Psychology & Humanistic Studies Faculty

Dr. Adams is the author of Thinking Today as if Tomorrow Mattered: Rise of a Sustainable Consciousness (2000) and Life Changes (1990) and the editor of Transforming Work and Transforming Leadership (2nd editions 1999). He is currently involved with a variety of large scale, complex organizational change implementations and a number of new writing projects in the areas of change, individual effectiveness at work, and the creative aspects of human consciousness.
His teaching at Saybrook is within the Organizational Systems concentration. He is the concentration Head of OS. Within the OS area, he teaches many of the consultative and transformation oriented courses. He has been deeply committed to Saybrook's vision and values for many years, and believes that the structure and process of education at Saybrook are excellent for supporting mid-career professionals.
The central theme of his professional life has been the self-fulfilling and self-reinforcing nature of human consciousness, as expressed in the results we get as individuals, as organizational systems, and as a species. His passion is in the area of nurturing the emergence of a critical mass of consciousness that will co-create a high quality of life on earth for all beings of the next generation. In addition to the foregoing, his research interests are in the area of deep pattern change at the individual, organizational and societal levels.

Dr. Andersen received his Ph.D.in Political Science and Social Psychology from the University of Southern California. Dr. Andersen's work is interdisciplinary, exploring the big picture of what the human species is and where it is going. He is the author of several books where he explores the fields of postmodern thought and the accessibility of biotechnology to the general public.

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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Béla A. Bánáthy received his Ph.D.in Educational Administration from the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on theories of systems, theories of evolution, foundations of information science, design of information systems and of social systems. His current projects include the examination of the relationship between the ontological and epistemological aspects of complex systems, and the development of a corresponding approach to ecological as well as socio-cultural informatics. He has published numerous articles in systems related publications including: Behavioral Science, BioSystems, Cybernetics and Systems, Information Systems Architecture and Technology, Systems Practice, Systems Research, and World Futures. Dr. Bánáthy is Past President of the International Society for the Systems Sciences; has served on the Editorial Board of Behavioral Science; and is currently on the Editorial Boards of Systems, Applied Systems Studies, Organizational Transformation & Social Change, and the International Journal of Information Technologies & the Systems Approach.

Elizabeth Bigham, PhD, is a clinical health psychologist with interests in the psychophysiological mechanisms of pain, health and chronic medical conditions and assessment psychological and physiological factors in autonomic regulation. As a faculty member at California State University San Marcos, Dr. Bigham teaches senior applied research courses, supervises independent student research, and serves on the university curriculum committee and academic senate. She has an extensive background in research ethics, is an active member of the CSUSM Institutional Review Board, and chairs the University Outreach Task Force for the Association of Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback."

Dr. Brandes is a licensed psychologist whose interests include dreams, fantasies, and play - where the leading edge of changing psychological structures can often be seen. She is currently engaged in education reform in California, helping to implement standards-based accountability in California schools.

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.

Didra BrownTaylor received her Ph.D. in Multicultural/Community- Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles, CA. Dr. BrownTaylor has 15 years experience as a teacher and consultant in multicultural aspects of clinical and community research. She has conducted numerous workshops in measurement issues related to malt liquor beer consumption and is a published author. Dr. BrownTaylor's primary academic area of interest is culturally relevant research methodology. She is currently researching malt liquor beer drinking and negative outcomes among a community sample in South Central Los Angeles. Future studies include, alcohol drinking among incarcerated males and malt liquor drinking on college campuses. Dr. BrownTaylor is a NIH Health Disparities Research Fellow and a member of the Association of Black Psychologists.

Susan Campbell is an author of nine books and founder of The Getting Real Work and Getting Real Seminars. Dr. Campbell has been a relationship coach for couples, families, singles, and business leaders since 1967. After earning her Ph.D. in Clinical/Counseling Psychology from the University of Massachusetts in 1967, she went on to become a member of that school's Graduate Faculty until 1977, when she left there to join the Saybrook faculty. During this time she has also pursued a career as a professional speaker and a consultant and trainer for CEOs, top and mid-level managers, and rank and file personnel. She is President of Getting Real Resources, a coaching and training company, which aims at changing the culture to make honesty the new cultural norm and helping to make the world safe for differences.

