Faculty Voices

Long-Term Friendships Add Texture to Life Published in the Opinion page of the Herald-Zeitung on 8 September, 2023. Recently for personal reasons I had to drop out of attending our 60th. high [...]

American Psychologist Special Issue Call for Papers Towards a decolonial psychology: Recentering and reclaiming global marginalized knowledges Letter of intent deadline: October 15, 2023—submit [...]

A Letter of Gratitude from Stephen Aizenstat Dear Dianne and the Pacifica Graduate Institute Alumni Association, Last night you came together and offered me the gift of my life.  Grace, Grit, and [...]

Decolonial Futures & Environmental Justice: Panel Talk w/ Ecofeminist Dr. Vandana Shiva Join City Lights Books for a panel discussion about people, the planet and how we can build a [...]

Attempted scam is a lesson on fraud My goal was simple: to cancel a rental car in another city because I no longer needed it. When I called the number that I assumed would connect me with those [...]

A Message from Oksana Yakushko Dear Pacifica community, Thank you for all the support and wishes and care many of you have offered to Ukraine and Ukrainians. As a Ukrainian immigrant with [...]

PGIAA condemns the ruthless aggression and baseless invasion of Ukraine by Russian President Vladimir Putin. As we write this, the capital city of Kyiv, a historic, sophisticated European city [...]

Susan Rowland: Saving the Feminine through Jung and Art – March 18 March 18, 2022 7:00-9:00pm PST on Zoom We live in tumultuous times. They are tumultuous because of a paradigm shift. [...]

Robert D. Romanyshyn: An Imaginal Approach to Dream Work Enhance your imagination as a legitimate and valuable way of knowing and being. An imaginal approach to dreamwork emphasizes that, in the [...]

Words define, or destroy, our country’s democracy Dennis Patrick Slattery, For the Express-News, Jan. 15, 2022 Some 30 years ago I developed a habit of rising early to write in my journal. I sit [...]

Preserving our innocence: At what cost? [The Op-Ed was published in The New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung on January 8, 2022.] Dennis Patrick Slattery, Ph.D. Democracies thrive on the presence of [...]

Let’s come together in “communities of practice” Perhaps one of the most difficult findings of post 911 is the lack of trust between people. Research tells of a significant decline in faith [...]

The Kore Goddess by Safron Rossi The Kore Goddess is an in-depth archetypal psychological study of an overlooked mythic and psychic pattern. Also known as the Maiden or Virgin, the Kore [...]

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 [...]

Towards a 21st Century Model of Psyche: Altered States, Oracles, and Intelligences Oregon Friends of Jung is thrilled to have Joe Cambray back and giving a Friday Talk September 17 and Saturday [...]

Towards a 21st Century Model of Psyche: Altered States, Oracles, and Intelligences Oregon Friends of Jung is thrilled to have Joe Cambray back and giving a Friday Talk September 17 and Saturday [...]

Showing Up for Life: The Artist-Intellectual by Peter M. Rojcewicz, PhD Pacifica Graduate Institute Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs The core requirement for private and [...]

Lying and Violence: A Nobel Lecture by Alexander Solzhenitsyn by Dennis Patrick Slattery, Ph.D. (Published in New Braunfels, Texas newspaper, the Herald-Zeitung’s Opinion page, June 12-13, 2021.) [...]

Existential Intimacy of Learning: A Noetic Turn from STEM by Peter M. Rojcewicz, PhD Pacifica Graduate Institute Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs STEM Education Science, technology, [...]

Replacing the Myth of Growth Dennis Patrick Slattery, Ph.D. is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in The Mythological Studies Program at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, California. [...]

Faculty in Conversation: Clinical Impacts of the COVID Crisis The next webinar of the 2020-2021 Counseling Community Webinar Series is a Faculty in Conversation: Clinical Impacts of the COVID [...]

The terrible murders of eight individuals in Atlanta this week, including six Asian women leave us in the Pacifica community with great sadness, grief and distress for the rising levels of [...]

Counseling Community Webinar Series presented by Dr. Susan Rowland We are pleased to announce the details for the next webinar of the 2020-2021 Counseling Community Webinar Series, presented [...]

