Psychology and Humanistic Studies Faculty

Dr. Achterberg received her Ph.D.in General Experimental Psychology from Texas Christian University. She is acclaimed for her work on the use of imagery in healing, psychoimmunology, behavioral strategies for the reduction of pain and anxiety, and the role of women as health consumers. Her research focuses on the psychological aspects of cancer, a comparison of biofeedback and physical therapy in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, and a test of behavioral strategies for pain and anxiety associated with orthopedic trauma.

My area of expertise is descriptive phenomenology--both the psychological research method developed by Amedeo Giorgi at Duquesne and Saybrook, and the foundations of this approach in the philosophy of Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. My aim as a researcher is to contribute to the founding of psychology as a qualitative human science that is capable of matching the natural sciences in rigor while being faithful to human being.

My recent scholarly publications have focused on method--for example, the ongoing debate between descriptive and interpretive approaches in qualitative psychological research. I'm also very engaged in the phenomenological study of consciousness, intercultural psychology, and the psychological study of leadership.

My MA thesis was a comparative study of intuition (unmediated perception) in the work of Husserl and the founder of modern Japanese philosophy, Nishida Kitaro; My dissertation was a psychological study of the meanings of leadership-as-servanthood among Muslim civil society leaders.

I have worked extensively in both the community mental health and organization development fields. I served as a clinical case manager in San Francisco's community mental health system for more than 8 years, working with formely homeless, dual-diagnosed adults.I have worked for more than 8 years in the corporate world in the organization and leadesrhip development field and currently consult to a variety of firms as an executive coach and management consultant. I live and work in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Dr. Bernhardt has 35-years experience in psychotherapy and analytic practice, supervision and consultation, applied research, multidiscipline teaching, and professional training in clinical and academic settings in lifespan developmental, health, counseling, and clinical psychology integrating depth, humanistic, and transpersonal traditions. She has trained under three generations of mentors, encompassing classical, modern, and post-modern theory and clinical applications in individual and group psychotherapy, intergenerational, and multigenerational development, and social systems applications.
Dr. Bernhardt has participated in research, teaching, training, and publications funded under National Institute of Mental Health grants in Departments of Medicine, Psychiatry, Psychology and Sociology through the University of California, San Francisco and Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute. She has participated in multidiscipline research in social and psychological issues in quality of life in chronic illness, early deprivation and adult survival in chronic illness, and the importance of the therapeutic alliance in medical ethics and standards of care. Through the C. G. Jung and Psychoanalytic Institutes of San Francisco, she has participated in research in psychological capacities and psychotherapy outcomes studies. Through grant-funded studies with Chapman University, she has consulted in research in quality of life and personhood in special needs in adult autism.
Dr. Bernhardt has served as graduate faculty with masters and doctoral students at Institute of Imaginal Studies and Dominican University. As Associate Professor, she has instructed in the Depth Psychology Program and served on theses committees at Sonoma State University. She has served as Assistant Professor, Director of Research and Theses, and Director of the M.A. Program in Clinical and Counseling Psychology at Notre Dame de Namur University, Clinical Psychology, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Gerontology programs.
Dr. Bernhardt currently serves as adjunct Associate Professor and Clinical Supervisor in the Psy.D. Program at California Institute of Integral Studies. As adjunct Clinical and Research Faculty, she serves on dissertation committees and instructs graduate coursework and clinical practica at Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. As Part-Time Faculty, she serves on M.A. research projects and Ph.D. dissertation committees and instructs in the Ph.D. Program in Humanistic-Transpersonal Psychology, Ph.D. Program in Human Science, Psy.D. Program in Clinical Psychology, and M.A. Program in Marital and Family Therapy at Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center.
Dr. Bernhardt is an advanced candidate in child and adult analytic training at the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. She completed her dissertation in lifespan depth psychology integrating psychoanalytic and Jungian depth and transpersonal perspectives in individual and cultural development under the advisement of Erik H. Erikson. Her clinical practice, longitudinal research and graduate teaching include lifespan and intergenerational expertise with children, adolescents, adults, and elders. She is a licensed psychologist in clinical, consulting, and supervising practice in Mill Valley, California.

Degrees and Licensure
PSY5958, Psychologist License, State of California, 1979
Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, California School of Professional Psychology, San Francisco, 1976
M.S. Counseling Psychology, Dominican University of California, 1973
B.S. Human Development, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, 1968
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Dr. Bersing received her doctorate from L'Universite de Toulouse-Mirail in France. As a clinical psychologist and a Gerontologist she has taught and led therapeutic groups and academic circles in Europe, South America, Central America, the Caribbean, and now in the United States. As leader in the Geriatric Industry, Dr. Bersing shows high integrity and a leadership known for ability to envision and create successful outcomes in complex situations with a tenacious commitment to education, research, and professional growth. A resourceful leader, multilingual and multicultural individual, Dr. Bersing's most recent project involves building a living retirement community for the LGBT population and further research in the overlapping of feminism and Ageism in our society.

A noted speaker and writer, she is the author of several books and articles. Currently, she is lecturing nationally in issues on aging, LGBT sensitivity training and her new work-in-progress, a book addressing the new role for aging women called From Crone to Mentor: still an opportunity for change. Her expansive involvement with professional associations includes sitting at the National Advisory Council for the Lesbian Health Research Center -hosted by University of California- San Francisco, in the Institutional Review Board for Cal Research, the Board of Directors of the Existential Humanistic Institute, and the Advisory Board for the Children's Hospital in Oakland, in issues of diversity and health care.

William Bruff received his Ph.D. from the California School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles in clinical psychology. He completed counselor training in an intensive person centered Master's Program at Harvard University. He also completed a three year intensive post-Ph.D. training program in Marriage and Family Therapy at the Cambridge Family Institute in Massachusetts.

Dr. Bruff's expertise is in the area of child and family therapy, small group process, community mental health, and psychology of gay men. His research interests include gay men's development and adult learning. He is a licensed clinical psychologist in the state of Massachusetts.

He has extensive experience in at-distance learning programs for adults having taught in, and directed undergraduate and graduate adult learner programs at Goddard College, Vermont College, Union Institute and currently Saybrook Graduate School.

His clinical experience has included both public and private practice in clinical psychology and family therapy as a founding member of the Martha's Vineyard Mental Health Center, as the coordinator for children's services for the Taunton area of the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health; working in the community with "mini-schools" and other alternative school programs for severely emotionally distrubed school aged children; as a consulting psychologist for the Anne Sullivan Center a multi-context pre-school for hearing impaired, physically challenged, and other pre-school children; as a family therapist for the Mendocino County Department of Mental Health in California; as a therapist with encarcerated or hospitalized juveniles and adults.

As a teacher I see the learner as the center point of the learning dialogue. I am a collaborator in the co-design of the learning experience, and a holder of academic and professional values, expectations, and standards to which the learner may choose to aspire.

Joanne Brunn received her Ph.D. in Human Sciences with a certificate in Creativity Studies, and an M.B.A. from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

She is currently enjoying working with a start-up software company, being a part-time professor at Saybrook University as a faculty advisor in the Creativity Studies program, and creating mobile apps to develop one’s creative thinking. She has worked as both a manager and consultant in various software, internet and strategic initiatives in industries as varied as toys, finance, and telecommunications. Her passion is using and teaching integrated approaches to organizational and leadership challenges combining insights from creativity and innovation, indigenous wisdom, systems thinking, intuition and organizational dynamics.

Her graduate research focused on the differences between Western and Indigenous worldviews as seen through the eyes of college students in a study abroad program to Indigenous Communities. She continues to study with Sobonfu Some, from the Dagara, an Indigenous tribe in Burkina Faso.""

Dr. Burstein is a licensed Clinical Psychologist. She has long-standing research and applied interests in innovative, cost-effective, mental health service delivery. Studying and teaching the components of "helping talk" and the processes involved in learning and mastery of interpersonal and group process skills in the training of mental health professionals and lay people are focused. As Program Director of UCLA's California Self-Help Center, she worked with teams to develop packaged programs aimed at "giving psychology away." The autoGAIT, the Common Concern program and the Group Starter Manual & Training Program are three examples of carefully field-tested means of delivering high quality, low cost, mental health services in small groups she developed and uses.
Currently, she directs a Clinical/Community Psychology Internship at Los Angeles Harbor College where she trains graduate students in traditional and alternative methods of mental health service delivery as well as crisis intervention, referral, learning disabilities assessment and accommodation. With a group of Saybrook colleagues she is applying some of these innovative methods in the new MFT track introductory course, "Basic Clinical Skills". She is interested in Clinical and Health psychology, particularly women's health issues and the application of research findings to social policy in the area of violence prevention. She coordinates the Peace Making, Peace Keeping and Community Building interest group at Saybrook in Los Angeles.

Kenneth Cloke is Director of the Center for Dispute Resolution and a mediator, arbitrator, attorney, coach, consultant, and trainer, specializing in communication, negotiation, and resolving complex multi-party conflicts, including community, grievance and workplace disputes, collective bargaining negotiations, organizational and school conflicts, sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuits, and public policy disputes, and in designing preventative conflict resolution systems for organizations. His coaching, consulting, facilitation, and training practice includes work with leaders of public, private and non-profit organizations on effective communications, collaborative negotiation, relationship building, conflict resolution, leadership development, strategic planning, team building, and organizational change.

His university teaching includes law, mediation, history, political science, conflict studies, urban studies, and other social sciences at a number of colleges and universities including Southwestern University School of Law, Antioch University, Occidental College, USC, and UCLA. He is an Adjunct Professor at Pepperdine University's School of Law, Strauss Institute; Harvard University School of Law, Program on Negotiation, Insight Initiative; Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Cape Cod Institute; and University of Amsterdam ADR Institute.

He has done work in conflict resolution in Austria, Bahamas, Brazil, Canada, China, Cuba, England, Georgia, India, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Puerto Rico, Thailand, Ukraine, the former USSR, United Kingdom, and Zimbabwe.

He is President and co-founder of Mediators Beyond Borders. He served as an Administrative Law Judge for the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board and the Public Employment Relations Board, a Factfinder for the Public Employment Relations Board, and a Judge Pro Tem for the Superior Court of Los Angeles. He has been an Arbitrator and Mediator for over twenty-seven years in labor management disputes, and is a member of a number of arbitration panels.

Thomas F. Cloonan received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Duquesne University. Dr. Cloonan's areas of research are phenomenology, psychology, methodology, history of phenomenological psychology and philosophy, art and aesthetics, and psychology and philosophy of religion and spirituality.

Daniel A. Coffman, Ph.D.

Ph.D. in Psychology from Saybrook Graduate School (2001) in Humanistic & Transpersonal, Clinical Inquiry, and Health Studies;

M.A. in Interdisciplinary Consciousness Studies from John F. Kennedy University (1987) in Research Methods, Counseling Psychology, and Health Education;

B.Ph. from The Pennsylvania State University (1983) in Psychology & Philosophy (majors) and Mathematics & Physics (minors);

BCIA certified in Biofeedback and Applied Psychophysiology since 1987. BCIA-Senior Fellow status conferred in January 2004.

