KUCI: Fighting for Love

Mari Frank Interviews S. Leonard Scheff, a Practicing Attorney and Zen Buddhist

S. Leonard Scheff is an AFT Board Member, a graduate of Boalt School of Law at UC Berkeley, and practicing attorney in Tucson, Arizona. He is a Zen Buddhist and has attended several of the public teachings by H.H. the Dalai Lama including the five day workshop in Tucson in 1993, and a more recent 2006 teaching. He has organized this Letting Go of Anger seminar with input by John Tarrant Roshi since 1993. While the seminar is based on Buddhism through the teachings of the Dalai Lama, he believes these same principles are universal in all spiritual traditions. In addition, Mr. Scheff has attended and led numerous Gestalt Workshops.

Mari Frank Interviews Tony Campolo, Professor Emeritus of Sociology

Mari Frank Interviews Nancy Dreyfus, Psychotherapist

Mari Frank Interviews Chaney Weiner, Transformational Leader

Chaney Weiner is a sought after authority on human potential and personal development. He is the founder of the Chaney Institute of Human Potential, an organization dedicated to empowering people worldwide in all seven areas of life (Financial, physical, family, mental, spiritual, vocational, and social) by helping them discover their hidden brilliance and uniqueness based on what is most important to them.
An acknowledged transformational leader and a leading expert on success and raising human potential, Chaney has inspired millions of people around the world, sharing his breakthrough methods for personal and professional success in the seven different areas of life.
Chaney is often approached by the media for his inspiring insights and advice. His work has been featured on Montel Across America with Montel Williams, Hollywood Confidential with Leeza Gibbons, Hay House Radio and on hundreds of radio shows throughout the world.
www.ChaneyWeiner.com

Mari Frank Interviews William W. Purkey, Noted Author, Researcher, and Speaker

William W. Purkey, EdD, is professor emeritus of
counselor education at The University of North
Carolina-Greensboro and cofounder of The
International Alliance for Invitational Education.
A noted author, researcher, speaker, and leader,
Dr. Purkey has authored nearly 100 articles and
more than a dozen books.

Mari Frank Interviews Dr. Ani Kalayjian, Psychology Professor and American Board Certified Expert in Traumatic Stress

Dr. Ani Kalayjian is a psychology professor, American Board Certified Expert in Traumatic Stress, logotherapeutic psychotherapist, traumatologist, Genocide Scholar, conflict resolution expert, researcher, community organizer, and international consultant. She has over twenty years of experience in disaster management, mass-trauma interventions & conflict resolution; twenty years of university teaching experience and has been a psychotherapist in practice in both NY and NJ for 25 yrs.
Since 1990, Dr. Kalayjian has been actively involved at the United Nations, pursuing the human right of children, trauma survivors, women, and refugees. She is founder and President of the Armenian American Society for Studies on Stress and Genocide; President of the Int. Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, NY Chapter (1993-2003); Chair of the World Federation for Mental Health Human Rights Committee(1995-2004), Co-Founder, Past President & Board member of the Global Society for Nursing and Health (1998-2004), Founder & President of Association for Trauma Outreach & Prevention, Treasurer, APA International Division (2004-2009), Program Chair APA 2004 International. Division, Hawaii. She is the Founder of the Mental Health Outreach Program (MHOP) to the Republic of Armenia, providing psychological emergency care, managing the program, as well as conducting research. Dr. Kalayjian implemented MHOP later in Japan, Kuwait, the former Yugoslavia, Turkey, Sri Lanka post tsunami, Pakistan post earthquake of 10-8-2005, & Lebanon, Armenia, & Sierra Leone post war. She conducts workshops around the world healing the wounds of generationally transmitted trauma of wars, Genocides & Holocaust.
Dr. Kalayjian has presented her research papers, conducted workshops, and chaired panel discussion nationwide. Internationally, her research papers have been presented in over 30 countries.

