Patricia Bukur

An artist from an early age, Patricia has worked across painting, photography, design, and creative production. She received a National Scholastic Art Award as a teenager, and her artwork is held in private collections in the United States and Europe.

In 1993, she founded one of the first digital design and production firms in Chicago. Through Bukur Studio and later Clear Sky Productions, she helped develop and launch companies, products, and people as digital technology changed the ways businesses communicated.

Her work spanned aviation, finance, media, consumer products, technology, and culture. Earlier clients included United Airlines, The Sharper Image, Abbott Laboratories, Nightingale-Conant, Chefwear, FIFA World Cup 1994, Société Générale, Warner Bros. Records, and BoxStar Records.

After moving to Aspen in 1995, she developed a collaborative practice that brought designers, developers, writers, and producers together around each engagement. That approach continues through imaginYes, her strategy, design, and development studio.

In 2012, Patricia returned to graduate school, attending the Masters/PhD program in Depth Psychology with a Jungian emphasis at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her studies broadened a longstanding exploration of psyche, symbols, dreams, and the relationship between inner experience and daily life.

Her deep spiritual study and practice encompass Buddhism, Taoism, and Torah-based Kabbalah. Her teachers include renowned masters from around the world in Tibetan Buddhism, Taoism, and Torah-based Kabbalah. Decades of meditation, study, and personal inquiry inform her attention to consciousness, the relationship between heart and mind, and the ways people create meaning.

Patricia’s background includes Taoist Level 4 Meditation Teacher Training certification and psychedelic-assisted therapy training through Beckley Academy. She also holds Compassion Keys and NeuroChange practitioner certifications.

She is writing a book on her own approach that incorporates Jungian Active Imagination, meditation, and integration.

Patricia’s more recent psychedelic coaching work grows from this continuing study of consciousness and her longstanding relationship with fungi. Patricia works with a small number of clients exploring psychedelics, offering preparation, journey support, and integration.

Her experience includes teaching meditation workshops and co-hosting a microdosing support group. Her forthcoming book, Micro Manifest, brings microdosing into conversation with meditation and Active Imagination.

Integration connects this work with her wider practice. Patricia helps clients discern what an experience means for them, clarify what is essential, and translate that understanding into the way they live and the work they undertake.

Patricia is a branding consultant for DreamSculpt Books & Media, the design and development consultant for cuRAYtor.art, and the developer of MycoLingo.com, an educational app that teaches the language of fungi.

Patricia is also a contributing author and photographer of Foraging Mushrooms of the Rocky Mountains (Falcon Guides, 2024). Her Forest of Enlightenment artwork (forestofenlightenment.com) explores fungi through photography, encaustic, mixed media, and painting.

Patricia’s mycological interests span culinary, medicinal, and psychedelic fungi. Field study and mushroom forays remain part of her continuing education and her relationship with the natural world.

She serves as a board member and Foray Chair of the Colorado Mycological Society, organizing mushroom forays and sharing that field experience with others. She is also a board member of the Aspen Indigenous Foundation.