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"Those who can embrace change as a regular medium of being will survive and flourish; those who do not or cannot or will not, will languish in the backwaters of yesterday." --Dennis Patrick Slattery
The Aesthetic Nature of Change
Stephen Aizenstat
Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D. is the founding president of Pacifica Graduate Institute, a private graduate school offering masters and doctoral programs in psychology and mythological studies. He is a licensed Clinical Psychologist, a Marriage and Family Therapist, and a credentialed public school teacher. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Fielding Institute in 1982, and his Master of Education from the University of California in 1975. Dr. Aizensat's areas of emphasis include depth psychology, dream research, and imaginal and archetypal psychology.
Website: www.pacifica.edu
Andrew Beath
Andrew Beath is the founder of the EarthWays Foundation in Malibu, California, as well as several other nonprofit social justice and environmental organizations. His foundation has initiated projects to protect wilderness and assist threatened communities in South, Central and North America. Andrew is also author of the book Consciousness in Action.
John Ehrenfeld
John Ehrenfeld, Ph.D., currently serves as Executive Director of the International Society for Industrial Ecology. He retired in 2000 as the Director of the MIT Program on Technology, Business, and Environment, an interdisciplinary educational, research, and policy program. He holds a post as Senior Research Scholar at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. His current projects focus on sustainability and industrial ecology. In 1999, the World Resources Institute honored him with a lifetime achievement award for his academic accomplishments in the field of business and environment. He received the Founders Award for Distinguished Service from the Academy of Management's Organization and Natural Environment Division in 2000. He has taught at the Technical University of Lisbon as a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar . He was elected in 2005 to the Board of Trustees of the Society for Organizational Learning. He is an editor of the Journal of Industrial Ecology. He holds a B. S. and Sc. D. in Chemical Engineering from MIT, and is author or co-author of over 200 papers, books, reports, and other publications.
Website: http://www.johnehrenfeld.com/index.shtml
Aranye Fradenburg
Aranye Fradenburg, Ph.D., is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Director of the English Department's specialization in "Literature and the Mind," and Clinical Associate of the New Center for Psychoanalysis, with a private practice in Goleta, CA. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia and taught at Dartmouth before moving to UCSB. Her particular interests are Medieval English and Scottish literary culture, and psychoanalytic theory. She is the author of City, Marriage Tournament: Arts of Rule in Late Medieval Scotland, Sacrifice Your Love: Psychoanalysis, Historicism, Chaucer, Dreaming in the Middle Ages: Chaucer and Freud, in The Posthistorical Middle Ages, and many articles on the relationship between contemporary thought and Medieval Studies.
Website: http://mind.english.ucsb.edu
Clinical homepage: http://www.aranyefradenburg.com
Cynthia Anne Hale
Cynthia Anne Hale, PhD, LCSW, practices depth psychology as an educator, writer, and psychotherapist, exploring ways that inner and outer experience can be integrated through the creative imagination. She has studied flute and piano, and has worked as an arts administrator. More recently, she collaborated with Inside Out Concerts in Boston to develop a creative listening process and facilitate audience engagement with live classical music. She has worked as a psychotherapist for twenty-four years. Her private practice is now based in California, where she teaches as core faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute. www.imaginalways.com
Robert Hale began exploring classical music in his teens after an unexpected connection with the music of Beethoven. After studying piano in college, he has continued playing and listening. He worked for ten years marketing performing artists and ensembles in Canada and the United States. He now works as a software developer in California, where he maintains an active dialogue with music.
James Hollis
James Hollis, Ph.D., graduated with an A.B. from Manchester College in 1962 and with a Ph.D. from Drew University in 1967. He taught the Humanities 26 years in various colleges and universities before retraining as a Jungian analyst at the Jung Institute of Zurich, Switzerland (1977-82). He is a licensed Jungian analyst in private practice in Houston, Texas, where he served as Executive Director of the Jung Educational Center of Houston from 1997-2008. He is a retired Senior Training Analyst for the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, was the first Director of Training of the Philadelphia Jung Institute. Additionally, he is Director of the Jungian Studies program of Saybrook Graduate School of San Francisco. His works include: The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife, Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men, Tracking the Gods: The Place of Myth in Modern Lif , Swamplands of the Soul: New Life in Dismal Places, The Eden Project: In Search of the Magical Other , The Archetypal Imagination, Mythologems: Incarnations of the Invisible World, Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life, Why Good People Do Bad Things: Understanding Our Darker Selves, What Matters Most.
