Dr. Leonie H. Mattison, Ed.D., the fourth president, and Chief Executive Officer of Pacifica Graduate Institute, ushers in a new chapter as the first black female to assume leadership of the 45-year-old institution. Formerly Chief Operating Officer of a community agency that provides education and support services for vulnerable Santa Barbara residents. She began her term on October 3, 2022. Other leadership positions include adjunct professor and lecturer at Antioch University and Santa Barbara City College School of Extended Learning and Chief of Organizational and Talent Development at the County of Santa Barbara, where she was instrumental in developing the Employees University, an open-source university created through a partnership between the county and Santa Barbara City College that has provided high-quality training and cutting-edge leadership development for over 4,700 county employees.

Sonu Shamdasani, Ph.D.,Sonu Shamdasani (MSc, PhD) is a London-based author, editor-in-chief, and professor at University College London. He is the 2024 recipient of the IAJS annual C. G. Jung Award. A significant portion of his research and writings focus on Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961) and cover the history of psychiatry and psychology from the mid-nineteenth century to current times.

Sonu Shamdasani edited the first publication of Jung’s major work: Liber Novus, The Red Book. Although its title had been well known for years, it was not until its publication in 2009 that its contents were revealed to the public and practicing psychotherapists and other scholars.

The Reverend Doctor Pamela D. Hancock is Core Faculty, Director of the Chaplaincy Program, and Co-Director of the Psychedelics Certificate at Starr King School for the Ministry.  She is ordained clergy through Sacred Well Congregation. She is the Priestess of the Sisters of Moon and Snow Coven, and holds an MDiv. from Starr King School for the Ministry (2015).   She received her Ph.D. in Depth Psychology from the Pacifica Graduate Institute in May 2022.

MARYBETH CARTER, PhD, is a Jungian analyst with a degree in religious studies with honors from Indiana University and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute where she is an adjunct faculty. She is chair of IAJS and serves on the board of the C. G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles. She is co-editor of The Spectre of the Other in Jungian Psychoanalysis, published by Routledge, which won the 2023 Gradiva Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP).

Chema Jiménez Orvañanos, MA. is a non-binary, Mexican, Jungian oriented psychotherapist and scholar practicing in Mexico City. Their work centers around queerness, gender and the deconstruction of masculinity. They are an organizing member of the International Queer Jungian Initiative and part of the Lesbianas Junguianas collective in South America.

Jacqueline F. Moore holds a MA in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and a BFA in Fine Art Painting from the Academy of Art University. Jacqueline is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist currently in private practice in Ventura, California and serves on adjunct faculty at the Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is a meditator, recording musical composer, and fine art painter.

Felipe Capiral is a graduate of Pacifica Graduate Institute. He is a licensed MFT and is currently in private practice and concurrently a staff at the Coldwater Counseling Center as one of their part time psychotherapists. He is passionate about living one’s life fully and consciously.

Carol Burbank, Ph.D. is a writer, creativity and writing coach, educator, and celebrator of deep play as somatic integration and expansion of psyche. She teaches Artist as Activist and Agent of Social Change in the Depth Psychology and Creativity Program. She is an award-winning playwright, scholar, and specializes in leading change from the core of the imaginal. Learn more at storyweaving.com.

Dr. Murrow seeks to contribute to the field of psychology by practicing as a clinician, teaching, and through the research of assessment and treatment methods.  She enjoys working in traditional in-office therapy settings as well as partnering with equines and canines in animal-assisted therapies. She is a core faculty member and Research Coordinator in the Clinical Psychology department at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and shares psychological concepts in an accessible way through her podcast, Connection Therapy.

Dr. Peter Dunlap is a psychologist, core faculty, and co-chair of Pacific’s clinical psychology program. Dr. Dunlap is part of the Pacifica initiative to bring depth psychology more fully into the world to respond to the critical questions of our time. His research and teaching integrate clinical practice and community engagement. In his work he asks, “How do we become the people called for by our time?” And, in framing the issue in this manner he is learning about extending what works in clinical practice into our communities through the cultivation of a public emotional intelligence.

