Navigating Schools
The right education begins with the right philosophy. Education matters most when it honors depth, meaning, and soul—when it speaks to who we are at our deepest level. My training at Pacifica taught me that learning is not only about knowledge but also about tending the soul of the world, which begins with tending the soul of the individual. Having a lived encounter with the depths—and learning how to rise again—is often the best teacher of all.
My work extends this philosophy beyond the classroom and the boardroom to bring depth, imagination, and meaning into places where it can live and breathe in the world. Here, learning becomes a living, human, and transformative experience.
Whether through education, consulting, writing, or conversation, I seek to create (private) spaces where learning is not merely informational but transformational—where ideas are experienced, integrated, and lived. Here, my passion for education becomes a living practice that awakens curiosity and reconnects us with what is most deeply human.
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This journal, created in 2010 by Carol Shumate and Mark Hunziker, publishes scholarship that bridges the gap between psychological type and depth psychology by exploring the interaction of the conscious and unconscious aspects of psychological type.
Pacifica’s campus, formerly a Jesuit novitiate, was founded in 1976 and is located in Carpinteria, CA, between the coastal foothills and the Pacific Ocean, a few miles south of Santa Barbara, California.
Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world. There, in the horrors of prisons, lunatic asylums and hospitals, in drab suburban pubs, in brothels and gambling-hells, in the salons of the elegant, the Stock Exchanges, Socialist meetings, churches, revivalist gatherings and ecstatic sects, through love and hate, through the experience of passion in every form in his own body, he would reap richer stores of knowledge than textbooks a foot thick could give him, and he will know how to doctor the sick with real knowledge of the human soul.
C. G. Jung