Faculty
Arts and Consciousness Department
Counseling Psychology - Holistic Studies (Campbell)
Counseling Psychology - Somatic and Transpersonal Psychology (Pleasant Hill)
Integral Studies Arts and Consciousness Department
Margaret Blackwell
Adjunct Professor. BA, Open University, England, 1975; MPhil, Exeter University, Dartington College of Arts, England, 1989. Blackwell has worked extensively with diverse populations in hospitals, prisons and schools to promote personal growth through creative process. She is currently working with a wide range of people that includes CEOs, artists of all kinds, investment bankers, computer technicians, inventors, musicians,youth leaders, art directors and many others. She also does corporate consulting on creativity in the workplace. She has a special interest in the relationship between the evolution of consciousness and creativity. Fariba Bogzaran, PhD.
Assistant professor, Consciousness Studies; Adjunct faculty member, Arts and Consciousness. BS, University of Wisconsin, 1983; MA, California Institute of Integral Studies, 1989; PhD, California Institute of Integral Studies, 1994. Bogzaran is an internationally known and widely published authority on dreams, art, shamanism and a variety of Asian health practices. She is also an artist and curator, with extensive exhibitions of her own artwork. As a curator, Bogzaran is well-known for her work with the surrealist artist Gordon Onslow Ford, with whom she has collaborated on numerous books and exhibitions. Bogzaran lectures internationally on a wide variety of topics. She has been a member of the Arts and Consciousness faculty since 1989. Calvin Y. Kaleonahe Ching, MA
Adjunct faculty member. BFA, University of Hawaii, 1977; MA, University of New Mexico, 1981. Ching works with art in inner-city Oakland schools as a grant recipient of the California Arts Council. In addition to an active record of exhibitions and performances, he has created and implemented special art programs for the homeless and art programs in jails. He is a master of Tai Chi and qi gung. In 1991, Ching was awarded the Bay Guardian "Goldie" Award as the Outstanding New Performance Artist in Oakland. Susanne Cockrell, MFA
Core faculty member. BA, Vermont College, 1985; MFA, California College of Arts and Crafts, 1993. Cockrell is a performance and installation artist. She also has a background in transpersonal psychology, authentic movement, theater design and modern dance. Her work has been exhibited throughout the US and has involved collaboration with many distinguished artists. She received a Djerassi Foundation Fellowship in 1996, and won the Director's Choice award at the Black Maria Film Festival, New Jersey in 1994. Cockrell is currently working with film and video. Michael Grady, MFA
Chair and assistant professor. BFA, Tufts University, 1974; Diploma, Boston Museum School, 1974; Fifth Year Honors Diploma, Boston Museum School, 1975; MFA, Pratt Institute, 1990. Grady is an exhibiting artist and former Dean of Students at the San Francisco Art Institute. He has an extensive background in mental health and has worked as an art therapist. Recently, he has led several art travel/study programs in China, and has special interest and expertise in Asian art and philosophy. Lisa Kokin
Adjunct professor of arts and consciousness. BFA, California College of the Arts (formerly California College of Arts and Crafts), 1989, MFA, California College of the Arts, 1991. Kokin's work in mixed media installation, artist;s books, assemblage and sculpture is about memory and history, both personal and collective. Her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and groups exhibitions in the United States and abroad. A recipient of a California Arts Council Individual Artist's Fellowship and a Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation, Ms. Kokin's work is in numerous public and private collections. She is represented by the Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco and affiliated with the Nathan Larramendy Gallery in Ojai, California. Debra Koppman, MFA
Lecturer. BA, University of California Berkeley, 1980; MFA, University of California Berkeley, 1982; Doctor of Arts, New York University, 1993. Koppman is an exhibiting painter, sculptor and printmaker. Fluent in Spanish, she received a Fulbright fellowship in Peru. She is a specialist in the field of multicultural and women's studies. Mark Levy, PhD
Visiting Professor. AB, Clark University, 1968; MA, Indiana University, 1970; PhD, Indiana University, 1977. Levy is a lecturer and widely-published writer on spirituality and art. He is the author of Technicians of Ecstasy: Shamanism and the Modern Artist. He has lectured at University of Nevada, San Francisco Art Institute and is currently full professor at California State University, Hayward. Margaret Lindsey
Adjunct professor of arts and consciousness. BA Studio Art, Chico State University, 1973; MFA Studio Art, JFKU, 1999. Lindsey is a Bay Area painter and teacher, who utilizes the practices of acrylic painting, individual creative mentoring, transformative art, and meditation to study and assist human consciousness. She paints as a way to experience the cosmos, and the human interrelationship with it. Lindsey teaches classes and guides workshops in consciousness studies, transformative and expressive arts, shows her work locally and nationally, and collaborates with other artists and healers. Her work can be seen at http://www.artransforms.com/. Fred Martin, MA
Visiting Professor. BA, University of California Berkeley, 1949; MA, University of California Berkeley, 1954. Martin is among California's most renowned artists. His work in art and spirituality is world famous. In the past 40 years, he has exhibited in the Whitney Museum in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Zhejiang Academy of Art in China and many private galleries. His work is included in numerous private and museum collections. He is emeritus professor and former Vice President for Academic Affairs at the San Francisco Art Institute. Martin has written extensively for national art periodicals, published five books and has lectured throughout the world.
Jeremy Morgan, MFA
Core faculty member. Certificate, University of Oxford, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, 1977; Diploma, Royal Academy of Art, London England, 1981; MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, 1985. Morgan is a painter who has exhibited internationally. He has won numerous awards, including the prestigious Harkness Fellowship in 1985 and the Connoisseur Magazine Painting Prize in 1981. Morgan is a former chair of the painting department at the San Francisco Art Institute, where he has taught since 1987. Sharon Siskin, MFA
Core faculty. BFA, Tyler School of Art, 1976; MA, University of New Mexico, 1979; MFA, University of California, Berkeley, 1981. Siskin, a recognized leader in the field of community art, has taught and lectured extensively throughout the US. She is the founder of Positive Art, a community arts program for artists living with AIDS, which has provided a model for many communities across the nation. She has received seven California Arts Council Artist-in-Residence Grants and is featured in Connecting Conversations: Interviews with 25 Bay Area Women Artists. Susan St. Thomas, MA
Lecturer. BA, California State University, Long Beach, 1969; MA, JFKU, 1987. St. Thomas is an exhibiting artist, an illustrator, as well as a lecturer on sacred and ritual art. She has had her artwork published nationally. She is a former Gallery Director for Artisans Gallery in Mill Valley. Judith Selby Adjunct professor of arts and consciousness. BA, Pitzer College, 1972; MA, interdisciplinary arts, San Francisco State University, 1994. Selby's work combines traditional techniques with experiments in new genre and image/ text installations. She is committed to the creation of new symbols and life-affirming images to help shape the dialogue about personal and social issues. Her work, featured at www.artheals.org, provides insight into the healing power of art. In 2002, she was awarded a Marin Arts Council Individual Artist Grant for her innovative use of materials in her large scale environmental paintings. Karen Sjoholm, MA
Program advisor and lecturer. BFA, California College of Arts and Crafts, 1991; MA, JFKU, 1996. Sjoholm has an extensive exhibitions record in the Bay Area and has had her artwork published nationally. She has taught throughout the Bay Area, specializing in papermaking, artists' books and mixed media. Mary Webster, MA
Core faculty. Premier Degree, La Sorbonne, Paris, 1967; AB, Hollins College, 1969; MA, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1972; BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, 1981. Webster is an exhibiting mixed-media artist, a published poet, an art critic with numerous publications and a contributing editor to Artweek. She has taught at San Francisco State University, San Francisco Art Institute and lectured at California College of Arts and Crafts, the Oakland Museum and San Jose Museum of Art. She is a specialist in alchemy and contemporary art. Counseling Psychology - Holistic Studies(Campbell)
Liz Anderson, MA, MFT
Adjunct faculty member. MA, Counseling Psychology, John F. Kennedy Graduate School for Holistic Studies; MLS, SUNY Albany. Liz teaches Marriage and Family Counseling at the Campbell campus. Liz is the co-founder of Anderson and Kinoy MFT Oral Exam Seminars. She has worked for many years as a clinical case manager for a foster family agency and maintains a private practice. Amy Barton-Cayton, PhD MS
Core Faculty. PhD in Sociology, MS in Counseling Psychology, BA in English Literature. Dr. Cayton teaches Basic Addiction Studies. She is a speaker, trainer, and adult educator, and has been a part of the former UCSC Extension Drug and Alcohol Studies program for 10 years. Dr. Cayton has a fulltime private practice. She specializes in transformation and development for individuals and systems, Buddhist Psychology, and consults with all types of organizations around issues of behavioral change and organizational development. Sharon Berbower, MS, MFT
Adjunct faculty member. MS, Educational Psychology, California State University. Berbower teaches Seminar in Holistic Studies: The Enneagram. She maintains a private practice and works at Alta Bates Hospital in the areas of assertive communication, grief and bereavement, addiction and co-dependency. Clover Catskill, MA, MFT, CMT
Adjunct faculty member. MA Clinical Psychology, John F. Kennedy University. Catskill teaches Body Oriented Psychotherapies and Seminar in Holistic Studies: Come to Your Senses. She has a private practice and teaches movement classes and workshops. Catskill has an extensive background in movement and other expressive arts, performance art, and body work. She is a certified in Body-Mind Centering. Ivan Diamond, Ph.D
Adjunct Professor. BA, University of New Mexico, 1970. MA, Azusa Pacific College, 1980. Ph.D, William Lyon University, 1988. Diamond teaches Child Therapy. He currently manages progressive clinical services for severely mentally ill adults on behalf of the Santa Cruz Community Counseling Center, Santa Cruz. He also manages a new clinical care model for foster care youth. His specialization in Child and Adolescent Therapy includes co-founding a school for emotionally disturbed and learning disabled youth; co-direction of the Center for Child and Adolescent Therapy, Redondo Beach and over 25 years of clinical work with children and adolescents. Diamond has contributed original research in Sandtray Therapy. Some of his interests in the field of psychology are in Expressive Therapies, Developmental Analysis of the Sandtray and in adapting a holistic approach to the clinical needs of severely mentally ill adults. Christine Fahrenbach, MFT
Adjunct faculty member and a graduate of the California School of Professional Psychology. She has been in private practice for 12 years and has taught and supervised at Dominican University in San Rafael. Chris enjoys a general practice in psychotherapy with a focus on the use of EMDR in treating trauma, and removing blocks to healthy and fulfilling interpersonal relationships and other life choice issues. She is an active member of the Monterey Bay Psychological Association and volunteers on the group's crisis intervention team. Chris also has a Master of Divinity from the Jesuit School of Psychology in Berkeley and pursues an interest in Christian mysticism and psychology, and social justice activism. Off the clock, Chris sings in a women's a capella ensemble, boogie boards and rolls in the dirt with her dog. Cliff Goldenberg, MS, MFT
Adjunct faculty member. Goldenberg teaches Seminars in Holistic Studies: Formative Psychology and Introduction to Stanley Keleman's Formative Approach. Goldenberg works at the Center for Energetic Studies directed by Stanley Keleman and has a private practice. Richard Heckler, PhD
Adjunct faculty member. Heckler teaches Seminars in Holistic Studies: Hakomi A & B and Archetypes of the Psychotherapist. He is the director of the Hakomi Institute in San Francisco, specializing in Hakomi, body-oriented psychotherapy and systemically-oriented family therapy. Bret Johnson, Ph.D.
