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Potential Major Advisors for MA students

Major Advisor responsibilities:

The Student responsibilities:

Choosing an Advisor is one of the most important decisions you as a student make in the dissertation process: it is up there with choosing a topic. In an ideal world, your advisor would be a mentor, an expert in your field, a coach, an editor, and a career counsellor; someone to guide, teach and encourage you from the first moment until the last. There are, however, few human beings who can fill that entire job description. An advisor/advisee relationship is like other relationships. Most don’t work perfectly at first, or all the time, but there must be enough goodwill on each side so that you can both try to make your relationship work. Your job is to get your advisor to help you as much and as effectively as possible.

Please find below a list of recommended advisors, check their profiles and contact them directly. We cannot assure or promise their availability at the time you enter dissertation phase. If you do not find within the list anybody available or the most appropriate person then please reach out to your community, people you may know, the author of a book you read et al.

Improve your writing

If you do not have much experience in academic writing, we can offer two levels of support. Firstly, it could be a good idea to take one of the online courses below. They can really help with the writing process. Secondly, we have a community of Writing Mentors who are available to support you one-on-one, giving you feedback on your writing and coaching you on how to improve it.

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Writing Mentors

Personal mentoring on your academic writing is available through Linda White (Ph.D. Cand.). See her profile in the Advisors list below.

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Publishing your Writing

As you write the chapters of your thesis or dissertation, you might want to consider publishing your writing in a journal that we recommend, the Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change.

Advisors

Anuraj Gambhir MBA


Sydney Kale PhD

Linda White MA, PhD Candidate Ubiquity University

Juan Carlos Arean PhD Ubiquity University Graduate

Safa Boga MA, Ubiquity University Graduate

Cindy Bledsoe MA Ubiquity University Graduate

Margot Borden PhD Candidate Ubiquity University

Mari Karen Castle PhD Ubiquity University Graduate

HeatherAsh Amara PhD Candidate Ubiquity University

Ute Weber-Woisetschlager PhD Candidate Ubiquity University

Ed Muller PhD

Victoria Moore PhD Candidate Ubiquity University

Calen Rayne DMin Ubiquity University Graduate

Mary Hillsman, PhD

Kirsty Lucinda Allan, PG. Cert, PG. Cert, PG. Dip, BSc. (Hons), GMBPsS 

Dr. Chris Erickson, PhD. Political Science, Senior Educational Administrator, American Board of Sexology, Board Member and Certified Diplomate

Haley Fox, PhD.
she/her/hers, LPC (MO), LMHC (MA), LPCC (MN) Board-certified art therapist and art therapy supervisor (ATR-BCCS), Board-certified music therapist (MT-BC), Registered Expressive Arts Therapist (REAT), Certified Psychedelic Assisted Therapy Provider

Dr. Spring Cheng

Dr. Stephanie Mines

Sascha Jenke

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I am an Innovation Evangelist, Business Strategist on the outside and Altruist, Philosopher on the inside, and a million things in between. My focus is on shaping the future of humanity from ‘mindset to heartset’. As an Innovation catalyst and Transdisciplinary expert I assist organizations to spearhead their innovation agenda using exponential technologies at the intersection of deep values of humanity.

More specifically my areas of contribution include:

  • Transdisciplinary Exponential Design Thinking building unique propositions at the intersection of multiple domains/industries/disciplines
  • Strategic Planning & Vision – Insight capture and Foresight Development / Nurturing with synthesis of mega and micro-trends
  • New / high value Product / Concept Development
  • Exponential / Radical / Disruptive Innovation dev & roadmap
  • Holistic Human-centric Design for wide and deep impact
  • Creating End User Experience / Delight
  • Immersive Story – Telling, Showing, Being, Doing, Living
  • Exponential Tech Convergence – from adjacent and divergent domains
  • Ecosystem Creation / Curation – Stakeholder mapping and optimization
  • GLocal Expansion and international growth / business development / Go-to-Market
  • Startup and Scale-up Advisory / Mentoring – from Pitch Perfect to Investor Ready

My practical knowledge spans executive management, innovation, entrepreneurship, conscious leadership, exponential technologies, design thinking and holistic wellbeing. A key domain of my focus is the future of Health/Wellness incorporating cutting-edge Wellbeing tech and innovations that can be applied for smart – devices/homes/buildings/spaces/cities/communities.