Her most recent work centers on how to use honest, present-centered communication as vehicle for personal healing and expanded self-awareness. This body of work, called The Getting Real Work, is described in her best-selling, Getting Real and her more recent books, Truth in Dating, and Saying Whats Real. The Getting Real Work is a body of personal and spiritual development practices aimed at helping people get over their addiction to comfort and control so they can be authentically present to the actual possibilities in each moment. The Getting Real philosophy states that instead of being real, i.e. present to the reality of ones present situation, most people have been conditioned to protect themselves from emotionally painful or uncomfortable information. They then develop various control patterns such as sugar-coating, lying to avoid conflict, and suppressing their true feelings so as not to appear foolish or be judged. Such self-suppression is seen as counter-productive to the evolution of human consciousness and human civilization. The work offers ?10 truth skills? that constitute a recovery program to help people un-learn dysfunctional communication habits and regain the courage to feel and express what they actually see, know, feel and want even if their feelings are uncomfortable, unpopular, or inconvenient. Getting Real reminds people that when we were babies or children, we learned to suppress our self-expression so as not to upset the adults too much, and this may have been important for our survival. But we are adults now, and we will not die if someone rejects us or dislikes us. When we try too hard to stay within our comfort zone or control how others view us, we lose much of our ability to deal with life as it is.
Practitioners of Getting Real learn to notice all the various and subtle ways that controlling manifests itself and how people often go on automatic when old wounds get triggered. They learn to replace their automatic control patterns with authentic, in-the-moment self-expression. The 10 truth skills help people regain and refine their human sensitivities, their capacity to feel, sense, see, and hear what is actually going on inside and around them in each moment without the typical distortions that people use to stay comfortable or avoid emotional upset. This enables them to make decisions and take action based on actual data rather then on their assumptions, wishes, or fears. Through practicing the truth skills with willing practice partners, people develop the ability to speak about difficult or sensitive topics with greater ease. They outgrow their addiction to control, and learn to appreciate and deal with situations or people that they once tried to avoid. Campbell calls her program a 12-step program for the rest of us, and asserts that Western Civilization conditions people to place more value on being right, safe, and comfortable (controlling) than on being real, unique, and open to surprise (relating). In addition to her recent books, Campbell has developed three interactive cards games that teach the 10 truth skills--one for the general public, one for couples and dating singles, and one for work teams. She also trains Getting Real Coaches, who learn to host Honesty Salons, which are practice groups for learning to be more skillfully and compassionately honest.

An example of one of the 10 truth skills is Holding Differences, which is the ability to listen openly to a viewpoint or perception that differs from ones own without giving up ones own view and without assuming that somebodys view is wrong or needs to change. To help people learn to Hold Differences, Getting Real suggests starting with the statement: I hear that you feel or think______(repeat your understanding of the others position), while I have a different feeling about that. May I tell you how I see it? Campbell believes that when people learn to Hold Differences rather than trying to talk someone out of his feelings or views, they develop the capacity to see situations from a more inclusive perspective; they learn to see relationships between things once thought of as separate; they have more satisfying relationships; and their relationship to life becomes more realistic, or real.

The roots of this work are: Buddhist Psychology, Gestalt Therapy, Sensory Awareness, Psychoanalysis, and Jungian Psychology

In February 2008, she hosted a conference of thought leaders in the Honesty Movement called The Truth Summit. One outcome of the Summit was the creation of The Honesty Charter, similar to The Earth Charter, which gives structure and identity to the emerging cultural movement calling for greater transparency in business, government, and human relationships. To view The Honesty Charter visit honestycharter.blogspot.com/. Dr. Campbells work has been featured in many popular magazines including New Woman, Psychology Today, Self, Harvard Business Review, Seventeen, Mens Health, New Age, Fast Company, and Yoga Journal. She has been a guest on many national TV talk shows including Dr Dean Edell, CNNs News Night, and Good Morning America.

Accomplished in the business world, she has directed a think tank, run non-profit organizations, consulted to Fortune 500 companies, and guest lectured at the Harvard, Stanford, and UCLA business schools. She speaks on such topics as: Taking Charge of Change, Team Building, Conflict and Negotiation, Dealing with Difficult People, Getting Real Confidence, Honest Feedback in the Workplace, Preventing Workplace Violence, Getting Real: The Power of Present-Centered Communication, Communication Skills for Preventing and Resolving Conflict, Truth in Dating: Finding Love By Getting Real.

An avid adventurer and proponent of "living your life out loud," she has lived and worked in other cultures and spent two years sailing her 47-foot sailboat halfway around the world.

She lives in Northern California where she hosts Honesty Salons several evenings per month. Her website is www.susancampbell.com

Larry Chamow received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the United States International University, in San Diego. Dr. Chamow is a clinician, teacher, and trainer utilizing a systemic orientation in working with couples, individuals, and families. His work emphasizes the integration of theory and practice. He is a nationally known author and practitioner in the field of marriage and family therapy, and therapist supervision. He is on faculty in the Department of Marriage and Family Therapy at the University of San
Diego. He is a co-author of Essential Skills in Family
Therapy which is published by Guilford Press.

Mary Kay Chess, PhD, is a seasoned entrepreneur and an intrapreneur within healthcare and an executive coach and consultant for individuals, making a difference in the delivery of care in communities and neighborhoods. Mary Kay is also a faculty member at Bainbridge Graduate Institute focusing on the learning and experience involved in personal development within leadership and team environments. She is particularly fascinated with the complex dance of life between the bluffs and beaches of Whidbey Island and the understanding this provides us in our dance of life, reflection and integration. "

Scott Churchill received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Dusquesne University. Dr. Churchill is a professor of psychology at the University of Dallas, a licensed psychologist, and specialist in humanistic psychology and qualitative research methods, particularly phenomenology. Other interests include primatology, sexuality and film studies.

