California Institute of Integral Studies

Faculty Member, East-West Psychology

Associate Professor

About

Depth psychologist Craig Chalquist, MS PhD is a core faculty member of East-West Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies and on the Board of Directors for Holos Institute in San Francisco. He is the author of six books and co-editor with Linda Buzzell, MFT, of Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind (Sierra Club Books, 2009). He is also a certified Master Gardener through the University of California Cooperative Extension in Contra Costa County, California and holds certificates in sustainable landscape design and Permaculture Design.

Professor Chalquist trains psychotherapists, oversees thesis and dissertation work, and teaches graduate classes in psychology, mythology, ecopsychology, dream studies, qualitative research, and Jungian psychology on various Bay Area campuses. At John F. Kennedy University he designed and launched the first ecotherapy certificate in the world. He is now at work setting up two more certificate programs and a master's degree in ecotherapy.

He has been published in AlterNet, HopeDance Magazine, The Journal of Critical Psychology, Spring, Dream Network Journal, and Psychological Perspectives, has contributed to three anthologies, and has been interviewed on the radio (KUBO, Shrink Rap, The Meria Heller Show, University of Guelph Radio).

Recent presentation venues include a panel on Jung's Red Book at John F. Kennedy University (April 2010), the C. G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles (June 2008), Sonoma State (November 2007), the California Institute of Integral Studies (October 2007), Pacifica Graduate Institute (March 2007), and Santa Rosa Community College (February 2007). He is also a member of the Foundation for Mythological Studies and on the editorial board for the new journal Ecopsychology.

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