Mar 2011: Connections - Saybrook University

l i o s e-n e w s #2• m a r c h/a p r i l 2011 

Connections 

LIOS Graduate College of Saybrook University 

NEWS! 

$50K Phase I 

Fundraising Goal 

Reached 

James Gordon, MD 

to Speak at June 

Graduation 

Fall 2011 

scholarship 

June Deadline 

Taste of LIOS 

apr 21 • may 12 • Jun 9 

next legacy series 

breakfast 

june 9 

Robert "Bob" Crosby 

Special Features: 

Two Alumni 

Perspectives 

Jeff McAuliffe (LIOS) 

Denita M. Benyshek (PHS) 

Graduation 

Photos 

Saybrook 

Presidential 

Inauguration 

LIOS Author 

Adam Kahane (‘98) 

Power and Love 

“The Learning Dock” 

Priest Lake, Idaho

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LIOS GRADUATE COLLEGE OF SAYBROOK UNIVERSITY ® 

Contents 

Photo by Dan Leahy 

Connections 

Issue #2 • March/april 2011 

“The Learning Dock” 

Priest Lake, Idaho, was the idyllic site in the 1980s of 

Module 1 where LIOS students stayed in cabins for 

8- and 9-day stretches and fully immersed themselves 

in the LIOS learning experience. Students named the 

nearby lake dock “Learning Dock” due to the many 

illuminating conversations and epiphanies that took 

place there at all hours of the day and night. 

Connections Staff 

Editor: Sharon Faiola Petersen 

Managing Editor: Margie Bloch, MA 

Technical Assistant: Melody Albertson 

Graphic Design: Margie Bloch, MA 

Submission Guidelines 

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submissions to Connections@lios.saybrook. 

edu. Ad guidelines are published on the last 

page of this issue. If you have questions about 

submissions to any LIOS publication (Connections 

and Linkage), please call 425.968.3400 for more 

information. 

LIOS Graduate College of Saybrook University is a 501(c)3, 

nonprofit, equal opportunity institution. It does not 

discriminate in matters of employment or participation in 

programs, services or benefits on the basis of gender, race, 

color, religion, national origin, age or sexual orientation, 

disability or veteran status. Programs, services and facilities are 

accessible to disabled individuals. Please contact us in advance 

if you require special accommodation due to disability. 

LIOS GRADUATE COLLEGE OF SAYBROOK UNIVERSITY 

4010 Lake Washington Blvd • Suite 300 • Kirkland, WA 98033 

Phone: 425.968.3400 • Fax: 425.968.3406 

Toll Free:1.800.789.5467 • www.saybrook.edu/lios 

College News 

Message From the President .......................... 3 

Inauguration of Dr. Mark Schulman .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 

James Gordon, MD, to Speak at June Graduation .. . . . . . 4 

New Linkage Issue Now Online......................... 4 

LIOS Scholarship for Multicultural Leaders .. . . . . . . . . . . . 5 

Faculty Job Opening................................... 5 

Alumni Invitation to Taste of LIOS.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 

Taste of LIOS Open House Series.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 

Feature articles 

Two Perspectives: “Eye-to-Eye” ......................... 8 

LIOS Graduation .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 

New Staff Member: Kelsey Stoos ......................12 

Alumni in action 

Creative Voices .......................................13 

LIOS Alumna Speaks at WWIN Event .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 

Alumni Council Convenes .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 

John Oleson Update..................................14 

Chris Crosby: Underfunctioning: Its Role in the 

Sponsor Agent Target Advocate Theory .............15 

Katie Talbott: What I Learned at LIOS .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 

Bookshelf AND PUBLICATIONS 

Intimacy Paradox, by Donald Williamson .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 

Book-Related Websites .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 

Power and Love, by Adam Kahane (LIOS ’98) .. . . . . . . . . . 19 

Workshops and Events 

LIOS Calendar .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 

Skill Group Intensive: Catherine Johnson .............20 

InterAct: Skills for Adaptive Leadership ...............21 

Results-Focused Communication .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 

Life-Long Sexual Health Elective .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 

Emotional Intelligence and Teams .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 

LIOS Legacy Series .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 

Birds & Bees & Your Kids Workshop.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 

Robert Crosby: ToughStuff .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 

Community Board 

Announcements .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 

Job Opportunities.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 

Submission Guidelines for Advertising ................26

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MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT 

A Reason to Celebrate: 

We Have Reached Our $50,000 Phase I Fundraising Goal! 

With the incoming Spring 2011 cohort, our first four recipients of the Scholarship for Multicultural Leaders have 

taken their places in the LIOS program. Diligent work over the last nine months has transformed our vision into 

reality and brought these individuals to our door. In particular, the last few months have been extraordinary, 

providing us with numerous reasons to celebrate the program’s successful launch. Gifts donated by 

the extended LIOS community in support of Phase I of our three-phase campaign have hit the 

$50,000 mark, simultaneously achieving the goal of 100% participation by LIOS faculty, administration/staff and the 

LIOS Advisory Board. The money raised will be used to fund the LIOS Scholarship for Multicultural Leaders. I am 

exceedingly grateful to all the members of the LIOS community who made this possible. 

Having reached our Phase I targeted goal of $50,000, we are now launching Phase II of our campaign in 

which we will seek additional contributions from “active LIOS groups” (by location, workplace, ongoing 

family/I groups, etc.). The goal of Phase II is the raising of an additional $50,000. 

Phase III will focus on the sustainability of the program. With the scholarship program in motion, 

additional candidates enrolled and continued donations coming in, LIOS will be in a strong position 

to approach corporations and foundations for additional financial support and promotion of LIOS 

Graduate College. 

Introducing 

Fundraising Chair 

of the Advisory Board: 

Mitch Teufel, MA, LMHC 

Mitch Teufel received his master’s 

degree from LIOS in 1993. He owns 

and operates a successful private 

therapy practice in Bellevue, WA. He 

works with clients who are struggling 

with one or more addictions, and his 

specialty is helping his clients heal 

from lifelong struggles of trauma 

and shame. Along with his therapy 

practice, Teufel is also a business 

and leadership coach who works 

with entrepreneurs and business 

owners in areas of strategic thinking, 

product branding and marketing. 

He is a member of the Washington 

Professional Counselors Association. 

The building and implementation of this scholarship 

have already brought a new awareness and learning 

into the system we call LIOS. While the LIOS Graduate 

Program has always strived to create a diverse community 

of learners, the scholarship is a commitment to spearhead 

leadership development that will serve the larger global 

community. We are intent on serving, educating and developing 

strong community leaders who otherwise might not have the 

means necessary for earning a master’s degree in Organizational 

Systems or Psychology. In doing so, LIOS has the opportunity to build a 

more vibrant community of learners. And as our graduates move in the world, 

they bring the guiding principles of LIOS into communities that are often underserved by 

higher education. 

I am also pleased to announce that Mitch Teufel, a 1993 LIOS graduate, has accepted LIOS’ 

invitation to serve as Fundraising Chair of the Advisory Board. [Ed. Note: Read more about Teufel 

in his short bio in the sidebar.] All of us at LIOS are grateful for the many ways the community 

supports our ongoing work. If you would like to contribute to the LIOS fundraising campaign 

through your time or money—or if you know of potential donors for us to approach—please 

contact: cshulman@lios.saybrook.edu. 

Working together, we will have many more reasons to celebrate in the days and years ahead. 

Sheldon “Shelley” Drogin, EdD 

President, LIOS Graduate College

Timothy Weber, PhD 

Dan Leahy, MA 

Ronald Short, PhD 

Kathia Castro Laszlo, PhD 

Alan G. Vaughan, PhD, JD 

Issue #37 • Winter 2011 

LIOS GRADUATE COLLEGE OF SAYBROOK UNIVERSITY 

A LIOS Graduate College Publication of Leadership, Systems Theory and Creative Thought 

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Mark Schulman 

Judy Heinrich 

Timothy Weber 

Alda Yu 

LIOS Participates in 

Saybrook University 

Presidential Inauguration 

Ceremonies 

The inauguration of Mark Schulman, PhD, 

Saybrook University’s new president, took 

place on January 14, 2011, in downtown San 

Francisco. In addition to Saybrook-affiliated 

guests were delegates from more than 

29 institutions of higher education from 

across the country. 

Representatives from each of the three 

Saybrook University colleges—College 

of Psychology and Humanistic Studies; 

Graduate College of Mind-Body 

Medicine; and LIOS Graduate College— 

played key roles in the ceremonies, 

which also celebrated Saybrook’s 40-year 

anniversary. 

LIOS participated in the Greetings to the President 

segment, with Dean Judy Heinrich, PhD, 

Executive Assistant to the President Alda Yu, 

and Director of Programs for Outward Bound 

Center for Peacebuilding/LIOS alumna 

(’06) Nettie Pardue all offering individual 

“greetings” from the perspectives of their 

unique positions in the LIOS community. 

World-Renowned 

Mind-Body 

Medicine Expert 

James S. Gordon, MD, 

Set to Deliver June 20 LIOS 

Commencement Address 

LIOS is delighted to announce that the dean of Saybrook’s Graduate 

College of Mind-Body Medicine, James S. Gordon, MD, will deliver 

the commencement address to LIOS graduates, June 20, 2011, in the 

Bastyr University Chapel. A Harvard educated psychiatrist, Dr. Gordon 

is the Founder and Director of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine 

and is internationally recognized for his pioneering work in using 

mind-body medicine to heal depression, anxiety and psychological 

trauma. He is also a Clinical Professor in the Departments of 

Psychiatry and Family Medicine at Georgetown Medical School, and 

he recently served as Chairman of the White House Commission on 

Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy. 