Letter from the President of Pacifica Dear Pacifica Alumni, Let me begin with warm wishes for 2021; may it bring peace and prosperity to all of you. We have just come through a year like none [...]

Diversity Symposium III – This Saturday, 19 December 2020 Join us this Saturday, December 19th,  1:00-4:00 p.m. for our third Diversity Symposium.  Our conversations continue:  Microagressions [...]

A Mythic Crossroads: Which Way Will We Choose? by Dennis Patrick Slattery [Published in New Braunfels’ Herald-Zeitung’s Opinion page, 4A, December 12-13, 2020.]    So many of us are trying [...]

The Racial Complex: From Devious Path to Healing Journey ZOOM WEBINAR AUG 16, 1:00-2:30PM PDT Free to 2019/20 and 2020/21 OFJ members $20 general admission Register/Purchase CEUs are NOT [...]

TEDX presents DR. HARRY GRAMMER Breaking Down Privilege. Time to build a better world August 5th, 4:00pm (PST) PGIAA Board President and Founder, New Earth, Harry was on the TEDxSantaBarbara [...]

An Obscure Order: Reflections on Cultural Mythologies by Dennis Patrick Slattery, Ph.D. Core Faculty, Mythological Studies Program Pacifica Graduate Institute. A myth, I hope these essays reveal, [...]

Why Pacifica Now? A Meditation & Imagining “All true things change and only those things that change remain true.” C.G. Jung by Peter M. Rojcewicz, PhD Provost and Accreditation Liaison [...]

From Career to Calling: A DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY GUIDE TO SOUL-MAKING WORK IN DARKENING TIMES A new book from Alumna and Pacifica Adjunct Faculty, Suzanne Cremen. Finding and following an authentic [...]

Pornography Does Not Stop With Sexploitation. Sometimes a word gets stuck in a groove of familiarity and is then limited to just one definition or description. But we learn from the [...]

Statement from Pacifica Students and Alumni   Public Statement: If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, [...]

A Day with Dr. Fanny Brewster Morning Dreamwork Salon + Afternoon Salon on “The Racial Complex” Saturday, July 18th 10:30am-1pm & 2:30-4pm PST EST: 1:30-4pm & 5:30-7pm   Morning [...]

Breath and Identity:   What White Institutions Fail to Understand, Including Our Own  Dr. Leslie Shore Mythological Studies    Remember My Name in Africa, was Kossola. For George Floyd Whose [...]

A Statement from the Board of Pacifica Graduate Institute Alumni Association    We as a cultural group of Africanist people have been in an intergenerational struggle for our lives that does not [...]

George Floyd George Floyd. George Floyd. George Floyd. I have been saying his name aloud since the terrible news of his death. I want him to be witnessed, I want to witness him. Through times [...]

The perils of being black in public: we are all Christian Cooper and George Floyd Too often, by default, black people are perceived as threats to white people’s physical safety. We need [...]

Pacifica Graduate Institute:  Statement on Addressing Systemic Racism At Pacifica Graduate Institute, we are deeply distressed and aggrieved by the senseless, on-going violence directed at black [...]

PGIAA President Harry Grammer – George Floyd Statement “The death of George Floyd in the wake of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Botham Jean and hundreds of recent others is [...]

Manage Fear, Anxiety and Sleepless Nights in Times of Uncertainty Saturday, May 30, 2020 10am – 4pm PDT  5 Continuing Education Credits will be available for a fee of $25 per certificate. [...]

Alicia Keys performing Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” Dear Students: Please accept this offering as a feeble expression of the grief I feel for all of us in the Myth Program [...]

TRANSFORMING CONSCIOUSNESS Wednesday April 22, 2020 7:00 – 8:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) The first Transforming Consciousness for Psychologists and Healing Professionals Zoom Session will [...]

Department Chair Dr. Matthew Bennett Presents “Anxiety as a Depth Experience”  A Community Webinar for Counseling Psychology Students, Alumni/ae and Pacifica Community Thursday, April [...]

HEARING VOICES 2020 “Hearing Voices 2020” features the work of students and faculty in our Community, Liberation, Indigenous, and Eco-Psychologies (CLIE) M.A./Ph.D. specialization, as we [...]