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's research interests are focused on: outcome assessment of programs in personal development; personality changes accompanying successful self-regulation training; 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.

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
1354 H. Yulupa Ave.
Santa Rosa, CA 95405

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

Dr. Crawford's areas of expertise include clinical psychology, personality, and cross-cultural psychology. She is in private practice in Oakland, working extensively with minority clients. Her clinical work includes psychoanalytic psychotherapy, assessments, supervision, and consultation. She has also worked in educational psychology. Her teaching, clinical and research experience spans almost three decades. She has taught university courses in a variety of clinical subjects, including psychoanalysis, especially on technique and dreams, and in psychological anthropology. Her theoretical perspectives include an integration of humanistic psychology, psychological anthropology and psychoanalytic thought and practice.

Dr. Crawford lived for twenty years in the Basque Country in Spain, and taught at the University of the Basque Country. While there she lead a research team studying personality, ethnic identity and political attitudes. One aspect of the research addressed attitudes towards political violence. Previous research involved the analysis of a series of biographies of Basque women, and a study of personality and socialization practices of Basque mothers. This cross-cultural research as well as her experience as a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst have had a significant impact on her view of people, and how their personality and attitudes can be expected to affect their behavior and their trajectory while in psychotherapy. Dr. Crawford brings to Saybrook her humanistic perspective along with a strong commitment to training students for a practice of psychology that is culturally sensitive and appropriate, and that maximizes the human potential for personal growth and realization.
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Dr. Criswell is professor of psychology and former chair of the Psychology Department at Sonoma State University. She is the founding director of the Humanistic Psychology Institute, which is now called Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center.

Jeannette Diaz-Veizades received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of California, Riverside. Jeannette is a social psychologist with a research and teaching emphasis in conflict resolution, cross-cultural relations, and urban planning. Her work focuses on exploring the means by which to create just and inclusive human relation's infrastructures for multicultural urban centers.

David Elkins received his degree in Psychology from the United States International University.
Dr. Elkins is a professor, author, presenter, psychologist and poet whose love and practice in the field of humanistic psychology has manifested in a life-long body of work."

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 and Organization Development Consultant. His current interests and activities include:

1. World Federalism - Establishing global governmental structures capable of ending war and effectively addressing major world problems.

2. Prison Reform - Bringing a Restorative Justice approach to the criminal justice system and promoting organizational culture change among prison staff.

3. Intentional Community - Building collaborative and sustainable communities and neighborhoods.

In addition to his current areas of focus, Dr. Flax has been involved in a number of projects and progressive causes. He is also available to work with students in these areas:

1. Psychotherapy Effectiveness - Researching and training students in the principles of effective psychotherapy.

2. Psychotherapy Integration - Integrating the various schools of psychotherapy in theory and clinical practice.

3. Psychotherapist Growth and Development - Determining the learning needs of therapists at different stages of growth and how to most effectively develop "expert therapists."

4. The Human Potential Movement - Participated in numerous "growth groups."

5. Holistic Health - Ran a Holistic Health Center in New York City in the 1970's

6. Conflict Resolution - Trained with 2 internationally renown conflict resolution experts.

7. Citizen Diplomacy - Conducted humanitarian projects in Nepal and Burundi.

8. Spiritual Practice - Studied comparative religion and spiritual paths and maintains a Buddhist Meditation practice.

You can learn more about me at www.clairefrederick.com.
I am a Board Certified psychiatrist who specializes in psychotherapy. I practice in Berkeley, California and Have a consultation practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I am a Fellow of the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, and the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. I am the recipient of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis and the Society of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis President's Award; an ASCH Award of Merit as an outstanding clinician, teacher, and author, and the Crasilneck Award for excellence in writing. I am also also the recipient of the Cornelia Wilbur Award for original contributions to the field of dissociation. In 2005 the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis gave her Annual Shenk Award to the physician who has made significant contributions to the development of medical hypnosis and in 2007 the Roy M. Dorcus Award for the Best Clinical Paper published in the International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. I have been named as one of America's Top Psychiatrists for 2007, 2008, and 2009.
I have been on the faculties of several medical schools, including the Harvard Medical School and the Tufts University School of Medicine, and currently am Distinguished Consulting Faculty at Saybrook University in San Francisco where I consult and teach in the Graduate College of Psychology and Humanistic Studies and with the Graduate College of Mind-Body Medicine.
I am a Past Editor of the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis. and I am an Editorial Consultant for the International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. I am the co-author of Healing the Divided Self: Clinical and Ericksonian Hypnotherapy for Post-Traumatic and Dissociative Conditions and Inner Strengths: Contemporary Psychotherapy and Hypnosis for Ego-Strengthening as well as books, chapters and peer reviewed articles. My fields of interest include hypnosis, ego-strengthening, developmental repair, trauma and dissociation, mind-body problems, Ego State Therapy, social construction therapies, working with difficult cases, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and issues with loss and grief, and death and dying. I am an Honorary Member of the British Society for Medical and Dental Hypnosis/Scotland and the Canadian Federation of Hypnosis, Alberta Division. I teach nationally and internationally.

