International Advisory Council
We are developing an international advisory council, which presently has members in Russia, Canada, India, and the United States. The aim is ten to twelve members. The advisers bring an international and multicultural perspective to The Flow Project, broadening the scope of the work and strengthening the cultural accountability.
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Anele Heiges: President, International Public Policy Institute, UN NGO, New York http://www.ippiun.org/
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Liubava Moreva: Honorary Professor, UNESCO Chair for Comparative Studies of Spiritual Traditions, Their Specific Cultures, and Inter-religious Dialogue. Former-director, St. Petersburg Branch of the Russian Institute for Cultural Research and chief editor of the International Readings on Theory, History and Philosophy of Culture, Philosophical and Cultural Research Centre “Eidos”, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Anil Sachdev, founder and CEO, School of Inspired Leadership, New Delhi, India. Anil created the School of Inspired Leadership to provide management education with focus on ethics, community partnerships, sustainability, and other leadership aspects that the world of today badly needs. http://www.soilindia.net/
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Erich Schellhammer: Program Head of the B.A. in Justice Studies, School of Peace and Conflict Management, Royal Roads University, Victoria BC, Canada. http://www.royalroads.ca/
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Board of Directors
The Board of Directors safeguards the integrity of The Flow Project, establishes the mission and sets policy, ensures the programs are aligned with the mission, provides fiscal oversight, helps with fund raising, and often has an active role in organizational and program development. The aim is seven members in the Bellingham region.
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.Susan Bradbury, President: Acupuncturist; Founder/CEO, Sound Essence Project, working toward gender equality, sustainable peace, and compassion, and shifting the dynamics of extreme poverty and hunger, with projects in Mongolia and the Middle East. Produces international children’s art shows, including What Does Peace Look Like?; What Does Compassion Look Like?; and What Does the Earth Have to Teach Us about Love? United Nations Representative on Climate Change for the Women’s Federation for World Peace.
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Kathy Cody, Secretary: Co-founder and former officer, Whatcom Film Association; former board member, The Arts Network. Former reporter and producer for public radio in Alaska and Seattle. Experience in the arts includes acting, songwriting, teaching, acting, and serving as the artistic director of the Fine Arts Camp in Sitka.
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. Hamilton Hayes, Treasurer: Co-founder and Director of Collective Intelligence Solutions, offering teaching and consulting in co-creative thinking and leadership skills to community, business, and government teams. Long-time consultant in business performance measurement and improvement. Sponsor and sustainer, Bellingham Community School in Phnom Dek, Cambodia, as part of the American Assistance for Cambodia Rural School Project. Board Chair, Creative Child Center. Community servant-volunteer in the areas of government leadership, children’s education, and environmental protection.
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.Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor: Rebecca performs as a storyteller and specializes in stories based on Filipino folktales and Filipino-American history, which encourage others to celebrate their uniqueness while fostering the importance of community. She performs regularly at events. Using concepts from Filipino indigenous psychology, she facilitates writing and leadership workshops. MA, English, Western Washington University. Her poetry and prose has been published in several literary journals. Pause Mid-Flight Chapbook/CD Set, published by Surrounding Sky Studio (2010). Blog: http://wordbinder.blogspot.com/
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Richard Scholtz, member at large: Works primarily in music and education, as well as in computer consulting, project administration, and financial management. Richard co-directed a research project, Health Neighborhood Mapping, funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He has released multiple CDs of his own music: instrumental duets, traditional American songs, and improvised music to accompany the telling of traditional stories. A graduate of Antioch College in Yellow Spring, OH, Richard was one of the founders of Antioch College West.
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Executive Director
The Executive Director coordinates all aspects of The Flow Project, along with other team members.
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.Skye Burn: Internationally published author in cultural research; award-winning poet; illustrator, fine woodworker. Associate member of the UNESCO Chair for Comparative Studies of Spiritual Traditions, Their Specific Cultures, and Inter-religious Dialogue, housed at the Russian Institute for Cultural Research in St. Petersburg; Community Board Member of the Center for Intercultural Dialogue, University of Oregon, which houses the UNESCO Chair for Transcultural Studies, Inter-religious Dialogue and Peace; Board member, Compassionate Action Network; Editor of English translations, International Journal for Cultural Research. BA, Psychology of the Creative Process, MA, Leadership in Social Artistry.
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.Inquiry Director
The Inquiry Director is the Process Team leader and is responsible for designing, developing, and overseeing the artist inquiry in all locations; collecting and processing the data from the inquiry, and preparing the reports.
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Doug Banner: Professional storyteller, woodworker, musician, retired school administrator and educator, continues to teach at Western Washington University in Human Resources and Ethics; scientific research background; community activist, including with Bellingham Compassion Movement, The Indigenous Studies and Honor Day Foundation, Bellingham Storytellers Guild, and NuWa International Peace Delegation. Assoc., Engineering; BS, Biology; MA, Education: Natural Science/Science Education.
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Process Team
The process team meets weekly in Bellingham Washington USA. Everyone who wishes to contribute is welcome. The composition of the group changes according to what specific tasks are on the agenda. The Process Team develops strategy, coordinates the artist inquiry, and processes the transcripts from the artist inquiries.
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Leadership Team
The leadership educators contribute to The Flow Project by: a) refining the questions to ask artists; b) considering the results of the artist inquiry and giving feedback to inform the inquiry; c) translating the principles and practices of art into principles and practices of leadership; and d) where appropriate, sharing the work through their teaching, writing, and leadership practices.
