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"Engaging The OTHER"

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Nov. 19-21, 2010
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Dearborn, Michigan, USA
Spring 2011 
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Available Speakers

CBI makes the following representatives available
for speaking engagements at conferences, events, and meetings:

Steve S. Olweean,
  Director and Coordinator of programs

Steve Olweean speaks on social healing; conflict transformation; concepts of "The Other;" dynamics of fear, social paranoia, and fear-based belief systems; negative stereotypes, prejudice, the creation of enemy images; psycho-social development and identity; cultural myths and ethos; intergenerational consequences of trauma; victim-perpetrator dynamics; cross-cultural, inter-religious, and cross-border engagement and dialogue; compassion, reconciliation, and forgiveness; public engagement and empowerment; and capacity building at both the grass roots and social institutional level for promoting an authentic world culture of peace.

Particularly since 9-11 he has spoken and been interviewed frequently both in and outside the US to increase understanding among the public of Middle Eastern and Islamic Culture, social/psychological dynamics of fear and communal paranoia, and to promote direct, cross-cultural dialogue as the antidote to the toxic energy of fear.

He also addresses activism in Humanistic Psychology through putting humanistic principles to work in the world improving psycho-social conditions, and has published writings on the above speaking topics. He has been an activist in the human rights and peace movement since the late 1960's, and this commitment and experience continue to inform his work today.

He is a therapist with a graduate degree in Clinical Psychology, with over 30 years of experience in community based mental health treatment and advocacy; has worked in inpatient, outpatient, day treatment, outreach and crisis intervention to high risk populations, and private practice settings; has held positions as clinical director, clinical supervisor, and senior clinician; and has functioned as graduate field supervisor for departments of psychology and social work. His principal areas of treatment are trauma and abuse recovery, crisis intervention, dissociative disorders, victim/perpetrator dynamics, and healing negative belief systems.

He developed the integrated Catastrophic Trauma Recovery (CTR) treatment model focusing on treating large populations in regions of conflict victimized by war and violence, as described in Dr. Stanley Krippner's landmark book published by Preager/Greenwood publishers:: "The Psychological Impact of War Trauma on Civilian Populations."

His current book project is "Engaging The Other," an edited compilation of chapters contributions by authors representing a diversity of cultures and societies around the world exploring this fundamentally subjective phenomenon from their unique cultural eye. The book is the impetus for the creation of the Annual International Conference on Engaging The Other, and is based on a chapter he contributed titled "Psychological Concepts of The Other: Embracing the Compass of the Self" to a book edited by Dr. Chris Stout and published by Preager/Greenwood publishers on: "The Psychology of Terrorism."

For 15 years he was coordinator of the AHP Soviet-American Professional Exchange, established in the early 1980's as one of the 1st grassroots professional human service exchanges with the then Soviet Union

- Founding Director, Program Developer, and Coordinator of CBI programs and projects, as described in a chapter devoted to CBI in the "The New Humanitarians," published by Preager/Greenwood publishers.
- President of the International Humanistic Psychology Association (IHPA).
- Past President of the Association for Humanistic Psychology.

- Recipient of the Charlotte and Karl Bühler Award for 2011 from the American Psychological Association for outstanding and lasting contribution to Humanistic Psychology internationally.
- Fellow of the Center for Social Healing, Meridian University.
- Member of The Board for Neve Shalom/Wahat Al Salaam in Israel

Contact Information:

Steve Olweean
CBI Director and Coordinator of Programs
President, International Humanistic Psychology Association (IHPA)

E-mail
SOlweean@aol.com
Telephone
269-665-9393
FAX
269-665-9393
Postal address
12170 South Pine Ayr Drive
Climax, Michigan  49034 USA
 

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Steve Olweean, Director,  SOlweean@aol.com
12170  S. Pine Ayr Drive •
Climax, Michigan49034 USA
1.269.665.9393  (Phone and Fax
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