Website: http://www.jameshollis.net/bioindex.htm
Barbara Marx Hubbard
Barbara Marx Hubbard is a social innovator, speaker, author, educator and leader in the new worldview of conscious evolution. In 1945, when she was 15 years old, the first atomic bombs were dropped on Japan. This terrible act prompted Barbara to ask the fundamental question: "What is the meaning of our new power that can be used for the good? And "What are positive images of the future equal to these new powers?" This defining moment propelled her on her life's quest to find answers to these questions. The insights she has gained has led to her definitive message of hope that "Our crisis is a birth" of a more universal human and universal humanity. Through her books, DVDs, educational programs, TV appearances, interviews and speaking engagements, her message continues to bring answers and comfort to global audiences seeking answers to today's most pressing issues. She is currently the producer and narrator of an award-winning, on-going DVD series entitled "Humanity Ascending: A New Way through Together." Part One: Our Story, now translated into seven languages, has been selected for the prestigious Spiritual Cinema Circle. Part Two: Visions of a Universal Humanity, brings together cutting-edge scientific, social and spiritual visionaries to create a positive vision of our future equal to our new capacities. In 1990 she co-founded the Foundation for Conscious Evolution.
Website: http://www.barbaramarxhubbard.com/con
Roy Mankovitz
With an undergraduate degree from Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science, and a Juris Doctorate in law, Roy Mankovitz has pursued diverse career paths as a rocket scientist, lawyer, inventor, entrepreneur and, most recently, researcher and author in the field of nature-based illness prevention. As a member of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Advanced Technical Studies group, Mr. Mankovitz is responsible for the design of unmanned spacecraft control systems for lunar and Mars soft landing spacecraft and deep space probes. Mr. Mankovitz is named in more than 60 patents, including many in the field of consumer electronics, as well as in the field of health. Roy is retired from being an intellectual property attorney specializing in patent, trademark copyright and licensing matters. As an entrepreneur, Mr. Mankovitz has been the founder, co-founder, officer, and director of a diverse group of successful companies, some which are now publicly traded. He is on the advisory board of many organizations and nonprofits in the field of health, and has been the benefactor and moving force behind university research in the area of illness prevention.
Mr. Mankovitz is the founder and director of Montecito Wellness, devoted to research in the area of human wellness using nature as the template. He has published several books in the field, including The Wellness Project, and The Original Diet - The Omnivore's Solution. His inventions in the field include a non-toxic plant-based sunscreen, and he has funded successful research at UC Santa Barbara's Department of Cellular Biology in support of his theory that plant cyanins provide protection against skin cancer.
Website: http://montecitowellness.com
Ginette Paris
Ginette Paris Ph.D., is a psychologist, therapist and writer. She was trained as a psychologist in Montréal, Canada where she was a tenured professor in the Department of Communication of the U. of Québec in Montréal for 15 years. In 1995 she became a permanent US resident and a core faculty at the Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara. She has translated many works including, James Hillman Blue Fire: La Beauté de Psyché, authored numerous articles for collected books and journals including, Our Intellectual Family in Archetypal Psychologies: Reflections in Honor of James Hillman, How is Psychology a Mythology? In Varieties of Mythic Experience: Essays on religion, Psyche and Culture. Eds. Dennis Patrick Slattery and Glen Slater; Hillman-Giegerich: What Is Going On? in Psychology at the Threshold. Eds. Dennis Slattery and Lionel Corbett. She is the author of La Dimension Cachée: Le Conscient Et L'inconscient (introduction to Jungian psychology) - Le Reveil Des Dieux, La Renaissance D'Aphrodite, Pagan Meditations; Pagan Grace, Abortion; Mythology: A CD-ROM Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman Mythology, The Wisdom of the Psyche: Depth Psychology After Neuroscience; and forthcoming Heartbreak Through. Her books have been translated in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish. She also lectures in the US, Canada and Europe. Ginette serves on the Board of Advisors for the Institute for Cultural Change.