During his Seattle visit, Dr. Gordon will also present a special talk the 

evening of June 17 tentatively titled “Transform Your Health and the 

Health Care System With Mind-Body Medicine.” Then, on June 18, 

he will offer a full-day workshop: “Self Care is the Heart of all Health 

Care.” Specific times, venues and costs are currently being determined 

and will be shared as they become available. For the latest details, call 

425.968.3400. 

Nettie Pardue 

Photo by David Owen 

Following the formal inauguration 

ceremony, LIOS Professor of Psychology 

Timothy Weber, PhD, took part in 

the Saybrook Academic Colloquium on 

Humanistic Education in the 21st Century, 

a three-person panel of scholars 

representing each of Saybrook’s colleges. 

His well-received address, Keeping the 

“Human” in Humanistic Education: Practicing 

What We Teach, is printed in the 2011 

Winter/Spring issue of LIOS Linkage. 

For a full rundown of the inauguration 

events, and a brief history of Saybrook’s 40 

years of academic excellence, go to: http:// 

www.saybrook.edu/sites/default/files/ 

alumni/newsletters/201102.pdf. 

Linkage Winter/Spring 2011 

Issue Now Online! 

The recently birthed issue of Linkage 

approaches the theme of Redefining 

Leadership: The Emergent Self and Global 

Consciousness from multiple perspectives— 

scholarly, historical, self-reflective, Jungian, 

Applied Behavioral Science—and writing styles 

ranging from the academic to the poetic. 

Keeping the “Human” in 

Humanistic Education: 

Practicing What 

We Teach 

INKAGE 

r e d e f i n i n g l e a d e r s h i p 

The Emergent Self and Global Consciousness 

Like the new version of our recruitment viewbook, this publication has 

been uploaded in the Zmags format to the LIOS website. (Reading hint: If 

the online print appears too small, click “Toggle Full Screen “ in the upper 

left-hand corner of the Zmags page.) While the issue is only available online 

at the moment, a hardcopy version of the publication will be forthcoming 

and will be available upon request. We will announce its availability once it’s 

been printed and delivered to our offices. Link Now to Linkage 

Leadership 

at “The Wall” 

The Eye of “I” 

The Evolution 

of Leadership 

One World: 

Reflections on Concepts 

of the Emergent Self, 

Global Citizenship 

and Global Culture 

Photo by Dan Leahy

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First Recipients 

of LIOS Scholarship 

for Multicultural 

Leaders Join Spring 

2011 Program 

By Jennifer Herron 

LIOS Director ofAdmissions 

The first recipients of our Scholarship 

for Multicultural Leaders are now 

enjoying their LIOS education as 

first year students in the Spring 2011 class. All of us at LIOS offer our 

congratulations to these outstanding individuals, and we welcome 

them to LIOS Graduate College. 

As an alumna of LIOS, I am delighted to see our college take this 

step forward into actively creating a global and vibrant learning 

community. The Scholarship for Multicultural Leaders is funded out 

of the generous donations of LIOS students, alumni, faculty/staff and 

many others who support our mission and vision. By bringing more 

students into LIOS from diverse and often underserved communities, 

we are creating more engaging and more real conversations in service 

to healthy, sustainable change in our world. 

It is our hope and vision to support all our students as they begin their 

graduate school exploration of human systems. I hope you will join 

me in contributing to the ongoing growth of LIOS, our exceptional 

students and the Scholarship for Multicultural Leaders. 

Do you know of individuals who 

might be interested in attending 

LIOS with the help of the LIOS Scholarship 

for Multicultural Leaders? 

If so, please refer them to: 

admissions@lios.saybrook.edu. 

If you have feedback on our scholarship 

program or would like to get involved 

with the LIOS Scholarship Committee, 

please contact Jennifer Herron at 

jherron@lios.saybrook.edu. 

LIOS Faculty Job Opening 

Core Curriculum Opening for Faculty with Leadership 

and Organization Development Background 

Opening Date: March 1, 2011 

Closing Date: April 1, 2011 

The LIOS Graduate College of Saybrook University invites 

applications for a faculty position at LIOS. We are searching for 

a person with a background in leadershp and organizational 

development who would teach in the LIOS Core Curriculum. 

This position would begin September 2011. The appointment 

emphasizes a teacher-practitioner model and is compatible 

with maintaining a consulting practice. 

LIOS Graduate College (Leadership Institute of Seattle) offers 

two master’s degrees in residential programs in the Seattle 

area, an MA in Organizational Systems / Leadership and 

Organization Development, and an MA in Psychology/Systems 

Counseling. LIOS is recognized for its competency-based 

experiential education for mid-career professionals. The College 

has an enrollment of 135 adult students with a 15-1 studentteacher 

ratio. Faculty members have the opportunity to engage 

in a unique academic learning environment. 

Qualifications 

• PhD preferred, Master’s degree required 

• Minimum of 10 years post-graduate experience in 

organizational development and consulting 

• Breadth of consulting experience, including large 

systems change 

• Systemic orientation to practice 

• Experience with graduate-level teaching with experiential 

education and cohort learning 

• Demonstrated commitment to professional development 

• Able to teach collaboratively with a team 

• Demonstrates a high degree of emotional intelligence 

Application Procedure 

Interested applicants should address their cover letter, 

curriculum vitae, and a list of five references to: 

Judy Heinrich, PhD, Academic Dean 

c/o LIOS Graduate College of Saybrook University 

4010 Lake Washington Blvd. NE, Suite 300 

Kirkland, WA 98033 

Main Phone Number: 425.968.3400

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Do you know 

of anyone 

who is 

curious 

about 

LIOS? 

LIOS Alumni: 

Come Share Your Experiences – 

And Bring a Friend! 

By Jennifer Herron 

Director of Admissions 

Are you aware that the majority of our 

incoming students heard about LIOS 

from an alumnus? 

Prospective students tell me how much they 

enjoy hearing from alumni about the LIOS 

“learning experience” – the inside story on 

academic life and personal transformation. 

The sharing of your own LIOS experiences 

with those considering a LIOS education can 

have a profound impact on their decision. 

For this reason, I encourage you to join me 

and a dozen or so prospective students for 

one of our spring Taste of LIOS open houses. 

(See next page.) 

Held in our Kirkland classroom, Taste of LIOS 

includes: 

• A sample presentation by one of our faculty 

• An “experiential education” exercise 

• Plenty of time for questions and answers 

• Opportunities to engage with guests 

considering a decision that will change 

their life 

This informal, intimate gathering presents 

an ideal opportunity for you to bring a guest 

and offer them a “taste” of LIOS. (Speaking 

of which: Refreshments will be served. What 

would a LIOS event be without them?) 

If you can come out on one or more of the 

following evenings to meet our guests, your 

support would be greatly appreciated: 

March 24, April 21, May 12 and/or June 9. 

For more details, contact me at jherron@lios.saybrook.edu, or call 425-968-3400.

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Taste of LIOS Open House Series 

Join us for a “Taste of LIOS” open house—an informational evening session designed to give you a small taste of our experiential learning 

community and introduce you to our master’s degree programs in Organizational Systems/Leadership and Organization Development (LOD), 

and Psychology/Systems Counseling (SC). You’ve heard about LIOS’ unique graduate and professional training programs. Come to Taste of 

LIOS and discover this unique learning experience for yourself. RSVP: 425.968.3400; admissions@LIOS.saybrook.edu. 

Meet and talk with the LIOS Director of Admissions, faculty, staff, alumni and current students. 

Learn how our innovative educational model differs from the traditional classroom experience. 

Learn how LIOS graduates become sought-after counselors, coaches and consultants in a multitude of fields. 

April 21, 2011 • 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. 

Faculty Hosts: Mark Jones, MS, Fall Program LOD Faculty, and Carol Jakus, MSW, ACSW, Fall Program Psychology Faculty 

Mark Jones is a professional leader, manager, innovator and consultant with 25+ years of fulltime professional experience, 

including five years serving at senior executive levels in organizations and in nonprofit, elected and/or appointed positions. 

He has been a coach and consultant to multinational corporations and the U.S. Government. 

Carol Jakus is now a Fall Program faculty member with a Systems Counseling specialization after 10 

years as a LIOS Systems Consultant. She also has taught in the Health Psychology Department at Bastyr 

University. Her experience as a psychotherapist covers 30+ years. She is the founder of The Northwest 

Center for Mindful Living, which offers psychotherapy, clinical consultation, leadership support and 

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) classes and workshops. 

May 12, 2011 • 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. 

Faculty Hosts: Timothy Weber, PhD, Psychology Department Chair and Fall Program Faculty, and Diane Schachter, MA, LMFT, Fall 

Program Core and Psychology Faculty 

Timothy Weber has been faculty and SC Lead at LIOS for 17+ years. He is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in private practice 

in Bellevue, WA, where he specializes in couples and family therapy, working with children, adolescents 

and adults. His primary writing and clinical focus is family of origin therapy. In addition to his clinical work, 

Dr. Weber trains and supervises mental health providers and offers leadership training and consultations 

to executives and businesses. 

Diane Schachter is the Fall Program Lead and has been a member of the LIOS faculty since 1995. She is a 

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and is a clinical member of the American Association of Marriage 

and Family Therapy. She has a private practice in Bellevue, WA. Her special interests include mindfulness, the wisdom of the 

body and Emotionally Focused Couples’ Therapy. 

June 9, 2011 • 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. 

