Global Effectiveness Trainning

GET Associates share a highly developed interest and sincere regard for the values and goals described in the Global Effectiveness Training Statement of Purpose. They all have many years of professional experience applying the Person-Centered Approach and the New Skills in training, teaching and/or clinical settings. All find personal satisfaction in enabling their clients to create powerful interpersonal relationships, communicate effectively and achieve meaningful success.

Additionally, each of them is engaged in the exploration and discovery of how these values, skills, and tools can enrich their own personal lives. They are good people. They are easy to talk and relate to. More than likely, they will take a genuine interest in your personal as well as your professional life.

Kathryn Meadows Ishikawa lives in southern California and is the Director of Camelot, an organization that teaches PCA in organizations and competence in Leadership and Management. She is a linguist using language and PCA to prize and maintain differences in relationships and to build new community. She is currently working with Kazuo Yamashita and others to develop PCA for a new generation through workshops and conferences.
Katy states enthusiastically, "I am committed to making a difference in the world that will have an impact 500 years from now. My life pursuit is joy and authenticity. I want to be with others in their pursuits. I want to contribute to the development of the world by contributing to the development of the individual and each person's own authenticity. If I can say at the end of each day, 'God isn't this great!!!', then I will live a happy life." E-mail her at katy@camelot-usa.com

Veniamin Kolpachnikov, Candidate of Psychology (Ph.D.), lives in Moscow. He is an Associate Professor and consultant.
        Venya reports, "I was introduced to Carl Rogers and the Person-Centered Approach while I was an undergraduate student in Moscow State University, 1981-1983. From the very first moment, Rogers' ideas struck me as being true about human nature and ways of relating to people. I was happy to listen to him in Moscow during his visit to Russia in 1986. I was fortunate to become associated with the Center for Studies of the Person and its members in 1993-94 and in 2002 during my professional business trips to the USA.
        "I was inspired to start my own activity as a person-centered practitioner. I work as a counselor, group facilitator, instructor and university professor. The Person-centered Approach is a basis and a powerful means for being effective as a professional. Many of my colleagues, students and clients have already experienced its beautiful transformative power. I intend to further use PCA for the benefits of people in Russia and the whole world".
        An excerpt from his paper, The Person-Centered Approach as a Pyschotechnical System, that reports on research supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York is in the papers section of this site. E-mail him at venyak@mail.ru

Jere Moorman, M.B.A., lives in northern California. He is a Person Centered Relationship Consultant who specializes in work-place relationship competence.
Jere says, "All work gets done through relationships. The Person-Centered Approach to relationships offers necessary and sufficient conditions for the satisfying conduct of work-place relationships."
Jere is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Studies of the Person, a founding member of the international Pajaro Group of person-centered consultants and co-director of the Conflict Transformation Project (a CSP project); co-author of Conflict is Inevitable -- War is Optional. E-mail him at JEREMOOR@aol.com

Joachim Schwarz, Ph.D., lives in southern California and is a relational therapist in private practice with intensive training in Couple Therapy, Guided Imagery & Art Therapy.
Joachim remarks, "Like many academics, I have spent many hours in lectures and seminars. I have done research, taught and published on the PC Approach and Spirituality . But what brings out the best in me is participating in a fellow human's healing, who come to see me because of anguish, frustration, fear or desperation. Seeing a desperate become hopeful, a fearful become courageous, or an angry person become peaceful remains a wonderful and mysterious privilege for me."
"I like responding to questions about Person-Centered theory or practice. And I would gladly meet you when problems seem to overwhelm you or a beloved one. If it is a "quick fix" you are looking for, I am not the right person for you." E-mail him at schwarz@nethere.com

Susan B. Schwarz, Ph.D., PA-C, is a psychologist and a medical clinician living in southern California. During her 25 years of medical work she has promoted a Person-Centered approach to Doctor, patient communication and decision making, emphasizing the role of the patient as active partner in managing health conditions.
In her psychology practice she invites clients to combine expressive art experiences with dialogue to access and explore their personal insights and creative abilities. Email Susan at schwarz@nethere.com schwarz@nethere.com

Will Stillwell, Ph.D., lives in San Diego, California.
        Will says, "I have been associated with humanistic branches of the behavioral sciences for more than thirty years. I work with people in organizations as a coach to individuals, facilitator to groups, and mediator in conflict situations. I serve on the faculty of several universities, and have authored a recent web-book, Feather Raft - featherraft.vze.com, as well as co-written Conflict is Inevitable--War is Optional."
        "I resonate with the Jewish hope for justice, the Christian hope for love and the Buddhist hope for liberation, the Hindu reverence for multiplicity, the Islamic for community and the Animist for spirit in all beings."
        Be sure to check out Will's very interesting paper about workplace dynamics: COMPLAINING (QUEJAS) Email him at: stillwell@aabol.com

Kazuo Yamashita, MSW, lives in Japan. Trained in social work, he has resigned his associate professorship so he can devote his full energy to establishing a new organization.
Kazuo writes, "I'm currently setting up a new center that will be know as the Center for Human and Organizational Development Resources (CHODR). CHODR will provide a variety of resources to enhance human and organizational development in families, corporations, and other forms of organization. This center will be a non-profit corporation. It will link and bring together individuals, groups, organizations and resources devoted to improving the quality of human relationships within organizations as well as the effectiveness of the organization. It will be a model for adaptable, person-centered organizations of the future. It is a very big and meaningful challenge in my life."
Kazuo has written about facilitative relationships in residential childcare facilities. This paper is only available in Japanese - to see it, email him at yamakaz@mxy.mesh.ne.jp