ERVIN LASZLO

I am Ervin Laszlo, Founder and President of The Club of Budapest, Director and Co-Founder of the Ervin Laszlo Institute for Advanced Study (ELIAS) and of the Laszlo New-Paradigm Leadership Center (Italy), Member of the Hungarian Academy of Science, Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences, Member of the International Academy of Philosophy of Science, Member of the International Academy of Systems Research and Cybernetics, Senator of the International Medici Academy, and Editor of the international periodical World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution. I am the author or co-author of fifty-four books translated into as many as twenty-three languages, and the editor of another thirty volumes including a four-volume encyclopedia.

ROBERT FORMAN

Founding and leading The Forge Institute, an organization of spiritual leaders. What moves me is the Vastness.  What I want is to help others create lives that are shaped by the Vast Silence that they have known.  In founding the Forge Guild of Spiritual Teachers Writers and Self Help Professionas,” the “Global Spiritual Citizenship Initiative” and the Journal of Consciousness Studies, I’ve been honored to meet and work with people of such depth.

• 40 years of daily meditation
• Design and facilitation of the “SoulJazz” program for spiritual development
• Working with hundreds of people who are serious about their spiritual lives
• Lifelong journey, both therapeutic and spiritual
• Two decades of study and teaching about mystics, closet and “out.”
• Writing a dozen books, including the well received, Enlightenment Ain’t What It’s  Cracked Up To Be

JONATHAN BRICKLIN

Jonathan Bricklin is a Program Director at the New York Open Center and a Jamesean scholar. He is the editor of Sciousness, and the author for the forthcoming SUNY book on William James, The Illusion of Will, Self, and Time: William James’s Reluctant Guide to Enlightenment.

DAMON HONEYCUTT

Damon’s journey has been a cultivation of the artistic, intellectual and physical arts and has afforded him to work with many diverse groups from all around the globe including Pilobolus, The Graduate Institute, Calarts, The Watkinson School, The Hartford Conservatory, Scapegoat Garden, Nai Ni Chen dance company, Mei Yin Ng and Maibe whatever, Firekeeper productions, Beijing Opera company Yuan, The Burat Wangi Gamelan, Oddfellows Playhouse,The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Spectral Voices, The Rubin Museum of Art, Asian Cultural Center of Vermont and many others. Damon Lives in Marlboro VT, where he cultivates and teaches his expression of the Daoist arts.

Imants Barušs

Imants Barušs started out in engineering science on a scholarship at the University of Toronto, but then became preoccupied with existential questions, leading him into unconventional areas of study, with the result that he graduated in 1974 with an interdisciplinary BSc. After some years working as a roofer, he enrolled at the University of Calgary and, in 1983, completed a MSc in mathematics with specialization in mathematical foundations, writing his thesis about forcing in topoi. He switched to psychology, graduating in 1989 from the University of Regina with a PhD in psychology and specialization in the study of consciousness. Since 1987, he has been teaching courses in psychology, mostly about consciousness, at King’s University College, where he has risen to the rank of professor. He has written, or co-authored, 5 books, 35 papers, and 20 reviews, and given 75 presentations, mostly about fundamental issues concerning consciousness.

ZACHARY STEIN

My work focuses on social justice and education through the lenses of developmental psychology and integral metatheories. I studied philosophy and religion at Hampshire College, and educational neuroscience, human development, and the philosophy of education at Harvard University. I was a co-founder of Lectica, Inc., a non-profit dedicated to the research-based justice-oriented reform of large-scale standardized testing in K-12, higher-education, and business. I’ve published in a wide range of outlets including American Psychologist, New Ideas in Psychology, Mind, Brain, and Education, Integral Review, and the Journal of Philosophy of Education. I am the Academic Director of the activist think-tank at the Center for Integral Wisdom, and Core Faculty at Meridian University.