A licensed psychologist who received his Bachelors degree in Psychology from the University of Colorado, Boulder and his Ph.D. from the California School of Professional Psychology in 1987, with a specialty in Child and Family Clinical Psychology. Dr. Johnson has a private practice in both Santa Cruz and Santa Clara, California. He has been performing Child Custody Evaluations since 1988 and is contracted with Santa Cruz County Superior Court as a Family Mediator and Child Custody Evaluator. His practice focuses on a wide range of clients and issues including depression, anxiety, stress management working with adults, children, adolescents, and families. He also specializes in custody/divorce, and gay and lesbian issues. Dr. Johnson has been teaching at JFKU since 1991 which includes courses in: Psychopathology, Couples Treatment, Testing/Assessment, Special Family Issues, Child and Adolescent Psychology, Advanced Child/Adolescent Diagnosis, and Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Issues and Treatment, Supervision courses and has also worked as a supervisor at the JFKU Counseling Center. Dr. Johnson has teaches Continuing Education courses at JFKU in HIV/AIDS and Domestic Violence. Alexandra Kennedy, MA, MFT
Adjunct faculty member. BA UCSC 1971, MA Counseling Psychology, University of Santa Clara 1975. Kennedy teaches Strategies for Grieving. She is author of Losing a Parent (HarperCollins 1991) and The Infinite Thread (Beyond Words 2001), as well as numerous articles (Yoga Journal, Mothering Magazine, Magical Blend, California Therapist). She lectures at universities, professional organizations and major conferences, offering a unique perspective to grieving through her work with the imagination. Since 1976 she has had a private practice in Santa Cruz. Her website (www.alexandrakennedy.com) offers resources for grieving. Frederic Luskin, Ph.D.
Lecturer. State University of New York at Binghamton, BS; San Jose State University, MS; Stanford University, PhD. Luskin is a senior fellow at the Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation and an Associate Professor at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. He is completing the last of eight successful research projects as the Director of the Stanford Forgiveness Projects. Dr. Luskin’s research demonstrates that learning forgiveness leads to increased physical vitality, hope, greater self–efficacy, enhanced optimism and conflict resolution skills. Dr. Luskin is the author of the San Francisco Bay Area best seller Forgive for Good: A Proven Prescription for Health and Happiness and Stress Free for Good. Dr. Luskin’s work has been featured in Time, O, Ladies Home Journal, U.S. News and World Reports, Prevention as well as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, U.S.A. Today and the Wall Street Journal. In addition, The Public Broadcasting System has made a pledge drive video of his work. Louise Monsour, MA, LMFT
Core Faculty, Monsour teaches Diagnosis, Assessment & Therapeutic Strategy, and a Workshop called Conscious Creation and the Practice of Psychotherapy. She also maintains a private practice where she works with people in transition and those recovering from trauma. Mirabruna Sirabella "Varuna", MFT
Adjunct faculty member. MS, California State University Sacramento. Sirabella teaches Cross-Cultural Issues in Counseling. She also has an academic background in Theater Anthropology, and years of teaching Yoga and other classes addressing personal transformation through movement, art and visualization. She has a private practice focused on Trauma/PTSD, Chronic Pain, personal growth and spiritual issues, serving culturally diverse clients of all ages in three languages. She is currently President of the Santa Cruz Chapter of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. Ron Steck, LMFT
M.A. Clinical Psychology, Certified Process Therapist, Adjunct Faculty for JFK Holistic Studies Program, and Licensed Marriage, Family Therapist, with over 14 years of experience, specializing in long-term growth work, couples therapy, personality disorders, and designing engaging workshops for clinicians and clients. Ron is also the Executive Vice President of the Growth and Leadership Center in Mountain View, providing executive coaching, team development, OD, and training services. My style is direct, rigorous, compassionate, and playful. Maggie Toews, MFT
A Certified Process Therapist and a Certified Process Therapy Instructor. Toews also supervises interns at Process Therapy Institute in Los Gatos, where she conducts a private practice, as well as in Palo Alto. Toews graduated from University of San Francisco and hold a license in Marriage and Family Counseling. Teaching group process at JFK University is a wonderful venue for what Toews has to offer in terms of helping students learn how to hold a stance of non-agendized presence while inviting deeper connection to self via a variety of modes which utilize the cognitive, somatic, e-motional and energetic realms as they show up in therapy. Toews employs the Process Therapy model when working with clients, along with a variety of structures which invite resolution, including EMDR. Birgit Wolz, Ph.D., MFT
Received her MA in Counseling Psychology (Transpersonal) from John F. Kennedy University. At the School of Holistic Studies of JFKU she teaches Cinema Alchemy: Using the Power of Movies for the Therapeutic Process. She has been a long-term student of the Diamond Approach in the Ridhwan School. In her private practice in Oakland she worked with a variety of therapeutic modalities for many years before she developed an innovative systematic methodology of using movies as an adjunct to traditional therapeutic methods. Wolz teaches the therapeutic use of movies to mental health practitioners and facilitates Cinema Alchemy groups as well as workshops in the US and Canada. She has published numerous articles on this subject. Wolz also writes a column featuring therapeutically oriented movie reviews for The Therapist. Her book E-Motion Picture Magic: A Movie Lover’s Guide to Healing and Transformation as well as her CE on-line course guide the reader through the basic principles of Cinema Therapy. She co-authored the CE on-line course Boundaries and the Movies: Learning about Therapeutic Boundaries Through the Movies. Counseling Psychology - Somatic and Transpersonal Psychology (Pleasant Hill)
Liz Anderson, MA, MFT
Adjunct faculty member. MA, Counseling Psychology, John F. Kennedy Graduate School for Holistic Studies; MLS, SUNY Albany. Liz teaches Marriage and Family Counseling at the Campbell campus. Liz is the co-founder of Anderson and Kinoy MFT Oral Exam Seminars. She has worked for many years as a clinical case manager for a foster family agency and maintains a private practice. Duncan Bennett, MS, MFT
Adjunct faculty member. MS, California State University, Hayward. Bennett teaches Group Process A, B & C. He is a clinical supervisor at JFKU's Center for Transpersonal and Holistic Counseling. He has a private psychotherapy practice in Oakland. Sharon Berbower, MS, MFT
Adjunct faculty member. MS, Educational Psychology, California State University. Berbower teaches Diagnosis and Assessment B: The Enneagram. She works at Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley in the areas of assertive communication, grief and bereavement, addiction and co-dependency. Her private practice is in Albany. Aric Bodin, EdD
Adjunct faculty member. EdD, Counseling/Consulting Psychology, University of Massachusetts. Bodin teaches Nature Based Spirituality, and Vision Quest. He was the director of the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in New York State for three years, and he has been active as a consultant in organizational development for five years. Bodin studied visual arts, photography, filmmaking, theatre and landscaping, and worked professionally in these fields since 1980. Currently he is studying shamanism and holistic healing. Kenneth Bradford, PhD
Adjunct faculty member. MA, Sonoma State University; PhD, Clinical Psychology, Saybrook Institute. Bradford teaches Systems of Transpersonal Psychology: Existential Psychology, and Diagnosis B:A Phenomenological-Contemplative Approach. Currently, he is clinical director of Maitri Psychotherapy Institute and has a private practice in Lafayette. Bradford is also the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters on existential psychology. Mariana Caplan, MA, MFT
Adjunct faculty member. MA, Clinical Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies. Mariana attributes the majority of her education to years of research and practice in the world’s great mystical traditions, and to studying and living in villages in India, Central and South America, and Europe. She is the author of six books including, The Way of Failure: Winning Through Losing, Halfway Up the Mountain: the Error of Premature Claims to Enlightenment, Untouched:the Need for Genuine Affection in an Impersonal World; and the forthcoming Conscious Discipleship: Cultivating Authentic Relationship to Spiritual Authority. She has a private counseling practice and leads seminars internationally. Clover Catskill, MA, MFT, CMT
Adjunct faculty member. MA Clinical Psychology, John F. Kennedy University. Catskill teaches Body Oriented Psychotherapies and Seminar in Holistic Studies: Come to Your Senses. She has a private practice and teaches movement classes and workshops. Catskill has an extensive background in movement and other expressive arts, performance art, and body work. She is a certified in Body-Mind Centering. Christian de Quincey, PhD
Adjunct faculty member. BA, JFKU, 1994; MA, JFKU, 1995; PhD, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2000. De Quincey teaches Philosophy of Consciousness and Nature of Consciousness. His main interest is philosophy of mind, and the relation between matter and consciousness. He is the managing editor of Noetic Sciences Review. In addition to co-authoring with Willis Harmon, The Scientific Exploration of Consciousness: Toward an Adequate Epistemology, de Quincey has published Consciousness for Zombies. Many of his articles and papers have been published in professional and general publications, including Journal of Consciousness Studies, Network, Somatics, Nature, Sunday Times and the Irish Times. Don Elium, MA, MFT
Adjunct faculty member. BA Religion, Wake Forest University; MA Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, JFKU. He teaches Sexuality. Elium has a full-time private practice in Walnut Creek specializing in treatment of psychological trauma and difficult emotions, individual adult and couple psychotherapy, and teenager-family therapy. He and his wife Jeanne have written a series of parenting books: Raising a Son, Raising a Daughter, Raising a Teenager, and Raising a Family. Vipassana Esbjorn-Hargens, PhD
Adjunct faculty, BA University of CA at Berkeley; PhD, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. She teaches Professional Integrative Project at JFKU and courses on research and women’s ways of knowing at other Bay Area graduate schools. Esbjorn-Hargens is a psychological assistant in private practice in Marin and found of the therapeutic approach, Integral Human Being. She is co-editor for Ken Wilber's recent book The Simple Feeling of Being and is author of several journal articles and book chapters. Her current research and writing explores consciousnessness and flesh, and the integral body. Gisele Fernandes-Osterhold, MA, MFT, CMT
is a core faculty in the Somatic Psychology program at JFK University and Adjunct faculty at CIIS. She has extensive training and clinical experience in body-oriented approaches to psychotherapy, using an integrative approach that is rooted in Gestalt Therapy and Family Systems. After starting her professional career in a psycho-somatic hospital setting in Rio de Janeiro, Gisele spent two years at Esalen Institute, deepening her knowledge and skills. Since relocating to the Bay Area in 2001, she has been working with diverse clients in community mental health and private practice settings, being particularly involved in serving the Latino population. In her work with individuals and groups, Gisele draws from Yoga and dance as well as from her background in trauma treatment and EMDR. Her approach to healing is rooted in her commitment to spirituality and indigenous traditions of her native Brazil. Robert Fisher, MA, MFT
Adjunct faculty, BA, Knox College; MA, Norwich College. Rob teaches Marriage and Family Counseling and Case Seminar: Family. He has a private practice in Mill Valley specializing in somatic psychology and is a Hakomi practitioner. He is co-author of Love, Sex, and Dating in the 90’s and has been featured in Couples and Body Therapy. Ellen Friedman, MA, MFT
Adjunct faculty, MA in Clinical Psychology/Creative Arts Therapy, Antioch University. Ellen teaches Group Process A, B and C and is a supervisor at the Holistic counseling center. She has a private practice in Albany specializing in movement and expressive therapists. Ken Goodman, MA, MFT
Adjunct faculty, BA, University of Southern California; MA, California Institute of Integral Studies. Ken is a National Certified Bereavement Facilitator and has been working with adults and children on grief and loss for over 10 years. A previous school counselor, Ken has extensive experience working with children and their parents on a myriad of issues including bereavement, divorce and behavior problems. In addition to teach at JFKU, Ken divides his time between facilitating workshops for parents on separation and divorce for Kids’ Turn and working with children and adults in private practice in San Francisco and Marin. Robin Greenberg, MA, MFT
Adjunct faculty, BA, University of California, Santa Barbara; MA, Mills College; MA, California Institute of Integral Studies. Robin teaches a variety of courses including Psychology of Nutrition and Eating Disorders as well as Effective Communication. She has a Dance, Movement and Expressive Arts approach in her San Francisco private practice. Ray Greenleaf, MA, MFT
Chair and full-time faculty, Transpersonal Psychology Department. MA in Transpersonal Psychology and Clinical Psychology, JFKU. Greenleaf teaches Effective Communication A & B, Counseling Case Seminar: Individuals, Applied Clinical Philosophy, Systems of Transpersonal Counseling: Jungian-Archetypal Psychology, and Music and Spirituality. He currently is on the board of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology, and has a private practice in Lafayette. Richard Heckler, PhD
