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Pacifica Graduate Institute is a unique place, as anyone with an experience of it will attest. Among the questions most frequently asked of Pacifica alumni include “Why did you go?” and “What was it like?” This is dedicated to sharing reflections of the Pacifica experience. The Alumni Association of Pacifica Graduate Institute brings together favorite memories of teachers, students, staff, alumni, community, and visitors alike. Together, these personal gems convey a sense of Pacifica’s collective light.
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Pacifica has offered to me a unique perspective that spoke to me deeply. It allowed me the ability to explore and find my voice as a practitioner. I was enrolled at another very conventional university when I found Pacifica, or rather, when Pacifica found me! I didn’t know what Depth psychology was at that time, but i knew I had been introduced to something very special. It has truly been a transformative experience.
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Pacifica offers an expansive curriculum in applications of depth psychology. My experience studying depth psychological perspectives of Community Psychology, Liberation Psychologies, and Ecopsychology (CLE) at Pacifica, has been life-changing both in regard to my personal journey and academic career. For example, last summer I volunteered to teach in a prison education program. It was the first time I ever taught, and the first time I severed as a volunteer in a prison setting. I am certain that this fieldwork experience provided me with an opportunity for passionate inquiry into an area of deep concern, and it lead me to recognize where my strengths can be best applied. When I started Pacifica I was not yet self-confident enough to think I could teach especially, in a prison setting.
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There are many gifts I have received from my time at Pacifica. One of the many is that Pacifica has offered me multiple lenses in which to view the world. As a nonprofit leader I utilize the theories of Jung, archetypes and the collective unconscious, with mythology/story to merge organizations, and to bring new life and vision to volunteers and staff. I use story/mythology and archetypes to bring the mission of the organization to life for the public and to brand the organization. All of us have stories even organizations.
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C.G. Jung describes the time near mid-life as an opportunity for expanded consciousness. For many, including me, Pacifica became the organic extension of this call. Pacifica’s greatness lies in the ability to hold and contain the multiplicity of experience while growing towards a more authentic self. No matter how one arrives at Pacifica, the experience is transforming. By sharing and developing a collective language of soul and service we each operate in the world changed, and better for it.
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I’d first enrolled in the Ph.D. in Depth Psychology program, with its inauguration on Friday, 13 September, 1996 — it was my birthday. Nevertheless, I soon came to realize that I needed to change to the Clinical program, to deepen my knowledge and practical skills as a therapist, while still attending to “depth.” From 1997 to 2000, this was it: What excitement, what effort, what struggle, what satisfaction! These were easily the best years in all of my life’s academic learning, and I’ll be forever grateful for them. At this time (and with my first book just published), I look forward to being an engaged member of Pacifica’s Alumni Association, contributing as I can to much-needed Archetypal Activism. Greetings (from Zurich, Switzerland, this spring!).
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I continue to be in awe at the speed at which our beloved Alumni Association grows and multiplies. I feel so incredibly honored to be involved with all the dear souls who have made this possible.
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Pacifica allowed me to liberate mySelf and gain confidence in formulating my narrative with racism and sexism as it pertains to Black women in America. Liberation is an important factors in the relationship work I offer the world, Pacifica enhanced that process. Using my voice and being in service to the world is a gift from My Pacifica.
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I am honored to be among those who feel they arrived at Pacifica through a series of synchronistic events. After working through the counseling program and diving into the depth psychology program (almost finished), I can honestly say that everything I do (family, work, and otherwise) has been affected and fortified by my experience as a Pacifica student. I am so grateful to those who keep the structures in place at Pacifica and nurture the immense vision of tending soul in the world. It is an amazing feat to hold this intention in the midst of fostering individual growth and strength through the study of Jung et al in a traditional institutional setting. I will always be a champion of Pacifica Graduate Institute.
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It all began with a random conversation I had with a Pacifica alumnus that set my new journey into motion. At the time, I was the graduate assistant at another university and was assisting a professor with a student private practice visit. The professor was a graduate of Pacifica’s Ph.D. program in clinical psychology. When I saw his doctoral diploma on the library wall, I inquired about Pacifica and why he chose to go there for his graduate work. Once he spoke of his journey at Pacifica, I immediately knew I had to learn more about the institute. Shortly after that conversation I attended a one-day instruction at Pacifica and immediately felt a tug in my soul that simply meant; I was home. The rest, as they say, is history. I can easily see now why that professor seemed to truly light up when speaking of Pacifica because now I indeed do the same. Each monthly session I come back home from Pacifica feeling virtually renewed yet stretched intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually on the multiple areas of my personal and professional journey being nurtured by the depth experience. Simply put; Pacifica has become the gift that keeps on giving and I continuously look forward to each class, each session, and each challenge as I grow closer and closer to the man and psychologist I aspire to be.
