Voices

Dark Times – A Response Using Tarot Cards By Chris Miller I read the essay “Dark Times” (posted in these pages on September 10, 2021) and immediately saw in it my own experience of “powerlessness [...]

Dark Times by Beth Anne Boardman Well, it’s been quite a five years. Quite a six years. Quite a year. Two years. However long you trace your suffering back, I hope you have found some rays of [...]

The Grieving Tree Project The Grieving Tree project provides participants with a safe space to grieve, mourn, and reflect on their losses under a mulberry tree on the Pacifica Graduate [...]

COVID-19 and the Black Santa Barbara Community A talk and Q&A with Dr. Robert Wright, Pulmonary and Critical Care Physician and Head of Cottage Hospital’s ICU Sunday, January 17th from [...]

Through the Thicket: Distance Learning by Shannon McCabe   At the start of the 2019-2020, I was an ordinary English Language Arts teacher having the best year since early in my teaching [...]

A Poem and Q&A with Diane Coffey   Heart to Heart   I believe in people People with dreams and without dreams People offering everything and offering nothing   I believe in [...]

In the Eye of the Storm: Staying Centered in Personal and Collective Crises by Ashok Bedi & Robert BJ Jakala In the spring of 2020, America and the world were overwhelmed by the Covid-19 [...]

What Does a Virus Love? Another Virus. The Curative in a Cultural Civil War:  Unity is Our National Immunity By Leslie Shore Ph.D, Mythological Studies (2013) Note: This essay uses extended [...]

PGIAA Covid-19 Survey Results Once it became clear that COVID-19 would have a lasting impact on alumni/ae, students and our country-at-large, PGIAA’s Board mobilized to survey our alums on key [...]

Hold On . . . The Veils are thinning between the realms of Psyche By Andrea Slominski, Ph.D. I’m hearing from my clients, friends, and colleagues that the baseline energy running under our [...]