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4th International Conference On
"Engaging The Other:"
The Power of Compassion

Greeting, Mission, Announcements, and Presentation of the "Charter for Compassion":

Steve Olweean, MA
is founding Director of Common Bond Institute, co-founder and President of International Humanistic Psychology Association (IHPA), past President of Association for Humanistic Psychology, and a therapist with an MA in Clinical Psychology. Treatment focus has been on abuse recovery of victims and perpetrators, trauma recovery, and healing negative belief systems. He has written and presented internationally on concepts of The OTHER and dynamics of belief systems. Current book project is "Engaging The OTHER." Founder of Annual International Conference on "Engaging The Other," co-founder of International Conference on Conflict Resolution, which has occurred for 15 years, and co-founder of International Conference on Religion, Conflict, and Peace.
Email: SOlweean@aol.com Web: www.cbiworld.org

Keynote:

Huston Smith PhD
is holder of 12 honorary degrees, is internationally renowned as the world's leading philosopher, scholar, and author on world religions, and has devoted his life to the study of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Hinduism, all of which he believes in. His book The World's Religions has been the most widely-used textbook on its subject for a third of a century - selling over 2,500,000 copies worldwide. Bill Moyers devoted a 1996 5-part PBS special to his life and work, "The Wisdom of Faith with Huston Smith." He has produced three series for public television: "The Religions of Man," "The Search for America," and "Science and Human Responsibility," and his films on Hinduism, Tibetan Buddhism, and Sufism have won international film festival awards. His most recent books include The Way Things Are, Why Religion Matters, and Cleansing the Doors of Perception: The Religious Significance of Entheogenic Plants and Chemicals. His other books include One Nation Under God: The Triumph of the Native American Church, and Primordial Truth and Postmodern Theology. He has authored over eighty articles in professional and popular journals.
Web: www.hustonsmith.net/

Keynote:

Rabbi Michael Lerner, PhD
author of a national best-seller in 2006, The Left Hand of God: Taking Our Country Back from the Religious Right (in paperback, HarperSanFrancisco, 2007) is rabbi of Beyt Tikkun synagogue in San Francisco and the editor of Tikkun magazine: A Bimonthly Jewish and Interfaith Critique of Politics, Culture and Society (www.tikkun.org). He is the co-author with Cornel West of a book entitled Jews and Blacks: Let the Healing Begin, and ten other books. And with Cornel West and Benedictine Sister Joan Chittister, he is chair of the interfaith Network of Spiritual Progressives.
Email: Web: www.spiritualprogressives.org

Paul Jacob
is President of Citizens in Charge Foundation, a multi-media commentator who hosts an online, radio, and print opinion program, Common Sense, which reaches a growing list of over 15,000 e-mail subscribers and is aired daily by more than 150 stations. He is also a featured columnist at townhall.com

ll-Conference Interactive Dialogue Experience:

Maggie Herzig
is one of the founders of the Public Conversations Project and co-author with Laura Chasin of Fostering Dialogue Across Divides: A Nuts and Bolts Guide from the Public Conversations Project. With Mitch Chanin, she wrote a similar guide for intra-Jewish dialogue about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Maggie has facilitated dialogues on a range of hot topics including abortion and sexual orientation and has worked with the Animating Democracy Initiative on arts-based civic dialogues.
Email: mherzig@publicconversations.org Web: www.publicconversations.org

Gabbriella Yates, MA
is a somatic educator, founder of Back to the Body Yoga and a consultant with Consultants for Collective Response. With a Master's degree in Conflict Transformation and over 12 years of combined experience, Gabbriella integrates somatic education into intercultural dialogue training for communities divided by conflict. She worked in Afghanistan with UNHCR and currently is working in Kosovo to support a community-based intercultural dialogue program focused on sustainable refugee/IDP return. Gabbriella is based in San Francisco, CA
Email: BacktotheBody@gmail.com

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Susan Partnow, MA
is founder of Global Citizen Journey, co-creator of Conversation Cafe and Let’s Talk America, certified mediator and senior trainer for Compassionate Listening. As an organizational development consultant, she especially enjoys transforming conflict to foster creative change using Open Space, World Cafe or Appreciative Inquiry. Passionately committed to inter-cultural understanding, peacemaking and community building, Susan deeply believes we can and must 'listen our way to wholeness' to find our essential humanity through connection, wise co-creation, and dialogue.
Email: Susan@SusanPartnow.com Web: www.susanpartnow.com www.globalcitizenjourney.org, www.compassionatelistening.org
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David Hartsough, MA
MA in International Relations, is Executive Director of Peaceworkers based in San Francisco, CA and Co-Founder of the Nonviolent Peaceforce. He is a Quaker and member of the San Francisco Friends Meeting, is deeply committed to nonviolence, and has been working actively for nonviolent social change and peaceful resolution of conflicts since he met Martin Luther King in 1956. For forty years he has been doing nonviolent peacemaking in the US, Kosovo, the former Soviet Union, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Kosovo, and the Philippines.
Email: davidhartsough@igc.org WEb: www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org
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Linda Blong PhD
is Co-Leader and faculty for the Dialogue, Deliberation, and Public Engagement Certificate Program at Fielding Graduate University. In that role she brings her research and practice in the field together with more than twenty years of experience in designing and facilitating adult learning processes. Linda has worked extensively with organizations and public agencies focused on developing effective and responsive human service systems. Her work is grounded in a deep commitment to bringing diverse voices into empowering conversations that make a difference in people's lives.
Email: lblong@mac.com