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I was older than most when I enrolled at Pacifica, and I was in the myth program, as it was the most appropriate for my own career; but what I shared with students in the other programs was a love of the institute’s mission, and an appreciation for the faculty’s commitment to it. This is not a program or campus that is conducive to the ordinary. Because of its steady focus on meaning, you will be challenged differently and in some ways more intensely than you would be in a more traditional environment. It calls you to be authentic, to be part of something larger than yourself. It requires you to find a life’s work in its presence, and to bring that to the world after you leave.
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Often I’ve wondered why students really come to study at Pacifica. Of course it is to get a degree in their chosen fields of study, and often to receive training to prepare them for the vocation of psychotherapy. But many schools offer degrees and training. As graduation ceremonies are approaching I have been thinking about what many of the students say about their experience as they receive their diploma. Bottom line I believe Pacifica’s greatest gift for our students is the experience many of them take away of being in a community of like-minded people in which they are stretched and encouraged to become and grow into themselves. And for many of our students that process is greatly facilitated by the way in which Pacifica is devoted to the recognition and tending of a deeper dimension of the self than the ego. As students take away that experience, both from their inner work while here, their studies and training, as well as the experiences shared with classmates, they often describe feeling more prepared to assist others to do the same as clinicians, in community fieldwork, or in their creative pursuits.
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In my work with Dianne Travis-Teague and the Alumni Association, I have seen firsthand that Pacifica Graduate Institute is more than just an education institution — it is a journey and a place of discovery. During the first steering committee workshop weekend, it was obvious that, while students, the group had developed a community of kindred spirits that continue to grow, experiment, and experience rebirth together. I have been asked what I think about the Pacifica alumni group, its rituals and soulful dialogue. I have come to realize that, every time I leave an Alumni Association gathering, I feel my soul has been warmed, and I am thankful that Pacifica alumni have allowed me in the circle to experience it.
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Pacifica is a wonderful place to grow and experience yourself as your grow in spirit and intellect of working with the spirit. The transformation at Pacifica is unlike anything that I have ever encountered. As you learn to work with the soul you can feel yourself becoming enlightened. The growth that I have experienced for myself and for my clients has made me a better clinician.
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When I became the first Pacifica Ph.D. student to defend his dissertation in the summer of 1991, I had no idea how many doors would spring open as a result. Having never previously published anything, I published a book based on that dissertation in the fall. Soon the phone began to ring. Offers to teach, consult, write more books and many other opportunities resulted. All that has passed since was seeded by those few years of study, research, and writing at Pacifica. Now I am proud to be faculty at the same Alma Mater that both nurtured and then launched me on a new career. Pacifica’s greatest and enduring gift to me was its atmosphere of radical academic freedom in which I could follow my own passions with the support and encouragement of the excellent, accomplished, and caring faculty. I learned to follow my dreams and, if not my bliss, then my real affect.
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My very first weekend at Pacifica, Dr. Diane Skafte taught us a class on shamanism which opened my eyes to ways that the physical world interacts with the spiritual world and how we can use this interchange for healing. The way shamans take so much time to set sacred space by building an altar and invoking the presence of healing spirits made a big impression on me and had a great influence on the way my life and work developed. During the time I was trying to pick a thesis topic, I found a lump in my breast which turned out to be malignant. The night after my surgery, spirit told me to write a book about my experience and title it Cancer As Initiation: Surviving the Fire, and that book became the popular form of my dissertation on the emotional aspects influencing cancer survival.
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I was one of the first female undergraduates admitted to study history at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, England in 1979. My male professors laughed at my proposal to write a dissertation and pursue my Ph.D. I knew one day I’d prove them wrong. Pacifica gave me my voice as a writer. It celebrated my research into the role of dreams and imagination in the writing of history. Now I share my story with my high school students. I tell them, “Just because one teacher tells you, you are not good enough, doesn’t mean you can’t follow your dream. Listen to your inner voice. Follow your dream and one day you will prove them wrong. I followed my dream and never gave up on it. You can do the same.” They love hearing this. I can see the lights go in their eyes, and I thank Pacifica for empowering me as a teacher and a writer. Because of Pacifica, I can turn the lights on in my students eyes.
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What are we doing here, at the Open Center and Pacifica? Learning and spreading the word about how to be in the world — in specific fields and in our lives. When Pacifica called and proposed a collaboration to reach out further than our individual campuses, I recognized the leadership and genius of that initiative. The Open Center welcomes this new, creative, hybrid form of learning, and the access to such good teachers in New York City and our Internet world. It works!