Adjunct faculty. Hobart and William Smith Colleges, BA; Antioch New England Graduate School, Med,; University of Pittsburgh, PhD. Richard teaches Supervised Practica in Somatic Psychology. He is the director o the Hakomi Institute in San Francisco, specializing in Hakomi, Body-Oriented Psychotherapy and systemically-oriented family therapy. Marsha Hiller, MA, MFT
Adjunct professor. State University of New York at Stony Brook, BA; Bank Street College of Education, Med; John F. Kennedy University, MA. Marsha teaches Movement Seminars A & B and Case Seminar Individuals and Practice of Group Psychotherapy. She has a private psychotherapy practice in Berkeley. Gary Hoeber, MFT
Associate Professor. State University of New York at Freedonia, BA; Sonoma State University, MA. Gary has been working as a psychotherapist since 1976 and has directed three different, highly-effective community mental health programs. He is a leading practitioner and teacher of group psychotherapy, using an interpersonal approach that assists in the development of effective communication skills and increases the capacity for intimacy, friendship and community. His work with individuals focuses on the unfolding of one’s life purpose, using a depth psychology informed by poetry, story and mythology. Lynn Ireland, PhD
Full-time faculty. PhD, Counseling Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies. She teaches Group Process A, B & C, Counseling Case Seminar: Individuals, and Professional Integrative Project A & B. She has a private practice in San Francisco and Marin County, and does bereavement support groups for VNA/Hospice in San Francisco. Cheryl Krauter, MA, MFT
Adjunct faculty. California State University, Fullerton, BA; Sonoma State University, MA. Cheryl teaches Group Process A, B and C and supervises at the Center for Holistic Counseling. She has a private practice in San Francisco and Berkeley, specializing in Existential Humanistic Psychotherapy. She also facilitates a Women’s Spirituality Group. Jane Lind, MA, MFT
Adjunct faculty. San Diego State University, BA; John F. Kennedy University, MA. Jane has been teaching PIP/FIP courses since 1998, drawing on her prior 25-year career in publishing and her JFKU education. She also teaches at Angela Center in Santa Rosa. Jane approaches psychotherapy from an intersubjective, existential perspective in her Santa Rosa practice. Manuela Mische-Reeds, MA, MFT
Adjunct professor. Naropa University, BA; California Institute for Integral Studies, MA. Manuela is a somatic psychotherapist and educator. She is a certified Hakomi Therapist and Trainer, teaching in the San Francisco and Sydney Hakomi Professional Trainings. Manuela specializes in integrating somatic psychotherapy, movement therapy and somatic trauma work. She is also an authorized Continuum Movement Teacher and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, has counseled survivors of political oppression and torture and victims of trauma, and has extensive experience in the field of dance/movement therapy and meditation practice. She is a member of USABP and ISTSS. Mordecai Mitnick, MSW, LCSW
Adjunct professor. MA, University of California; MSW, Adelphi University. Mitnick teaches Effective Communication A & B and Vision Quest. He has a private practice in Oakland. Douglas Moorhead, MD
Adjunct professor. Furman University, BS; Emory University, MD. He teaches Body-Oriented Psychotherapies and Diagnosis, Assessment and Therapeutic Strategy. He has a private practice in Berkeley specializing in body-oriented psychotherapy and is the clinical and medical director at Berkeley Mental Health Services. Bert Parlee, PhD
Adjunct faculty member. PhD, California Institute of Integral Studies. He is clinical director of Therapy at Bridge Adolescent Treatment Facility in Oakland. Parlee teaches at ITP and CIIS as well as teaching Fundamentals of Transpersonal Psychology at JFKU. He is also chief facilitator at Ken Wilber's Integral Institute. Justine Polevoy, MA, MFT
Assistant Professor. California College of Arts and Crafts, BFA; California Institute of Integral Studies, MA. A licensed body-oriented psychotherapist with a private practice in Berkeley, Justine is a certified practitioner in Hakomi Therapy and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Trauma Recovery. She offers trainings and consultations for licensed therapists and students in Trauma Recovery, Somatic Resourcing, Embodiment Practices, and the integration of psychology and movement. In her private practice, Embodied Psychotherapy, Justine specializes in working with individuals and couples and assisting them in their recovery from trauma and development of a somatically resourced sense of self. She teaches Effective Communication A & B, Physiology and Psychology of Stress and the Supervised Practicum in Somatic Psychology Approaches to Trauma. Theresa Silow PhD
Core faculty, Counseling Psychology program. She teaches Moving and Sensing in the Holistic Health Education program. She also provides somatic education in academic, wellness and personal growth settings and is an instructor at the Sonoma State University. Silow has been exploring the integration of body, mind and spirit for over 20 years and studied extensively with Emilie Conrad (Continuum), Anna Halprin (the Halprin Life/Art Process), and Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen (Body-Mind Centering). She received her PhD in Somatic Studies from Ohio State University. Her dissertation was an inquiry into function and meaning of the kinesthetic sense - our ability for sensation. Her own spiritual path is guided by her awareness of her body and its on-going movement and unfolding. Vernice Solimar, PhD
Chair and Professor. BA, Hunter College, 1970; MA, Long Island University, 1973; PhD, California Institute of Integral Studies, 1986. Solimar's major interests include the application of psychology and spirituality to personal growth and social/global issues. She teaches Paradigms of Consciousness, Consciousness and Social Issues, Transpersonal Theories and Women's Reality. Luisah Teish, PhD
Adjunct faculty member. PhD, Therapeutic Counseling, Open International University. She studied theater arts at Pacific University in Oregon, Reed College in Oregon and the University of Illinois. She is an initiated Elder and Chief in the Ifa/Orisha tradition of West Africa and the author of articles, plays and books including, Carnival of the Spirit: Seasonal Celebrations and Rites of Passage, and Jambalaya: The Natural Woman's Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals. Teish teaches two Spiritual Systems classes: Elements of Ritual and Carnival of the Spirit. Peter H. VanOot
Adjunct faculty. Ph.D., Penn State University,1988. Dr. VanOot has taught at the graduate level for over 15 years and has been with John F. Kennedy University since 1995. He teaches Biological Basis of Behavior, Psychopharmacology, Neuropsychological Assessment, Health Psychology, and Cognitive-Behavioral Theory. His research background includes neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of epilepsy, sleep and anxiety disorders; and he continues to focus on the physiological or medical processes that underlie or contribute to psychological disturbances. Dr. VanOot maintains a private practice in Oakland, specializing in neuropsychological and general psychological assessment/evaluation and is a member of APA Division 38 and 40, as well as the National Academy of Neuropsychology (NAN). Integral Studies
Consciousness and Transformative Studies
Loyd Auerbach, MS
Adjunct faculty member. BA, Northwestern University, 1978; MS, JFKU, 1981. Auerbach is an acknowledged expert on psychic phenomena and lectures at colleges around the US. He is founder and director of the Office of Paranormal Investigations, and a consulting editor and columnist for FATE magazine. He is the author of ESP, Hauntings and Poltergeists; Psychic Dreaming; Reincarnation, Channeling and Possession; and Mind Over Matter. Auerbach has been on the JFKU faculty since 1983, and teaches Altered States of Consciousness, and Communication, Media and Publishing. Stephanie Austin, MA
Adjunct faculty member. BA, Bradley University, 1972; MA, JFKU, 1985. Austin teaches Archetypal Astrology, Seminar and Practicum in Teaching, and Ecopsychology. She also works with astrology and nature in private practice, specializing in life purpose, career, relationship and life transitions. She writes for several periodicals, is an avid backpacker and has been involved in the healing arts for since 1975. Fariba Bogzaran, PhD
Assistant professor; Adjunct faculty member, Arts and Consciousness. BS, University of Wisconsin, 1983; MA, California Institute of Integral Studies, 1989; PhD, California Institute of Integral Studies, 1994. Bogzaran is an internationally known and widely published authority on dreams, art, shamanism and a variety of Asian health practices. She developed the Dream Studies Certificate for the JFKU Department of Consciousness Studies. She teaches Psychology of Sleep and Dreams, Lucid Dreaming: Consciousness in Sleep, and Research Philosophy and Methodology. Her research interest is focused on the exploration of the spiritual dimensions in lucid dreaming, art and parapsychological phenomena in dreaming. Bogzaran has co-authored the forthcoming book, Exotic Dreams, with Stanley Krippner. Craig Chalquist, MS PhD
Depth psychologist Craig Chalquist is a core faculty member of the School of Holistic Studies at John F. KennedyUniversity. He is the author of Terrapsychology: Re-engaging the Soul of Place (Spring Journal Books, 2007) and co-editor of the forthcoming Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind (Sierra Club Books, 2009). Professor Chalquist has trained psychotherapists, oversees thesis and integrative project work, and teaches classes in ecopsychology, Jungian psychology, mythology, and qualitative research. He is also a member of the Foundation for Mythological Studies and on the editorial board for the new journal Ecopsychology. Christian de Quincey, PhD
Adjunct faculty member. BA, JFKU, 1994; MA, JFKU, 1995; PhD, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2000. De Quincey teaches Philosophy of Consciousness and Nature of Consciousness. His main interest is philosophy of mind, and the relation between matter and consciousness. He is the managing editor of Noetic Sciences Review. In addition to co-authoring with Willis Harmon, The Scientific Exploration of Consciousness: Toward an Adequate Epistemology, de Quincey has published Consciousness for Zombies. Many of his articles and papers have been published in professional and general publications, including Journal of Consciousness Studies, Network, Somatics, Nature, Sunday Times and the Irish Times. Marilyn Fowler, MA
Adjunct faculty member. BA, San Diego State University, 1972; MA, JFKU, 1999. Since 1975, Fowler has been a business consultant in organizational and management development. She started as the Corporate Director of Management and Organizational Development for a Fortune 500 company, and since 1985, she has served as an external consultant to large and small businesses. Her current work focuses on conscious business practices. Bahman A.K. Shirazi, PhD
Lecturer. BS, Iowa State University, 1980; MS, California State University, Hayward, 1983; PhD, California Institute of Integral Studies, 1994. Shirazi is a student of a number of world spiritual traditions, most notably Integral Vedanta, Sufism and Buddhism. His main interests are in the process of human psychospiritual development, transformation of consciousness, and theory and practice of meditation. He is currently a faculty member at the California Institute of Integral Studies and Dominican College, teaching courses in cross-cultural psychology, research methodology and epistemology, integral psychology and Sufism. Vernice Solimar, PhD
Chair and Professor. BA, Hunter College, 1970; MA, Long Island University, 1973; PhD, California Institute of Integral Studies, 1986. Solimar's major interests include the application of psychology and spirituality to personal growth and social/global issues. She teaches Paradigms of Consciousness, Consciousness and Social Issues, Transpersonal Theories and Women's Reality. Jeremy Taylor, MA
Visiting professor. BA, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1968; MA, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1972. Taylor is a Unitarian Universalist minister who teaches at several Bay Area colleges, universities and seminaries. He is the past president of the Association for the Study of Dreams and the author of three books: Dream Work; Where People Fly and Water Runs Uphill; and The Living Labyrinth: Exploring Archetypal Images in Myths, Dreams and the Symbolism of Waking Life. Mary Webster, MA
Adjunct faculty member; Associate Professor, Arts and Consciousness. Premier Degree, La Sorbonne, Paris, 1967; AB, Hollins College, 1969; MA, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1972; BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, 1981. Webster is an artist and art writer working towards the transformation of culture. She teaches Metaphors and Symbols of Transformation: An Introduction to Alchemy, and Consciousness and Creativity. Tibetan Buddhism and Jungian psychology have deeply impacted her studies in art and theater. Dream Studies Fariba Bogzaran, PhD
Adjunct professor. Scholar, artist, visionary and founder of the Dream Studies Program at JFK University. A pioneer in the field of dream studies, she has trained students and professionals internationally since 1984. She is currently the President of the Lucid Art Foundation. Her research publications include Experiencing the Divine in Lucid Dream State and Images of the Lucid Mind. She is co-author of the book Extraordinary Dreams. Kelly Bulkeley, PhD
Adjunct professor. A leading writer, researcher and teacher in dream studies. Past president of the Association for the Study of Dreams (now known as the IASD) and author of several books, including Dreaming Beyond Death, Visions of the Night, An Introduction to the Psychology of Dreaming and The Wilderness of Dreams. Daniel Deslauriers, PhD
Director of the East-West Psychology Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Among his publications are Dreams: Spiritual Intelligence, Dimensions of Meaning in Dreams and Dreams and Current Concerns.