I coined four terms over a period of 3 decades: “Simplexity, Collabovation, Experiation & Coheartability” which is the essence of my work (https://www.anuraj.io/philosophy)

I founded a positive and abundant mindset through a philosophy & movement we spearheaded called ‘Wise Mirror’ (closely aligning it to the UN SDGs) deploying exponential tech/innovation and activating / curating relevant communities and ecosystems (https://wisemirror.org/about-us.html)

More at: www.anuraj.io & https://www.linkedin.com/in/anurajgambhir/ 

Ed Muller PhD

Areas of expertise:

  • Sustainable and regenerative development
  • Bioregional development approaches
  • Biodiversity and ecosystem management
  • Local rural development
  • Tourism (regenerative, sustainable, ecotourism, rural tourism, cultural tourism)
  • Participatory community planning
  • Global change

Linda White MA, PhD

Specializing for 36 years in recovery from trauma, grief/loss, addictive tendencies, and stress-related illnesses Linda’s life work has been a unique synthesis of somatic therapies (body), developmental psychology (mind), and applied spirituality.

Her approach to recovery and the therapeutic relationship integrates principles of integral, Jungian and transpersonal psychology, 12 step recovery & evolutionary spirituality.

Linda is currently engaged in Ph.D. research focused on ancestral and collective trauma and the economic influences that impact stress-related symptoms and addictive tendencies within the US culture. Deeper aspects of this research encompass the transgenerational impact of war on families and the need for integration of anomalous phenomenological experiences within mainstream culture.

As a clinician, researcher, mentor, and consultant Linda’s services have been offered in a range of settings to include hospital-based weight management programs, outpatient alcohol rehabilitation, and mental health clinics, employee assistance programs, church-based pastoral counseling settings, corporate wellness environments & governmental organizations.

Her work has been offered in Maryland and Maine in the United States and in New Zealand where she was the first person in the US to enter New Zealand on a three-year entrepreneurial visa for the Psycho-Somatic Integration (PSI) work she developed. PSI is a process designed to release bodily tension and to relax the central nervous system. PSI was introduced in the USA in 1991 & in New Zealand in 1999.

Linda is the co-author of an academic paper published in the Journal of Integral Theory & Practice: Vol 8: 3&4, pp 66-81 (Dec 2013) titled “Integral Evolutionary Recovery”. She is also co-author of a book Chapter in “Cohering The Integral We”.

What makes Linda’s work unique? A passion for the practical application of the principles of Jungian, transpersonal & integral psychology and somatic therapies embraced within a framework of the practical life-saving principles of recovery. Specifically recovery from individual and collective trauma, addictive tendencies, and moral injury.

Specialty areas:

  •  Integral Psychology & Evolutionary Spirituality
  • Integral Evolutionary Recovery
  • Psycho-Somatic Integration
  • Recovery from Collective & Trans-Generational Trauma
  • Recovery from unresolved war trauma and moral injury

Juan Carlos Arean PhD

Expertise/interests as follows: Apology, Forgiveness, Ancestral Healing, Perpetrators Trauma, Moral Injury, Historical Trauma, Intergenerational Trauma, Community Accountability, Truth and Reconciliation, Restorative Justice, Transformative Justice, Gender-Based Violence, Battering Intervention, Fatherhood, Gender Socialization, Gender Justice and Healing, Masculinities.