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One generally comes into an academic program at Pacifica with a desire to earn a degree — whether to learn a new craft or to enhance one’s work with new insights and skills. Upon leaving, however, one realizes that they have gained so much more — a lasting community of colleagues, teachers, and friends; a deeper sense of Self (BIG ‘S’ SELF) through personal transformation; and a greater commitment to tending the soul of the world.
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When people find out you are going back to school, they always want to know what you are going to school for. When your school is Pacifica, how do you answer them? I am going back to school to change my life. I am going back to school to discover, uncover, recover, the essence of who I am. I am going back to school to return home to myself, anew. I am going back to school to surprise myself with who I am. The better question is, who are you going to school for? And when your school is Pacifica, the answer is always, I am going to school for my Self. I am going to school to heed and hone that Self, to find and refine that Self, and to set that Self free in the world to be of service to the Other which is the beloved. You can’t give them that answer because you might not have known it yourself then, at the start of your journey, but you know it now, in your breath and your bones, at the end.
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In 1937, in the second grade, sitting at my desk and trying to complete a math quiz, I looked out the window at a beautiful blue sky. “Mrs. Scheimer!” I shouted. “Look, there’s a puffy cloud and it looks like little puppy dog.” The teacher marched to the window, abruptly pulled the shade, and said, “Do your math quiz.” In 1996, at the reception desk of a writers’ conference in Santa Monica, I was handed a brochure by a woman named Diane Huerta, who I later learned was the director of admissions at the time for a school called Pacifica Graduate Institute. Describing courses in subjects such as Mythic Traditions, The Sacred, and Imaginal Perspectives, the brochure was irresistible. A year later, after having practiced scientific medicine and surgery for nearly forty years, I enrolled in the depth psychology program. Since receiving my Ph.D. in 2001, I have dedicated myself to writing and teaching about a union of science and spirituality in the healing arts. Thank you, Pacifica! You showed me how to reclaim that beautiful little puppy dog in the cloud.
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Sand play, authentic movement, dream work and other imaginal techniques invite clinicians to use their own creative voice to heal while holding to the traditions deeply grounded in the collective psyche. Counseling West honors Pacifica for its passionate, insightful students and faculty, and we look forward to many more years of a depthful relationship.
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All the care that staff, administration, and faculty take in their work enables each student to experience the life-changing power and inspiration of being an integral part of a learning community. We can not understand what we need to by ourselves alone. We need communities where we can place our knowings alongside others’, forging our visions into shared paths toward common dreams.
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Meet William James Jones, Ph.D.
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Dr. Ann Hedge-Carruthers “In the Long Room of Our Hearts”
Author Captures Beautiful Collection of Memories Between her Husband in New Book Dr. Ann Hedge-Carruthers’ (1998 PhD Clinical Psychology) poetic everlasting romance is illustrated in new [...]
April 15th – Welcome to Hel: Navigating Times of Mythic Collective Illness
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Joseph Campbell: Author, Mythologist, Hollywood Guru
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IN MEMORIAM: Nan Savage, 2010 PhD Mythological Studies
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Pacifica Alumni/ae Shine at ASWM 2020 National Conference
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New Book from Alum Carder Stout: Lost in Ghost Town
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Marie Elliot-Gartner: The Bacchae by Euripides
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Coming Home: Our Stories Matter by Melody Allen
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[CANCELED] EIU COMIC CON to feature writer/producer of “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” – Craig Tidley
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COMING HOME: An Age-Old Story Seen Through “Soul Eyes” by Bonnie Bright
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Dr. Nina M. Kelly is recognized by Continental Who’s Who
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Experience Immersive Ritual Dance with Ryan McCormack, 2015 MA Depth Psychology
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Breaking the Mold: The LaFetra College of Education’s Center for Neurodiversity, Learning, and Wellness is supporting student success one heart and one mind at a time.
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Dave Alber Launches Hybrid Oil 360° Panoramic VR Paintings in Art Exhibition Exploring Cultural Continuity
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Working Therapeutically with Video Gamers and Their Families by Anthony Bean, PhD Clinical 2015
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[POSTPONED] Questing for Our Personal Myth: Writing, Remembering, and Renewing Our Story through the Teachings of Joseph Campbell
[POSTPONED] Questing for Our Personal Myth: Writing, Remembering, and Renewing Our Story through the Teachings of Joseph Campbell A Workshop with Dennis Patrick Slattery April 16-19, 2020 Hotel [...]
