Faculty
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Diane Musho Hamilton has been a practitioner of Buddhadharma for over 20 years and has a Masters Degree in Contemplative Psychology from Naropa University, in Boulder, Colorado. She is a Zen teacher, and one of Integral Institute’s most popular trainers. As a dharma successor of Genpo Merzel Roshi, she serves as a facilitator of Big Mind, a process designed by Genpo Roshi to bring the insights of Zen meditation to western audiences.
She is also a mediator, group facilitator, and trainer in conflict resolution. Diane worked as the initial Director of the Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution for the Utah Judiciary from 1994–1999, where she established the first mediation programs in the courts. She has extensive experience in facilitating large meetings, including public policy issues. Diane received the Utah Council on Conflict Resolution Peacekeeper Award in 2001 and the Peter W. Billings Award from the Utah State Bar for outstanding work in Dispute Resolution in 2003. She was a founding member of the Utah Council on Conflict Resolution, and serves on the Board of Trustees of Utah Dispute Resolution. Diane teaches mediation at the University of Utah Law School and Communications Institute.
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Susanne R. Cook-Greuter, Ed. D. is an internationally known authority on Mature Adult Development with a doctorate in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard. She is a founding member of the Integral Institute and co-director of the Integral Psychology Center. She leads workshops throughout the world in ego development theory and its applications.
Susanne is the author of the SCTi-MAP, a professional Sentence Completion Test based on Loevinger's work and her own ongoing research since 1980. The SCTi-MAP is the most sophisticated and statistically rigorous assessment tool available for measuring a person's meaning making capacity. Unlike other development theories, the Leadership Maturity Framework, is empirically based and therefore evolving as new evidence warrants. As a seasoned practitioner, Susanne consults to various projects in rigorous research design (integrated qualitative and quantitative analyses) and in using developmental assessments in service of organizational health and adaptation efforts.
She is the principal of Cook-Greuter and Associates, LLC - consulting, research and coaching firm. Her group offers the SCTi-MAP tool to individuals, groups and organizations valuing an AQAL approach. They are dedicated to fostering professional excellence and ongoing learning through testing, action inquiry, self-reflection and coaching.
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Terri O’Fallon has a Ph.D. in Integral Studies with a concentration in Learning and Change in Human Systems, and a Masters Degree in Special education. Terri has been an educator for over 40 years and has been in a variety of teaching and administrative positions in elementary schools, high schools/school districts, colleges and universities. Terri has specialized in online teaching for adults and has been involved in creating advanced degree programs involving philosopher Ken Wilber’s integral framework. She is presently one of three principals for Pacific Integral, an LLC that uses and teaches this framework. One of Pacific Integral’s services is a two-year certificate program called Generating Transformative Change in Human Systems. Terri also is involved in chairing and serving on PhD dissertation committees for two institutes (the California Institute of Integral Studies and the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology) and consulting, including international work in Kosovo.
All of this work supports a commitment to evoke the Sacred within learning ecologies, from birth to death, from local to global, using face-to-face teaching and contemporary online approaches.
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Miriam Mason Martineau, M.A. Miriam’s formal training lies in the areas of psychology, dance, choreography, and voice. She has a Masters Degree in Psychology from the University of Zurich, with a specialization in Youth and Child Psychology, and is also a certified teacher of Laban Modern Dance, as well as a singer and vocal instructor.
Miriam works in private practice as an integral therapeutic counselor for adults, couples, youth and children. She is vice-president of Next Step Integral, an organization that applies integral consciousness to parenting, education, ecology, and community. For the last 15 years she has studied and researched how parenting can be pursued as a spiritual practice. This has led her to offering courses on the topic, working as a coach for parents, and writing a book (forthcoming) titled Integral Parenting. She also leads workshops on authentic voice and movement, and has performed both as a soloist and in a variety of choirs such as the Swiss National Television Choir and the Stiftschor Einsiedeln. From 1992-2002 Miriam lived in an integrally-informed intentional community and there honed the skills of group facilitation, conflict resolution and generative dialogue.
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John Gruber, M.S., holds an undergraduate degree in Environmental Studies and a graduate degree in Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy. As an undergraduate faculty scholar at Brown University he worked to integrate studies in biology, geology and environmental science, and received the C.F. Ma Research Fellowship for Natural Products research as a graduate student. In 2001, he was a Teacher Recognition Awardee in the United States Presidential Scholars Program. As a science teacher and long-time student of evolutionary biology and natural history he is particularly interested in ways to apply integral thinking to the secondary school classroom. Having taught a botany seminar for twelve years, John uses that particular class as an experimental ground, a place to explore the application of integral approaches to teaching with a group of willing and interested students. He emphasizes field-work, experimental observation, and direct perception alongside conceptualization in his science courses, and continues to develop ways to build interior and exterior experiences into his science teaching.
In addition to his work and research as an educator and administrator, he is involved in an active research program in insect ecology and systematic biology of moth species.
John is one of the directors of Next Step Integral, and currently he also serves as Chairman of the Upper School Science Department and the Director of the Summer Science Institute at Friends’ Central School, an independent Quaker day school where he has taught for sixteen years.