Safa Boga MA

Main areas of interest and expertise are:

  • Somatic Psychology
  • Somatic Trauma Healing
  • Energy Healing
  • Distance Healing
  • Group Healing
  • In Utero Trauma 
  • Childhood Trauma 
  • Childhood Sexual Abuse
  • Dissociative disorders
  • Ancestral Healing
  • Psychedelic Integration

Cindy Bledsoe MA

Subject matter specialties:

  • Conscious evolution
  • Integrative health, wellness, mindfulness, meditation, numerology, energy healing, remote viewing, EFT, intuition, human potential.
  • Conscious media, TV/film, scriptwriting, storytelling.
  • Conscious business, social good, nonprofit management.
  • Urban design and planning, placemaking, future cities.
  • Systems design, biomimicry, sacred geometry.
  • Ancient wisdom cultures of Mu/Lemuria, Maya, Egypt.
  • Education, nature-based education, educational modeling.
  • Futures modeling within multiple sectors.
  • Community collaboration models and co-design principles
  • Thrivability, cocreation, regeneration

Helpful Topics

  • In terms of the dissertation process, I can offer facilitation in these topics to help with focus and flow, but perhaps this duplicates your dissertation course:
  • Creativity
  • Writing
  • Topic selection and identification, honing in and applying your unique genius.
  • Creating a narrative and voice with the dissertation.
  • Mapping the content and defining parameters of research and narrative.

Margot Borden PhD Candidate Ubiquity university

Areas of interest and expertise:

  • Psychospiritual healing and development
  • Sanatan Dharma (Hinduism)
  • Divine Feminine
  • East-West Psychology

Mari Karen Castle PhD

Areas of interest and/or expertise:

Transpersonal Psychology to include non-ordinary states of consciousness, ancient spiritual wisdom, archetype, myth, and integration of masculine and feminine energy.

HeatherAsh Amara PhD Candidate Ubiquity university

Main interests are the ways we connect and commune with the wisdom of the earth, our bodies, and each other. I’m passionate about returning to honoring the sacred rhythms of the cycles and seasons and reweaving ourselves intimately back into the web of life.

Topics: Shamanism, intuition, darkness, earth-based spirituality, women’s wisdom, cycles, emotional and spiritual healing, alternative perception and experiences.

Ute Weber-Woisetschlager PhD Candidate Ubiquity university

Areas of expertise:
Philosophy/Aesthetics/Creativity
Consciousness/Communication/Dialogue

Victoria Moore PhD Candidate Ubiquity university

1. Areas of previous academic studies—Humanities History; Sociology; Psychology; Philosophy; Politics; English and American Literature; Education;

2. Area of previous academic studies—The Arts Theatre; Art; Art History

3. Areas in which I have taught in Higher Education Clinical Psychology; Counseling; Social Work; Psychology; Sociology; Education

4. Areas in which I have written professionally Spirituality; Art; Music; Politics; History; Sports;

5. Areas in which I have been, am currently studying, and in which I am interested: Indigenous Studies; Spirituality; Cosmology; New Sciences; Scientific and Technologic Innovation; Biology; Chemistry; Energy Medicine; Consciousness Studies; Economics

6. Skills Critical thinking; cultural understanding; creative problem-solving and projectbuilding Can appreciate the skills in others and can work well with them.

Sydney Kale PhD

Interest Field/Expertise:

● Plant intelligence

● Emergence and the nature of consciousness

● Attunement and embodied communication

● More-than-human modes of encounter

● Co-becoming

● Co-authorship with the more-than-human world in academic and creative writing, art,

and movement practices

● Erotic ecology

● Phenomenology and sensuous scholarship

● Ways of knowing through feeling and experience

● The relationship between subjectivity and objectivity in science and academia

RESEARCH OBJECTIVE

My research is focused on marginalized ways of knowing, such as knowing through feeling and experience, as a means to facilitate interconnectedness and ethics of care in the more-than-human world. I use the lens of plant studies, particularly plant intelligence and human-plant relationship, to explore what it means to be a human participant in ecology within an undeniably entangled planet.

Calen Rayne DMin

I have been with Ubiquity for 17 years as a student, faculty member, staff member and advisor for Master and Doctoral level students. I am currently Director of Organizational Architecture. My areas of interest include art, poetry, philosophy, Buddhism and other Eastern traditions, ancient wisdom teachings, energy work, geomancy, quantum physics, sacred geometry and mathematics. I would be happy to discuss possible collaboration on any potential topics students might have for their proposed work. I am familiar with a number of other potential advisors if they might be a better fit. My main website is themonklibrary.com, which offers various resource materials for students and the general public. This website also links to my other websites.