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Maurice received his Ph.D. in the History of Culture from the University of Chicago. Dr. Friedman is an expert on the thought of Martin Buber, the 20th century Jewish existentialist philosopher, and of its implications for psychotherapy. His expertise also extends to philosophy, religious studies, and comparative literature.

Sharada Gwen Gibbs-Wade brings an interdisciplinary background and approach to her 35 years experience as an Applied Behavioral Scientist. Dr. Gibbs-Wade's career as a consultant in organizational systems, professor, licensed psychologist, and researcher has taken her to work, research, and study in Africa, Canada, Caribbean, England, India, Mexico, Switzerland, and Trinidad.Transformative Leadership, Action Research and Complex System Change, Cross Cultural Research Methodology and Curriculum Development, Multi-Media and Arts from an Interdisciplinary Perspective, Global Sustainability in Education, Spiritual Traditions, Business, and Social Justice are her major areas of focus. Collectively, they speak to her core passion in life: sustained awareness and action to transform individuals and organizations human consciousness valuing their highest nature. She believes we can take actions to choose equality and search for the truth, in our daily lives and in our work here on earth. Current and past projects contributing to this life theme include: Online Course for Global Women in Leadership and Transformation, Documentary on Organizational Systems and Slave Labor in Third World Countries [in progress], Short film on African Art, Transformative Learning, Cross Cultural Comparative Literature- research and book on Global Leadership and Spirit in Toni Morrison, and Wingari Maathai. She has presented at conferences and panels on topics of Leadership and Learning Organizations, Trinidad; Cross Cultural Research, Africa; Black Women in Academy, MIT; Spirituality and Organization Transformation/East-West Traditions, GIC; Public TV on Suicide and Stress in Blacks; and, Border Films, cultural and systems conflicts, UCB. Dr. Gibbs-Wade is Past Chairperson of the Board of Directors for NTL, Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, and Bay Area Association of Black Psychologists"

Currently I am an assistant principal at a school for students with Severe Behavior Disorders within Edmonton Public Schools in Canada. I have been fortunate to be a part of the emergence of Indigenous Research, Indigenous Ethics and Indigenous Peace processes as each unfolds within the world of academic research. Through living these research paradigms, I was also able to do my dissertation work at Saybrook. Currently, I am a licensed psychologist and have recently completed the first draft of a book, "Growing Peace in Schools". As an native elder, I continue to work with Indigenous graduate students both in Canada and the United States.

Lenneal Henderson received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.Dr. Henderson has joined the Organizational Systems concentration as a distinguished consulting faculty member. He currently serves as distinguished professor of government and public administration, senior fellow of the William Donald Schaefer Center for Public Policy;a Senior Fellow in the Hoffberger Center for Professional Ethics and a former Henry C. Welcome Fellow at the University of Baltimore. He was recently elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. His areas of focus and inquiry include:
Public Policy and Policy Analysis
Ethics and Normative Analysis
Social Change and Transformation
Spirituality and Critical Self-Reflection
Global Power Issues and Constructive Change

EDUCATION:

Fuller Theological Seminary - Graduate School of Psychology, Pasadena, CA
PhD in Clinical Psychology, September, 2001 (APA Accredited)

Claremont School of Theology, Claremont, CA
Completed 18 additional hours in religious, spiritual, and cultural diversity; ethics; and theology.

Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA,
MA in Theology, September, 1999

Fuller Theological Seminary - Graduate School of Psychology, Pasadena, CA,
MA in Psychology, June, 1997
Concordia University, Seward, NE
BA in Psychology and Theology, May, 1995

University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Supplementary coursework in psychology while attending Concordia University

BOOKS:

Hoffman, L., Yang, M., Chan, A., & Kaklauskas, F. (Eds.). (2009). Existential psychology East-West. Colorado Springs, CO: University of the Rockies Press. (Contracted to be translated into Chinese through the China Machine Press)

Kaklauskas, F., Nimanheminda, S., Hoffman, L., & Jack, M. (Eds.). (2008). Brilliant sanity: Buddhist approaches to psychotherapy. Colorado Springs, CO: University of the Rockies Press.

Moriarty, G. & Hoffman, L. (Eds.). (2007). The God image handbook for spiritual counseling and psychotherapy: Theory, research, and practice. New York: Haworth Press. The book will also be co-published as a special issues of the Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health, 9 (3/4).

Cox, R. H., Cox, B., & Hoffman, L. (Eds.). (2005). Spirituality and psychological health. Colorado Springs, CO: Colorado Professional School of Psychology Press.

Hoffman, L. (Ed.). (in press). A Christian clinical psychology: The contributions of H. Newton Malony. Pasadena, CA: Fuller Seminary Press.