Cate Creede
is part of The Potential Group, based in Toronto and Vancouver, which is currently engaged in improving relational communication and integrated care models in the Canadian healthcare system. In work and life, Cate describes herself as a "conversation chaser," finding diverse opportunities to design and lead conversations among people with multiple perspectives, to create generative and novel possibilities for the questions that beguile them. Cate completed her PhD at Fielding Graduate University in 2008.
Email: cate.creede@gmail.com

Kathy Armijo Etre PhD
consults in the fields of health and human services. She is committed to conversations that generate organizational change. Working beyond the boundaries of organizations and understanding the rich and diverse connections of the systems they are a part is key to integration and effectiveness. Kathy passionately believes people who receive services, whether publicly funded mental health or general health, deserve to be treated as "whole" human beings. Kathy is experienced working with government, foundations, public schools, and non-profits.
Email: karmijoetre@msn.com

Tamyra Freeman MAEd
is a freelance consultant who serves individuals and organizations across the public and private sectors as a thinking partner, educator, facilitator, and special projects coordinator. Tamyra has a passion for deep, searching conversations and strives to be a weaver for the threads of connection, relationship, and meaning making that emerge. Based in Indianapolis, Indiana, Tamyra is affiliated with the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership (United States) and the Greenleaf Centre Asia (Singapore).
Email: tamyrafreeman@sbcglobal.net

Lourdes Morales, PhD Candidate
at Fielding Graduate University, has fourteen years of experience in the areas of Organizational Development and Teaching Higher Education. She is an organizational and development consultant and educator who believes in the power of authentic forms of communication for individual and social transformation. Her dissertation topic is: Bridging difference through relational authenticity: A hermeneutic and photographic study of self in close intercultural relationships. Lourdes's life purpose is to transform people and organizations through authentic and intercultural communication and understanding.
Email: Dalmor0326@aol.com

Jeff Leinaweaver PhD
offers coaching, facilitation and organizational consulting for individuals and groups cultivating their highest potential in an era of environmental crisis and global transition. Through evidence-based practices, he works from a communication approach to develop 21st Century sustainability competencies that maximize dialogue skills, systems thinking and intercultural development. He is a sustainability educator and facilitator with Joanna Macy's Work that Reconnects Facilitator Network, The Natural Step Network and the Pachamama Alliance. He is founder and principal of Global Zen Coaching and Consulting and a certified coach and global professional in human resources (GPHR).
Email: earthturkey@me.com

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Lynn Feinerman
is a social issue media maker working in film, television, radio and print media. Her most recent article appeared in the May/June issue of TIKKUN magazine, dealing with the issue of torture. Her movie If You Make It Possible focused on grassroots peacebuilders from Israel and Palestine who have devoted their lives to engaging the other, and bringing understanding and coexistence. Lynn's radio series Women Rising aims to bring the work and voices of visionary, progressive activist women worldwide to a national and international audience
Email: dvashah@yahoo.com

Edwin Rutsch
is a documentary filmmaker based in the San Francisco Bay Area who focuses on the thematic exploration of human values. His current documentary project is exploring the experience of empathy. Edwin will be videotaping interviews of conference attendees about their stories and insight into the nature of empathy. His extended bio with links to over 1,000 of his video clips can be found on his website.
Email: Empathy@progressiveSpirit.com Web: ProgressiveSpirit.com

Sahar Driver, PhD candidate
in Social and Cultural Anthropology (California Institute of Integral Studies) is currently working towards a Ph.D. that focuses on the politics of gender and sexuality in the Islamic Republic of Iran. She has spent the last seven years developing expertise in the intersections between film, media, dialogue and justice advocacy. She currently works as a Project Coordinator for Active Voice, a team of strategic communications specialists that uses film, television and multimedia to spark social change.
Email: sahardriver@gmail.com

Daniel Tutt, M.A.
is Outreach Coordinator for 20,000 Dialogues, a national interfaith and cross-cultural dialogue project combining film and discussion for positive social change, where he develops and leads trainings, builds partnerships, facilitates dialogue and manages a national program. He is an advisor for groups such as the Washington Region for Justice and Inclusion, Youth Building Bridges program, United Religions Initiative, the Muslim Advisory Arts Council of Americans for Informed Democracy, and board member of the 9/11 Unity Walk, an annual multi-city peace walk that celebrates America's pluralism and diversity.
Email: Daniel@upf.tv Web: www.20000dialogues.org

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Maha ElGenaidi, BA
is President and CEO of Islamic Networks Group (ING), an Advisor to California's Commission on Police Officers Standards & Training (POST) for hate crimes and cultural diversity training, a former commissioner on Santa Clara County's Human Relations Commission, Co-chair and Vice-chair of the Bay Area Hate Crimes Investigators Association (BAHCIA) and Community Advisor to KQED. She is recipient of numerous civil rights awards, which include the Civil Rights Leadership Award from the California Association of Human Relations Organizations.
Email: Maha@ing.org Web: www.ing.org

