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Current Projects

TECHNOLOGY & DIGITAL RESPONSIBILITY

Virtual Identities Integration Treatment Model

A four-pronged approach to working with virtual identities in psychotherapy that pulls from many therapeutic orientations.
The main goal of VIIT is to assess, treat, and integrate how virtual identities relate to the overarching self.

THIS INCLUDES:

  • Assessing for problematic interactive media and Internet behaviors;
  • Creating digital boundaries in the home environment;
  • Treating possible addiction behaviors and compulsions;
  • Integrating relationships with virtual identities; and
  • Relapse prevention by follow-up care and integrating treatment into daily life in a lasting way.
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DREAM & DEEP IMAGINATION

Cultivating Imaginal Intelligence

The more time spent in Deep Imagination, the more our imagination evolves. When Imaginal Intelligence increases, so do the capacities for creativity, innovation, and ingenuity.

APPLICATIONS INCLUDE:

  • Research project designed to evolve a training curriculum to increase Imaginal Intelligence (IQ4)
  • App development to monitor the time in Imaginal Intelligence (IQ4)and to Measure the Increase of Imaginal Intelligence (IQ4)
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MYTHS, STORYTELLING, AND CREATIVE EXPRESSION

Psychological Resilience for At-Risk Youth

Rates of anxiety, depression, self-harm behavior and suicidal ideation among preteens and teens are currently at an all-time high.

Researchers at AIAS will develop innovative digital media platforms/apps incorporating images, text, music, and movement that can inspire and empower preteens, adolescents and young adults (with an emphasis on LGBTQIA+ individuals) to craft and share their own unique stories, thereby prioritizing and enhancing their psychological resilience, self-care/image, and physical well-being/safety, while reducing rates of depression, anxiety, and self-harm

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DEEP ECOLOGY AND INDIGENOUS COSMOLOGIES

Indigenous Insights for Living Sustainable, Ecologically-Balanced Lives:

Members of contemporary digital societies can directly benefit from the accumulated wisdom of global indigenous cultures and their time-tested teachings that allowed them to live in ecological balance for millennia across a wide array of biomes and climatic conditions.

Respectfully utilizing these insights, curriculums, consultant-based presentations, and digital self-coaching platforms/apps will be curated to educate and enlighten businesses, schools and self-paced, individual learners on how they can live more sustainable lives that tread lightly on the planet.

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Neuroscience

Natural Mind

No human is whole without a complete sense of connection to all things

Natural mind is application experience where people can unlock their natural potential through activation their nervous systems, awakening their senses, and creating nourishing relationships within and around them – while being guided by mentors from all walks of life anywhere in the world.

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TECHNOLOGY & DIGITAL RESPONSIBILITY

Virtual Identities Integration Treatment Model

A four-pronged approach to working with virtual identities in psychotherapy that pulls from many therapeutic orientations.
The main goal of VIIT is to assess, treat, and integrate how virtual identities relate to the overarching self.

THIS INCLUDES:

  • Assessing for problematic interactive media and Internet behaviors;
  • Creating digital boundaries in the home environment;
  • Treating possible addiction behaviors and compulsions;
  • Integrating relationships with virtual identities; and
  • Relapse prevention by follow-up care and integrating treatment into daily life in a lasting way.
DREAM & DEEP IMAGINATION

Cultivating Imaginal Intelligence

The more time spent in Deep Imagination, the more our imagination evolves. When Imaginal Intelligence increases, so do the capacities for creativity, innovation, and ingenuity.

APPLICATIONS INCLUDE:

  • Research project designed to evolve a training curriculum to increase Imaginal Intelligence (IQ4)
  • App development to monitor the time in Imaginal Intelligence (IQ4)and to Measure the Increase of Imaginal Intelligence (IQ4)
MYTHS, STORYTELLING, AND CREATIVE EXPRESSION

Psychological Resilience for At-Risk Youth

Rates of anxiety, depression, self-harm behavior and suicidal ideation among preteens and teens are currently at an all-time high.

Researchers at AIAS will develop innovative digital media platforms/apps incorporating images, text, music, and movement that can inspire and empower preteens, adolescents and young adults (with an emphasis on LGBTQIA+ individuals) to craft and share their own unique stories, thereby prioritizing and enhancing their psychological resilience, self-care/image, and physical well-being/safety, while reducing rates of depression, anxiety, and self-harm

DEEP ECOLOGY AND INDIGENOUS COSMOLOGIES

Indigenous Insights for Living Sustainable, Ecologically-Balanced Lives:

Members of contemporary digital societies can directly benefit from the accumulated wisdom of global indigenous cultures and their time-tested teachings that allowed them to live in ecological balance for millennia across a wide array of biomes and climatic conditions.

Respectfully utilizing these insights, curriculums, consultant-based presentations, and digital self-coaching platforms/apps will be curated to educate and enlighten businesses, schools and self-paced, individual learners on how they can live more sustainable lives that tread lightly on the planet.

Neuroscience

Natural Mind

No human is whole without a complete sense of connection to all things

Natural mind is application experience where people can unlock their natural potential through activation their nervous systems, awakening their senses, and creating nourishing relationships within and around them – while being guided by mentors from all walks of life anywhere in the world.

Founders

Stephen Aizenstat

Founder

Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D., is the Founder of Dream Tending, Pacifica Graduate Institute, and The Academy of Imaginal Arts and Sciences. He is a world renowned Professor of Depth Psychology, an imagination specialist and innovator. He has served as an organizational consultant to major companies, institutions, Hollywood films, and has lectured extensively in the U.S., Asia and Europe. He is affiliated with the Earth Charter International project through the United Nations where he has spoken. He has collaborated with many notable masters in the field including Joseph Campbell, James Hillman, Marion Woodman and Robert Johnson.

Carol Grojean

Co-Founder

Carol A. Grojean, PhD is a social systems scientist passionate about unlocking the human potential in us all. Working internationally, Dr. Grojean has over 20 years extensive organizational strategy, human system design, and product leadership built on 3 Master degrees and a PhD with an emphasis on human behavior in organizational systems, transformational learning, cultural anthropology, and rites of passages. When not working, Dr. Grojean’s time is split between working with a tribe of Kalahari bushmen and COO of a tech company startup with the goal of connecting people and nature for greater well-being worldwide.

Frank N. McMillan

Co-Founder

An award-winning author, educator and speaker, Frank N. McMillan has taught Physical and Cultural Geography at the college level for over 30 years. An Honorary Member of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP), he founded the McMillan Institute for Jungian Studies in Houston, Texas. He currently serves as a trustee for Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California, and the Jung Center in Houston.

Thomas L Steding, Ph.D.

Co-Founder

Dr. Steding has been CEO of over 12 high tech companies. He is a member, Board of Trustees, Pacifica Graduate Institute and co-founder and member. He was co-author of Built on Trust – How to Gain Competitive Advantage in Any Organization, Contemporary Press, 2000 and now author of Real Teams Win: What Smart Leaders Need to Know Now About Achieving Peak Performance, Humanix Books, December 2020. He has a MS in Management (Sloan Fellow) Stanford University Graduate School of Business; Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California; and MS and BS in Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan.

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Our Applications

Working at the intersections between natural systems, the autonomous psyche, new technologies, and the wisdom traditions, the Academy exists to realize then apply the generative powers of Deep Imagination needed for personal, community and corporate wellbeing.

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