Faculty

Jack Kornfield, Ph.D., trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand, India, and Burma. He is a founding teacher of the Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock Center and has taught meditation internationally since 1974. He holds a doctorate degree in clinical psychology, and is a husband and father. His books include A Path with Heart; Buddha's Little Instruction Book; Teachings of the Buddha; Seeking the Heart of Wisdom; Living Dharma; A Still Forest Pool; Stories of the Spirit, Stories of the Heart; After the Ecstasy, the Laundry; and The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness and Peace.

Ajahn Amaro
Ajahn Amaro trained in Thailand with Ajahn Chah and with Ajahn Sumedho at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in England. He is co-abbot of Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery in Redwood Valley, California where he resides with a small monastic community. The author of Small Boat, Great Mountain, Silent Rain, and the new Rugged Interdependency, Amaro Bhikkhu is also a member of the Spirit Rock Meditation Center teacher's council.
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Keith Armstrong
Keith R. Armstrong is the Director of the Family Therapy Clinic and a member of the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Clinical Team at the VA in San Francisco, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. The author of Courage After Fire, a self-help book for returning Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and their families, he is the recipient of numerous teaching awards.
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David Black
David M. Black is a Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society and Fellow of the Institute of Psychotherapy, London. He edited Psychotherapy and Religion in the 21st Century: Competitors or Collaborators? and has written on psychotherapy in relation to science, consciousness, sympathy and values. He has also recently published a number of translations of Goethe’s poems, Love as Landscape Painter. He studied Buddhism and Hinduism under Ninian Smart at Lancaster University in the early 1970s and has been a fellow-traveler and intermittent practitioner of Buddhism for many years.

Joseph Bobrow
Joseph Bobrow is the founder and director of Deep Streams Zen Institute. A Zen master in the Diamond Sangha tradition, he is also a clinical psychologist and a relational psychoanalyst. Joseph writes on Zen, psychotherapy, and the interplay of Buddhism and psychology. Click here for a list of his published writings.

Michael Eigen
Michael Eigen is the author of Lust, Feeling Matters, Ecstasy, The Sensitive Self, Emotional Storm and many other books. He is on the faculty of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis and the NYU Post-Doctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and is the current editor of the Psychoanalytic Review. He has been a pioneeering psychoanalytic writer and thinker for more than 30 years.

Paul Ekman
Paul Ekman is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at UCSF and an expert on the physiology of the human face, especially as it relates to interpersonal deception, emotional expression and non-verbal communication. The author of Emotions Revealed: Understanding Facial Expressions, Emotions and Deception, he is working with the Dalai Lama on a new book about the iinfluence of meditative practices on our emotional life.

Gerald Fogel
Gerald Fogel is a training and supervising analyst, founding member, and former director of the Oregon Psychoanalytic Institute. Before moving to Portland in 1996, he had been affiliated with the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center in New York City. He has edited books on perversion, the psychology of men, and the work of Hans Loewald, and written numerous papers and book reviews for psychoanalytic journals. He is currently on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Studies in Gender and Sexuality and has served on the editorial board of the International Journal of Psychotherapy.

Robert Grant
Robert Grant is a clinical psychologist and has been consultant and trainer to military, church, health-care and relief organizations in the areas of trauma, abuse, cross-cultural issues and spirituality. He has worked around the world training professionals and assessing and treating victims of trauma such as war, natural disasters, torture, violent crime, domestic violence, industrial accidents, sexual assault and child abuse. He is the author of Vicarious Trauma; Diagnosis and Treatment of Trauma; The Way of the Wound; Living and Working in Environments of Violence; A Healing Response to Terrorism; and Healing the Soul of the Church.

Donald Kalsched
Donald E. Kalsched Ph.D. is a Jungian analyst, clinical psychologist, supervising and training analyst with the Inter-Regional Association of Jungian Analysts, and faculty member of the Westchester Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. His writings focus on the area of early trauma and the effect that overwhelming childhood experiences have on the inner world of the trauma survivor. He has attempted to show how archetypal energies and structures in the deep unconscious come to the aid of the beleaguered ego of the trauma victim, assuring the survival of an "imperishable personal spirit" or soul--protecting it at all costs, while (paradoxically) at the same time-- persecuting it. This dynamic, which he considers a major "spiritual" problem in our time, is the subject of his book The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defenses of the Personal Spirit. He is working on a second book Trauma and the Soul in which the spiritual dimensions of his previous findings are explored.