Harry Cornbleet, MD
volunteers on the Islamic Networks Group (ING) Interfaith Speakers Bureau, and represents the Jewish religion on interfaith panels. He is a staff physician at the San Jose State University Student Health Center, and received his M.D. degree from the University of Missouri. After his internship and residency, Dr. Cornbleet served as a Medical Officer in the U.S. Navy, and then worked as an internist before his current position. Harry enjoys hiking and nature study in his spare time.
Email: hcornbleet@sbcglobal.net Web:
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Phillip Helmich
is Director of Individual Giving at Search for Common Ground. He has over 21 years of experience in international development and conflict transformation, including 12 years in Search for Common Ground's media, Africa and Individual Giving departments. Prior to SFCG, he was with the Peace Corps including serving as a Volunteer in Sierra Leone (85-89). He is a board member for Dr. R, LLC (a mind-body health organization) and The Aspen Grove; and, an advisor to The Global Peace Initiative of Women.
E-Mail phellmich@sfcg.org Web: www.sfcg.org
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Meganwind Eoyang, BA
in psychology, Univ. Illinois. Grew up fighting in inner city street gangs and later studied and taught martial arts. She co-led Bay Area Nonviolent Communication (BayNVC) year-long Leadership program for 5 years, and has worked as a BayNVC associate trainer in Oakland, CA since 2002. She offers classes, workshops, private sessions, couples support, mediation, organizational trainings and community facilitation. She coordinates BayNVC's Safer Communities project training prison inmates; participates in post-release support for returnees and their families; and will participate in a Restorative Circles pilot project in a high school for troubled youth this fall.
Email: meganwind@earthlink Web: www.baynvc.org ________________________________________
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Osprey Orielle Lake, MA
is the founder/artist of the International Cheemah and Mari Monument Projects, which celebrate environmental, multicultural and societal themes. Through her projects and presentations around the world, Osprey explores art and new narratives as critical tools in societal transformation and in renewing a contemporary human/nature relationship to protect the Earth's commons. She is one of the world's few female monument makers working with allegorical images, is on the faculty of two California universities, and works internationally with social and environmental change organizations.
Email: wgarden@ix.netcom.com Web: www.ospreyoriellelake.com

David Belden, PhD
is the managing editor of Tikkun magazine and online content director for the multi-voice blog Tikkun Daily. He has pursued a diverse life from early days volunteering in India and Ethiopia with a religious movement, through a doctorate in the sociology of religion at Oxford University, a 1970s wholefoods-cum-political shop and café collective, two published science fiction novels, twenty years as a carpenter, ten as a business writer, three teaching college, forty columns on religion and politics at openDemocracy.net, and now Tikkun, which brings it all together.
Email: dave@tikkun.org Web: www.tikkun.org Blog: www.tikkun.org/daily

Steve Bhaerman, MA
Author and humorist Steve Bhaerman has spent the past 22 years performing “cosmic comedy” as Swami Beyondananda. Swami’s wise and wacky wit has been called both “comedy disguised as wisdom” and “wisdom disguised as comedy.” On the serious side, Steve is the co-author with cellular biologist Dr. Bruce Lipton of Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There From Here. Swami and Steve can be found online
Email: swamib@saber.net Web: www.wakeuplaughing.com

Mutombo M'Panya, MA
is originally from Congo/Zaire, was educated in Western Europe, and attended the University of Notre Dame and the University of Michigan. He teaches interdisciplinary courses in the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies at Sonoma State University, where he is Director of the Science and Humanities Integration Project. He has also taught at the California Institute of Integral Studies for 14 years in the areas of postcolonial theory, environmental ethics, systems thinking, and representations of the other. Email: mpanya@sonoma.edu

John Glaser, EdD
is Superintendent of Napa Valley Unified School District, has spent his professional life pursuing effective learning in individuals and organizations. He has been involved in organizational development, including conflict resolution, labor relations, research, training, facilitation, and mediation since 1985. Other areas of emphasis include organizational diagnosis, systems design, negotiations, communications, team building, and the cultivation of creative problem solving. John has worked with a wide variety of organizations throughout the United States and Canada, and has presented at the International Conference on Conflict Resolution.
Email: johnglaser@prodigy.net Web:

Swami Beyondananda, the "Cosmic Comic",
aka Steve Bhaerman, offers comedy that is “irreverently uplifting.” He is the author of four books, Driving Your Own Karma, When You See a Sacred Cow, Milk It For All It’s Worth, Duck Soup for the Soul, and his latest Swami for Precedent: A 7-Step Plan to Heal the Body Politic and Cure Electile Dysfunction. Swami’s nationally syndicated spoof advice column, Ask the Swami - along with his comedy performances - have found a wide and appreciative audience.

Corinne McLaughlin
is a co-founder of The Center for Visionary Leadership, based in San Rafael, CA and Charlotte, NC, and co-author of Spiritual Politics and Builders of the Dawn. She is co-founder of Sirius, an ecological village in Massachusetts, and is a Fellow of The World Business Academy. Corinne coordinated a national task force for President Clinton's Council on Sustainable Development and taught politics at American University.
Email: corinnemc@visionarylead.org Web: www.visionarylead.org

Sal Nunez, PhD
is founder of the Healthy Drumming Institute dedicated to the research and clinical advancement of indigenous medicine. He is adjunct faculty at Saybrook Graduate School Integrative Health Studies and professor of Health Sciences at City College of San Francisco. He maintains a clinical and consultation practice at Instituto Familiar De La Raza in San Francisco, and is currently writing a textbook designed to train advanced graduate students in Drumming Medicine, Healing Rhythms.
Email: musicpsy@msn.com Web: www.healthydrumming.org

