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Posted by Nikole Hollenitsch on Jan 19, 2016 1:57:49 PM
What are the Friday Evening Salon Series at Pacifica?
Throughout the year, Pacifica hosts prospective students on campus at The Pacifica Experience: A One-Day Introduction to Pacifica's Graduate Degree Programs. The Friday evening before each Pacifica Experience is reserved for public salons/lectures. These Salons are complimentary and open to the public.
We invite you to learn more about the meaning of the word salon and these wonderful lectures given by Pacifica Core Faculty members by listening to an interview with Dr. Jennifer Selig, who coincidentally will host the next upcoming salon this Friday, January 22nd from 7 - 8:30 p.m. titled The Right Address: How to Be Home When the Gods Come Calling.
Pacifica's Friday Evening Salon Series- An Interview with Dr. Jennifer Selig (mp3 ~ 4 minutes)
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Posted by Nikole Hollenitsch on Jan 14, 2016 2:17:29 PM
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Posted by Nikole Hollenitsch on Jan 12, 2016 1:36:59 PM
A guest post by Bonnie Bright, Ph.D.
What happens when the gods come calling, from a depth psychological perspective, and how can one be ready when it happens? These are questions that arose when I recently sat down with Dr. Jennifer Selig to discuss her upcoming Salon on January 22, 2016, at Pacifica’s Ladera Lane Campus: “The Right Address: How to Be Home When the Gods Come Calling.”
The title of Selig’s presentation is based on the double meaning of the word “address.” Not only can the word mean a physical “address” where you live or work— where you can typically be found—it’s verb form, while pronounced differently, signifies when someone calls you. “Calling” ties to the word “vocation,” which is based on the Latin vocatus, the past tense of vocare, “to call.” Vocation, from the early 15th century is defined as “spiritual calling.” Thus the word “vocation,” Selig notes, literally means to be called by the gods.
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Posted by Nikole Hollenitsch on Jan 6, 2016 2:53:03 PM
Every fall students in the the Community Psychology, Liberation Psychology, and Ecopsychology Specialization of the M.A./Ph.D. Depth Psychology Program gather together to present their Community and Ecological fieldwork research projects. The community and ecological fieldwork projects take place during the summer quarter of a student's first and second year in the program. Working with a faculty advisor, students choose an organization or group to work with, applying the insights and methodologies learned from this innovative course of study.
In mid-December of 2015 students, alumni, staff, faculty, and guests gathered together on the Ladera Lane Campus to view the poster and multi-media presentations created by the students of the Community Psychology, Liberation Psychology, and Ecopsychology Specialization.
To share this exquisite and powerful work of the students, and the communities they engage with, I have provided a list of each presentation. To learn more about the individual communities and fieldwork students work with download the list of presentations complete with full abstracts.
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Posted by Nikole Hollenitsch on Dec 23, 2015 2:48:56 PM
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a box office hit. The excitement over the film brings us back to the original 1977 Star Wars film and its popularity. Star Wars was iconic. Why was it so popular? Aside from changing the way films were made (see Time's latest article with director J.J. Abrams) the story of the orginial Star Wars film closely follows Joseph Campbell's formula of The Hero's Journey.
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Posted by Nikole Hollenitsch on Dec 21, 2015 3:47:42 PM
A guest post by Pacifica's Special Collections Librarian Richard Buchen.
"... the first axiom of all creative art -- whether it be in poetry, music, dance, architecture, painting, or sculpture -- which is namely, that art is ... a presentation of forms, images or ideas in such a way that they will communicate, not primarily a thought or even a feeling, but an impact.
"The axiom is worth recalling here, because mythology was historically the mother of arts and yet, like so many mythological mothers, the daughter, equally, of her own birth."
Joseph Campbell, The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology (New York: Penguin, 1976; first published 1959)
In April of 2002, the Joseph Campbell Library on the campus of Pacifica Graduate Institute was visited by a film crew directed by Tsukuru Matsuki from Kyodo Television of Tokyo. They were filming for an episode in a television documentary series called "Passion for Arts" which was aired nationally in Japan that year via TV Tokyo, and the broadcast included footage of the Joseph Campbell Library, as well as its Special Collections Librarian talking about The Hero with a Thousand Faces. The subject of this episode was not Campbell, but rather a man who had been deeply influenced by him, the filmmaker George Lucas.
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Posted by Nikole Hollenitsch on Dec 16, 2015 2:49:39 PM
On Monday, December 14, 2015 the The Narrative Project hosted a thoughtprovoking
and impromptu salon at the intersection of Storytelling, Myth, Dream Tending & Narrative. Ann Badillo of The Narrative Project hosted the evening with Ed Santana, Ph.D., Pacifica's Interim Director of Institutional Learning and Strategy and Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D., Chancellor and Founding President of Pacifica Graduate Institute.
Posted in: Current Affairs, Trauma, Pacifica News
A guest post by alumnae Stacey Shelby, Ph.D.
My first career was as a marketing and communications executive for 15 years prior to coming to Pacifica. When I enrolled, I was in the throes of a full-scale “midlife crisis,” which included being finished with my marketing career, but I was lost and bewildered about what I wanted next. I initially dipped my toe in at Pacifica by taking the Dream Tending intensive public course with Dr. Aizenstat, founder and then-president of Pacifica. During that time, I became enamored with Pacifica and was drawn to the MA/PhD Depth Psychology Program. I remained perplexed as to what might manifest after, but being at Pacifica felt like coming home – both to myself and to my tribe, that feeling was my compass.
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A guest post by Pacifica Alumnus Jacqueline Spoehel O’Connor
This Peace Pole called to me from across time and took me on a journey to explore its soul. What meaning does it carry for me? What brought me to it?
Sitting with a friend whose relative was a survivor of the Holocaust, I could only say weakly, “I’m sorry. There must be a lot of pain there.” My voice could not carry the depth of sorrow I felt for the loss of so many lives and the cloud that had been cast over this person’s family. It was beyond an individual to be able to bear that archetypal evil. Perhaps the presence of this Peace Pole archetype can somehow counter and help to heal that wounding. It is more than the words of my single voice alone could convey to my friend.
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