ZORAN JOSIPOVIC

Zoran Josipovic is an Adjunct Assistant Professor and director of  the Contemplative Science Lab, at Psychology Dept., NYU. He is a founding director of the Nonduality Institute, and a founding member of Margam—metro-area research group on awareness and meditation. His research interests are  states of consciousness cultivated through contemplative practice, what these states can tell us about the nature of consciousness and its relation to authentic subjectivity, and what relevance this may have for understanding the global and local organization in the brain.  In his previous life he worked as a clinical psychotherapist, a bodyworker and has taught meditation seminars at Esalen Institute. http://psych.nyu.edu/josipovic/ z7j950@gmail.com

DEBASHISH BANERJI

Debashish Banerji, Ph.D. is the former president of the East-West Cultural Center and Sri Aurobindo Center, Los Angeles. Teacher of Asian Art History and Indian Spiritual Culture. Dean of Academic Affairs for the University of Philosophical Research, Los Angeles. Adjunct Faculty, Asian Art History, Pasadena City College, Pasadena; Adjunct Faculty, Department of Asian and Comparative Studies, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco; Executive Director, Nalanda International; Ph.D., Indian Art History, University of California, Los Angeles; MA Computer Science, University of Louisville, KY; BA English Literature, Elphinstone College, Bombay University. Debashish Banerji finds himself performing his liminal and dialogic identities from day to day between a variety of cultures, disciplines and social realities. debbanerji@yahoo.com.

JEAN McPHAIL aka GAYATRIPRANA

Gayatriprana has worked professionally in the fields of art, science and religion. She uses all three disciplines together to present historical transformations of consciousness in writing and video-making.

Artist, pathologist, and swami in an Eastern religious order, Jean C. MacPhail has followed the unfolding spiral of her life from her native Scotland through England, New York, Boston, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Currently living in the American South West, she is integrating her life experiences in literary and video works which demonstrate how the inner world can impact and shape the events of the outer world in an amazingly consistent and coherent way. Her literary and art work has appeared in publications in India, England and the United States, most recently in Divine Mother Earth in Parabola magazine. For more details see: http://www.linkedin.com/in/sistergayatriprana

AL COLLINS

Al Collins, Ph.D., is a practicing clinical psychologist with a second Ph.D. in Indian studies, specializing in Sanskrit literature. My research focuses on cross fertilization of Indian and Western psychological ideas on the self and psychophysiological self control.

Dr. Collins is on the adjunct faculty of Pacifica Graduate Institute and a former associate professor of East/West psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He is a clinical and cultural psychologist with particular interest in Indian psychological theories and Western depth psychologies (Jungian and Freudian). He is author of Fatherson: A Self Psychology of the Archetypal Masculine (1994) and many presentations, book chapters, and articles, most recently “The Three Selves of Indian Psychology and Psychoanalysis,” in G. Misra, editor, Psychology and Psychoanalysis, vol. 13, part 3 of History of Indian Science, Philosophy, and Culture (2013).

JAMES CLEMENT van PELT

James Clement van Pelt is the co-founder of Yale University’s Initiative in Religion, Science & Technology, coordinating its programming until 2012. He has co-led science-religion and international relations seminars at Yale and has produced five international conferences there in related fields, featuring leading scholars in the Euro-American sphere.

He has authored, coauthored, and contributed to academic journals and books, including Sophia, EdgeScience (journal of the Society for Scientific Exploration); Different Cultures, One World (Rozenberg Publishers, Amsterdam NL); and Venceremos (Simon & Schuster). His academic interests focus on the anthropology of consciousness, theologies of technology, social revolution theory, and consciousness studies, with special interest in the metaphysics of experience and the teleology of technology, and he has made presentations nationally and internationally on those and related topics.

He holds the Master of Arts in Religion (M.A.R.), magna cum laude, from the Yale Divinity School, where he was awarded the Fiers-Cook Scholarship and served as a Research Fellow from 2003 to 2005 and as a co-instructor-lecturer from 2005 to 2008. He also holds the BA in Religion from Duke University and has studied philosophy at Florida State University and Christianity and Culture at both St. Andrews Presbyterian College and the Yokefellows Institute at Earlham College.

Since 2004 he has been a member of the American Academy of Religion, the American Anthropological Association, the American Philosophical Association, the Polanyi Society, the Radical Philosophy Association, the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness, the Society for the Consciousness Studies, and the Center for Independent Study, and has made peer-reviewed academic presentations at their national and regional conferences.

He is a principal co-founder of the Connecticut Folk Festival & Green Expo*; the Connecticut Coalition on Cuba; the Miccosukee Land Cooperative*; and the Center for Participant Education* at Florida State University, for which he taught several courses. (*extant)    His technologist positions have included Senior Technology Advisor for the public school districts in central Connecticut and Director of Advanced Solutions for the Dun & Bradstreet Corp.

