Class Notes
By Richard Buggs
Pat Lind-Kyle (EWP '80) has published a new book, Heal Your Mind, Rewire Your Brain, drawing on recent breakthroughs in the scientific understanding of how the brain works. His handbook applies this new science in practical ways, by providing a training program to re-pattern behavior and thereby change the ways the brain is wired.
Greg Bogart (ICP '88) is a faculty member in the Integral Counseling Psychology and East-West Psychology programs at CIIS and author of the recently published book Dreamwork and Self-Healing: Unfolding the Symbols of the Unconscious, published by Karnac Books (London), exploring therapeutic dreamwork, archetypal themes, complexes, and symbols.
Paul Fleischer (CLN '98) started a private practice, HealingWorks, in Asheville, North Carolina, specializing in integrative psychotherapy and behavioral medicine. He has also launched his own line of guided audio programs that include meditation, relaxation, and imagery.
Jane Brunette (ICP'99) has led and helped to develop "transformational learning journeys" to India for students between high school and college, with the journey itself used as a group process, including retreats in the U.S. and India for integration. The program features innovative opportunities for service work in various parts of India, and family home-stays for cultural immersion. She recently spent three months in Ecuador teaching meditation and working on several book projects.
Stephanie Elliott (ICP '99) has completed nine successful years working in agency and private practice settings. She recently founded Willow Family Therapy, Inc. in Pacifica.
Juris D. Ahn (BIS '08) has had his first book of poetry, The Heaping Up of Small Things, published by the Invisible College Publishing House. About half of the pieces were composed during his year in Cohort R, and the introduction is by CIIS Professor Fernando Castrillon (CLN '09).
Paula Noel Macfee (ISD '01) is applying her CIIS degree work in Recovery of Indigenous Mind by remembering ancestors, tracking genealogical name migrations, honoring sacred landscape, dreaming lucidly, and healing an incurable disease called multiple sclerosis. As a philosopher and educator, she consults with students of all levels on coursework, papers, theses, and dissertations. She also assists with "ancestral healing" for individuals, families, and communities through decolonization, dreaming, genealogy, and self-reflective narrative. Paula is a spokesperson for the Volunteers of America Family Relief Nursery in Portland, Oregon, and enjoys CrossFit Portland, curling, Irish dancing, and being a full-time mother raising her daughter. Her latest interest is gathering alumni of the Pacific Northwest to share local knowledge and bridge CIIS with the Portland community.
Michael R. Sheehy (ACS '01, PAR '07)
is director of Tibetan Literary Research at the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center at the
Rubin Museum in New York. He is also a faculty member in the Religious Studies Department of the Eugene Lang College at the New School. He serves as executive director of the Jonang Foundation.
Kenji Liu (CAS '03) has published a new book of poetry, You Left Without Your Shoes. The collection is part of Finishing Line's critically acclaimed chapbook series. As a 1.5 generation Japanese-born Taiwanese American expatriate from New Jersey suburbia, Kenji explores the politics of migration, memory, culture, history, mourning, and joy. He has studied with award-winning writers Suheir Hammad and Ana Castillo. His previous publications include poetry, interviews, and academic reviews. Kenji is currently working on a full-length collection experimenting with printed images, poetry, prose, memoir, and other textual fragments. He lives in Oakland.
Liza Behrendt (HOT, '04) is the founder of Beauty of Water, a multi-year project dedicated to expanding the human appreciation for water through artistic collaborations. The Arts and Healing Network presented her with an ANH 2009 award.
Judith Kinst (EWP '04) recently accepted a core faculty position at the Institute of Buddhist Studies (IBS), a school affiliated with the Graduate Theological Union. She will teach classes in Zen Buddhism and Zen Buddhist meditation, in Buddhist pastoral care and counseling, and in integrating traditional Buddhist psychology with contemporary Western psychology. She is also developing an MA/MDiv program for Buddhist chaplains and IBS's connections with Buddhist chaplaincy training programs in the Bay Area and New York, as well as a certificate program in Buddhism and Psychology.
Jane Leung (ICP '05) recently opened a private practice in Walnut Creek and provides culturally sensitive psychotherapy in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin.
Elizabeth Husserl (EWP '06) has been developing Inner Economics, a body of work that helps individuals and groups create healthier relationships to money. Her work was recently featured in the German magazine Wirtshaft Analyse in the English-language article, "Inner Economics: Inner Work, Outer Rewards."
Robert Mullen (BIS '07, ACS '08) has written an article, "Holy Stigmata, Anorexia, and Self-Mutilation: Parallels in Pain and Imaging," which was published in the European Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies.
Glenn Hartelius (EWP '10) is the main editor of the International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, the second-longest-running transpersonal journal, dedicated to the advancement of theory, research, practice, and discourse in the area of transpersonal studies. He has taught courses in transpersonal psychology at CIIS and at Naropa University. He currently holds a full-time teaching/administrative position as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Palo Alto, and is the secretary of the recently revived International Transpersonal Association.
At the National Association for Drama Therapy Annual Conference held in White Plains, New York, in November 2009, eight alums of the Drama Therapy program presented: Gideon Zehavi (PDT '00), Emily Burkes-Nossiter (PDT '05), Susana Pendzik (PDT '97) with CIIS core faculty member Antonio Ramírez (PDT '00, CLN '08), Laurel Carangelo (PDT '08) with Lance McGee (PDT '10), Evan Hastings (PDT '09), and Sheila Rubin (PDT '96).
