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Michael Basseches,
Ph.D.
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Throughout my career, my
research and scholarship has dealt with late adolescent and adult
intellectual development, social development, and ego development with
emphases on psychotherapy and supervision of psychotherapy, as well as
higher education and the workplace, as contexts for late adolescent and
adult development.
My education
includes: B.A. (1972), Swarthmore College; Ph.D. (1978), Harvard
University (Personality/Developmental Psychology). Post-doctoral
internships and clinical psychology training at Tufts University
Counseling Center, South Shore Mental Health Center, and Clark
University.
My professional
experience comprises the following roles. Faculty member (25+ years) at
Cornell University, Swarthmore College, Massachusetts School of
Professional Psychology, and Suffolk University (where currently
Professor of Psychology). Staff Psychologist (18 years) Bureau of Study
Counsel, Harvard University. Licensed psychologist in private practice
(20+ years) in areas including individual, couple, family, and group
psychotherapy and supervision. Fellow, The Clinical-Developmental
Institute. Head Resident and Resident Tutor at Harvard University’s
Pforzheimer House; Tutor and Teaching Fellow at Harvard in Psychology,
General Education, and Graduate School of Education; Instructor in
Psychology at Harvard Medical School (McLean Hospital). Consultant to
business, religious and educational organizations; draft counseling and
nonviolence training; taxi driver in New York City.
I am currently
using a dialectical-constructivist framework to integrate a wide range
of approaches to psychotherapy, and to provide a developmental
conceptualization of the fundamental dialectical processes by which all
effective psychotherapy works, regardless of the therapist’s theoretical
approach. In collaboration with students and colleagues, we have created
a coding system for tracking these processes and the developmental
movements that occur within them. This model may also be used to
understand how psychotherapy becomes stuck and to prevent "theoretical
abuse" of clients by psychotherapy practitioners.
Current research
interests include (a) case studies of successful and unsuccessful
psychotherapy using the coding system (b) clients’ experiences of
psychotherapy, (c) therapists’ understandings of the nature of expertise
in psychotherapy, and (d) the impact of therapists’ forms of
meaning-making on the therapy process. These interrelated lines of
research are part of an overall attempt to articulate a comprehensive
dialectical-constructivist life-span developmental model of
psychotherapy process and psychotherapist training. Draft chapters of a
book presenting the model to be published by Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates, Psychotherapy as a Developmental Process,
(co-authored by me and Michael Mascolo), are available from me on
request.
Other interests
include: forms of rationality and irrationality (how they develop,
interact with each other and generate conflict, and how these often
painful conflicts can be transformed into developmental opportunities);
dialectical and critical thinking; relationship of individual and
organizational development; integration of intellectual and personal
development; conflicts within academic, personal, and sexual experience,
and the relevance to them of philosophical and religious concerns.
Other relevant
personal facts: I grew up in Greenwich Village. I am divorced, with two
children (ages 17 and 13, in 2006). I am interested in social change,
sports, movies and theater, and spending time near and in the ocean.
Bibliography
Email:
mbassech@suffolk.edu,
mbasseches@bsc.harvard.edu
Web pages:
http://www.suffolk.edu/college/12189.html,
http://bsc.harvard.edu/staff.html#mb
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Ervin Laszlo,
Ph.D.
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Ervin Laszlo is Founder and President of The Club of Budapest, Founder and
Director of the General Evolution Research Group, President of the Private
University for Economics and Ethics of Vienna, Fellow of the World Academy of
Arts and Sciences, Member of the International Academy of Philosophy of Science,
Senator of the International Medici Academy, and Editor of the international
periodical World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution. He is the
author or co-author of forty-seven books translated into as many as twenty
languages, and the editor of another thirty volumes including a four-volume
encyclopedia.
Laszlo has a PhD from the Sorbonne and is the recipient of four honorary PhD’s
(from the United States, Canada, Finland, and Hungary). He received the Peace
Prize of Japan, the Goi Award in Tokyo in 2002, and the International Mandir of
Peace Prize in Assisi in 2005. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in
2004 and was re-nominated in 2005.
Formerly Professor of Philosophy, Systems Science, and Futures Studies in
various universities in the US, Europe, and the Far East, Laszlo lectures
worldwide. He presently lives in a four hundred year-old converted farmhouse in
Tuscany with his Finnish-born wife Carita. His sons Christopher and Alexander,
who live with their families in the United States, follow in his footsteps, the
former in the sustainability and ethical management consulting field and the
latter in the academic domain where he combines evolutionary theory with
evolutionary community consulting.