Col. Darcy Kauer
Col. Kauer is Commanding Officer, First Marine Expeditionary Unit, Camp Pendleton, CA. He was moved by the plight of some Marines struggling with failed marriages, substance abuse and other problems after they had been in combat, and conceived and organized the Warrior Transition program. The program helps some Marines successfully re-enter civilian life and others to manage mental stress before they are sent into battle again. Col. Kauer estimates that 1,200 to 1,500 Marines have participated since the program was formed six months ago.

Cynthia Lefever
Cynthia A. Lefever left behind her career and employment in Adult Education to advocate for Veterans and their caregivers. Her mission is to raise awareness and understanding of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in order to prepare families and their communities for the new generation of veterans whose lives have been changed forever by this signature injury coming out of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts.When Cynthia's own son, Specialist Rory Dunn, sustained a severe TBI in Iraq in 2004, she had to become an investigative and persistent caregiver in order to ensure his timely and appropriate rehabilitation at Walter Reed and with the VA. Although he has made an amazing recovery, Cynthia remains deeply concerned about soldiers "falling through the cracks." She lives outside Seattle, Washington with her husband, Stan Lefever.

Joanna Macy
Joanna Macy, Ph.D., is a scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. She has created a new theoretical framework for personal and social change, and a workshop methodology for its application that helps people transform despair and apathy, in the face of overwhelming crises, into constructive, collaborative action, and brings a new way of seeing the world. Her books include World as Lover, World as Self, Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World; and Widening Circles: A Memoir.

Helen Marlo
Helen Marlo, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Burlingame, CA, working with adults and children. She is Associate Professor and Director of the Master of Art's in Clinical Psychology Program at Notre Dame de Namur University. She is a candidate, in analytic training, at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco.

Linda Pauwels
Linda Pauwels is the founder and director of Alas de America Institute for Yoga, Wellness and Lifetime Physical Fitness. She was a major airline pilot for two decades. After a medical condition disqualified her from flight status, Pauwels went back to school and obtained an M.S. in Physical Education. She teaches hatha yoga through Marine Corps Community Services at Camp Pendleton. Pauwels is also a freelance journalist and plans to begin a doctoral program which combines education, integrated health, and spirituality in 2007.

Stefanie Pelkey
Stefanie Pelkey received her commission as a 2nd Lieutenant from New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, NM. Her first assignment was as the Battalion Chemical Officer for 1st of the 94th Field Artillery Battalion, a Multiple Launch Rocket Systems unit. She was the first female to serve in this unit and one of the first three females in Germany to ever be placed in an all-male combat arms unit. She met her husband Michael while in the service. They were married on November 2, 2001. Their son Benjamin was born on March 15, 2003 in Germany. Her second assignment was as the Brigade Chemical Officer for 75th Field Artillery Brigade at Fort Sill, OK. She left the Army (ETS) and ended her time of service in September 2004. Michael died on November 5, 2004.

Sophia Raday
Sophia Raday is a writer living in Berkeley, California, with her soldier/police officer husband, their two children, a bipartisan dog, and assorted firearms. She is at work on a memoir about her marriage, tentatively titled "Red State, Blue State Love." The book will chronicle Sophia and her husband's challenges in uniting their worlds and building a family, and holding on to their love in the face of his upcoming deployment to Iraq. Sophia's writing was most recently published in The New York Times. You can learn more about Sophia and her work at her website, www.sophiaraday.com.

Matthieu Ricard
Matthieu Ricard is a Buddhist monk who had a promising career in celluar genetics before leaving France to study Buddhism in the Himalayas in 1970. He is an author, translator, photographer, and an active participant in scientific research on the effects of meditation on the brain. He lives and works on humanitarian projects in Tibet and Nepal.

Steve Robinson
Steve Robinson is the director of veterans affairs for Veterans For America. A former Airborne Ranger and Instructor at Ranger School, he served as Executive Director of the National Gulf War Resource Center from September 2001 to January 2006. He is a Gulf War veteran and a recognized expert on Gulf War Illness and chemical and biological weapons exposures. Robinson also previously served on the 12-member Veterans Affairs Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Illnesses and as a Special Advisor to Vietnam Veterans of America.

