After my first four-day GREX conference at UCLA in 1989, I was hooked. Unlike any previous
workshop the dynamic mixture of experiential and reflective learning was new to me and I wanted to be
part of it. I had the good fortune to be mentored by Kay West, Earl Braxton, Marion Hall, and Vivian
Gold, both in conference work and organizational psychology. I participated in small and large group
training and consulted in several conferences. Then life and work intervened.
My clinical and academic career in child and adolescent psychiatry has been based in the public
non-profit sector, with a focus on trauma and dissociation. Recently, I have presented workshops at
national meetings in which I use hypnosis to induce conditions for a spontaneous dream. I then use
Jungian methods to assist the dreamer in carrying the dream forward to a felt resolution.
I have also returned to my long-standing practice of Buddhist meditation and my interst in
consciousness. I believe consciousness is not locked within our neurons, but rather that it is an adaptive
interpersonal process. For the last six years I have been making metal mobiles, often figurative, and I
recently resumed work on a rock opera based on my volunteer experience in Indonesia after the 2004
tsunami.
In our deeply divided and increasingly dangerous world, I believe that it is now more important
than ever to understand the dynamics of group interactions.