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SBGI Contributing Faculty Jennifer Absey, R.N., C.M.T., Pierce College Nursing Program, Los Angeles, CA, 1987 Ms. Absey is a Registered Nurse, Craniosacral and Massage Therapist in private practice since 1980. She has a background as midwife assistant, hi-risk labor and delivery nurse and childbirth educator, participating in over 300 births. She is currently an instructor in intermediate level CranioSacral courses for Upledger Institute. Area of Expertise: Effects of Obstetrical interventions, CranioSacral Training and Massage Therapy with emphasis in pre- and perinatal Susan Aposhyan, M.A., Dance / Movement Therapy, Naropa Institute, 1990. Ms. Aposhyan developed Body-Mind Psychotherapy as an application of Body-Mind Centering to the process of psychotherapy. In addition to trainings and workshops, she maintains a private practice in Boulder, CO. She is the former director of the Somatic Psychology Department at Naropa University, and is the author of Natural Intelligence: Body-Mind Integration and Human Development. Areas of Expertise: Body-Mind Centering, Body-Mind Integration, Human Development http://www.bodymindpsychotherapy.com/background.html Stanislav Grof, MD, Charles University, Prague, 1956; Ph.D. in Medicine, Czechoslovakian Academy of Sciences, 1965. Dr. Grof is a psychiatrist with over forty years of research in non-ordinary states of consciousness. His early research was in the clinical uses of psychoactive drugs conducted at the Psychiatric Research Institute in Prague. There he was Principal Investigator of a program systematically exploring the heuristic and therapeutic potential of LSD and other psychedelic substances. Dr. Grof is one of the founders and chief theoreticians of transpersonal psychology and founding president of the International Transpersonal Association. In this function, he has organized large international conferences in the United States, India, Australia, Czechoslovakia, and Brazil. At present, he is Professor of Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, teaching in the Department of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness. He lives in Mill Valley, California, where he continues his writing, conducts training seminars for professionals in holotropic breathwork and transpersonal psychology, and gives lectures and seminars all over the world. Among his publications are over 100 articles in professional journals and the books Realms of the Human Unconscious; Beyond the Brain; The Holotropic Mind; Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research and Spiritual Emergency (with Christina Grof). Areas of Expertise: Psychopathology, Transpersonal psychology, spiritual emergency Marshall Klaus, M.D., FAAP, Medicine, Western Reserve University, 1951 Dr. Klaus is an internationally known neonatologist, researcher and pioneer in prenatal and perinatal psychology, recipient of numerous awards and co-author of several landmark books including: Your Amazing Newborn; Bonding: Building the Foundations for Secure Attachment and Independence; Mothering the Mother: How a Doula Can Help You Have a Shorter, Easier and Healthier Birth; and Care of the High Risk Neonate. Since the 1970's, Dr. Klaus and John Kennell, M.D., have focused their research on how mothers develop a bond to their normal, sick or malformed infants. In addition, their research has involved the time of labor and the remarkable effects of continuous maternal social support by a skilled woman (the doula) on the complications of labor and the later behavior of the mother. He teaches pediatrics at the University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco. Areas of Expertise: Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology, Bonding, Neonatology Phyllis Klaus, CSW, MFT, Counseling, Kent State University, 1979 A psychotherapist in private practice, Ms. Klaus is also an educator and a pioneer in bonding and attachment and doula training. She is co-author of Bonding: Building the Foundations of Secure Attachment and Independence; Mothering the Mother; and Your Amazing Newborn. Areas of Expertise: Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology, Hypnotherapy Joseph Chilton Pearce, MA, Humanities, Indiana University Mr. Pearce, a pioneer in developmental psychology, is an international speaker on child development, giving presentations to heads of state, major universities, civic organizations, to both lay and professional audiences. He is on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Heartmath Institute and author of 9 books including Magical Child, Magical Child Matures, Evolution’s End and his latest ground breaking work: The Biology of Transcendence: A Blueprint of the Human Spirit. Since the early 1970’s, he has been teaching about the changing needs of our children and the development of human society. Area of Expertise: Child Development, Research www.ttfuture.org/services/joseph_pearce/start.htm Marjorie Rand, Ph.D., Humanistic Psychology, Ryokan College, 1980 Dr. Rand is a psychotherapist in private practice and an internationally known teacher of Integrative Body Psychotherapy. She authored Body, Self & Soul: Sustaining Integration Area of Expertise: Integrative Body Psychotherapy, Prenatal and Perinatal Therapy http://www.drrandbodymindtherapy.com/ Stan Tatkin, Psy.D., Clinical Psychology, Ryokan College, 1994 Dr. Tatkin has been a practicing psychotherapist for over 18 years. Through a developmental object relations approach, he has maintained a special interest in the treatment of adolescents and adults with personality disorders. His interests have widened over the years to include study of the psychobiology of attachment. This has led to a natural desire to promulgate the need for early intervention of personality disorders. In addition to his private practice, he teaches and supervises 1st-year Family Medicine residents at Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills. Dr. Tatkin is a past-president of the Ventura County Chapter of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. He is an assistant professor at UCLA in the Family Medicine Department and is currently on faculty at Antioch University and California Lutheran University. Dr. Tatkin is currently engaged in infant brain development studies under Dr. Allan Schore in Northridge. Areas of Expertise: Infant and Child Development, Life Span Development, Brain Development, Psychopharmacology, Research Jenny Wade, Ph.D., Human Development, The Fielding Institute, 1994 Dr. Wade is a research psychologist, writer, consultant and teacher specializing in consciousness studies, especially the evolution of consciousness. Her background is in human development with a particular emphasis on consciousness at the edges of life, before birth and after death, when the cellular basis for sustaining awareness is either severely compromised or nonexistent. Her lifespan development theory appears in Changes of Mind: A Holonomic Theory of the Evolution of Consciousness. Her interests include prenatal memory and consciousness, organizational applications of consciousness studies, and paradigms and systems theory. She is the former Chair of the Department of Psychology, Institute for Transpersonal Psychology. Areas of expertise: Transpersonal Psychology, Human Development, Sexuality, Research, and Noetic Studies.
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