Faculty Hosts: Angela Powell, MA, Fall Core Faculty, and Mark Jones, MS, LOD Faculty 

Angela Powell launched her executive coaching and organizational consulting work in 2002 after a 

substantive career working in nonprofit organizations, foundations and community organizing. Through Imago 

Organizational Design, she has worked with a broad range of leaders in the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors 

with activities ranging from executive coaching and board and staff development, to strategic planning and 

research design. She has particular interest and expertise in supporting leaders and organizations as they 

navigate the nuances of cultural difference and acculturation. 

Mark Jones See biographical write-up under April 21 event. 

LIOS Graduate College of Saybrook University: 4010 Lake Washington Blvd. NE, Suite 300, Kirkland, WA 98033

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Eye-to-Eye 

Two Perspectives on the LIOS Reception for 

Saybrook President Mark Schulman 

On September 22, 2010, LIOS Graduate College of Saybrook University held a Seattle-area reception for 

Saybrook University’s new president, Mark Schulman, PhD. Among the students, faculty alumni and other 

special guests attending the event were two very different alumni: one who had graduated from LIOS when 

it was still the Leadership Institute of Seattle, and one who had graduated from Saybrook when it was still 

Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center. The “marriage” between Saybook and LIOS was still new, 

so both had come to the reception with anticipation, curiosity and a small dose of apprehension. Like inlaws 

at the first blended family dinner, these alumni viewed the event from two very different perspectives 

yet came away with some surprisingly similar impressions. 

A Saybrook San 

Francisco Alumna 

Perspective 

Denita M. Benyshek, 

MFA, MA (PHS ’04) 

A LIOS 

Alumnus 

Perspective 

By Jeff McAuliffe, MA 

(LIOS ’87) 

When Saybrook administrators 

suddenly announced the addition 

of the Leadership Institute of 

Seattle (LIOS) to our school, 

students responded with shock, 

concern and confusion. Saybrook was already shaking from 

many deep plate shifts, changes in administration, challenges to 

accreditation, new colleges and restructuring into a university. 

Many were concerned about the erosion of humanistic ideals, the 

ground upon which Saybrook was constructed. 

Magnified by our ignorance about LIOS, the new partnership 

contributed to our sense of alarm and confusion: 

The Leadership Institute of Seattle? 

Oh, they’re very corporate. 

Yeah, I can see why they need us–they needed help 

with accreditation– but why do we need them? 

This is just another example of administrators rushing 

out to buy new toys while neglecting our solid programs 

and extraordinary faculty. 

And so on…. 

Time passed. LIOS remained unknown. The students of LIOS 

and Saybrook were isolated on different planets. Did they speak 

humanism or understand existential psychology? 

Why don’t they come to our residential conferences 

so we can meet them? 

Denita Benyshek, cont. on page 9 

Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 

was the first day of the LIOS Graduate 

College fifth residential conference in 

the Spring Program. As usual, it was 

a busy, engaging first day, especially 

for our second-year Leadership and Organization Development (LOD) 

students. They were delivering the training programs they had spent 

months developing. So, after a day of observing and evaluating four 

training sessions, I confess that I wasn’t quite sure I had the energy to join 

the reception for new Saybrook University President Mark Schulman after 

dinner. But the University’s alumni affairs director, George Aiken, who had 

come up from San Francisco and graced our class with his presence and 

feedback, assured me this was not an event to miss. 

Looking back at our past university partners, I knew this relationship 

was different. When I attended the Leadership Institute of Seattle 

(LIOS) in the 1980s, we were affiliated with City University, having 

recently severed our relationship with Whitworth College. In the 

1990s, we split with City U. and connected with Bastyr University. 

Each one of these relationships was an affiliation in which LIOS 

maintained its unique identity, both structurally and culturally. With 

Saybrook, we now had a true partnership. We let go of our separate 

organizational independence and became the second college of 

Saybrook University, joining the original Saybrook Graduate College 

and Research Center, now the Graduate College of Psychology and 

Humanistic Studies (PHS). 

At LIOS, the deep fear has always been the potential loss of our “DNA”: 

our high-touch approach to experiential education, our core “skill 

Jeff McAuliffe, cont. on page 9

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Denita Benyshek, cont. from page 8 

Why must all the colleges have separate residencies? 

Where are the interdisciplinary relationships that 

beat in the heart of the humanistic movement since 

the Renaissance? 

In truth, we longed to know them. We longed to connect with 

LIOS. On September 22, 2010, my longing was satisfied. I went 

to the LIOS reception for the new president of Saybrook, Mark 

Schulman. Students, graduates, faculty, administrators, elders 

and progenitors of LIOS were present. Being incurably curious, 

I decided to foray into strange territory and sit with a table of 

LIOS graduates. 

They seemed alright. No one bit me. They didn’t look or act like 

aliens intent on taking over our school or abducting our alma 

mater. No one demanded, “Take me to your leader,” perhaps because 

Mark Schulman sat in front next to LIOS president Sheldon 

Drogin. Without a dais, the two presidents sat on the same level 

as everyone else. People sat around circular tables, the shape that 

promotes eye contact and dialogue. 

For my table mates, I became Saybrook’s representative, 

describing the students and faculty as the most extraordinary 

group of individuals I’ve ever encountered. I spoke of the 

outstanding mentoring provided by faculty with international 

reputations, the encouragement to engage in cutting-edge 

interdisciplinary research, and a place where I could marry my 

passions for art and psychology. The LIOS alumni asked if I lived in 

San Francisco, unaware of Saybrook’s distance-learning format, 

our population of international students, or our residential 

conferences. Then, I listened. 

The graduates of LIOS, with humility and strength, spoke from 

their core selves about authenticity and transparency. They 

described LIOS training as a transformative process of being “torn 

down”: a series of communal confrontations, “brutal in honesty” 

that stripped away whatever might interfere with genuine being 

and speaking from the “I.” Authentic relationship was more 

important than theory about psychotherapy. I realized that LIOS 

embodies the values of humanistic and existential psychology. 

Then, a man shared a poignant and powerful metaphor. LIOS was 

like a foster child, passed from home to home, from Whitman 

College to Bastyr and now to Saybrook. Without being mirrored 

in acceptance and inclusion, he felt LIOS lacked an internal sense 

of self-worth. Already feeling deep respect and appreciation for 

LIOS, I wanted to transform the myth. I spoke. 

Denita Benyshek, cont. on page 14 

Jeff McAuliffe, cont. from page 8 

group” technology (an evolution of the Training Group developed 

at NTL), our unique student assessment processes, and so forth. Our 

past relationships of affiliation had allowed this autonomy. Would a new 

relationship—the new partnership—threaten it? This is clearly new territory 

for LIOS! And I suspect it is no less of a new experience for the folks of 

the university in San Francisco. 

The event was a nice balance of presentations, primarily by Saybrook University 

President Mark Schulman and LIOS President Shelley Drogin, table 

discussion and large group discussion—a familiar LIOS design. Though the 

audience was primarily LIOS-oriented, there were people from Saybrook 

as well. Mark and Shelley not only spoke of collaboration and partnership, 

but they clearly modeled it. It was refreshing to see two leaders, relatively 

new to each other, publicly speaking with prepared words and with spontaneous, 

authentic dialogue. 

At my table I had the pleasure of meeting Helen Hemphill, Saybrook 

University Board Member and PhD graduate and a current member of the 

LIOS Advisory Board. I learned about Saybrook’s roots and methods and 

sensed the common mission we shared. I also heard both LIOS and Saybrook 

alumni sharing impassioned desires for a greater whole. During the 

drive home after the event, I found myself not only refreshed but inspired 

by the possibilities. 

It has been a few months since the reception. I just returned from teaching 

the first LIOS course at a PHS/Saybrook San Francisco residential conference, 

and I’m happy to say that I felt right at home. Sure, we’re both a 

group of people locked up in a hotel for stretches of time called higher 

education. Those of us from LIOS have much to learn from our colleagues 

in the other colleges about working with technology, distance teaching 

and reaching out to a broader portion of the world. And I sensed a hunger 

among the PHS students in my class for the experiential methods that we 

cherish at LIOS. We are clearly partnering with the right people. Best of all, 

we are both committed to creating a just, humane and sustainable world. 

LIOS, like Saybrook, was founded about 40 years ago. It has not necessarily 

been a continual wandering-through-the-desert sojourn during those 

40 years. However, like Moses, whose desert wanderings finally came to 

an end, I firmly believe we—LIOS—have finally found our home. Now, 

looking to the future, I see that the possibilities of our partnership are 

truly limitless. 

A 1987 graduate of LIOS, Jeff McAuliffe, MA, is a LIOS Leadership and Organization 

Development (LOD) faculty member and is the Spring Program 

Lead for both LOD and Systems Counseling students. He has spent the last 

25 years consulting with organizations on the integration of organization 

development, performance improvement, and leadership development 

to enhance organizational outcomes, leadership/management capability, 

and employee morale.

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CLASS OF 2011 

January 10, 2011 

MASTER OF ARTS 

DEGREES 

ORGANIZATIONAL 

SYSTEMS: 

LEADERSHIP AND 

ORGANIZATION 

DEVELOPMENT 

Carrie Marie Fetto 

Deborah Lynn Haley 

Alan Lundeen 

Diane M. Moore 

Jennifer L. Rudinsky 

Jamie Marie Scibelli 

Valerie Anne Vazquez 

Jennifer Lynn Youngblood 

PSYCHOLOGY: SYSTEMS 

COUNSELING 

Sheryl Kent Borton 

Jason John Foster 

Ivonne Garibay 

Frank J. Hesketh 

Akila A. Osakwe 

Alexandra Margaret Paproski 

January Graduation Ceremonies Highlighted by 

Camaraderie, Mutual Respect and Inclusiveness 

The January 10 graduation ceremonies for the LIOS Class of 2011 was designed with an emphasis 

on full inclusion—to the extent of involving a laptop computer and a communications satellite. 