PGI Alumni Working to Bring Depth Psychology to International High School Students
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A Jungian Inquiry into the American Psyche: The Violence of Innocence by Ipek S. Burnett (Depth Psychology, 2015)
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Art Auction for Kenyan Schoolchildren
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Jennifer Selig, PhD ~ Coming to Chicagoland
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An evening with author Gard Jameson, Ph.D.
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OPUS’ summer Mythological RoundTable on August 18th featuring Myth alum Odette Springer, PhD
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Myth Salon: June, July and Summer BBQ
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The Fates and Graces Mythologium: A Conference for Mythologists • Aug 2-4
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San Diego Alumni Gathering at Coronado Brewing
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Thesis Presentation Day Program 2019
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The Therapist Comforts the Troubled Musician
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A Talk by Mark Humpal & Book Signing “Ray Stanford Strong, West Coast Landscape Artist”
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The Fates and Graces Mythologium: A Conference for Mythologists • Aug 2-4
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Decoloniality and Positionality by Breana Johnson, Tarell Kyles, and Mari Larangeira
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“Out of a Mountain of Despair, a Stone of Hope” : The Relationship Between Hope and Despair in Times of Crisis by Jennifer Selig
Date: Friday Evening April 12, 2019, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Registration begins at 7:00 p.m. Lecture: “Out of a Mountain of Despair, a Stone of Hope” : The Relationship Between Hope and Despair in Times [...]
Certificate in Applied Mythology
Details October 28 – December 13, 2019 An Online 6-Week Course with Craig Chalquist, Kelly Carlin, Kwame Scruggs, Erik Davis, and Mary Wood International participation is encouraged and welcome. [...]
The Forum: An Annual Conference on Theory and Practice • Saturday, April 13, 2019
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Experience Pacifica: Alumni ‘Coming Home’
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Experience Pacifica: A Special Presentation by Dr. Siri Sat Nam Singh
Experience Pacifica Friday, March 22nd, 2019 from 9:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Join us for a One-Day Introduction to Pacifica’s graduate degree programs in Depth Psychology, Humanities and Mythological [...]
The Obama Foundation Now accepting applications for Leaders: Africa
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Meet the Fellows: How one leader is changing lives
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Shame & Art Expression by Deborah Cluff PhD at ETS Summit
Shame & Art Expression Sunday, March 31, 2019. 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Faculty: Deborah Cluff, PhD Hilton Los Angeles Airport Shame is at the core of much psychological distress and can even [...]
The Romance of the Grail in the Forests of Brocéliande with Evans Lansing Smith
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Dancing to the Edge of a Cliff: A Musical Mythological Journey toward Self-Acceptance
Dear Pacifica family, from the bottom of my heart I would like to invite each and every one of you, or at least those in the Southern California area, to join me at the world premier of my [...]
Love Wins by Beth Anne Boardman, PhD
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NOSTOI AND NEKYIA: POETS AND PAINTERS OF AFRO-CARIBBEAN MODERNISM with Evans Lansing Smith, PhD
NOSTOI AND NEKYIA: POETS AND PAINTERS OF AFRO-CARIBBEAN MODERNISM with Evans Lansing Smith, PhD Two Sunday Sessions, February 24 and March 3, 2019 1:00pm to 4:00pm 801 Ladera Lane, Santa Barbara, [...]
Presentation on the legacy of Marion Woodman (1928-2018) • Saturday October 27th
Presentation on the legacy of Marion Woodman (1928-2018). Saturday October 27th 12:45 to 1:45pm South Hall Lambert campus (249 Lambert Rd.) Pacifica Graduate Institute This talk will focus on [...]
23rd Australasian Conference of Irish Studies ‘Myth and Memory’ – Nov 27 – 30
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Save the dates: The Romance of the Grail in the Footsteps of Joseph Campbell with Evans Lansing Smith
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Livestream: An Evening with Craig Titley & Friends • Saturday, September 22nd, 2018
An Evening with Craig Tilley & Friends Saturday, September 22nd, 2018 Moderated by Dr. David Odorisio Craig Titley is a film and television writer/producer who began his film career in the [...]
Livestream: An Evening with Fanny Brewster • Saturday, September 15th, 2018
An Evening with Fanny Brewster Saturday, September 15th, 2018 Moderated by Dr. Thyonne Gordon Dr. Fanny Brewster is a Professor of Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa [...]
Lecture: Engaging the Other through Art and the Feminine by Susan Rowland
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Christine Downing To Be Honored
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African American Jungian Analysts: On Culture, Clinical Training/Practice and Racism
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The Alchemy of Adolescence presented by Beth Anne Boardman, RN, MA, PhD
*NEW LOCATION!! The Alchemy of Adolescence Presented by Beth Anne Boardman, RN, MA, PhD Sunday, September 23rd, 2018 • 4:00 – 6:00 pm Exploring images, music, science, and the wisdom of [...]
