Lynnaea Lumbard (President)
Lynnaea Lumbard, Ph.D., is a transformational psychologist, an ordained Interfaith Minister, a Wilderness Guide, and an author. For over thirty-five years, she has been a seminar leader in the field of depth psychology and conscious evolution. In 1986, she co-founded Temenos Associates in San Francisco, offering a wide range of psycho-spiritual workshops in the Bay Area, New England, New York and Washington, D.C. In 1995, she co-founded Naos Foundation with her husband, Rick Paine, guiding wilderness quests and co-creating a four-year Spiritual Development Training based on the Native American Medicine Wheel. Her current passions are community weaving, social change philanthropy and evolutionary spirituality. She serves on the board of OPUS Archives and Research Center on the campuses of Pacifica Graduate Institute.
Rick Paine (Chairman of the Board)
Rick Paine, M.Div, Ed.D, is a humanistic psychologist and an ordained United Methodist Minister. In the early 1970’s he created New Communities Project, a resource base for intentional communities in the Boston area. From 1977 to 1983, he served as the minister for First Parish Church, Unitarian, Ashby, MA while simultaneously co-creating Spring Hill, the source community for Opening the Heart Workshops. As a psychotherapist he has taught at Esalen Institute, Hollyhock, Omega, New York Open Center. During his ministry at All Seasons Chalice Church in Boulder, CO., he co-founded Naos Foundation in 1995, a four-year Spiritual Development Training offering Wilderness Quests and quarterly workshops throughout the United States. Rick has served the board of the Threshold Foundation and is currently on the boards of both the Boulder Institute and the Whidbey Institute at Chinook.
Bob Stilger (Vice President)
Bob Stilger, Ph.D. is a conversation host, teacher, speaker, consultant, facilitator and coach who has spent 35 years building strong and vibrant organizations and communities. For 25 years he was the Executive Director of Northwest Regional Facilitators, an innovative community development corporation. From 2005 – 2009 he served as the Co-President of The Berkana Institute, a nonprofit institute that works with communities and pioneering leaders in learning centres throughout the world–Zimbabwe, South Africa, Senegal, Pakistan, India, Greece, Brazil, Mexico, Canada and the U.S. His current work is to support those who are stepping forward to provide critical leadership in these times. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Leadership Studies Program at Gonzaga University and has served as Adjunct Faculty to Bainbridge Graduate Institute. www.resilientcommunities.org is his personal base on the internet and he has recently launched a new website: www.resilientjapan.org as host for this work and the commentary he is writing from there. You can read his most recent Notes from Japan here.
Christina Baldwin
Christina Baldwin, M.S., author of six books including Life’s Companion, Calling the Circle, Storycatcher and the newly published The Circle Way, is an educator, speaker, and conference presenter. Known for her groundbreaking work in the fields of personal writing, group process and spirituality, she has a lifelong fascination with story. At age 12 she began writing a diary, and at age 30 became a founder of the journal writing movement. Since the 1970s, she has taught tens of thousands of people about the importance and power of story and is an internationally known wisdom carrier in the field of Narrative Studies. In 1994 she co-founded, with Ann Linnea, the PeerSpirit Circle Process, which focuses on story, insight, decision, and action. She offers a variety of conference keynotes, consulting seminars, small retreats and wilderness programs where she guides groups in releasing their stories in writing, speaking, and community building.
Jeff Vander Clute
Jeff Vander Clute, B.A. is a serial entrepreneur, a software engineer, and an architect of online social environments. In 1995 he created the key software behind Tripod, a self-publishing platform that was also one of the first online social networks. Tripod gave a voice to over 33 million users worldwide and created more than 500 million dollars in shareholder value. In 1999, Jeff helped start Eziba, a fair-trade e-commerce company working with artisans around the world and especially in conflict zones. In 2001, he co-founded PRO Radiology, a medical-imaging company that helped create a global teleradiology network enabling faster evaluation of emergency cases. In 2006, Jeff co-founded Avanoo, a social-media company where he developed novel applications including the Wisdom of Communities; the Semantic Computing Framework; and Thrive, a platform for deeper online communities and conversations that connect the global heart. Jeff is a consultant to the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute and sits on the boards of several new-media companies.