STAR's ADVISORY BOARD
FOR FIRST-TIME VISITORS
Why Take STAR
Your STAR Experience
The STAR Process
What Graduates Say About STAR
The Value of a Personal Growth Retreat
STAR Staff
FOR THERAPISTS
Message from the Director
What Therapists Say About STAR
Inside the STAR Process
Why Therapists Choose STAR
STAR Staff
SPECIAL TOPICS
Addictions and Recovery
Attachment Disorder and Relationship Problems
Attacking Anxiety and Depression
Grief Recovery
Childhood Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress
Personal Growth
Stanislav Grof, M.D., Ph.D.
Stanislav
Grof, M.D., Ph.D., is one of the most recognized and authoritative figures
in transpersonal psychology. He received his M.D. degree from the Charles
University School of Medicine in Czechoslovakia, and his Ph.D. from the
Czechoslovakian Academy of Sciences. Stan was an assistant professor
of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University, and a scholar-in-residence
at Esalen in Big Sur, California, from 1973 to 1987. Dr. Grof's early
research centered on the clinical uses of psychoactive drugs. He developed
Holotropic BreathworkTM with his wife, Christina
Grof, and has been training professionals for years in this technique.
Dr. Grof was the founding president of the International Transpersonal
Association and professor of psychology at the California Institute of
Integral Studies. He has published over 100 articles in professional
journals. His books include: The Holotropic Mind; Cosmic Game; Realms
of the Human Unconscious; The Human Encounter With Death; LSD Psychotherapy;
Beyond the Brain; The Adventure of Self-Discovery; The Books of the Dead;
Beyond Death; The Stormy Search For the Self; and Psychology of
the Future.
Anthony Elite, M.D.
Dr.
Elite is a psychiatrist who has served on the STAR Foundation Board since
1996, and as vice-president of the Board of Directors of the Pocket Ranch
Institute from 1991 to 1996. He received a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University,
a doctorate in Medicine from the University of Rochester, and served
his residency in Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Elite
has had training in a wide range of therapies, and has been in private
practice in San Francisco since 1970. He is also a staff psychiatrist
at the University of California, Berkeley.
John Lee, M.A.
John Lee
is recognized as a leader in the fields of personal growth, relationships,
and recovery. His highly creative developments in Primary Emotional Energy
Recovery (P.E.E.R.) counseling seminars, anger management workshops,
mini-sessions, and the Detour MethodTM are
taught worldwide. He is co-founder of the P.E.E.R. training program for
counselors, which teaches emotional release techniques to help clients
experience and express anger and grief appropriately. John has written
several books, including: The Flying Boy; The Wounded Lover; Recovery
Plain and Simple; At My Father's Wedding; Writing From the Body; Facing
the Fire: Experiencing and Expressing Anger Appropriately; and Growing
Yourself Back Up: Understanding Emotional Regression.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
Joseph Chilton Pearce is internationally recognized for his vision of human development and learning. He is the author of numerous books, including: The Magical Child; Crack In the Cosmic Egg; The Biology of Transcendence: A Blueprint of the Human Spirit; Magical Child Matures; Exploring the Crack In the Cosmic Egg: Split Minds and Meta-Realities; The Bond of Power;The Crack In the Cosmic Egg: Challenging Constructs of Mind and Reality; The Crack In the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality; and Evolution's End: Claiming the Potential of Our Intelligence. His research includes brain development, learning, and education. He is a member of the Touch the Future Board of Directors.
Thom Rutledge, L.C.S.W.
Thom
Rutledge is a psychotherapist and author in Nashville, Tennessee. He
is well known for a personable style in his work with clients, audiences
large and small, and in his writing. Thom has written several books including Embracing
Fear, and Finding the Courage to Live Your Life. He also writes
for several personal growth publications, including Steps For Recovery in
Los Angeles, and Recovery Today based in Austin, Texas. Thom's
political/social commentaries appear on op-ed pages around the country,
including The Chicago Tribune.
Joel McCleary
Joel McCleary received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1971. He was treasurer of the Democratic National Committee from 1977 to 1978, and White House assistant to the President from 1978 to 1980. From 1981 to 1989, he ran overseas presidential campaigns as president of Sawyer Miller International. Founder of the Institute of Asian Democracy, he has been a personal advisor to his Holiness, the Dalai Lama, and currently serves on the board of the International Campaign for Tibet.
Marti Glenn, Ph.D.
Marti Glenn, Ph.D., is founding president of Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, which offered the first graduate degrees in Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and the first doctoral degrees in Somatic Psychology in the world. Dr. Glenn has been a pioneering psychotherapist for over 25 years, as well as a professor of counseling psychology. She has facilitated workshops and seminars all over the United States and in Europe. She is a board member of the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health, and is chair of their past and current international congresses. She also serves on the board for the Center For Reuniting Families.
Michael Mendizza
Prompted
by the attempted rape and murder of a female colleague in 1981, Michael
embarked on The Betrayal of Intimacy, an independent research
and public awareness project to prevent sexual violence. As a documentary
filmmaker, he has traveled extensively researching sensitive issues,
including: domestic violence and rape, the impact of media on learning,
cultural and human development, the nature of intelligence, holistic
learning models, the changing family, prenatal learning, and creativity
and peak performance. In the late 1980s, Michael and his wife founded Touch
the Future, a nonprofit learning design center. For more than a decade, Touch
the Future has explored optimum learning, performance, and wellness.
Working closely with Joseph Chilton Pearce and performance specialists,
Michael developed a revolutionary parenting and coaching model that applies
the psychology of optimum experience (what athletes call "the zone")
to parenting and education.
Cliff Bostock, M.A.
Cliff
Bostock has worked as a writer and editor for over 20 years—including
stints as editor of small-town weekly newspapers, Creative Loafing and Houston
City Magazine. In 1995, he completed work on his M.A. degree in psychology,
with emphasis in counseling, at West Georgia College—one of the nation’s
pioneering programs in humanistic psychology. In 1996, he enrolled in
the new Ph.D. program in Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute
in Santa Barbara, California. During supervised work as a psychotherapist,
he developed the “Greeting the Muse” workshop for blocked writers and
artists. It is now his main work, whether in groups, workshops or individual
sessions. In all his work, he tries to help people uncover purpose and
meaning in life, and recover the passion that connection to our purpose
naturally generates. It is not psychotherapy; it is soulwork.
Joel Rachelson, Ph.D.
A clinical
psychologist in private practice in Atlanta, Georgia, since 1985, Joel
Rachelson identifies himself primarily as a psychotherapist who is devoted
to the art and craft of psychotherapy. He went to graduate school at
Georgia State University, which was headed by master gestalt/TA/experiential
psychotherapists; the emphasis was as much on developing the person of
the therapist as learning how to test or to assess the current research.
His specialty is working with unhappy adults and struggling couples;
in addition, he works with those struggling with addictive issues.
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