Dr. Coffman is a licensed psychologist in CA specializing in behavioral medicine. His research interests are focused on: outcome assessment of programs in personal development; the impact of coping skills training on health behaviors; the influence of personality style on learning; and psychospiritual development. His expertise is in research methods, philosophy of science, and applied psychophysiology. "

Dr. Arne Collen received his Ph.D. in 1971, in Experimental & General Psychology from the Ohio State University, and since then, he has worked with a broad range of research methods and methodologies used in psychology, human sciences, and organizational systems. He is an active and regular contributor to several international organizations, professional societies, and publications focused on his research interests: Advancing research methodology for human inquiry; graduate education; research process and human knowing; exploring parallelisms and convergences among forms of human inquiry found in the arts, humanities, and sciences (particularly through visual arts based inquiries). Currently, he is Director of Research and member of the Executive Faculty. His major activities with students and colleagues involve dissertation and thesis supervision, teaching research courses, and developing the Human Science program. He is affiliated with two faculty cluster concentration areas: Consciousness & Spirituality, and Integrative Health Studies, even though he has a long history of working with students from all concentration areas and programs. He also teaches a course called CSP 3010 Arts Based Inquiry that is part of the Creativity certificate curriculum but open to other interested students.

Allan Combs is a consciousness researcher, neuropsychologist, and systems theorist. He holds appointments at the Saybrook Graduate School, The California Institute of Integral Studies, the Assisi Conferences, and is Director of the Conscious Evolution master's degree program at the Graduate Institute of Connecticut. He is also Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina-Asheville. Allan is author of over fifty articles, chapters, and books on consciousness and the brain, including The Radiance of Being (2ed): Understanding the Grand Integral Vision; Living the Integral Live, winner of the best-book award of the Scientific and Medical Network of the UK, with a foreword by Ken Wilber; Changing Visions: Human Cognitive Maps Past, Present, and Future, with Ervin Laszlo, Vilmos Csanyi, and Robert Artigiani; Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences, edited with Robin Robertson; Nonlinear Dynamics in Human Behavior, edited with William Sulis; Synchronicity: Through the Eyes of Science, Myth, and the Trickster with Mark Holland; and Mind in Time: The Dynamics of Thought, Reality, and Consciousness, with Mark Germine and Ben Geortzel. Professor Combs is a Director of the Center for Consciousness Studies at the Integral University, co-founder of the Integral Foundation and The Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences, a member of The General Evolution Research Group, the Integral Institute, the Forge Guild and the one-hundred member Club of Budapest. He is Associate Editor of Dynamical Psychology, and the serves on the Editorial Board of Science & Consciousness Review.

Allan was the winner of the 2002-2003 National Teaching Award of the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs, and in the same year the held the UNCA Honorary Ruth and Leon Feldman Professorship.

Allan Combs, Ph.D.

Allan Combs
2308 Lakeview Drive
Santa Rosa, CA 95405

Allan@SourceIntegralis.org
http://www.sourceintegralis.org/

Marie DiCowden received her degree in Clinical Psychology from the George Washington University.
Dr. DiCowden is a clinical healthcare psychologist and a behavioral medicine specialist. She writes extensively on issues of disability, health care, and health policy. She is an advocate on the need for patient care and health care reform.""

Patrick Faggianelli received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Saybrook Graduate School. Dr.Faggianelli is a licensed Psychologist who views psychotherapy as a healing process. He integrates Eastern and Western models of Being and healing in his work. He is particularly interested in exploring how embodied consciousness can be developed utilizing spiritual proctice, phenomenology, exitential thought, and aikido principles.

Bob Flax, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist, organization development consultant, activist, and teacher. He has a B.A. in psychology and philosophy from New York University, an M.A. in psychology from Long Island University, an M.A. in organization development from Sonoma State University, and a Ph.D. from Saybrook Institute.

During the Spring 2012 semester Dr. Flax will be teaching Healthy Communities (STR 6505), Systems of Psychotherapy (2025), and Disciplined Inquiry & Methods of Research II (RES 1015) and is available to work with students on independent studies, theses, essays, and dissertations.

Dr. Flax began his career as a psychotherapist in the late 1970's. His initial work focused on psychotherapy integration and therapist growth and development. From his 16 years of experience working in the prison system and traveling internationally he was struck by the way large systems contribute to human suffering. As a result he pursued training in organization development and conflict resolution, expanding his focus to include organizational, community and global systems. This led to his current involvement with the World Federalist movement – an effort to create a democratically elected world government capable of ending war and responding to today’s most pressing problems.

As a Therapist, he worked at the Boerum Hill Rehabilitation Residence, the Marin County Psychiatric Emergency Services, the Bay Area Depression & Anxiety Treatment Center, the California Department of Corrections, and in private practice. He trained at the New Institute for Gestalt Therapy, the Contextual Therapy Center, and The Bay Area Depression Treatment Center.

As an Administrator/Supervisor, he managed the East/West Center for Holistic Health, founded and directed the Contextual Psychotherapy Associates, supervised the residential program at Westside Lodge, co-directed the Bay Area Depression & Anxiety Treatment Center, coordinated a graduate program in Clinical Psychology at Sierra University, and served as a Supervisor with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

As an Educator, he has been on the faculty of LaGuardia Community College, Sierra University, William Lyon University, John F. Kennedy University, and The Professional School of Psychology. He has taught courses and seminars in psychology, organization development, social change and research. He has also conducted workshops nationally in therapeutic effectiveness.

As a Consultant, he has conducted organizational development, leadership, and communications training programs for a number of organizations ranging from small non-profits to IBM.

As a Social Change Agent, he has been involved in prison reform, building intentional communities, conflict resolution, and citizen diplomacy in Nepal and Burundi.

Dr. Flax lives in a cohousing community in the San Francisco Bay Area and enjoys outdoor adventure activities, swing dancing and meditation.

His current interests and activities include:

• World Federalism - Establishing a democratically elected world government capable of ending war and effectively addressing major world problems.
• Intentional Communities - Building collaborative and sustainable communities and neighborhoods.

Dr. Flax is also available to work with students in these areas:

• Citizen Diplomacy
• Conflict Resolution
• Holistic Health
• Organizational Culture
• Prison Reform
• Psychotherapy Effectiveness
• Psychotherapist Growth and Development
• Psychotherapy Integration
• Restorative Justice
• Spiritual Practice

Dr. Fox is a San Francisco based educator, author, and psychotherapist. His teaching, clinical, and research interests focus on humanistic/transpersonal approaches to psychotherapy, clinical supervision, and research methodology, as well as gender and sexuality, consciousness and self-healing, multicultural and cross-cultural issues, and alternative family structures.

Dr. Giorgi received his Ph.D. in Psychology from
Fordham University. He worked as a consultant to government and industry as a human factors expert for about four years and then decided to become an academician. As a professor he taught at Manhattan College, then Duquesne University and has been associated with Saybrook Graduate School since 1986.

Once Dr. Giorgi entered academic life, he became critical of mainstream approaches to psychology and he began to seek alternative approaches. He encountered philosophical phenomenology, especially the work of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, and he adopted that approach as a framework for developing an alternative approach to psychology. His specialty is in the area of psychological research practices, especially qualitative approaches, and he is the developer of a phenomenological method based on the thought of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty.

At Saybrook, Dr. Giorgi teaches courses on the phenomenological approaches to psycholgy and on the application of the phenomenological method. He is the author of more than 100 articles on phenomenology and psychology and he is the founder of the Journal of Phenomenological Psychology and was its editor for 25 years.

Benina Gould received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. She was awarded a Carnegie Fellowship at the Belfer Center for International Studies at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and Grants from the Center for Middle Eastern Studies , UC Berkeley and the Fetzer Foundation. She is former Director of the Social Transformation Program at Saybook Graduate School in San Francisco and a visiting scholar at the University of California, International and Area Studies.
Benina has completed a research study in Indonesia with colleagues at Pesantrens in Solo, Central Java entitled "Breaking the Barrier; The Muslim Youth Internet Survey: Use of the Internet for Current Islamic and Non-Islamic Issues." The purpose of this research is to examine the stereotype that 'madrassas' are the breeding grounds of fundamentalism." This research has also taken place in the Islamic community in California and in Pakistan. The outcome of this research will hopefully further our understanding of the next generation of Islamic youth.
Benina's present work "Religious Based Peace Education" is a long term project with the "Abrahamic Family Outreach" project at the Center for Theory and Research at Esalen Institute. As part of this she has developed the "Student Religion/Pluralism Survey" that asks questions in order to understand the role that religion plays in the daily lives of high school students both at school and with their friends. This work will take place in the United States and Germany.

Thomas Greening received his Ph.D.in Psychology from the University of Michigan in 1958. He is a licensed clinical psychologist in California and has been practicing client-centered, psychodynamic existential-humanistic psychotherapy for 47 years. He is a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology and a Fellow of five APA Divisions. He was Editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology from 1970-2005 and now is International Editor. He is a clinical professor of psychology at UCLA where he has supervised graduate students for 30 years.
Dr. Greening is active in citizen diplomacy. His first overseas trip was with the Quaker International Volunteer Service in 1952, followed by a Fulbright Fellowship to Vienna. During the Cold War he made five trips to the Soviet Union and recently he traveled to China. He and Saybrook graduate Clay Foreman created Saybrook's course in Citizen Diplomacy, the first such course in the world.
His teaching at Saybrook is within the Humanistic and Transpersonal Clinical Inquiry Concentration. He especially likes to teach Saybrook's courses in Humanistic Psychology and Psychotherapy, Existential Psychotherapies, Rollo May and the Existential Tradition, Critical Issues in Psychopathology, and Ethics.
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Dr. Louis Hoffman received his PhD from Fuller Graduate School of Psychology. His primary areas of interest include existential psychology and therapy, spiritual and religious issues in psychotherapy and mental health, diversity issues, and philosophical issues in psychology. Dr. Hoffman also regularly travels to China, often bringing students along, to engage in dialogues, consult, and give presentations relevant to existential psychology and the psychology of religion. An active writer and researcher, Dr. Hoffman continues to be active in research, primarily qualitative. His recent research projects have focused on the way people experience god or the transcendant, particularly focusing on cultural and diversity issues.

Dr. Hoffman is the author/editor of five books, including Existential Psychology East-West, Brilliant Sanity: Buddhist Approaches to Psychotherapy, and Spirituality and Psychological Health. He also also contributed chapters to many volumes, including Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy: Guideposts to the Core of Practice, Whole Person Healthcare, and Explaining Evil. He serves on the editorial boards for the Journal of Humanistic Psychology and PsycCRITIQUES. Additionally, he is a board member and co-chair of the continuing education committee for the Society of Humanistic Psychology (Division 32 of the American Psychological Association.

More information on his teaching and coursework is available at:
http://www.louis-hoffman-virtualclassroom.com

Dr. Hoffman's full vita is available at:
http://www.louis-hoffman-virtualclassroom.com/Publications_Page/Louis_Hoffman_Vita.pdf

Zonya Johnson received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Boston University.
Dr. Johnson is a licensed clinical psychologist whose primary focus is psychodynamic clinical theory and psychotherapeutic technique. Other research interests include socio-cultural values, and health psychology, including fertility issues, cancer treatment, and the interaction between socio-cultural issues and health.

