Presenters
Every year at the Language of Spirit Conference, we invite key participants to our Inner Circle. Here are some of this year's members of the inner circle. Please watch a collection of participants discuss their experience of the Language of Spirit conference.
Moderator-Leroy Little Bear
Leroy Little Bear is a member of the Blood Tribe of the Blackfoot Confederacy. Leroy is the former Director of the American Indian Program at Harvard University and professor emeritus of Native Studies at the University of Lethbridge where he was department chair for 25 years. He has served as a legal and constitutional advisor to the Assembly of First Nations and has served on many influential committees, commissions, and boards dealing with First Nations issues. In 2003, Little Bear was awarded the prestigious National Aboriginal Achievement Award for Education, the highest honour bestowed by Canada's First Nations community. In 2006, he was award an honourary doctorate by the University of Lethbridge.
He has written several articles and co-edited three books including Pathways to Self-Determination: Canadian Indians and the Canadian State (1984), Quest for Justice: Aboriginal Peoples and Aboriginal Rights (1985), and Governments in Conflict and Indian Nations in Canada (1988). He is also contributor to Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision (UBC Press, 2000).
For more information on Leroy Little Bear, please go to: http://www.silverbuffalo.org/NAA-LittleBear.html, or listen to his recent lecture at ASU, Native Science and Western Science: Possibilities for a Powerful Collaboration.
He has written several articles and co-edited three books including Pathways to Self-Determination: Canadian Indians and the Canadian State (1984), Quest for Justice: Aboriginal Peoples and Aboriginal Rights (1985), and Governments in Conflict and Indian Nations in Canada (1988). He is also contributor to Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision (UBC Press, 2000).
For more information on Leroy Little Bear, please go to: http://www.silverbuffalo.org/NAA-LittleBear.html, or listen to his recent lecture at ASU, Native Science and Western Science: Possibilities for a Powerful Collaboration.
Inner Circle-Glenn Aparicio Parry
Glenn Aparicio Parry, Chairman-Board of Directors of SEED Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is an educator, psychologist, and entrepreneur whose passion is reforming education into a coherent, cohesive whole. SEED Graduate Institute offers a model of a synergistic, interconnected curriculum based in indigenous ways of knowing.
Inner Circle-Alfonso Montuori
Alfonso Montuori is Professor in the Transformative Inquiry Department at California Institute of Integral Studies. A graduate of the University of London, he is the author of several books and numerous articles on creativity and improvisation, complexity, and education. Alfonso also consults with organizations and individuals on creativity and professional and personal development.
For more information on Alfonso Montuori, please go to: http://ciis.academia.edu/AlfonsoMontuori
For more information on Alfonso Montuori, please go to: http://ciis.academia.edu/AlfonsoMontuori
Inner Circle-James O'Dea
James is currently Co- Director of The Social Healing Project funded by the Kalliopeia Foundation. This work has led him to Rwanda, Israel/Palestine, N.Ireland and elsewhere. He is a member of the extended faculty of The Institute of Noetic Sciences and its immediate past President. He was Executive Director of The Seva Foundation, an international health and development organization and, for ten years, was the Washington Office Director of Amnesty International. The Social Healing Project, assessing the convergence of societal healing initiatives around the world, is also collaborating with Intersections International in New York to convene frontier multidisciplinary dialogues on this theme. He is a member of the Evolutionary Leaders group founded by Deepak Chopra and Diane Williams and lectures widely on emerging worldviews, and integral approaches to social transformation. In 2010 he will be the keynote speaker at several conferences exploring the interface of science, consciousness, and societal healing. He is committed to dialogue as a practice and is engaged in dialogues at SEED Graduate Institute between native elders, physicists, and thought leaders; between Israeli and Palestinian psychologists and social workers, and contributes to dialogue on systems thinking and government policy making with the DC based Global Systems Initiatives. He has been a part of dialogue initiated with the Obama Administration on systems work and policy making. He and Dr Judith Thompson co-led a series of international dialogues called Compassion and Social Healing. His book Creative Stress: A Path For Evolving Souls Living Through Personal and Planetary Upheaval ( April 2010) is highly praised and featured in Kosmos Journal, Spirituality and Health magazine, The Well Being Journal and dozens of other media outlets. James is also a member of the Board of Directors of The Temple of the Universe in Florida. He has numerous published essays. His latest essay, Creative Atonement in a Time of Peril will be published with other leading authors and practitioners by Josey-Bass later this year.
