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WHO WE ARE
DREAMING AND HEALTH
SANTA BARBARA HEALING SANCTUARY
An Integrative Medical Treatment Facility
Enhancing The Body's Innate Healing Power
We live in exciting and interesting times. Nowhere is this more true
than in the fields of medicine and healing. Recent discoveries in
neuroscience validate healing traditions that are thousands of years old,
and show that the mind/body connection is indeed very real. They point
to new directions in the ways we think of and treat disease, and promote
wellness.
The ground-breaking work being done in this area has led a group of highly
experienced doctors, clinicians, and other professionals to establish
the Santa Barbara Healing Sanctuary, a significant resource for those
who suffer from serious medical conditions, or have been critically ill in
the past and wish to maintain optimal health. The Sanctuary's unique program
is multi-faceted and multi-disciplinary. Each patient receives a personalized
treatment plan, which integrates cutting-edge medical support with proven
therapies encompassing nutrition and cooking, meditation, creative arts,
reflective writing, music therapy, yoga, acupuncture, hydrotherapy, and more.
What makes the Santa Barbara Healing Sanctuary unique, distinguishing it
from other integrative healing centers, is its emphasis on the healing potential
of dreams. Dreams give individuals access to a form of intelligence originating
deep inside the brainstem, where signals travel up to the cortex and down through
the neuro-endocrine system to affect the body at a micro-cellular level. This
activity, as natural and innate as the human heartbeat, has extraordinary
therapeutic potential and is widely thought to trigger the body's own self-healing
response. The Santa Barbara Healing Sanctuary has been designed to maximize
these effects.
Patients engage in the program through a series of scheduled stays at the
Sanctuary, totaling 17 days divided among three sessions over a six-month period.
While not at the Sanctuary, patients receive ongoing support in their home environment.
The Santa Barbara Healing Sanctuary’s Six-Month Treatment Program begins with a four-day orientation
at the Sanctuary’s Center near Santa Barbara. After a two-month, at-home preparatory period, participants
return to the Center for a ten-day stay. During the next three months, participants integrate
their individually designed program into everyday life. The program concludes with a three-day retreat at the
Santa Barbara Healing Sanctuary.
Throughout the six-month program, participants are aided by a personal navigator who monitors their
progress and remains in close communication, both while they are at the Center and at home.
Working in collaboration with participants’ personal physicians, the Sanctuary offers individualized programs
incorporating these evidence-based therapies, in addition to dream-based healing methods:
• Nutrition and Food Preparation
• Mindful Meditation
• Reflective Writing
• Individualized Yoga
• Acupuncture
• Hydrotherapy,including Watsu
• Activities accessing the creative imagination through the Fine Arts, Journaling, Music, and Theater
The Santa Barbara Healing Sanctuary Team
The Sanctuary’s physicians, therapists, and supporting professionals provide a high level of experience and
expertise in the healing arts and sciences.
Michael Kearney, M.D., Medical Director
Michael Kearney has over 30 years experience in palliative
care. He is especially interested in combining medical
treatment with approaches that enhance the innate
healing capacities of body and mind.
Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D., Founding Director
Stephen Aizenstat is a clinical psychologist, marriage
and family therapist, and the founding president of
Pacifica Graduate Institute. For more than 35 years, he has
explored the power of dreams through the study of depth
psychology and the pursuit of his own research.
Robert Bosnak, PsyA, Founding Director
Robert Bosnak is a Jungian psychoanalyst with 40
years of clinical experience working with dreams. He
has developed a method of working with dreams that
profoundly affects physical health. It is currently in use by
health practitioners around the world.
Jill Fischer, MS, APRN, BC, Director of Clinical Services
Jill Fischer is an advanced-practice registered nurse and
clinical specialist who practices Jungian psychotherapy
and embodied dreamwork. She has 45 years of experience
in creating and administrating programs for hospitals,
public health settings, and community-based clinics.
Richard Kradin, M.D., PsyA, Director of Research
Richard Kradin is a research immunologist, Jungian
analyst, former Research Director of the Harvard Medical
School Mind/Body Medical Institute, and author of The
Placebo Response. He is an Associate Professor at Harvard
Medical School, and teaches at Pacifica Graduate Institute.
Radhule Weininger, Ph.D., M.D., Mindful Meditation
Radhule Weininger teaches meditation and has studied
Buddhist psychology for 30 years. As a psychotherapist,
she has noted the ways in which dreamwork is particularly
compatible with meditation practice.
