today." Bill Moyers
Phil was born at an army hospital in Columbia, South
Carolina and grew up just outside Detroit, Michigan,
once known as “the Paris of the Midwest” as he’s fond of
saying. While moonlighting in a steel factory, he
studied journalism at the University of Detroit. Before
turning to writing books and films full-time,
Cousineau’s peripatetic career included stints as a
sportswriter, playing semi-professional basketball in
Europe, harvesting date trees on an Israeli kibbutz,
painting 44 Victorian houses in San Francisco, and
teaching screenwriting at the American Film Institute.
Books
Phil's books include his international bestseller,
The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making
Travel, which has been translated into ten
languages; The Book of Roads: Stories from
Michigan; the recently released The
Meaning of Tea; Stoking the Creative
Fires: Nine Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination;
The Olympic Odyssey, which was selected by
the US Olympic Committee as a gift to the athletes at
the 2004 Athens, Greece Olympics; Soul: An
Archaeology: Readings from Socrates to Ray Charles;
The Soul of the World: A Modern Book of Hours;
and The Hero’s Journey: Joseph Campbell on His
Life and Work. Cousineau also worked with the
drummer John Densmore on his bestselling autobiography,
Riders on the Storm: My Life with Jim Morrison and
the Doors. Cousineau is also a contributor to
more than 40 other books.
Films
Phil’s screenwriting credits in documentary films, which
have won more than 25 international awards, include:
A Seat at the Table; Ecological Design:
Inventing the Future; Wayfinders: A Pacific Odyssey;
Humble Serpent: The Life of Reuben Snake; Wiping
the Tears of Seven Generations; Eritrea: March to
Freedom; The Presence of the Goddess; The Hero’s
Journey: The World of Joseph Campbell; and the
1991 Academy Award nominated Forever Activists:
Stories from the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. An
expert on mythology and film and the “hero journey”
structure of screenplays, Cousineau also consults on
many types of films and projects.
Appearances
Cousineau has been the keynote speaker at major
conferences as diverse as the Ansel Adams Centennial
Celebration in Yosemite National Park and The European
Unitarian Universalist’s Fall Retreat in the
Netherlands. He has been invited to lecture at
distinguished venues including the University of
California, Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford University,
Pacifica Graduate Institute, the C.G. Jung Institute of
Chicago, the Swedenbourg Library, Syracuse University,
Bard College, and the University of Tennessee.
He has collaborated and appeared with many of the great
thinkers and philosophers of our time including mentors,
Joseph Campbell and Huston Smith, John O’Donohue, Karen
Armstrong, Robert Thurman, Robert A. Johnson, James
Hillman, Brian Swimme, Robert Bly, Brother David Steindl
Rast, Marija Gimbutas, Angeles Arrien and others. He
enjoys collaborating with musicians and artists such as,
David Darling, R.B. Morris, and Gregg Chadwick.
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