Sharif Abdullah, JD
Juris Doctor, Boston University, BA in Psychology, Clark University,) is a leading proponent and catalyst for inclusive social, cultural and spiritual transformation. He is currently founder and president of Commonway Institute, dedicated to the creation of a society that is in line with our deepest spiritual values - a society that works for all. He has written The Power of One: Authentic Leadership in Turbulent Times and Creating a World That Works for All - winner of the Book of the Year Award (Current Events) from the Independent Book Publishers Association. His work on humanistic globalization has taken him to over two dozen countries and every continent, including peace building efforts in Sri Lanka. He has presented at the International Conferences on Conflict Resolution.
Email: sharif@commonway.org Web: www.commonway.org

Kenn Burrows, Ph.D
teaches Holistic Health Studies at San Francisco State University, is founder of The Holistic Health Learning Center, a self-care library and community action Center at San Francisco State, and Producer-Director of the biennial conference: The Future of Health Care. Prior to SFSU, he taught at Foothill College and operated Stress-Care, a corporate training and consulting company. Primary research interests include: holistic thinking, complexity and creative problem solving, stress and self-care, collaboration and cultural evolution, media literacy, and new forms of activism. He is completing a PhD in interdisciplinary studies.
Email: kburrows@sonic Web: www.sfsu.edu~holistic

Moderater:

Aftab Omer, PhD
is President and core faculty at Meridian University, formerly faculty in the Psychology Department at Sonoma State University, and currently President of the Council on Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychologies. His research has focused on the emergence of human capacities within transformative learning communities and his work has included assisting organizations in tapping the creative potentials of conflict, diversity, and complexity. Born and raised in South Asia, he was educated at M.I.T. and Brandeis University. His article entitled "The Spacious Center: Leadership and the Creative Transformation of Culture" has been recently published in Shift, the Institute of Noetic Science's quarterly publication.
Email: AftabOmer@MeridianUniversity.edu Web: meridianuniversity.edu/

Tash Terry and Elena Higgins
Indigie Femmeis one of the most 'dynamic female indigenous duos' to ever hit the music scene. The weavings of Navajo, Maori and Samoan cultures, magnified with the powerful voices combines thought-provoking lyrics which weave in and out of flute, drum, chants and strings that mix with their traditional and original songs, dance and storytelling. Indigie Femme’s worldly vibrations ignite the collective consciousness to bringing hope and healing to Mother Earth through their powerful performances.
Email: indigiefemme@yahoo.com Web: www.indigiefemme.com

Vijali Hamilton PhD
is an environmental artist, sculptor, poet, musician, filmmaker, and author. A Masters in Fine Arts from Goddard College, she is a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. In 1986 she founded her 1st World Wheel, a 7-year spiritual and artistic pilgrimage, circling the globe creating monumental stone sculptures and community based performances in twelve countries. In 1999 she began the 2nd World Wheel: Global Peace Through the Arts
Email: worldwheel@vijali.net Web: www.vijali.net

Morning Yoga Session
7:50 - 8:30 am
Gabbriella Yates, MA (see Friday morning Yoga session)

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Fred Luskin, PhD
is the author of Forgive for Good and one of the world's leading researchers and teachers on the subject of forgiveness. He is the director of the Stanford Forgiveness Project, a series of research projects that investigate forgiveness methods, and Co-Director of the Stanford-Northern Ireland HOPE Project that investigate the effectiveness of his forgiveness methods on the victims of political violence. He is a senior fellow at the Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation and associate professor at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology.
Email: learningtoforgive@comcast.net Web:
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Lionel "Len" Traubman
has for 25 years published on war and peace from personal experience with Soviets and Americans, Armenians and Azerbaijanis, and Jews and Palestinians. He co-founded the Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue Group of San Mateo. He is retired from his practice of Dentistry for Children, was former Director of the San Francisco Dental Society, Editor of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry and of the California Society of Dentistry for Children, and regional alumni President of Alpha Omega Jewish dental fraternity. He received the 1998 Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Univ. of California School of Dentistry, and gave the 2006 Commencement Address on individual responsibility for transforming confrontation to collaboration at home and globally.
Email: ltraubman@igc.org Web: www.traubman.igc.org/dg-prog.htm

Elizabeth "Libby" Traubman, MSW
is a retired clinical social worker and a founder of the Beyond War Movement, now Foundation for Global Community, and helped organize the Beyond War conference for Israeli and Palestinian citizen-leaders resulting in a historic signed document, Framework For A Public Peace Process. She co-founded the Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue Group of San Mateo 15 years ago, inspiring dozens of other Dialogues and now preparing for its 185th meeting, and producing two films modeling a new quality of listening and communication - DIALOGUE AT WASHINGTON HIGH, and PEACEMAKERS: Palestinians & Jews Together at Camp. She is a Trustee of the Foundation for Global Community and was inducted into the San Mateo County Women's Hall of Fame.
Email: ltraubman@igc.org Web: www.traubman.igc.org/dg-prog.htm
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Daniel Tutt, M.A. (see C-5)
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Geshe Gendun Gyatso
was born in Tibet in 1961, escaped to India in 1963, at the age of 8 became a Buddhist Monk at Sera Je Monastic University in India, studying logic and epistemology, the study of nature of knowledge, and in 1981 was fully ordained by His Holiness The Dalai Lama. He studied in the Geshe Program for 25 years including Tantric Study at Gyumed Tantric College in India, and in 1993 was awarded his doctorate degree in Buddhist Studies as a Doctor of Buddha's Philosophy (Geshe). He went on to study comparative religion as a visiting scholar under the Boston University Fellowship Program for Theological Study, and during his studies became an affiliated Chaplain at Boston University and Chaplain at Harvard's Dana Faber Cancer Institute.
Email: gggk930@gmail.com Web: www.geshegendun.org

