BOARD OF DIRECTORS

  RON PULICE, Chair
Mr. Ron Pulice has been an employee of Pulice Construction, Inc. since 1971 where he has served in many capacities, including Chairman of the Board for 10 years (1996-2006) and as President from 1986-2000. Ron served on the Board of Associated General Contractors of America from 1980-1990, and served as its President in 1986 and 1989.

While living in Arizona, Ron was intimately involved in the development of the city of Phoenix in several different ways. His contracting company has been a major stakeholder in the construction of the urban freeway system in the greater Phoenix area. He privately developed residential property, serving on various boards in that sector. He also served on the Board of the Phoenix Economic Growth Council from 1988-2000, establishing missions in both Japan and China.

Ron served in the Phoenix public high school counseling program from 1992-1994 and worked as a counselor for the probation office in Phoenix. Following his participation in the Men's Movement in the 1980's, he initiated and continues to lead a Men's Poetry Group, currently in its 10th year.

At his property in Ellwood Canyon, he has been an avocado producer for 25 years. Ron has created a spiritual center and home for his family on the site using 19th century historical barns from New England. The property is used as a retreat center for friends, family, and private community events.

Mr. Pulice attended the University of Arizona, graduating in 1971 with a B.A. in Economics, and received his M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in 1993.
   
 
MARY LEIBMAN, Vice Chair
Mary Leibman was born in Hershey, Pennsylvania and spent most of her adult years in Chicago. She graduated with an M.A. from Pacifica Graduate Institute and has a private practice in depth psychology in Ojai, California, specializing in dream work. She was a founding member of The Archives and Research Center, formerly the Center for the Study of Depth Psychology, and has served on the board of directors since its inception.
She has also served on boards of the Chicago Boys and Girls Club, The Museum of Science and Industry Women's Council, Chicago Commons, and The C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago. Along with her deceased husband, Morris I. Leibman, she participated in the creation of The National Strategy Forum in Chicago, a non-profit organization dedicated to educational programs which address national and global issues."
   
 
STEPHEN AIZENSTAT
Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D. is the founding president of Pacifica Graduate Institute and a licensed Clinical Psychologist. His areas of emphasis include depth psychology, dream research, and imaginal and archetypal psychology. His original research centers on a psychodynamic process of "tending the living image," particularly in the context of dreamwork.
He has conducted dreamwork seminars for more than 25 years throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. Dr. Aizenstat has recorded DreamTending, a six-cassette series of audio tapes by Sounds True, and is the subject of a film by Russ Spencer on DreamTending. He is working on a new book, A dream Centered Life: the Art of DreamTending.
He was the founding chair of the board for the Center for Study of Depth Psychology, now the Archives and Research Center.
   
 
ADELAIDE BROOKS
Addi Brooks works as an organization consultant to both private business and not-for-profits. As an educator for over thirty years she has worked in the classroom, provided individual and executive coaching and served as a member of various boards designing University Degree Programs to supplemental education in rural Alaska for The Alaska Federation of Natives.
   
 
LINDA BUZZELL-SALTZMAN
Linda Buzzell-Saltzman, M.A., M.F.T., has been a licensed psychotherapist in private practice in California since 1975. Since 2000 she has worked on sustainability and ecopsychology issues and is the founder of the International Association for Ecotherapy and a Fellow at For the Future, a sustainability think tank based in Santa Barbara.
She has also worked in the entertainment industry, most recently as Vice President of Development for a production company at Columbia Pictures TV and Lorimar and is the founder of the 3300-member International Documentary Association. She is the author of How to Make It in Hollywood, an entertainment industry career guide published by HarperCollins.

Linda is currently co-editing Ecotherapy: Psyche and Nature in a Circle of Healing with Pacifica Depth Psychology alumnus Craig Chalquist, author of the recently published Terrapsychology: Reengaging the Soul of Place, and she is supervising community and ecological fieldwork for first year students in the Depth Psychology program, under Mary Watkins’ guidance.
   
 
NANCY CATER
Nancy Cater, M.S.W., J.D, Ph.D., a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, worked for twelve years as an appellate court attorney before receiving her Ph.D. in Mythological Studies from Pacifica Graduate Institute in 2001.

She is now the editor and publisher of Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture, the oldest Jungian psychology journal in the world, and the author of Electra: Tracing a Feminine Myth through the Western Imagination.

