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Dear Pacifica Students, Greetings.  We send you this message with a certain urgency, as we are entering the holiday season. Public health experts anticipate the increase in COVID-19 cases to [...]

Myth Salon – Tribute to Robert Bly with Michael Meade, Dennis Slattery, Kwame Scruggs and Connie Zweig On Sunday November 21, Robert Bly passed away from this plane of our existence.  A [...]

The Art and Psyche Working Group in Collaboration with ARAS Win NAAP Gradiva Award Each year, National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP) acknowledges the literary and [...]

A Toast Heard ’round the World: Participation Deadline December 10th! Join us for our annual New Year’s Eve celebration, hosted by the Pacifica Graduate Institute Alumni Association. [...]

Meet 2021 Chancellor Emeritus Pathfinder Award Recipient Howard Spector Howard Spector is Co-founder of SimplePractice and serves as a Senior Advisor to EngageSmart. Howard has over 20 years of [...]

Meet 2021 Wendy Davee Awards for Service Recipient Mary “Miles” Carroll Mary “Miles” Carroll earned her MA in Pacifica’s Counseling Psychology program in 2014 and [...]

Meet 2021 Wendy Davee Award for Service Recipient Dahkotahv Beckham While enrolled in a homeless young adult program in 2013, Dahkotahv began serving as a peer resource specialist at a local drop [...]

Meet 2021 Chancellor Emeritus Award for Excellence Recipient Alisa Orduña Alisa Orduña, PhD, has been a practitioner, policy analyst, collaborator and thought leader in homelessness services for [...]

Meet 2021 Walter Odajnyk Memorial Scholarship Recipient Marcene Gandolfo Marcene Gandolfo, a poet, writer, and educator, is a third-year student in Pacifica’s Mythological Studies program. Her [...]