RECENT JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS:

Hoffman, L., Hoffman, J. L., Hoffman, J. L. S., & Cleare-Hoffman, H. P. (2010). Culture, religion, and spirituality: How spirituality saved religion. In J. H. Ellens (Ed.), The healing power of spirituality: How faith helps humans thrive (Vol. 2: Religion; pp. 191-206). Westport, CT: Praeger.

Hoffman, L., Moriarty, G., & Williamson, N. (2010). The dynamics of religious experience and psychological health: An existential-psychodynamic perspective. In J. H. Ellens (Ed.), The healing power of spirituality: How faith helps humans thrive (Vol. 3: Psychodynamics; pp. 147-170). Westport, CT: Praeger.

Hoffman, L. & Thelen, M. (2009). Interfaith dialogue. In D. Leeming (Ed.), The encyclopedia of psychology and religion (pp. 440-442) New York: Springer.

Hoffman, L. & Palmer, E. (2009). Fundamentalism. In D. Leeming (Ed.), The encyclopedia of psychology and religion (pp.341-342). New York: Springer.

Hoffman, L. (2009). Knowing and the unknown: An existential epistemology in a postmodern context. Humana.Mente, 11, 97-110.

Hoffman, L. (2009). Introduction to existential psychotherapy in a cross-cultural context: An East-West dialogue. In L. Hoffman, M. Yang, F. J. Kaklauskas, & A. Chan (Eds.), Existential psychology East-West (pp. 1-67). Colorado Springs, CO: University of the Rockies Press.

Hoffman, L. (2009). Gordo’s ghost: An introduction to existential perspectives on myths. In L. Hoffman, M. Yang, F. J. Kaklauskas, & A. Chan (Eds.), Existential psychology East-West (pp. 259-274). Colorado Springs, CO: University of the Rockies Press.

Hoffman, L. & Granger, N. (2009). An existential psychotherapy case illustration. In L. Hoffman, M. Yang, A., F. J. Kaklauskas, & A. Chan (Eds.), Existential psychology East-West (pp. 69-91). Colorado Springs, CO: University of the Rockies Press.

Hoffman, L., Yang, M., Kaklauskas, F. J. & Chan, A. (2009). Introduction. . In L. Hoffman, M. Yang, A., F. J. Kaklauskas, & A. Chan (Eds.), Existential psychology East-West (pp. xii-xvi). Colorado Springs, CO: University of the Rockies Press.

Dyer, J. C., Kaklauskas, F., Dow, M., Saxon, E., Chan, A., Yang, M., & Hoffman, L. (2009). Existential psychology dialogues in China: Beginning the conversation. In L. Hoffman, M. Yang, A., F. Kaklauskas, & A. Chan (Eds.), Existential psychology East-West (pp. 95-110). Colorado Springs, CO: University of the Rockies Press.

Hoffman, L., Stewart, S., Warren, D., & Meek, L. (2009). Toward a sustainable myth of self: An existential response to the postmodern condition. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 49, 135-173.

Hoffman, L. & McGuire, K. (2008). Are miracles essential or peripheral to faith traditions? In J. H. Ellens (Ed.), Miracles: God, science, and psychology in the paranormal (Vol. 1, pp. 221-240). Westport, CT: Praeger Books.

Hoffman, L. & Kurzenberger, M. (2008). The miraculous in mental illness (Premodern, modern, and postmodern interpretations of the miraculous and mental illness from religious and psychological perspectives). In J. H. Ellens (Ed.), Miracles: God, science, and psychology in the paranormal (Vol. 3, pp. 65-93). Westport, CT: Praeger Books.

Hoffman, L. & Fehl, S. (2008). Spiritualizing the unknown. In J. H. Ellens (Ed.), Miracles: God, science, and psychology in the paranormal (Vol. 3, pp. 194-209). Westport, CT: Praeger Books.

Hoffman, L., Hoffman, J. L., Dillard, K., Clark, J., Acoba, R., Williams, F., & Jones. T. T. (2008). Diversity and the God image: Examining ethnic differences in the experience of God for a college-age population. Journal of Psychology and Theology, 36, 26-41.

Hoffman, L. (2008). An existential framework for Buddhism, world religions, and psychotherapy: Culture and diversity considerations. In F. Kaklauskas, S. Nimanheminda, L. Hoffman, & M. Jack, (Eds.) Brilliant Sanity: Buddhist Approaches to Psychotherapy (pp. 19-38). Colorado Springs, CO: University of the Rockies Press.

Hoffman, L. (2008). An existential approach to working with religious and spiritual clients. In K. Schneider (Ed.), Existential-integrative psychotherapy: Guideposts to the core of practice (pp. 187-202). New York: Routledge Press.

Hoffman, L. (2007). Existential perspectives on God image theory and practice. In G. Moriarty & L. Hoffman, The God image handbook for spiritual counseling and psychotherapy: Theory, research, and practice. Haworth Press.