Web pages:
www.clubofbudapest.org/
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/02604027.html
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Ian I. Mitroff,
Ph.D.
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Ian I. Mitroff is The Harold Quinton Distinguished Professor of Business Policy
at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California (USC),
Professor of Journalism and Associate Director, The USC Center for Strategic
Public Relations at the Annenberg School of Communications at USC, and president
of the consulting firm Comprehensive Crisis Management. He is regarded as the
founder of the discipline of crisis management and was founder and director of
the USC Center for Crisis Management.
Known for his thinking and writing on a wide range of business and societal
issues, Dr. Mitroff is the author of 26 previous books, including A Spiritual
Audit of Corporate America, Smart Thinking for Crazy Times, The Essential Guide
to Managing Corporate Crisis, The Unbounded Mind, and Managing Crises
Before They Happen.
His educational background is rooted in the University of California at
Berkeley, with B.S., Engineering Physics, 1961; M.S., Structural Engineering,
1963; Ph.D., Engineering Science (Major Field: Human Factors, Industrial
Engineering) and the Philosophy of Social Science (Minor Field), 1967.
Past honors include: winner of one of Choice magazine's awards for the
best academic books of 2005 (Why Some Companies Emerge Stronger and Better
From a Crisis, AMACOM); Fellow, The American Association for the Advancement
of Science, October, 2001; Honorary Doctor of Philosophy, Faculty of Social
Science, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden, September, 2000; Charter
Member, Academy of Management’s Journals Hall of Fame, August, 2000; Fellow,
Academy of Management, 1994; President, International Society for the Systems
Sciences, 1992-1993; Fellow, American Psychological Association, 1987.
He has written over 300 published papers, articles, and op-eds, in addition to
his books. Subjects he has addressed include: Crisis Management, Business
Policy, Corporate Culture, Contemporary Media and Current Events, Foreign
Affairs and Nuclear Deterrence, Organizational Change, Organizational Psychology
and Psychiatry, the Philosophy and Sociology of Science, Public Policy,
Scientific Method, Spirituality in the Workplace, and Strategic Planning.
Dr. Mitroff is a frequent consultant to Fortune 500 companies, major
governmental, and not-for-profit agencies. Consultations involve policy,
organizational design, international politics, international business, and
corporate strategy for long-term strategic planning. He is a frequent guest on
national radio and TV talk shows, and frequently delivers keynotes to national
conventions of major professional and public organizations. He often provides
lectures to academic, corporate, and government leaders in over 20 foreign
countries.
He is married to Donna D. Mitroff, Ph.D., an Adjunct Professor at The Annenberg
School of Communication. Daughter Dana A. Mitroff, M.A., is the Head of Online
Services for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He lives in Manhattan
Beach, California. His hobbies include hiking, dancing, and Blues harmonica.
Email: ianmitroff@earthlink.net
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Basarab Nicolescu, Ph.D.
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Basarab Nicolescu is a theoretical physicist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, France, a Professor at the Babes-Bolyai
University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, a Member of the Romanian Academy, and
President-Founder of the International Center for Transdisciplinary Research and
Studies (CIRET). CIRET is a non-profit organization (165 members from 26
countries), which has a web site at
http://nicol.club.fr/ciret/. He is Founder and Director of the
Transdisciplinarity Series, Rocher Editions, Monaco and of the Romanians
in Paris Series, Oxus Editions, Paris. A specialist in the theory of
elementary particles, Basarab Nicolescu is the author of 130 articles in leading
international scientific journals, has made numerous contributions to science
anthologies and participated in several dozens French radio and multimedia
documentaries on science. He is a major advocate of the transdisciplinary
reconciliation between Science and the Humanities. He published many articles on
the role of science in the contemporary culture in journals in USA, France,
Romania, Italy, United Kingdom, Brazil, Argentina and Japan. His books include:
Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity, State University of New York (SUNY)
Press, New York, 2002; Nous, la particule et le monde, Rocher, Monaco,
2002 (2nd edition); Science, Meaning and Evolution - The Cosmology of Jacob
Boehme, Parabola Books, New York, 1991. A complete biobibliography of
Basarab Nicolescu can be found on the page
http://lpnhe-theorie.in2p3.fr/BNTitre.html.
Email:
nicol@club-internet.fr
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Nancy Roof,
Ph.D.