Jeffrey Rubin
Jeffrey B. Rubin is in private practice in New York City and Bedford Hills, NY. He has been practicing Buddhist meditation and yoga for three decades. The author of Psychotherapy and Buddhism, A Psychotherapy for Our Time: Exploring the Blindness of the Seeing I, and The Good Life: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Love, Ethics, Creativity and Spirituality, he teaches at the Westchester Institute for Training in Psychotherapy.

Jeremy Safran
Jeremy D. Safran is Professor and Director of Clinical Psychology in the Graduate Faculty at New School University. He is also Senior Research Scientist at Beth Israel Medical Center; faculty member, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy; faculty member, Stephen A. Mitchell Center for Relational Studies; and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association for Relational Psychotherapy and Psychotherapy. He is an advisory editor for the journal, Psychotherapy Research and an associate editor for Psychoanalytic Dialogues. Dr. Safran has published several books including: Emotion in Psychotherapy, Negotiating the Therapeutic Alliance: A Relational Treatment Guide, Interpersonal Process in Cognitive Therapy, and Psychotherapy and Buddhism: An Unfolding Dialogue.

Sharon Salzberg
One of America’s leading spiritual teachers and authors, Sharon Salzberg is cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, Massachusetts. She has played a crucial role in bringing Asian meditation practices to the West. The ancient Buddhist practices of vipassana (mindfulness) and metta (lovingkindness) are the foundations of her work. Her books include The Force of Kindness; Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience; Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness; and A Heart As Wide As The World.

Tonia Sargent
Tonia Sargent is the wife of a severly injured Marine, who suffered traumatic brain injury in August of 2004 in Iraq. Tonia and "Top" (Kenneth) Sargent have been married 20 years and are the parents of two daughters, Alishia, and Tasha. Tonia and Top advocate tirelessly for the injured and severely injured and over the past several years have made friends cross country. Their experiences with trauma run deep and wide.

Marjori Schuman
Marjorie Schuman is clinical psychologist in private practice, a member of the faculty at the Los Angeles Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies, and co-founder of the Center for Mindfulness and Psychotherapy in Santa Monica, CA. She also teaches Contemplative Relational Psychotherapy which weaves together relational psychodynamic theory, Buddhist psychology, and mindfulness meditation. She has presented and published on various aspects of meditation and psychotherapy, including the psychophysiology of meditation, eastern and western concepts of self, unconscious processes in Buddhism and psychotherapy, and the evolution of subjectivity. A longtime practitioner of Vipassana meditation, she is affiliated with the Community Dharma Leaders Program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Northern California.

Col Ana R. Smythe
Col Ana R. Smythe is a graduate of Shepherd College in West Virginia, the Naval Command and Staff College, and the Army War College. During her Marine Corps career, she served throughout the world - in joint assignments, on major staffs, and in command. A personnel management specialist while on active duty, she has expertise that includes legislative affairs and varied DoD missions, to include overseeing combat-related special compensation programs for the Navy and Marine Corps. Col Smythe is married to Reese Hines, has three children, and resides in Alexandria, Va. MOAA position: Deputy Director, Government Relations Department

Brian Turner
Brian Turner is a soldier-poet whose debut book of poems, Here, Bullet, won the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award and the New York Times “Editor's Choice” selection. Turner served seven years in the US Army, to include one year as an infantry team leader in Iraq with the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. Prior to that, he was deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1999-2000 with the 10th Mountain Division. Turner's poetry has been published in Poetry Daily, The Georgia Review and other journals, and in the Voices in Wartime Anthology published in conjunction with the feature-length documentary film of the same name. He earned an MFA from the University of Oregon and has lived abroad in South Korea.

Ann Ulanov
Ann Belford Ulanov, Ph.D., L.H.D. is the Christiane Brooks Johnson Professor of Psychaitry and Religion at Union Theological Seminary New York City, a psychoanalyst in private practice and a member of the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association. Her numerous books include, Spirit in Jung; Spiritual Aspects of Clinical Work; The Unshuttered Heart: Opening to Aliveness and Deadness in the Self; and with her late husband, Barry Ulanov, Religion and the Unconscious; and Primary Speech: A Psychology of Prayer.