Nancy is also the owner and publisher of Spring Journal Books, the book publishing imprint of Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture. Spring Journal Books specializes in the publication of books by leading scholars in the fields of archetypal psychology, Jungian psychology, mythology, and the humanities. In serving as the publisher of Spring Journal Books, Nancy has overseen the acquisition and production of over 35 books in the last 3 years. She also has initiated the development of two book series: the Studies in Archetypal Psychology Series, edited by Greg Mogenson, a Jungian analyst in London, Ontario, Canada, and the Analytical Psychology and Contemporary Culture Series, edited by Thomas Singer, a Jungian analyst in San Francisco and the editor of The Cultural Complex and The Vision Thing.

In addition to her work with Spring, Nancy is a founding board member of the Assisi Foundation, a nonprofit corporation based in Brattleboro, Vermont which develops educational programs about the psychology of C.G. Jung and the new sciences, a board member of the Foundation for Mythological Studies, and a prior board member and programming chair of the C. G. Jung Society in New Orleans. She is also a member of the Louisiana Bar Association and the Colorado Bar Association.
   
 
VALERIE ELIA
Valerie Elia lives in Toronto where she was involved for many years in Canadian broadcasting. She was a television producer at CITY-TV; a host/interviewer on radio and television, and an anchorwoman at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). A break from television led to a period of study at the Jung Institute in Zurich and a Master's Degree in Counselling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute.
Inspired to bring her interest in spirituality and psychology to a television audience, Valerie created a series of programs in which she interviewed guests such as Care of the Soul's author Thomas Moore and Jungian analyst Nathan Schwartz-Salant. The series was seen on Vision TV and included two hour-long specials on Mysticism with Rupert Sheldrake and Matthew Fox. Valerie is currently a director of a family owned land development company and foundation and an advisor to FACT., an organization that promotes understanding of altermative and complementary healing modalities.
   
 
DRUSCILLA FRENCH
Drucie French is a graduate of the Pacifica Graduate Institute Myth Program and one of the original founders of the Foundation for Mythological Studies. She also holds two degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a visiting scholar in the Women's Studies Department last spring. She serves on several university and college boards, including The Archives and Research
Center. Her philanthropic and political efforts generally focus on improving the conditions of life for women. She is working on a book, The Blissless Myth, which critiques the monomyth as a narcissistic cultural fantasy. She is looking for a publisher for her first mystery, Shadows on Samhain. Finally, she is working hard to see the first female Commander-in-Chief on Pennsylvania Avenue.
   
 
MAREN HANSEN
Maren Tonder Hansen, M. Div., Ph.D. (candidate) is a founding member of the Joseph Campbell and Marija Gimbutas Library, and Pacifica Graduate Institute. An ordained Unitarian Universalist minister, and licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Hansen is author of three books, including MotherMysteries, and Teachers of Myth. Hansen teaches in the Humanities M.A. program at Pacifica.
   
 
FREITA F. KELUCHE
Freita F. Keluche, Ph.D., is a founder and Trustee of the Ancient Ways of Knowing Foundation, a non-profit family foundation based in Colorado Springs, CO. The Foundation is dedicated to the exploration and rediscovery of ancient knowledge. To this end, Dr. Keluche conducted international conferences, which brought together American Indian, Canadian First Nations, Master Chinese, and African healers.

The purpose of these conferences was to share holistic wellness philosophies, traditional healing arts, and ceremonies used by each culture to enhance physical and spiritual well being. Over two hundred participants attended the first two conferences.

In association with the Denver Center for the Performing Arts and the Ancient Ways of Knowing Foundation, Dr. Keluche is producing a documentary film series which will chronicle the profound effect that the little understood 100-year Indian Boarding School episode had on American Indian and Canadian First Nations cultures.

She was employed for two years with a full service public relations firm in Atlanta, GA, where she was responsible for planning advertising and promotion campaigns and product introduction shows for national clients. She was also responsible for planning corporate meetings and special events at selected conference and destination resorts in the United States and Canada.

Dr. Keluche was for five years the Executive Director of the largest sports celebrity event in the United States, the Bert Convy Celebrity Sports Weekend in Phoenix, AZ. This event funded the nation's first life skills and rehabilitation center for Spina Bifida patients and their families.

