Glenn Hartelius, PhD

Glenn's initial career interest was in archaeology, and he participated in his first excavation in Israel-Palestine at age 16. He became an expert in terracotta oil lamps of the Eastern Mediterranean from the Byzantine and Islamic periods, and contributed to a number of scholarly publications on this subject. In 1980 he received his first training as a bodyworker, which was his main profession and embodiment practice until 2007. Glenn earned his PhD in East-West Psychology in 2009, by which time he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, CA. In 2014 he was invited to the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco to found a new PhD program in Integral and Transpersonal Psychology. The program opened in 2016, focusing on integration of experiential authenticity with the level of academic rigor required to enable students to publish in academic journals and bring a transpersonal influence to the wider field. By the time he left his position in 2021, Glenn had also launched a PhD emphasis in Somatic Psychology, and the program had attracted more than 100 students.