Hoffman, L., Knight, S., Boscoe-Huffman, S. & Stewart, S. (2007). Implication of diversity for the God image. In G. Moriarty & L. Hoffman (Eds.), The God image handbook for spiritual counseling and psychotherapy: Theory, research, and practice. New York: Haworth Press.

SELECTED RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

Hoffman, L. & Dyer, J. C. (2010, August). Using neuropsychology to enhance existential psychotherapy. In L. Hoffman (Chair), Neuropsychology, health psychology, and existential psychology: Creating dialog. Symposium presented at the 118th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, San Diego, CA.

Hoffman, L. (2010, August). Social harmony and the rebel: Lessons from the East West dialogue on existential psychology. Invited presentation at the 6th Biennial International Conference on Personal Meaning, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Hoffman, L. (2010, August). Therapeutic strategies for changing religious experience and their implications. Presented at the 5th International Conference on the Psychology of Religion, Pasadena, CA.

Hoffman, L. (2010, April). Existential psychology in an East-West dialogue. Opening address at the First International Conference on Existential Psychology, Nanjing, China.

Hoffman, L. (2010, April). Nietzsche’s influence upon existential psychology. In X. Wang (Chair), LuXun and Nietzsche in dialogue. Symposium presented at the First International Conference on Existential Psychology, Nanjing, China.

Hoffman, L. (2010, March). Religious experience in early human development. Invited presentation at the Fourth International Conference on the Psychology of Religion, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, China.
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Robert Horn is an internatially recognized leader in the fields of information mapping, global communication, and information design. His currentt projects include constructing new maps for policy projects, developing visual language, and conducting research on the visual presentation of debates.

Rich Hycner received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology, San Diego. Dr. Hycner is a clinical psychologist in private practice specializing in working with individuals, couples and group therapy. He received certification in Gestalt Therapy. His books and other writings focus on the relationship between self-psychology and Gestalt, and on Dialogical Therapy.

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

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.

Dr. Paul R. Kimmel

Three perspectives have guided much of my professional work over the last 30 years: a dedication to applied social science research and training, an international and intercultural outlook, and a commitment to non-violent conflict management. During my 25 years in Washington, D.C., my work was done in conjunction with Federal Government agencies, the National Academy of Sciences, and international business. I was also the first Public Policy Fellow at the American Psychological Association and one of the first Peace Fellows at the U.S. Institute of Peace. Most of my recent work has been done as an independent consultant in Los Angeles.

Research and Training
I have collaborated with a wide range of people in University settings, private business, and government in selecting and implementing both qualitative and quantitative research designs. The challenges of cross cultural and international research are familiar territory, as 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.

I have trained many business, government, and professional people who work with individuals from other cultures here and abroad. Through the use of role plays using realistic scenarios, 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.

Teaching at Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center
I helped develop the new Saybrook interest area in Peace and Conflict Resolution Studies. In addition to creating the peacekeeping, peacemaking and peace building course, I teach three other courses in this area. I have worked on learning guides for courses in culture and conflict management and the arts and society. I also teach 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; as well as adult education courses for Central Oregon Community College and Northern Michigan University. I recently 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 also write political, musical satires.

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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Jodi Lang received her Ph.D. in East/West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies.Dr. Lang is a researcher and Integrative Healthcare consultant whose interests are rooted in spirituality and Eastern philosophy. Professionally, she sponsors workshops to bridge transpersonal and traditional perspectives in the fields of medicine, psychotherapy, trauma and abuse, and addictions treatment.

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, where he is currently tenured core faculty. He also serves as Consulting Research Faculty member for the Consortium Schools of California and as adjunct Full Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies and at Saybrook Graduate School, and teaches MBA and Doctoral management courses on strategy, systems, and sustainability as core faculty at Presidio World College, as adjunct Professor and Doctoral Faculty Mentor at Touro University International, and as adjunct Professor at Bainbridge Graduate Institute. 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', 'Organisational Transformation & Social Change', and 'Latin American Business Review'. An active member of several systems science societies, he is author of over fifty journal, book, and encyclopedia publications, with 'Evolving with Heart: Dancing the Path of Syntony' forthcoming. He is also a 4th Degree Black Belt in Chung Do Kwan style of Tae Kwon Do and a 2nd Degree Black Belt in Shotokan style of Karate.

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.

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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Liz Lipski, PhD, CCN, CHN, is board certified in Clinical Nutrition & Holistic Nutrition, the author of Digestive Wellness, Leaky Gut Syndrome, & Digestive Wellness for Children. She is the Director of Doctoral Studies, and Educational Director at Hawthorn University. She is on faculty and a member of the Nutrition Advisory Board for the Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) and on the nutrition faculty for Defeat Autism Now (DAN). She is the founder of Access to Health Experts, an educational membership website for consumers and health professionals. She's in private practice in Asheville, NC providing on-site and telephone consultations.

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.

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, Nanjing, China. 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.

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.