Mari Frank Interviews Jon Memmott, General Counsel of the Arbinger Institute

Jon Memmott is a retired District Court Judge and Adjunct Professor teaching Employment Law at BYU Marriott School. He joined Arbinger in 2010 as General Counsel and is a Member-Manager of the
Arbinger Institute and Arbinger Conflict
Resolution Services LLC which offers services
to Legal, Judicial, Mediation, Law Enforcement, Military, and Correctional professionals and organizations. Jon also serves as General Counsel for ThomasArts. He has prior experience in private practice, as Legislative General Counsel for the Utah Legislature and Chief of Staff/Legal Counsel for Governor Bangerter. He was in private practice representing various governmental, business and private organizations. His eighteen years of judicial work includes over 175 jury trials and over 1,000 bench trials and approximately 300 mediations in civil, criminal, tax, and
domestic areas of the law. Jon has developed a
mediation and arbitration practice in
partnership with Arbinger.
Judge Memmott graduated from Arizona State
University Law School and has an
undergraduate degree in Psychology from
Arizona State University and a Master?s Degree
in Management from Brigham Young
University.
www.arbinger.com

Mari Frank Interviews David J. Smith, National Educational Outreach Officer at the United States Institute of Peace

David J. Smith is the national educational outreach officer at the United States Institute of Peace. He coordinates institute-wide educational outreach and public programming efforts. Smith works closely with educational and professional associations, academic institutions, and public groups to promote institute objectives. He speaks frequently to community, faculty and student groups on a variety of issues including civil society and peacebuilding, child soldiers, conflict resolution education and international education.
Before joining the institute in 2005, his work focused on teaching at the college and university level. As a Fulbright scholar, Smith taught peace studies and alternative dispute resolution at the University of Tartu in Tartu, Estonia. He has also taught at the undergraduate level at Harford Community College, Goucher College, Towson University, and Stevenson University, and at the graduate level at George Mason University. Through USIP, he has traveled widely around the U.S. consulting with colleges and universities on approaches to teaching peace. He has also worked in the fields of domestic and community conflict resolution, and as a practicing attorney. He has lectured on American mediator practice at Uppsala University in Sweden and the University of Jammu in India. Smith currently serves on the Rockville, Maryland Human Rights Commission and has published in the International Herald Tribune, Baltimore Sun, and Chronicle of Higher Education. Smith holds a B.A. in political science and urban affairs from the American University School of Public Affairs, an M.S. from the George Mason University Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, and a J.D. from the University of Baltimore School of Law.
www.usip.org

Mari Frank Interviews Paul Garb, Co-Director and Co-Founder of UC Irvine?s Center for Citizen Peacebuilding

Paula Garb is Co-Director and co-founder of UC Irvine's Center for Citizen Peacebuilding. She is a lecturer in anthropology, director of the minor in conflict resolution, and director of the minor in civic and community engagement at the University of California, Irvine. She is a facilitator and researcher of citizen peacebuilding projects.
Garb spent 17 years living and working in Moscow, where she received her M.A. in anthropology from Moscow State University and later completed her doctorate in anthropology from the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Anthropology. She ultimately secured a job as a field producer for CBS News in Moscow, where she worked until she came to UCI in 1991.
After returning to live and work in the U.S. she has studied the mobilization of activists around environmental problems associated with the nuclear weapons complex in Russia and the role of citizen initiatives in the ethnic conflicts of the Caucasus. Since 1995, with funding from the University of California, the JAMS Foundation, United Nations Development Programme, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the US Institute of Peace, USAID, and the Winston Foundation for World Peace, she has been promoting citizen peacebuilding activities and research. Her primary project has focused on facilitating and studying peacebuilding efforts between Abkhaz and Georgian academics, journalists, representatives of nongovernmental organizations, and politicians. In 1999 she initiated a coordination network of peacebuilding projects and organizations working in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict, and continues to foster the network. Garb has been using her long-term and in-depth experience and research data from the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict to examine and compare how citizens are helping to resolve disputes in other conflict zones, such as Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Middle East, Cyprus, and Northern Ireland. She draws on these experiences for courses in conflict resolution that she teaches for UCI students and Los Angeles gang intervention workers. Her work has also led to a number of publications in academic and other journals.
www.ccpb.org

Mari Frank Interviews Bill Wilmot, Advanced Practitioner with the Association for Conflict Resolution

Bill Wilmot specializes in conflict and mediation, especially in the workplace, and is and Advanced Practitioner with the Association for Conflict Resolution. He has intervened in over 400 disputes and helped diverse organizations over the past 25 years with a variety of issues. His major conflict publications are the co-authored Interpersonal Conflict, and Artful Mediation. His Interpersonal Conflict book has made a major impact on understanding how conflict originates and what practical steps one can take.
Bill has an active local and international practice having worked with clients from Italy, Finland, Switzerland, South Africa, Spain, Japan, Belgium, Sweden, Taiwan, England, Singapore, New Zealand, Denmark and the U.S. Bill was one of the key architects of the 5 Disciplines of Innovation workshops, where he specializes in team issues, and he is co-author, with Curt Carlson, CEO of SRI International of Innovation: The Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want.