Santa Barbara Graduate Institute
Santa Barbara Graduate Institute was founded in 2000 to serve two fundamental callings: to move two related yet distinct emerging disciplines into mainstream psychology and practice, and to provide adults a transformational educational experience while earning graduates degrees in the promising fields of prenatal and perinatal psychology, and somatic psychology. With these focuses, students accomplish academic goals, develop new professional directions, and enhance their lives personally, while extending their newfound knowledge into the global community.
Santa Barbara Graduate Institute’s philosophy of synergistic education seeks to fill a need for an innovative and transformational education and research model. At the heart of synergistic education is the experience of the whole as greater than the sum of its parts. SBGI’s synergistic education philosophy values the integration of personal and professional experience with academic knowledge and research; multiple ways of knowing, learning, and healing; and the unique contribution of every participant interacting together to create a synergistic and nurturing educational community.
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SBGI is instrumental in creating a tipping point in the culture’s consciousness of what it means to be fully human by providing transformational education and research in pre- and perinatal psychology and somatic psychology.
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| Santa Barbara Graduate Institute provides excellence in graduate education, research and leadership in prenatal and perinatal psychology and somatic psychology with a focus on wholeness from developmental, relational, and transpersonal perspectives. |
Santa Barbara Graduate Institute Center for
Clinical Studies and Research
The SBGICCSR, formed in 2002, is a non-profit organization associated with SBGI whose mission is to provide research, clinical studies and educate the public in prenatal and perinatal psychology and somatic psychology. Since it’s inception, SBGICCSR projects have co-hosted Neuron-to Neighborhood Conferences, produced two film projects, supported faculty research and collaborated with community programs such as Santa Barbara City College Adult Education to provide continuing education for professionals. In June 2007 SBGICCSR initiated the Natural Family Living~Right from the Start Santa Barbara Community Project, supported through funds from the James S. Bower Foundation. This multi-year project’s goal is to build a systemic infusion of information, training and mentoring to multiple sectors of the Santa Barbara community based on the latest research and understandings of prenatal and perinatal psychology and health (PPN) in order foster our community’s human potential and set in motional optimal health and relationships from the beginning of life. The vision of the program suggests that through the new lens on babies and early development that PPN provides, the Santa Barbara community can further develop personal, professional, health care and social practices that provide babies and their parents with optimal experiences during this primary formative period.
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