Guests attending the intimate event were treated to music, poetry, stirring speeches and 

an ending candlelight ceremony, all of which demonstrated the deep camaraderie the Spring 

Program cohorts enjoyed and the mutual respect they shared with LIOS faculty and staff. 

Held at the Northlake Unitarian Church in Kirkland, the afternoon program featured participation 

by all master’s degree candidates—including the virtual participation of Deborah Lynn 

Haley who “attended” via Skype and a laptop computer carried throughout the ceremonies by 

Jason John Foster. 

Former faculty member Cheryl Cebula, MSW, ACSW, delivered the keynote address, “Yield to the 

Present.” She spoke of the importance of embracing the moment. Reinforcing this theme were 

the opening and closing remarks by Sheldon “Shelley” Drogin, EdD, president of LIOS Graduate 

College. He told the graduates it was unlikely they would remember any of the day’s speeches 

(including his own), but they would remember their classmates, faculty, friends and family who 

supported them on their journey to this moment in their lives. 

Commenting on that journey were two representatives of Organizational Systems/LOD and 

Psychology/SC, who had been chosen by their classmates to deliver the Graduate Student Addresses: 

Valerie Anne Vazquez (LOD), and Ivonne Garibay (SC). 

A special participant in the conferring of the master’s degrees was the newly inaugurated 

president of Saybrook University, Mark Schulman, PhD, who had travelled from Saybrook San 

Francisco to attend his first LIOS graduation ceremonies. 

The entire graduating Class of 2011 (including its “virtual” member) concluded the ceremonies 

with a candlelight ritual honoring the graduates and the culmination of their transformative 

LIOS educational experience. By lighting their individual candles from a central candle, the 

graduates underscored their unity as well as their individual journeys ahead. While singing “This 

Little Light of Mine,” they held their illumined candles out, symbolizing the learning, the energy 

and the insights they now would carry into the world.

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Kelsey Stoos 

Joins LIOS as 

Academic Program 

Coordinator 

At the end of January, Kelsey 

Stoos assumed her parttime 

duties in Academic 

Administration, where she 

assists Julia Sondej (Director 

of Academic Affairs) and Heidi 

Dahl (Academic Program 

Administrator). In her position, 

she will liaise with Saybrook 

San Francisco in areas such as 

registration, student accounts, 

and business affairs. She 

will also work hand-in-hand 

with Heidi in making Resident 

Conference arrangements and supporting faculty and students 

in providing handouts, tracking program progress, etc. 

Kelsey was raised in southeastern Minnesota and graduated 

from Minnesota State University Moorhead where she earned 

a BA in psychology. After her 2006 graduation, she worked 

at Fraser, Ltd., a human services nonprofit organization that 

supports children and adults on their life’s journey towards 

independence. While there, she served as Program Coordinator 

and Program Development Coordinator, working as an internal 

case manager for adults with intellectual disabilities, ensuring 

that residential program systems met accreditation standards, 

grant writing, legislative testifying, and guaranteeing quality 

care for the people supported by Fraser. 

Kelsey moved to the Seattle area in August of 2010 to attend the 

PsyD program at Northwest University in Kirkland. “Northwest 

University has a doctoral program with a multicultural focus,” 

she says. “Considering our country continues to develop 

multiculturally, I felt getting that kind of an education was 

important to my development as a psychologist.” 

With that focus in mind, Kelsey traveled this last January 

with NWU graduate students to Kolkata, India, where she 

worked with homeless children, children attending local 

village schools, and children attending a school for the blind. 

“We worked with Mercy Hospital Ministries and looked at its 

programs from a psychological perspective,” she says. “We 

evaluated what is going well, what needs improvement, and 

where they can go in the future.” 

Coming to 

LIOS was like entering 

a current of humanity, 

a current I had been 

part of all along 

but somewhere 

at the periphery, 

in the stream's slack waters 

and shallows. 

Starting school 

was a brisk dive into 

the central current. 

Kelsey learned about LIOS 

from NWU cohort Alda Yu, 

(LIOS Executive Assistant 

to the President), who 

spoke glowingly about 

the school. When Alda 

informed her of the job 

opening, she jumped 

at the opportunity. 

“Psychology and education 

are my two passions,” she 

says. “I was attracted to 

LIOS, because here I can 

integrate the two. I can 

promote psychology and 

education along with the 

unique LIOS approach to 

experiential education.” 

When Kelsey isn’t occupied with homework and working at LIOS as 

the Academic Program Coordinator, she enjoys spending time at 

the gym, singing in the Holy Family Catholic Church Pro Deo choir, 

supervising undergraduate researchers at Northwest University 

and spending time with friends. She has thoroughly enjoyed her 

first Pacific Northwest winter and looks forward to spending more 

time outdoors without negative temperatures or blizzards. 

– Katie Talbott, MA (LIOS '10) 

(See Co n n e c t i o n s, page 18)

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Creative Voices 

By Beth Jenson, ma 

Quills 

and 

Soft 

Bellies 

Editor’s Note: Beth 

Jenson, MA (LIOS 

’08, www.bethjenson. Beth Jenson 

com), is a Marriage 

and Family Therapist 

in Woodinville, WA, who works with teens 

and adults with Asperger's Syndrome. Her 

therapeutic approach includes emotion 

coaching and affect interpretation. Jenson 

submitted her poem with the following 

comment and “emoticon”: 

“I wrote this poem to describe to a 

delightfully explosive young man the 

relationship between raging and feeling 

vulnerable. By the way, I spent my two 

years at LIOS smoothing my own ‘quills’ 

and allowing others access to my soft, 

fluffy belly.” :-) 

Porcupine 

Belly 

My quills are up! 

Better watch out! 

I’m 

Swaggering 

Stomping 

Scaring 

and I’m 

Coming after you. 

Little do you know – 

(or do you?) 

Porcupines 

Really have 

A soft underbelly 

That is 

*Quite* 

Ticklish. 

Alumna to Speak at April 1 

Washington Women in Need 

Luncheon 

and Advisory Council. She is a past Director of Clinical 

Education and Youth Programs for the National Mental 

Health Association of Georgia. 

LIOS alumna Kristine Medea, MA, LPC, BCETS ( LIOS ’95 

BS; ’98 MA), will be the keynote speaker at the Washington 

Women In Need (WWIN) luncheon, Friday, April 1, 12 noon 

to 1 p.m., Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Metropolitan Ballroom (11:15 a.m. 

Registration; 11:30 a.m., Ballroom doors open). Her address, “Bearing 

Witness: My Life in Ten Short Chapters,” will focus on the resilience 

and power of people believing in one another. 

A recipient of a WWIN scholarship, Medea says, “I am so excited 

about the event. WWIN is an awesome organization, and the 

intersection between the scholarship I received and my experiences 

at LIOS has been life changing. I will be speaking about both.” 

Medea, whose ThrivingHeart Counseling & Consulting practice 

(http://thrivingheart.com) is located in downtown Atlanta, GA, was 

recently appointed to a seat on the Georgia Mental Health Planning 

Medea specializes in trauma resolution, attachment 

facilitation and healing, particularly for adults and children 

dealing with issues surrounding foster care and adoption. A popular 

speaker and consultant, she has offered commentary on mental 

health and child development for numerous organizations and media, 

including CNN and ABC World News Tonight. 

Washington Women In Need is a nonprofit organization dedicated to 

improving the lives of low-income women in the state of Washington 

through financial assistance for health care and education. Its April 1 

spring benefit luncheon is based on the theme, Creating Brighter Futures. 

LIOS is sponsoring a table at the WWIN event and encourages those 

from the LIOS community to attend. For more information or 

to reserve a place at the LIOS table, please contact Alda Yu: 

425.968.3402; ayu@lios.saybrook.edu.

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2011 Alumni 

Council Members: 

Jim Bonneau ( ’06) 

VP – Master Facilitator 

Bluepoint Leadership 

Development 

Ai Endo (’08) 

Holistic Psychotherapist 

Mark Ita (’91) 

Professional Development 

Director 

Bureau of Education & Research 

Neil McCarthy (’04) 

External Consultant 

Pamela Raphael (’09) 

Therapist 

Denise Tagas (’01) 

Head of Counseling 

United Indians of All Tribes 

Marilyn Venegas (’05) 

Senior Consultant 

Towers Watson 

Meeting minutes: 

Newly Established 

LIOS Alumni 

Council Commits 

to Creating 

Reciprocal Value 

The LIOS Alumni Council held 

its first meeting on Thursday, 

February 24, and focused on 

key initiatives and goals. 

Council members 

acknowledged that one 

of LIOS’ most valuable 

assets is the greater alumni 

community. The Alumni 

Council will help guide future 

decisions that impact college 

growth while strengthening 

alumni relations, and it will 

explore ways to encourage 

LIOS graduates to become 

active alumni. During this 

first meeting, emphasis was 

placed on identifying tangible 

benefits that could be offered 

to alumni. 

The Mission Statement was reviewed and approved: To provide 

strategic thinking and support in broadening the LIOS community. 

Through value-added events and activities, we hope to increase the 

commitment, understanding and reciprocal participation between 

LIOS Graduate College and the alumni which we serve. 

