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William (Bill) Richards, PhD, has had a private practice in psychotherapy since 1976, and is a psychologist in the Psychiatry Department of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Bayview Medical Center, where for the past 17 years he has participated in the design and implementation of research projects with psychedelic medicines. His graduate degrees include a Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School, a Master of Sacred Theology (S.T.M.) from Andover-Newton Theological School, and a Ph.D. from Catholic University. Richards studied with Abraham Maslow at Brandeis University and with Hanscarl Leuner at Georg-August University in Göttingen, Germany, where his involvement with psilocybin research originated in 1963. Richards first published his findings in the Journal of Religion and Health in 1996 in an article coauthored with Walter Pahnke titled, ‘‘Implications of LSD and Experimental Mysticism.” His highly acclaimed book, Sacred Knowledge: Psychedelics and Religious Experiences, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016) has been called “…the most comprehensive overview of the actual use of psychedelics in psychotherapy and of the transformative power of mystical experiences” (Torsten Passie, MD, PhD Hannover Medical School). Research results of his most recent studies into psilocybin treatment for existential anxiety in cancer patients was reported in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, December 2016. He has also authored a tribute to Abraham Maslow together with a report of his 25 years of doing psychedelic therapy research for the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, September 2016.

William J. Doherty, Ph.D, is a family therapist and Professor in the Department of Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota where he directs The Minnesota Couples on the Brink Project and The Citizen Professional Center. Clinically, he currently focuses on couples on the brink of divorce and on relational ethics in the everyday lives of clients. Following the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, he co-founded Braver Angels, a citizen initiative bringing conservatives and liberals together to counteract political polarization and restore the fraying social fabric in American society. Braver Angels now has volunteers working in all 50 states. Among his awards is the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Family Therapy Academy. His latest book is The Ethical Lives of Clients: Transcending Self-Interest in Psychotherapy, published by the American Psychological Association. Along with his daughter, he has started The Doherty Foundation for Social and Civil Well-Being that offers free training in ethical consultation for students and practicing therapists.? 

William J. Doherty, Ph.D, is a family therapist and Professor in the Department of Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota where he directs The Minnesota Couples on the Brink Project and The Citizen Professional Center. Clinically, he currently focuses on couples on the brink of divorce and on relational ethics in the everyday lives of clients. Following the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, he co-founded Braver Angels, a citizen initiative bringing conservatives and liberals together to counteract political polarization and restore the fraying social fabric in American society. Braver Angels now has volunteers working in all 50 states. Among his awards is the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Family Therapy Academy. His latest book is The Ethical Lives of Clients: Transcending Self-Interest in Psychotherapy, published by the American Psychological Association. Along with his daughter, he has started The Doherty Foundation for Social and Civil Well-Being that offers free training in ethical consultation for students and practicing therapists. 

William J. Doherty, Ph.D, is a family therapist and Professor in the Department of Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota where he directs The Minnesota Couples on the Brink Project and The Citizen Professional Center. Clinically, he currently focuses on couples on the brink of divorce and on relational ethics in the everyday lives of clients. Following the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, he co-founded Braver Angels, a citizen initiative bringing conservatives and liberals together to counteract political polarization and restore the fraying social fabric in American society. Braver Angels now has volunteers working in all 50 states. Among his awards is the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Family Therapy Academy. His latest book is The Ethical Lives of Clients: Transcending Self-Interest in Psychotherapy, published by the American Psychological Association. Along with his daughter, he has started The Doherty Foundation for Social and Civil Well-Being that offers free training in ethical consultation for students and practicing therapists.? 

Tai Mendenhall, PhD, is a Professor and Medical Family Therapist in the Couple and Family Therapy Program at the University of Minnesota (UMN) in the Department of Family Social Science. He is also the Associate Director of the UMN’s Citizen Professional Center and Director of the UMN’s Medical Reserve Corps’ Mental Health Disaster-Response Teams. He works actively in the conduct of collaborative family healthcare and community-based participatory research (CBPR) focused on a variety of public health issues. 

William R. Miller, PhD, the originator of Motivational Interviewing, is Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico and Director of Research for UNM's Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse & Addictions. Dr. Miller has published 25 books and more than 200 articles and chapters on the treatment of alcoholism and other addictive behaviors.

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Yvonne Dolan has been a psychotherapist for over 25 years. She conducts training seminars in solution-focused and Ericksonian therapy throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and occasionally in South America, and the Pacific Rim.

Zerka Moreno, TEP, along with her late husband, J.L. Moreno, developed the theory and practice of psychodrama. Zerka has taught psychodrama worldwide for more than 30 years since J.L. Moreno's death and is recognized as a leader in further realizing his vision. Her research and writing can now be found in a collection, The Quintessential Zerka: Writings by Zerka T. Moreno on Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy.

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Toby Ingham is a UKCP psychoanalytic psychotherapist, he trained with The Association of Independent Psychotherapists and is a member of The Guild of Psychotherapists. He is interested in communicating the benefits of psychoanalytic psychotherapy to a wider community, and, in how we use ordinary language to speak about ordinary things to develop conversations about our experience. www.tobyingham.com

Tom Greening has been in private practice since 1958 and completed 35 years of editing the Journal of Humanistic Psychology in 2005. He is a professor at Saybrook Graduate School and a clinical professor at UCLA. He writes serious and comical poems, but can't always tell which are which. Although he purports to be a self-actualized existential-humanistic psychologist, he is neurotically involved with a long-haired dachshund. His website is at: www.tom.greening.com.