Nicol Moreland-Torres, PhD, earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology. She has taught both undergraduate and graduate coursework in biology, statistics, theory in science, women in science studies, learning and memory and research methods and statistics. During her time in academia Dr. Moreland also guest lectured at a number of different universities. Prior to her current position for the Bernalillo County Youth Services Center in New Mexico (BCYSC) as the Research and Statistics Coordinator, in addition to her lecture work, she ran her own psychobiology lab securing National Institute of Health grant monies. In addition to her academic achievements, Dr. Moreland was a NASA mentor who was recognized for mentoring more minority women in math and science than any other mentor in her field.""

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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."

Gregg Richardson received his Ph.D.in Clinical Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies. Dr. Richardson's postdoctoral studies were in gerontology and neuropsychology, and he is a full-time clinical neuropsychologist for Kaiser hospitals in Oakland and Union City, California. He also maintains a private practice in San Francisco. He is particularly interested in the mechanisms of attention, assesses ADHD in adults, and teaches a class on adult attention problems at Kaiser Oakland. He is also former president of AHIMSA, a Berkeley organization devoted to education and programs which promote nonviolence.

Lynda Richtsmeier Cyr, PhD, LP, is a Clinical Psychologist, Clinical Instructor of Pediatrics for the University of Minnesota School of Medicine, and Faculty Member for The Center for Mind Body Medicine (CMBM). Lynda is a founder and leader of The Pediatric Integrative Medicine Program, Childrens Hospitals & Clinics of Minnesota. Lynda also maintains a private practice where she incorporates mind-body medicine into her holistic psychotherapy practice with children, adolescents and adults. Lynda facilitates regular mind-body skills groups and consults to agencies and schools in the area of mind-body medicine, health and wellness. Lynda has taught locally and nationally in the area of pediatric self-regulation, biofeedback, hypnosis

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 and Saybrook.

Natalie Roger received her Ph.D. Psychology in Expressive Arts Therapy from Summit University. Dr. Natalie Rogers is a distinguished psychotherapist and a pioneer in the field of expressive art therapy. She has authored two books, several chapters, and many articles. The Creative Connection: Expressive Arts as Healing, (1993) presents her theory and the applications of person-centered expressive arts therapy. Natalie's Emerging Woman: A Decade of Mid-life Transitions, (1980) is a personal/political description of her life between age 40 and 50. A chapter entitled The Creative Journey in Positive Regard: Carl Rogers and Other Notables He Influenced, (1995) describes how she expanded the work of her notable father, Dr. Carl Rogers, to include the arts as a mode of communication in psychotherapy. Natalie is also an artist, a mother and grandmother.

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/.

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.

Dr. Tang is an internationally known expert, mentor, coach, trainer and OD consultant in a global context. He is the creator of Synergic Inquiry methodology and Synergic Coaching which has been applied to different settings in different nations and cultures.

He has mentored or coached many top executives from over many different countries (e.g., USA, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Japan, Korea, Singapore, England, Sweden, Finland, Denmark). And he has provided mentoring, coaching or training services to over 800 managers and leaders who are local Chinese.

He is also an experienced OD consultants. Within 6 months, he played a strategic and instrumental role in helping Becker Guangzhou operation to become a world-class organization in terms of revenue per capita, profit per capita, and rate of growth. Due to his strategic guidance Becker Group set up a new business unit which has become the future of the group. As part of the outcomes, many leaders (both international and Chinese) are promoted to take bigger responsibilities for the business. Currently he is still coaching the core leaders to expand their capacities and skills, in the meantime being their strategic guide.

He has conducted many workshops and trainings in the areas of corporate culture and cross-cultural communication and management. He has lived in the United States for many years and received his master and Ph.D. from US universities.

The facilitator has profound management experience: He had been project manager at Texaco, did run his own business in the United States, and was the CEO of PVG Corporation, a US-based company.

Dr. Tang is a modern type of Chinese coach/trainer who applies modern, i.e. Western teaching and moderation techniques, and speaks English fluently.

Dr Tang has provided hundreds of domestic and multinational corporations with his consultancy service and has conducted more than 1000 seminars.

Key customers of Dr Tang include multinational corporations as Mercedes Benz, AIA, Apple, AT&T, BP, DaimlerChrysler, GM, IBM, HP, Oracle, Pacific Bell, Procter & Gamble, Shell, Sun Micro Systems, Texaco, Beckers Industrial Coatings, Continental, and many others.


In 2006, he was the first Chinese author to be published by the famous SAGE publishing house, publishing a handbook on and in 2010 his new book�C �gDeveloping Global Leaders�h has been published in China by the most reputable publisher, CITIC.

Ethel Tobach received her Ph.D. Physiological and Comparative Psychology from New York University. Dr. Tobach's research looks at the relationship between evolutionary and developmental processes in behavior; the examination of activity as a significant process in behavior; the relation between social, societal, and individual factors in that relationship; and an examination of contemporary problems in society as they relate to aspects of identity.

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.