Mattoon native lands dream job writing for superheroes
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Coming January 2019 ~ Soul Series for Nurses
Friday, January 18, 2019 • 1:00 pm – 5:30 pm Balboa Building Auditorium, 735 State Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101 $60 Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, [...]
Unmasked Comes to Santa Fe
Event to feature poems, essays on women, sex after 50 Join six contributors to the anthology, Unmasked, Women Write About Sex and Intimacy After Fifty, for a discussion about women, aging, and [...]
New Publication: Leaves from the World Tree: Selected Poems of Craig Deininger & Dennis Patrick Slattery
New Publication: Leaves from the World Tree: Selected Poems of Craig Deininger and Dennis Patrick Slattery by Craig Deininger, Dennis Patrick Slattery Dennis Slattery, PhD Emeritus Faculty, [...]
Journal of Humanistic Psychology – Newly Released Article
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New Publication – Coming Soon: In Depth Sport Psychology; Reclaiming the Lost Soul of the Athlete
In Depth Sport Psychology: Reclaiming the Lost Soul of the Athlete is a unique exploration of the vital archetypal elements and themes that emerge when considering elite sports psychology through [...]
Salvador Treviño Joins PathPoint Behavioral Health
PathPoint has announced the addition of Salvador Treviño, clinical psychologist, to its Behavioral Health Division. Through a partnership with the Santa Barbara County Department of Public [...]
APA 2018 Convention in San Francisco • Thursday, August 9th
APA 2018 Convention in San Francisco, Thursday, August 9 at 4 PM at the Marriott Marquis Hospitality Suite: Pacifica Alumna, Dr. Gina Belton (2017 Depth Psychology)will present and facilitate [...]
Diagnostic Fictions by Robert Romanyshyn
Friends, The Journal of Humanistic Psychology just published an advance on line copy of my article, Diagnostic Fictions to be published in print form sometime later this year. It is part of the [...]
PGIAA Alumnae To Present at 2018 TEDxSunValley
Pacifica Graduate Institute Alumnae, Cary Dakin – 2013 PhD Depth Psychology and Alison Poulsen – 2003 PhD Depth Psychology are among the 2018 speakers. TEDxSunValley will field 15 speakers for [...]
Tallahassee Rwandan Genocide researcher, Lorraine Warren (2017 PhD DPCLE), reflects on healing
Lorraine Warren, 2017 PhD DPCLE ‘Message in the bones’: Tallahassee Rwandan Genocide researcher reflects on healing The rooms of the old school turned memorial at Murambi [...]
PGIAA Proudly announces new book by Anthony M. Bean (2015 Clinical PhD) Working with Video Gamers and Games in Therapy
PGIAA Proudly announces new book by Anthony M. Bean (2015 Clinical PhD) Working with Video Gamers and Games in Therapy A Clinician’s Guide Working with Video Gamers and Games in Therapy [...]
Chiron Publications announces new book from Dr. Mary Harrell
The Mythmaker is personal myth, fiction based on author’s life Chiron Publications is pleased to announce the release of The Mythmaker, by award wining author and depth psychologist Dr. [...]
OPUS RoundTable with Dr. Craig Chalquist on August 12th
The Joseph Campbell Foundation Mythological RoundTable® Group of OPUS at Pacifica Graduate Institute presents: Craig Chalquist, PhD: “Storytelling Nature Myths: A Project of Reenchantment” [...]
PGIAA Announces 2018 Walter Odajnyk Scholarship Recipients Wendilyn Emrys and James Perrin
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The Embodied Fool: A Tarot Adventure through the Tree of Life
AsarumRetreats.com Presents: The Embodied Fool is an introductory workshop designed to reveal the wisdom of the Tarot as a guide through life’s initiations via meeting and embodying the [...]
CAMFT Recognizes Excellence
The CAMFT scholarships, grant and honors awards were presented at the 54th Annual Conference in Garden Grove, CA on April 28, 2018. Details about the award recipients can be found by visiting [...]
From the Field: Anthony Bean, 2015 PhD Clinical Psychology
Dr. Anthony Bean is a Licensed Psychologist in Fort Worth, Texas. He has worked across the lifespan focusing on various difficulties with life and emphasizes individual strengths and normalizing [...]
Life and Work with Michelle Bitting
Today we’d like to introduce you to Michelle Bitting. Michelle, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today? I’m a dedicated poet and teacher of creative writing. I’ve [...]