Website: http://ginetteparis.com
Robert Romanyshyn, Ph.D.
A core faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute since 1991, Robert earned his Ph.D. in 1970 at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, where in the clinical psychology program he studied phenomenology, philosophy, and depth psychology. Robert has published a few poems, five books, including Symptom and Dream,The Soul in Grief: Love, Death and Transformation, and most recently The Wounded Researcher: From the Mind of Reason to the Soul of the World, and numerous articles in psychological, philosophical and literary journals. He is a Fellow of The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, and in 2002 he was one of the first non-analysts elected as an Affiliate Member of The Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts based on scholarly contributions to Jungian psychology.
Ernest Rossi
Ernest Rossi, Ph.D., is an internationally renowned therapist, teacher and pioneer in the psychobiology of mind-body healing. He received his MS in Psychology at Washington State University and his PhD in Psychology at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. The author of more than 24 professional books. Dr. Rossi worked with Milton Erickson for eight years and co-authored three classic volumes on therapeutic hypnosis with him. Rossi has also edited four volumes of Erickson's Collected Paper, and sixteen volumes Neuroscience Edition of Erickson's Collective Works . Rossi currently has been conducting research in the psychosocial genomics of ultradian rhythms and their relation to mind-body healing and psychotherapy for over three decades. His is an elected member of the International Association for Analytical Psychology, and served on the Executive Board, C G Jung Institute of Los Angeles. In 2008, Dr. Rossi received a Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Psychotherapy by the The American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. Dr. Rossi's most recent publications include: The Psychobiology of Mind-Body Healing: New Concepts of Therapeutic Hypnosis; The Breakout Heuristic: The New Neuroscience of Mirror Neurons, Consciousness and Creativity in Human Relationships: Selected Papers of Ernest Lawrence Rossi. Experiencing Hypnosis: Therapeutic Approaches to Altered States. Vol. 11 of the series: The Collected Works of Milton H. Erickson and the update of Dreams, Consciousness, Spirit; Mind-Body Therapy; and the bestselling The Twenty-Minute Break: Using the New Science of Ultradian Rhythms
Website: http://www.ernestrossi.com
Kathryn Rossi
Kathryn Lane Rossi. Ph.D., is a graduate of the The Cambridge Graduate School for Psychology, Los Angeles, and is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in California. She received her Post Doctoral Training at the UCLA School of Medicine in Couples Therapy where she became Certified for Advanced Training in Sex Therapy in 1992. She is a recipient of the Ernest and Josephine Hilgard Award from The Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis for the best theoretical paper in 2008: "The Future Orientation of Constructive Memory: An Evolutionary Perspective on Therapeutic Hypnosis and Brief Psychotherapy." She is currently Professor of Psychology at The New Neuroscience Institute for Therapeutic Hypnosis, Psychotherapy, and Rehabilitation of Rome and Napoli, Italy. She teaches workshops training psychotherapists nationally and internationally.
