BA in Individualized Studies Program

Catherine Lowther, PhD, MA

Faculty Advisor, BA in Individualized Studies Program

Residency Cycles 1, 2

 

Much of my life has been informed by living a self-sufficient, low technology, off grid lifestyle, managing a large organic garden where I grow most of the food for my family, home schooling my two children K-12, and being part of a spiritual tradition that includes daily meditation and study of spiritual principles. For the past twenty years, I have been in private practice as a therapist with a focus in dreams, art therapy and hypnotherapy; holistic health counseling based in the philosophies of Chinese medicine and Ayurveda; and communication and conflict resolution skills.

I love collaborating with self-directed students and have been teaching in the Goddard low residency programs since 1997. I have worked with students on projects in sustainable living, climate change, peak oil and energy descent, relocalization, the transition movement, permaculture design, organic gardening, food politics, renewable energy, and ecological economics; and in body-mind healing, holistic therapies, spirituality, transpersonal psychology, yoga, music therapy, art therapy, family systems, and vegetarian nutrition. I am the chair of the Goddard Sustainability Team and the Goddard sustainability list serve.

 

Educational Background: PhD in Consciousness Studies, The Union Institute; MA in Counseling Psychology, Vermont College; BA in Transpersonal Psychology, Goddard College.

 

 

 

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