CIIS Public Programs

Jan 29 2025 360 ep. 61 mins 1k
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This is a podcast for people who are curious about the world and themselves featuring talks and conversations presented by the Public Programs department of California Institute of Integral Studies, a non-profit university in San Francisco. Listen here or on your favorite podcast app to a diverse array of visionaries, artists, and scholars sharing compelling experiences, offering new perspectives, and expanding creative horizons.

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Emily Marinelli: On Our Love of Movie Sequels from the ‘80s and ‘90s

Jan 29 2025 56 mins  
Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * When a film touches us, makes us laugh, and has that feel-good spirit, we want more of it. We want a sequel! In this episode, psychotherapist and CIIS Assistant Professor in the Integral Counseling Psychology program Emily Marinelli is joined b

Dr. Marie Thouin: On the Power of Positive Empathy in Consensual Non-Monogamy

Jan 22 2025 59 mins  
Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * In the context of non-monogamy, compersion or the emotion of positive empathy is understood as sharing our partner’s joy regarding their other intimate relationship or relationships. Drawing upon her seminal research with consensually non-mon

Camille Sapara Barton: On Tending Grief

Jan 15 2025 64 mins  
Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * Majority cultural norms in the United States suppress our ability to truly feel our grief and each person’s experience with grief is as unique as the grief itself. Writer, somatic practitioner, and artist Camille Sapara Barton’s take on gri

Langston Kahn: On Shamanic Tools for Reclaiming Wholeness in a Culture of Trauma

Jan 08 2025 66 mins  
Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * In anticipation of our upcoming workshop exploring shamanic tools for liberating our true longing with author and shamanic healer Langston Kahn, we are revisiting his conversation with energy worker and spiritual practitioner Maryam Hasnaa. In

Tricia Rainwater: On Repairing Ties to Indigenous Ceremony and Culture Through Art

Jan 01 2025 61 mins  
Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * Choctaw multimedia artist Tricia Rainwater’s wide-ranging work is rooted in themes of identity and grief. Her artistic practice offers a perspective through the lens of a Choctaw survivor. In her most recent series, Falama: to return, she sha

Dr. Thema Bryant: On Trauma Recovery and Reclaiming Yourself

Dec 18 2024 61 mins  
Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * Dr. Thema Bryant is a psychologist and leading mental health expert with more than two decades of experience in clinical psychology and trauma recovery. As a trauma survivor herself, she knows that trauma and everyday challenges can cause us to

Prentis Hemphill: On What it Takes to Heal

Dec 11 2024 58 mins  
Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * As we continue to navigate years of collective upheaval, are there ways for us to face the complexities of our time with joy, authenticity, and connection? Prentis Hemphill, embodiment practitioner, therapist, and activist, shows us that we don

Devon Price: Laziness Does Not Exist

Dec 04 2024 63 mins  
Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * This week, we are diving into our archives in preparation for the northern hemisphere’s upcoming winter season which brings with it a call for all earthly beings to rest. In this episode, we are revisiting CIIS Integral and Transpersonal Psyc

Dr. Roger Kuhn: On Two-Spirit Identity and the Body as a Portal to Freedom

Nov 27 2024 58 mins  
Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * What role does dominant culture play in how we experience the sensations, thoughts, feelings, and deeper existential mysteries of our bodies? Dr. Roger Kuhn, a Poarch Creek Two-Spirit Indigequeer activist, artist, sex therapist, and somacultura

Peter Levine: On an Autobiography of Trauma

Nov 20 2024 58 mins  
Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * Renowned developer of Somatic Experiencing Dr. Peter A. Levine changed the way psychologists, doctors, and healers understand and treat the wounds of trauma and abuse. * In this conversation with CIIS professor of somatic psychology Rae Johnso