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Writer and producer Gina Black graduates from CIIS’ Psychedelics B.S. program 50 years to the day after starting her undergraduate degree.
A doctoral student in CIIS’ Ecology, Spirituality, and Religion program explores how phenomenology, empathy, and place-based practice reshape ecological understanding.
Professor Jun Wang shares how CIIS’ East-West Psychology Department teaches students to unite scholarly understanding with embodied practice through Eastern, Western, and indigenous wisdom traditions.
A medicine melody travels through consciousness and can transform everyday occurrences into a visionary dimension
Alum Karin von Daler co-developed the Dialectical Behavior Therapy oriented method for working with people struggling with intense emotional dysregulation
While the term “existential” conjures up questions like “why am I here?” and issues about meaninglessness, death, and our limited lifespan, existential therapy is about much more
Scholarship assisted workforce in San Francisco
Enriched perspectives on the transformative potential of theatre arts
Drama Therapy student, Angelica Medina appeared in and helped write the collaborative theater production