Update from the field: William James Jones, PhD (Clinical 2016)
Update from the field: Our illustrious alumnus William James Jones, PhD (Clinical 2016) has recently been hired as an adjunct professor at Pepperdine’s Graduate School of Education and [...]
From the Field: Obama Foundation Fellowship Member Harry Grammer, 2013 MA Depth Psychology
From the Field: Obama Foundation Fellowship Member Harry Grammer, 2013 MA Depth Psychology-Community Liberation Ecopsychology PhD Candidate The Obama Foundation Fellowship program supports [...]
May 2018 Notes From the Field by Patricia Taylor, PhD
Dear fellow alumni, I serve on the Board of Pacifica Graduate Institute Alumni Association. I graduated with a PhD in Depth Psychology class of 2007. I am currently the chairperson of Special [...]
LETTERS OF HOPE by Jill Griffin PhD (Myth 2012)
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Why I Practice Gratitude by Richard Durborow, 2013 MA Counseling
The Power of Gratitude When I first started working with young clients as a therapist at the Boys and Girls Club I would often begin our sessions by reading a storybook. My youngest clients were [...]
Myth Salon: April – Raïna Manuel-Paris; May – Jerome Bernstein
The Myth Salon serves those involved with Jungian, Depth Psychology and cultural studies. Each month, attendees gather in the living room of Dana White’s Santa Monica home from 7-9pmand is [...]
Clinical Alumni in Action!
Michael Mollura Widely recognized and respected in the entertainment and healthcare communities as the go to composer for feature films with dramatic spiritual themes, award-winning music [...]
Complete Works of Carl Jung for sale
The Collected Works of Carl Jung (21volumes) Published by Princeton Press 2nd edition, 1970, Bollinger XX The Collected Works of C. G. Jung is a book series containing the first collected [...]
Pacifica Alum, Brian Falk named Carpinteria Valley Chamber of Commerce Volunteer of the Year
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Dreams: Soul-Centered Living in the 21st Century by Laura V. Grace, Ph.D.
ABSTRACT Dreams: Soul-Centered Living in the 21st Century begins with some basic information: seven steps to effective dream recall, befriending dream characters—especially disturbing dream [...]
Author Navigates the Wrinkles of Aging
A doctor of my acquaintance recently circulated a letter to announce the closing of his practice after a long, productive and distinguished career. But he did not call it retirement. Rather, he [...]
RETURNING THE GIFT BY JO TODD, PHD Depth Psychology, 2006
We are pleased to announce the launch our Returning the Gift Initiative, created by Dr. Jo Todd and PGIAA Regional Coordinators, with the belief that each of us received a gift from our time at [...]
Pacifica Alumna Awarded 2018 SCRA Emory Cowen Dissertation Award
Pacifica Alumna Awarded 2018 SCRA Emory Cowen Dissertation Award Alumna Shelly Stratton’s dissertation is the recipient of the 2018 SCRA Emory Cowen Dissertation Award. Her work is titled, [...]
Finding Meaning in Later Life
Finding Meaning in Later Life Gathering and Harvesting the Fruits of Women’s Experience Marcia Nimmer, Wright Institute, USA Finding Meaning in Later Life is an exploration in understanding the [...]
RAY STANFORD STRONG: WEST COAST LANDSCAPE ARTIST by Mark Humpal (MA Counseling, 1994)
Congrats PGIAA Alum, Mark Humpal (MA Counseling, 1994) on the announcement of his new book: RAY STANFORD STRONG: WEST COAST LANDSCAPE ARTIST Throughout his long and prolific career, Ray Stanford [...]
PGIAA Alumna, Marina Aguilar (MA Counseling 1990) ALCHEMY OF THE HEART: The Sacred Marriage of DIONYSOS & ARIADNE
PGIAA Alumna, Marina Aguilar (MA Counseling 1990) ALCHEMY OF THE HEART: The Sacred Marriage of DIONYSOS & ARIADNE (Recently Released by Chiron Publications) Through the exploration of the [...]
Dr. Cynthia Smith (Mythological Studies PhD 2011) – Transforming Disabled Children’s Lives Through Music and Art
Local Organization Transforms Disabled Children’s Lives Through Music and Art For decades, a historic two-story home in Anaheim’s Maxwell Park hosted the Ability First program, which [...]
PGIAA proudly salutes two alumnae who were recently honored by Chiron Publications
PGIAA proudly salutes two alumnae who were recently honored by Chiron Publications. Both are recipients of awards bestowed on their new releases: Imaginal Figures in Everyday Life: Stories from [...]
Temenos and the Power of Myth by Kwame Scruggs
Temenos and the Power of Myth Article in Voices – Journal of the American Academy of Psychotherapists Once upon a time, in a time when the sun rose in the west and settled in the east, in a [...]