Mary Hillsman, PhD

Caring, considerate, encouraging, and sympathetic are the qualities about my advisor that mattered to me.  I am also caring, considerate, encouraging, and sympathetic.

My research explored the importance of examining and expressing our power.  Heuristic Research, Arts-Based Research, and Organic Inquiry are the research Methods I used to investigate women’s subjective experience of personal power. I learned from my team of co-researchers that they identified power to be something to help others and make a positive difference in the world. The expressive and reflective aspects of mask making engaged the creative and intuitive ways of knowing for all of us. This investigation began with the premise that women experience and express power differently than is traditionally identified in our culture and understood as domination and control. Co-researchers defined power as: Awareness, Balance, Authenticity and Connectedness. They further explained their expressions of power as Compassionate Communication and Compassionate Action were only possible after they found their power in the previous definitions. As a conduit for change, this study presents defining options for the concept of power that, if adopted, by a more general population, could change how we care for ourselves, for others, and for our world.

Research is a journey.  Writing a thesis and dissertation are a deep intellectual and personal undertaking. I look forward to meeting with you and supporting your journey.

Some nuts and bolts about me: BFA University of Denver, MA Lesley University, PhD The Wisdom School, UU.

Owner ~ General Contractor of sacred family homes/spaces; CEO Family Crisis Center; Executive Director Technical Education Program in Colorado Community College System; CEO Senior Living Campuses; Multiple ~ Affordable Housing; Consultant ~ C Suite Leadership Development, Change Management, Continuous Improvement, in corporations, government, and non profit organizations.

Kirsty Lucinda Allan
PG. Cert, PG. Cert, PG. Dip, BSc. (Hons), GMBPsS 

Always at play in the ‘avant-garden’ of life, I explore and support the growing edges of both art and science. My portfolio of experience and accolades attests to my ardent curiosity about the nature of reality – and how we interact with it.

Academically, I am a scholar (and teaching professional) with specialism in:
  • Consciousness studies
  • Parapsychology
  • Transpersonal psychology
  • Jungian Psychology
  • Western Mystery School teachings
  • Metaphysics
In science, I am a post-graduate researcher undertaking a PhD exploring:
  • Floatation as a means of promoting psi phenomena (i.e., extra-sensory perception/ESP and psychokinesis)
  • Altered states of consciousness
  • High sensitivity and creativity
  • Theoretical models of psi
In the Arts, I have also pursued the edges of the ‘norm’:
  • As an arts community leader, I guided cultural change at a national level; namely as a key influencer of the UK burlesque renaissance in the early 2000s.
  • I still produce and promote theatre (executive roles) and coach artists.
  • In my twenties, I was a successful international performance artist and photographic model.
  • I am an ally for diversity and social inclusion in the arts.
In private practice, I am a personal transformation guide:
  • In therapy, I am certified and experienced in low-intensity mental health interventions (PG Cert. IAPT)
  • In energy healing, I am a Sekhem Reiki Master
  • As leader of a personal development membership, I teach my own blend of psychospiritual insight, distilling all my knowledge and experience into a form of ‘practical metaphysics’ for sensitive people.
  • I help others to produce their creative works.
  • I write and create workshops and events.

Dr. Chris Erickson

PhD. Political Science (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Senior Educational Administrator (Institute of Authentic Tantra Education)
American Board of Sexology, Board Member and Certified Diplomate

Areas of interest:

  • The social applicability of Tantric practice
  • Spirituality, Emotionality and politics
  • Postmodern and post-dualist thought
  • The roots of political extremism

For the past decade I have been a Tantric practitioner of the Shangpa Kagyu lineage engaging with both the sexual and non-sexual teachings. In my role as the Senior Educational Administrator of the Institute of Authentic Tantra Education, I have been instrumental in establishing the first school for Tantra as a holistic healing modality with both government certification and lineage approval in the Western world. My academic background has focused largely on the philosophical traditions that are at the roots of Western society. I am the author of The Poetics of Fear: A Human Response to Human Security which examines the role of fear as a political tool. After over two decades as an award winning instructor in a conventional university setting, I am excited to explore the educational and policy-based prospects that lie beyond those bounds.