Dr. Stephen Khamsi has been a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (#MFC8500) in California since 1976, and currently practices in San Francisco and the North Bay. As a credentialed Instructor and Counselor for the California Community College system, he has taught courses in Psychology, Human Sexuality, and Death and Dying for over 20 years. Since 2002 he has, in addition, provided academic advising at Saybrook University. Stephen is also interested in emotional expression in psychotherapy, and his articles and reviews have appeared in the Humanistic Psychology Institute Review, Aesthema, the PPPANA Journal, the Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology & Health, Primal Renaissance, and the Journal of Psychohistory.

Jerrol Kimmel, RN, MA. Mentor for the Mind-Body Medicine MS students. Jerrol began her career in community mental health and the healing arts in 1975 with a BA in Psychology from UC Berkeley. In 1983 she completed a nursing program to integrate Western Medicine with holistic practices. She received her Master's degree in Integrative Health Studies in San Francisco, CA. She is a faculty member of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine's professional training programs and is part of their Global Trauma Relief Team, and has maintained a private practice since 1980 integrating massage therapy, mind-body techniques and other holistic modalities in assisting her clients in attaining physical, emotional and spiritual health. She currently practices in collaboration with Dr. Ricki Pollycove, a board certified OB/GYN offering an integrative approach for women's health and healthy aging at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco."""

Jurgen Kremer received his Ph.D. Ph.D. Clinical Psychology from theUniversity of Hamburg.
Dr.Kremer is a clinical psychologist involved in interdisciplinary work with indigenous peoples and their traditions. He is committed to the exploration of new models of interdisciplinary, multicultural, dialogical, and socially engaged inquiry, as well as ancient ways of knowing using autobiography, dreams, myth, and poetry.

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Stanley Krippner received his Ph.D. in Special Education from Northwestern University. A pioneer in the study of consciousness, Stanley Krippner conducts research in the areas of dreams, hypnosis, shamanism, and dissociation, often from a cross-cultural perspective, with an emphasis on anomalous phenomena that seem to question mainstream paradigms.


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I received my Ph.D. in Transpersonal Clinical Psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (1992). I hold Master's degrees in transpersonal and counseling psychology (ITP, 1977, 1979), social psychology and anthropology (Temple University (1970), and sociology (CUNY,1967 (abd). I am a Psychologist and licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in San Francisco. I work with a varied population of adult and adolescent clients using integrative approaches to life issues. My interests include depth psychodynamic and psychoanalytic psychotherapy (Post-Freudian and Jungian, transpersonal, and existential-humanistic), Buddhist psychology and therapy, somatic approaches to therapy and healing, ecopsychology, social transformation, and Eastern psychology and meditative psychospiritual practices. I am a former Buddhist monk and priest-trainee in the Zen and Theravadin traditions, as well as studying extensively in Buddist Abidharma with Tibetan teachers. I hold black belt certifications in the Japanese martial art of Aikido, and the Chinese martial art of T'ai Chi Ch'uan. I am also on the faculty of John F.Kennedy University, teaching psychology.

My avocations are Dharma practices, writing, making music and art, gardening. juggling, reading, and walking.

My research career began in my undergraduate training. I worked as a research assistant on social psychology, sociology, and anthropology research projects. I was a research assistant on national studies for organizations such as the American Heart and the American Lung Associations. I participated in demographic research projects on American Census data. At Queens College, CUNY I was lead assistant on a seven year developmental study of several thousand students, learning to use computers to analyze data for the first time. I was also a teaching fellow. At Temple University I was lead assistant on a research project moving custodial mental patients to community housing during the Great Society initiatives of the 1960's. My thesis research focused on behavior in war and mob behavior. Much of my later research has been in developmental psychology and clinical psychology. My doctoral research was an innovative theoretical phenomenological study of mid-life developmental dynamics. I carried out research into psychological typology using the Singer-Loomis psychological type profile. I studied self-actualizing developmental dynamics using the Northridge Developmental Scale and the Personal Orientation Inventory. At the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology I was involved in collecting and analyzing data for the Spiritual Emergence Network, as well as editing the networks' newsletter. I have been an instructor at CUNY, Temple University, Hartwick College, ITP, CIIS, Antioch University, JFK University, U.C. Berkeley, and CSU Hayward.

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Jacquie holds a Ph.D. in psychology with an emphasis on consciousness and spirituality from Saybrook University. She is on the faculty of the Dream Studies Program at Saybrook. She also teaches graduate courses in psychology at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Argosy University Chicago, and California Southern University. Her website is http://jacquielewis.net
Jacquie is a researcher and author on dreams. She is also the editor of the Dream News, a monthly on-line newsletter of The International Association for the Study of Dreams.
Jacquie is a leading dream facilitator in the Chicago area, offering dream lectures and workshops focusing on personal insight, transformation, and spiritual growth. Her website on dreams is: http://lotusdream.org Her work with dreams spans 35 years when she began keeping a dream journal. She is also a founding member of a Chicago area dream group, which has been in existence for eleven years.
She is a, runner, yoga practitioner, and meditator, attending Buddhist retreats at least twice a year. She also enjoys documentaries and reading fiction and non-fiction. Jacquie is also the president of SPEAK (Supporting and Promoting Ethics for the Animal Kingdom), an all-volunteer national humane education speakers bureau and founder of Good Karma magazine, a Chicago area publication with a distribution of 25,000.

David Lukoff received his Ph.D.in Clinical Psychology from the University of Chicago.

Dr. Lukoff is a licensed psychologist whose areas of expertise include treatment of schizophrenia, transpersonal psychology, spiritual issues in clinical practice, and case study methodology. He is co-author of the DSM-IV's diagnostic category, Religious or Spiritual Problems.

Douglas MacDonald received his Ph.D.in Clinical Psychology from the University of Windsor.
Dr. MacDonald is a full-time faculty member at the University of Detroit Mercy and a licensed professional psychologist in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Areas of research and teaching interest include transpersonal psychology; the conceptualization and measurement of spirituality and exploration of its relation to psychological, physical, and social functioning; non-ordinary states of consciousness and their use in facilitating health; personality theory; clinical assessment, psychometrics and testing, research methods, psychotherapy, and developmental psychology.


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Ann Masai is a hospice chaplain, an Interfaith Minister, a counselor in Embodied Sacred Psychology, and a member of the adjunct faculty at Saybrook Graduate School and the California Institute of Integral Studies. Masai obtained her Ph.D. from CIIS in Transformational Learning in 2001.

She considers herself as Spiritual Activist.It is her joy and vision to interweave her spiritual work with social justice issues, specializing in end-of-life issues, conflict resolution, and non-violent communication.

Masai has practiced meditation for 35 years, including Siddha Yoga with Baba Muktananda and Guruymayi, Christian centering prayer, Tibetan traditions with Lama Yontan Gonpo, and vipassana (her "home" practice). With her multi-racial background (African, Irish, and Romany), Masai has worked with the Black and Biracial SASHA Program in the San Francisco Bay Area, which seeks to identify and eradicate the effects of internalized racism, classism, and sexism within the black community. Her work in Peace and Conflict Resolutio includes being the Education Coordinator at the Center for Peace Education in Chapel Hill, N.C.

Additionally, she worked for 13 years at the University of California, Berkeley, developing a curriculum to integrate disabled students, staff, and faculty into ongoing university programs.

Ed Mendelowitz completed his doctoral studies at the California School of Professional Psychology where he worked closely with Rollo May. He is on the board of editors for the Journal of Humanistic Psychology and a contributor to the major compendiums of existential/humanistic/depth psychotherapy. He has presented numerous papers on psychology, psychotherapy and their respective interrelations with the humanities in the USA and Europe and, most recently, East Asia. His work resides on the gnostic frontiers of psychology in its blending of art, literature, music, cinema, religion, philosophy and clinical narrative with the more recognizable fare of theoretical scholarship. Dr. Mendelowitz is a part-time faculty member for Saybrook University and a lecturer for Tufts School of Medicine; he is Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of the Rockies. Mendelowitz writes a quarterly online column, Humanitas, for the Society of Humanistic Psychology and lives and works in Boston.

Donald Moss is Director of the Integrative Health Studies Concentration at Saybrook. He earned his Ph.D. in phenomenological and clinical psychology from Duquesne University and completed clinical training at the University of Pittsburgh Health Center. He is a partner in the Psychological Services Center in Grand Haven and Holland, Michigan.

Donald Moss is past-President of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, chief editor for the Biofeedback magazine, associate editor for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, and consulting editor for the Journal of Neurotherapy, and the Journal of Phenomenological Psychology. Dr. Moss has published three books and over fifty articles, book chapters, and book reviews on biofeedback, anxiety disorders, the phenomenology of the body, mind-body medicine, and complementary and alternative health care. His most recent book was: The Handbook of Mind-Body Medicine for Primary Care (Sage Publications, 2003).

Donald Moss is dedicated to making the techniques of mind-body medicine available throughout the global community, and has conducted workshops for health care professionals and lay persons in the US, Canada, Mexico, Honduras, Jamaica, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. His publications on alternative health care have been made available in Chinese, Hebrew, Polish, German, and Spanish.

In his clinical practice, Dr. Moss integrates biofeedback training, cognitive-behavioral therapies, and an existential-integrative perspective on the human life cycle. He emphasizes the acquisition of voluntary control skills, and the individual's recovery of control over both physical and mental health.

Marc Pilisuk received his Ph.D. in Clinical and Social Psychology from the University of Michigan. His research studies have included a hospice in rural New Mexico, self-help support groups for post-mastectomy women, alternatives to civil commitment for the homeless mentally ill, the causes and prevention of war, terrorism and other violent conflicts . He has combined research, teaching and activism in the areas of caring and health, conflict resolution, community intervention skills, the human consequences of globalization, youth violence prevention, terrorism and environmental and social justice.
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Steven Pritzker received his Ph.D.in Educational Psychology from the University of Southern California.

His research has dealt with creativity and film, collaborative creativity in writing and business; creativity and spirituality; audience flow; the effect of alcohol on creativity and the creative process in high achieving writers.

His background in the business world includes experience in marketing, advertising, training, consulting and marketing research. He worked in television writing and producing network television shows. He is Editor-in-Chief of The Encyclopedia of Creativity (2nd edition was published June, 2011) and was Humor Editor for Psychology Today magazine.
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Ruth Richards received her Ph.D. in Education (Educational psychology and science education) from University of California, Berkeley and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. She is an educational psychologist and research psychiatrist, a Professor of Psychology at Saybrook Graduate School, and member of the Concentration in Consciousness and Spirituality, who also brings the interest of ongoing work as Research Affiliate in Psychology and Psychiatry at McLean Hospital in Belmont, MA; Lecturer, Dept. of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. She teaches courses including Dimensions of Creativity, Perspectives in Creativity, Psychology of Consciousness, Personal Mythology and Dreamwork, and Eastern Psychologies, plus selected others such as Psychopathology and Diagnosis for clinicians. She is particularly pleased to announce our new Creativity Studies Certificate, and am delighted to work with Certificate, M.A., and Ph.D. students in this general area. She is also enthusiastic about working with students pursuing Saybrook's forthcoming Sustainability and Sustainable Futures Certificate.