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Nancy B. Roof is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the
integral global journal Kosmos, nominated for its excellence and
spiritual coverage by the prestigious Utne Independent Press Awards. Kosmos
brings leading edge ideas to United Nations Ambassadors, the UN Secretariat,
NGOs and the international community of global citizens. Its unique mission is
to create a sustainable, compassionate and emerging global civilization through
individual, cultural, and systems transformation at all levels of body, mind,
and spirit. Dr. Roof is Founding President of Kosmos Associates Inc.
She has been in consultative status with ECOSOC at the United Nations since 1988
where she has lobbied for global values, lifelong learning and spirituality in
major United Nations Conferences that set global standards. She co-founded the
Values Caucus at the United Nations in 1994 with the help of Ambassador Somavia
of Chile (now Secretary General of ILO) and co-founded the Spiritual Caucus at
the UN in 2000 for the purpose of bringing contemplation into UN deliberations.
She was a key speaker addressing 184 governments at the World Social Forum in
Copenhagen on the importance of values in global policy. She co-designed and was
a speaker at the first Ethics Conference at the United Nations with 27 countries
as patrons. She is a contributor to Visions for a New Civilization: Spiritual
and Ethical Values for the New Millennium with her United Nations and UNESCO
Colleagues. She was a key speaker with International Governmental
Ministers of Culture at the United Nations World Culture Open Forum on the theme
of an integral approach to global affairs and the role of culture in peace.
Kosmos is a founding partner
of the worldwide initiative, Creating the New Civilization, launched by the Goi
Peace Foundation in Tokyo, November 2005 with the Gorbachev Foundation, Club of
Budapest, Club of Rome, Commission on Global Spirituality and Consciousness and
World Wisdom Council. She is the first Media Ambassador invited to participate
in the World Wisdom Council.
Her testimony to the U.S. Commission on Improving the
Effectiveness of the UN was included in the final report sent to the President
and Congress. Her testimony emphasized the need for including the human
dimension in global policy.
Dr. Roof designed, implemented, and pioneered the first
training programs in the former Yugoslavia on secondary traumatic stress in war
zones. The program trained trainers of 78 organizations, including the United
Nations, Red Cross, Governments, Doctors Without Borders, and local groups in
three different locations. The program is now being used as a model in other War
Zones. She published a widely distributed workbook for further self-training
entitled The Impact of War on Humanitarian Service Providers.
In 1970 she co-founded The Mountain School, to teach
meditation and interior spiritual practices from a variety of religious
traditions. She co-founded an alternative medicine practice where she worked
with medical doctors on the mind/body relationship. Dr. Roof founded and
developed the first Transpersonal Psychology training programs on the East Coast
at Beacon College MA program in 1980. She had a flourishing private practice in
individual in-depth psychology based on the psychology she developed combining
Western psychology and Eastern spiritual practices.
She has designed numerous workshops and been a key speaker at
the UN and at many professional international conferences. She is now initiating
salons and conversation groups around the themes of Kosmos Journal. She
is a member of the President’s Club of the Integral Institute (Ken Wilber), a
founding member of Integral Sustainability at the Integral Institute, a founding
partner of the global initiative on Creating a New Civilization, Vice-President
of Lifebridge Foundation, Advisory Board of Ethical Markets (Hazel Henderson),
Co-Founder of both the Values Caucus (1994) and the Spiritual Caucus (2000) at
the United Nations, author of numerous published articles on spirituality and
global affairs and the first Media Ambassador to the World Wisdom Council of the
Club of Budapest and a Founding Member of the World Wisdom Alliance. She has
recently been invited to speak at Mikhail Gorbachev's World Political Forum.
Email:
nancy@kosmosjournal.org
Web page:
www.kosmosjournal.org
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Peter Russell
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Peter Russell is the widely acclaimed author of the bestseller The Global
Brain and other pioneering works. He is a fellow of the Institute of Noetic
Sciences, of The World Business Academy and of The Findhorn Foundation, and an
Honorary Member of The Club of Budapest.
He earned an honors degree in theoretical physics and psychology at University
of Cambridge, England. He had studied mathematics and theoretical physics. Then,
as he became increasingly fascinated by the mysteries of the human mind, he
changed to experimental psychology. Pursuing this interest, he traveled to India
to study meditation and eastern philosophy, and on his return took up the first
research post ever offered in Britain on the psychology of meditation. He also
has a post-graduate degree from University of Cambridge in computer science,
where he studied under Stephen Hawking and conducted some of the early work on
3-dimensional displays, presaging by some twenty years the advent of virtual
reality.
