Professional Experience
1991 – Present Training & Consulting; Executive & Team Coaching in Leadership Development& Creating Highly Collaborative, Innovative and Sustainable Teams
Coaching Process – See Attached
1991 – Present Matrix Leadership Institute
Founder, Director, Senior Trainer, Consultant, Executive & Team Coach, Speaker and Author
2005 – Present Sun-Moon, LLC, Coaching & Consulting:
Matrix based coaching, integrating somatic and transpersonal awareness and practices for individuals, business partners, teams, couples and small groups.
1992 – 2004 Psychotherapist, Coach and Trainer in private practice.
Boulder, CO. Practice included individuals, couples and groups. Conducted women’s empowerment workshops in cities throughout the U.S.
1983 – 1995 Hakomi Institute (Body-Mind Psychotherapy)
Trainer and Certified Therapist.
Conducted workshops and trainings in the Hakomi Method of Psychotherapy in Seattle, WA, San Francisco, CA, Atlanta, GA, Chicago, IL and Germany.
1982 – 1992 Wellspring, Partners in Health – Holistic Medical Clinic, Boulder, CO
Owner, Psychotherapist and Executive Committee
1980 – 1983 Private Practice in Psychotherapy
Columbia, MO
1977 – 1990 Frontier Associates, Training & Consulting
Co-founder, Director, Trainer and Consultant
Offering consultation and training for personal, professional and organizational development
1976 – 1982 Counselor, Director of Outreach Services and Programming, Director of Groups Programming, University of Missouri-Columbia
Managed individual caseload; supervised interns; designed and conducted process consultation, training, and implementation of programs for university departments and professional schools; conducted training programs for the city, county and state governments.
Related Professional Experience and Organizational Clients
Coach Institute – Saint Petersburg, Russia – 2011 – Present
Training, Consulting and Coaching - Integrating Matrix Communication with transpersonal and somatic approaches; and with leadership development, team building and strategic planning
American Academy of Communication in Healthcare (AACH) – Consultant, Trainer & Facilitator, 1999 – Present
Ongoing consultation, design, training and facilitation at the annual week-longWinter Course for Faculty Development
Lehigh Valley Health Network – MATRIX Center for Inter-professional Collaboration – 2013 - Present
Training, Consultation and Coaching for Executive Team and Practice Coaches, Practice Managers and Clinical Coordiantors
Western Washington University – Western Leadership Advantage LEADS program – Featured Campus Speaker& Trainer – January, 2011
The Human Side of Sustainability: Using Matrix Leadership in Classrooms, Organizations and Communities
Matrix Emerging: Bi-Annual Conference – 2008 & 2010
Keynote Speaker, Conference Planner, Facilitator
2010 – Matrix Emerging: Matrix Group Dialogue Process
Fully-Embodied Woman: Remembering Women's Lives and Bodies as Sacred, 1985 – Present
Founder, Ceremonialist and Guide
Women’s residential retreat offered annually in cities around the country.
Hakomi Conference: Conference Presenter
2006 - Toward the One: Developing a Relational Matrix as the Foundation for Groups, Organizations & Communities
2008 - Matrix as Heart-Brain: Distributing Amplified Fields and Roles; Realizing Radical Inter-Connection in Groups
Hakomi Conference Presenter, 1986 – 1995
Topics included Group Psychotherapy, Ethics & Psychotherapy, Hakomi in Groups, and Utilizing the Therapist-Client Relationship as the Therapeutic Vehicle.
Elizabeth Cogburn - Taos, NM, 1980 – 1992
Studied and participated in Sun Dances, Long-Dances, and earth-based wilderness rites of passage. Included study of Native American (Lakota & Hopi) spirituality, Shamanism, Ritual, Ceremonial Dance, Hermetic astrology and Kabala.
David LaChapelle - Vision Quests, 1980 – 1983
Participated in Vision Quests and Soul Quests in southern Colorado.
Center for Transformational Psychology - Faculty and Consultant, St. Louis, MO, 1983 – 1985
Led Summer Solstice Ritual for Sea Change (week-long residential retreat); Movement Arts Workshops, Workshops in the Body-Mind Connection
Keynote Speaker & Presenter: Holistic Health Association of Mid-America Symposium, 1982.
President, Board of Directors & Co-Organizer: Holistic Information Network, Columbia, MO. 1980 -1982
Graduate Teaching Assistant, 1975 – 1977
Seminar on Teaching Psychology for select upper level undergraduates, general experimental psychology, child psychology and theories of personality.
Coach Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia; Kideria, St. Petersburg, Russia; MATRIX Center for Inter-professional Collaboration, Lehigh Valley Health Network, Lehigh, Pennsylvania; Mayo Clinic, Patient-Experience Teams; University of CA-San Francisco Medical School; AACH; Collaborative Groups; Grass Lakes Sanctuary; Burnham Law Firm; Vail Resorts; CATechnologies
Education and Training
M.S. in Teaching & Counseling Psychology, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1976
Concurrently fulfilled requirements for M.S. in Counseling Psychology in addition to Teaching
B.A. in American Studies, University of Maryland-College Park, 1972
Additionally completed pre-medical course work, 1972-1974
University of Texas, Austin Texas, 1968 - 1970
Certified Hakomi Therapist & Trainer - Hakomi Institute, Boulder, CO, 1983
Completed 16 week training with Ron Kurtz and staff in Body-Centered Psychotherapy. Certification, 1983; Certified Trainer, 1984 – 1995.
National Training Laboratories (NTL) for the Behavioral Sciences
Graduate Student Professional Development Program, 1976- 1978
Training in personal, group and organizational development; and in design and evaluation of training programs
Gestalt Institute of Minneapolis, 1977
Gestalt Therapy Training