Stephen Aizenstat, PhD
Stephen Aizenstat, PhD, is Chancellor Emeritus and Founding President of Pacifica Graduate Institute. He is a professor of depth psychology with a PhD in clinical psychology, licensed marriage and family therapist, and a credentialed public schools teacher and counselor. Dr. Aizenstat lectures and consults internationally, particularly with global corporations, and is affiliated with the Earth Charter International project through the United Nations.
Dr. Aizenstat’s book, Dream Tending (2009), describes applications of dreamwork in relation to health and healing, nightmares, the World’s Dream, relationships, and the creative process. Dr. Aizenstat’s methodologies extend traditional dream work to the vision of an animated world, where living images in dream are experienced as embodied and originating in the psyche of Nature as well as that of persons.
His other recent publications include The Pacifica Story: Money as Psychic Libido, Eranos Yearbook 72, 2013—2014; The Dangers and Opportunity of Cyberspace: A New Vision of Global Dreaming, Eranos Yearbook 71, 2012; Fragility of the World’s Dream, Eranos Yearbook 70, 2009—2010—2011; Imagination & Medicine—The Future of Healing in an Age of Neuroscience (co-edited with R. Bosnak, 2009), ‘Dream Tending and Tending the World,’ in Ecotherapy—Healing with Nature in Mind (2009), and ‘Soul-Centered Education: An Interview with Stephen Aizenstat,’ in Reimagining Education—Essays on Reviving the Soul of Learning (with N. Treadway Galindo, 2009).
His major work, Dream Tending, appeared also in Italian by Moretti & Vitali as Vegliare il sogno. Teoria e pratica del Dream Tending (2013).
Maren Hansen, Ph.D., M.Div., L.M.F.T., CA
Maren Hansen holds a Ph.D. in Psychology, a Master of Divinity degree, and is a licensed MFT. Hansen is a founding member of Pacifica Graduate Institute, and a founding faculty member of the first hybrid learning program at Pacifica. Her research interests include the depth psychological approach to myth, female psychology and spirituality, ritual, and depth psychological models of leadership. Hansen was a board member of the Joseph Campbell Library and Archives. She studied with Joseph Campbell for years and has taught several courses on Joseph Campbell’s work. She is author of the books Mother Mysteries and Teachers of Myth. Hansen researched, designed, and tested a myth curriculum for adolescents, designed to stimulate psychological development.
Lauren Z. Schneider, MFT
Lauren Z. Schneider, MFT is a depth psychotherapist, lecturer, author, trainer, and creator of the Tarotpy®, which integrates the use of tarot and other symbolic imagery with psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, systemic therapy, and Dreamwork. She facilitates workshops, trainings, and ongoing groups worldwide and is approved by CAMFT to provide CEUs for licensed health care providers. Her book, Tarotpy® – It’s All in the Cards: A Pathway to Inner Wisdom, Divine Guidance, and Profound Healing (2021), has won gold medals from Living Now and Next Generation Indie Book Awards, and a silver medal from the Nautilus Book Awards. For more information, please contact laurenz@dreamsandtarotpy.com or visit her website: dreamsandtarotpy.com.
Willow Young, MA, LMFT
As Professor Emeritus, Willow Young taught in the Counseling Psychology Program (1999-2023) where she served as Program Chair of the Counseling Department, 2011-2018; Director of Clinical Training 2005-2011, Adjunct faculty 1999-2005. She specialized in teaching Analytical Psychology, Clinical Practice, and Cross-Cultural Mores and Values. Her early career as Director of Special Programs at the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles was informed by her studies in World Arts and Cultures at UCLA. International cultural exchange programs funded by the National Endowment for Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts supported a showcasing of the multivarious arts vividly expressed in the communities of Los Angeles city and county.
Willow has presented internationally in Switzerland, Japan, and China, and serves as a Training Analyst at the C. G. Jung Study Center of Southern California. Her archival research in the Opus Archives was presented at The XXI congress of the International Association for Analytical Psychology in Vienna and elsewhere. Willow is a member of the C.G. Jung Study Center of Southern California, and an Analytic Member of the International Association for Analytical Psychology. Willow is in private practice, specializes in listening to the symbolic language of the unconscious as it manifests in dreams, active imagination, and creative expression.
Jamie Mayo, Ph.D., PMHNP
Jamie Mayo is the second generation born in the US from family that immigrated from Cuba, Scotland, and Lithuania. She has worked with hospitals and medical schools in the US and Australia studying how the brain works in health and disease. She has spent the past ten years conducting biomedical research and providing patient care. She also served in the Navy Reserves. After finishing her Ph.D., she completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at the University of Melbourne in Melbourne Australia and at the University of Utah where she worked on understanding factors that influence resilience post-traumatic brain injury. She currently specializes as a nurse practitioner in private practice helping people across the lifespan heal from trauma, somatic issues, and addiction. She is an EMDR trained therapist who has an advanced certificate in Integrative Psychotherapy for Trauma and Dream Tending. She has also completed advanced training for psychedelic assisted psychotherapy and ketamine assisted psychotherapy. She thinks of storytelling as one of the key components of health and wellness. As a psychiatric nurse practitioner, she sees her primary role as being a story keeper and a companion; a container for the individual and collective story as we travel together down unknown paths to make meaning.
Randal Lea, MA, LADAC, QCS
Chief Community Recovery Officer, Cumberland Heights Foundation
Adjunct faculty: Southwestern College (Santa Fe)
Adjunct Faculty: Mentors of the Academy of Imagination (Dreamtending)
Randal Lea is a licensed addictions counselor with over thirty-five years of clinical and administrative experience. Lea received master’s degrees in Counseling from Trevecca Nazarene University and in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Mr. Lea has been a frequent presenter on such topics as Assessment, Sexual Behavior in Children, Ethics, and Trauma. He is a certified Mentor of Dream Tending and a Qualified Clinical Supervisor in addictions counseling.
Previous to his current role as Chief Community Recovery Officer at Cumberland Heights Foundation where he oversees outpatient and community counseling, Mr. Lea served eight years as Assistant Commissioner with the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services. In 2008, he was recognized by the Praed Foundation as a national “Systems Champion” for implementing a statewide children’s assessment for DCS. He also received the “Friend of Children Lifetime Achievement Award” in 2010 from Tennessee Voices for Children and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Tennessee Association of Addiction Professionals in 2021. He currently serves as Immediate Past Board President of the Tennessee Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services.