Bradley McDevitt, MA, ACC: With over three decades of experience creating, performing, and teaching physical theater around the world, Bradley McDevitt conveys this somatically integrated work in his creative consultancy as a core practitioner of Presence-Based® personal coaching and professional leadership development. Answering a call to address the growing meaning crisis through the cultivation of attention and embodied wisdom practices, Bradley created the Theater of Self program, bringing clients, participants, and especially young people, into closer relationship with the vast apparatus of meaning making tools available through embodied imagination and creative practice. Bradley is an adjunct faculty member at Pacifica, teaching the course The Complex Nature of Inspiration in the Humanities program. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and is the founder of CarolinaCommons.org

Christophe Le Mouël, Ph.D., was trained as a theoretical physicist and conducted research at the University of Montpellier in France and Thessaloniki in Greece. He earned a master’s degree in computer science and worked as a team manager and engineer at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission in Paris. He is currently the executive director of the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles and the co-chief editor of Psychological Perspectives, a quarterly journal of Jungian thought. Dr. Le Mouël is passionate about the psychology of C.G. Jung, which he discovered in his teens. He has published several articles on the connection of matter and psyche and has lectured on this topic nationally and internationally. He is a candidate-in-training at the Research and Training Centre in Depth Psychology According to C.G. Jung and M.-L. von Franz in Zürich. He also edited the forthcoming book of conversations with Marie-Louise von Franz, which describes her views on psyche and matter at the end of her life.

John Bucher, Ph.D., John Bucher is a renowned mythologist and story expert who has been featured on the BBC, the History Channel, the LA Times, and on numerous other international outlets . Holding a PhD in Mythology and Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, he serves as Executive Director for the Joseph Campbell Foundation and is a writer, podcaster, storyteller, and speaker. He has worked with government and cultural leaders around the world as well as organizations such as HBO, DC Comics, Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon, A24 Films, Atlas Obscura, and The John Maxwell Leadership Foundation, bringing his deep understanding of narrative and myth to a wide array of audiences. He is the author of six influential books on storytelling, including the best-selling Storytelling for Virtual Reality, named by BookAuthority as one of the best storytelling books of all time.

Julie Tumamait-Stenslie, Julie Tumamait-Stenslie has traced her family lineage from her father, Vincent Tumamait, to at least 11 known Chumash villages and as far back as the mid-18th century. Ms. Tumamait-Stenslie has worked as a cultural resource consultant from Malibu to Santa Barbara to the Channel Islands, providing guidance for private groups and state, county, and city regulatory agencies, including the Ventura and Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s offices. She is well known throughout Ventura County and beyond for her Chumash cultural education programs and also performs ceremonies according to her native ways, such as weddings, burials, naming ceremonies, and blessings. Ms. Tumamait-Stenslie is a commissioner on the California Native American Heritage Commission and on the board of the Santa Clara River Conservancy. She serves on the accessions committee for the Museum of Ventura County.

Dr. Monica Mody is a Core Professor in the Pacifica Graduate Institute’s Mythological Studies MA/PhD Program. Her areas of specialization include decolonial, indigenous, and women of color paradigms and epistemologies; Anzaldúan frameworks; earth-sourced and feminist spirituality and ritual; poetry, divination, oracular speech, and arts-based research; and nondual embodiment, in conversation with ancestral lineages from South Asia. Her creative and academic work have been widely published and presented in journals and edited books, at international and US-based conferences, and through invited talks. www.drmonicamody.com.

Evans Lansing Smith, Ph.D., is a Core Faculty member of the Mythological Studies Program, which he served as Chair for twelve years. He traveled with Joseph Campbell in Northern France, Egypt, and Kenya, and has a Ph.D. from The Claremont Graduate School, an M.A. in Creative Writing from Antioch International, and a B.A. from Williams College. He has lectured widely and is the author of three books of poems, two novels, and ten academic studies of comparative literature and myth.

Naomi Azriel, LMFT, is a Jungian analyst, scholar, activist and poet practicing in Oakland, CA. Her work can be found in the Jung Journal and Psychological Perspectives. She teaches and lectures internationally on the intersection of Jungian depth psychology with feminist and queer topics, including the Cassandra Complex, the transference field, dream work and the liberatory potential of trans identities. 

Dylan Martinez Francisco, Ph.D., is co-chair and core professor of the Jungian and Archetypal specialization of M.A./Ph.D. program in Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Dylan grounds his teaching in the depth psychology of C. G. Jung, decolonialism, and Mestizo/Mexican/Indigenous traditions that provide a primordial, holistic, and sacred worldview within which to understand the psyche, to embody its wholeness individually, and to live it relationally through honoring Spirit, the Ancestors, and the Land.

Jonathan Erickson, Ph.D., serves as core faculty in the Integral Transpersonal Psychology PhD program at the California Institute of Integral studies.  He is the author of the book Imagination in the Western Psyche: from Ancient Greece to Modern Neuroscience and co-editor and contributor to the upcoming volume Soul in the Machine: Depth Psychology, Myth, and Artificial Intelligence.