“Leslie” (Allan) Combs

Allan Combs the conference organizer and acting President of the Society for Consciousness Studies. He is a neuropsychologist, system theorist, and consciousness researcher at the California Institute of Integral Studies where he directs the Center for Consciousness Studies. He is also Professor Emeritus of psychology at the University of North Carolina. Dr. Combs is the author of over 200 publications on consciousness and the brain. His books include Consciousness Explained Better; The Radiance of Being; Mind in Time: The Dynamics of Thought, Reality, and Consciousness with Ben Goertzel and Mark Germine; and Thomas Berry: Dreamer of the Earth with Ervin Laszlo. He was also the winner of the 2002-2003 National Teaching Award of the Graduate Liberal Studies Association. http://www.sourceintegralis.org/ http://www.ciis.edu/About_CIIS/Center_for_Consciousness_Studies.html Allan is the Doshi Professor of Consciousness Studies; CIIS Director: Center for Consciousness Studies CCS@CIIS.EDU

GREIG ANDREWS

Greig Andrews is a chiropractor and doctoral student at CIIS where he is researching growth and consciousness in closely knit groups.

DANIEL MEZICK

DANIEL MEZICK is a management consultant, author and keynote speaker. He is the formulator of Open Agile Adoption, a technique for creating rapid and lasting enterprise agility. He is the author of THE CULTURE GAME, a book describing sixteen patterns of group behavior that help make any team smarter. The book is based on five years of experience coaching 119 Agile teams across 25 different organizations. Daniel’s client list includes CapitalOne, INTUIT, Zappos Insights, CIGNA, SEIMENS Healthcare, Harvard University and many smaller enterprises. Learn more and contact Daniel at www.DanielMezick.com.

ENRICO CHELI

Psychologist, psychotherapist, sociologist and university professor, Henry Cheli has long been committed to combining science, ethics and spirituality, and to promote cultural and environmental of awareness and peace. He is considered a leading expert in culture and the emerging holistic methods for personal and spiritual growth. Practice for decades yoga, tantra, meditation and various other methods of awareness.
He teaches courses and seminars on experiential inner knowledge and self-realization by using their own method that integrates key holistic psychotherapy, yoga, meditation, breathing, conscious communication, music therapy, sociology. He teaches at the University of Siena where he was Vice-Chancellor for peace, intercultural and development cooperation and with whom directs Master and PhD courses on interpersonal relationships, emotional intelligence, counseling, studies for peace (see academic curriculum). He founded the first Italian Interuniversity Research Centre for Peace (www.cirpac.it) and directed the first European research on cultural and creative culture holistic emerging. He is founder and President of the Foundation and co-director of a non-profit organization Holiversity Holistic Online Encyclopedia. He is the author of numerous books and game awareness Insight. He gives concerts with meditative Tibetan bells, singing harmonics and sacred songs and has published about some CDs. Is frequently interviewed by newspapers and magazines and participates in national television and radio programs. For Xenia editions directs the series “Paths of awareness.”

CHARLES SLIVERSTEIN

Charles H. Silverstein is dedicated to pursuing his deep interest in personal transformation, alternative healing, and the relationship between science and spirituality. He holds an MA degree in Conscious Evolution from TGI, and a PhD in Transformative Studies from the California Institute of Integral Studies. His research interests included higher stages of adult development, transformative practices, spiritual development and personal growth with an emphasis on meditative practices and somatic awareness. He had a 20-year career as an investment analyst and portfolio manager for a large institutional investment company, and was an educator in the fields of science and mathematics.

MICHAEL PERGOLA

Michael is an innovative educator and the President of The Graduate Institute of CT.

SRI GURU SHAKTI DURGA

Shakti Durga, once Kim Fraser a successful barrister for 16 years, has since awakened to a spiritual life and, among other accomplishments, established a series of charitable spiritual schools known as Harmony Centres, now located throughout Australia. Classes are by donation and topics range from energy healing to using spiritual principals to run a successful business. “These are schools and classes for the soul,” says Shakti Durga. “We blend eastern and western traditions, draw on the work of many spiritual teachers and bring likeminded people together to help them discover their purpose and mission.”