Key discussion items and future initiatives: 

• Alumni survey will be conducted in April 

• Goals and charter are being developed and will be shared with 

the full alumni community 

• Webinars are being explored as a convenient way for alumni to 

attend future Alumni Council meetings 

• Meaningful and sustainable ways will be sought and created 

that add reciprocal value for alumni and LIOS 

• Efforts will be made to expand LIOS’ reach to the primary 

geographical alumni markets, including Vancouver-Bellingham, 

Portland (Western Oregon), Olympia and Spokane 

• A variety of ways and tools will be developed to help grads run a 

business and build a practice 

• A possible mentor-mentee program will be considered 

• A working action plan will be developed with dates and action 

items identified 

Next meeting: April 14 

John Oleson 

Joins Consulting Firm 

LIOS thanks John Oleson, Director of 

Marketing and Alumni Relations, for his 

work with LIOS over the last year and 

wishes him well as he accepts a senior 

management position with a regional 

consulting firm. We appreciate the work he has done, including 

the Leadership Legacy Series and the Alumni Council. Please know 

that these efforts and other initiatives John was involved with are 

receiving our full attention. The transition is going smoothly and, to 

further ensure this, we have distributed his responsibilities among 

our staff for the time being. From a longer term perspective, we 

are taking this opportunity to revisit our organizational structure 

and will keep you informed of any changes. If you need anything, 

please contact Connie Shulman (cshulman@lios.saybrook.edu; 

425.968.3403) who will direct you to the proper person. We wish 

John much success in his new endeavor.. 

Denita Benyshek, cont. from page 9 

“No, LIOS is not Saybrook’s foster child. LIOS and Saybrook are 

engaged in a marriage of equal, yet different, partners.” Both schools 

are 40 years old, born of the visionary counterculture of the 1960s, 

with similar roots, common goals and a passionate dedication to 

social change. Like the LIOS graduate who spoke of moving from the 

Western focus on individualism to the “we” of communal societies– 

LIOS and Saybrook were moving into genuine partnership and the 

“we” of university community. 

From the perspective of Saybrook, I believe that LIOS can remind 

Saybrook who we are. Their authentic presence will reawaken and 

fertilize the humanistic roots of Saybrook. Their soulfulness will put 

us in touch with our soul. Saybrook needs LIOS as much as LIOS 

needs Saybrook. The marriage is already contributing greatly to the 

synergistic energy, potential and vision creating Saybrook University. 

Indeed, the friendship between the two presidents, Sheldon and 

Mark, is what brought Mark to Saybrook. 

As the evening ritual ended in meaningful celebration, I knew I 

wanted to continue developing a relationship with LIOS. I look 

forward to my next opportunity to engage with these genuinely 

extraordinary individuals. 

Denita Benyshek is a professional artist and instructor at the 

University of Phoenix in psychology, the arts, and the humanities. 

She graduated with an MA in psychology from Saybrook’s marriage 

and family therapy program in 2004. She recently earned a graduate 

certificate in Creative Studies, received the 2010 Saybrook Alumni 

Scholarship, and is currently a doctoral candidate at Saybrook. Her 

research is on the contemporary artist as shaman.

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By Chris Crosby, MA 

Under-Functioning: 

Its Role in the Sponsor Agent 

Target Advocate Theory 

Chris Crosby, MA 

(LIOS ’96, ’97), In 1992, Darryl Conner 

is a graduate of 

published his famous book 

both the Managing 

titled “Managing at the Speed of 

and Consulting 

(’96) and the 

Change,” which is about managing 

Systems Counseling in fast-moving organizations. The 

(’97) programs. book outlines his theory of change 

He has been an 

called Sponsor Agent Target Advocate 

organizational 

development 

(SATA). SATA highlights key roles 

professional since around daily tasks, projects or 

1993, including eight changes that are both universal to all 

years internal with 

organizations and critical for success. 

Alcoa CSI, one of 22 

business units within 

Alcoa. Chris currently The roles are: 

is the West Coast 

The Sponsor (initiating or sustaining), 

President of Crosby 

& Associates. His who legitimizes the change or work 

e-mail is c_p_crosby@ The Change Agent, who facilitates 

yahoo.com. 

the change or work 

The Advocate, who has an idea or wants things to be different 

The Target, who carries it out 

No matter what official role or function you play in an 

organization, you are also in at least one SATA role, which 

has specific behaviors needed for successful work, projects or 

change. The dilemma, of course, is that the majority of us are 

unaware of the SATA roles we are in and are thus unsure of 

how to leverage those roles for success. 

Two years later, in 1994, Robert P. Crosby published his 

book titled Solving the Cross-Work Puzzle, which took 

Conner’s work and combined it with Crosby’s theory of how 

authority works within organizations. [Ed. Note: Robert 

Crosby is LIOS’ founder and is the author’s father.] The 

clarity added here (and verified in a conversation between 

Conner and Crosby) was about the role of Sponsor— 

specifically, the critical distinction being that you can only 

“sponsor” your direct reports. 

Another critical component about sponsorship is the 

distinction between the sustaining and initiating Sponsors. The 

initiating Sponsor is a single person above all people who must 

do the task, project or major change, while the sustaining Sponsor 

is the direct supervisor of the Target. The clarity that Crosby 

created highlights the importance of building sponsorship at the 

sustaining Sponsor level. 

SATA, with Crosby’s adaptation, has influenced everything I 

[have done] as an organizational development consultant over my 

15-plus years of practice. Using SATA to chart out a problem or 

dilemma has proven to be an important analysis tool in building 

strategies for success. In SATA terms, I have lived my professional 

life in the role of a Change Agent with no authority over anyone 

with whom I am working. What I do have is lots of influence 

through technical, interpersonal and referent means. (“Referent”: 

is the word-of-mouth stories told about you.) 

As a Change Agent, I have always been heavily influenced by 

SATA and the concept of “over-functioning.” Essentially, overfunctioning 

is when you, without having authority, tell others 

that they have to do what you say. It is acting as if you are boss 

when you really aren’t. 

Over-functioning happens all the time and creates all sorts of 

problems in organizations. Its dangers have always been taught as 

a core part of SATA. 

During my years of internal and external consulting, I began to 

notice a pattern in organizations beyond what is traditionally 

taught in SATA. Over-functioning helps explain some aspects of 

how systems get stuck with unclear and confused authority; yet 

it misses other aspects. Many people allow things to slip or go 

unnoticed. These employees are acting under the real authority 

they are expected to take (whether clarified or not). 

Not stepping up and taking appropriate authority adds a critical 

piece as to why tasks don’t get done, projects slip and changes 

fail. I call this behavior “under-functioning,” as it amounts to 

letting things slide. 

Here are some examples of how under-functioning has impacted 

some fairly common work situations:

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• A Change Agent in the role of project manager cancelled a 

scheduled follow-up meeting (without consultation with the boss 

of those in the meeting) because “he didn’t want to bother people” 

despite the fact that the project was worth millions and the boss 

wanted it to happen. 

• A Sponsor didn’t want to have 

his longtime employee be the project 

manager for a multimilliondollar 

project, so, instead, he had 

three people co-lead the project. 

He did this in order to avoid 

“hurting feelings,” even though 

having three people co-leading is 

dysfunctional and increases the 

odds of battles over direction. 

• A Target/Advocate didn’t raise 

a problem with his supervisor because 

“he didn’t want to bother the 

boss” even though the issue was 

critical to getting production back 

up and running. 

I believe under-functioning 

happens more often in 

organizations than overfunctioning, 

and it results in work 

not getting done, projects slipping, deadlines being missed and 

millions of dollars being lost. Based on this belief, I now teach 

under-functioning as a standard part of SATA. Moreover, underfunctioning 

also helps explain behavior for all SATA roles. 

Here are some common ways under-functioning shows up for each role: 

Sponsors: Feather Ruffling Avoidance 

Whenever a tough conversation needs to happen but doesn’t—or 

clear authority is not put in place—because of fear of upsetting 

someone, and it results in compromises in completion of work, 

decisions or slipped timelines. 

Change Agents: Letting Timelines, Meetings and Tasks Slip 

Any time a task, timeline or meeting is allowed to slide without 

a conscious choice by the sustaining Sponsor who must make 

sure that work is balanced between the short- and long-term 

functioning of the business. 

Advocates/Targets/Change Agents: Holding Issues 

Whenever an employee is aware of a critical issue yet does not tell 

Family of Origin 

Theory and Practice 

Alumnus Chris Crosby reports that 

the “Family of Origin” portion of 

the LIOS curriculum, “particularly 

the work on breaking down the 

hierarchical boundaries that exist 

within the parent-child system 

and recreating an adult-adult 

relationship with your primary 

authority figures,” provided a 

strong foundation for his work in 

SATA and understanding the roles 

individuals play in organizations. 

their sponsor so that it remains unresolved, and it results in work 

not being completed or quality being compromised. 

Any SATA Role: Conflict Avoidance 

Any time more than one person or group has differences with each 

other that, if left unresolved, will likely 

mean work will not get completed on 

time and with quality. 

Of course, this is not an exact science. 

They key question here is, “Does the 

business potentially suffer because of 

this behavior?” And yes, there are other 

systemic, individual and interpersonal 

issues at play that help create the above 

dynamics. Humans often have a hard 

time with conflict, including listening 

and receiving difficult information, and 

there is a tendency to want to tread 

lightly on others’ emotions which is 

appropriate at times but detrimental at 

others. All these and more help increase 

under-functioning in businesses. 

Since it is clearly happening in most 

organizations, the question becomes 

“What can be done about it?” The 

answers to that question are many, 

and they range from total culture change to one-on-one 

coaching. Using SATA as a model is a good starting place to set 

clear expectations of all SATA roles through dialogue with the 

sustaining Sponsor(s) and all key players about what to do if the 

abovementioned behaviors arise. 

Under-functioning in organizations is as old as the hills, and 

unconscious under-functioning is responsible for high amounts 

of waste in organizations. My excitement comes from the 

identification of its existence in a way that adds clarity to how to 

manage it. 

My hope is that, by increasing awareness of under-functioning, 

organizations will be able to develop better strategies for reducing 

its impact. 

