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Spencer Sherman received a B.S. from M.I.T. in Humanities and Science, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford
University in Psychology. He has been a licensed Clinical Psychologist since 1980, and has been teaching psychology
at Santa Barbara City College since 1979. He currently teaches An Introduction to Psychology, a course that applies
psychology's most important theories and findings to daily life, and Positive Psychology, which is the
rapidly evolving scientific understanding of the factors that promote happiness and life satisfaction.
Dr. Sherman has also been teaching in Santa Barbara City
College's widely-respected Adult Education program since 1993. His weekly Consciousness,
Science, and the Nature of Being class considers the rapid evolution in human comprehension of both the
outer and inner worlds, and how this enlargement of vision shapes the way we look at ourselves and structure our lives. Mindfulness
Meditation, Presence, Healing, and Happiness is an opportunity for people to learn to meditate, practice together,
and discuss the wide-ranging applications of mindfulness for emotional healing and optimal life experience. Many of the class
participants have been meditating together for more than a decade. Adventures in Consciousness offers
the chance to explore various nonordinary states of being and realms of enhanced awareness.
In addition, Dr. Sherman has recently become the moderator of the Mind and
Supermind lecture series. This nationally-recognized program of free talks, which has been taking place at the
historic Lobero Theater since 1975, brings to the Santa Barbara community some of the world's most well-respected
scientists, philosophers, physicians, psychotherapists, and spiritual pioneers.
Dr. Sherman's
many years of familiarity with psychological research, clinical developments, and consciousness-building practices such as
meditation and self-hypnosis, as well as his ongoing interest and activities in health psychology, have led him to a
way of working with people that blends science, psychotherapy, wellness promotion, and "a large helping of spiritual
encouragement."
About both the meetings with individuals
in his private practice and his extensive teaching efforts, Dr. Sherman says, "We can call what I do soulwork, where
soul means who we most deeply and authentically feel we are. My work is expressly in the service of catalyzing personal and
societal healing, growth, and transformation."
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