Kevin Volkan EdD, PhD, MPH is a founding faculty member and Professor of Psychology at California State University Channel Islands, where he researches and teaches courses on severe psychopathology, culture-bound disorders, and personality theory. Dr. Volkan currently serves on the Graduate Medical Education Faculty at Community Memorial Hospital and is also Adjunct Professor of Clinical Psychology at California Lutheran University. He joins Pacifica Graduate Institute as core faculty in the clinical psychology program in the Fall of 2024. He holds doctorates in clinical and quantitative psychology and is a graduate of the Harvard School of Public Health. His training and experience is in archetypal psychology, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, applied behavior analysis, and embodied imaginal dreamwork. He is the author of Dancing Among the Maenads: The Psychology of Compulsive Drug Use, Schizophrenia: Science, Psychoanalysis, and Culture, and How the Mind Works: Concepts and Cases in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. His latest book, Human Aggression, War, and Genocide will be published in the fall of 2024.

Camille Jarmie, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist, and Core Faculty and Chair in the Clinical Psychology program at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Pacifica in 2018 following a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology from Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling specializing in counseling with children and adolescents in 2011. Her clinical areas of expertise focus on supporting birthing families during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum periods, as well as early attachment, work with children and adolescents, animal-assisted therapies through a depth orientation, and remedies to broader societal challenges which impact individuals’ mental, emotional, and bodily wellbeing. Dr. Jarmie’s areas of interest in research and scholarship mirror her clinical areas of expertise through a human sciences tradition which seeks to understand the meaning of these lived experiences, as well as the ways in which having a depth psychological sensibility itself may be a remedy to many of the ills of our time.

Dr. Elizabeth Flood holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and dual B.A. degrees in Psychology and Fine Arts from DePaul University, and is currently pursuing a M.A. in Counseling Psychology. Elizabeth has extensive experience in diversity, equity, and inclusion analysis, as well as program development and coordination for at-risk youth. She has created and led therapeutic arts programs in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Indonesia. Elizabeth is also trained in restorative justice practices and is a registered yoga teacher, further showcasing her commitment to holistic well-being and community engagement.

River Sauvageau is a community arts activist who has been leading the making of community mandalas in Ojai since 1993. She carries an Earth Altar that guides the principles upon which this work is based. She is an artist, teacher, lay minister and tipi maker.  The Mandala Medicine Movement is her current focus, working on bringing this method of placemaking and connection to other communities. “I work to inspire creativity, free thinking, human connection, personal sovereignty and leadership.” studiosauvageau.com

Shelly Rudolph “A soulful vocalist that prefers not to be contained,” Soul Siren Shelly Rudolph infuses jazz, blues and her own “powerfully romantic” material with intoxicating intimacy and unabashed revelation.  As a performer, songwriter & poet, Shelly has traveled the world with ensembles that range from intimate duets to Jazz Orchestras. She is among the busiest vocalists in Portland, Oregon, performing and producing her own concerts and spoken-word projects, including collaborations with aerial dance companies, visual artists and jazz icons of the region. www.shellyrudolph.com

Grupo Folklórico Fusión Mexicana is a vibrant dance ensemble comprised of multiple Mexican dance groups across Santa Barbara, Ventura, and Los Angeles counties, founded by Carlos Mendez & Adrian Castellón Robles. Since their establishment in 2016, this talented group of dancers has traveled extensively within the United States and internationally, including China and Greece, to share their passion for traditional Mexican dance.

Their current directors, Adrian Castellón Robles and Dafne Aguilar, educate communities about Mexico’s rich cultural heritage, inspiring younger generations to appreciate and preserve these rich cultural traditions and foster cross-cultural understanding and exchange.

Susan Evergreen Hericks, Phd, has an artistic and psychological approach to being human. Her day to day work involves supporting PGI graduate students in the Depth PhD Integrative Therapy and Healing Practices specialization. An artist and lover of beauty medicine, ceremony, and social justice, she has a varied background in academia (English, Theology/Ethics, Depth Psychology) as well as rites of passage work, wilderness guiding, ceremonial play and art. She has been actively co-designing Ojai’s annual community Mandala since 2009, involving hundreds of painters of all ages.

(Photo credit: Robynn Murray)

Iposi is a Native American and Indigenous Women Veteran and Two-Spirit Drum Circle 

Although their drum (Iposi) came to them on June 4th of 2022, their drum circle started in the summer of 2015. They sit to educate, support, and pray for each other, their families, their communities including MMIWG2S peoples, Mother Earth, and all beings. They also sit and gather annually at their Veteran Women’s Indigenous Healing Circle to support veteran women and their families. In centering healing and social justice, using an ecological spiritual lens, they are better able to strive towards rematriation and a healthier and equitable relationship amongst themselves and their environment.  Their drum is inter-tribal and women from several nations and Indigenous backgrounds sit around her from time to time, including members of Mixteca, Chickasaw, Nahuatl, Lipan Apache, Mapuche, Tlingit, Annishinabe, Chicana, Chumash, and others.