For more information on James O'Dea, please go to: www.jamesodea.com
For more information on James O'Dea, please go to: www.jamesodea.com
Inner Circle-Tobasonakwut Kinew
Tobasonakwut is considered to be "a teacher extraordinare" by students and faculty at universities where he has taught and at reservations and conferences where he has spoken. A fluent speaker of Anishinaabemowin (Ojibway) and English, Tobasonakwut is an imaginative thinker and orator.
Tobasonakwut is a pipe carrier, a member of the Mite'iwin, and a Sundancer for many years in the Anishinaabe and Lakota traditions.
Tobasonakwut is a well respected leader and elder in Anishinaabe society and across Canada and the United States. He has spearheaded action to strengthen treaty rights, language and culture, and to improve the socio-economic situation of First Nations people and communities.
For more information on Tobasonakwut Kinew, please go to:
http://www.silverbuffalo.org/NAA-Kinew.html
Tobasonakwut is a pipe carrier, a member of the Mite'iwin, and a Sundancer for many years in the Anishinaabe and Lakota traditions.
Tobasonakwut is a well respected leader and elder in Anishinaabe society and across Canada and the United States. He has spearheaded action to strengthen treaty rights, language and culture, and to improve the socio-economic situation of First Nations people and communities.
For more information on Tobasonakwut Kinew, please go to:
http://www.silverbuffalo.org/NAA-Kinew.html
Inner Circle-Ashok Gangadean
Ashok Gangadean is Professor of Philosophy at Haverford College, Haverford, PA and a founder-director of the Global Dialogue Institute. He has written many books exploring the concept of a global consciousness. He is Co-Convenor of the World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality. Gangadean is a leader of global dialogue.
For more information on Ashok Gangadean, please go to: www.awakeningmind.org
For more information on Ashok Gangadean, please go to: www.awakeningmind.org
Inner Circle-Dan Longboat, PhD
Dan Longboat is Mohawk from the Six Nations of the Grand River. He is Director of the Indigenous Environmental Studies Program at Trent. Dan is known for his Traditional Haudenosaunee knowledge and has taught Mohawk culture at Trent in addition to his work in Indigenous Environmental Studies. He was the first Director of Studies of the Ph.D. program. Dan completed his Ph.D. in Environmental Studies at York University.
For more information on Dan Longboat, please visit his TrentU bio, watch him discuss his role as an educator and listen to his 2011 convocation address.
For more information on Dan Longboat, please visit his TrentU bio, watch him discuss his role as an educator and listen to his 2011 convocation address.
Inner Circle-Linda J. Shepherd
Linda Jean Shepherd was born and raised in the Philadelphia area. She holds a B.A. summa cum laude in biology from Millersville University, and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Pennsylvania State University. Her book, Lifting the Veil: The Feminine Face of Science earned the Washington Governor's Writers Award. This book led Anna Harrison, past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Chemical Society "to think anew about science and about women in science."
For more information on Linda J. Shepherd, please go to: http://ciis.academia.edu/LindaJeanShepherd
For more information on Linda J. Shepherd, please go to: http://ciis.academia.edu/LindaJeanShepherd
Inner Circle-Shelly Valdez, PhD
"I'm from Laguna Pueblo, and personally, for me, Chaco is a story within itself. It's a connection with my people, and it's one of our ancestral homes."