Lynne Ehlers, PhD
A Jungian-oriented clinical psychologist and sand play therapist in private practice in Berkeley and San Francisco. She has worked extensively with dreams since 1975. Using the template of alchemy, her research examined color in the 2500 dreams of one woman’s as stages in the process of individuation. Mehrdad Fakour, PhD
An archeologist, scholar, artist and lecturer at JFK University in Dream Studies and Philosophy and Religion. His area of research is the study of symbols in dreams and religious iconography. Marilyn Fowler, MA
Director of the Dream Studies Program and the MA in Consciousness and Transformative Studies at JFK University. As a former business consultant and a graduate of the first Dream Studies program she has applied her work in dream studies and consciousness transformation to areas of professional development, such as teaching, coaching and organizational change. Karen Jaenke, PhD
Core faculty member and Dissertation Director at the Institute of Imaginal Studies in Petaluma, California and private dream consultant. Her somatically-based approach to dreams focuses on their role in recovering deep personal and collective memory, unfolding personal destiny and soul potential, and healing the personal and collective imbalances of our time. Kimmy Johnson, PhD
Adjunct professor. A recognized lecturer at several universities and colleges in the Bay Area of ancestral and indigenous area practices. She works both locally and internationally to promote awareness, accountability, and healing, focused particularly on issues related to colonization and racism. Peter M. Rojcewicz, PhD
Dean of the JFK University School of Holistic Studies. He has lectured and taught courses at the C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, New York. His scholarship focuses on myth and fairy tales, folk and popular belief systems, the ontological status of anomalous beliefs and experiences, the psychoid unconscious, and learning theory. Jeremy Taylor, DMin
Adjunct professor. Internationally known lecturer and pioneer in the field of dream studies. He is a Unitarian Universalist Minister who teaches at many Bay Area colleges, as well as in South Korea and China. He is a founding member and past president of the Association for the Study of Dreams (now known as the IASD). Author of Dream Work, Where People Fly and Water Runs Uphill, and The Living Labyrinth: Exploring Archetypal Images in Myths, Dreams and the Symbolism of Waking Life. Holistic Health Education
Linda Bark, PhD
Adjunct faculty member. She teaches practica in Whole Health Coaching, Program Development and Administration, and Health Education for the Twenty-First Century. She is a health coach, teacher, healing center consultant and author with two nursing degrees, a masters in life transition counseling and a PhD in Integral Health Studies, Philosophy and Religion. Ed Bauman, PhD
Adjunct faculty member. He teaches Nutrition and Dietary Approaches and nutrition practica. He has been a leader in holistic health and nutrition since 1976 when he cofounded the Berkeley Holistic Health Center and edited the best-selling book Holistic Health Handbook. Bauman is currently the executive director of the Bauman College, which offers Nutrition Consultant and Natural Chef Training Programs. Beverly Burns, MS, LAc
Adjunct faculty member. She teaches a practicum called Cancer, Politics and Healthcare as well as Healthcare Economics and Politics. She studied Chinese medicine at Quan Yin Healing Arts Center and at the San Francisco College of Acupuncture. Since being licensed in 1991, Burns has maintained a private practice in San Francisco. She is clinical director of the Charlotte Maxwell Complementary Clinic (CMCC), a clinic for low-income women with cancer, and works with Osher Center for Integrative Medicine. Michele Chase, PhD
Associate professor, director, Holistic Health Education program. She teaches Principles of Holistic Health, Concepts of the Body, Energy Models of Healing, and other courses. She has made a career of teaching (at the university level), doing research, publishing, editing, conducting teacher training, and administration. She also practices and teaches Qigong and a Chinese energy healing modality called Chi Nei Tsang. Vicki Dello Joio
Adjunct faculty member. She teaches Embodying Spirit and Chi Kung practica. For the last 12 years she has been teaching her own integrative approach to Qigong that she calls The Way of Joy. This system draws upon several different disciplines: martial arts, theater and other expressive arts (writing, painting, and communication skills). The system helps students to developing understanding of Qi (life force) and how to use it in their every day lives. In 1993 she founded the Way of Joy School in Oakland, where she teaches workshops, leads classes, and works one-on-one with individuals. Mike Denney, MD, PhD
Adjunct faculty member. He teaches Spirituality, Science and Health, and Ethics, Integrity and the Healing Relationship. He has practiced medicine and surgery for more than 35 years, and also holds a PhD in depth psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. He is author of Second Opinion, and numerous articles in scientific journals and popular magazines. Currently, he practices psychosomatic counseling in Sausalito, and writes and teaches from his passion for a union of science and spirituality in the medical healing arts. Kathy James
Adjunct faculty member. She teaches Body, Language and Emotions and Feldenkrais Practica. She is a certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and Assistant Trainer, trained by Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais from 1980 - 1983. She holds a second degree black belt in Aikido, trained as a Professional dancer and has worked in the industrial health and safety field for 10 years. She has a private Feldenkrais practice in Petaluma, and teaches classes through Kaiser Permanente. Joel Kreisberg, DC, MA.
Adjunct faculty member. He teaches Mind-Body Medicine in Self-care, Integral Research in Health Education, Health, Environment, and Sustainability, as well as Ecological Medicine, a class in the Integral Theory Program. Joel is the founder and executive director of the Teleosis Institute, a non-profit institution devoted to Green Health Care. Author of several books on Homeopathy, he publishes in leading medical journals as well as serving as executive editor of Symbiosis: The Journal of Ecologically Sustainable Medicine. Joel maintains a private practice in Berkeley California. Jamie McHugh, RMT
Adjunct faculty member. He teaches movement classes and is a registered somatic movement educator, writer and performance artist. He has been teaching at John F Kennedy University since 1991. McHugh is the director of Somatic Expressive Movement Arts trainings in Europe and the US. He is also an on-going consultant for the Swiss AIDS Federation and the author of the forthcoming book Movement as Medicine: Restoring Our Original Grace. Wendy Palmer
Adjunct faculty member. She is a fifth degree black belt in Aikido. She is cofounder and chief instructor with George Leonard at Tamalpais Aikido in Mill Valley. She developed Conscious Embodiment training that uses Aikido principles as a way of studying intuition, boundaries, relationships and the process of leadership. She directed the Prison Integrated Health Program, a program committed to demonstrating the efficacy of a humanitarian approach to prison work, at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin for 7 years. She is the author of two books, The Practice of Freedom and The Intuitive Body (with a video of the same name). Michelle Peticolas, PhD
Adjunct faculty member. She is a sociologist, a documentarian and a long-time student of personal and spiritual transformation. For five years, she produced and hosted the local access TV series, On the Edge, a talk show exploring the interconnection of mind, body, and spirit (aired in New York City, San Francisco, Berkeley, Concord and Marin). Since the deaths of her parents, she has been working on the documentary, Secrets of Life and Death, focusing on death as an impetus for personal and spiritual awakening. She is a hospice volunteer at Sutter VNA and Hospice. She also teaches Sufi-style classes in moving and dance meditation. Theresa Silow PhD
Core faculty, Counseling Psychology program. She teaches Moving and Sensing in the Holistic Health Education program. She also provides somatic education in academic, wellness and personal growth settings and is an instructor at the Sonoma State University. Silow has been exploring the integration of body, mind and spirit for over 20 years and studied extensively with Emilie Conrad (Continuum), Anna Halprin (the Halprin Life/Art Process), and Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen (Body-Mind Centering). She received her PhD in Somatic Studies from Ohio State University. Her dissertation was an inquiry into function and meaning of the kinesthetic sense - our ability for sensation. Her own spiritual path is guided by her awareness of her body and its on-going movement and unfolding. Vernice Solimar, PhD
Professor, chair of the Integral Studies Department. She teaches Paradigms of Consciousness and World Religions, as well as other courses. Her main interests include the evolution and psychology of consciousness, integral perspectives of personal and social transformation, women's spirituality, indigenous studies and psychospiritual human development. Vijaya (John) Stallings, MA
Adjunct faculty member. He team-teaches Asian Modalities of Healing and Ayurveda Practica. From 1993-1998 he maintained a full-time private practice as an Ayurvedic practitioner and was program advisor for Holistic Health Education. He has been practicing Ayurveda since 1992 and was cofounder of Dhanvantari Ayurvedic Center in Berkeley. He attended the Rishikesh Ayurvedic College of Rishikesh, India. Currently he maintains a practice in San Francisco, and Monterey as well as in Newport News, Virginia. He offers courses at a variety of colleges and schools locally and around the nation. He is writing a book entitled The Experience of Ayurveda: A Guide to Reawakening the Divine Healer Within All of Us. Integral Psychology
Sean Esbjorn-Hargens, PhD
Assistant Professor and Program Director of Integral Psychology. He is Co-Director of the Integral Ecology Center at Integral University, and the Executive Editor of AQAL: Journal of Integral Theory and Practice. Sean is a leading scholar-practitioner in Integral Studies. He has published integral explorations on the topics of sustainable development, ecology, intersubjectivity, science and religion, consciousness studies, and play. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Consciousness Studies, Journal of Bhutan Studies, World Futures, and AQAL. He co-edited Ken Wilber's recent book The Simple Feeling of Being and is currently writing a book with environmental philosopher Michael Zimmerman on Integral Ecology. Sean has appeared on Integral Naked. Gail Hochachka, MA
Co-Director of Integral International Development Centre (IIDC), exploring the theory and practice of an Integral Approach to international development through research, training, networking, and projects. Her research focuses on how practitioners are engaging interior human development as an interwoven and essential aspect of sustainable development, and how integral theory can complement and deepen this existing work. This includes both integrally-informed organizations and practitioners, as well as “folk integral” approaches which are not informed by Integral theory per se but include many of its elements in practice. Hochachka is also founder and director of the non-profit organization Drishti Centre for Integral Action based in BC, Canada. Drishti is a learning community for dialoguing and deepening understanding about integral praxis and also a platform for working with an Integral approach to global wellbeing. The team carries out research, writing, workshops, presentations, consulting, and capacity building on an Integral approach to community development, sustainability, international development, ecology, and leadership. Our recent project included working with organizations in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
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Margaret Blackwell
Adjunct Professor. BA, Open University, England, 1975; MPhil, Exeter University, Dartington College of Arts, England, 1989. Blackwell has worked extensively with diverse populations in hospitals, prisons and schools to promote personal growth through creative process. She is currently working with a wide range of people that includes CEOs, artists of all kinds, investment bankers, computer technicians, inventors, musicians,youth leaders, art directors and many others. She also does corporate consulting on creativity in the workplace. She has a special interest in the relationship between the evolution of consciousness and creativity. Fariba Bogzaran, PhD.