References 

Conner, D. R. (1992). Managing at the speed of change. New York, 

NY: Random House. 

Crosby, R. P. (1994). Solving the cross-work puzzle. Seattle, WA: 

Vivo Publishing.

17 

and it wasn’t talent that made me spend extra time on an important 

Photo Credit: Brian Green 

paper: it was my own desire. I realized that I was much more likely to 

accomplish something I wanted than something I was good at. As 

Shaun McNiff puts it, “Interest and commitment, rather than talent, 

have been the determining factors in almost everything I have done 

throughout my life. Talent seems less relevant” (McNiff, 1998, p. 55). 

What I learned at LIOS This realization came at least in part because I found that I did have 

(Besides how to be a counselor) talent as a counselor. But this talent did not open the smooth path to 

By Katie Talbott, MA, LMHCA the future that I had expected. Even with talent, I still hit roadblocks 

that at first seemed impassable. And what got me through those 

impasses was not being more skillful, but was being myself and 

When I started at LIOS in October of 2008, I wasn’t sure I wanted remembering what was important to me. 

to be a counselor, but I knew I wanted to be in the program. In 

July 2010, having just received my creamy new rag-paper diploma Don’t get me wrong: talent is lovely and should be discovered and 

in the mail, I was still not sure if I wanted to be a counselor, but I cultivated. People with talent can achieve great things in their area 

was thankful beyond words that I trusted my instincts and went of expertise. But not having it is not the death knell for a dream, and 

to school anyway. Like a 

our strongest dreams are 

liberal arts education, a 

those that are most deeply 

LIOS degree is so much 

attached to our hearts. LIOS 

more than the classes and 

helped me learn this by 

books behind it. LIOS did 

encouraging me to bring out 

more than prepare me for a 

my own unique longings and 

particular career; it helped 

use them as the center of my 

me to appreciate the 

life and work. 

fabulously complex human 

being that I was already. 

For example, as a result of 

going to LIOS, I took my 

I could list many useful 

half-realized desire to make 

things that my two years 

art and combined it with my 

at LIOS gave me: the 

interest in meditation and my 

experience of achieving 

love of learning with others 

a long-term goal; the 

to start Present Sense, a 

knowledge that I could 

community center dedicated 

persevere through anxiety 

to encouraging creativity and 

Artist Gail Baker teaching a class at Present Sense. 

and doubt; the habit of 

awareness as natural human 

thinking of people as integrally linked to their surroundings; the activities vital to our individual and collective well-being. Though there 

pleasure of being part of a community of thinkers and tracing 

have been many stumbling-blocks on this not-so-smooth path—and 

people’s ideas through their writing; and the courage to put my many times when I wished for more talent at managing a center—this 

own thoughts out in the world. And, I should add, it also prepared is a work of love that keeps growing despite the many obstacles. 

me to be a fine counselor. 

I am also finding that creating a space for community activity is 

One lesson, however, has stood out for me in the months since leading naturally into working as a counselor with individuals. It 

graduation: the idea that passion for something matters more seems, in fact, like the two go hand-in-hand: community activity 

than talent. 

requires individual reflection, and individual reflection is fully 

realized through community action. 

I came to LIOS looking—as I had my whole life—for that thing 

that I had natural talent for, something that I thought would come As a new graduate, I still don’t know exactly how I will use my 

easily and open a smooth path to the future. What I found was that education, but I am beginning to think this is less a lack of vision on 

it wasn’t talent that got me through the tough places with a client, 

it wasn’t talent that inspired me to stand up and speak my truth, 

Katie Talbott, cont. on page 25

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Sources • Resources • Services 

Recommended Reading 

former LIOS Professor 

Donald Williamson, PhD 

By Lorelette Knowles, MA, MSLIS 

LIOS Graduate College Librarian 

For the informed learner 

The Intimacy Paradox: Personal Authority in the Family System 

305 p., The Guilford Press, 2002, ISBN-13: 978-1572308152 

This exploration of the concept of “personal authority,” in life and in 

therapeutic practice, has been “required reading” for students of LIOS 

for many years. I highly recommend that you “Look Inside” this book on 

Amazon.com, and then consider adding it to your personal library. 

“Although most people physically leave home by their early 20s, 

emotional separation from one’s family is a more difficult process 

that can continue for a lifetime. Now available in paper for the 

first time, this acclaimed book addresses the struggle of adults to 

establish autonomy without sacrificing family connections. Donald 

S. Williamson presents personal authority therapy, an approach 

designed to simultaneously foster individual development and 

family-of-origin intimacy. Therapists are 

taken step by step through conducting 

individual, couple, and small group sessions 

that culminate in several sessions with 

each client and his or her parents. Writing 

with sensitivity and humor, the author 

demonstrates effective ways to help adult 

children construct new personal and 

Donald Williamson 

family narratives, resolve intergenerational 

intimidation, and enjoy healthier, more equal relationships with 

parents and significant others.” (From Amazon.com product 

discription.) 

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Author 

Adam Kahane 

(LIOS ‘98) 

Power and love: 

A theory and 

practice of social 

change 

A book review by Lorelette Knowles, MA, MSLIS 

Our most intractable group, community and societal challenges 

are highly complex because our world is so full–of people, 

cultures, ideas, pollution, etc. These problems are complex 

dynamically (solutions require systems thinking), socially 

(solutions require the active engagement of the participants), 

and generatively (solutions require new “next practice” 

solutions), and when people try to solve them, best-selling 

author, consultant and LIOS graduate Adam Kahane argues that 

they tend to respond in one of two ways. They either struggle 

to save themselves and to get what they want by dominating 

others regardless of costs (e.g., by waging war as an extreme 

case), or they ignore problems and try to avoid conflict. 

These apparently contradictory approaches reflect two separate, 

fundamental drives: power, which theologian and philosopher 

Paul Tillich defines as “the drive of everything living to realize 

itself, with increasing intensity and extensity,” and love, which 

Tillich calls “the drive towards the unity of the separated.” Both 

of these drives are inextricably part of being human, “delineate 

the space of social change,” according to Kahane (p. 9), and have 

a generative and a degenerative side: love “pulls” and makes 

power generative, and power “pushes” and makes love generative. 

As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., observed, “Power without love 

is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental 

and anemic.” Therefore, in order to achieve sustainable, systemic 

change, a person must realize that, in a “full world” of complex 

challenges, one must be able to understand the interrelatedness 

of, and choose to work creatively and fluidly with, both power 

and love. In this book, Kahane explores how, through over 20 

years of varied experiences in some 50 countries, he learned 

how to do this, first falling, then stumbling, then walking, then 

stepping forward. 

This brief, highly engaging and clearly written narrative has 

earned enthusiastic praise from many sources for its timeliness, 

wisdom and insights, all based on the author’s personal experience 

and learning. It should be of great value to consultants, 

teachers and students, leaders in the private, public and social 

sectors, change agents of all kinds, and anyone who is interested 

in solving problems and making a positive difference using 

power combined with love. 

Organizer, designer and facilitator Kahane is a partner in the 

Cambridge, Massachusetts, office of Reos Partners (www. 

reospartners.com), an international organization dedicated to 

taking innovative collective action in complex social systems. 

He is a member of the World Academy of Art and Science, the 

Commission on Globalisation, the Aspen Institute’s Business 

Leaders’ Dialogue, the Society for Organizational Learning, the 

Global Leadership Network, and the Global Business Network. 

He is also an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Science, Innovation 

and Society at the University of Oxford’s Said Business 

School, and, as a “country changer” working for social justice, 

he was one of the 16 exceptional people featured in Fast Company’s 

1999 “Who’s Fast” 

(http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/20/whosfast.html). 

Kahane is the author of the 2007 book, Solving Tough Problems: 

An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities (with 

a foreword by Peter Senge, 2nd edition, Berrett-Koehler, ISBN- 

10:1576754642, ISBN-13:978-1576754641; both are available in 

the LIOS Library). He holds a BSc in physics (first class honors) 

from McGill University in Montreal, an MA in energy and resource 

economics from the University of California at Berkeley, and an 

MA in applied behavioral science from LIOS. 

Adam Kahane can be reached at kahane@reospartners.com, and 

both of his books can be browsed using Amazon.com’s “Look 

Inside” function. 

Reference 

Kahane, A. (2010). Power and love: A theory and practice of social 

change. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler. Drawings 

by Jeff Barnum. Paperback: 172 pages, including notes, 

bibliography, and index. ISBN-10: 1605093041; ISBN-13: 

978-1605093048

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what’s new at lios 

APRIL 

MAY 

JUNE 

JULY 

AUGUST 

Open 

LIOS GRADUATE COLLEGE 

2011 CALENDAR 

Alumni Council apr. 14 

Advisory Board Meeting apr. 14 

Taste of lios apr. 21 

Lifelong Sexual Health may 6-8 

Taste of lios may 12 

InterAct may 18-20 

Alumni Council may 19 

Scholarship for Multicultural 

Leaders due date June 1 

Taste of Leadership June 9 

Legacy Leadership Breakfast June 9 

Advisory Board Meeting June 16 

James Gordon, MD, Talk June 17 

James Gordon, MD, Workshop June 18 

Graduation: Dr. James Gordon June 20 

Commencement Speaker 

Taste of lios July 14 

Skill Group Intensive July 22-24 

SEPTEMBER 

Taste of lios sept. 1 

Alumni Council sept. 8 

RFC Workshop sept. 21 

OCTOBER 

Legacy Leadership Breakfast Oct. 6 

NOVEMBER 

Taste of lios Nov. 10 

DECEMBER 

Alumni Council Dec. 8 

Taste of lios Dec. 15 

Event dates are subject to change. 