Dr. Shelly Valdez has worked in education for over twenty years in a variety of positions, including classroom teacher, project director for the Four Directions Technology Project - An Indigenous Model, and associate director for K-12 programs at the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES). She has both a B.A. and an M.A. in elementary education and a Ph.D. in multicultural teacher education, with a concentration on research in the area of science education. She currently is the owner and manager of an educational consulting business, Native Pathways (NaPs), located in New Mexico.
Dr. Valdez believes that culturally responsive education works, and she plans to continue in the path of her father: empowering Native American youth to achieve a balance between pursuing their dreams and maintaining contact with their traditional world.
For more information of Shelly Valdez, please go to:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/chaco/HTML/refs-bios.html
Dr. Shelly Valdez has worked in education for over twenty years in a variety of positions, including classroom teacher, project director for the Four Directions Technology Project - An Indigenous Model, and associate director for K-12 programs at the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES). She has both a B.A. and an M.A. in elementary education and a Ph.D. in multicultural teacher education, with a concentration on research in the area of science education. She currently is the owner and manager of an educational consulting business, Native Pathways (NaPs), located in New Mexico.
Dr. Valdez believes that culturally responsive education works, and she plans to continue in the path of her father: empowering Native American youth to achieve a balance between pursuing their dreams and maintaining contact with their traditional world.
For more information of Shelly Valdez, please go to:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/chaco/HTML/refs-bios.html
Inner Circle-Amethyst First Rider
Amethyst First Rider is a member of the Blood Tribe of the Blackfoot Confederacy, born and raised in the City of Calgary Alberta. She graduated from Ernest Manning High School in Calgary, Alberta in 1974 and went on to study at the University of Lethbridge, receiving her BA in 1980 with a major in Native American Studies. In 1988, she attended the Banff School of Fine Arts summer course in stagecraft. Amethyst earned a Masters Degree in Fine Arts from the University of Calgary in 1994 with a focus on Native theatre.
For more information of Amethyst First Rider, please go to:
http://www.silverbuffalo.org/NAA-FirstRider.html
For more information of Amethyst First Rider, please go to:
http://www.silverbuffalo.org/NAA-FirstRider.html
Inner Circle-Simon J. Ortiz
Poet, writer, and storyteller, Simon Ortiz's books include Woven Stone, From Sand Creek, and After and Before the Lightning. In the late 1980's, Mr. Ortiz held official tribal positions as Interpreter and First Lieutenant Governor of Acoma Pueblo, his native community in New Mexico. As a major Native American writer he insists on telling the story of his people's land, culture, and community, a story that has been marred by social, political, and economic conflicts with Euro-American society. Ortiz's insistence, however, is upon a story that stresses vision and hope by creative struggle and resistance to human and technological oppression.
For more information on Simon Ortiz visit his his UT Arlington CV, his ipl.org bio, find him on poetryoutloud.org and read his video poem, Hunger in New York City.
For more information on Simon Ortiz visit his his UT Arlington CV, his ipl.org bio, find him on poetryoutloud.org and read his video poem, Hunger in New York City.
Inner Circle-Matthew Bronson, PhD
Matthew C. Bronson, PhD., an educational linguist, works as associate professor in the Social & Cultural Anthropology program (where he has taught since 1983) and the Director of Academic Assessment at CIIS. He has also worked as a teacher educator for many years at UC Davis specializing in the training of high school teachers to respond to cultural and linguistic diversity. His research and writing explores the intersections of consciousness studies, linguistics and education in the service of a world in crisis. He has conducted field research on the spiritual traditions of Brazil, co-founded a psychosocial intervention program for people living with HIV, participated in dialogues between Native Americans and scientists to heal the wounds of colonialism and conducted workshops in five countries on topics ranging from accelerated learning to critical media literacy. He worked for twelve years in the private sector as the director of international business development and a communications and sales trainer for a subsidiary of a Fortune 500 company. He recently edited four special issues of ReVision Journal on "the Language of Spirituality" and "Revisioning Higher Education." Forthcoming publications include an encyclopedia entry on language socialization and a co- edited volume entitled "So What? Now What?: The Anthropology of Consciousness Responds to a World in Crisis" to be published by Cambridge Scholar's Press. Dr. Bronson holds an A.B. and M.A. in linguistics from U.C. Berkeley and a Ph.D in Education with a specialization in language, literacy, culture from U.C. Davis.