Tashi Wangdu
was born to a Tibetan refugee couple in Mysore, India. After completing his graduate work, he joined Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) of HH the Dalai Lama in 1996. He served as Accountant in Bureau of HH the Dalai Lama in New Delhi from 1996-2000, as First Secretary at the Office of Tibet, Pretoria, South Africa from 2001-2006 and currently servi as Representative of the CTA for Lugsam Tibetan Settlement, Bylakuppe. the 1st and largest Tibetan settlement in Exile. He has presented at the International Conference on Conflict Resolution in Russia.
Email: twangdu@gmail.com Web: www.geshegendun.org

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Joseph McCormick
After a decade as a Christian Coalition activist and Republican nominee for the U.S. Congress in one of the most conservative districts in our country, Joseph learned firsthand the most destructive force in our country today is Americans taking sides against other Americans. The turning point in his life came in 2001 when his political career, marriage, business and reputation collapsed, his relationships having been eroded by mistrust and hatred of his enemies. Since 2004 he has organized a series of ground breaking private retreats brining over 140 national leaders representing over 70 million Americans into dialogue in search of common ground. His passion is applying tools developed in these gatherings to catalyzing a national campaign of transpartisan dialogues that serve as a resource for local, state and national decision makers searching for innovative, bottom-up solutions in this time of crisis.
Email: jmccormick@transpartisan.net Web: www.transpartisan.net

Amanda Kathryn (Hydro) Roman
is a Transpartisan Grassroots Organizer-Wine Enthusiast-World Traveler-Italian American-Sports Fan-Avid Reader-Coffee Aficionado-NRA-Dog Lover-Poker-Rock 'n Roll. Hydro is a results-proven organizational executive and leader with a track record of successes. She has exceptional communication and relationship building skills applied to internal teams, community groups, government representatives and staffs, corporations and other external parties. She has 7+ years experience in executive, leadership and management positions, 15+ years experience with political campaigns, an active enthusiasm for international political organizations and movements, and thrives in challenging, dynamic environments requiring innovation and high energy.
Email: amandakathryn@transpartisan.net Web: www.transpartisan.net

Peter Hwosch
is a filmmaker, Compassionate Listening facilitator, musician and project director with various non-profits around the world. Peter has been documenting the work of Reuniting America since 2006, having produced numerous short films introducing this work and is now additionally developing the Transpartisan Toolbox together with other colleagues. Peter has worked in Israel/Palestine with the Compassionate Listening Project, producing two films on this work. He lived in the Balkans for four years co-directing The Seedlings of Peace Summer Camp, bringing youth from all three sides of former Yugoslavia together to learn communication skills and foster relationship. Peter has extensive experience holding the center in very conflicted environments and presents screenings, workshops and concerts, to organizations, businesses, interested groups, schools and Universities around the world
Email: hwosch@oz.net

  Walt Roberts
is a board member of The Performance Center, a partner of Transformation Systems International, a founder of the Innovation Forum and on the core team of the Transpartisan Alliance. Walt has extensive experience working with groups, institutions and communities that are generating their future together strategically and collaboratively. Walt offers innovative approaches to the design and orchestration of alliances, coalitions, forums, conferences, keypad polling assisted deliberation and decision making, and generative engagement processes. Walt is based Portland Oregon.
Email: Waltsearch@aol.com   Web: www.transpartisan.net
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  Kathy Geller, PhD
joined Stanford as Director of Organizational Effectiveness upon her return from living/working for 10 years in Asia (Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and Kuwait). Kathy was formerly the Global Head of Management Development for a 70,000-person British bank serving Asia, Africa and the Middle East; creating a leadership program based on "knowing yourself and honoring the other" & facilitating it world-wide. Drawing from this experience and her doctoral research, Dr Geller published (2009) Transnational Leadership Development: Preparing the Next Generation for the Borderless Business World.
Email: kathygeller@yahoo.com   Web: www.areteleadership.com
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Kirk J. Schneider, PhD
is a licensed psychologist and leading spokesperson for contemporary humanistic psychology. Dr. Schneider is current editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, vice-president of the Existential-Humanistic Institute (EHI), and adjunct faculty at Saybrook Graduate School, the California Institute of Integral Studies, and the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology. He is also a Fellow of three Divisions of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Schneider has published over 100 articles and chapters and has authored or edited eight books.
Email: kschneider@sfo.com   Web:

  James Hernandez
works for the City of Concord Police Department as a Youth Violence Prevention Specialist. He works in schools, detention facilities and the community at large resolving and mediating conflicts. His approach is steeped in Existential and Humanistic insight he learned from his mentors, Dr. Rollo May and Dr. Kirk J. Schneider. Jim's work on the front line of gang violence for the past 15 years earned him a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005.
Email: jhartist53@yahoo.com   Web:
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  Sarah Talcott
is the United Religions Initiative Youth Programs Director and brings to this work 10 years of experience in interfaith cooperation. Sarah has organized interfaith and intercultural youth programs in the USA, UK, India, Cyprus, Spain, Brazil, Jordan and Peru, combining interfaith learning with community service and peacebuilding activities. She is currently piloting an intergenerational mentorship program, connecting spiritual elders and young people from 17 countries for an intergenerational dialogue and one-on-one mentoring and exchange.
Email: stalcott@uri.org   Web: www.uri.org
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Spring Chen
After moving to U.S. from China, Spring Cheng has followed a spiritual path influenced both by Chinese Taoism and Tibetan Buddhism. She has founded the “Seattle Listens” project that brings healing to the relationship between the Chinese and Tibetan communities in Seattle. Spring previously had a successful career as a scientist of biomedical research. Following her passion for healing, she is currently studying acupuncture and Chinese Medicine at the Seattle Institute of Oriental Medicine.
Email: spring@mystictrails.com   Web: www.MysticTrails.com

Andrew Benson Greene Jr., BA
is founder and CEO of B-Gifted Foundation of Sierra Leone. In 1999 he founded the International Education Projects in Sierra Leone. His leadership and efforts in giving children and youth a voice have established him as a highly regarded, exceptional young peace maker. He has spoken at a variety of conferences and seminars around the world, where his commitment to raise global awareness on the plight of children in armed conflict and war affected youth touched the hearts of many, and he has received a number of international awards. He has a BA in English Civil Law and international Relations, and in 2004/5 was a McGill University Canada Sauve Scholar
Email: b.giftedfoundation@yahoo.com
Web: www.bgiftedfoundation.cfsites.org www.sauvescholars.org

Huda Abu Arqoub, MA
was born in Jerusalem and raised in Hebron. Her parents were both teachers and she chose to follow in their footsteps, obtaining her diploma in teaching English as a Second Language, a BA in Education and English Literature from Al-Quds Open University, and a Master's degree in Conflict Transformation from Eastern Mennonite University, where she served as a Fulbright Scholar from 2004-06. She is the Co-Executive Director of Abraham’s Vision and Co-Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Center for Transformative Education
Email: abrahamsvision@abrahamsvision.pmailus.com
Web: www.abrahamsvision.org/

Ihsan Alkhatib, Esq., MA,
is an attorney and the Director of Public Policy and Law for Life for Relief and Development, a Michigan based international NGO. He is the chair of the advisory board of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)- Michigan. He taught political science in a number of American colleges and is a PhD student in political science at Wayne State University.
Email: ehsankhatib@hotmail.com Web: www.adcmichigan.org -and- www.lifeusa.org

Rachel Eryn Kalish, M.C.
has over 25 years of experience working with organizations, families, and communities to transform conflicts, deepen trust and liberate energy in support of inspired relationships. She has worked in global hot spots, including the middle-east, is the past president of The Compassionate Listening Project, and is the facilitator of Project Reconnections, a pioneering intra-community dialogue focused on the Israeli-Palestinian relationship. She has presented at the International Conference on Conflict Resolution in Russia.
Email: Workplaceconnect@aol.com Web:

Joan Blades
is a co-founder of MoveOn.org (online membership of over 5 million) and President of MomsRising.org . On Mother's Day 2006 she co-founded MomsRising.org (online membership of over 1 million) with Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner to tap the power of online grassroots organizing for mothers and families in the U.S.A. She is also co-author of The Motherhood Manifesto which won the Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize in 2007 and has been a member of the Reuniting America advisory board. Last century she co-founded Berkeley Systems - best known for the flying toaster screen saver "After Dark", taught mediation at Golden Gate Law School, practiced mediation, and wrote Mediate Your Divorce. Ms. Blades is an artist, with collages published on both greeting cards and software packaging. She enjoys creating fused glass jewelry, is a nature lover, Sunday soccer player, and mother.
Email: joan@moveon.org, Web: www.moveon.org/

Michael Ostrolenk
is a licensed psychotherapist (CA) and founder and national coordinator for the Medical Privacy Coalition (2001-present). He is co-founder and National Director of the Liberty Coalition, a transpartisan coalition of groups working to protect civil liberties, privacy and human autonomy (2005- present), and co-founder and President of the American Conservative Defense Alliance, which works to promote a traditional conservative foreign and defense policy (2008- present). He is a registered Personal Protection Specialist and Private Investigator in the Virginia, and a public policy consultant who works on health, education, privacy and national security related issues. Michael is Vice President for Coalitions for Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty and sits on the Steering Committee for Openthegovernment.org.
Email: michaeldostrolenk@gmail.com Web:

Max Pappas, MA
joined the grassroots group FreedomWorks in 2003 where he is Vice President for Public Policy. He has been widely published and is a frequent guest on radio and television, including TV appearances on every major network and many cable and international programs. Previously, Max worked at the Cato Institute, with best-selling author P.J.O'Rourke, at the government affairs firm BGR Group, and ran for office in Massachusetts. Max holds a Master's degree from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor's degree in economics from Holy Cross.
Email: mpappas@freedomworks.org Web: www.freedomworks.org

Follow-up Dialogue Facilitators:
Maggie Herzig (see Thur. night Opening)

Mahvash Hassan, MA
is an independent consultant with experience in international development, and dialogue design and facilitation of conversations across differences. She is consulting on a California-wide immigrant civic engagement project and continues to consult with the Public Conversations Project. Mahvash is a member of the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation and the Association for Dispute Resolution of Northern California. She holds a Masters in Public Administration from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.
Email: mahvash_hassan@yahoo.com Web:

"Next Steps for A New Beginning: Practical Measures
for Healing Stereotypes That Divide"

Michael Wolfe
Co-Founder and President of Unity Productions Foundation, a nonprofit media organization working to increase peace by producing documentary films for broadcast, Web, and theatrical release. He is a small press publisher and the author of several books, including a collection of 40 post-9/11 articles by many writers entitled, Taking Back Islam: American Muslims Reclaim their Faith, which was awarded a Wilbur Prize for the Best Book of the Year on a Religious Theme. As writer and producer of a half-hour TV Special for ABC Nightline, Wolfe was the first American correspondent to report live from Mecca. He writes an occasional column for Beliefnet.com online magazine of the world's religions.
Email: mbw@upf.tv Web: www.20000dialogues.org

Imam Faheem Shuaibe
is resident Imam of Masjidul Waritheen and director of Clara Mohammed School in Oakland California. He is an author and lecturer who has given lectures, seminars, and workshops to hundreds of audiences for over sixteen years on the topics of Al-Islam, world politics, human relationships, and societal evolution. He is listed in International Who's Who Among Intellectuals, and National Who's Who Among Public Speaking Professionals. As a top aide and supporter of Imam W. Deen Mohammed, Imam Shuaibe has been on several distinguished delegations taking him around the globe on various educational, religious, interfaith, and peace missions.
Email: sabilillah@aol.com Web:

Ameena Jandali, MA
is a founding member and Content Director for Islamic Networks Group, as well as a senior speaker and trainer for the organization. Through ING, she has delivered hundreds of presentations in schools, colleges, universities, churches, and other venues on Islam and related subjects, and has appeared on numerous television and radio programs. Ameena team teaches a class on Islam at SF City College. She received her M.A. in Near Eastern Studies from UC Berkeley, and B.A. in History from the University of Illinois.
Email: Jandalifamily@aol.com

Robert Fersh, Esq.
is President of Convergence and co-directs the U.S.-Muslim Engagement Project ("Changing Course: A New Direction for US Relations With The Muslim World"). Formerly Executive Director of Search for Common Ground-USA and its U.S. Consensus Council, and directed a national policy consensus project on Health Care Coverage for the Uninsured. He has held senior positions in the Executive Branch, with three Congressional Committees, and as president of a national non-profit organization working to end hunger in the U.S. He holds an undergraduate degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University and a law degree from Boston University.
Email: rfersh@cnvg.org Web: www.usmuslimengagement.org/index

Moderaters:
Steve Olweean, MA (see Thursday night opening)
Mahvash Hassan, MA (see Plenary Panel G)

Morning Yoga Session
7:50 - 8:30 am
Gabbriella Yates, MA (see Friday morning Yoga session)

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Devi (Devyani) Gursahaney M.S.W.; M.Ed
has provided human resources training and consulting in India and the U.S. and is fluent in Gujarati, Hindi, and English. Her transnational experiences guide her understanding of global challenges and opportunities organizations face today. Her unique approach to organizational development and staff training combine a cross-cultural perspective with a commitment to mutual respect and productive partnership in the work place. She has worked with a variety of organizations and facilitated diverse groups to resolve conflicts, manage cross-cultural communication, celebrate diversity and renew spirit, incorporating a multi-disciplinary and creative approach with “Eastern Flair” in her trainings.
Email: devyani14@hotmail.com
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Zara Zimbardo, MA
in Social and Cultural Anthropology (California Institute of Integral Studies) is a critical media literacy educator, and independent media producer of current events programs that highlight grassroots activism. She serves on the National Council of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the oldest interfaith peace organization in the United States, which aims to demilitarize US foreign policy and provide education and training in nonviolence.
Email: zarazimbardo@gmail.com

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Pam Kramer, MS
is President and former Treasurer of Integral Transformative Practice (ITP) International, has been a performance consultant specialist and executive coach for 25 years, and has a MS in counseling. A certified ITP trainer, she conducts workshops and programs on ITP, has co-led ITP and LET workshops with George Leonard and Barry Robbins at Esalan Institute, and is currently creating ITP groups nationally. She has been coordinator of Community Mill Valley, CA, the 1st ITP group evolving from the original ITP experimental study
Email: pam@itp-international.org Web: www.itp-international.org

Roger Marsh, MBA
Is a founding member of the Walnut Creek (California) Integral Transfortmative Practice (ITP) Community and is a Certified Master ITP Trainer. He is author of the book NexGen Human-A Modern Day Path to Fulfillment. He has a degree in engineering, an MBA, is a Certified Life Couch, Licensed Heart Math Practitioner, and certified Passion Test Facilitator. Through his company, Beyond Belief, he works as a trainer and couch supporting people to fulfill their greatest life potential.
Email: roger@GoBeyondBelief.com Web: www.itp-international.org
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Stanley Krippner, PhD
is professor of psychology at Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco, California, U.S.A., Author of numerous books, he is also co-editor of The Psychological Effects of War Trauma on Civilians: An International Perspective. He is the recipient of the American Psychological Association's 2002 Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology, and in 2003 he was the recipient of the Ashley Montagu Peace Award at the International Conference on Conflict Resolution in St. Petersburg, Russia, where he has presented a number of times.
Email: skrippner@saybrook.edu Web: www.stanleykrippner.com