Assistant professor, Consciousness Studies; Adjunct faculty member, Arts and Consciousness. BS, University of Wisconsin, 1983; MA, California Institute of Integral Studies, 1989; PhD, California Institute of Integral Studies, 1994. Bogzaran is an internationally known and widely published authority on dreams, art, shamanism and a variety of Asian health practices. She is also an artist and curator, with extensive exhibitions of her own artwork. As a curator, Bogzaran is well-known for her work with the surrealist artist Gordon Onslow Ford, with whom she has collaborated on numerous books and exhibitions. Bogzaran lectures internationally on a wide variety of topics. She has been a member of the Arts and Consciousness faculty since 1989. Calvin Y. Kaleonahe Ching, MA
Adjunct faculty member. BFA, University of Hawaii, 1977; MA, University of New Mexico, 1981. Ching works with art in inner-city Oakland schools as a grant recipient of the California Arts Council. In addition to an active record of exhibitions and performances, he has created and implemented special art programs for the homeless and art programs in jails. He is a master of Tai Chi and qi gung. In 1991, Ching was awarded the Bay Guardian "Goldie" Award as the Outstanding New Performance Artist in Oakland. Susanne Cockrell, MFA
Core faculty member. BA, Vermont College, 1985; MFA, California College of Arts and Crafts, 1993. Cockrell is a performance and installation artist. She also has a background in transpersonal psychology, authentic movement, theater design and modern dance. Her work has been exhibited throughout the US and has involved collaboration with many distinguished artists. She received a Djerassi Foundation Fellowship in 1996, and won the Director's Choice award at the Black Maria Film Festival, New Jersey in 1994. Cockrell is currently working with film and video. Michael Grady, MFA
Chair and assistant professor. BFA, Tufts University, 1974; Diploma, Boston Museum School, 1974; Fifth Year Honors Diploma, Boston Museum School, 1975; MFA, Pratt Institute, 1990. Grady is an exhibiting artist and former Dean of Students at the San Francisco Art Institute. He has an extensive background in mental health and has worked as an art therapist. Recently, he has led several art travel/study programs in China, and has special interest and expertise in Asian art and philosophy. Lisa Kokin
Adjunct professor of arts and consciousness. BFA, California College of the Arts (formerly California College of Arts and Crafts), 1989, MFA, California College of the Arts, 1991. Kokin's work in mixed media installation, artist;s books, assemblage and sculpture is about memory and history, both personal and collective. Her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and groups exhibitions in the United States and abroad. A recipient of a California Arts Council Individual Artist's Fellowship and a Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation, Ms. Kokin's work is in numerous public and private collections. She is represented by the Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco and affiliated with the Nathan Larramendy Gallery in Ojai, California. Debra Koppman, MFA
Lecturer. BA, University of California Berkeley, 1980; MFA, University of California Berkeley, 1982; Doctor of Arts, New York University, 1993. Koppman is an exhibiting painter, sculptor and printmaker. Fluent in Spanish, she received a Fulbright fellowship in Peru. She is a specialist in the field of multicultural and women's studies. Mark Levy, PhD
Visiting Professor. AB, Clark University, 1968; MA, Indiana University, 1970; PhD, Indiana University, 1977. Levy is a lecturer and widely-published writer on spirituality and art. He is the author of Technicians of Ecstasy: Shamanism and the Modern Artist. He has lectured at University of Nevada, San Francisco Art Institute and is currently full professor at California State University, Hayward. Margaret Lindsey
Adjunct professor of arts and consciousness. BA Studio Art, Chico State University, 1973; MFA Studio Art, JFKU, 1999. Lindsey is a Bay Area painter and teacher, who utilizes the practices of acrylic painting, individual creative mentoring, transformative art, and meditation to study and assist human consciousness. She paints as a way to experience the cosmos, and the human interrelationship with it. Lindsey teaches classes and guides workshops in consciousness studies, transformative and expressive arts, shows her work locally and nationally, and collaborates with other artists and healers. Her work can be seen at http://www.artransforms.com/. Fred Martin, MA
Visiting Professor. BA, University of California Berkeley, 1949; MA, University of California Berkeley, 1954. Martin is among California's most renowned artists. His work in art and spirituality is world famous. In the past 40 years, he has exhibited in the Whitney Museum in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Zhejiang Academy of Art in China and many private galleries. His work is included in numerous private and museum collections. He is emeritus professor and former Vice President for Academic Affairs at the San Francisco Art Institute. Martin has written extensively for national art periodicals, published five books and has lectured throughout the world.
Jeremy Morgan, MFA
Core faculty member. Certificate, University of Oxford, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, 1977; Diploma, Royal Academy of Art, London England, 1981; MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, 1985. Morgan is a painter who has exhibited internationally. He has won numerous awards, including the prestigious Harkness Fellowship in 1985 and the Connoisseur Magazine Painting Prize in 1981. Morgan is a former chair of the painting department at the San Francisco Art Institute, where he has taught since 1987. Sharon Siskin, MFA
Core faculty. BFA, Tyler School of Art, 1976; MA, University of New Mexico, 1979; MFA, University of California, Berkeley, 1981. Siskin, a recognized leader in the field of community art, has taught and lectured extensively throughout the US. She is the founder of Positive Art, a community arts program for artists living with AIDS, which has provided a model for many communities across the nation. She has received seven California Arts Council Artist-in-Residence Grants and is featured in Connecting Conversations: Interviews with 25 Bay Area Women Artists. Susan St. Thomas, MA
Lecturer. BA, California State University, Long Beach, 1969; MA, JFKU, 1987. St. Thomas is an exhibiting artist, an illustrator, as well as a lecturer on sacred and ritual art. She has had her artwork published nationally. She is a former Gallery Director for Artisans Gallery in Mill Valley. Judith Selby Adjunct professor of arts and consciousness. BA, Pitzer College, 1972; MA, interdisciplinary arts, San Francisco State University, 1994. Selby's work combines traditional techniques with experiments in new genre and image/ text installations. She is committed to the creation of new symbols and life-affirming images to help shape the dialogue about personal and social issues. Her work, featured at www.artheals.org, provides insight into the healing power of art. In 2002, she was awarded a Marin Arts Council Individual Artist Grant for her innovative use of materials in her large scale environmental paintings. Karen Sjoholm, MA
Program advisor and lecturer. BFA, California College of Arts and Crafts, 1991; MA, JFKU, 1996. Sjoholm has an extensive exhibitions record in the Bay Area and has had her artwork published nationally. She has taught throughout the Bay Area, specializing in papermaking, artists' books and mixed media. Mary Webster, MA
Core faculty. Premier Degree, La Sorbonne, Paris, 1967; AB, Hollins College, 1969; MA, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1972; BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, 1981. Webster is an exhibiting mixed-media artist, a published poet, an art critic with numerous publications and a contributing editor to Artweek. She has taught at San Francisco State University, San Francisco Art Institute and lectured at California College of Arts and Crafts, the Oakland Museum and San Jose Museum of Art. She is a specialist in alchemy and contemporary art. Counseling Psychology - Holistic Studies(Campbell)
Liz Anderson, MA, MFT
Adjunct faculty member. MA, Counseling Psychology, John F. Kennedy Graduate School for Holistic Studies; MLS, SUNY Albany. Liz teaches Marriage and Family Counseling at the Campbell campus. Liz is the co-founder of Anderson and Kinoy MFT Oral Exam Seminars. She has worked for many years as a clinical case manager for a foster family agency and maintains a private practice. Amy Barton-Cayton, PhD MS
Core Faculty. PhD in Sociology, MS in Counseling Psychology, BA in English Literature. Dr. Cayton teaches Basic Addiction Studies. She is a speaker, trainer, and adult educator, and has been a part of the former UCSC Extension Drug and Alcohol Studies program for 10 years. Dr. Cayton has a fulltime private practice. She specializes in transformation and development for individuals and systems, Buddhist Psychology, and consults with all types of organizations around issues of behavioral change and organizational development. Sharon Berbower, MS, MFT
Adjunct faculty member. MS, Educational Psychology, California State University. Berbower teaches Seminar in Holistic Studies: The Enneagram. She maintains a private practice and works at Alta Bates Hospital in the areas of assertive communication, grief and bereavement, addiction and co-dependency. Clover Catskill, MA, MFT, CMT
Adjunct faculty member. MA Clinical Psychology, John F. Kennedy University. Catskill teaches Body Oriented Psychotherapies and Seminar in Holistic Studies: Come to Your Senses. She has a private practice and teaches movement classes and workshops. Catskill has an extensive background in movement and other expressive arts, performance art, and body work. She is a certified in Body-Mind Centering. Ivan Diamond, Ph.D
Adjunct Professor. BA, University of New Mexico, 1970. MA, Azusa Pacific College, 1980. Ph.D, William Lyon University, 1988. Diamond teaches Child Therapy. He currently manages progressive clinical services for severely mentally ill adults on behalf of the Santa Cruz Community Counseling Center, Santa Cruz. He also manages a new clinical care model for foster care youth. His specialization in Child and Adolescent Therapy includes co-founding a school for emotionally disturbed and learning disabled youth; co-direction of the Center for Child and Adolescent Therapy, Redondo Beach and over 25 years of clinical work with children and adolescents. Diamond has contributed original research in Sandtray Therapy. Some of his interests in the field of psychology are in Expressive Therapies, Developmental Analysis of the Sandtray and in adapting a holistic approach to the clinical needs of severely mentally ill adults. Christine Fahrenbach, MFT
Adjunct faculty member and a graduate of the California School of Professional Psychology. She has been in private practice for 12 years and has taught and supervised at Dominican University in San Rafael. Chris enjoys a general practice in psychotherapy with a focus on the use of EMDR in treating trauma, and removing blocks to healthy and fulfilling interpersonal relationships and other life choice issues. She is an active member of the Monterey Bay Psychological Association and volunteers on the group's crisis intervention team. Chris also has a Master of Divinity from the Jesuit School of Psychology in Berkeley and pursues an interest in Christian mysticism and psychology, and social justice activism. Off the clock, Chris sings in a women's a capella ensemble, boogie boards and rolls in the dirt with her dog. Cliff Goldenberg, MS, MFT
Adjunct faculty member. Goldenberg teaches Seminars in Holistic Studies: Formative Psychology and Introduction to Stanley Keleman's Formative Approach. Goldenberg works at the Center for Energetic Studies directed by Stanley Keleman and has a private practice. Richard Heckler, PhD
Adjunct faculty member. Heckler teaches Seminars in Holistic Studies: Hakomi A & B and Archetypes of the Psychotherapist. He is the director of the Hakomi Institute in San Francisco, specializing in Hakomi, body-oriented psychotherapy and systemically-oriented family therapy. Bret Johnson, Ph.D.