For more information on Matthew Bronson, please go to: http://www.ciis.edu/Academics/Faculty/Matthew_Bronson_Bio.html
For more information on Matthew Bronson, please go to: http://www.ciis.edu/Academics/Faculty/Matthew_Bronson_Bio.html
Inner Circle-Pat McCabe (Navajo)
Pat McCabe, known as Woman Stands Shining (Navajo), is an artist, writer, ceremonial leader and international speaker. She is a voice for global peace and her paintings are created as tools for individual, earth, and global healing. She has appeared in two documentary films: SEEDing Change and Journeying to Turtle Island and presented at the International Healing Conference in Bali. She lives in Taos, NM.
Inner Circle-Shawn Secatero, PhD
Shawn L. Secatero (Canoncito Band of Navajo)
is a member of the Water’s Edge people and born for the Latino clan. Shawn received his Ph.D. in 2009 from the University of New Mexico and graduated with distinction after completing his dissertation study,Beneath Our Sacred Minds, Hands, and Hearts: Stories of Persistence and Success Among American Indian Graduate and Professional Students. He has worked as a secondary language arts teacher, bilingual program coordinator, youth opportunity program director, and coordinator of student services at the American Indian Graduate Center Gates Millennium Scholars. Dr. Secatero continues his service as a researcher and has established the Striking Eagle Well Being Project to address higher education retention efforts.He serves as an adjunct professor at the University of New Mexico. He conducts workshops and seminars using his well-being model designed to empower individuals and assist educational programs with life-long learning endeavors at local, state, and international levels. He continues to work as an American Indian cultural consultant for various programs and institutions. Dr. Secatero serves as a board member for the Indigenous Elders of America, Canoncito Band of Navajos 12-member traditional council, and iscurrently president and CEO of Source for Educational Empowerment and Development (SEED) Institute which is a non-profit organization seeking to bridge Indigenous knowledge with Western ways of knowing and founder of Striking Eagle Well-Being Circle
is a member of the Water’s Edge people and born for the Latino clan. Shawn received his Ph.D. in 2009 from the University of New Mexico and graduated with distinction after completing his dissertation study,Beneath Our Sacred Minds, Hands, and Hearts: Stories of Persistence and Success Among American Indian Graduate and Professional Students. He has worked as a secondary language arts teacher, bilingual program coordinator, youth opportunity program director, and coordinator of student services at the American Indian Graduate Center Gates Millennium Scholars. Dr. Secatero continues his service as a researcher and has established the Striking Eagle Well Being Project to address higher education retention efforts.He serves as an adjunct professor at the University of New Mexico. He conducts workshops and seminars using his well-being model designed to empower individuals and assist educational programs with life-long learning endeavors at local, state, and international levels. He continues to work as an American Indian cultural consultant for various programs and institutions. Dr. Secatero serves as a board member for the Indigenous Elders of America, Canoncito Band of Navajos 12-member traditional council, and iscurrently president and CEO of Source for Educational Empowerment and Development (SEED) Institute which is a non-profit organization seeking to bridge Indigenous knowledge with Western ways of knowing and founder of Striking Eagle Well-Being Circle
Inner Circle-Beverly Rubik, PhD
Professor Beverly Rubik earned her PhD in biophysics in 1979 at the University of California at Berkeley. As a frontier scientist, she is internationally renowned for exploring biofield science and energy medicine. Her main area of focus is research on the subtle energetics of living systems, including spiritual healing. She has published over 60 papers and 2 books. Dr. Rubik serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine, Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine, and Integrative Medicine Insights. She has served on the advisory boards of various groups, including the Program in Integrative Medicine under Dr. Andrew Weil.