Temenos and the Power of Myth by Kwame Scruggs
Temenos and the Power of Myth Article in Voices – Journal of the American Academy of Psychotherapists Once upon a time, in a time when the sun rose in the west and settled in the east, in a land [...]
Crossing the Nile with Joseph Campbell
I am currently Chair and Core Faculty of the Mythological Studies Program at the Pacifica Graduate Institute, in Santa Barbara, CA. In the 1970s I traveled with Joseph Campbell in France, Egypt, [...]
A Lecture on Dreams with Internationally Acclaimed Dream Work Specialist Machiel Klerk
Friday, November 17 at 7 PM – 8:30 PM EST CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) 123 4th Ave #2, New York, NY 10003 Friday evening lecture on Dreams & mini-workshop on Saturday [...]
Ellen "Len" Young, 2005 PhD Mythological Studies, joins the new class of the Riley Institute at Furman’s Diversity Leaders Initiative
Ellen “Len” Young, 2005 PhD Mythological Studies, who is currently Executive Director of the Charleston School of Law Foundaton will join the new class of the Riley Institute at [...]
Heart of Myth: Wisdom Stories From Endangered People
Heart of Myth: Wisdom Stories From Endangered People The Heart of Myth: Wisdom Stories From Endangered People by Dave Alber is a global anthology of myths from the living polytheistic traditions [...]
Dorathea Thompson (MA Counseling 1994) in NAMAH Quarterly Journal
C-O-N-G-R-A-T-U-L-A-T-I-O-N-S to our alumna Dorathea Thompson (MA Counseling 1994), whose Case Study, “An integrative approach — working through fear — case study of a 10-year-old [...]
We Sure Love Our Hero Myths, Don’t We?
We Sure Love Our Hero Myths, Don’t We? by Cathy Diorio July 31, 2017 We sure love our hero myths, don’t we? Reaction to John McCain’s dramatic last minute vote on the Senate healthcare [...]
Holding the Tension: One Woman’s Journey from Immigrant to Therapist
An Interview with MFT Consortium Stipend Recipient, Naris Kesheshe A Guest Post by Bonnie Bright, Ph.D. When she was 13 years old, Naris Kesheshe—who recently finished her third year in the [...]
Dreams, Calling, Suffering, and Individuation: Finding Light in the Darkness
Dreams, Calling, Suffering, and Individuation: Finding Light in the Darkness An Interview with Jungian Analyst and New Pacifica Core Faculty Member, Fanny Brewster. A Guest Post by Bonnie Bright, [...]
Former skier and Life Turns Aspen co-founder uses camps to empower children with medical conditions
A heartwarming story of courage and hope – Our alums, Max Mancini and Jen Schumacher, 2015 MA Counseling Psychology. “We have these camps to help increase self esteem and build [...]
Harry Grammer honored as a CNN Hero
Los Angeles (CNN) Several times a week, a security officer lets Harry Grammer through the gates of Camp Gonzales, a juvenile detention center in Los Angeles. Inside, Grammer addresses a group of [...]
Seeing in the Dark Authors at Leimert Park Village Book Fair • August 19th
The Dark Divas of depth are back! Yup! We are back! Some of us docs who co-authored our book, Seeing in the Dark, will be at the Leimert Park Village Book Fair on August 19th! Please come out and [...]
Embodied Social Justice • Coming to a Bookstore near you, September 2017
Congratulations Dr. Rae Johnson Chair, Somatic Studies Specialization M.A./Ph.D. Depth Psychology Embodied Social Justice introduces a body-centered approach to working with diversity and equity, [...]
The Chancellor’s Award for Excellence Recipient: Harry Grammer
The Chancellor’s Award for Excellence “Tending Soul” Harry Grammer, Founder of New Earth Harry Grammer is a poet/ musician and founder of New Earth. As the Founder and Director of Programs, Harry [...]
LGBT Pride and the Soul: An Essay by Edward Santana
In honor of LGBT Pride Month, author Edward Santana reflects on how the historical 1993 March for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation shaped his personal and professional identity, [...]
PGIAA Counseling Psychology Alumna, Hala Khouri featured on the cover of LA YOGA Magazine
Congrats to PGIAA M.A. Counseling Psychology alumna and now Community Psychology, Liberation Psychology, and Ecopsychology student Hala Khouri for being featured on the cover of LA YOGA [...]
Soul Honoring Retreat • Santa Barbara, June 30 – July 2
“Soul Honoring Retreat” “My soul, where are you? Do you hear me? I speak, I call you – are you there? I have returned, I am here again. I have shaken the dust of all the lands from my [...]