A licensed psychologist who received his Bachelors degree in Psychology from the University of Colorado, Boulder and his Ph.D. from the California School of Professional Psychology in 1987, with a specialty in Child and Family Clinical Psychology. Dr. Johnson has a private practice in both Santa Cruz and Santa Clara, California. He has been performing Child Custody Evaluations since 1988 and is contracted with Santa Cruz County Superior Court as a Family Mediator and Child Custody Evaluator. His practice focuses on a wide range of clients and issues including depression, anxiety, stress management working with adults, children, adolescents, and families. He also specializes in custody/divorce, and gay and lesbian issues. Dr. Johnson has been teaching at JFKU since 1991 which includes courses in: Psychopathology, Couples Treatment, Testing/Assessment, Special Family Issues, Child and Adolescent Psychology, Advanced Child/Adolescent Diagnosis, and Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Issues and Treatment, Supervision courses and has also worked as a supervisor at the JFKU Counseling Center. Dr. Johnson has teaches Continuing Education courses at JFKU in HIV/AIDS and Domestic Violence. Alexandra Kennedy, MA, MFT
Adjunct faculty member. BA UCSC 1971, MA Counseling Psychology, University of Santa Clara 1975. Kennedy teaches Strategies for Grieving. She is author of Losing a Parent (HarperCollins 1991) and The Infinite Thread (Beyond Words 2001), as well as numerous articles (Yoga Journal, Mothering Magazine, Magical Blend, California Therapist). She lectures at universities, professional organizations and major conferences, offering a unique perspective to grieving through her work with the imagination. Since 1976 she has had a private practice in Santa Cruz. Her website (www.alexandrakennedy.com) offers resources for grieving. Frederic Luskin, Ph.D.
Lecturer. State University of New York at Binghamton, BS; San Jose State University, MS; Stanford University, PhD. Luskin is a senior fellow at the Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation and an Associate Professor at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. He is completing the last of eight successful research projects as the Director of the Stanford Forgiveness Projects. Dr. Luskin’s research demonstrates that learning forgiveness leads to increased physical vitality, hope, greater self–efficacy, enhanced optimism and conflict resolution skills. Dr. Luskin is the author of the San Francisco Bay Area best seller Forgive for Good: A Proven Prescription for Health and Happiness and Stress Free for Good. Dr. Luskin’s work has been featured in Time, O, Ladies Home Journal, U.S. News and World Reports, Prevention as well as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, U.S.A. Today and the Wall Street Journal. In addition, The Public Broadcasting System has made a pledge drive video of his work. Louise Monsour, MA, LMFT
Core Faculty, Monsour teaches Diagnosis, Assessment & Therapeutic Strategy, and a Workshop called Conscious Creation and the Practice of Psychotherapy. She also maintains a private practice where she works with people in transition and those recovering from trauma. Mirabruna Sirabella "Varuna", MFT
Adjunct faculty member. MS, California State University Sacramento. Sirabella teaches Cross-Cultural Issues in Counseling. She also has an academic background in Theater Anthropology, and years of teaching Yoga and other classes addressing personal transformation through movement, art and visualization. She has a private practice focused on Trauma/PTSD, Chronic Pain, personal growth and spiritual issues, serving culturally diverse clients of all ages in three languages. She is currently President of the Santa Cruz Chapter of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. Ron Steck, LMFT
M.A. Clinical Psychology, Certified Process Therapist, Adjunct Faculty for JFK Holistic Studies Program, and Licensed Marriage, Family Therapist, with over 14 years of experience, specializing in long-term growth work, couples therapy, personality disorders, and designing engaging workshops for clinicians and clients. Ron is also the Executive Vice President of the Growth and Leadership Center in Mountain View, providing executive coaching, team development, OD, and training services. My style is direct, rigorous, compassionate, and playful. Maggie Toews, MFT
A Certified Process Therapist and a Certified Process Therapy Instructor. Toews also supervises interns at Process Therapy Institute in Los Gatos, where she conducts a private practice, as well as in Palo Alto. Toews graduated from University of San Francisco and hold a license in Marriage and Family Counseling. Teaching group process at JFK University is a wonderful venue for what Toews has to offer in terms of helping students learn how to hold a stance of non-agendized presence while inviting deeper connection to self via a variety of modes which utilize the cognitive, somatic, e-motional and energetic realms as they show up in therapy. Toews employs the Process Therapy model when working with clients, along with a variety of structures which invite resolution, including EMDR. Birgit Wolz, Ph.D., MFT
Received her MA in Counseling Psychology (Transpersonal) from John F. Kennedy University. At the School of Holistic Studies of JFKU she teaches Cinema Alchemy: Using the Power of Movies for the Therapeutic Process. She has been a long-term student of the Diamond Approach in the Ridhwan School. In her private practice in Oakland she worked with a variety of therapeutic modalities for many years before she developed an innovative systematic methodology of using movies as an adjunct to traditional therapeutic methods. Wolz teaches the therapeutic use of movies to mental health practitioners and facilitates Cinema Alchemy groups as well as workshops in the US and Canada. She has published numerous articles on this subject. Wolz also writes a column featuring therapeutically oriented movie reviews for The Therapist. Her book E-Motion Picture Magic: A Movie Lover’s Guide to Healing and Transformation as well as her CE on-line course guide the reader through the basic principles of Cinema Therapy. She co-authored the CE on-line course Boundaries and the Movies: Learning about Therapeutic Boundaries Through the Movies. Counseling Psychology - Somatic and Transpersonal Psychology (Pleasant Hill)
Liz Anderson, MA, MFT
Adjunct faculty member. MA, Counseling Psychology, John F. Kennedy Graduate School for Holistic Studies; MLS, SUNY Albany. Liz teaches Marriage and Family Counseling at the Campbell campus. Liz is the co-founder of Anderson and Kinoy MFT Oral Exam Seminars. She has worked for many years as a clinical case manager for a foster family agency and maintains a private practice. Duncan Bennett, MS, MFT
Adjunct faculty member. MS, California State University, Hayward. Bennett teaches Group Process A, B & C. He is a clinical supervisor at JFKU's Center for Transpersonal and Holistic Counseling. He has a private psychotherapy practice in Oakland. Sharon Berbower, MS, MFT
Adjunct faculty member. MS, Educational Psychology, California State University. Berbower teaches Diagnosis and Assessment B: The Enneagram. She works at Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley in the areas of assertive communication, grief and bereavement, addiction and co-dependency. Her private practice is in Albany. Aric Bodin, EdD
Adjunct faculty member. EdD, Counseling/Consulting Psychology, University of Massachusetts. Bodin teaches Nature Based Spirituality, and Vision Quest. He was the director of the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in New York State for three years, and he has been active as a consultant in organizational development for five years. Bodin studied visual arts, photography, filmmaking, theatre and landscaping, and worked professionally in these fields since 1980. Currently he is studying shamanism and holistic healing. Kenneth Bradford, PhD
Adjunct faculty member. MA, Sonoma State University; PhD, Clinical Psychology, Saybrook Institute. Bradford teaches Systems of Transpersonal Psychology: Existential Psychology, and Diagnosis B:A Phenomenological-Contemplative Approach. Currently, he is clinical director of Maitri Psychotherapy Institute and has a private practice in Lafayette. Bradford is also the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters on existential psychology. Mariana Caplan, MA, MFT
Adjunct faculty member. MA, Clinical Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies. Mariana attributes the majority of her education to years of research and practice in the world’s great mystical traditions, and to studying and living in villages in India, Central and South America, and Europe. She is the author of six books including, The Way of Failure: Winning Through Losing, Halfway Up the Mountain: the Error of Premature Claims to Enlightenment, Untouched:the Need for Genuine Affection in an Impersonal World; and the forthcoming Conscious Discipleship: Cultivating Authentic Relationship to Spiritual Authority. She has a private counseling practice and leads seminars internationally. Clover Catskill, MA, MFT, CMT
Adjunct faculty member. MA Clinical Psychology, John F. Kennedy University. Catskill teaches Body Oriented Psychotherapies and Seminar in Holistic Studies: Come to Your Senses. She has a private practice and teaches movement classes and workshops. Catskill has an extensive background in movement and other expressive arts, performance art, and body work. She is a certified in Body-Mind Centering. Christian de Quincey, PhD
Adjunct faculty member. BA, JFKU, 1994; MA, JFKU, 1995; PhD, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2000. De Quincey teaches Philosophy of Consciousness and Nature of Consciousness. His main interest is philosophy of mind, and the relation between matter and consciousness. He is the managing editor of Noetic Sciences Review. In addition to co-authoring with Willis Harmon, The Scientific Exploration of Consciousness: Toward an Adequate Epistemology, de Quincey has published Consciousness for Zombies. Many of his articles and papers have been published in professional and general publications, including Journal of Consciousness Studies, Network, Somatics, Nature, Sunday Times and the Irish Times. Don Elium, MA, MFT
Adjunct faculty member. BA Religion, Wake Forest University; MA Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, JFKU. He teaches Sexuality. Elium has a full-time private practice in Walnut Creek specializing in treatment of psychological trauma and difficult emotions, individual adult and couple psychotherapy, and teenager-family therapy. He and his wife Jeanne have written a series of parenting books: Raising a Son, Raising a Daughter, Raising a Teenager, and Raising a Family. Vipassana Esbjorn-Hargens, PhD
Adjunct faculty, BA University of CA at Berkeley; PhD, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. She teaches Professional Integrative Project at JFKU and courses on research and women’s ways of knowing at other Bay Area graduate schools. Esbjorn-Hargens is a psychological assistant in private practice in Marin and found of the therapeutic approach, Integral Human Being. She is co-editor for Ken Wilber's recent book The Simple Feeling of Being and is author of several journal articles and book chapters. Her current research and writing explores consciousnessness and flesh, and the integral body. Gisele Fernandes-Osterhold, MA, MFT, CMT
is a core faculty in the Somatic Psychology program at JFK University and Adjunct faculty at CIIS. She has extensive training and clinical experience in body-oriented approaches to psychotherapy, using an integrative approach that is rooted in Gestalt Therapy and Family Systems. After starting her professional career in a psycho-somatic hospital setting in Rio de Janeiro, Gisele spent two years at Esalen Institute, deepening her knowledge and skills. Since relocating to the Bay Area in 2001, she has been working with diverse clients in community mental health and private practice settings, being particularly involved in serving the Latino population. In her work with individuals and groups, Gisele draws from Yoga and dance as well as from her background in trauma treatment and EMDR. Her approach to healing is rooted in her commitment to spirituality and indigenous traditions of her native Brazil. Robert Fisher, MA, MFT
Adjunct faculty, BA, Knox College; MA, Norwich College. Rob teaches Marriage and Family Counseling and Case Seminar: Family. He has a private practice in Mill Valley specializing in somatic psychology and is a Hakomi practitioner. He is co-author of Love, Sex, and Dating in the 90’s and has been featured in Couples and Body Therapy. Ellen Friedman, MA, MFT
Adjunct faculty, MA in Clinical Psychology/Creative Arts Therapy, Antioch University. Ellen teaches Group Process A, B and C and is a supervisor at the Holistic counseling center. She has a private practice in Albany specializing in movement and expressive therapists. Ken Goodman, MA, MFT
Adjunct faculty, BA, University of Southern California; MA, California Institute of Integral Studies. Ken is a National Certified Bereavement Facilitator and has been working with adults and children on grief and loss for over 10 years. A previous school counselor, Ken has extensive experience working with children and their parents on a myriad of issues including bereavement, divorce and behavior problems. In addition to teach at JFKU, Ken divides his time between facilitating workshops for parents on separation and divorce for Kids’ Turn and working with children and adults in private practice in San Francisco and Marin. Robin Greenberg, MA, MFT
Adjunct faculty, BA, University of California, Santa Barbara; MA, Mills College; MA, California Institute of Integral Studies. Robin teaches a variety of courses including Psychology of Nutrition and Eating Disorders as well as Effective Communication. She has a Dance, Movement and Expressive Arts approach in her San Francisco private practice. Ray Greenleaf, MA, MFT
Chair and full-time faculty, Transpersonal Psychology Department. MA in Transpersonal Psychology and Clinical Psychology, JFKU. Greenleaf teaches Effective Communication A & B, Counseling Case Seminar: Individuals, Applied Clinical Philosophy, Systems of Transpersonal Counseling: Jungian-Archetypal Psychology, and Music and Spirituality. He currently is on the board of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology, and has a private practice in Lafayette. Richard Heckler, PhD
