Dr. Mansoor H. Abidi is a weaver of wisdom, a guide of soul, and a scholar whose life’s work bridges ancient sacred traditions and the living insights of depth psychology. With a contemplative mind and a creative heart, he moves fluidly between the esoteric languages of alchemy, Sufism, and Neoplatonism, exploring the imaginal as a threshold of transformation in both personal and collective life.
Stephen is the founding President of Pacifica Graduate Institute. He is a professor of depth psychology with a Ph.D. in clinical psychology, a licensed marriage and family therapist, and a credentialed public school teacher and counselor. He has served as an organizational consultant to companies and agencies worldwide, and teaches extensively.
Bayo Akomolafe (Ph.D.), rooted with the Yoruba people in a more-than-human world, is the father to Alethea and Kyah, the grateful life-partner to Ije, son and brother. A widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and author of two books, These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home (North Atlantic Books) and We Will Tell our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak, Bayo Akomolafe is the Chief Curator of The Emergence Network and host of the online postactivist course, ‘We Will dance with Mountains’.
Ronald A. Alexander, PhD, MFT, SEP (Somatic Experiencing Practitioner) is a psychotherapist, leadership coach, and clinical trainer in the fields of Somatic Trauma Healing Therapies, Mindfulness Meditation, Transformational Leadership and Core Creativity.
Avrom Altman is Professor Emeritus in the Counseling Psychology Department. He served as Associate Chair, Director of Research, Research Associate, Clinical Associate, and was a member of the Counseling Psychology Program Development Committee that designed the current 93-unit program. As Director of Research, Avrom was responsible for the design and development of the program’s research sequence of six courses titled Seminars in Directed Research, the Thesis Handbook and Student Papers Handbook.
Ama Konadu Amoafo-Yeboah, LMSW is a social worker licensed in the State of New York who has been a dialogue facilitator for nearly 10 years. She is the co-founder of HEAL— Healing, Equity, Action, and Liberation, a workshop series/organization focused on centering healing amidst social change efforts.
Frédérique Apffel-Marglin founded and directs the Sachamama Center for Biocultural Regeneration. Her more recent books are Subversive Spiritualities: How Rituals Enact the World, Sacred Soil: Biochar and the Regeneration of the Earth with Robert Tindall and David Shearer, and Contemporary Voices from Anima Mundi edited with Stefano Varese, Peter Lang, 2020.
Megan Attore is a licensed therapist and breathwork teacher, blending depth psychotherapy with integrative healing modalities to support clients and colleagues in their pursuit of well-being. Megan takes a transpersonal approach to her private practice work, focusing on the connection between psyche, soma and spirit. She has spent the last decade studying breath as an energetic medicine, and is certified in Attachment-Focused EMDR, a somatic modality with incredible potency for transforming the effects of trauma as well as repairing childhood developmental deficits. Megan maintains an in-person private practice in Santa Barbara and sees clients throughout California via telehealth.