Relational Marriage and Family Therapy in an Online World A Webinar Taught by Dr. Michael Elliott, PhD, Core Faculty, Counseling Psychology Department Monday, March 23, 2020 11 am to 1 pm [...]

Moral Injury and its Aftermath I listen and tolerate as much as I can on various news/talk shows, each wrestling with the double massacres in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. Some seem deeply [...]

Deadly Powers: Animal Predators and the Mythic Imagination by Paul A. Trout. Prometheus, 2011. Imaginary Animals: The Monstrous, the Wondrous, and the Human by Boria Sax. Reaktion Books, 2013. [...]

Preamble from Academic Senate for Distribution of Open Letter to British Journal of Psychotherapy After active discussion and with due deliberation, the Academic Senate of Pacifica Graduate [...]

By Dennis Patrick Slattery, For the Express-News Published 4:52 pm CST, Monday, November 19, 2018 President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address 155 years ago, when , language was [...]

“Liberal learning can lead to fruitful discourse” By Dennis Patrick Slattery and Roger C. Barnes Our current level of political discourse reveals a crisis in civility and an absence [...]

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, [...]

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, [...]

Pacifica Graduate Institute Clinical Psychology Program Faculty Member Receives Psychoanalytic Center of California  (PCC) Recognition Dr. Avedis Panajian, who is Core Faculty in Pacifica’s [...]

On Feminist Roots and Radical Edges of Depth Psychology at Pacifica: In Celebration of Women’s History Month  Oksana Yakushko, PhD For many women and men, the discovery of feminism as a personal [...]

Dear Pacifica Counseling, Clinical Psychology, and PsyD Alums, Many of us are trying to discern how best we can use ourselves to respond effectively and meaningfully to this historical moment in [...]

The New American Aristocracy By Aaron Kipnis, Ph.D. Many progressive thinkers today are in varying states of shock. We now largely understand the demographics that define the winners and losers [...]

Photography by Andrew D. White Making Sense of the Election ______ Dana C. White, PhD As we learn from Joseph Campbell, myths provide orientation – they are ways to make sense of things that [...]

Review of Edward Tick’s Warrior’s Return: Restoring the Soul After War By Dennis Patrick Slattery (Originally published in Depth Insights Journal, Summer 2016) “The well-being of warriors and [...]

Conversation and Civilization’s Renewal Dennis Patrick Slattery Recently on a flight from Salt Lake City to San Antonio I found myself sitting next to a man for the two and a half hour journey. I [...]

Voicing Violence Dennis Patrick Slattery I learned through one of my students of the massacre in an Orlando, Florida nightclub on Sunday, the day following the cataclysm. She related to me how a [...]

Psychological Perspectives A Quarterly Journal of Jungian Thought Tender Mercies: Love, Oatmeal, and the Quest for Wholeness by: Dennis Patrick Slattery To cite this article: Dennis Patrick [...]

The Pacifica Experience:  A One Day Introduction to Pacifica’s Degree Programs Faculty Presentation  – Oksana Yakushko, PhD  Chair Clinical Psychology Saturday, February 20, 2016 “ON BEING [...]

In April of 2016 the Pacifica Graduate Institute Alumni Association (PGIAA) celebrates its 4th year in existence as a non-profit 501c corporation serving both Pacifica Alumni and the communities [...]

A guest post by Dr. Jennifer Leigh Selig. Dr. Selig was recently featured in the New York Times article Financial Advice for Women, From Women. Dr. Selig provided the research and methodology to [...]

We Would Like to tell you about Pacifica’s MA Engaged Humanities and the Creative Life: a unique masters program for thriving in the twentyfirst century! (Chair: Dr Susan Rowland) We offer a [...]

Dear Pacifica Community, It is with great sadness, and with great joy, that I announce Ginette’s impending retirement, effective at the end of the Summer Quarter of this year, 2015: sadness, [...]

Please forgive me in advance. What you are about to read may geek out, gush, and glow. I can’t help it—I am still ablaze from the glorious “Coming Home” weekend. From the emails I’ve received in [...]