Michael S. Kooby, D.C., Chiropractics
Michael S. Kooby has over 20 years of experience in
chiropractic care, energy work, and a holistic approach to
healing. He created Integrated BioEnergetics, a healing
modality that uncovers emotional, mental and spiritual
patterns that are held physically, and enables individuals
to discover their own healing capabilities.
Lawrence Span, PA, Ph.D., Reflective Writing
Lawrence Spann founded the Literature, Arts and
Medicine Program (LAMP). He has led more than 500
reflective writing groups, and writes daily.
Lane Clark, MFA, Creative Arts
Lane Clark is an artist who has taught abstract painting,
documentary video, and clay for 25 years. He helps
people access their imagination in order to augment and
deepen the healing process.
Carolyn Kenny, Ph.D., Music Therapies
Carolyn Kenny is a board-certified music therapist with
more than 40 years of experience. Her unique blend of
Western psychology and traditional Native American
healing originate from her indigenous background, her
work in arts-based research, and the role of the arts in
human development.
Professor Janet Sonenberg, Ph.D., Theater
Janet Sonenberg is a professor and Chair of Music and
Theater Arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Reuben Weininger, M.D., Individual Yoga
Reuben Weininger, is a psychiatrist and a student of T.K.V.
Desikachar of Chennai, India. He has a 36-year history
of studying, teaching and practicing yoga as a healing
modality.
Acupuncture, TBA
John La Puma, M.D., Nutrition and Cooking
John La Puma's a board-certified internist and
professionally trained chef who specializes in customized,
nutrition-based care. His books, recipes, and television
appearances help to change the way people think about
food, health and medicine.
Kimberley Patton, Ph.D., Sanctuary Historian
Kimberley Patton is a professor of comparative and
historical study of religion at Harvard Divinity School. She
specializes in ancient Greek religion and archaeology, and
has research interests in archaic sanctuaries.
The team also includes a number of physicians affiliated
with hospitals in the Santa Barbara area.
Permanent Advisors
Bessel VanderKolk, M.D.
Bessel VanderKolk is a professor of psychiatry at Boston
University Medical School, and Medical Director of the
Trauma Center at HRI Hospital in Brookline, MA.
Jon Lipsky, Professor of Theater, Boston University
Jon Lipsky is an award-winning playwright and director, and
professor of acting and playwriting at Boston University.
He has been playwright in residence at various venues, and
developed a dream enactment method for actors.
Joanne Segel, Ph.D, Movement Therapist
Joanne Segel is an advanced member of the American
Dance Therapy Association and a clinical psychologist. She
helped found the Center for the Healing Arts in Los Angeles.
Education and Research
In conjunction with the Sanctuary’s Treatment Program
an optional educational track is being offered. It
culminates in a Certificate in Depth Psychology with
Special Emphasis on Somatic Studies from Pacifica
Graduate Institute. In addition, OPUS Archives and
Research Center on the Campuses of Pacifica Graduate
Institute will offer a program based on the work of
Marion Woodman, and her emphasis on the relationship
between body and soul.
As your illness becomes your teacher it can prepare
you to become an effective peer counselor for others
suffering similar conditions.
Students in Pacifica’s M.A./Ph.D. Program in Depth
Psychology with Emphasis in Somatic Studies will serve
as interns and researchers at the Sanctuary. This degree
program is based on the fact that neuroscience has
convincingly demonstrated the functional unity between
mind and body. In doing so, science validates one of
the foundational principles of depth psychology—that
there are forces in the psyche which stimulate the body’s
capacity to heal itself.
The practices of the Santa Barbara Healing Sanctuary will
be the subject of continual scientific research designed to
further study the evidence base for this approach.
If you feel the Santa Barbara Healing Sanctuary's program
may be right for a patient, you, a loved one, or someone
under your care, we urge you to find out more. Phone the
Sanctuary's Clinical Director, Jill Fischer, MS, APRN, BC,
at 877-216-4610 for a free consultation. There is no
cost or obligation, and you will receive an honest assessment
of how the Sanctuary might be of help.
Visit the Santa Barbara Healing Sanctuary
The Sanctuary hosts bi-monthly, Saturday open houses
where you may meet with members of the team on
the Sanctuary premises. Open houses are will be held
February 19, 2011 and April 30, 2011 from 11:00 AM
to 4:00 PM. For more information, call the Sanctuary’s
Director of Clinical Services, Jill Fischer, MS, ARNP, BC at
877-216-4610 or e-mail jfischer@sbhsanctuary.com.
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