The Center for Intentional Living is an in-depth experiential learning community invititing you to explore the interface of the psychological and the sacred. We both nurture your unique destiny and calling and mentor your personal, professional and spiritual identity.

  • Our 3-year Program

    Through our Our 3-Year Enrichment Program you will explore your psycho-spiritual development across the spectrum from early childhood through the separation-individuation process into adulthood and your future using both psychological and non-dual modalities.

    YEAR I: ROOTING FAITH IN OUR FIRST YEARS: At the moment of conception, two dances begin. One dance is between each of us and our primary caregivers. This first dependent, wordless experience shapes our love map for future intimate relationships...

    YEAR II: THE WORLD OF TRAUMA: RESTORING THE BODY-MIND-SOUL CONNECTION: Trauma can be very subtle and cumulative (strain trauma) or very sudden and shattering (shock trauma)...

    YEAR III: THE self, THE SELF, AND THE COLLECTIVE: In our last year together, having deepened as a community, we will explore how we each balance the autonomy of self, the guidance of Self, family and connection to community.

  • News & Updates

    • July – Dreaming The Gulf

      “in dreams begin responsibility” Yeats “you’ve got to serve somebody” Dylan by Judith Sarah Schmidt, PhD There has been a … Continue reading

    • March-A Matter Of Legacy: Life And Death

      By Alexis Johnson Ph.D I was startled to read in The New York Times, on Sunday January 10, 2010 that … Continue reading

    • April-Practicing with a Pebble

      After a very rewarding week of CIL teaching in Zagreb, Croatia, and excited about returning home, I found out that my flight was cancelled. Along with thousands of others, I was stopped in my tracks by the volcanic eruptions in Iceland that spread its ash over most of Europe. Now, it is almost a week that I am here and still unable to leave the beautiful city of Zagreb. Continue reading