For six years, she was a member and served as the Chairman of the Board of the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo for three years. In addition to her administrative duties, she was responsible for overseeing the Zoo's fund raising and public-community relations programs. Following her tenure as Chairman, she served as Co-Chairman of the Zoo's capital campaign, which raised $11 Million for the construction of the award winning African Rift Valley exhibit. In recognition of her service, she was given Colorado Spring's 2004 Volunteer of the Year Award.

Dr. Keluche earned a Ph.D. and a Master of Arts degree in Mythological Studies with an emphasis in Depth Psychology from the Pacifica Graduate Institute, and holds a Masters Degree in Family Counseling from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, and a Bachelors Degree from Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama.

   
 
STEPHEN KENNEALLY
Originally in the financial world with a degree in economics from Harvard, Stephen Kenneally, M.A., got his M.A. in Counseling Psychology in 2004 at Pacifica Gradate Institute. Since 2004 he has been an intern at the C.G. Jung Institute in Los Angeles, and has been leading experiential retreats that facilitate healing explorations of psychological and emotional wounds.
   
 
JOHN LENGSFELDER
John is a long term resident of Santa Barbara, an artist / inventor who practices his craft through many mediums including film, video, sculpture, computer robotics and architectural design. His formal education was in business and film. He has used these skills as an entrepreneur, creating many successful enterprises over the years starting with a film production company in Los Angeles in the mid1970's to his current personal real estate management business.
John currently is also a board member of the Family Therapy Institute and the Citizens Planning Association for whom he created and coordinates the annual Santa Barbara Sandcastle Festival. He is currently writing a performance art production to further spread his concept of life as art. He is the proud father of two daughters and loves to travel especially when he is accompanied by the three women in his life.
   
 
LYNNAEA LUMBARD
Lynnaea Lumbard, Ph.D., is a transformational psychologist, an ordained Interfaith Minister, a Wilderness Guide, and a writer. For over thirty years, she has been a workshop conductor in the field of depth psychology and conscious evolution. In 1986, she co-founded Temenos Associates in San Francisco, offering a wide range of psycho-spiritual workshops in the Bay Area, New England, New York and
Washington, D.C. In 1995, she co-founded Naos Foundation with her husband, Rick Paine, guiding wilderness quests and co-creating a four-year Mystery Training based on the Native American Medicine Wheel. She is a community weaver, a social change catalyst and a spiritual and environmental activist currently working through the Threshold Foundation, One Spirit Interfaith Seminary, and the Tipping Point Network. She shares her time between Whidbey Island, Washington, and Cortes Island, British Columbia.
   
 
JULIE SGARZI
Julie Sgarzi, Ph.D., has had a twenty-five year career in politics, public policy and corporate management, having served as Director of Research and Policy Analysis for former Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, and later as Senior Vice President for Lockheed Martin IMS, a company specializing in providing technology and support services to state and local governments.
Throughout her life, Ms. Sgarzi pursued a deep interest in Jungian psychology, culminating with her completion of a Ph.D. in Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Ms. Sgarzi currently maintains a corporate consulting practice in strategic planning and business development. She also writes and lectures on cultural and personal experiences understood through the lens of depth psychology. She has published in the journal Psychological Perspectives, and has lectured at various Jung clubs, as well as at the Bowdoin College Jung Seminar. She is a Maine registered counselor, and a CEU-provider certified by the CA Board of Behavioral Scientists for MFT and LCSW professionals. She is a resident of Los Angeles and also spends time at her cottage in South Bristol, Maine. An avid traveler, Ms. Sgarzi has spent time in Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, India, China, Indonesia, South America, and Europe, and writes and lectures on the experience of travel and pilgrimage.
   
 
ELISE COLLINS-SHIELDS, Executive Director
Dr. Elise Collins Shields was formerly an entrepreneur, selling a thriving business in 1996 while completing graduate degrees in counseling psychology and cultural mythology.

She founded programs in the Middle East to include cross cultural leadership training, mentoring of young Arab university students, and
conducting a mentoring program with Afghan women entrepreneurs for the Thunderbird Garvin School of International Management.

In addition to her international consultancy, Dr. Collins-Shields founded and maintains CommonWell Institute International, Inc., a non-profit Institute for Leadership, Research and Advocacy for Women and Children.

She chaired the board of directors of The Archives and Research Center before accepting the position of Executive Director in summer of 2006.

She is a frequent lecturer on international issues, including recent presentations in Washington, D.C.; Havana, Cuba; Geneva, Switzerland; and Dubai, UAE.