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Lynne D. Feldman, M.A., J.D. graduated from Tulane University, cum laude with Honors and Distinction and was a finalist for a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in the Scholars and Fellow Program. She attended Columbia University’s Graduate Faculties and received an M.A. in Public Law and Government. She worked as a researcher and speechwriter for the Senior Vice President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, then as a speechwriter for the 1970 New Jersey senatorial candidate. She then received her teaching certification from Fairleigh Dickinson and taught social studies at Northern Highlands Regional High School in Allendale, New Jersey, from 1972-1982, then 1992 to the present. She attended Pace University Law School where she was a Ranking Scholar, won the AmJur Trial Practice Award, was voted Best Oralist in Moot Court, and was listed in Who’s Who.
Lynne has won numerous awards and honors as a teacher and as an attorney, and her research has been published in legal journals. She was honored recently by the New Jersey State Legislature for encouraging respect for democracy. The Governor appointed her to his Character Education Commission, and she then became Chair of the Character Education Network in New Jersey.
Lynne has been creating and presenting theories and practices for integral education in her high school and in the New York/New Jersey area. She has worked for Integral Institute for three years was instrumental in creating Integral University and its Centers. She co-founded the Integral Education Center, and her article on integral education will soon appear in the AQAL Journal. Another article on integral education appears in Kosmos Journal and is soon to be translated into Spanish.
Lynne is devoted to creating integral community. She co-created ICC/NY, which is the AQAL-oriented salon in the New York area, and has been part of the group creating Integral World Space, an on-line forum for integral salon leaders to discuss and learn best practices from one another around the world.
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Patricia Gordon, Ph.D., a member of Next Step Integral Education Team, has been applying Integral Theory to the teaching of her literature courses at John Abbott College in Montreal, Canada, with the fruit of that exploration being her paper "Integral Practice in University and College Teaching". After attending Clint Fuh's seminar on his theoretical extension of Ken Wilber's eight native perspectives and after undertaking theoretical coaching by Clint, she is currently applying this theoretical extension to education in her paper "Going Beyond Current Understanding of the Eight Native Perspectives: Applications to Pedagogy in Higher Education," which will be presented at the 2008 Integral Theory conference. She has participated in Clint’s experiential workshop on perspective taking (The Meta Practice), Integral Institute's Integral Life practice seminar, Susanne Cook-Greuter's Developmental Coaching Intensive seminar, and Don Beck's Spiral Dynamics 1 seminar. Her Integral Life Practice includes, in addition to integral teaching, Integral Thematic Practice meditation under the guidance of Integral Spirituality Center teacher John Kesler, various ways of handling "the dark," dancing, strength training, holding intention for the highest good, and gratitude. She graduated from Indiana University with High Distinction and received a Clara J. Goodbody Scholarship for her graduate studies in Comparative Literature, during which she taught in the Honors Division. She has served as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Social Justice Committee of Montreal, member of the Board of Directors of The Epic of Evolution Society, Education Editor of their newsletter, and Coordinator of John Abbott College English Challenge Program.
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Nancy Davis, Ph.D. in Science Education, M.S. in Physical Science Education and B.A. in Secondary Chemistry Education. Nancy infuses an integral perspective into her teaching, research and service as a professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. Her courses in teaching and learning science, curriculum design in science, and research in science education, as well as numerous professional presentations, published articles and directed dissertation studies, use Integral Theory as a framework. Her research focuses on the person of the teacher and how reflection in the forms of autobiography, action research and autoethnography can assist individuals to act in ways that are more consistent with their intentions. In her own reflections on teaching with integrity she has especially focused on the impact of assessment on curriculum. Currently she is working on a book on teaching methods informed by Integral Theory. She is co-founder of the Integral Education Center of Integral Institute.
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Abigail Lynam, M.S., has devoted the last nine years to teaching in the field of transformative adult education. She is on the faculty of Lesley University’s Audubon Expedition Institute and the University of Massachusetts’ Sustainability in Auroville, India program. Both programs follow an educational model that blends experiential, holistic, and student-centered learning through a transformative framework of intensive learning community work. Abigail is currently researching the best ways to support the development, application, and practice of an integral framework in these programs. She is trained as a facilitator of Joanna Macy’s “Work that Reconnects” and “Dynamic Facilitation” methods and previously taught leadership development at Portland State University. She is also a director of Next Step Integral where she is presently developing a semester-long curriculum on Integral Leadership for adult learners.
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Thomas Arthur is a performing artist who integrates contemplative juggling, abstract rhythmic vocalization, acoustic music, subtle storytelling, and digital media into an evolving form of participatory ritual theater for children and adults. In a synchronized choreography of sound, motion and light, Thomas interacts with natural objects, geometric shapes and projected image. Seeking to embody and make visible subtle interactions of sense, soul and the biosphere, his work is informed by the rivers, oceans, meadows, forests, slopes, weather, gravity, light and pulsing resonance of the Pacific Northwest.
When not making art, Thomas teaches individuals and groups practices of embodied awareness. Integrating the Feldenkrais approach of movement awareness with practices from his own personal inquiry, he offers workshops and private sessions opening a mindful space for the emergence of authentic presence in effortless action.
For more info on Thomas's work go to: thomasarthur.net.
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Stephan Martineau is the founder of Next Step Integral and an integral consultant for not-for-profit organizations. He is also President of the Slocan Integral Forestry Cooperative. Stephan is the seminar events manager and will be onsite throughout the week ensuring that your experience is the best that it can be.