About

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Barbara Morrill, PhD, was Program Chair, Associate Professor, and core faculty in the Integral Counseling Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco from 2009 - 2022. She is now Faculty Emerita.  She received her MA from Boston College in Massachusetts and her PhD from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (now known as Sofia University) in Palo Alto, California. She is also a Clinical Psychologist licensed in CA, and has been in private practice for over 30 years. Barbara has spent much of her life exploring social, psychological, and spiritual development, with an emphasis on the intergenerational trauma caused by racism and anti-semitism.  Her dissertation (1994) was entitled "Quest for Wholeness: The Individuation Process of Seven African American Women: A Case Study.”

 

Her study of Etty Hillesum (An Interrupted Life and  Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum) began in 1997 and followed with a presentation at the International Transpersonal Congress, New Delhi, India (2008) entitled "Being in the Face of Annihilation: Transformation Through Writing as Inquiry in the lives of two Dutch Women During the Holocaust: Etty Hillesum (1914-1943) and Jetteke Frijda (1925-2017)”  and culminating with a presentation at The Etty Hillesum Research Center in Belgium (2014) entitled "Unfolding Toward Being: Etty Hillesum and the Evolution of Consciousness.” published by the Integral Journal in 2015. In 2018, she presented at another Etty Hillesum research Congress in Middelburg culminating in the edited book entitled The Lasting Significance of Etty Hillesum’s Writings was edited by Kllass A.D. Smelik with Barbara’s chapter entitled: The Contours of These Times; Etty Hillesum as Chronicler of Love Transcending Hate in Her Times, for Our Times, for All Time.

 

Her continued study has been about the Evolution of Consciousness and was a long-time member of the Diamond Approach (eastern and western consciousness teachings and practices) with A.H. Almaas and Karen Johnson. All of these experiences led to her current work to be published by Routledge in October 2024 entitled The Jungian Inspired Holocaust Writings of Etty Hillesum; To Write is to Act.