My primary interests include the applicability of the practices and insights of Vajrayana Buddhist tradition to contemporary society, the examination of how prevailing frameworks of thought have shaped the Western world, and how they have exposed their shortcomings in the process.

Dr. Stephanie Mines

Founder: Climate Change and Consciousness, Founder: The TARA Approach

Dr. Stephanie Mines is the author of five books that reflect over three decades of research as a neuroscientist. She has investigated shock and trauma as a survivor, a professional, a clinical researcher, and healthcare provider. Her nonprofit, The TARA Approach is instrumental in the systemic change she promotes as a Regenerative Health paradigm. Dr. Mines also developed Climate Change & Consciousness to facilitate inner transformation for grounded climate action. Climate Change Consciousness serves an international and intergenerational community of visionary activists. Dr. Mines’ latest books, The Secret of Resilience: Healing Personal and Planetary Trauma Through Morphogenesis, and The Great Physician: Medicinal Poetry for the Anthropocene, will be released in the Spring and Summer of 2023.

Dr. Spring Cheng

Dr. Spring Cheng spent the first half of her life in traditional, pre-industrialized China and the latter half in the US. After she received a doctoral degree in molecular biology and masters in biostatistics, she worked in the pharmaceutical industry as a data scientist. However, in her career as a scientist, her heart and spirit felt empty and deserted. She then dedicated herself to reconnecting with her own indigenous roots through Chinese medicine and Taoism. Later, with her partner Joe Shirley, Spring co-founded the Resonance Path Institute, where she integrated these different disciplines through coaching and leadership development.
Spring invented The Resonance Code, a rebirth of the ancient Chinese classic I Ching, the Book of Change, in the context of leadership and organizational development. She is the author of The Resonance Code: Empowering Leaders to Evolve towards Wholeness. She is an advocate for integrating indigenous wisdom with modern thinking in the field of adult development. She brings her work to diverse places such as the U.S., Canada, China and European countries.

Haley Fox, PhD

she/her/hers, LPC (MO), LMHC (MA), LPCC (MN) Board-certified art therapist and art therapy supervisor (ATR-BCCS), Board-certified music therapist (MT-BC), Registered Expressive Arts Therapist (REAT), Certified Psychedelic Assisted Therapy Provider

An artist-psychotherapist, author, public speaker and researcher with over 30 years of experience, I bring expertise working with and studying a vast range of ages and populations and applying knowledge of:

  • Archetypal Psychology
  • Integral Metatheory
  • Arts-based, heuristic and phenomenological research methodologies
  • The Enneagram personality typing system
  • Professional and creative writing
  • Imaginative variation/improvisational engagement with art, music and movement
  • The integration of non-ordinary states of consciousness
  • Michael Cotton’s Source Code Meditation, Summits of Transformation and Salutogenic Thrivestyle.

My personal theoretical orientation is grounded in archetypal psychology, including the role (intermodal) images play in human experience. I discipline myself to maintain a sense of myself as an artist and to remain close to my own art and my artistic sensibilities, which inform my clinical and research practices.

I completed Praxis Alethia, a metamodern mystery school, New Human University in 2022.

Sample of Professional Publications

Fox, H. (2022). Sexual healing: Shining a lantern on the erotic experiences of two inveterate soul-seekers, the story of Marty and Lee. WordHouse Book Publishing [Publication pending.]

Fox, H. (2020). Follow your bliss: A soul-centered guide to job-hunting and career-life planning (2nd ed.). iUniverse.

Fox, H. (2018, July). Songwriting and human shadow: Heuristic inquiry grounded in art. VOICES: A world forum for music therapy, 18: 2. Grieg Academy Music Therapy Research Centre, Uni Research Health. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v18i2.919.