Catherine Johnson, MA 

Presents 

A Skill Group Intensive 

July 22-24 

Friday, July 22, 2011; 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. 

Saturday, July 23, 2011; 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. 

Sunday, July 24, 2011; 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. 

LOCATION: LIOS Graduate College, Kirkland 

FEE: $495 (Current LIOS students, $395) 

RSVP: malbertson@lios.saybrook.edu, 425.968.3400. 

Former LIOS faculty and Interim Chair of the Psychology 

Department at Bastyr University, Catherine Johnson will lead 

this intimate, extended workshop for currently enrolled LIOS 

students, alumni of LIOS academic programs and graduates 

of LIOS professional leadership training programs. 

________________________ 

About Catherine Johnson, MA 

BA, Outdoor Leadership, Evergreen State College 

MA, Applied Behavioral Science, City University 

Catherine Johnson has been teaching and leading groups for 

over 40 years. From 1991-2008 she served as a core faculty 

member and academic dean with LIOS while maintaining a 

private coaching and consulting practice. In 2008 she left 

teaching in order to make a career change working as an 

intern on a small organic farm and returning to school to study 

craniosacral therapy. With an early background in outdoor 

adventure programming and wilderness guiding, Catherine is 

committed to the sustainability and well-being of the natural 

world. And, as a writer, she provides editing assistance to others 

while working on her own essays and books, engaging her 

readers with stories that open the heart and nourish the spirit. 

Catherine intends to open a private practice in craniosacral 

therapy upon completion of her training. Meanwhile, she 

continues to assist individuals and small organizations with their 

growth, development, productivity and health initiatives.

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OF SAYBROOK UNIVERSITY 

presents 


Leadership Workshop Series 

InterAct: Skills for Adaptive Leadership 

This engaging three-day workshop focuses 

on building effective communication skills for successful 

professional and personal relationships. 

Who should register for InterAct? 

Individuals who play strategic roles in organizational 

settings–executives, managers and staff in the private and 

public sectors seeking to learn advanced leadership skills 

designed to strengthen working relationships, increasing 

productivity. All LIOS programs utilize a unique blend 

of applied behavioral science skills and models with 

experiential learning methodologies. 

What will you learn in InterAct? 

RR Build self-awareness and understanding of what impact 

your behavior has on others. 

RR Manage your reactivity to others in moments of intensity. 

RR Respond quickly and thoughtfully in intense situations. 

RR Learn to communicate clearly and openly. 

RR Take a clear stand on important issues while staying connected 

to colleagues with different points of view. 

RR Contribute to the health of organizations and communities. 

Meet the Instructor 

Diane Schachter, MA, is the primary 

instructor for InterAct: Skills for Adaptive 

Leadership. She is a graduate faculty member 

of LIOS and has a private counseling and 

coaching practice. In addition, she works 

with numerous business clients to incorporate 

the skills of InterAct into the complexities of 

the contemporary workplace. Ms. Schachter 

has been a member of the LIOS faculty 

since 1995. She is also a Licensed Marriage 

and Family Therapist and a clinical member of the American 

Association of Marriage and Family Therapy with a private 

practice in Bellevue, WA. 

Feedback from previous 

workshop participants: 

“I achieved a better understanding of my 

work behavior and relationships.” 

“I thought the workshop was masterfully 

conducted.” 

“Thank you for merging the knowledge of 

humans and organizations into a great 

and useful event.” 

“Excellent workshop; I want to sign 

up again.” 

“I felt well-supported by the 

faculty...respected...challenged.” 

InterAct * Workshop Information 

DATE AND TIME: 

Wed.-Fri., May 18-20, 2011, at LIOS 

in Kirkland, Washington 

9:00 a.m. – 4:45 p.m. Registration 

begins at 8:45 a.m. on the first day. 

COST: $925 (regular cost) for 2 CEUs 

Early registrations prices: 

$825 Early bird: 6-weeks prior 

$875 Priority: 2-weeks prior 

$925 Regular registration cost 

up to day of the event 

LIOS alumni receive a 15% discount 

off all the prices listed above. 

LOCATION: 4010 Lake Washington Blvd. NE 

Suite 300, Kirkland, WA 98033 

(LIOS offices, 425.968.3400) 

REGISTRATION: Complete the registration 

form on our website and mail or fax it to 

LIOS at 425.968.3406. 

*This class is also a prerequisite 

for Mary Beth O’Neill’s 

Executive Coaching: Skills Training.

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presents 


Leadership Workshop Series 

Results-Focused Communication 

This powerful one-day workshop focuses on building 

communication skills that help participants achieve desired results at work and 

at home. LIOS’ approach to leadership emphasizes integrity, self-awareness 

and understanding of how and why individuals act, react and interact as they 

do in groups. 

Who should register for Results-Focused Communication? 

Executives, managers, nonprofit leaders, employees and volunteers, 

independent consultants—all testify that Results-Focused Communication 

provides an immediately useful repertory of communication skills, backed by 

clarity, intention and confidence, that significantly improved their performance 

in the workplace and elsewhere. Should you decide to continue your education 

at the Master of Arts level, participants of RFC will receive a rebate of 50% 

of the RFC workshop fee when they enroll in one of LIOS’ Fall 2011 master’s 

degree programs. 

What skills will be mastered in Results-Focused Communication? 

Participants in this experiential workshop will develop skills and learn theories 

that will significantly improve their workplace performance and ability to work with 

others. This workshop uses one-on-one and small-group practice sessions to 

ensure that participants walk away ready to implement new, proven approaches 

to getting positive results in their everyday communication interactions. 

TT 

TT 

TT 

TT 

TT 

Learn to communicate with clarity, intention and confidence using 

specific, advanced communication skills. 

Build self-awareness and understanding of the kind of impact you have 

on others. 

Learn which types of responses tend to escalate or de-escalate the level 

of intensity that forms the backdrop to your communication interactions. 

Identify your typical communication response to intense situations and 

practice alternate responses to achieve more useful results. 

Manage your reactivity to others in moments 

of intensity and seek, through inquiry and 

curiosity, to restore the communication flow. 

Meet the Instructor 

Dan Leahy, LIOS Spring Core Faculty, is an innovative 

leadership development specialist. With 16 years 

of leadership education experience and another 16 

years as a clinical therapist, he brings a unique blend 

of interpersonal and organizational perspectives to 

his work. Dan also previously served as President of 

LIOS for six years. As a LIOS alumnus, he has a deep 

appreciation for the work that LIOS brings to the world. 

RFC Workshop 

Information: 

Upcoming Dates: 

Wed., Sept. 21, 2011 

Please contact LIOS at 

425.968.3400 for more 

information, or email: 

workshops@lios.saybrook.edu. 

Time: 

From 8:45 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. 

Registration Costs: 

$300 (regular cost) for .7 CEUs 

Early registrations prices: 

$250 Early bird: 6-weeks prior 

$275 Priority: 2-weeks prior 

$300 Regular registration cost up 

to day of the event 

LIOS alumni receive a 15% discount off all 

the prices listed above. 

Workshop Location: 

LIOS Graduate College 

4010 Lake Washington Blvd. NE 

Suite 300 


Registration: 

Complete the registration form 

and mail or fax it to LIOS. Our 

fax number is 425.968.3406. 

Please visit us online to learn 

more about Results-Focused 

Communication, and InterAct: 

Skills for Adaptive Leadership. 

www.saybrook.edu/lios

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presents 


Life-Long Sexual Health Elective 

For current LIOS students and alumni 

Life-long sexuality emphasizes the internal and experiential 

work of the health provider in order to enhance their 

ability to acknowledge and address their 

clients' needs in therapeutic settings. 

By attending this class you will: 

• Explore individual beliefs, experiences and cultural values that 

influence our perceptions of human sexuality 

• Explore sexual function and dysfunction, including historical, 

as well as recent, research and practice of sex therapy 

• Practice mindfulness in body awareness and one’s own physical 

sense of sexuality 

• Discover family of origin influences on our sense of human sexuality 

• Discuss common sexual complaints and develop strategies to 

address client complaints by using professional resources 

This course is designed to be a foundational component to begin 

clinical work with sexual health issues. Interactive, experiential activities 

and discussions will continue the development of a sexual self-identity 

from the required LIOS Human Sexuality curriculum. Information and 

resources covered will satisfy, in part, the Washington state requirements 

for licensure as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (WAC 

246-809-121), as well as American Association for Marriage and 

Family Therapy clinical membership (AAMFT Standard Didactic Area 

II Clinical Knowledge 320.06). 

Instructor Bio 

Dr. John Thoburn is a licensed psychologist in the state of 

Washington. He is an associate professor of clinical psychology 

in Seattle Pacific University's graduate psychology program. He 

teaches courses in individual, couple, and group psychotherapy, 

family psychology, and human sexuality. His research is in the 

areas of relational psychology and international psychology. 

Life-Long Sexual 

Health Elective 

Information: 

course Number: 

SSC 6062 

Date: 

May 6-8, 2011 

Time: 

Friday, May 6, 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. 

Saturday, May 7, 9 a.m. – 9 p.m. 

Sunday, May 8, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. 

Registration Costs: 

$1,238 (1.5 semester credits) 

Workshop Location: 


4010 Lake Washington Blvd. NE 

Suite 300 


425.968.3400 

Registration: 

Complete the registration form 

and mail or fax it to LIOS. Our 

fax number is 425.968.3406. 

