Speakers
 LISA JORDAN |
Lisa Jordan is Executive Director of the Bernard van Leer Foundation. In this position she oversees programs and operations that impact over a million disadvantaged young children every year. Ms. Jordan is a well-known speaker, author and applied specialist in the fields of democracy, civil society, good governance, NGO accountability, and globalization. She is co-editor of the recently published book ‘NGO Accountability: Politics, Principles and Innovations’. Ms. Jordan has worked on strengthening democracy and civil society through positions with NGOs, governments and private philanthropic foundations for twenty years. She has lived and worked in New York, Washington D.C., Amsterdam, Tokyo, Brussels and currently in The Hague. She previously served for nine years with the Ford Foundation as Acting Director and Deputy Director of the Governance and Civil Society Unit and in this position was responsible for overseeing $120 million in grants. Other positions included directing the U.S. component of the Global Legislators Organization for a Balanced Environment (GLOBE), an environmental exchange program for parliamentarians from Russia, Europe, Asia and the United States; acting as a legislative assistant to Congressman Jim Scheuer (8th NY); directing the multilateral development bank program of BothEnds, a non-profit in the Netherlands; and directing the Bank Information Center, a non-profit in Washington D.C. She has acted as a consultant for numerous foundations in the fields of development and environment and has published peer reviewed articles in Dutch, English and Spanish on changes in the field of development, globalization, NGO accountability, and on the multilateral development banks. Ms. Jordan graduated cum laude in 1992 with a Master’s Degree in Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, Netherlands. A U.S. national, she is married with two children. |
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Thomas L. Sexton, PhD, Professor, Department of Counseling Psychology at Indiana University, directs the Center for Adolescent and Family Studies, a national center for the study and dissemination of research based practices for the treatment of at-risk adolescents and their families. A practitioner, social scientist, and family therapy model developer, he has presented more than 300 workshops on Functional Family Therapy, consulted nationally and internationally with systems of care helping to integrate evidence-based practices, implementing FFT in the Netherlands and Ireland. He is co-author of the FFT clinical manual (Sexton & Alexander 2004), author/co-author of the most recent theoretical chapters on FFT, designed the most recent training and implementation procedures for moving FFT into community based clinical settings, and written extensively on family therapy and psychotherapy research, including a major reference, the Handbook of Family Therapy. Sexton and Turner (Journal of Family Psychology, 2010) is the first FFT outcome study in more than 20 years and Functional Family Therapy in Clinical Practice the first book on FFT in over 30 years. He is a licensed psychologist, board certified Family Psychologist (ABPP), Fellow of the American Psychological Association, past president of the APA’s Society of Family Psychology. |
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John Shotter, currently a tutor on the Professional Doctorate in Systemic Practice (PDSP) in the University of Bedfordshire, in Luton, England, is Emeritus Professor of Communication, University of New Hampshire. His long term interest has been, and still is, is in the social conditions conducive to people having a voice in determining the conditions of their own lives, in the development of participatory democracies and civil societies. He is the author of Social Accountability and Selfhood (Blackwell, 1984), Cultural Politics of Everyday Life: Social Constructionism, Rhetoric, and Knowing of the Third Kind (Open University, 1993), Conversational Realities: the Construction of Life through Language (Sage, 1993), and Conversational Realities Revisited: Life, Language, Body, and Word (Taos Publications). He has two new books in press: Getting It: Withness-Thinking and the Dialogical... in Practice (Hampton Press), and Social Construction on the Edge: Withness-Thinking and Embodiment (Taos Publications). He calls his current approach to social theory a social ecological approach. |
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Monica McGoldrick, M.A., LCSW, Ph.D. (h.c.), is the Director of the Multicultural Family Institute in Highland Park, New Jersey, and on the faculty of UMDNJ, Robert Wood Johnson Medical school. She has a BA from Brown University, a MA in Russian Studies from Yale University, an M.S.W and Honorary Doctorate from Smith College School for Social Work. Fourth generation Irish American, married to a Greek immigrant, she was raised in a family in which her closest emotional connection was to her African American caretaker, Margaret Bush. She grew up knowing very little about her roots, but coming through her family therapy work to believe deeply in the importance of connections to family and cultural history. Dr. McGoldrick is known internationally for her writings and teaching on topics including culture, class, gender, the family life cycle, loss, family patterns (genograms), remarried families, and sibling relationships. Her videotape of clinical work with a multicultural family around issues of loss is one of the most widely respected in the field. Several of her books have become best selling classics of their publishers: Ethnicity and Family Therapy, now in its 3rd edition, co-edited with Joe Giordano and Nydia Garcia Preto; The Expanded Family Life Cycle, 2005, soon going into a 4th edition, co-edited with Betty Carter and Nydia Garcia Preto; Genograms: Assessment and Intervention, in a 3rd edition, co-edited with Sueli Petry; Women in Families, Living Beyond Loss: Death in the Family, 2nd edition, co-edited with Froma Walsh and Revisioning Family Therapy: Race, Culture, and Gender in Clinical Practice, recently published in a 2nd edition, co-edited with Ken Hardy. Her book You Can Go Home Again: Understanding Family Relationships translates her ideas about family relationships for a popular audience, using examples such as Beethoven, Groucho Marx, Sigmund Freud and the Kennedys. |
John Shotter