JoAnn Barbour: Professor of Administration and Leadership, Texas Woman’s University. Ph.D., Administration and Policy Analysis and A.M. in Anthropology, Stanford University, as well as degrees in history and special education. Past Chief Editor, Academic Exchange Quarterly and Feature Editor and creator of the Leadership issues. Past chair, Leadership Education Membership Interest Group, International Leadership Association. Co-edited three volumes of ILA’s Building Leadership Bridges. Research interests include a multidisciplinary approach to studying and developing leaders. http://www.twu.edu/teacher-education/barbour.asp
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Gloria Burgess: Instructor, Organization Systems Renewal Graduate Program, Seattle University. Executive coach and consultant, engaging individuals and organizations in finding the vital core of their creative selves, weaving personal legacy with threads of authenticity, creativity, soulful living, and cultural inclusivity. PhD, Performance Studies, MBA, Organizational Behavior and Information Systems, MA, Applied Behavioral Science, MA, Speech Communication and Theater. Author, Dare to Wear Your Soul on the Outside: Live Your Legacy Now (2008, Jossey-Bass) http://www.gloriaburgess.com/
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Joanne DeMark: Leadership Development Specialist, Western Washington University Leadership Advantage Program. Before WWU, 16-year tenure as co-founder and co-administrator of a leadership development and prejudice reduction non-profit, a decade as a human resource development executive in a healthcare software and services firm, and 15 years as assistant management professor, adjunct, Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health, Woodruff Health Sciences Center. Ph.D., APA-approved program in Counseling Psychology, University of Florida. http://www.wwu.edu/
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Mary Dumas: Coordinator, Leadership Whatcom, Whatcom Coalition for Healthy Communities; Founder, Dumas & Associates.
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Colin Funk: Director, Corporate Funk; Facilitator, Pacific Centre for Leadership; Artistic Director, Precipice Theatre, Banff, Canada; leader in the creation of unique leadership development initiatives that bring together the arts, ecology, and business through the medium of theatre; firm believer in the power of the arts as a transformative means for increasing our capacity as teams, organizational and community leaders. http://www.pcfl.com/our_team.htm
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Michael Jones: Pianist, composer; Senior Research Fellow, The James McGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, University of Maryland; Leadership Fellow and Associate Faculty, The Center for Professional Excellence, University of Texas, San Antonio; Charter-Consulting Member with The Society for Organizational Learning (SOL) at MIT; founding artist of Narada Records. CD’s include Pianoscapes, After the Rain, Echoes of Childhood and Almost Home. Books: Creating an Imaginative Life and Artful Leadership: Awakening the Commons of Imagination. http://www.pianoscapes.com/
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Dan Leahy: Faculty, Saybrook University, LIOS Graduate College of Leadership Studies. Dan consistently places his expertise in leadership theory and action at the service of community. BA, Communication Arts and Sociology; MA, Applied Behavioral Science. Training in the Art & Practice of Leadership Development, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government; Peter Bloch’s Regional School for Managing; and Pacific Integral’s two-year Generating Transformational Change program. Board member, Center for Ethical Leadership Board; Co-Vice Chair, Curriculum and Programs, Leadership Eastside. Owner, Waypoint Leadership Consulting. http://www.saybrook.edu/lios/academicprograms/faculty
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Sharon Daloz Parks: Associate director and a member of the faculty of the Whidbey Institute. She has held faculty and senior research positions at Harvard Divinity School, Harvard Business School, the Kennedy School of Government, and Weston School of Theology. Serves as faculty for the Executive Leadership Program, Seattle University. She teaches the Envisioning Leadership course for the Pastoral Leadership Program. Her most recent book is Leadership Can be Taught. Other titles include Big Questions, Worthy Dreams: Mentoring Young Adults in Their Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Faith (Jossey-Bass, 2000); co-author of Common Fire: Leading Lives of Commitment in a Complex World (Beacon Press, 1996).
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Karma Ruder: Director of Community Collaboration, Center for Ethical Leadership, Seattle. Specialist in cultivating community ownership and creating, launching, and supporting community change initiatives. With experience in both the public and nonprofit sectors, Ms. Ruder is a community change agent and public servant known for integrity and creative problem-solving. Student of systems change and is adept at assisting groups to build authentic community processes. Undergraduate degrees in Philosophy and Human Relations and a Master’s degree in Public Administration, all from the University of Kansas. http://www.ethicalleadership.org/about/staff/?searchterm=karma%20ruder
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Anh Vo: Vietnamese Refugee, immigrated to America when she was seven. Fascinated by her own experiences of trying to understand and be understood by people of other cultures, Anh quested to learn more about intercultural communication and how people work together. MA, Applied Behavioral Science, Leadership Institute of Seattle (LIOS). After years of working in the corporate field as an international turn-around manager with a Fortune 500 corporation, Anh now coaches executives and organizational teams on how to use their leadership skills to produce bottom line results with heart and compassion for the world and each other. http://biznik.com/members/anh-vo
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Artists
The purpose of the artist inquiry is to identify principles and practices common to the artistic experience across mediums and across cultures. We are engaging artists who work in different mediums and who represent diverse cultural backgrounds. The artists are selected through an application and interview process. Dozens of artists are contributing to the work. See Participating Artists for list of current participants.
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Students
Students at universities are doing independent study and research projects related to The Flow Project. Student projects are supervised by university faculty in consultation with the Flow Project Inquiry Director.
To inquire about doing a project related to The Flow Project at your university, please contact Doug Banner, the Flow Project Inquiry Director.
Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies/Western Washington University students contact Chris Brewer: adjunct professor in Psychology and Art; Director, Allied Arts of Whatcom County Arts Education Program.
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Volunteers
The Flow Project is a communal work to which many people are contributing time and energy.
For a more complete list of contributors, please see Gratitude and Acknowledgements.
Please contact info@theflowproject.org for more information.
© 2011 The Flow Project