Jay Wagener received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Clark University. He graduated from Stanford University with majors in Philosophy and Psychology. He did his internship at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute where he ran groups for bi-poloar patients and worked in the UCLA Affective Disorders Clinic with Kay Jamison. He also worked on the Liaison Staff in the UCLA Medical Hospital where he ran nurses groups, worked with cancer patients and their families and was the head psychologist on the Bone Marrow Transplant Service. Dr. Wagener's career work is focused on how individuals make and maintain significant changes in their life. He is the founder of ichangenetwork.com, an internet site devoted to helping individuals deal with stress, cope with going through divorce, ADD, and addictions of all kinds. He pioneered the development of Deep Focus Imaging (DFI) which combines self-hypnosis, imagery, and meditation to help individuals make lasting deep changes in their lives. Feel free to visit this site. Dr. Wagener has been in private practice in Pasadena for over 25 years and works primarily with couples, adolescents, and students and athletes interested in improving performance.

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.

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.

Annemarie Welteke received her M.L.S. from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the Director of Library and Information Services and she also teaches the course Information Competency and Library Use. Before Annemarie joined Saybrook, she trotted around the globe working as a librarian. She started out in Berkeley, spent a year in India, followed by nine years in Ethiopia. After sixteen years back in the Bay Area she sought a three-year adventure at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale campus in Japan. During her professional career she has actively participated in the change from paper to virtual libraries. As the librarian of Saybrook she particularly enjoys teaching students on how to do online research. With the eye on another overseas venture she has received a Fulbright Senior Specialist award and went for six weeks to Bahrain in January and February 2009. She has also been learning Spanish for the last few years. To practice the language she has gone to Costa Rica, Mexico City, Havana, Cuba and Barcelona, Spain. When she does not work as a librarian, she dabbles in the arts. She holds a certificate in arts administration and is a board member of Berkeley Chamber Performances. You can also see her occasionally on Sundays volunteering at the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden.

Dr. Whitney is an internationally recognized consultant, speaker and thought leader. Her work focuses on the use of Appreciative Inquiry for organization culture transformation; merger, alliance building and partnerships; labor management relations; superior customer service; and global organization development.

Patricia Wolskee, PhD, is an instructor for the Health Psychology course. Patricia has published extensive research on treating and assessing chronic pain. She has a long-standing interest in alternative medicine beginning with a Post Doctoral Fellowship at the National Institutes of Health dealing with the use of hypnosis for pediatric spinal cord fluid withdrawal in young cancer patients. She then moved on to work with the Dept of Anesthesia at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey where acupuncture for chronic pain was a standard treatment She then worked at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical Institute where she was involved with the use of meditation, relaxation and hypnosis for the treatment of chronic pain.In addition she is researching the establishment of the side effects from Hepatitis C standard treatment, then potentially utilizing alternative methods for the treatment of those potential side effects. Her last position was as faculty at Capella University originally introducing alternative medicine to their curriculum. ""

Dr. Zinchenko received his Ph.D. in psychology from Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center in 2001, and his MA in psychology from Moscow State University in 1987. Before his relocation to the USA in 1991, Dr. Zinchenko lived in Moscow where he worked as psychotherapist in private practice, a hypnotherapist at the Alcoholism Treatment Center and a researcher at the USSR Academy of Sciences Center for the Studies of Consciousness. He co-authored and served as the principle investigator on a research project "Use of Altered States of Consciousness in the Treatment of Addictions" (sponsored by the USSR Academy of Sciences). In addition to an article in the International Journal of Psychosomatics based on this research, Dr. Zinchenko published a book chapter on the psychology of youth movements; another book chapter "Nostalgia: a Dialog between Memory and Knowledge" is currently in print.

Dr. Zinchenko maintains a private practice in San Francisco specializing in individual, family and group psychotherapy with adults and children. Dr. Zinchenko's current interests include Object Relations Theory; phenomenological and psychoanalytic aspects of nostalgia and uprootedness; clinical work with immigrants and refugees; and psychotherapy with severely disturbed and traumatized clients. He is also keenly interested and extensively involved in teaching and clinical training: as a Supervising Psychologist at RAMS, Inc. and National Asian American Psychology Training Center, - an APA accredited pre-doctoral internship; as a Psychologist at Napa State Hospital; as faculty at the Access Institute for Psychological Services.

Sabrina Zirkel received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Michigan. Dr. Zirkel's reseach and interests are in the area of identity development, with a particular emphasis on adolescents and the development of achievement goals and adaptive functioning in the face of adversity. Her teaching at Saybrook is focused in the Social Transformation program, where she will be returning to the postion of Director, and in research methods. Her primary interests in the Social Transformation program are in the certificate programs in Violence Prevention and Community Health and Development. She teaches courses in the psychology of multiculturalism, gender, domestic violence, personality theory and research, as well as a variety of courses in both qualitative and quantitative research methods. She enjoys the opportunity Saybrook provides to work with accomplished mid-career professionals doing a variety of social change work from a humanistic perspective.