Website: http://www.ernestrossi.com
Dennis Patrick Slattery
Dennis Patrick Slattery, Ph.D., is currently Core Faculty member in the Mythological Studies Program at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, CA. His forty year teaching span includes teaching the classics of literature at The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture's Summer Program for Teachers. In addition to dozens of essays on cultural themes and book reviews, he is the author, co-author or co-editor of sixteen books. Among them, The Idiot: Dostoevsky's Fantastic Prince, The Wounded Body - Remembering the Markings of Flesh, Depth Psychology - Meditations in the Field, co-edited with Lionel Corbett, Psychology at the Threshold, co-edited with Lionel Corbett, Grace in the Desert - Awakening to the Gifts of Monastic Life, Harvesting Darkness - Essays on Literature, Myth, Film and Culture; A Limbo of Shards: Essays on Memory, Myth and Metaphor, Varieties of Mythic Experience - Essays on Religion, Psyche and Culture, co- edited with Glen Slater, and Reimagining Education - Essays on Reviving the Soul of Learning, co-edited with Jennifer Leigh Selig. He also collected and edited a series of essays on William Faulkner and Modern Critical Theory (New Orleans Review, 1984). He has composed three volumes of poetry: Casting the Shadows - Selected Poems, Just Below the Water Line - Selected Poems, both with CDs, and Twisted Sky - Selected Poems. He offers workshops on Joseph Campbell and writing one's personal mythology to Jungian groups and organizations in the United States and Europe. Dennis serves on the Board of Advisors for the Institute for Cultural Change.
Evans Lansing Smith
Evans Lansing Smith, Ph.D., received a B.A. in English from Williams College, an M.A. in Creative Writing from Antioch International (London and Dublin), and a Ph.D. in Literature from The Claremont Graduate School. He traveled with the late Joseph Campbell, on study tours of northern France, Egypt, and Kenya, and he studied literature in England, at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Since then, he has taught at colleges in California, Switzerland, Maryland, and Texas, where he is currently Professor of English at Midwestern State University, in Wichita Falls. He has published numerous books including: James Merrill, Postmodern Magus: Myth and Poetics , The Hero Journey in Literature , The Complete Idiot's Guide to World Mythology, Ricorso and Revelation: An Archetypal Poetics of Modernism (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture), Rape and Revelation, The Myth of the Descent to the Underworld in Postmodern Literature (Studies in Comparative Literatur , The Descent to the Underworld in Literature, Painting, and Film, 1895-1950: The Modernist Nekyia, Figuring Poesis: A Mythical Geometry of Postmodernism (Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature) and numerous articles on comparative mythology and literature. He is currently Professor of English at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls Texas, and Adjunct Professor of Mythological Studies at the Pacifica Graduate Institute. Lans serves on the Board of Advisors for the Institute for Cultural Change.
Robin Vaccarino
Robin Vaccarino is an international artist who has served as faculty for Parsons School of Design in Paris, France (1981-1990); Otis Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles (1974-1994); and at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA (1996-2002). She received the celebrated California Arts Council Maestra Grant in 1982 and the National Endowment for the Arts Individual Fellowship Grant in 1980. She has been Appointed Juror for the California Arts Council. Robin has lectured around the world including at the Manet Exhibition at the Grand Palais and at the William DeKooning Exhibition at The Beaubourg, Centre Pomidou, Paris, France. Her work has has been exhibited in museums around the world. Robin has numerous work that has been purchased or commissioned for the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, ABC Studios, DeCordova Museum, Otis Arts Institute, Standard Oil Company, Transamerica Corp., Xerox Corp, Hyatt Regency, State of California, Cedar Sinai Medical Center, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Bank of America World Headquarters (to name a few) . ICC is grateful to Robin for providing several of her works to serve as the image for this conference.
Hendrika de Vries
Hendrika de Vries is a licensed depth-oriented Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice in Santa Barbara, CA. Her extensive training in depth psychology as well as her education in theological and mythological studies combined with her intuitive wisdom guide her therapeutic approach. As an adjunct faculty she has taught and presented at Pacifica Graduate Institute since 1986. Her work draws on her knowledge of the power of myth, dreams, and embodied spiritual practice to facilitate healing, personal growth, and transformation. Her public presentations include: "Whatever Happened to Mud Pies? Restoring the Connection to the Source of Life, Creativity, and Meaning," "Seeing in the Dark: the Power of Mythic Perception in Troubled Times." "Inviting the 13th Fairy: Embodying Soul in our Personal Myths," "Mythic Imagination in Relationships: An Archetypal Approach to Relationship Conflicts and Possibilities," and "Awakening to our Ecological Self: a discussion on the relationship between the rape of Nature and the repression of the Feminine."
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