Benina Gould, PhD
Clinical Psychology, Fielding Institute. Annual Social Justice Award and Carnegie Fellowship recipient. Director of Social Transformation Program at Saybook Graduate School and visiting scholar at Univ. of California, International and Area Studies. Most recent book is Living in the Question? A Critical Oral History of the Berlin Wall Crises. She is conducting research on the role of the Internet for Muslim Youth with colleagues in Indonesia, as well as the Islamic community in California and Pakistan, to examine the stereotype that "madrassas are the breeding grounds of fundamentalism" and to understand "the students who say 'no' to fundamentalism." Consulting to the development of curriculum for Junior and High School students on the "Religious Basis of Peace Studies," a project with Indonesian Ministry of Education and to the "Youth Interfaith Project" at Center for Theory and Research at Esalen Institute.
Email: bgould@berkeley.edu

Skip Robinson, PhD
teaches psychology at Sonoma State University and writes in a number of fields. He taught conflict resolution and co-wrote dispute resolution simulations with the Conflict Resolution, Research & Resource Institute, Inc. (CRI), Tacoma, working with the Soviet Union, the Russian Republic, Poland, Guatemala, and Cuba. For the Gere Foundation, he consulted on developing a health care system for senior Buddhist teachers and destitute monks and nuns in India. He studied at the University of Illinois, UC Berkeley, Sonoma State, and Saybrook Graduate
School.
Email: robinsor@sonoma.edu Web: www.sonic.net/~robinson/

Ilene Serlin, PhD
is a psychologist and dance therapist in San Francisco and Marin County, President of the San Francisco Psychological Association, past-President of APA Division 32 (Humanistic Psychology), and Fellow of APA. She has taught at the NY Gestalt Institute with Laura Perls, and the Jung Institute in Zurich. She teaches in Israel and worked with the Israeli Defense Forces Casualty Division. Her book Whole Person Healthcare (Praeger, 2007) is the base for Continuing Education workshops at APA and a Task Force on Whole Person Approaches to Trauma from the California Psychological Association.
Email: iserlin@ileneserlin.com Web:

Carol Boone Glaser, MA
has been involved in public and private education and organizational development for 30 years, as a teacher of children and adults, project director, language development specialist, administrator, small business owner, and consultant/trainer. Areas of specialization include curriculum design and development, personal development, team building, conflict resolution, and team-based problem solving. She uses the Myers-Briggs personality typology, is developing and teaching peer support programs at secondary and community college levels, in addition to her organizational practice, and has presented at the International Conference on Conflict Resolution.
Email: carolglaser@prodigy.net Web:

John Glaser, EdD (See C-5)

Dialogue Group Facilitators:

Marti Roach
is a trainer; facilitator, and consultant helping individuals, organizations, and communities discover effective ways to provide full inclusion and engagement in planning and implementing positive change. She is a Mentor Trainer and Certified Facilitator of the Institute of Cultural Affairs, long-time peace activist, board member with Crabgrass - a non-profit focused on non violent social change, and a Senior Partner with the Center for Strategic Facilitation. She has worked for many decades with youth development, health, senior, domestic violence, and housing organizations.
Email: marti@strategicfacilitation.com Web: www.strategicfacilitation.com

Chip Baggett, MA
has an M.A. in Humanistic Psychology from the State Univ. of West Georgia, is past president of The Association for Humanistic Psychology and the North Carolina Mental Health Counselors Association, a Licensed Professional Counselor, and has maintained a private psychotherapy practice for thirty years, working with individual adults and couples. Chip's approach emphasizes the impact of states of consciousness upon emotional healing, interpersonal relationships, conflict, and existential and spiritual crises. In addition to psychotherapy, he writes and provides workshops on these topics. His recent publication is "Waking Up Together," and he is currently practicing in Asheville, North Carolina.
Email: cbaggett1@earthlink.net

Hina Pendle, Ph.D
brings 35 years experience as an organizational professional. She designs and facilitates programs on leadership, managing change, communication, crisis management, conflict transformation, collaboration, and personal mastery. She works in diverse settings including the business sector, service organizations, government, non-government organizations, and community organizations. Her focus is on fostering highly participatory cultures and effective leadership. She specializes in facilitating alignment, integrating goals, performance and interpersonal skills. Her doctorate is in Organizational Development and Transformation
Email: hina@uspartners.com Web: www.crisis2resilience.com, www.uspartners.com

Sara Randazzo, MA
M.A. in International Disaster Psychology, is Family Services and Communication Specialist for Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center in San Mateo, CA. and works with those impacted by conflict both internationally and domestically. An apprentice of Healing Touch, she utilizes energy and dialogue to promote social change, enabling people and communities to access tools to heal themselves, uncovering their capacities. As a Yoga In Action facilitator, Sara encourages individuals to engage in community, integrating principles of yoga with conscious activisism, taking practice off the mat and into the world.
Email: srandazzo@pcrcweb.org

John Glaser, EdD (see C-5)

Lisa Montana
teaches collaborative communication and conflict resolution privately and through the Bay Area Center for Nonviolent Communication (BayNVC). She came to this work from the corporate world and in NVC found a conflict resolution model in which everyone's needs matter and people work together to create mutually beneficial solutions. Lisa is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and offers mediation, conflict resolution and coaching, classes, workshops, private sessions and organizational trainings.
Email: letter4lisa@yahoo.com Web:

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