Please visit us online to learn 

more about Results-Focused 

Communication, and InterAct: 

Skills for Adaptive Leadership. 

www.saybrook.edu/lios

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Emotional Intelligence 

and Teams 

A one-day workshop for coaches and consultants 

Friday, April 29, 2011, in Seattle, Washington 

Whether you’re engaged with developing new teams, working 

with teams that want to enhance their effectiveness, or working 

with a team that is in trouble, Emotional Intelligence is at the heart 

of building effective, productive teams. 

While several approaches and designs can be used to build team 

EQ, the foundation begins with building individual self-awareness 

with taking responsibility for how one shows up in life and work. 

When individuals gain awareness of themselves, they are equipped 

to learn how they impact others on their team. A team can then 

move to seeing its emotional intelligence patterns, including 

what is working well and where the team might focus on 

improvement. Self plus team awareness can lead to new choices 

and increased performance. 

You will walk away with: 

• A review of core principles for working with teams 

• An overview of the EQ In Action Team Profile that is used in EQ 

team development 

• Review of case studies of working with teams from an internal 

and external consultant, both building EQ team effectiveness 

• Hands-on discussion, with time to integrate learning and how 

you might apply this learning in your practice 

• Develop one or more specific ideas on how you will proceed with 

this learning, plus getting feedback from the presenters, if you wish 

Interactive Design for the day: 

The day will be highly participative with a blend of presentations 

and interaction with the presenters and your colleagues in the 

room. The goal is to present concepts, plus real-life case studies that 

demonstrate practice approaches for building team effectiveness. 

Whether working with teams is new for you of if you are a seasoned 

consultant or coach, bring one or two situations from your work with 

you to focus your application planning with your colleagues. 

Faculty for the Day: 

• Jan Johnson, President, Learning In ActionTechnologies 

• Ron Short, Founder, Learning In Action Technologies 

• Gene Mendoza, Senior Manager, Leadership and Organization 

Development, with US Cellular, Chicago, IL 

• Bruce Leamon, CEO, The Leamon Group, Seattle, WA 

Time/Place: 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. - The Talaris Conference 

Center, Seattle, WA 

Registration, Questions, Cost: $325 for Learning In 

Action Technologies EQ Certified Consultants or persons in 

process of certification. $425 for all other participants. To ask 

questions or register, call 425-641-7246. 

Legacy Leadership 

breakfast Series 

The LIOS Leadership Legacy Series 

provides new and ongoing networking 

and enrichment opportunities for the 

LIOS community. Watch for more details 

in future editions of Connections. 

•• 

Scheduled Speakers 

June 9, 2011 

Robert “Bob” Crosby 

October 6, 2011 

John Runyan, MEd 

For more information 

and reservations, contact: 

malbertson@lios.saybrook.edu 

Workshop: "Birds & Bees 

& YOUR Kids" 

With LIOS alumna Amy Lang, MA 

Saturday, March 26, 6:30-8:30 p.m. in 

the Great Hall of St. Thomas Episcopal 

Church, 83 NE 12th St., Medina, 

WA. For more information, contact Josh Hosler at josh@ 

stthomasmedina.org, or contact the church at 425.454.9541, 

www.stthomasmedina.org. Open to all. No RSVP required.

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Short Connections 

ALUMNI: Submit Your Personal 

Announcements to Short Connections 

Do you have a birth, wedding, change of location or other personal 

announcement you’d like to share with the LIOS community? 

In another month or so, we will be e-mailing a short, informal 

newsletter called Short Connections that will include an “Alumni 

Updates” section along with the LIOS calendar of events and other 

news bits. Our intent is to publish Short Connections between 

longer magazine-format issues of Connections (like this issue 

you’re reading now). 

Here are some guidelines for the Alumni Updates section: 

• Please keep your personal announcement to 100 words or less 

• Include your year of LIOS graduation and your track 

• If you include photos, please send them as e-mail digital 

attachments (i.e., jpg or gif–do not copy and paste the photo 

into your e-mail) 

Send your submissions and/or questions to: 

spetersen@lios.saybrook.edu or mbloch@lios.saybrook.edu. 

Crosby & Associates is pleased to 

announce 

Robert P. Crosby ToughStuff - April 2011 

ToughStuff Workshops are 

intensive Applied Behavioral 

Science trainings which combine 

cutting edge knowledge about 

leadership and human behavior 

with powerful personal insights 

and skill building. Lead Faculty 

and LIOS founder Robert P. Crosby, 

82 years young, developed 

ToughStuff out of his experience 

with T-groups, beginning back in 

the 1950s. 

Participants will increase their 

emotional intelligence, including how to effectively give and 

receive feedback, within a framework of individual, group, 

and organizational theory. The primary goal of the program is 

to help individuals from all organizational levels acquire the 

strong set of interpersonal skills, solid theoretical perspective, 

and deep self- awareness necessary to lead effectively. 

ToughStuff is April 25th -29th, 2011. Tuition is $1250. 

Space is limited so contact us at c_p_crosby@yahoo.com 

or 206 369 9200. 

Submitted by Chris Crosby, MA (LIOS ’96, ’97), workshop co-facilitator. 

Katie Talbott, cont. from page 17 

my part and more a sign that it is the other way around—that 

my education is using me. Coming to LIOS was like entering 

a current of humanity, a current I had been part of all along 

but somewhere at the periphery, in the stream’s slack waters 

and shallows. Starting school was a brisk dive into the central 

current—it afforded me less control but a great deal more 

forward momentum. 

This decision also committed me to a path, and now it seems that 

it is not about “figuring out” what my next steps will be, but rather 

about relaxing and being still enough to allow them to unfold. And 

the more I connect to my passion, to the desires of my heart rather 

than the strictures of talent, the easier this has been to do. The 

current carries me forward: it brings everything to me, it has a life of 

its own, and it is a great privilege to be alive and part of it. 

Katie Talbott, MA, LMHCA (LIOS ’08), manages Present Sense 

(www.present-sense.com), a community center in Seattle 

where she facilitates mindfulness groups and is co-facilitator 

of an “Artist’s Way” class. In her mindfulness-based counseling 

practice, she works with adults who are looking for meaning and 

clarity and want to find the natural flow of their lives. 

See www.katietalbott.com. 

REFERENCE 

students, Alumni and Faculty 

Video “Testimonials” 

Now Online 

The videos are insightful, thoughtful, dramatic, touching, funny and 

deeply honest. When given the opportunity to share their personal 

feelings about LIOS and the challenges and changes it brought to 

their lives, our students, alumni and faculty were nothing less than 

transparent and passionate. 

You can share in their LIOS experiences by going to the LIOS/ 

Saybrook website and choosing the LIOS videos on the following 

Web pages: 

• Psychology: www.saybrook.edu/lios/academicprograms/mapsy 

• Organizational Systems: www.saybrook.edu/lios/ 

academicprograms/lod 

• Admissions: www.saybrook.edu/lios/admissions 

• University Prospective Students: www.saybrook.edu/univ/prospect 

Keep checking our website, as we will be rotating the videos on a 

monthly basis. 

McNiff, S. (1998). Trust the process: An artist’s guide to letting go. 

Boston: Shambhala.

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Job Opportunities 

For Faculty Job Opening, see page 12. 

Looking for a Therapist to Join Our Team at 

International Eating Disorders Institute (Seattle) 

(www.IEDinstitute.com). Experience with eating disorders a 

plus; however, I will provide training and consultation. I do want 

someone with a passion for it. It is a calling. . . . This is a great 

way to start a practice. We’re in downtown Seattle. Please send 

me your resume through e-mail. Feel free to e-mail me with any 

questions at sue@iedinstitute.com. 

Sue Bates, MEd, LMHC 

Hopelink, Redmond, WA 

Human Resources Business Partner 

Work Schedule: Full time regular days 

Compensation: $48,000-$52,000 DOE 

Benefits: Full benefits available 

Opening Date: Feb 25, 2011; Closing Date: When Filled 

As a strategic partner, the Hopelink HR Business Partner (HRBP) 

aligns business objectives with employees and management in 

designated business units. The HRBP serves as a consultant to 

management on Human Resource related issues. Successful HRBP 

will act as employee advocate and change agent. HRBP assesses 

and anticipates HR-related needs. Communicating needs 

proactively with our HR department and business management, 

the HRBP seeks to develop integrated solutions. The HRBP 

formulates partnerships across the HR function to deliver value 

added service to management and employees that reflect the 

business objectives of the organization. The HRBP maintains an 

effective level of business literacy about the business, its midrange 

plans, and its culture. For job duties, responsibilities and 

other information, go to: 

www.hope-link.org. 

Global Human Resources Director 

Landesa Rural Development Institute, Seattle 

Founded in 1981 and based in Seattle, Landesa is an international 

nonprofit dedicated to ending global poverty by securing land 

rights for the world’s poorest people. The organization has doubled 

in size over the past year, and with this increased capacity, Landesa 

continues to expand its research and programs to new communities 

across the globe. With offices in India, China and Russia, the 

organization has worked in over 50 countries to help individuals, 

families and communities break the cycle of poverty. 

The Global Human Resources Director position is a relatively new 

position for the organization. It will report to the Chief Executive 

Officer and the successful candidate will serve on the leadership 

team. This person will play an important collaborative role in the 

development and execution of Landesa’s strategic and operating 

plans, as well as set and communicate a broad vision to the organization. 

The position specification can be found at: www.waldronhr. 

com/files/Landesa_Spec_3.15.11.pdf. Please send cover letter and 

resume by April 15, 2011, to Melissa Merritt or Karen Rea at 

info@waldronhr.com. 

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Phone: 425.968.3400 

Fax: 425.968.3406 

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Publication Date 

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Submission guidelines for 2011 

LIOS Graduate College is happy to support our 

affiliate programs and workshops. However, in order 

to maintain a manageable size for our readers, we are 

changing the submission structure to the following 

measurements: 

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