Harris L. Friedman, Ph.D. is Research Professor of Psychology (Retired) at University of Florida and Professor Emeritus at Saybrook University, as well as a Florida licensed psychologist. He received his PhD in Clinical Psychology at Georgia State University, holds the Diploma in Clinical Psychology, as well as in Organizational and Business Consulting Psychology, from the American Board of Professional Psychology, and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. He is past President of the International Transpersonal Association, and serves as the Senior Editor of the International Journal of Transpersonal Studies and the Associate Editor of The Humanistic Psychologist. He chairs the Transpersonal Psychology Interest Group and co-chairs the Positive Psychology Interest Group of the American Psychological Association’s Society for Humanistic Psychology (Division 32). He has more than 200 scholarly publications, and is currently co-editing The Praeger Series on Social Justice and Psychology (2 volumes) and The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Transpersonal Psychology. He is also currently consulting in the area of assessing and training in cross-cultural competence, as well as in the area of criminal justice, and is designing a program for youth using neurofeedback to treat attention deficit disorder.
Dr Friedman will be presenting a Keynote on Transpersonal Psychotherapies.
Dr. Paul T. P. Wong received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Toronto. He has held professorial positions at various universities, such as York University, University of Toronto, and Trent University. As the Founding Director of the Graduate Program in Counselling Psychology at Trinity Western University (TWU), he has established an accredited and widely recognized graduate program. More recently, he served as the Division Chair of Psychology and Business Administration at Tyndale University College. He had been a visiting scientist to the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of British Columbia. He has been invited to lecture in numerous universities in Asia and North America. Currently, he devotes most to his time to writing and private practice.
George A. Bonanno is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University. His research focuses on how people cope with potentially traumatic events, such as the death of a loved one, terrorist attack, disaster and medical emergency. His studies have documented our natural resilience to these events and explored the factors that help us cope effectively; these include our repertoire of emotional reactions, especially positive emotion and laughter, personality, and the context of our lives. He is author of the Other Side of Sadness: What the New Science of Bereavement Tells Us About Life After Loss.
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Though pursuing a wide range of interests in personality and psychopathology, Salvatore R. Maddi is especially concerned with stress management and creativity. According to him, these are best considered related concerns, integrated by the personality hardiness model. Through deepening the attitudes of commitment, control, and challenge marking hardiness, persons can simultaneously develop, reach their potentialities, and cope with the stresses encountered on the way. Maddi’s research concerns these topics, using naturalistic designs and training with a range of adult and adolescent subjects in their occupational, familial, and school settings. Also studied is the role of psychosocial factors in the etiology and progression of various physical illnesses.
Todd B. Kashdan, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Psychology at George Mason University. As a scientist, teacher, therapist, husband, father, and twin, he offers a unique perspective on the ingredients for creating and sustaining a a life that matters.
(2009). His second book, Designing Positive Psychology (2011) provides cutting edge science on how to achieve well-being in an uncertain, unpredictable world.
Professor Kingwell teaches in the Department of Philosophy. He specializes in political and cultural theory, especially justice and citizenship, and related topics in the philosophy of art, architecture, and design. His recent graduate courses have included seminars on political and cultural theory as well as contemporary continental philosophy. For almost a decade he has taught a large introductory philosophy course as well as upper-level undergraduate courses in ethics, political theory, and philosophy of art. As part of the Trinity One program at the University of Toronto, he also teaches a limited-enrollment first-year seminar called Ethics and the Creative Imagination.
Christopher Peterson has been at the University of Michigan since 1986, where he is professor of psychology and organizational studies and former director of clinical training. He also holds an appointment as an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, in recognition of his contributions to teaching. Peterson is among the 100 most widely cited psychologists in the world. He is a member of the Positive Psychology Steering Committee, a consulting editor to the Journal of Positive Psychology, Perspectives on Psychological Science, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and the Positive Psychology Book Series Editor for Oxford University Press. He is the author of A Primer in Positive Psychology