Originally a clinician, I maintained a psychotherapy practice for over 25 years, specializing in eating disorders and cognitive therapy for depression, anxiety, and insomnia. I have published two books and numerous journal articles on eating disorders, and a book on food and the environment. I am deeply involved in environmental issues and articulating the roles psychologists can play in the cultural and economic transitions that are under way. I served on Saybrook's sustainability task force, which created the certificate program in sustainability, allowing students to acquire environmental skills and credentials. I am a graduate of Wellesley College, Goddard College, and Saybrook.

Dr. Donald Rothberg writes and teaches on transpersonal studies, meditation, spiritual practice in everyday life, and socially engaged Buddhism. He directs the 18-month interfaith program in Socially Engaged Spirituality at Saybrook, and has been an organizer, teacher, and board member for the Buddhist Peace Fellowship over many years. He is also a meditation teacher and a member of the Spirit Rock Meditation Center Teachers Council in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he directs a two-year training program, The Path of Engagement, bringing together spiritual practice, service, and social action. For ten years, he was a co-editor of the journal ReVision, and is a co-editor of Ken Wilber in Dialogue: Conversations with Leading Transpersonal Thinkers. Most recently, Donald is the author of The Engaged Spiritual Life: A Buddhist Approach to Transforming Ourselves and the World.

The Hawaii address is an old one; please use the CA address or, better yet, email. Aloha.

KIRK J. SCHNEIDER, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and leading spokesperson for contemporary humanistic psychology. He is current editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, vice-president of the Existential-Humanistic Institute, and adjunct faculty at Saybrook Graduate School and the California Institute of Integral Studies. He is also a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Schneider has published over 100 articles and chapters and has authored or edited eight books, The Paradoxical Self: Toward an Understanding of Our Contradictory Nature, Horror and the Holy: Wisdom-teachings of the Monster Tale, The Psychology of Existence: An Integrative, Clinical Perspective (with Rollo May; currently being translated into Chinese), The Handbook of Humanistic Psychology: Leading Edges in Theory, Research and Practice (with J. Bugental and F. Pierson), Rediscovery of Awe: Splendor, mystery, and the fluid center of life, and Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy: Guideposts to the Core of Practice (currently being translated into Russian). Dr. Schneider is the 2004 recipient of the Rollo May award for "outstanding and independent pursuit of new frontiers in humanistic psychology" from the Humanistic Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association and is the 2009 recipient of the Living Institute "Cultural Innovator Award." Most recently, Dr. Schneider conducted Existential Therapy and Existential-Humanistic Therapy Over Time for an APA video series on psychotherapy (www.apa.org/videos) and with Dr. Ed Mendelowitz, completed the chapter on Existential Psychotherapy for Corsini and Wedding's Current Psychotherapies (8th ed.). Dr. Schneider's most recent books are: Awakening to Awe: Personal Stories of Profound Transformation (Jason Aronson, 2009), and Existential-Humanistic Therapy (co-authored with Dr. Orah Krug), which is due to be published in September, 2009 by the American Psychological Association as part of their monograph series on the major orientations in the field. Dr. Schneider has been invited to be the keynote speaker at the first Existential Psychology East West Conference in Nanjing, China 2010.
Major recent interviews on "Rediscovery of Awe" can be heard on San Francisco Bay Area's KQED Radio program "Forum" with Michael Krasny (see archives at www.kqed.org) and San Francisco Pacifica Radio's "Spirit in Action" program with Reverend Matthew Fox (see archives if still available www.kpfa.org). His talk on "Psychotherapy and the Mystery of Being," which was filmed by Canadian public television station TVO can be seen on You Tube.
For more info on Dr. Schneider and the Existential-Humanistic, see www.kirkjschneider.com, www. ehinstitute.org. and www.pacificinstitute.org/.

I received my Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from The Wright Institute. I have worked as a clinical psychologist for many years with a diverse population of families, children and adolescents in both K-8 and high schools settings. I also maintain a private practice in San Francisco, seeing a broad range of adult individuals and couples. In addition, I have supervised numerous clinical psychology doctoral students. I have a thorough knowledge of clinical diagnostics, and currently work as a federal contractor with the Social Security Department on an interdisciplinary team of medical doctors providing quality assurance reviews of state decisions on mental health disability claims. I also teach courses on working clinically with adolescents and children. My areas of clinical interest include: Family systems therapy, play, art and psychotherapy with children and adolescents. Research experiences include issues of coping and chronic illness, memory across the lifespan and learning and plasticity in neuronal networks.

Sandy Sela-Smith, Ph.D. graduated with a BA in History and Political Science from the University of Washington, and MA and Ph.D. in Psychology from Saybrook Graduate School. Dr. Sela-Smith is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida, Colorado and in Washington, State and is a nationally certified clinical hypno-therapist. She maintains a private practice focused on psycho-spiritual healing. The focus of her work involves using self-discovery to assist clients in self-healing, articulating a method of research called Heuristic Self-Search Inquiry (HSSI), which involves Jungian-based depth psychology and shamanic journeying to root causes of current problems. Her areas of interest include alternate realities, autobiography as metaphor, dream work, arenas of non-ordinary reality, genetic, past life and body memory, mind/body/spirit integration, obesity issues, shamanic journeying, sexual abuse issues, personality integration, and trauma and dissociation issues. Dr. Sela-Smith is the author of E Pluribus Unum: Out of Many...One (2004) and the first two books of a trilogy, The Meaning of Three: The Mask (2008), and The Meaning of Three: Behind the Mask (2009). She is currently completing the third, The Meaning of Three: Under the Mask, expected out in the summer of 2010.

Anthony Stigliano received his Ph.D. in Philosophy/Education from the University of Virginia.
Dr. Stigliano's areas of expertise include moral and political philosophy, modernity and modernism, postmodernism, art history and criticism, aesthetics and value theory. His research includes the politics of religion (especially radical Islamism and radical Christianism), the bases and impact of neo-conservatism, negative theology, the work of Marin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, Friedrich Nietzsche and Soren Kierkegaard.

Eugene Taylor received his PhD in the University Professors Program at Boston University. He is a historian and philosopher of psychology, and an internationally recognized scholar on the life and work of William James. He specializes in the history of dynamic theories of personality, and the origins of Existential-Humanistic and Transpersonal psychology. He is also a specialist in Classical Asian Psychology and writes on Western interpretations of Asian ideas. He is chair of the Concentration in Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology and Executive Faculty liaison representing Saybrook's Institutional Affiliation with the Philemon Foundation, which is bringing out, in addition to Jung's Red Book, the 35.000 unpublished letters comprising the correspondence of Carl Jung and a new edition of Jung's complete works. He has recently published (Springer, 2009), and is slated to receive the Abraham Maslow Award by the Society for Humanistic Psychology (Div. 32) in the American Psychological Association in 2011.

Stephan Tobin received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Michigan.
Dr. Tobin has thirty-nine years exeperience as a licensed psychologist. His main interest has been on bridging psychoanalytic theory and psychotherapy with existential-humanistic philosophical assumptions. He has written numerous articles on Gestalt Therapy, Intersubjectivity, Self Psychology and EMDR. His main areas of concentration in Saybrook are Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology and Consciousness and Spirituality.

Dr. Vaughan holds dual academic credentials in clinical psychology and law. He is a certified Jungian analyst. He received his jurisdoctorate degree from the University of Virginia, and a doctorate of philosophy, in Clinical Psychology, from New York University. He was certified as Jungian analyst byt he C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco where he is member analyst and serves on the editorial board for the Jung Journal of Culture and Psyche.

He has offered a range of doctoral level courses in the following areas: Cognitive Assessment, Child and Adolescent Development, Adult Development and Aging, Issues in Assessment and Treatment of Ethnically Diverse Populations, Diagnostic and Clinical Interviewing, Theories of Personality and Psychotherapy, Forensic Psychology, African- American Cultural History and Psychology, Psychology of C.G. Jung, Psychopathology and Diagnosis, Ethics and Laws in Psychotherapy and Psychological Research, and Group Psychotherapy. His governance responsibilities have included, Co-chair of Faculty, Chair of Research Committee, Admission Committee, Chair of the Faculty & Student Diversity Committee and current Director of the Consciousness and Spirituality Concentration.
His professional consultation practice is in the areas of Jungian or Analytical Psychology, Forensic Psychology and Education Program development and evaluation. His current research investigates American Jurisprudence through the lens of Analytical and Cultural/Ethnocultural Psychology. ""

Allyson Washburn received her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Johns Hopkins University.Dr. Washburn's current research interests include early identification of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, social cognition in normal aging and dementia, personhood in dementia, nonpharmacological treatment for chronic pain, identification and treatment of depression in frail elders, and the epidemiology and treatment of diabetic complications.
She has been conducting applied psychological research, using both quantitative and qualitative methods, for over twenty years. For the past seven years, she has also been the statistical and methodological consultant for a research project with nursing home residents and another with drug-dependent men and women. She has been principal investigator on grants from the National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer's Association. Much of Dr. Washburn's aging research has been conducted at the Jewish Home in San Francisco, where she currently directs evaluations of innovative programs to enhance quality of life for residents and staff. Dr. Washburn's earlier research examined novice mental models of computers (dissertation research using qualitative methods), acupuncture heroin detoxification, acupuncture treatment of cocaine dependence, and retention in substance abuse treatment.

Dr. Ian Wickramasekera (“Dr. Ian”) enjoys teaching and research and he is well known nationally and internationally for his work in integrative medicine. He was previously on the faculty of the Psychiatry Department of the University of Illinois at Chicago and also at the Adler School of Professional Psychology where he directed a hypnosis training program for medical professionals. Dr. Ian currently is on the adjunct faculty of Saybrook University where teaches classes related to neuroscience and integrative medicine. Dr. Ian was also elected President of American Psychological Association’s Society of Psychological Hypnosis in 2008 and was the youngest person ever elected to hold that office in its forty year history. He was awarded an Early Career Award from the American Psychological Association’s Division of Hypnosis and also from the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis for his teaching and research efforts. His research interests include Bon-Buddhism, Consciousness Studies, Empathy, Hypnosis, Integrative Medicine, Lucid Dreaming, Parapsychology, and Psychophysiology.