Adjunct faculty. Hobart and William Smith Colleges, BA; Antioch New England Graduate School, Med,; University of Pittsburgh, PhD. Richard teaches Supervised Practica in Somatic Psychology. He is the director o the Hakomi Institute in San Francisco, specializing in Hakomi, Body-Oriented Psychotherapy and systemically-oriented family therapy. Marsha Hiller, MA, MFT
Adjunct professor. State University of New York at Stony Brook, BA; Bank Street College of Education, Med; John F. Kennedy University, MA. Marsha teaches Movement Seminars A & B and Case Seminar Individuals and Practice of Group Psychotherapy. She has a private psychotherapy practice in Berkeley. Gary Hoeber, MFT
Associate Professor. State University of New York at Freedonia, BA; Sonoma State University, MA. Gary has been working as a psychotherapist since 1976 and has directed three different, highly-effective community mental health programs. He is a leading practitioner and teacher of group psychotherapy, using an interpersonal approach that assists in the development of effective communication skills and increases the capacity for intimacy, friendship and community. His work with individuals focuses on the unfolding of one’s life purpose, using a depth psychology informed by poetry, story and mythology. Lynn Ireland, PhD
Full-time faculty. PhD, Counseling Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies. She teaches Group Process A, B & C, Counseling Case Seminar: Individuals, and Professional Integrative Project A & B. She has a private practice in San Francisco and Marin County, and does bereavement support groups for VNA/Hospice in San Francisco. Cheryl Krauter, MA, MFT
Adjunct faculty. California State University, Fullerton, BA; Sonoma State University, MA. Cheryl teaches Group Process A, B and C and supervises at the Center for Holistic Counseling. She has a private practice in San Francisco and Berkeley, specializing in Existential Humanistic Psychotherapy. She also facilitates a Women’s Spirituality Group. Jane Lind, MA, MFT
Adjunct faculty. San Diego State University, BA; John F. Kennedy University, MA. Jane has been teaching PIP/FIP courses since 1998, drawing on her prior 25-year career in publishing and her JFKU education. She also teaches at Angela Center in Santa Rosa. Jane approaches psychotherapy from an intersubjective, existential perspective in her Santa Rosa practice. Manuela Mische-Reeds, MA, MFT
Adjunct professor. Naropa University, BA; California Institute for Integral Studies, MA. Manuela is a somatic psychotherapist and educator. She is a certified Hakomi Therapist and Trainer, teaching in the San Francisco and Sydney Hakomi Professional Trainings. Manuela specializes in integrating somatic psychotherapy, movement therapy and somatic trauma work. She is also an authorized Continuum Movement Teacher and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, has counseled survivors of political oppression and torture and victims of trauma, and has extensive experience in the field of dance/movement therapy and meditation practice. She is a member of USABP and ISTSS. Mordecai Mitnick, MSW, LCSW
Adjunct professor. MA, University of California; MSW, Adelphi University. Mitnick teaches Effective Communication A & B and Vision Quest. He has a private practice in Oakland. Douglas Moorhead, MD
Adjunct professor. Furman University, BS; Emory University, MD. He teaches Body-Oriented Psychotherapies and Diagnosis, Assessment and Therapeutic Strategy. He has a private practice in Berkeley specializing in body-oriented psychotherapy and is the clinical and medical director at Berkeley Mental Health Services. Bert Parlee, PhD
Adjunct faculty member. PhD, California Institute of Integral Studies. He is clinical director of Therapy at Bridge Adolescent Treatment Facility in Oakland. Parlee teaches at ITP and CIIS as well as teaching Fundamentals of Transpersonal Psychology at JFKU. He is also chief facilitator at Ken Wilber's Integral Institute. Justine Polevoy, MA, MFT
Assistant Professor. California College of Arts and Crafts, BFA; California Institute of Integral Studies, MA. A licensed body-oriented psychotherapist with a private practice in Berkeley, Justine is a certified practitioner in Hakomi Therapy and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Trauma Recovery. She offers trainings and consultations for licensed therapists and students in Trauma Recovery, Somatic Resourcing, Embodiment Practices, and the integration of psychology and movement. In her private practice, Embodied Psychotherapy, Justine specializes in working with individuals and couples and assisting them in their recovery from trauma and development of a somatically resourced sense of self. She teaches Effective Communication A & B, Physiology and Psychology of Stress and the Supervised Practicum in Somatic Psychology Approaches to Trauma. Theresa Silow PhD
Core faculty, Counseling Psychology program. She teaches Moving and Sensing in the Holistic Health Education program. She also provides somatic education in academic, wellness and personal growth settings and is an instructor at the Sonoma State University. Silow has been exploring the integration of body, mind and spirit for over 20 years and studied extensively with Emilie Conrad (Continuum), Anna Halprin (the Halprin Life/Art Process), and Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen (Body-Mind Centering). She received her PhD in Somatic Studies from Ohio State University. Her dissertation was an inquiry into function and meaning of the kinesthetic sense - our ability for sensation. Her own spiritual path is guided by her awareness of her body and its on-going movement and unfolding. Vernice Solimar, PhD
Chair and Professor. BA, Hunter College, 1970; MA, Long Island University, 1973; PhD, California Institute of Integral Studies, 1986. Solimar's major interests include the application of psychology and spirituality to personal growth and social/global issues. She teaches Paradigms of Consciousness, Consciousness and Social Issues, Transpersonal Theories and Women's Reality. Luisah Teish, PhD
Adjunct faculty member. PhD, Therapeutic Counseling, Open International University. She studied theater arts at Pacific University in Oregon, Reed College in Oregon and the University of Illinois. She is an initiated Elder and Chief in the Ifa/Orisha tradition of West Africa and the author of articles, plays and books including, Carnival of the Spirit: Seasonal Celebrations and Rites of Passage, and Jambalaya: The Natural Woman's Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals. Teish teaches two Spiritual Systems classes: Elements of Ritual and Carnival of the Spirit. Peter H. VanOot
Adjunct faculty. Ph.D., Penn State University,1988. Dr. VanOot has taught at the graduate level for over 15 years and has been with John F. Kennedy University since 1995. He teaches Biological Basis of Behavior, Psychopharmacology, Neuropsychological Assessment, Health Psychology, and Cognitive-Behavioral Theory. His research background includes neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of epilepsy, sleep and anxiety disorders; and he continues to focus on the physiological or medical processes that underlie or contribute to psychological disturbances. Dr. VanOot maintains a private practice in Oakland, specializing in neuropsychological and general psychological assessment/evaluation and is a member of APA Division 38 and 40, as well as the National Academy of Neuropsychology (NAN). Integral Studies
Consciousness and Transformative Studies
Loyd Auerbach, MS
Adjunct faculty member. BA, Northwestern University, 1978; MS, JFKU, 1981. Auerbach is an acknowledged expert on psychic phenomena and lectures at colleges around the US. He is founder and director of the Office of Paranormal Investigations, and a consulting editor and columnist for FATE magazine. He is the author of ESP, Hauntings and Poltergeists; Psychic Dreaming; Reincarnation, Channeling and Possession; and Mind Over Matter. Auerbach has been on the JFKU faculty since 1983, and teaches Altered States of Consciousness, and Communication, Media and Publishing. Stephanie Austin, MA
Adjunct faculty member. BA, Bradley University, 1972; MA, JFKU, 1985. Austin teaches Archetypal Astrology, Seminar and Practicum in Teaching, and Ecopsychology. She also works with astrology and nature in private practice, specializing in life purpose, career, relationship and life transitions. She writes for several periodicals, is an avid backpacker and has been involved in the healing arts for since 1975. Fariba Bogzaran, PhD
Assistant professor; Adjunct faculty member, Arts and Consciousness. BS, University of Wisconsin, 1983; MA, California Institute of Integral Studies, 1989; PhD, California Institute of Integral Studies, 1994. Bogzaran is an internationally known and widely published authority on dreams, art, shamanism and a variety of Asian health practices. She developed the Dream Studies Certificate for the JFKU Department of Consciousness Studies. She teaches Psychology of Sleep and Dreams, Lucid Dreaming: Consciousness in Sleep, and Research Philosophy and Methodology. Her research interest is focused on the exploration of the spiritual dimensions in lucid dreaming, art and parapsychological phenomena in dreaming. Bogzaran has co-authored the forthcoming book, Exotic Dreams, with Stanley Krippner. Craig Chalquist, MS PhD
Depth psychologist Craig Chalquist is a core faculty member of the School of Holistic Studies at John F. KennedyUniversity. He is the author of Terrapsychology: Re-engaging the Soul of Place (Spring Journal Books, 2007) and co-editor of the forthcoming Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind (Sierra Club Books, 2009). Professor Chalquist has trained psychotherapists, oversees thesis and integrative project work, and teaches classes in ecopsychology, Jungian psychology, mythology, and qualitative research. He is also a member of the Foundation for Mythological Studies and on the editorial board for the new journal Ecopsychology. Christian de Quincey, PhD
Adjunct faculty member. BA, JFKU, 1994; MA, JFKU, 1995; PhD, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2000. De Quincey teaches Philosophy of Consciousness and Nature of Consciousness. His main interest is philosophy of mind, and the relation between matter and consciousness. He is the managing editor of Noetic Sciences Review. In addition to co-authoring with Willis Harmon, The Scientific Exploration of Consciousness: Toward an Adequate Epistemology, de Quincey has published Consciousness for Zombies. Many of his articles and papers have been published in professional and general publications, including Journal of Consciousness Studies, Network, Somatics, Nature, Sunday Times and the Irish Times. Marilyn Fowler, MA
Adjunct faculty member. BA, San Diego State University, 1972; MA, JFKU, 1999. Since 1975, Fowler has been a business consultant in organizational and management development. She started as the Corporate Director of Management and Organizational Development for a Fortune 500 company, and since 1985, she has served as an external consultant to large and small businesses. Her current work focuses on conscious business practices. Bahman A.K. Shirazi, PhD
Lecturer. BS, Iowa State University, 1980; MS, California State University, Hayward, 1983; PhD, California Institute of Integral Studies, 1994. Shirazi is a student of a number of world spiritual traditions, most notably Integral Vedanta, Sufism and Buddhism. His main interests are in the process of human psychospiritual development, transformation of consciousness, and theory and practice of meditation. He is currently a faculty member at the California Institute of Integral Studies and Dominican College, teaching courses in cross-cultural psychology, research methodology and epistemology, integral psychology and Sufism. Vernice Solimar, PhD
Chair and Professor. BA, Hunter College, 1970; MA, Long Island University, 1973; PhD, California Institute of Integral Studies, 1986. Solimar's major interests include the application of psychology and spirituality to personal growth and social/global issues. She teaches Paradigms of Consciousness, Consciousness and Social Issues, Transpersonal Theories and Women's Reality. Jeremy Taylor, MA
Visiting professor. BA, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1968; MA, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1972. Taylor is a Unitarian Universalist minister who teaches at several Bay Area colleges, universities and seminaries. He is the past president of the Association for the Study of Dreams and the author of three books: Dream Work; Where People Fly and Water Runs Uphill; and The Living Labyrinth: Exploring Archetypal Images in Myths, Dreams and the Symbolism of Waking Life. Mary Webster, MA
Adjunct faculty member; Associate Professor, Arts and Consciousness. Premier Degree, La Sorbonne, Paris, 1967; AB, Hollins College, 1969; MA, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1972; BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, 1981. Webster is an artist and art writer working towards the transformation of culture. She teaches Metaphors and Symbols of Transformation: An Introduction to Alchemy, and Consciousness and Creativity. Tibetan Buddhism and Jungian psychology have deeply impacted her studies in art and theater. Dream Studies Fariba Bogzaran, PhD
Adjunct professor. Scholar, artist, visionary and founder of the Dream Studies Program at JFK University. A pioneer in the field of dream studies, she has trained students and professionals internationally since 1984. She is currently the President of the Lucid Art Foundation. Her research publications include Experiencing the Divine in Lucid Dream State and Images of the Lucid Mind. She is co-author of the book Extraordinary Dreams. Kelly Bulkeley, PhD
Adjunct professor. A leading writer, researcher and teacher in dream studies. Past president of the Association for the Study of Dreams (now known as the IASD) and author of several books, including Dreaming Beyond Death, Visions of the Night, An Introduction to the Psychology of Dreaming and The Wilderness of Dreams. Daniel Deslauriers, PhD
Director of the East-West Psychology Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Among his publications are Dreams: Spiritual Intelligence, Dimensions of Meaning in Dreams and Dreams and Current Concerns.
