Help Robin Rebuild After Eaton Fire

Dear Family, Friends & Colleagues-

There are some people who are intrinsically moved to make this world a better, kinder, and more consciously supportive place. Our dear friend and colleague Robin Wynslow is one of them.

She has worked with analysands of all ages and intensities of wounding, including children. She has served as President of The Jung Institute-Los Angeles before a bout with leukemia voted otherwise; has served on innumerable committees; has been a stalwart supporter of our training program and of the library and bookstore; has been a champion of ARAS; and most recently has co-created with Elizabeth Schofield-Bickford our Institute’s remarkable Teen ARAS program.

Robin is community-minded: she’s championed civil rights in the South and voter registration in SoCal, and she’s fostered dogs for the Guide Dog community. She’s a devotee of the arts—music and literature have been particular loves.

Robin was moved around way too much as a girl in both England and the US and spent a prolonged stint at a young age at a boarding school, becoming a strong and self-reliant human in the process. When she finally chose to purchase a house in the architecturally significant, consciously diverse Park Planned Homes community of Altadena, designed by renowned architect Gregory Ain as an experiment in nurturing connection to nature and neighbors, Robin's friends all felt that she’d finally come home. Her beautiful and unique Modernist home became a lovely place to visit, as well as suitable digs for her two exuberant dogs, Harmony and Inky; a sweet summer destination for her grandchildren; and a wonderful temporary refuge, before suitable donation, for her late professor father’s irreplaceable collection of literature, which included valuable first editions. She cared for it all very conscientiously, planting indigenous plants in the garden and installing both a lap pool and a meditative labyrinth in the backyard.

Robin had to leave that home in shocking haste with only the clothes on her back, a giant tub of dog food, and two anxious dogs. Having learned within a few days that her home was one of the 21 out of 28 Park Planned Homes that burned to the ground in the Eaton Fire, she faces the prospect of grieving a lifetime’s worth of memories and experiences embedded in her home and all that made it one, making innumerable decisions, and re-building a new life for herself and her fur babies at not so young an age.

Robin is strong and spirited and will face this with the same grit and patience that allowed her to weather a host of losses and even a stem cell transplant, but no human can tackle such profound challenges alone. It’s time for the community for whom she’s given so wholeheartedly to give back to her.

Please donate what you can and share this campaign widely. Together, we can help Robin rebuild not just a house, but a home—and show her that the same community she's supported for so long is here to support her too.

Thank you in advance for your generosity & kindness.

Warmly,

Sharon Heath