JOHN GRANDY

John K. Grandy has worked as a physician assistant (PA) for 10 years in primary care, psychiatry, urgent care, and internal medicine. Prior to becoming a medical professional, he completed a master’s degree in neurophysiology with a second concentration in molecular immunology. He has published chapters and articles in medicine, science, and philosophy: http://publicationslist.org/john.grandy. In addition to neurological disorders, he does a lot of independent research in consciousness studies. In fact, Grandy has recognized and proposed the first neurogenetic account of human consciousness and delineated it into three neurogenetic phases. khyber_john@yahoo.com.

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Simon Senzon

Simon Senzon, DC. is best known for his Integral approach to the history and philosophy of chiropractic, he has also helped to pioneer an Integral approach to subtle energies, Integral Art education, Integral Biography, Health Care, the philosophy of medicine, and the new discipline of Reorganizational Healing developed by his mentor Dr. Donny Epstein. Dr. Simon completed his graduate studies in philosophy at Goddard College and his undergraduate studies in history at the innovative Delta College program at SUNY Brockport.  He received his chiropractic degree from Sherman College of Chiropractic. Dr. Senzon is in private practice in Asheville, North Carolina, where he specializes in Network Spinal Analysis, Somato Respiratory Integration, and Reorganizational Healing.

Constance Scharff

Constance Scharff has a PhD in Transformative Studies, specializing in addiction recovery.  She is the Senior Addiction Research Fellow and Director of Addiction Research at Cliffside Malibu Treatment Center and coauthor of the Amazon.com #1 bestselling book, Ending Addiction for Good. She speaks worldwide to healing professionals on the science and spirituality of addiction recovery – from the neuroscience of addiction recovery to holistic, evidence-based addiction treatment to advocating for greater access to care to all those who suffer from psychological disorders. She is particularly interested in the role of consciousness in addiction recovery. Dr. Scharff is an internationally recognized consultant who works with health care professionals in Asia, Africa, South America and the Middle East to help find evidence-based addiction treatment methods that are locally sourced, affordable and culturally appropriate. Dr. Scharff’s writing and expertise can be found in a variety of publications from academic journals to popular press publications such as USA Today, Psychology Today, and Playboy magazine. She is also an advocate for the support of research into entheogens as a means of inducing life-changing experiences to enable recovery from addiction, depression, PTSD and other psychological disorders.

BONNITTE ROY

Bonnitta Roy is an award-winning author, philosopher and insight guide. She is a life coach for individuals entering post-formal levels of consciousness. She founder of Alderlore Insight Center whose mission is to catalyze insight in individuals and groups in order to accelerate transformation in education, business, and governance.

Stephan A. Schwartz

Stephan A. Schwartz, Senior Samueli Fellow at the Samueli Institute, columnist for the journal Explore, and editor of the web publication Schwartzreport.net, both of which track trends that are shaping the future. He has spent a lifetime focused on exceptional human performance, particularly involving nonlocal aspects of consciousness, and is one of the founders of modern remote viewing. He is the former research director of the Mobius Society, Research Director of the Rhine Research Center, Senior Fellow of the Philosophical Research Society, Scholar in Residence at Atlantic University, and Adjunct Professor at John F. Kennedy University. He is the spokesperson for the Parapsychological Association, and a former board member; co-founder of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness of the American Anthropological Association, the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine, and the International Remote Viewing Association. He is the author of four books, 20 chapters in books edited by others, and over 100 technical papers, and peer-reviewed publications. He is a listee in Who’s Who in America, and Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare.

RICK WILSON

Born and raised north of New York City, Richard (Rick) Wilson graduated from Harvard College, majoring in music, then earned a Master of Music degree in Orchestral Conducting at the New England Conservatory of Music. He served on the music faculty of Phillips Academy, Andover, for nine years, where he was band director, trumpet performer and teacher, classroom-music instructor, dorm counselor, and Ultimate Frisbee “coach,” among other responsibilities. He shifted careers then into high tech, where he has remained. He is currently a Principal Technical Instructor with Oracle Corporation. He has also completed his coursework in the Transformative Studies Ph.D. program at the California Institute for Integral Studies. He lives in CT with his wife and Springer Spaniel. His two adult children are doing well. He has been a practicing Buddhist for over 45 years, and regards his upcoming dissertation as a chance to write about it, along with archetypal cosmology and neuroscience / consciousness studies. His focus will be on a theory of personal transformation congruent with all three of those domains.

