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Tom Balles, L.Ac.(U.K.), M.Ac., Dipl.Ac.(NCCAOM)) has been a practicing acupuncturist since 1985. He received a Licentiate in Acupuncture from the College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture (U.K.) and a Master's in Acupuncture from Tai Sophia Institute. Tom has been teaching in the graduate degree and certificate programs at Tai Sophia for the last 16 years. He has facilitated workshops internationally and is the author of Dancing with the Ten Thousand Things: Ways to Become a Powerful Healing Presence and “Cultivating Healing Presence ,” a guide. Tom’s work focuses on the many lessons Nature can teach us about sustaining wellness: in the individual as well as in families, organizations, and communities.
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David Beares, M.Ac., teaches in both the Acupuncture and Transformative Leadership and Social Change master's degree programs at Tai Sophia and is a licensed acupuncturist in private practice. Coming from an educational background in environmental politics, he has spent extensive time in the outdoors, including being a counselor at a wilderness camp for incarcerated youth, hiking the 2,168 mile Appalachian Trail, and studying wilderness survival at Tom Brown Jr.’s Tracker School. David brings a strong background of both educational and experiential knowledge to the Recovering Oneness with Nature unit.
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Dianne M. Connelly, Ph.D., is Co-founder and Chancellor Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute, and a practitioner of traditional acupuncture since 1973, Dr. Connelly received her master's qualification from the College of Traditional Acupuncture (UK) in 1979. She earned a doctorate in crosscultural medicine from Union Graduate School in 1975, a master's degree from New York University School of Education in 1970, and her bachelor's degree from Le Moyne College in 1967. An international lecturer (she lectures regularly in Italy and Germany), Connelly is the author of Traditional Acupuncture: The Law of the Five Elements (1975), All Sickness is Homesickness (1986), Medicine Words: Language of Love for the Treatment Room of Life (2009), and with Katherine Hancock Porter, Alive and Awake: Wisdom for Kids (2003). She is the mother of Blaize, Jade, and Caeli, as well as grandmother to Tamar, Lennox, Rianna, Roman, and Maxim.
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Bob Devlin, B.A., M.A., is president of Transformation Strategies, Inc., a Washington DC Leadership Consultancy with a global reach. He serves as executive consultant, strategic thinking partner, and coach to leaders and senior teams as they learn to lead more boldly and implement change. Bob's clients say he builds extraordinary relationships that lead to breakthrough conversations and create new ways of interacting and doing business. He is the creator of Leadership in Action and the Alignment and Action Process, which are leadership development and change methodologies used in business and government. As director and senior faculty member of the Georgetown University Organization Development Program for seven years, he trained and coached hundreds of leaders and consultants in the complex dynamics of systems change. He currently works nationally and internationally with clients such as global publisher Pearson PLC, global financial services firm SWIFT, Gettysburg College, national associations, the US Army, and government agencies including the Department of Agriculture, Federal Drug and Food Administration, and Department of Homeland Security. He holds a B.A. in International Studies and an M.A. in Human Resource Development from George Washington University, with advanced study in Organization Development.
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Robert M. Duggan, M.A., M.Ac. (UK), Dipl. Ac. (NCCAOM), is Co-Founder and President Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute, has practiced traditional acupuncture since 1973. He holds a master’s degree in human relations and community studies from New York University as well as a master’s in moral theology from St. Joseph’s Seminary, and received his master’s certification in acupuncture from the College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture (UK). A national leader in the development of the acupuncture profession and the emerging healing arts community, he has served as a commissioner of the Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, on the board of trustees of the Horizon Foundation (a community wellness foundation in Howard County, Maryland, which in 2008 honored him with its annual Leadership Award), and a panelist at meetings sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine. In February 2009, Duggan testified before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, and in November 2009, he was among 20 leading thinkers, innovators, artists, philosophers, and entertainers selected to present at the first TEDx MidAtlantic Conference. Mr. Duggan lectures throughout the United States and abroad, and is author of Common Sense for the Healing Arts (2003).