Dr. Ian is a licensed clinical psychologist who enjoys helping his patients with chronic pain and other challenging medical problems. Dr. Ian first became interested in health psychology and integrative medicine after winning his own struggle with chronic pain 30 years ago. He enjoys teaching his patients how they can draw from the strengths of their body, mind, and spirit to help them overcome serious medical problems. Dr. Ian has over ten years of clinical experience in teaching his patients how they can use their own mind/body connection to address serious medical issues like chronic pain, burn injuries, diabetes, cancer, sleep disorders, and heart disease while improving their own experience of health and happiness.
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I began my association with Saybrook in 2006. Since that time, I have facilitated the introductory research courses; worked with learners as their instructor for research coursework, supervised Practicum coursework, served on essay committees and reader and Chair, and served on and chaired thesis/project and dissertation committees. I currently serve as Director of the Saybrook Institutional Review Board. For the past 26 years, I have also served as a Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Graduate College of Union Institute & University, being named Professor Emerita by the Board of Trustees in 2011. In addition to being a licensed clinical psychologist (current in New Mexico and Hawaii), my true academic interests lie in creativity studies, the intersections of wellness and meditative practice, theory-building and systems theory, and the creative and visual arts. In my time in higher education, I have supervised well over 100 dissertations. My various other identities include being a creative thinker, an artist, a follower of the Dharma, a mentor and facilitator, a loyal friend, an interested and amused student of life, a muse, a writer, and a sister traveler on the journey. I currently work with students interested in a variety of disciplines; regardless of their primary field, what excites me about learners' work is the interdisciplinarity and genuine passion that enlivens their doctoral studies. When I want to dance in the unself-conscious flow of life, I work at my jeweler's bench as a metalsmith. In addition, I am currently involved in studying, reflecting upon, and practicing the Tibetan Dharma (Nyingma tradition).""

Dr. Arne Collen received his Ph.D. in 1971, in Experimental & General Psychology from the Ohio State University, and since then, he has worked with a broad range of research methods and methodologies used in psychology, human sciences, and organizational systems. He is an active and regular contributor to several international organizations, professional societies, and publications focused on his research interests: Advancing research methodology for human inquiry; graduate education; research process and human knowing; exploring parallelisms and convergences among forms of human inquiry found in the arts, humanities, and sciences (particularly through visual arts based inquiries). Currently, he is Director of Research and member of the Executive Faculty. His major activities with students and colleagues involve dissertation and thesis supervision, teaching research courses, and developing the Human Science program. He is affiliated with two faculty cluster concentration areas: Consciousness & Spirituality, and Integrative Health Studies, even though he has a long history of working with students from all concentration areas and programs. He also teaches a course called CSP 3010 Arts Based Inquiry that is part of the Creativity certificate curriculum but open to other interested students.

Joel Federman, Ph.D., is a writer, teacher and activist. He is Director of Saybrook's Human Science--Transformative Social Change MA degree specialization and its Social Transformation Concentration. He has a doctorate in political philosophy from the University of Southern California, and currently lives in San Francisco.

During the Spring 2012 semester, Dr. Federman is teaching STR 6510 CO Theory and Practice of Nonviolence, STR/MFT 6610 CO Social System Transformation Theory, STR 7079 Building Sustainability: Present Practices in Community and Society, STR 6590 Peace Studies, and is a member of several dissertation, thesis and essay committees.

Dr. Federman is currently working on a case study of civil society activism toward democratic reform in Egypt. To further this research, he traveled to Egypt in August 2011, and met with democracy activists and others.

More broadly, Dr. Federman's teaching and writing focuses on helping people to reinvision their individual and collective potential, to see themselves shaping a better world. He is particularly interested in global-level social change, especially the development of global civil society efforts aimed at realizing values such as universal compassion, social justice and peace. He is writing a book on those themes, to be titled The Politics of Universal Compassion. He is also interested in exploring ways that new communication technologies can be used in the service of transformative social change.

He edits a website on the topics of peace, social justice, universal compassion, diversity, and ecology, at www.topia.net. He also has done research and writing in the related areas of violence prevention, media violence, diversity education, and cross-cultural conflict resolution.

A former Co-Director of the Center for Communication and Social Policy at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Dr. Federman was project director for the National Television Violence Study. For that three-year effort (1995-98), he coordinated a team of more than 200 individuals at four major research universities -- the Universities of California, North Carolina, Texas and Wisconsin -- to produce the most comprehensive study of television violence to date.

Dr. Federman was also project director and co-author of the Choices and Consequences Evaluation, a study of a middle school violence prevention curriculum developed by Court TV, the National Middle School Association, and Time Warner Cable. In 1998, he initiated the Center's Civility Clearinghouse, a web-based resource for information regarding the topic of civility. He is the author of Empowering Diversity, a curriculum for middle school students commissioned by the Santa Barbara, California Board of Education.

Dr. Federman has led numerous cross-cultural conflict resolution workshops, including a year-long Palestinian-Jewish dialogue at the University of Southern California. He is a former member of the board of directors of the Peace and Justice Studies Association, a national consortium of university-based peace and conflict studies programs.

His writing has been published in the Los Angeles Times; the Encyclopedia of Communication and Information; Tikkun Magazine; Common Dreams; the Yearbook of the UNESCO International Clearinghouse on Children and Violence on the Screen; Alternet; Campaigns and Elections; and Humanities in Society.""

Dr. Giorgi received his Ph.D. in Psychology from
Fordham University. He worked as a consultant to government and industry as a human factors expert for about four years and then decided to become an academician. As a professor he taught at Manhattan College, then Duquesne University and has been associated with Saybrook Graduate School since 1986.

Once Dr. Giorgi entered academic life, he became critical of mainstream approaches to psychology and he began to seek alternative approaches. He encountered philosophical phenomenology, especially the work of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, and he adopted that approach as a framework for developing an alternative approach to psychology. His specialty is in the area of psychological research practices, especially qualitative approaches, and he is the developer of a phenomenological method based on the thought of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty.

At Saybrook, Dr. Giorgi teaches courses on the phenomenological approaches to psycholgy and on the application of the phenomenological method. He is the author of more than 100 articles on phenomenology and psychology and he is the founder of the Journal of Phenomenological Psychology and was its editor for 25 years.

JoAnn McAllister, Ph.D. is the Chair of the Human Science Degree Program. Her thinking and research focuses on how individual, cultural and social beliefs are shaped by stories and how beliefs and attitudes change through conscious and unconscious storying. Her current interests focus on the intersection of religious, political, scientific, and cultural stories as reflected in contemporary social issues. She has worked with non-profit organizations and government agencies, including the Office of the California Attorney General, to evaluate and develop prevention and intervention programs for domestic violence offenders and children of incarcerated parents. She has written on spirituality, ecology, and social change, and is the co-author of Doing democracy: The MAP model of social movements (New Society Press). She has a background in United States history, Western intellectual history, Western religious and spiritual traditions, and Human Science. ""

Marc Pilisuk received his Ph.D. in Clinical and Social Psychology from the University of Michigan. His research studies have included a hospice in rural New Mexico, self-help support groups for post-mastectomy women, alternatives to civil commitment for the homeless mentally ill, the causes and prevention of war, terrorism and other violent conflicts . He has combined research, teaching and activism in the areas of caring and health, conflict resolution, community intervention skills, the human consequences of globalization, youth violence prevention, terrorism and environmental and social justice.
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I began my association with Saybrook in 2006. Since that time, I have facilitated the introductory research courses; worked with learners as their instructor for research coursework, supervised Practicum coursework, served on essay committees and reader and Chair, and served on and chaired thesis/project and dissertation committees. I currently serve as Director of the Saybrook Institutional Review Board. For the past 26 years, I have also served as a Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Graduate College of Union Institute & University, being named Professor Emerita by the Board of Trustees in 2011. In addition to being a licensed clinical psychologist (current in New Mexico and Hawaii), my true academic interests lie in creativity studies, the intersections of wellness and meditative practice, theory-building and systems theory, and the creative and visual arts. In my time in higher education, I have supervised well over 100 dissertations. My various other identities include being a creative thinker, an artist, a follower of the Dharma, a mentor and facilitator, a loyal friend, an interested and amused student of life, a muse, a writer, and a sister traveler on the journey. I currently work with students interested in a variety of disciplines; regardless of their primary field, what excites me about learners' work is the interdisciplinarity and genuine passion that enlivens their doctoral studies. When I want to dance in the unself-conscious flow of life, I work at my jeweler's bench as a metalsmith. In addition, I am currently involved in studying, reflecting upon, and practicing the Tibetan Dharma (Nyingma tradition).""

Dr. Briskin is the author of The Stirring of Soul in the Workplace, winner of the 1997 Body Mind Spirit Award of Excellence, and co-author of The Power of Collective Wisdom and Bringing Your Soul to Work: An Everyday Practice. He is also coauthor of Daily Miracles: Stories and Practices of Humanity and Excellence in Health Care. He is a management consultant who for twenty years has been helping business leaders wrestle with how to create more effective and humane workplaces. His interest in collective intelligence and wisdom traditions has led him to seek increasing ways for people to collaborate on behalf of the greater good.
Highly regarded for his commentary on the changing nature of the workplace and work, his articles and observations appear often in the print media, including The Washington Post, London Times, and Across the Board. He has been a featured guest on national public radio, most recently in a series on "Anger in the Workplace", and has given keynotes or conducted workshops on the spiritual context of work throughout the United States, Canada, and South Africa.
Alan consults to individuals and organizations in areas of leadership, work design, and organizational learning. He is on the faculty of Saybrook Graduate School, teaching within the Organizational Systems concentration. He teaches courses on the history of managment practices and on the growing interest of spirituality and work. Dr. Briskin is also a member of the Fetzer Institute's network of health care professionals advancing the concepts of relationship centered care. He has a doctorate degree in organizational psychology and is a professional associate of the Grubb Institute in London, England

Marvin T Brown, Ph. D. has over twenty-five years experience as a teacher, writer, and consultant in business and organizational ethics. He teaches business ethics in the Philosophy Department at the University of San Francisco and at Saybrook University in San Francisco. He has worked as an ethics consultant with such corporations as Levi Strauss and Company, California Automobile Association, and Veolia, North America. He is the author of Working Ethics (Jossey-Bass, 1990), The Ethical Process (Prentice Hall, 2003), and Corporate Integrity (Cambridge University Press, 2005). His latest book, Civilizing the Economy: A New Economics of Provision will be available in Spring, 2010.

For 35 years, Dennis has helped families manage the personal and organizational issues that lead to successful and fulfilling transfer of businesses, wealth, values, commitments and legacies between generations. Since 1981, he has been professor of Organizational Systems and Psychology at Saybrook University in San Francisco. He received his BA in Philosophy, MA in Management and Ph.D. in Sociology from Yale University.
As both an organizational consultant and clinical psychologist, he is one of the architects of the emerging field of family enterprise consulting. As a founding member of the Family Firm Institute, he has presented at many of their annual conferences, served on their board, written frequently for their journal Family Business Review, and was awarded the Richard Beckhard Award for contributions to practice. In 2007 he was named Thinker in Residence for S. Australia, where helped the region design a strategic plan for the future of their entrepreneurial and family businesses.
Dennis is the author of the new book Stewardship of Your Family Enterprise: Developing Vital and Responsible Next Generation Leadership, Working with the Ones You Love: Building a Successful Family Business; Working with Family Businesses: A Guide for Professional Advisors, as well as 12 other management books, including Getting Your Organization to Change, Rekindling Commitment, and Take This Job and Love it!