BARBARA KARLSEN

Barbara Karlsen holds a Master’s degree in Somatic Counseling Psychology from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, and is currently a PhD candidate in the Consciousness Studies Program at California Institute of Integral Studies. Her area of research is Eco philosophy, Formative Consciousness and the Feminine Divine: Towards an Integral Futurology. She has developed an eco-somatic methodology for awakening biogenesis, and psychogenesis. She teaches these workshops in Nature- connected to all of life- where we receive our true, Integral Mothering

RICK BARRETT

Rick Barrett has been teaching Chinese internal martial arts and practicing energy healing in NYC for 25 years. He is the author of Taijiquan: Through the Western Gate and Finding You in a World of It. He adopts a radical empiricist approach to consciousness research, emphasizing real-world applications.

MEL SCHWARTZ

Psychotherapist, author and speaker Mel Schwartz consistently advances, constructs and explores approaches for personal life mastery that transcend the limitations of more traditional therapy practices. He pioneered the ever-evolving Emergent Thinking process, a non-traditional approach to personal change, which integrates emerging sciences into psychotherapy. Schwartz’s process embraces the uncertainty and chaos that activates defining moments. Schwarz earned his graduate degree from Columbia University. He is a member of the Association of Humanistic Psychology, the Association of Transpersonal Psychology, and the Society for Consciousness Studies.

Based in Westport CT, Schwartz has authored The Art of Intimacy, The Pleasure of Passion and the forthcoming A Shift of Mind: From Being to Becoming. He is a prodigious writer, author of more than 100 articles for Psychology Today and, as a prolific blogger, contributes regularly to “a shift of mind”: http://melschwartz.com/blog/

JENNIFER WELLS

Jennifer Wells is a writer and professor.  Her book Complexity and Sustainability (Routledge 2014), examines the transdisciplinary literature on complexity theories and its applications to climate change, and to sustainability most broadly construed.  She explores discourse around shifting policy, institutions and societies from vicious circles to virtuous circles, from piecemeal policy to synergistic approaches, and from ‘winners and losers’ to more systemic change.  She is currently working on a book on carbon politics.  Other current writing projects include a book on complexity theories and global change, and articles on the rhetoric surrounding growth, limits and values in confronting climate change, and on the imaginary of envisioning future societies.  Her work contributes to interdisciplinary social theory and the ecological humanities, in critiquing and advancing discourse around social and environmental change.

Robert “Bob” Wright, Jr.

Robert “Bob” Wright, Jr., Ph.D., COFT is a graduate of the California Institute of Integral Studies doctoral program in Transformative Studies. Dr. Wright is the author of a study entitled The Role of Endogenous Cyclic Nitric Oxide Spiking in Motherloss and Existential Grief Recovery: A Modified Neuropsychological and Psychophysiological Heuristic Self Search Inquiry Approach to Stress Reduction, Homeostasis, and Healing. Dr. Wright’s study breaks new ground since his findings demonstrate that the same physiological mechanisms needed to induce relaxation also help us dissolve pain and grief. The study bolsters the linkage between the physiological mechanisms underlying the Relaxation Response and any method which causes a Relaxation Response to occur. Dr. Wright’s study is the first published study to show a correlation between grief, stress, and nitric oxide flatlining and grief recovery, stress reduction, and nitric oxide spiking. Dr. Wright’s passionate research interests include qualitative assessments of first and second person subjective bodily feltsense phenomena, explorations of bidirectional Ergotropic and Trophotropic Statebound experience, self-directed epigenetic neuroplasticity for peak experience and performance enhancement, Transdisciplinary and cross-cultural underpinnings of Jungian Topology, and translating the implications and significance of key scholarly study findings in nitric oxide and endogenous morphine research into language comprehensible to a popular audience. He is a Certified Open Focus Trainer, a Certified Practitioner of Ericksonian Hypnosis, a Certified Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic-Programming (NLP), and a Certified Seminar Leader (ASLA). Dr. Wright writes a monthly stress and anxiety reduction news column. Archival copies can be found at http://stressfreenow.info/ . Dr. Wright’s most recent eBook is entitled Orgasmic Relaxation: Unleash The Power Of Your Mind To Relax Using The Tension Relieving Technique (TRT). Dr. Wright is also the author of the forthcoming book entitled Orgasmic Relaxation: Finding Your Sweet Spot Using The Brain Plasticity Enhancement Technique (BPET) and the forthcoming eBook entitled Orgasmic Relaxation: Experience Euphoric Bliss Using The Dissolving Pain Technique (DPT).

