A new review of the Handbook for Creative Futures, edited by CIIS lecturer Dr. Gabrielle Donnelly and Professor Alfonso Montuori, celebrates its value as a guide to finding hope in hard times.
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After four decades leading CIIS' Drama Therapy Program, professor Renée Emunah reflects on a career spent fusing theatre and healing.
Don Hanlon Johnson, founder of the first graduate Somatics program in the U.S., retires after more than four decades at CIIS.
After 17 years leading CIIS' Integrative Health Studies program, professor Meg Jordan steps back from a career that helped create the profession of health and wellness coaching.
Community Mental Health alumna Nichole Pettway on using her experiences to help others navigate uncharted waters
CIIS was overjoyed to hold its 56th Commencement on Saturday, May 18, 2024. Festivities began at the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco with a commencement reception on Mission campus.
Our Graduating Student Reflection Speech at the 56th Convocation Ceremony of California Institute for Integral Studies
"Continuously weight your heart at every moment. Decide whether or not it is in alignment with other bodies, the planet, and your ancestors. Every moment. Because the world will tell you you’re going in the wrong way and you’re not."
Dr. Gerry Ebalaroza-Tunnell, a graduate of the Department of Transformative Inquiry, won an International Impact Book Award for her recent children’s book, Let’s Live A.L.O.H.A.
Celebrated author and somatic therapist Resmaa Menakem will receive an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters and deliver the commencement address.
Mike Jung, a Cataloging and Acquisitions Librarian at the Laurance S. Rockefeller Library at CIIS and noted author of children’s books, discusses his selection as a judge for the 2024 National Book Awards
When Florida laws threatened queer scholarship, CIIS provided a new home
A new essay, Heart-Knowing, Somatic Dreaming, and Trans-subjectivity: A Scholarly Personal Narrative, written by Daniel Deslauriers, Ph.D., explores the power of somatic dreams.