Our  Faculty Voices series invites Pacifica faculty and alumni into engaged conversation, a community call-and-response to which all are invited. On The Soul’s Meaning: Imagining An [...]

Our  Faculty Voices series invites Pacifica faculty and alumni into engaged conversation, a community call-and-response to which all are invited. Alternatives to Violence: first facilitator [...]

Our  Faculty Voices series invites Pacifica faculty and alumni into engaged conversation, a community call-and-response to which all are invited. On Elsner, Kipnis, Watkins, and Our Alumni [...]

Our  Faculty Voices series invites Pacifica faculty and alumni into engaged conversation, a community call-and-response to which all are invited. Regarding Alumni Aaron Kipnis, Ph.D. | Core [...]

Our  Faculty Voices series invites Pacifica faculty and alumni into engaged conversation, a community call-and-response to which all are invited. Opening to the animae mundi Tom Elsner | Core [...]

Our  Faculty Voices series invites Pacifica faculty and alumni into engaged conversation, a community call-and-response to which all are invited. Exploring the Midas complex Aaron Kipnis, Ph.D. [...]

Our  Faculty Voices series invites Pacifica faculty and alumni into engaged conversation, a community call-and-response to which all are invited. Building bridges for Depth Psychology Robert [...]

Our  Faculty Voices series invites Pacifica faculty and alumni into engaged conversation, a community call-and-response to which all are invited. Advanced AVP workshop completed! Mary Watkins  | [...]

Our  Faculty Voices series invites Pacifica faculty and alumni into engaged conversation, a community call-and-response to which all are invited. Alumni Association launches first service [...]

Our  Faculty Voices series invites Pacifica faculty and alumni into engaged conversation, a community call-and-response to which all are invited. Alternatives to Violence Project: A way to bring [...]

Alchemical Explorations with Thomas Elsner Beth Anne Boardman, Ph.D. (Mythological Studies, 2012) | originally posted 29 Jan 2013 You know, Jung had a collaboration with Wolfgang Pauli, the Nobel [...]

• In Memoriam • Remembering Walter Odajnyk Chris Downing, Ph.D. | Core Faculty, Pacifica Graduate Institute | originally posted 26 July 2013 Chris Downing offered these comments about Walter at [...]

The Labyrinth and the Teaching Tree a story of building sacred spaces on the Ladera Campus Lorraine “Rain” Warren and Elizabeth MacLeod Burton-Crow | originally posted 1 Mar 2013 [...]

•|  The  Sharing the Gardens blog supports an on-going conversations between Pacifica’s master land manager Marshall Chrostowski and alumni who enjoy the beauty and intention found in [...]

Dr. Stephen Aizenstat serves as Chancellor of  Pacifica Graduate Institute, which he served as Founding President. Reflections from the Chancellor collects Steve’s posts to Pacifica’s [...]

Dr. Stephen Aizenstat serves as Chancellor of  Pacifica Graduate Institute, which he served as Founding President. Reflections from the Chancellor collects Steve’s posts to Pacifica’s [...]

Dr. Stephen Aizenstat serves as Chancellor of  Pacifica Graduate Institute, which he served as Founding President. Reflections from the Chancellor collects Steve’s posts to Pacifica’s [...]

Dr. Stephen Aizenstat serves as Chancellor of  Pacifica Graduate Institute, which he served as Founding President. Reflections from the Chancellor collects Steve’s posts to Pacifica’s [...]

A “Key Voices” blog, Pacifica Admissions collects the Pacifica Admissions team’s posts to Pacifica’s growing family of alums. •|•|• On Introductions | originally posted [...]

A “Key Voices” blog, Pacifica Admissions collects the Pacifica Admissions team’s posts to Pacifica’s growing family of alums. •|•|• On Beginnings | originally posted on 12 [...]

A “Key Voices” blog, Pacifica Admissions collects the Pacifica Admissions team’s posts to Pacifica’s growing family of alums. •|•|• Some Remarkable Things About 2012 [...]

A “Key Voices” blog, Pacifica Admissions collects the Pacifica Admissions team’s posts to Pacifica’s growing family of alums. •|•|• Grateful For Your Support | originally [...]