For more information of Beverly Rubik, please go to: http://www.healthy.net/scr/bio.aspx?Id=75
For more information of Beverly Rubik, please go to: http://www.healthy.net/scr/bio.aspx?Id=75
Inner Circle-Lee Nichol
At the invitation of David Bohm, Lee Nichol participated in the first Western–Indigenous dialogue in 1992, and continues that process through relationship, dialogue, and ceremony.
For twenty years Lee was a classroom teacher at high school and university levels. He is currently adjunct faculty at Denver University and senior editor for Goldenstone Press, which specializes in publications from the western Hermetic tradition. His work as editor began with David Bohm’s Thought as a System, and continued with On Dialogue, On Creativity, and The Essential David Bohm. A new posthumous volume from Bohm, dealing with feeling, thinking, and soma-significance, will be released in 2012.
From 1978 to 1985 Lee was an instructor under J. Krishnamurti in Ojai, CA., and continued in that capacity after Krishnamurti’s death, until 1994. From 1995 to 2005 he was on the faculty of the Tibetan Nyingma Institute in Berkeley, CA.
For twenty years Lee was a classroom teacher at high school and university levels. He is currently adjunct faculty at Denver University and senior editor for Goldenstone Press, which specializes in publications from the western Hermetic tradition. His work as editor began with David Bohm’s Thought as a System, and continued with On Dialogue, On Creativity, and The Essential David Bohm. A new posthumous volume from Bohm, dealing with feeling, thinking, and soma-significance, will be released in 2012.
From 1978 to 1985 Lee was an instructor under J. Krishnamurti in Ojai, CA., and continued in that capacity after Krishnamurti’s death, until 1994. From 1995 to 2005 he was on the faculty of the Tibetan Nyingma Institute in Berkeley, CA.
Inner Circle-Richard Dobrin, PhD
Dr. Richard Dobrin has held professorial positions in both Physics and Radiology at major universities in New York City, and has published many scientific papers and given numerous presentations in his fields of endeavor. He was one of the early pioneers in the study of the human energy field using scientific means, and directed the Energy Research Group of the Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis and the Institute for Core Energetics. He has also been involved for many years as an international business man in the field of high technology diagnostic and therapeutic radiology, nuclear medicine and radiation therapy. For the larger part of his life he has been a practicing meditative yogi and has been involved in an ongoing personal study of the metaphysical foundations and healing practices of many traditional cultures, as well as contemporary healing approaches.
Dr. Dobrin has also been active in developing a program to provide high-technology medicine to Native American reservations, in cooperation with traditional healers, which would also provide an educational basis for young Native Americans to enter the health care professions.
For more information on Richard Dobrin, please go to: http://www.ihs-integratedhealthcare.com/
Dr. Dobrin has also been active in developing a program to provide high-technology medicine to Native American reservations, in cooperation with traditional healers, which would also provide an educational basis for young Native Americans to enter the health care professions.
For more information on Richard Dobrin, please go to: http://www.ihs-integratedhealthcare.com/
Inner Circle-Angelita Borbon
Indigina Sonoran Desert (Yoeme), Sacred Science consultant and Comadre Conciencia Dialogue facilitator, Tucson, AZ
Inner Circle-Cynthia Sue Larson
Intuitive strategic visionary and catalyst, Cynthia assists individuals, corporations, and non-profit groups to set and achieve extraordinary goals. Cynthia has helped hundreds of individuals and companies discover and develop their visions and goals in optimal alignment with their core strengths and the needs of those they serve. Cynthia works with a diverse range of clients, from Fortune 500 companies to small start-up businesses and non-profit organizations. Cynthia received a B.A. degree in physics from U.C. Berkeley and an M.B.A. degree from San Francisco State University. Cynthia practices and teaches meditation and martial arts, and writes books and articles on topics of conscious living.