He has helped financial advisors and wealth managers in a number of firms to develop the skills to serve the personal needs of their client families. He is the co-creator of the Enterprising Family Sustainability Index, the Aspen Family Business Inventory, the Aspen Family Wealth Inventory, and other tools for assessment of family enterprise success.
Dennis recently co-authored the Campden Research study The New Wealth Paradigm: How affluent women are taking control of their futures, and was the researcher for the JP Morgan study of best practices of multi-generational families. His research on the governance of start-up companies, After the Term Sheet is an important contribution to the field of entrepreneurship. He is a regular contributor to magazines such as Families in Business, Worth and Family Business. He was awarded the Editor's Choice Award in 2005 for his article on family business strategic planning for the Journal of Financial Planning.
In 1984 he founded Changeworks Global, a consulting firm in San Francisco, where he worked with organizations and family businesses about long-term change to build competitive advantage by unleashing the power of their employees. He was a founder of the web firm MemeWorks, that pioneered the use of on-line executive development tools. In 1990-92 he served as Deputy Director of Research for the Macarthur Foundation Network on Healthy Companies. His video, Managing People through Change, was voted one of the Best Products of 1991 by the magazine Human Resource Executive. His work has been featured in Inc. magazine, Entrepreneur, Nation's Business, Time and The Wall Street Journal, and he has been profiled in People magazine.
He has been active in non-profit governance, serving on the boards of the World Business Academy, Saybrook Graduate School, and the Center for Mind-Body Medicine.
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Alexander Laszlo, Ph.D., is co-founder and President of Syntony Quest* and former Director of the Doctoral Program in Management at the Graduate School of Business Administration & Leadership (EGADE-ITESM), Mexico. Currently, he teaches on evolutionary leadership, collaboration, and systems thinking at a variety of MBA and Doctoral programs internationally, and has been elected forthcoming President of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) for 2013. He has been faculty member of both the MBA in Sustainable Business at Bainbridge Graduate Institute and the MBA in Sustainable Management at the Presidio School of Management since the first year of operation of each program. He now serves as Adjunct Faculty in the MBA in Sustainable Entrepreneurship program of the Green MBA at Dominican University, in the Leadership of Sustainable Systems program at both the Master’s and Doctoral levels at Saybrook Graduate School & Research Center, and as Director of Publications and Evolutionary Learning at the Center for Advanced Study of the Giordano Bruno GlobalShift University. He has worked for the UNESCO Regional Office for Science & Technology for Europe, the Italian Electric Power Agency, and the Office of Postsecondary Education of the U.S. Department of Education, has held visiting appointments with the London School of Economics and the European University Institute, and has been named a Level I Member of the National Research Academy of Mexico (SNI). He is on the Editorial Boards of "Systems Research & Behavioral Science", "World Futures", and "Organisational Transformation & Social Change", recipient of the Gertrude Albert Heller Award, the Sir Geoffrey Vickers Memorial Award, as well as of the "Förderpreis Akademischer Klub" award of the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, for work in social innovation and sustainable development, and finalist for the 2003 Beyond Gray Pinstripes award of the World Resources Institute and the Aspen Institute for educational work in sustainable business. An active member of several systems science societies, he is author of over fifty journal, book, and encyclopedia publications, with A Field Guide for Evolutionary Leaders forthcoming. He is also a 5th Degree Black Belt in Chung Do Kwan style of Tae Kwon Do and a 2nd Degree Black Belt in Shotokan style of Karate.

Born in Fribourg, Switzerland, he is holder of a PhD in the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Policy from the University of Pennsylvania from where he also received his MA in History and Sociology of Science. His BA is from Haverford College, with a major in International and Comparative Political Science and a minor in Human Physiology. His intellectual passion is to apply systems thinking, policy analysis, and technology assessment to issues of individual and collective empowerment. His professional objective is to engage in educational and community-building activities on the design and implementation of evolutionary pathways for self-directed sustainability.

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*Syntony Quest is a 501(c)(3) social profit educational organization dedicated to designing new ways of working, learning and living that embody social and environmental integrity. With offices north of San Francisco and in Monterrey, Mexico, we work with organizations and communities of all kind to provide learning environments where people can learn together about the interconnected nature of our world, the ecological impact of our individual and collective choices, and the joy of finding a meaningful way to contribute to the emergence of sustainable and evolutionary futures. Our activities include workshops, consulting and coaching on evolutionary leadership for sustainability; provision of learning resources; action-research on new sustainability models; educational seminars on systems thinking and its application to social and environmental concerns; as well as a product line of socio-ecologically responsible creations that embody the values of syntony."

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More information:
• Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Laszlo_(scientist)
• LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexanderlaszlo
• Syntony Quest: http://www.syntonyquest.org"

Kathia Castro Laszlo, Ph.D. is Director of the Specialization in Leadership of Sustainable Systems at Saybrook University. As an educator, researcher, consultant and social entrepreneur, Kathia has been active in leadership, organizational, and community development with a strong systemic and sustainability focus since the early 90s. She co-founded Syntony Quest - an international think tank dedicated to designing innovative ways of working, learning and living that embody social and environmental integrity. She is currently advising the design of a the new Universidad del Medio Ambiente (University of the Environment) in central Mexico.

Kathia Co-Chairs the Special Integration Group on Evolutionary Development for the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS), of which she is past Vice-President and Board Member and has been an active researcher within the International Federation of Systems Research (IFSR) in Austria since 1998. Her publications are in the areas of evolutionary development, knowledge management, future trends in education, learning technologies, sustainable business strategy and evolutionary systems thinking.

In 1996, Kathia came to San Francisco, as a Fulbright Scholar from Mexico, to do her doctoral studies under the mentorship of Bela H. Banathy at Saybrook Graduate School in the area of Human Science with emphasis on social and institutional change. She is holder of a Masters Degree in Education with specialization in Cognitive Development, and of a B.A. in the field of Marketing. Kathia was awarded the Sir Geoffrey Vickers Memorial Award in systems science for her work on evolutionary learning communities and of the Förderpreis Akademischer Klub award of the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland for her work in education for social innovation and sustainable development.








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Gary Metcalf is a part-time faculty in the Organizational Systems concentration. As an international consultant and speaker, his practice ranges from learning to leadership. He is also a part-time faculty member in schools of business in the US and in India. He received his PhD from Saybrook in Human Science and has remained active in systems organizations, presenting and publishing internationally. He currently serves as Vice President for the International Federation for Systems Research, based in Vienna, Austria and is the past president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (2008). His primary research interest is in the nature of social systems. He works from a small town in eastern Kentucky, where he lives with his wife and two sons.

Charles "Chuck" Piazza, PhD, is a university professor-mentor, social philosopher, and ethicist, Chuck employs a holistic perspective to critically examine the behavior of contemporary sociotechnical organizational systems and the human dynamics and work environments related to them. Over the past 18 years he has taught professionals from the East and West, as well as from many of the major Silicon Valley corporations. Research interests include socially responsible leadership, sustainable information and communication systems, and organizational cultures that foster work-life balance."

Since 1989, Dr. Southern has worked in the field of organizational development, consulting to public, corporate, and non-profit organizations and executive teams and teaching academic courses to mid-career managers. Dr. Southern's work is focused in facilitating transformational learning for individuals and organizations. She has an Ed.D from the University of San Francisco. Her doctoral work incorporated a cross-cultural study in the U.S. and China of leadership and learning for transformational change. She approaches her work through understanding how cultural beliefs and assumptions affect both individual and organization's ability to achieve the change they truly desire. Dr. Southern is currently writing a book on Leading Skillfully through Collaborative Conversations.

Russ Volckmann, PhD, is the co-founder of Integral Publishers, LLC, publisher and editor of the Integral Leadership Review. He is on the Board of ARINA, Inc., an international research and development organization, and on its Editorial Committee for the Integral Review. He is currently adjunct faculty for Saybrook Institute, Union Institute and University and serves on dissertation committees at several PhD programs. Russ graduated from Monmouth University, studied for an M.A. in Humanistic Psychology from Sonoma State University, and earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a Fulbright Fellow in India, an organization development consultant for over 20 years and has been focused on executive coaching and leadership development since 1997.""

Doug Walton received his Ph.D. in Organizational Systems from Saybrook Graduate School. Dr. Walton has over 20 years experience as a researcher, manager, and organizational change consultant in the computer industry. He is president of the International Systems Institute and did his doctoral work on the use of communications technology to facilitate evolutionary systems design in the public sphere. He is actively engaged in stewarding conscious evolution as well as teaching and writing about social systems and the impact of technology on society, particularly in the area of computer-mediated conversation. He teaches seminars on systems thinking, authentic participation, and the measurement of well-being in society.

Dr. Bernhardt has 35-years experience in psychotherapy and analytic practice, supervision and consultation, applied research, multidiscipline teaching, and professional training in clinical and academic settings in lifespan developmental, health, counseling, and clinical psychology integrating depth, humanistic, and transpersonal traditions. She has trained under three generations of mentors, encompassing classical, modern, and post-modern theory and clinical applications in individual and group psychotherapy, intergenerational, and multigenerational development, and social systems applications.
Dr. Bernhardt has participated in research, teaching, training, and publications funded under National Institute of Mental Health grants in Departments of Medicine, Psychiatry, Psychology and Sociology through the University of California, San Francisco and Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute. She has participated in multidiscipline research in social and psychological issues in quality of life in chronic illness, early deprivation and adult survival in chronic illness, and the importance of the therapeutic alliance in medical ethics and standards of care. Through the C. G. Jung and Psychoanalytic Institutes of San Francisco, she has participated in research in psychological capacities and psychotherapy outcomes studies. Through grant-funded studies with Chapman University, she has consulted in research in quality of life and personhood in special needs in adult autism.
Dr. Bernhardt has served as graduate faculty with masters and doctoral students at Institute of Imaginal Studies and Dominican University. As Associate Professor, she has instructed in the Depth Psychology Program and served on theses committees at Sonoma State University. She has served as Assistant Professor, Director of Research and Theses, and Director of the M.A. Program in Clinical and Counseling Psychology at Notre Dame de Namur University, Clinical Psychology, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Gerontology programs.
Dr. Bernhardt currently serves as adjunct Associate Professor and Clinical Supervisor in the Psy.D. Program at California Institute of Integral Studies. As adjunct Clinical and Research Faculty, she serves on dissertation committees and instructs graduate coursework and clinical practica at Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. As Part-Time Faculty, she serves on M.A. research projects and Ph.D. dissertation committees and instructs in the Ph.D. Program in Humanistic-Transpersonal Psychology, Ph.D. Program in Human Science, Psy.D. Program in Clinical Psychology, and M.A. Program in Marital and Family Therapy at Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center.
Dr. Bernhardt is an advanced candidate in child and adult analytic training at the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. She completed her dissertation in lifespan depth psychology integrating psychoanalytic and Jungian depth and transpersonal perspectives in individual and cultural development under the advisement of Erik H. Erikson. Her clinical practice, longitudinal research and graduate teaching include lifespan and intergenerational expertise with children, adolescents, adults, and elders. She is a licensed psychologist in clinical, consulting, and supervising practice in Mill Valley, California.

Degrees and Licensure
PSY5958, Psychologist License, State of California, 1979
Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, California School of Professional Psychology, San Francisco, 1976
M.S. Counseling Psychology, Dominican University of California, 1973
B.S. Human Development, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, 1968
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William Bruff received his Ph.D. from the California School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles in clinical psychology. He completed counselor training in an intensive person centered Master's Program at Harvard University. He also completed a three year intensive post-Ph.D. training program in Marriage and Family Therapy at the Cambridge Family Institute in Massachusetts.