Listen to "Conducting Psychological Evaluations" (Pro-Bono Lecture with: Dr. Reuben Vaisman-Tzachor) Saturday, April 29, 2017
Listen to “Conducting Psychological Evaluations” Pro-Bono Lecture with: Dr. Reuben Vaisman-Tzachor Saturday, April 29, 2017
Amor & Psyche by Marie Elliot-Gartner, 2003 PhD Myth
A re-written and adapted Amor&Psyche for the stage in Rosenheim, Germany, but in English by Pacifica Alumni Marie Elliot-Garner, 2003 PhD Myth. Amor & Psyche: Worum geht’s? Synopsis: [...]
Janet Taylor and Alchemy
Janet Taylor – Psychiatrist, Life Coach, Self Care Activist – and Alchemy Janet Taylor and Alchemy from Alchemy Gold on Vimeo.
The Power of Self-Actualization Revealed by Historical African-American Leaders
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THE THERAPIST – Premieres May 8 on VICELAND featuring Pacifica Alum, Dr. Siri Sat Sam Singh
Pacifica Alum, Dr. Siri Sat Sam Singh, 200 PhD Depth
The Myth Salon by Dana C. White, PhD
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Pulitzer prize-winner Gareth Cook interviews Gay Bradshaw in Scientific American.
The carnivore needs no introduction: fearsome, cold and brutal. But G. A. Bradshaw, known for her psychological work with elephants, asks readers to reconsider. In “Carnivore Minds,” she argues [...]
Elli’s Ride: Death Beyond Imagination by Andrea Deerhart, Myth 2014
Sharing the upcoming release of my book Elli’s Ride: Death beyond Imagination. This was my production piece of my dissertation. It is an creative nonfiction of an 11 year old death and beyond She [...]
Inspired to Greatness: A Feminine Approach to Healing the World
Inspired to Greatness: A Feminine Approach to Healing the World Is it possible for a woman to be empowered and be happy? Exciting new release explores this question from a research perspective [...]
News from Pacifica’s student/alumni subcommittee of the Diversity & Inclusion Council (DIC) March 2017
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Get Out the Way: The Power of a Grandma by Beth Anne Boardman
Get Out the Way: The Power of a Grandma by Beth Anne Boardman, PhD Without getting into politics (cue hysterical laughter), per se, I would like to relate my wobbly path through current events. [...]
Seeing in the Dark: Wisdom Works by Black Women in Depth with Co-Author Dr. Patricia Taylor
Writing as a practice is something that doctorate students are advised to develop. Write everyday, we are told. I do my most productive writing when I am overflowing with feeling. The feelings [...]
Reducing Stigma of Mental Illness among Boys and Men in Asian Communities in Canada: An Innovative and Comprehensive Intervention by Rodrick Lal, MA Counseling 2008
the Movember Project: Strength and Unity. This is the First Grant Movember Project has granted to a mental health study. Reducing Stigma of Mental Illness among Boys and Men in Asian Communities [...]
Shelter in Place by Beth Anne Boardman
Shelter in Place ~ “Shelter in place:” a comforting as well as chilling phrase in this bewildering time. The idea that we can find shelter where we are – comforting! The idea that we need to [...]
An Interview with Dr. Paul Golding by Jill C. Griffin, PhD
Paul’s first encounter with Depth Psychology began more than twenty years ago when he still lived in Washington, DC. Like many, the difficult circumstances of life pushed Paul, “kicking and [...]
Morning Talk: Moving Beyond Painful Memories by Cynthia Hale
Morning Talk: Moving Beyond Painful Memories by Cynthia Hale February 18th Therapeutic work and other empathic relationships can be rooted in traumatic experience, unconsciously evoking a mutual [...]
2017 Alumni Spotlight Authors
Pacifica Graduate Institute Alumni Association is proud to announce the following Alumni authors have answered the call and will be participating in 2017 Authors Spotlight! Join us Saturday, [...]
Los Angeles Region Winter 2016/2017 Newsletter
Winter A time of turning inward, we have settled into longer nights and a deeper darkness. An important season of gestation before the world is reborn with Spring. What internal stirrings need [...]
National Guild Member Testimonial: Kwame Scruggs
Kwame Scruggs is the founder and director of programs and training for Alchemy, Inc., a non-profit organization in Akron, Ohio established in 2003. Alchemy creates a safe environment for the [...]
New META Fellowships Provide Professional Development for Mass Teaching Artists
The Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) and Klarman Family Foundation have launched a new program to help teaching artists improve the quality of their work with youth in schools and community [...]