Alumni in Action

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 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 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 [...]

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 (Recently Released by Chiron Publications) Through the exploration of the [...]

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. Both are recipients of awards bestowed on their new releases: Imaginal Figures in Everyday Life: Stories from [...]

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 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 [...]

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, [...]