Its aim to is provide a creative and nurturing space to generate leading-edge pedagogy for personal and cultural transformation. Offering a cooperative framework in which scholars and practitioners can develop an integral approach to their respective work, CSIIE is a platform for constructive change. The Associates of CSIIE are engaged in serving their communities on three major levels. First, cre
ating pedagogy which will enlighten those who seek our teachings and establish curriculum which may be used and built upon by future generations. Second, to assist in the spiritual inquiries and development of our students, offering a range of mentorship, therapies, and supportive access to ongoing discourse. Third, the promotion of integrally progressive, process- oriented discourse on cultural problem solving, in our immediate community and beyond. Classes, workshops, and writings are continually in progress through CSIIE and Associates via three departments (Department of Spiritual Arts & Technologies, Department of Mythic Ecological Heroism, and Department of Integral & 'Fear' Studies), with the aim of making our theories and practices as available as possible to the general public. The focuses thereof are in the fields of personal and cultural change, integral perspectives on the variety of existing materials regarding progress in all areas of the human experience, and in the creation of new disciplines which are uniquely relevant to the times in which we live and the challenges that we face. CSIIE was founded in 2009 by R. Michael Fisher, Ph.D., in alliance with the Gaia House Interfaith Center in Carbondale, Illinois. He serves as Director, and as Associate along with Treesong and Zachary Seibert.