Cynthia teaches workshops to help people learn how their thoughts and feelings change the physical world. Cynthia's writing has received high praise from best-selling author Dr. Larry Dossey; Edgar Mitchell, founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and one of the twelve men who have walked on the moon; best-selling author Lynn Robinson; physicist Fred Alan Wolf; Stanley Krippner, and many others.
For website information on Cynthia Sue Larson, go to www.realityshifters.com
Cynthia teaches workshops to help people learn how their thoughts and feelings change the physical world. Cynthia's writing has received high praise from best-selling author Dr. Larry Dossey; Edgar Mitchell, founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and one of the twelve men who have walked on the moon; best-selling author Lynn Robinson; physicist Fred Alan Wolf; Stanley Krippner, and many others.
For website information on Cynthia Sue Larson, go to www.realityshifters.com
Inner Circle-Nancy Maryboy, PhD
Nancy C. Maryboy, Ph.D. is the President and Founder of the Indigenous Education Institute, a non profit organization with a mission of preserving, protecting and applying indigenous knowledge. She is also President of Wohali Productions, Inc., consulting in areas of indigenous science, indigenous astronomy, Native American education, curriculum development, film making and strategic planning.
For more information on Nancy Maryboy, please go to http://www.indigenouseducation.org/
For more information on Nancy Maryboy, please go to http://www.indigenouseducation.org/
Inner Circle-Tina Fields
Tina R. Fields, Ph.D.
Tina has taught about the cultural and psycho-spiritual dimensions of environmental issues for Naropa University (where she is currently Asst. Professor of Ecopsychology), the outdoor field-based Audubon Expedition Institute at Lesley University (AEI), Dominican University, and New College, where she also directed the M.A. program in Culture, Ecology, and Sustainable Community. Her work ties together ecopsychology, spiritual wisdom, bioregional understanding, old-time skills, and storytelling/listening to help environmental behavior change shift in our minds from a perceived burden to a chosen joy. Tina is also an outdoor guide, pagan minister, and visual & performance artist who draws, crafts drums, makes useful things out of “junk” and “weeds,” calls contra dances, and leads community singing to lift the spirit. Recent publications include the co-edited book “So What? Now What? The Anthropology of Consciousness Responds to a World In Crisis” and her essay in it on animistic relationship in Hawai’i; a workshop on incorporating environmental justice as part of all environmental education; a true story about a tragic love affair with horned toads; and an entry in the Encyclopedia of Shamanism on pre-Christian Irish spirituality as evinced through song and story.
For more information on Tina Fields, go to: http://indigenize.wordpress.com
For more information on Tina Fields, go to: http://indigenize.wordpress.com
Inner Circle-Linda Hogan
Linda Hogan (Chickasaw)Writer in Residence for The Chickasaw Nation, is an internationally recognized public speaker and writer of poetry, fiction, and essays. Her two new books are Rounding the Human Corners (Coffee House Press, April 2008, Pulitzer nominee) and People of the Whale (Norton, August 2008). Her other books include novels Mean Spirit, a winner of the Oklahoma Book Award, the Mountains and Plains Book Award, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Solar Storms, a finalist for the International Impact Award, and Power, also a finalist for the International Impact Award in Ireland. WW Norton has published her fiction. In poetry, The Book of Medicines was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other poetry has received the Colorado Book Award, Minnesota State Arts Board Grant, an American Book Award, and a prestigious Lannan Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. In addition, she has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship and has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas, The Wordcraft Circle, and The Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association. Her nonfiction includes Dwellings, A Spiritual History of the Land; and The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir. In addition, she has, with Brenda Peterson, written Sightings, The Mysterious Journey of the Gray Whale for National Geographic Books, and edited several anthologies on nature and spirituality. She has written the script, Everything Has a Spirit, a PBS documentary on American Indian Religious Freedom. Hogan was inducted into the Chickasaw Nation Hall of Fame in 2007 for her writing. She has also worked with Native youth in horse programs and continues to teach Creative Writing. A former Professor at the University of Colorado she now lives and works in Oklahoma. Her newest work is as editor of thirty years of Parabola essays for a book, The Inner Journey: Native Traditions, from Morning Light Press, recently published. This is a collection of essays on Native myth and tradition excerpted from Parabola Magazine. In addition, she has just had a short documentary PBS/American Experience posted for the REEL/NATIVE series, A Feel for the Land. Hogan was only the second minority woman at the University of Colorado to become a Full Professor. Her main interests as both writer and scholar are environmental issues, indigenous spiritual traditions and culture. She is currently on the Board of Advisors for Orion Magazine, an environmental journal.
