Shadows & Light (Volume 1 Principles and Practice): Theory, Research, and Practice in Transpersonal Psychology

Francis J. Kaklauskas, PsyD, facilitates the Group Psychotherapy Training Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and is core faculty at Naropa University Graduate School of Counseling and Psychology.  He is a fellow and past board member of the American Group Psychotherapy Association. Dr. Kaklauskas’ other publications include being the primary psychological consultant and on-screen presenter for the three part video series, Hooked: The Addiction Trap, and co-authoring the Group Psychotherapy chapter in The Handbook of Clinical Psychology. He has co-edited three previous volumes: Brilliant Sanity: Buddhist Approaches to Psychotherapy, Existential Psychology East‒West, and The Buddha, The Bike, the Couch, and the Circle. He is passionate about music and feels fortunate to have studied under Milt Hinton, Chuck Rainey, Bill Douglas, and Mark Miller and often tries to enlist his wife, Elizabeth, and son, Levi, to be his rhythm section partners. 

Carla Clements, PhD, LPC, BCPC has been chair of the Transpersonal Counseling Psychology Department at Naropa University for 8 of the last 13 years, where she has mentored professors in transpersonal pedagogy and personally taught hundreds of this generation’s transpersonal psychotherapists. She has served as a transpersonal psychotherapist for 30 years in Denver and Boulder, CO, specializing in post-traumatic stress disorders in women and has published several articles on transpersonal psychology and empathy. Her training was in Gestalt and Reichian therapies. In addition, she is currently the independent rater for the MAPS-supported study of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for chronic, treatment-resistant PTSD. She is a long-time yogini, musician, and naturist who published a CD in 1999 entitled, Creationship. Her daughter, Cate, is the delight of her life.

Dan Hocoy, PhD, is Chief Strategy Officer (and Past President) of Antioch University in Seattle and also serves as Associate Vice Chancellor of Advancement for the Antioch University System. Dan failed in his efforts to become a Catholic priest and settled for being a licensed clinical psychologist instead, so that he could at least serve souls in psychiatric hospitals and private practice. He has authored numerous publications that intersect culture, social change, and psychology. Dan is particularly obsessed with the transformative power of art as well as the notion of synchronicity and spends an inordinate amount of time trying to get the universe to conform to his personal interests.

Louis Hoffman, PhD, is the Executive Director of the Rocky Mountain Humanistic Counseling and Psychological Association. He has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association for his contributions to the field of psychology. Dr. Hoffman has published over 15 books and over 100 journal articles and books chapters. He is also private practice in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and he teaches at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs; the University of Denver, and Saybrook University as well as through the Existential-Humanistic Institute and the International Institute for Existential-Humanistic Psychology