Dr. Bruff's expertise is in the area of child and family therapy, small group process, community mental health, and psychology of gay men. His research interests include gay men's development and adult learning. He is a licensed clinical psychologist in the state of Massachusetts.

He has extensive experience in at-distance learning programs for adults having taught in, and directed undergraduate and graduate adult learner programs at Goddard College, Vermont College, Union Institute and currently Saybrook Graduate School.

His clinical experience has included both public and private practice in clinical psychology and family therapy as a founding member of the Martha's Vineyard Mental Health Center, as the coordinator for children's services for the Taunton area of the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health; working in the community with "mini-schools" and other alternative school programs for severely emotionally distrubed school aged children; as a consulting psychologist for the Anne Sullivan Center a multi-context pre-school for hearing impaired, physically challenged, and other pre-school children; as a family therapist for the Mendocino County Department of Mental Health in California; as a therapist with encarcerated or hospitalized juveniles and adults.

As a teacher I see the learner as the center point of the learning dialogue. I am a collaborator in the co-design of the learning experience, and a holder of academic and professional values, expectations, and standards to which the learner may choose to aspire.

Dr. Burstein is a licensed Clinical Psychologist. She has long-standing research and applied interests in innovative, cost-effective, mental health service delivery. Studying and teaching the components of "helping talk" and the processes involved in learning and mastery of interpersonal and group process skills in the training of mental health professionals and lay people are focused. As Program Director of UCLA's California Self-Help Center, she worked with teams to develop packaged programs aimed at "giving psychology away." The autoGAIT, the Common Concern program and the Group Starter Manual & Training Program are three examples of carefully field-tested means of delivering high quality, low cost, mental health services in small groups she developed and uses.
Currently, she directs a Clinical/Community Psychology Internship at Los Angeles Harbor College where she trains graduate students in traditional and alternative methods of mental health service delivery as well as crisis intervention, referral, learning disabilities assessment and accommodation. With a group of Saybrook colleagues she is applying some of these innovative methods in the new MFT track introductory course, "Basic Clinical Skills". She is interested in Clinical and Health psychology, particularly women's health issues and the application of research findings to social policy in the area of violence prevention. She coordinates the Peace Making, Peace Keeping and Community Building interest group at Saybrook in Los Angeles.

Patrick Faggianelli received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Saybrook Graduate School. Dr.Faggianelli is a licensed Psychologist who views psychotherapy as a healing process. He integrates Eastern and Western models of Being and healing in his work. He is particularly interested in exploring how embodied consciousness can be developed utilizing spiritual proctice, phenomenology, exitential thought, and aikido principles.

Dr. Fox is a San Francisco based educator, author, and psychotherapist. His teaching, clinical, and research interests focus on humanistic/transpersonal approaches to psychotherapy, clinical supervision, and research methodology, as well as gender and sexuality, consciousness and self-healing, multicultural and cross-cultural issues, and alternative family structures.

Dr. Achterberg received her Ph.D.in General Experimental Psychology from Texas Christian University. She is acclaimed for her work on the use of imagery in healing, psychoimmunology, behavioral strategies for the reduction of pain and anxiety, and the role of women as health consumers. Her research focuses on the psychological aspects of cancer, a comparison of biofeedback and physical therapy in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, and a test of behavioral strategies for pain and anxiety associated with orthopedic trauma.

Dr. Bersing received her doctorate from L'Universite de Toulouse-Mirail in France. As a clinical psychologist and a Gerontologist she has taught and led therapeutic groups and academic circles in Europe, South America, Central America, the Caribbean, and now in the United States. As leader in the Geriatric Industry, Dr. Bersing shows high integrity and a leadership known for ability to envision and create successful outcomes in complex situations with a tenacious commitment to education, research, and professional growth. A resourceful leader, multilingual and multicultural individual, Dr. Bersing's most recent project involves building a living retirement community for the LGBT population and further research in the overlapping of feminism and Ageism in our society.

A noted speaker and writer, she is the author of several books and articles. Currently, she is lecturing nationally in issues on aging, LGBT sensitivity training and her new work-in-progress, a book addressing the new role for aging women called From Crone to Mentor: still an opportunity for change. Her expansive involvement with professional associations includes sitting at the National Advisory Council for the Lesbian Health Research Center -hosted by University of California- San Francisco, in the Institutional Review Board for Cal Research, the Board of Directors of the Existential Humanistic Institute, and the Advisory Board for the Children's Hospital in Oakland, in issues of diversity and health care.

Theopia Jackson received her Ph.D. Clinical Psychology from the Wright Institute and both her M.S. and B.S. from Howard University in Washington, D.C. She has trained extensively post-degreed as a marriage and family therapist. Dr. Jackson is a licensed clinical psychologist whose area of expertise is in issues of diversity and socio-economic-political factors and their effect on the family. Of particular interests are women's issues and contextualized developmental issues for children and adolescents. Her research interests include areas involving the populations mentioned, cultural competence and the therapist-client dyad.

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Dr. Lichtanski studied clinical psychology in Poland and in the US. He received BA degree (Summa cum Laude) from San Jose State University, MA from New College of California, and PhD from Capella University. His clinical placements include the Demianowski Psychiatric Hospital (Poland), the J. Korczak Children Hospital (Poland), the Rehabilitation Unit of Wroclaw University Health Center (Poland), UCSF – AIDS Health Project, San Francisco Alternative Family Project, New College of California Counseling Center, City College of San Francisco Psychological Services, University of San Francisco Counseling & Psychological Services, and private practice settings.

Dr. Lichtanski has served on faculty at New College of California, City College of San Francisco, University of San Francisco, Northcentral University, and Lutecium Psychoanalytic Group. He has taught a range of undergraduate and graduate courses in psychology and humanities as well as post-graduate interdisciplinary workshops and seminars and has chaired and served as member of several dissertation committees.

His current academic interests intersect psychology, philosophy (both East and West), cultural anthropology, critical theory, psychoanalysis, and the humanities, and center around the psychology of individual differences, social construction of identity, consciousness and creativity, and healing practices across history and cultures.

His primary research and clinical interests focus on psychology of family systems (blended families, alternative families, adoptions, parenting), multicultural psychology and psychotherapy (migration and acculturation in particular), psychology of gender identity and sexual orientation, life transitions, trauma recovery, stress management, chronic illness, and psychoneuroimmunology.
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Beverly Palmer, Ph.D. has been a full-time professor in the California State University system for more than 30 years and has been Coordinator of the Master in Clinical Psychology Program for 18 years. In 1995 she was awarded the Outstanding Professor award at California State University Dominguez Hills and, in 2001 she was awarded a 6-month Fulbright Fellowship to the University of Malaysia at Sabah, Borneo, another Fulbright Fellowship to the University of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur in 2004 and, in 2005 another Fulbright Fellowing to Barbados.

She has been a leader in computer-mediated education and combines a solid foundation in psychological learning principles with the latest advances in computer technology. Her internet course, Interpersonal Skills for Helping Professionals, is available from Allyn and Bacon Publishers. She has several other publications, including ones on love and community psychology.

She is also a clinical psychologist in private practice in Torrance, California where she specializes in medical psychotherapy (medical conditions that have psychological components), sport psychology, sexual dysfunctions, and general adult individual and couples counseling.


The facts above do not really describe her, however. She is a grateful former student of Carl Rogers, a social activist, and a Vipassana Buddhist meditator. She believes that all of us in this world are connected with each other in one way or another and she tries to find ways to strengthen these connections.

B.A. Psychology (1966)
University of Michigan

M.A. Counseling Psychology (1969)
Ohio State University

Ph.D. Counseling Psychology (1972)
Ohio State University

Daniel B. Pitchford, PhD, is faculty for the Graduate College of Psychology and Humanistic Studies and the Graduate College of Mind-Body Medicine at Saybrook University. He teaches Academic and Research Writing, and supervises and teaches the trauma specialization courses for the PsyD Program. He is editor for the San Francisco Psychological Association's quarterly publication, former board member and now consulting board member for the Existential-Humanistic Institute.

Dr. Pitchford is the 2008 recipient of the Rollo May Scholarship award for his humanistic work surrounding traumatic stress in combat veterans. Dr. Pitchford's current clinical and research interests are in suicide, trauma experiences (acute, chronic, complex), loss, culture, death, and personal transformation.

Supportive materials for students in Dr. Pitchford's trauma courses may be found at his website: http://www.drpitchford.com


If you are interested in contacting him: dpitchford@saybrook.edu

If you'd like to view current works, please visit:
http://usaybrook.academia.edu/DanielPitchford/About



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Ph.D. in Psychology, 2008
Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center

Dr. Rubin teaches and supervises from an integrative existential-humanistic and contemporary psychoanalytic orientation. He has presented nationally on applications of this innovative approach to clinical work as well as case studies in experiential supervision. Since 2005 he has served as Managing Editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology. He is presently Member at Large of the Society for Humanistic Psychology (APA Division 32) and is the Editor of the online Newsletter of the Society. Dr. Rubin is certified in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy by the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute. He previously served as the Coordinator of Clinical Services to Children & Families at Catholic Social Services of Wayne County in Detroit. In his private practice, Dr. Rubin treats children and their parents, adolescents, adults and LGBTQ populations. Clinical areas of research include humanistic-integrative approaches to graduate training, psychotherapy and clinical supervision. Methods of research with which Dr. Rubin has particular expertise include the heuristic, phenomenological, narrative and case study approaches of qualitative research.

The Hawaii address is an old one; please use the CA address or, better yet, email. Aloha.

Dr. Scatena received her doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley and is a licensed clinical psychologist. Her clinical and research work and interests reflect her view regarding the importance of the multiple dimensions that contribute to the human experience including cognitive, psychodynamic, relational, cultural, humanistic-existential, and psychospiritual aspects. Specific interests include the integration of contemplative practices and Buddhist psychology with Western psychology and psychotherapy, indigenous and Western science world views and ways of knowing, applications of mindfulness-based approaches to psychotherapy and complementary health care, and early childhood attachment and child and adult development. Research areas include spirituality and mindfulness in health, self-care, clinical training and professional development; psychotherapy and community services; cultural issues in education and counseling, and women's health issues.

James Hollis is a Zurich-trained, licensed Jungian analyst, author, and Director of the Jungian Studies program in Houston, TX. He taught in various colleges and universities in the humanities, retrained in analytic psychology, and graduated from the Jung Institute in Zurich in 1982.

In addition to various topics related to analytic psychology, he is particularly interested in myth, various forms of spirituality, and the interpretation of culture from a psychological perspective.
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Dr. Vaughan holds dual academic credentials in clinical psychology and law. He is a certified Jungian analyst. He received his jurisdoctorate degree from the University of Virginia, and a doctorate of philosophy, in Clinical Psychology, from New York University. He was certified as Jungian analyst byt he C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco where he is member analyst and serves on the editorial board for the Jung Journal of Culture and Psyche.

