Our Flourishing Community

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CIIS celebrates each of the many voices that make our University such a unique and transformative place to learn and grow. The stories featured on this page represent some of those diverse perspectives, with their many different passions, wisdoms, and abilities. What unites them is CIIS, a home for those who ask the big questions. How are we to be in the world, in community, and in ourselves? What can we accomplish in our time here, together?

I imagine my bright future to be healing intergenerational trauma.”

Kini Chang Chair and Professor, Community Mental Health

The bright future is understanding that our bodies are a way to become ... more connected with one another.”

Rae Johnson Professor, Ph.D. Somatic Pyschology

My bright future is forms of psychoanalysis that are the most wild and creative, the most inclusive.”

Lani Chow Associate Professor, Clinical Psychology Psy.D.

I would like to see new modalities of understanding… and new definitions of what it means to be human that can make a difference in the world.”

Debashish Banerji Haridas Chaudhuri Professor and Chair, East-West Psychology

A bright future to me is a world in which people understand that education doesn't look one way.”

Drisana 'Dru' McDaniel Class of 2025, Women's Spirituality

My bright future is advancing consciousness and transformation here at CIIS.”

Brock Blomberg President, Office of the President

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Actively creating the communities, relationships, and systems that make us a world we want to live in.”

Alka Arora Professor, Women's Spirituality

I see an amazing scholarship for indigenous folks ... dreams coming to fruition a little bit sooner.”

Preston Vargas Director, Center for Black and Indigenous Praxis

I see ... a world in which we are united in working against systemic oppression and in which we are successful.”

Anna Corwin Co-Chair and Associate Professor, Women's Spirituality

My bright future is to work as a psychologist in Italy, and I want to open a clinic for asylum seekers and immigrants.”

Anna Franchi Class of 2023, Clinical Psychology Psy.D.

A bright future for me takes the best of the past and builds upon it.”

David S. B. Mitchell Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Integral Transpersonal Psychology

We continue to attract the great minds and hearts that will take humanity and our communities beyond what's already been done...”

Rachel Bryant Vice President, Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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Helping people transform themselves and liberate themselves from the cycles of suffering that they have been living through.”

Ryan Stubblefield Class of 2023, Clinical Psychology Psy.D.

I'd like to create a practicum or a pre-doc program that works in psychiatric intensive care units...”

Rose Dawydiak-Rapagnani Class of 2025, Clinical Psychology Psy.D.

What I hope to do with completion of my doctorate, is take this wisdom forward and give it to folks...”

Cecille Heath Class of 2026, Ph.D. Somatic Psychology

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Mental Health Matters

I imagine my bright future to be healing intergenerational trauma.”

The bright future is understanding that our bodies are a way to become ... more connected with one another.”

My bright future is forms of psychoanalysis that are the most wild and creative, the most inclusive.”

The Future of Learning

I would like to see new modalities of understanding… and new definitions of what it means to be human that can make a difference in the world.”

A bright future to me is a world in which people understand that education doesn't look one way.”

My bright future is advancing consciousness and transformation here at CIIS.”

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Uniting for Change

Actively creating the communities, relationships, and systems that make us a world we want to live in.”

I see an amazing scholarship for indigenous folks ... dreams coming to fruition a little bit sooner.”

I see ... a world in which we are united in working against systemic oppression and in which we are successful.”

Global Achievement

My bright future is to work as a psychologist in Italy, and I want to open a clinic for asylum seekers and immigrants.”

A bright future for me takes the best of the past and builds upon it.”

We continue to attract the great minds and hearts that will take humanity and our communities beyond what's already been done...”

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Cultivating Wisdom

Helping people transform themselves and liberate themselves from the cycles of suffering that they have been living through.”

I'd like to create a practicum or a pre-doc program that works in psychiatric intensive care units...”

What I hope to do with completion of my doctorate, is take this wisdom forward and give it to folks...”

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