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Susan Duggan, M.Ac., a graduate of Skidmore College with a specialization in Health and Human Services, has practiced bodywork since 1986 and taught at the Potomac Massage Therapy Institute in Washington, DC. She holds a Master of Acupuncture degree from the Traditional Acupuncture Institute (now Tai Sophia Institute) and teaches classes on the arts of living and dying. Prior to her studies of acupuncture and bodywork she coordinated educational programs at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. Susan is an alumna of the Academy for the Love of Learning. Susan teaches in the Transformative Leadership and Social Change, Acupuncture, and Herbal Medicine master’s degree programs. She practices family acupuncture and wellness at Wisdomwell in Columbia, Maryland.
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Robert Gordon, M.S., M.A., M.S.(candidate) is an organizational consultant specializing in professional education, organization development, and leadership development. Bob also provides counseling and life, career, and leadership coaching at the Imago Center of Washington DC and the Pastoral Counseling and Consultation Centers of Greater Washington. Bob has over 25 years of experience in the field of professional education, training, and organization development. He led the leadership development programs for three federal agencies and designed the first corporate university for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. During his time in the federal government, Bob was honored with five Secretary of Labor Exceptional Achievement Awards for designing and delivering professional instruction and consulting initiatives that achieved measurable improvements in organizational effectiveness and quality. His “Breaking Barriers to Achievement” program, which he launched at the U.S. Department of Commerce, was a featured presentation at the American Society of Training and Development. Bob holds a Master of Science degree in Organization Development (M.S.O.D.) from American University in partnership with the NTL Institute of Applied Behavioral Science. He is also a graduate of Tai Sophia’s Master of Arts program in Applied Healing Arts, where he was given the Herbert C. Brown Community Service Award. Bob completes his Master of Science degree in counseling from Loyola University Maryland in December 2011. Bob has been a student, practitioner, and teacher of world wisdom traditions for over 30 years, several as a monastic. He is a member of the National Career Development Association, the Mid-Atlantic Association for Imago Relationship Therapists, Spiritual Directors International, and the International Association for Spirit at Work.
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Allyson Jones, M.Ac., L.Ac., holds a Master of Acupuncture from Tai Sophia Institute where she serves on the faculty in both the Transformative Leadership and Social Change and Acupuncture degree programs. She is a licensed acupuncturist and co-owner of Point Well Taken Acupuncture Center in Baltimore, Maryland. Allyson also teaches Tai Sophia’s “Redefining Health” workshops to business and community groups, both nationally and internationally. She is a Diplomate of Acupuncture with the National Certification Commission on Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM). Allyson’s prior work experience includes clinical social work, child advocacy and corporate public affairs consulting. She holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Maryland and a bachelor's degree in Russian Studies from the University of Virginia.
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Helen Mitchell, Ph.D., is professor of philosophy and director of women's studies at Howard Community College, as well as a core faculty member in the Transformative Leadership and Social Change program. She earned her doctorate in 1990 from the University of Maryland, two master’s degrees from Loyola College [in 1979 and 1974] and her bachelor's degree from Hood College in 1963. Her text in world philosophy, Roots of Wisdom, is now in its 6th edition and has been translated into Spanish and Chinese. She also created, scripted, and hosted a 25-lesson telecourse in philosophy, "For the Love of Wisdom", distributed nationally by Dallas Telelearning. With her husband and life partner, Joe, she co-authors readers in world history, dedicated to Jason, their "first successful collaboration."
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John G. Sullivan, Ph.D., J.C.D., A long-time participant in the work of Tai Sophia, John Sullivan is the principal designer of Tai Sophia's Master of Arts in Transformative Leadership and Social Change program (formerly Master of Arts in Applied Healing Arts). Dr. Sullivan is Maude Sharpe Powell Professor of Philosophy Emeritus and Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Elon University in North Carolina. He holds two earned doctorates: a J.C.D. (canon law) from Lateran University in Rome (1966) and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1985). Dr. Sullivan is the author of four books: To Come to Life More Fully, Living Large: Transformative Work at the Intersection of Ethics and Spirituality, The Spiral of Seasons: Welcoming the Gifts of Later Life and The Fourfold Path to Wholeness: A Compass for the Heart. His abiding interest is the place where philosophy, psychology, and spirituality - East, West, and beyond - intersect and mutually enhance one another. He is currently working on issues of spirituality and later life. See his essays.
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