He has offered a range of doctoral level courses in the following areas: Cognitive Assessment, Child and Adolescent Development, Adult Development and Aging, Issues in Assessment and Treatment of Ethnically Diverse Populations, Diagnostic and Clinical Interviewing, Theories of Personality and Psychotherapy, Forensic Psychology, African- American Cultural History and Psychology, Psychology of C.G. Jung, Psychopathology and Diagnosis, Ethics and Laws in Psychotherapy and Psychological Research, and Group Psychotherapy. His governance responsibilities have included, Co-chair of Faculty, Chair of Research Committee, Admission Committee, Chair of the Faculty & Student Diversity Committee and current Director of the Consciousness and Spirituality Concentration.
His professional consultation practice is in the areas of Jungian or Analytical Psychology, Forensic Psychology and Education Program development and evaluation. His current research investigates American Jurisprudence through the lens of Analytical and Cultural/Ethnocultural Psychology. ""

Kenneth Cloke is Director of the Center for Dispute Resolution and a mediator, arbitrator, attorney, coach, consultant, and trainer, specializing in communication, negotiation, and resolving complex multi-party conflicts, including community, grievance and workplace disputes, collective bargaining negotiations, organizational and school conflicts, sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuits, and public policy disputes, and in designing preventative conflict resolution systems for organizations. His coaching, consulting, facilitation, and training practice includes work with leaders of public, private and non-profit organizations on effective communications, collaborative negotiation, relationship building, conflict resolution, leadership development, strategic planning, team building, and organizational change.

His university teaching includes law, mediation, history, political science, conflict studies, urban studies, and other social sciences at a number of colleges and universities including Southwestern University School of Law, Antioch University, Occidental College, USC, and UCLA. He is an Adjunct Professor at Pepperdine University's School of Law, Strauss Institute; Harvard University School of Law, Program on Negotiation, Insight Initiative; Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Cape Cod Institute; and University of Amsterdam ADR Institute.

He has done work in conflict resolution in Austria, Bahamas, Brazil, Canada, China, Cuba, England, Georgia, India, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Puerto Rico, Thailand, Ukraine, the former USSR, United Kingdom, and Zimbabwe.

He is President and co-founder of Mediators Beyond Borders. He served as an Administrative Law Judge for the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board and the Public Employment Relations Board, a Factfinder for the Public Employment Relations Board, and a Judge Pro Tem for the Superior Court of Los Angeles. He has been an Arbitrator and Mediator for over twenty-seven years in labor management disputes, and is a member of a number of arbitration panels.

Marie DiCowden received her degree in Clinical Psychology from the George Washington University.
Dr. DiCowden is a clinical healthcare psychologist and a behavioral medicine specialist. She writes extensively on issues of disability, health care, and health policy. She is an advocate on the need for patient care and health care reform.""

Joel Federman, Ph.D., is a writer, teacher and activist. He is Director of Saybrook's Human Science--Transformative Social Change MA degree specialization and its Social Transformation Concentration. He has a doctorate in political philosophy from the University of Southern California, and currently lives in San Francisco.

During the Spring 2012 semester, Dr. Federman is teaching STR 6510 CO Theory and Practice of Nonviolence, STR/MFT 6610 CO Social System Transformation Theory, STR 7079 Building Sustainability: Present Practices in Community and Society, STR 6590 Peace Studies, and is a member of several dissertation, thesis and essay committees.

Dr. Federman is currently working on a case study of civil society activism toward democratic reform in Egypt. To further this research, he traveled to Egypt in August 2011, and met with democracy activists and others.

More broadly, Dr. Federman's teaching and writing focuses on helping people to reinvision their individual and collective potential, to see themselves shaping a better world. He is particularly interested in global-level social change, especially the development of global civil society efforts aimed at realizing values such as universal compassion, social justice and peace. He is writing a book on those themes, to be titled The Politics of Universal Compassion. He is also interested in exploring ways that new communication technologies can be used in the service of transformative social change.

He edits a website on the topics of peace, social justice, universal compassion, diversity, and ecology, at www.topia.net. He also has done research and writing in the related areas of violence prevention, media violence, diversity education, and cross-cultural conflict resolution.

A former Co-Director of the Center for Communication and Social Policy at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Dr. Federman was project director for the National Television Violence Study. For that three-year effort (1995-98), he coordinated a team of more than 200 individuals at four major research universities -- the Universities of California, North Carolina, Texas and Wisconsin -- to produce the most comprehensive study of television violence to date.

Dr. Federman was also project director and co-author of the Choices and Consequences Evaluation, a study of a middle school violence prevention curriculum developed by Court TV, the National Middle School Association, and Time Warner Cable. In 1998, he initiated the Center's Civility Clearinghouse, a web-based resource for information regarding the topic of civility. He is the author of Empowering Diversity, a curriculum for middle school students commissioned by the Santa Barbara, California Board of Education.

Dr. Federman has led numerous cross-cultural conflict resolution workshops, including a year-long Palestinian-Jewish dialogue at the University of Southern California. He is a former member of the board of directors of the Peace and Justice Studies Association, a national consortium of university-based peace and conflict studies programs.

His writing has been published in the Los Angeles Times; the Encyclopedia of Communication and Information; Tikkun Magazine; Common Dreams; the Yearbook of the UNESCO International Clearinghouse on Children and Violence on the Screen; Alternet; Campaigns and Elections; and Humanities in Society.""

Benina Gould received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. She was awarded a Carnegie Fellowship at the Belfer Center for International Studies at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and Grants from the Center for Middle Eastern Studies , UC Berkeley and the Fetzer Foundation. She is former Director of the Social Transformation Program at Saybook Graduate School in San Francisco and a visiting scholar at the University of California, International and Area Studies.
Benina has completed a research study in Indonesia with colleagues at Pesantrens in Solo, Central Java entitled "Breaking the Barrier; The Muslim Youth Internet Survey: Use of the Internet for Current Islamic and Non-Islamic Issues." The purpose of this research is to examine the stereotype that 'madrassas' are the breeding grounds of fundamentalism." This research has also taken place in the Islamic community in California and in Pakistan. The outcome of this research will hopefully further our understanding of the next generation of Islamic youth.
Benina's present work "Religious Based Peace Education" is a long term project with the "Abrahamic Family Outreach" project at the Center for Theory and Research at Esalen Institute. As part of this she has developed the "Student Religion/Pluralism Survey" that asks questions in order to understand the role that religion plays in the daily lives of high school students both at school and with their friends. This work will take place in the United States and Germany.

Ellis Jones, Ph.D., focuses most of his energy on bridging the gap between academics, activists and the average citizen. A scholar of social responsibility, global citizenship and everyday activism, Dr. Jones currently teaches in Saybrook's Social Transformation concentration and CIIS' Transformative Leadership program as well as courses in Social Movements, Media, and Corporations in the sociology department at UC Davis.

His written works include The Better World Handbook (www.betterworldhandbook.com), winner of Spirituality & Health's Best Book of the Year Award under the category of Hope, which has just been released in its 2nd Edition form (2007) and the recently published, Better World Shopping Guide (2006 - www.betterworldshopper.org), a comprehensive guide to socially and environmentally responsible shopping that rates companies, large and small, from A to F. He is currently working his third book, The Social Responsibility Movement: Global Transformation In Everyday Life.

Dr. Jones has given practical presentations to a wide variety of audiences including many of colleges and universities, sustainability symposiums, and global citizenship summits. He has been interviewed for radio and television both in the US and Canada, and was featured in the documentary film, 50 Ways To Save The Planet. In 2005, his work inspired the creation of The Better World Handbook Festival in Vancouver, BC. He has lived, studied, and worked in many parts of Europe, Asia, and Central America. He has won numerous awards for his work in the classroom and currently resides in Davis, CA.

Ph.D., Sociology, UC Boulder, 2002 - Individual and corporate social responsibility, ethical consumerism, sustainability, social movements, creativity, global citizenship, critical thinking, practical social change, peace and conflict studies, global consciousness.

George Kent is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawai'i. His approach centers on finding remedies for social problems, especially finding ways to strengthen the weak in the face of the strong. He works on human rights, international relations, peace, development, and environmental issues, with a special focus on nutrition and children. His books include

- The Political Economy of Hunger: The Silent Holocaust (New York: Praeger, 1984);

- The Politics of Children's Survival (New York: Praeger, 1991);

- Children in the International Political Economy (New York: Macmillan/St. Martin's, 1995);

- Freedom from Want: The Human Right to Adequate Food (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2005);

- (editor) Global Obligations for the Right to Food (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008).

Professor Kent is Co-Convener of the Commission on International Human Rights of the International Peace Research Association, and he has worked as a consultant with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the United Nations Children's Fund, and several civil society organizations. He is part of the Working Group on Nutrition, Ethics, and Human Rights of the United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition. His website is at http://www2.hawaii.edu/~kent




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Dr. Paul R. Kimmel

Three perspectives have guided my professional work over the last 40 years: a dedication to applied research and training (public interest science), an international and intercultural outlook, and a commitment to non-violent conflict management. During my 25 years in Washington, D.C., I did evaluations and/or training for Federal Government agencies, the National Academy of Sciences, and international businesses. I was the first Public Policy Fellow at the American Psychological Association and one of the first nine Peace Fellows at the U.S. Institute of Peace. From 1992 to 2008, I worked as an independent consultant and teacher in Los Angeles. I am now living in Panama.

Research and Training
I have collaborated with a wide range of professionals in University settings, private business, and government in designing and implementing qualitative and quantitative research designs. I have managed major evaluation studies for the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development. I also conducted a one year study on the meaning of work for the Department of Labor and a national assessment of VA health care.

I have trained many business, government, and professional people who work with individuals from other cultures. Through the use of realistic role plays, trainees interact with a cultural opposite to give them a better understanding of their own perceptions and behaviors in intercultural meetings. By experiencing and discussing their misperceptions and miscommunications in these simulations, they become more aware of their basic cultural assumptions and values. Seeing themselves on film usually results in significant communication changes as the training proceeds.

Teaching at Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center
I have been with Saybrook (now a University) for over 20 years. I helped develop the Saybrook interest area in Peace and Conflict Resolution Studies. In addition to creating the peacekeeping, peacemaking and peace building course, I made the first major revisions in the peace studies course. I have worked on learning guides for courses in culture and conflict management and the arts and society. I also have taught a variety of other courses as an adjunct professor at Saybrook.

Other Teaching
In addition to Saybrook, I have taught graduate courses as a faculty member at Iowa State University and the American University and adult education courses for Central Oregon Community College and Northern Michigan University. I taught as an adjunct for the UCLA and the Pepperdine University's graduate psychology programs. I was one of the master teachers for the UCLA Extension program where I provided instructor development seminars in global interdependence and the intercultural classroom.

Acting and Writing
My training as a professional stage actor has helped me create and implement the role plays used in my training programs. I have trained hundreds of medical students as a standardized patient and evaluated hospital programs as an undercover patient. I also write and perform major political, musical satires.

Marc Pilisuk received his Ph.D. in Clinical and Social Psychology from the University of Michigan. His research studies have included a hospice in rural New Mexico, self-help support groups for post-mastectomy women, alternatives to civil commitment for the homeless mentally ill, the causes and prevention of war, terrorism and other violent conflicts . He has combined research, teaching and activism in the areas of caring and health, conflict resolution, community intervention skills, the human consequences of globalization, youth violence prevention, terrorism and environmental and social justice.
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