Cassandra Vieten
Cassandra Vieten, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist, mind-body medicine researcher, author, consultant, and public speaker. Cassi is a clinical professor in the Department of Family Medicine’s Centers for Integrative Health at the University of California, San Diego, where she serves as the director of the Center for Mindfulness. Cassi is also Director of Research at the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at the University of California, San Diego. Cassi is also co-founder and Clinical Psychology Director at the Psychedelics and Health Research Initiative at UCSD, Senior Advisor of the John W. Brick Mental Health Foundation, and Senior Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), founded by Apollo 14 Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, where she worked for 18 years. She served as CEO/President from 2013-2016.
Upcoming Programs by Cassandra Vieten
Imagination: Exploring Your Inner World for an Extraordinary Life
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them to the impossible. — Arthur C. Clarke Imagination is the foundational ingredient in problem solving – the ones in your own life as well as problems in society. Yet how many courses in imagination did you take during your K to12 education? Were you […]
How We Change and Why We Don't: The Art and Science of Transformation
Have you ever worked hard to make a change, only to find yourself slipping back into old habits? Want to supercharge your ability to stimulate behavior change in others when it comes to the issues you care about the most? Is it time to break free from old patterns and build your next chapter? This […]
Cultivating Vitality in Body, Mind, and Spirit: The Ecosystem of Mental Well-Being
Also With Elissa Epel
What is vitality? Exuberance, vibrance, sparkle, spirit, and verve — terms rarely found in psychology textbooks. Vulnerability to depression and anxiety is widespread, and our culture traditionally emphasizes reducing symptoms with drugs that alter certain neurotransmitters, which is only part of the picture. We are living in a new era where vulnerabilities can become strengths, […]