Fox, H., Knill, P., & Fuchs, M. (2017). Minstrels of soul: Intermodal expressive therapy. Chinese translation. PsyGarden Publishing Company. PsyGarden.com/tw. 心靈工坊文化事業股份有限公司, 編輯部 趙士尊

Fox, H. (2012). Masks, wounds and bridges: Expressive arts therapy with sexual abusers. In Sana Loue (Ed.), Expressive Therapies for Sexual Issues: A Social Work Perspective (pp. 85-115). Springer Publications.

Contact
drhaleyfox@awe.ninja
https://awe.ninja/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/drhaleyfox/

Della Z Duncan

Della Z Duncan is a Regenerative Economist. Areas of her livelihood garden include co-facilitating the Economic Dimension and the Regenerative Livelihoods courses at Gaia Education, supporting individuals as a Right Livelihood Coach, helping transition businesses and organizations as a post-capitalist consultant, teaching and facilitating courses and retreats on the Work that Reconnects and Regenerative Economics, and hosting the Upstream Podcast which challenges mainstream economic thinking through documentaries and conversations including most recently The Myth of Freedom Under Capitalism and The Green Transition Pt 1: The Problem with Green Capitalism and Pt 2: A Green Deal for the People. Della is also the Course Development Manager of Fritjof Capra’s Capra Course on the Systems View of Life, a founding member of the California Doughnut Economics Coalition, a Senior Fellow of Social and Economic Equity at the London School of Economics, a Gross National Happiness Master Trainer, a Dissertation Supervisor at Schumacher College, and a Senior Lecturer of Renegade Economics and Regenerative Livelihoods at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Santa Cruz Permaculture, and Vital Cycles Permaculture. Della has supervised and mentored over 5 Regenerative Economics Masters Dissertations. Appropriate areas of mentorship include: Regenerative Economics, Eco-Spirituality, the Work that Reconnects, and Buddhist Philosophy and Practice.

Sascha Jenke

Sascha worked many years of his life in the field of planning and designing as an architect, landscape architect and the most time of this period as an urban planner in Rotterdam, Netherlands. He worked on projects on different scales from parcel size to whole city scale and beyond the designing aspect he became interested in a more holistic approach including economic and social aspects of planning. While living in Rotterdam he discovered Kundalini Yoga and Karam Kriya (applied numerology) which changed his life significantly. He became a yoga teacher and a trainer for yoga teacher, a Karam Kriya consultant, Breathwalk instructor and Satnamrasayan healer. He began to combine these experiences and guided by the principles of life, expressed through Karam Kriya, he started exploring and developing a holistic sustainability approach, Sustainable Ecology. Since 2018 he is teaching Sustainable Ecology at the local university in an interdisciplinary context. Sascha is a Gaia Education Certified trainer.

Alexander Laszlo PhD

Speciality Areas:

  • strategic planning (including scenario planning) and strategic design
  • sustainability and thrivability
  • collective intelligence
  • innovation and entrepreneurship
  • systems science, cybernetics and the sciences of complexity
  • evolutionary leadership

My inquiry on these topic areas involves an exploration of the pragmatic ideal of integrating the economic, ecological, social, cultural, and spiritual aspects of societal development through considerations that include:

  • evolutionary thinking and design for thriving organizations
  • personal leadership and taking transformative stands
  • systems thinking, post-disciplinary research, and understanding the dynamics of complexity
  • sustainability principles and their application to organizations and communities
  • coherence of intrapersonal, interpersonal, trans-species, trans-generational, and pan-cosmic relationships
  • language, metaphor, and narrative in service of strategic conversations that shape reality

My research on emerging areas of human, organizational and societal thrivability includes inquiry into areas that are currently pushing the boundaries of human knowledge. Systems, strategy, sustainability/thrivability, aesthetics, ethics, and spirituality — and the interplay among these areas — inform my exploration of the multifocal lens through which I consider the societal and evolutionary value proposition of individual and collective human endeavor. My intellectual passion is to apply systems thinking, policy analysis, and technology assessment to processes of individual and collective empowerment that foster the conditions for a thrivable planet. My professional objective is to engage in educational and community-building activities that curate the nurturance spaces for action at systemic leverage points that help emerge a global eco-civilization.