He also has a post-graduate degree in computer science, and conducted there
some of the early work on 3-dimensional displays, presaging by some twenty years
the advent of virtual reality.
In the mid-seventies Peter Russell joined forces with Tony Buzan and helped
teach "Mind Maps" and learning methods to a variety of international
organizations and educational institutions.
Since then his corporate programs have focused increasingly on
self-development, creativity, stress management, and sustainable environmental
practices. Clients have included IBM, Apple, Digital, American Express, Barclays
Bank, Swedish Telecom, ICI, Shell Oil and British Petroleum.
His principal interest is the deeper, spiritual significance of the times
we are passing through. He has written several books in this area: The TM
Technique, The Upanishads, The Brain Book, The Global Brain Awakens, The
Creative Manager, The Consciousness Revolution, Waking Up in Time, and
From Science to God.
As one of the more revolutionary futurists Peter Russell has been a keynote
speaker at many international conferences, in Europe, Japan and the USA. His
multi-image shows and videos, The Global Brain and The White Hole in
Time have won praise and prizes from around the world. In 1993, the
environmental magazine Buzzworm voted him "Eco-Philosopher
Extraordinaire" of the year.
Email:
peter@peterussell.com
Web page:
www.peterussell.com
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William Rockwell Torbert,
Ph.D.
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Now Professor of Management at the Carroll School of Management at Boston
College, Bill Torbert has earlier served as the school’s Graduate Dean and
Director of the PhD Program in Organizational Transformation. He currently
teaches the MBA Leadership Workshop, an elective in Consulting, and a doctoral
seminar in Action Research Methods. He is one of the founding faculty of the
Executive Program Leadership for Change at Boston College, and is a
founding Research Member of the international Society for Organizational
Learning. Within the academy, he has served as Chair for the Organization
Development & Change Division of the Academy of Management and on the Board of
the Organization Behavior Teaching Society, as well having served on the
founding Editorial Boards of numerous journals including most recently the
Journal of Action Research and Academy of Management Learning and
Education.
Torbert has consulted widely (e.g. Odebrecht Construction [Brazil], Volvo
and UBS Warburg [England], Lego [Denmark], the Center for Creative Leadership
[US]) and served on the Boards of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and P. B. Svigals
& Associates (architects), as well as Trillium Asset Management (the first and
largest independent social investing advisor). He currently focuses his
consulting contributions through his role as Director of Research and Senior
Consultant at HarthillUK.
With regard to scholarship, Torbert’s 2004 Berrett-Koehler book, Action
Inquiry: The Secret of Timely and Transforming Leadership, presents his
theories, cases, surveys, and lab and field experiments in regard to
developmental transformation at both the personal and organizational levels, as
well as within science itself, undergirded by an action research process
exercised in real-time, everyday life, called "developmental action inquiry."
Unlike most purely third-person, analytic social science research, action
inquiry integrates first-person, second-person, and third-person
research/practice in real-time. His many other books and articles include: 1)
the national Alpha Sigma Nu award winning Managing the Corporate Dream
(Dow Jones-Irwin, 1987); 2) the Terry Award Finalist book The Power of
Balance: Transforming Self, Society, and Scientific Inquiry (Sage, 1991);
and 3) the April 2005 HBR article “Seven Transformations of
Leadership” which won the worldwide Association of Executive Search Consultants
Award for Best Published Research on Leadership and Corporate Governance.
Torbert received a BA, magna cum laude, in Political Science &
Economics and a PhD in Administrative Sciences from Yale University, holding a
Danforth Graduate Fellowship during his graduate years. He founded the Yale
Upward Bound (War on Poverty) program and the Theatre of Inquiry, and taught at
Yale, Southern Methodist University, and Harvard prior to joining the Boston
College faculty in 1978. He won the Outstanding Professor Award at SMU in 1972,
in 1989 won second place nationally as Distinguished Educator in OB, and in 1991
won the first Carroll School MBA Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award. Most of
all, though, he takes great pleasure and pride (not to mention more than
occasional pain) in the ongoing development of his three sons, Michael, Patrick,
and Benjamin, and of his closest friends, colleagues, and students.
Email:
torbert@bc.edu
Web pages:
www2.bc.edu/~torbert,
www.harthill.co.uk
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