Lynne Ehlers, PhD
A Jungian-oriented clinical psychologist and sand play therapist in private practice in Berkeley and San Francisco. She has worked extensively with dreams since 1975. Using the template of alchemy, her research examined color in the 2500 dreams of one woman’s as stages in the process of individuation. Mehrdad Fakour, PhD
An archeologist, scholar, artist and lecturer at JFK University in Dream Studies and Philosophy and Religion. His area of research is the study of symbols in dreams and religious iconography. Marilyn Fowler, MA
Director of the Dream Studies Program and the MA in Consciousness and Transformative Studies at JFK University. As a former business consultant and a graduate of the first Dream Studies program she has applied her work in dream studies and consciousness transformation to areas of professional development, such as teaching, coaching and organizational change. Karen Jaenke, PhD
Core faculty member and Dissertation Director at the Institute of Imaginal Studies in Petaluma, California and private dream consultant. Her somatically-based approach to dreams focuses on their role in recovering deep personal and collective memory, unfolding personal destiny and soul potential, and healing the personal and collective imbalances of our time. Kimmy Johnson, PhD
Adjunct professor. A recognized lecturer at several universities and colleges in the Bay Area of ancestral and indigenous area practices. She works both locally and internationally to promote awareness, accountability, and healing, focused particularly on issues related to colonization and racism. Peter M. Rojcewicz, PhD
Dean of the JFK University School of Holistic Studies. He has lectured and taught courses at the C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, New York. His scholarship focuses on myth and fairy tales, folk and popular belief systems, the ontological status of anomalous beliefs and experiences, the psychoid unconscious, and learning theory. Jeremy Taylor, DMin
Adjunct professor. Internationally known lecturer and pioneer in the field of dream studies. He is a Unitarian Universalist Minister who teaches at many Bay Area colleges, as well as in South Korea and China. He is a founding member and past president of the Association for the Study of Dreams (now known as the IASD). Author of Dream Work, Where People Fly and Water Runs Uphill, and The Living Labyrinth: Exploring Archetypal Images in Myths, Dreams and the Symbolism of Waking Life. Holistic Health Education
Linda Bark, PhD
Adjunct faculty member. She teaches practica in Whole Health Coaching, Program Development and Administration, and Health Education for the Twenty-First Century. She is a health coach, teacher, healing center consultant and author with two nursing degrees, a masters in life transition counseling and a PhD in Integral Health Studies, Philosophy and Religion. Ed Bauman, PhD
Adjunct faculty member. He teaches Nutrition and Dietary Approaches and nutrition practica. He has been a leader in holistic health and nutrition since 1976 when he cofounded the Berkeley Holistic Health Center and edited the best-selling book Holistic Health Handbook. Bauman is currently the executive director of the Bauman College, which offers Nutrition Consultant and Natural Chef Training Programs. Beverly Burns, MS, LAc
Adjunct faculty member. She teaches a practicum called Cancer, Politics and Healthcare as well as Healthcare Economics and Politics. She studied Chinese medicine at Quan Yin Healing Arts Center and at the San Francisco College of Acupuncture. Since being licensed in 1991, Burns has maintained a private practice in San Francisco. She is clinical director of the Charlotte Maxwell Complementary Clinic (CMCC), a clinic for low-income women with cancer, and works with Osher Center for Integrative Medicine. Michele Chase, PhD
Associate professor, director, Holistic Health Education program. She teaches Principles of Holistic Health, Concepts of the Body, Energy Models of Healing, and other courses. She has made a career of teaching (at the university level), doing research, publishing, editing, conducting teacher training, and administration. She also practices and teaches Qigong and a Chinese energy healing modality called Chi Nei Tsang. Vicki Dello Joio
Adjunct faculty member. She teaches Embodying Spirit and Chi Kung practica. For the last 12 years she has been teaching her own integrative approach to Qigong that she calls The Way of Joy. This system draws upon several different disciplines: martial arts, theater and other expressive arts (writing, painting, and communication skills). The system helps students to developing understanding of Qi (life force) and how to use it in their every day lives. In 1993 she founded the Way of Joy School in Oakland, where she teaches workshops, leads classes, and works one-on-one with individuals. Mike Denney, MD, PhD
Adjunct faculty member. He teaches Spirituality, Science and Health, and Ethics, Integrity and the Healing Relationship. He has practiced medicine and surgery for more than 35 years, and also holds a PhD in depth psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. He is author of Second Opinion, and numerous articles in scientific journals and popular magazines. Currently, he practices psychosomatic counseling in Sausalito, and writes and teaches from his passion for a union of science and spirituality in the medical healing arts. Kathy James
Adjunct faculty member. She teaches Body, Language and Emotions and Feldenkrais Practica. She is a certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and Assistant Trainer, trained by Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais from 1980 - 1983. She holds a second degree black belt in Aikido, trained as a Professional dancer and has worked in the industrial health and safety field for 10 years. She has a private Feldenkrais practice in Petaluma, and teaches classes through Kaiser Permanente. Joel Kreisberg, DC, MA.
Adjunct faculty member. He teaches Mind-Body Medicine in Self-care, Integral Research in Health Education, Health, Environment, and Sustainability, as well as Ecological Medicine, a class in the Integral Theory Program. Joel is the founder and executive director of the Teleosis Institute, a non-profit institution devoted to Green Health Care. Author of several books on Homeopathy, he publishes in leading medical journals as well as serving as executive editor of Symbiosis: The Journal of Ecologically Sustainable Medicine. Joel maintains a private practice in Berkeley California. Jamie McHugh, RMT
Adjunct faculty member. He teaches movement classes and is a registered somatic movement educator, writer and performance artist. He has been teaching at John F Kennedy University since 1991. McHugh is the director of Somatic Expressive Movement Arts trainings in Europe and the US. He is also an on-going consultant for the Swiss AIDS Federation and the author of the forthcoming book Movement as Medicine: Restoring Our Original Grace. Wendy Palmer
Adjunct faculty member. She is a fifth degree black belt in Aikido. She is cofounder and chief instructor with George Leonard at Tamalpais Aikido in Mill Valley. She developed Conscious Embodiment training that uses Aikido principles as a way of studying intuition, boundaries, relationships and the process of leadership. She directed the Prison Integrated Health Program, a program committed to demonstrating the efficacy of a humanitarian approach to prison work, at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin for 7 years. She is the author of two books, The Practice of Freedom and The Intuitive Body (with a video of the same name). Michelle Peticolas, PhD
Adjunct faculty member. She is a sociologist, a documentarian and a long-time student of personal and spiritual transformation. For five years, she produced and hosted the local access TV series, On the Edge, a talk show exploring the interconnection of mind, body, and spirit (aired in New York City, San Francisco, Berkeley, Concord and Marin). Since the deaths of her parents, she has been working on the documentary, Secrets of Life and Death, focusing on death as an impetus for personal and spiritual awakening. She is a hospice volunteer at Sutter VNA and Hospice. She also teaches Sufi-style classes in moving and dance meditation. Theresa Silow PhD
Core faculty, Counseling Psychology program. She teaches Moving and Sensing in the Holistic Health Education program. She also provides somatic education in academic, wellness and personal growth settings and is an instructor at the Sonoma State University. Silow has been exploring the integration of body, mind and spirit for over 20 years and studied extensively with Emilie Conrad (Continuum), Anna Halprin (the Halprin Life/Art Process), and Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen (Body-Mind Centering). She received her PhD in Somatic Studies from Ohio State University. Her dissertation was an inquiry into function and meaning of the kinesthetic sense - our ability for sensation. Her own spiritual path is guided by her awareness of her body and its on-going movement and unfolding. Vernice Solimar, PhD
Professor, chair of the Integral Studies Department. She teaches Paradigms of Consciousness and World Religions, as well as other courses. Her main interests include the evolution and psychology of consciousness, integral perspectives of personal and social transformation, women's spirituality, indigenous studies and psychospiritual human development. Vijaya (John) Stallings, MA
Adjunct faculty member. He team-teaches Asian Modalities of Healing and Ayurveda Practica. From 1993-1998 he maintained a full-time private practice as an Ayurvedic practitioner and was program advisor for Holistic Health Education. He has been practicing Ayurveda since 1992 and was cofounder of Dhanvantari Ayurvedic Center in Berkeley. He attended the Rishikesh Ayurvedic College of Rishikesh, India. Currently he maintains a practice in San Francisco, and Monterey as well as in Newport News, Virginia. He offers courses at a variety of colleges and schools locally and around the nation. He is writing a book entitled The Experience of Ayurveda: A Guide to Reawakening the Divine Healer Within All of Us. Integral Psychology
Sean Esbjorn-Hargens, PhD
Assistant Professor and Program Director of Integral Psychology. He is Co-Director of the Integral Ecology Center at Integral University, and the Executive Editor of AQAL: Journal of Integral Theory and Practice. Sean is a leading scholar-practitioner in Integral Studies. He has published integral explorations on the topics of sustainable development, ecology, intersubjectivity, science and religion, consciousness studies, and play. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Consciousness Studies, Journal of Bhutan Studies, World Futures, and AQAL. He co-edited Ken Wilber's recent book The Simple Feeling of Being and is currently writing a book with environmental philosopher Michael Zimmerman on Integral Ecology. Sean has appeared on Integral Naked. Gail Hochachka, MA
Co-Director of Integral International Development Centre (IIDC), exploring the theory and practice of an Integral Approach to international development through research, training, networking, and projects. Her research focuses on how practitioners are engaging interior human development as an interwoven and essential aspect of sustainable development, and how integral theory can complement and deepen this existing work. This includes both integrally-informed organizations and practitioners, as well as “folk integral” approaches which are not informed by Integral theory per se but include many of its elements in practice. Hochachka is also founder and director of the non-profit organization Drishti Centre for Integral Action based in BC, Canada. Drishti is a learning community for dialoguing and deepening understanding about integral praxis and also a platform for working with an Integral approach to global wellbeing. The team carries out research, writing, workshops, presentations, consulting, and capacity building on an Integral approach to community development, sustainability, international development, ecology, and leadership. Our recent project included working with organizations in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.