Well, is hard for me to be succinct, but that is one other thing I learned at CIHS. To say and express what I feel and I think, somehow difficult and even more if you are not using your native language. At CIHS I came up to understand the nature of human experience, of my own experience as a human being. Psychology as the main course of my studying has brought me to realize that emotions and intentions are quite misunderstood, but so necessary to deal with. Furthermore, understanding my own emotions and motivations has been the underlying process that has given me unexpected knowledge and, with humbleness, wisdom as well.
The integral approach that CIHS emphasizes is great, not just because of the broad knowledge that supports the different courses of study, but mainly because it complements and breaks-through the orthodox and mainstream understanding of the Mind and Things of Spirit. In this respect I would like to point out that CIHS Faculty is much resourceful not only for its academic credentials, but rather of its own personal quest merging theory and practice always with a spiritual perspective. This sense has been one of the greatest lessons, integrating what I have learned theoretically-speaking with my own personal practice for growth and development. This is what I have come to understand as an integral approach in the field of Human Sciences.
In the process of personal development from within at CIHS I had the opportunity to meet people from all over the world India, Japan, South Africa, United States, and France to name a few, making my experience even more bountiful and fortunate. Sharing cultures and knowledge creates a richer educational experience and not only in academic terms per se, but in matters of life as well. I’ll always think of CIHS as a home to me, a place where I had the chance to discover things I would never had imagine, a place where I felt warmth inside.
Nowadays in my private practice as a psychotherapist and personal developer I never miss to recall an experience I lived back in those days at Encinitas. In fact in my daily sessions with clients and friends I would frequently use anecdotes that professors imparted me or any other experience that has changed and reformed me in a profound way. I can say that in spite of me living in Ecuador every now and then I remember and more that that I feel my living CIHS experience present today. So, I rather say that more than studying at CIHS I had a CIHS Experience of Realization and Growth that due to its essence it is still alive and will never die despite of time and space.