For more information on Linda Hogan visit her site, investigate her wikipedia page and watch her read at the 2006 Dodge Poetry Festival.
For more information on Linda Hogan visit her site, investigate her wikipedia page and watch her read at the 2006 Dodge Poetry Festival.
Inner Circle-David Cowan, PhD
David Cowan is a Professor in the Management Department of the Farmer School of Business at Miami University. He earned his Ph.D. in Organization and Administration from the University of Kansas and possesses an MBA from Arizona State University and a Bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame. Examples of David’s teaching experiences include these topics: 1) Leadership & Learning; 2) Cross-Cultural Management (taught in the U.S. and in Central Europe); 3) Spirituality and Organizing (honors course); 4) Alternative Ways of Organizing (team taught with a Lakota scholar); and 5) Multicultural Teams (taught in London). He has also taken Miami students to work with the Miami Nation in Oklahoma; and this summer will teach a leadership seminar at Yonsei University in South Korea. Relevant examples of his recent publications include these topics: 1) Embedded spirituality as a leadership foundation for sustainable innovative learning; 2) Talking circles, leadership competencies, and inclusive learning: Expanding the frame of business education” (w/ Kathy Adams); 3) Profound simplicity of leadership wisdom: Exemplary insight from Miami Nation Chief, Floyd Leonard; 4) Wisdom: A backdrop for organization studies” (w/ Lotte Darsoe, Learning Labs Denmark, Copenhagen); and 5) Artistic undertones of humanistic leadership education. David has two sons, both living in Arizona; and his artistic side manifests in various projects combining wood, stone, and occasionally marbles.
Inner Circle-Antonio Nunez, PhD
Antonio Nuñez, Ph.D. is the Academic Dean at Southwestern College. Dr. Nuñez received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Integral Studies in the area of East/West Psychology. He has also master’s degrees in Psychology from DePauw University and in Educational Technologies from The George Washington University. He received his B.A. at Ball State University in the area of Psychology and Sociology/Anthropology.
For more information on Antonio Nunez, please go to: www.swc.edu
For more information on Antonio Nunez, please go to: www.swc.edu
Inner Circle-Angela Grier, Piiohk Soo Panski (Comes Singing)
Angela is from the Padded Saddle Clan of the Aphotsi (Northern) Piikani Nation of the Blackfoot Confederacy. Her name “Comes Singing” was handed down from which her late grandmother had. Angela is the daughter of the late Sandra Grier and Ralph Grier, and is a proud wife and mother of four. Currently Angela has taken a seat on her nation’s council as a leader. Angela’s Counselling Psychology Graduate studies surround how Blackfoot spiritual frameworks and prayer provide psychological wellbeing. As a previous faculty member of the University of Lethbridge and currently a guest faculty member of Banff School of Management’s Inherent Right to Self Determination Program, Angela shares her areas of research pertaining to Indigenous Political Psychology and decolonization. Angela resides in her traditional territory while embracing the traditional knowledge systems of the Blackfoot people.