Jeffery A. Martin

Jeffery A. Martin, Ph.D. is a CIIS and Harvard trained social scientist who researches personal transformation. He specializes in bringing rigorous empirical research and testing to transformational techniques and theories that have previously been supported anecdotally. Jeffery is a leading expert on non-symbolic consciousness (enlightenment, nonduality, mystical experience, union with God/nature, etc.). He holds several graduate degrees and specializes academically in technology, psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and transformative studies. A bestselling author and award winning educator, Jeffery has co-edited, authored, or co-authored over 20 books and numerous other publications; appeared in a wide variety of media; and lectured broadly in both academic and public forums. Jeffery is currently the director of the Center for the Study of Non-Symbolic Consciousness.

RIEN HAVENS

Rien specializes in the product development, manufacturing, and setup of herbal production facilities nationwide. Currently, I consult with Cannabis companies part time, and spend the rest of my time building Really Helping, PBC. a new Public Benefit Corporation startup looking to take on partners and develop proprietary extraction processes, brand and market products that I have developed over the years, and expand the Industry’s (and Really Helping’s) Patents with excellent R&D.

His extensive specialization in personal growth has led him to become fluent in literary Tibetan, and he guides individuals in personal and spiritual development through his translation and teaching abilities. He has been published in the Journal of Conscious Evolution on the topics of consciousness and art.

MAGDALENA

Magdalena is a Ph. D. candidate in the Department of Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness at California Institute of Integral Studies. She holds a Masters Degree in Religious Studies from Naropa University, is an Ordained Interfaith Minister, Documentary Filmmaker and CEO/Founder of EmerjAnew- A Global company dedicated to the distribution of Innovative Technology for Relaxation, Rejuvenation and Renewal.

LIZ JELINEK

Liz Jelinek received a PhD in Transformative Studies from the California Institute for Integral Studies. She has studied Family Constellations with each of the world’s original Constellations Facilitators—who were trained by Bert Hellinger, creator of Family Constellations, and also with Bert Hellinger. Liz is Founder and Director of the MIDWEST INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMIC CONSTELLATIONS in Ann Arbor, MI, and leads workshops and trainings for Constellations Facilitators. She offers workshops and trainings, and is available for Individual Constellations, using Playmobil™ Figures over Skype, with clients in such different areas of the globe, including South Africa, Israel, Guam, and the Philippines, and more. lizjelinek@comcast.net

MINDY ATKIN

Mindy Atkin, Ph.D., ATR-BC LCAT, is a licensed clinical psychologist, licensed creative arts therapist, author and fine artist. Dr. Atkin maintains a private practice in Old Brookville, New York and provides psychological services to individuals and groups in several senior living facilities in New York. She has exhibited her paintings in galleries in Manhattan and Long Island. Dr. Atkin is the author of, ‘The Healing Power of Creative Expression’: Artwork of Martin Ramirez in Della Pietra, L. (Ed.), Perspectives on Creativity. Her interest in creativity as a healing mechanism promoting flexibility, adaptability and resilience (FAR) ™ was the focus of her dissertation research titled, The Long Term Use of Creativity in the Promotion of Healing in a Chronic Psychiatric Inpatient: a Case Study. Dr. Atkin completed her post-doctoral studies at The Institute for Psychoanylitical Education (IPE) affiliated with NYU School of Medicine. She supervises clinicians seeking licensure. As the Director of a Behavioral Unit serving chronic psychiatric aged adults she incorporated the daily use of creativity resulting in the utilization of the least amount of physical and chemical restraints according to the Department of Health in the State of New York in 2009. A primary goal is to incorporate creativity as a therapeutic modality, and promote healing, for many individuals.  mindy.atkin@gmail.com