California Institute of Integral Studies

with their lives.

She holds a BA in environmental design and planning from the University of Colorado in Boulder and also a marriage and family counseling from the California Institute for Integral Studies and a certificate in spiritual psychology from the University of Santa Monica.

She knows her stuff.

Her memoir, A Woman on Top, My Journey of Self-Discovery Through Love and Money, which I have read, was selected for Love Reading UK's Indie Books We Love.

What parts of ourself might come back to life if we stopped trying only to calm the nervous system and also learned how to fully inhabit it?

i'm really thrilled to be here today with dr brian tourney welcome thanks sleep great to have you i've been looking forward to this interview i'm going to share your bio and then we'll jump right in sound good sounds good okay so brian tierney phd is a somatic psychologist and adjunct professor teaching at california institute of integral studies or ciis and an international trainer of somatic clinicians.

Since 1999, he has worked with diverse populations, including cancer patients in New Zealand, men and boys in rites of passage, and participants in drama therapy groups.

Specializing in hands-on somatic approaches to trauma resolution, Dr. Tierney has thousands of hours of training in the healing arts and sciences, including certificates in the Rolfe Method of Structural Integration, EMDR, Leadership and Social Transformation, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Advanced Breathing Facilitation, Yoga Teaching, Clinical Hypnosis, Transformational Dance, Drama Therapy, and a plethora of clinical massage modalities.

And probably the majority of really incredible people jungian authors are women i think there's just so many that have been such an influence on my life and um uh but anyway i wonder if you could talk a little bit about the role of you know um i mean psychodrama we've been referencing that a little bit or drama therapy then also ritual and uh and archetypal work uh in in the healing process

Yeah, I love this topic.

One of the courses that I developed for the California Institute of Integral Studies was a DSM course using archetypal theory as part of the diagnostic process, and the students absolutely loved it.

So it is very much informed by Robert Moore's work, King Warrior, Magician Lover.

Matt Siegel, I am a process philosopher.

I teach graduate students at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.

And I'm the director of the Process and Science Network at the Center for Process Studies.

So I think across disciplines, sometimes I call myself a transdisciplinary researcher, which is basically a dilettante that's interested in everything.

and blended Eastern philosophy with Western psychology, which is exactly what I do now.

So I found my place and it's an institute called the California Institute of Integral Studies.

If anyone is interested in blending East and West, that is the flagship institution.

It's amazing.

Our topic today is the birth of the future human with my guest, Chris Baish, who is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University in Ohio, where he taught for 33 years.

He is also adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies, emeritus fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and on the advisory council of Groff Legacy Training.

Chris is author of four books, Life Cycles, Reincarnation and the Web of Life, Dark Night, Early Dawn, The Living Classroom, Teaching and Collective Consciousness, and LSD in the Mind of the Universe, Diamonds from Heaven.

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So Helena, who's got a PsyD, which is...

A doctorate is a licensed psychologist certified in perinatal mental health, and she's associate professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.

She's a scholar of maternal studies and somatic psychology, and she's published on the topics of the psychology of mothering and its somatic aspects.

She is the author of Somatic Maternal Healing.

I know you also teach at an institute in California.

Yeah.

Yeah, I teach at the California Institute of Integral Studies in what's called San Francisco today.

I teach in the Master's in Somatic Psychology program, and we have info sessions if anyone's interested, of course, and you can contact me.

Dr. O has worked as a psychedelic guide and counselor since 2011, drawing on training in embodied mindfulness, Hakomi body-centered psychotherapy, theatrical practices, and the psychedelic underground.

He trained in East-West psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies and has explored embodied approaches to transformation through both psychotherapy and performance.

Before entering psychedelic-assisted counseling, he spent more than 20 years living in and building intentional communities.

A longtime student of eco philosopher Joanna Macy, he has been deeply influenced by her work on community, ecological crisis, and collective transformation.