Positive Aging Newsletter Advisory Board

ROBERT COTTOR
Bob Cottor, M.D., has practiced as a community, forensic, and family psychiatrist for 45 years. He has worked with children, families, healthcare organizations and family businesses in the Phoenix Metro area for the past 40 years. Bob closed his clinical and child custody forensic practices in 2007. He has maintained a consulting practice with family businesses and healthcare organizations since that time. Bob trained more than 400 practicing professionals in constructionist, collaborative, appreciative and relational change practices during his 20 years at the Institute for Creative Change in Phoenix, Arizona. His current professional emphases are teaching and coaching appreciative healthcare, positive aging, positive living, and pediatric palliative care. The enriching of relationships within all of their diverse contexts has always been a primary focus of his work. Bob serves on the Board of the Taos Institute and is the Chair of the Medical Advisory Council for Ryan House, a nonprofit organization in the Phoenix that offers an innovative program of pediatric palliative care, end-of-life care and respite care for children with life-limiting conditions and their families.


SHARON COTTOR
Sharon Cottor, MSW, has been a psychotherapist, life coach, business coach, and relationship consultant for more than 45 years. She was a pioneer and leader in marriage and family therapy in Arizona. She trained more than 300 therapists, coaches and consultants in constructionist, collaborative, appreciative and relational change practices during her 20 years at the Institute for Creative Change in Phoenix, Arizona. Sharon no longer has a mental health practice. Her professional work has evolved into a coaching and consulting practice dealing with relationship, communication and conflict transformation issues with individuals, couples and businesses. Sharon focuses on positive living, positive aging and healthy relationships. She works at creating new and satisfying futures with individuals, couples, family businesses and nonprofit organizations. Sharon is known for her highly innovative relational and social constructionist approach in her work with creative change. Sharon has been a Taos Associate since 1996 and an active member in a select business women's group in the Phoenix metro area, Women At The Top (WATT), since 1998.

THOMAS FRIEDRICH-HETT
Thomas Friedrich-Hett, Marburg, Germany.
Translator of the Positive Aging Newsletter, from English to German.


LORRAINE HEDTKE
Lorraine Hedtke, MSW, ACSW, LCSW specializes in working with people who are dying and families after a loved one has died. She is employed by VITAS Innovative Hospice Care as a Bereavement Services Manger for the Inland Empire in California. She regularly teaches nationally and internationally about death, dying and bereavement and narrative therapy. Her articles have appeared in numerous professional and trade publications and newspapers. Along with John Winslade, she is the co-author of Re-membering Lives: Conversations with the Dying and the Bereaved (Baywood Press: 2004). Her recent children's book, My Grandmother is Always With Me, is co-authored with her teen aged daughter, Addison.

Further information and articles can be found at www.rememberingpractices.com

SU-FEN LIU
Su-Fen Liu is Assistant Professor in the Department of Marketing and Distribution Management, National Pingtung Institute of Commerce in Taiwan. She received her Doctorate of Adult Education from the University of Georgia. Her research interests include older worker issues, human resource development, and gender equality education. Her Chinese translation of PA Newsletter started in 2009.


ANGELICA MORETTI
Angelica Moretti is a psychologist and one of the founders of ATMA Desenvolvimento Humano in Sao Paulo, Brazil. There she has worked as a consultant in organizational, educational, clinic and sports areas since 1996. As a consultant, she has been developing several programs in Organizational Transformation and Change Processes; Systemic Coaching; Culture Development in Business and Leadership; Stress and Quality of Life, for more than 20 years. In private practice she also works in a body-mind approach integrating post traumatic experiences, aiming for a happy possible life after trauma. She uses this knowledge to offer training to other psychologists and non-psychologists on Critical Incident Stress Management. Angelica Moretti is trained in Systemic Psychotherapy and facilitates Family and Organizational Constellation Workshops. She is a trainer with the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation (ICISF) and with the International Traumatology Institute of the University of South Florida (USF). In addition, she is the translator of the Positive Aging newsletter from English to Portugense.

Email: angelica@atmadh.com.br, Websites: www.atmadh.com.br and www.conecte.ning.brInstitute Associates


WILLIAM (BILL) RANDALL
Bill Randall, EdD, is Professor of Gerontology at St. Thomas University, in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, where he also serves as Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Narrative (www.stu.ca/stu/sites/cirn) . A native of rural New Brunswick and a former minister with the United Church of Canada, he was educated at Harvard College, Cambridge University, Princeton Seminary, and the University of Toronto. Author of numerous publications on “narrative gerontology,” which views aging as a creative process of fashioning meaning and wisdom from the stories of our lives, he is author, co-author, or co-editor of five books. Among these are: The Stories We Are (University of Toronto 1995), Ordinary Wisdom (Praeger 2001), and Reading Our Lives: The Poetics of Growing Old (Oxford 2008). Principal co-organizer of three international, inter-disciplinary conferences called Narrative Matters, he is also co-editor of the online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal Narrative Works: Issues, Investigations, & Interventions (www.stu.ca/stu/sites/cirn/journal).


ALAIN ROBIOLIO
Alain Robiolio - After obtaining my Masters degree, he became an independent architect, and subsequently worked as a scientific collaborator for the Architectural Historic Heritage Office in the Canton Fribourg, Switzerland. After an education in systemic and family therapy and a Master degree in NLP, he opened his own private practice. Alain is essentially working with couples and individuals in a constructionist orientation, sensitive to the creation of new and unexpected relationships within the participants and with a not-knowing attitude. He has also developed an urban building game for children and teens inspired by the constructionist ideas (www.afristhef.ch/ubg). The game can also be played by adults in cases of more serious urban matters. He is Secretary of the Fribourg Family Therapists Association. He is also an active trombone player in a renowned brass orchestra of the area. Constructionist ideas are a main concern of his, and he has carried out translations in French of Kenneth Gergen’s "An invitation to Social Construction" (published in 2001), "Constructing Reality" (published in 2005), and Kenneth and Mary Gergen’s "Social Construction ­ Entering the Dialogue" (published in 2006). I also have translated Harlene Anderson’s "Conversation Language and Possibilities" (published in 2005). On a continuing basis he is also translating into French the bimonthly Positive Aging Newsletter published by Mary and Kenneth Gergen.


MARGARET STROEBE
Margaret Stroebe is Professor of Psychology at the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Her major research interest is the study of reactions to interpersonal loss, particularly bereavement, focusing on theoretical approaches to grief and grieving, interactive patterns of coping, and the efficacy of bereavement intervention. She has long been fascinated by cultural differences in coming to terms with bereavement. With Henk Schut she developed the Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement, a perspective that goes beyond traditional approaches to coping with the loss of a loved one, such as the stage and task theories. She has edited (with Robert Hansson, Henk Schut and Wolfgang Stroebe) a third, completely new bereavement handbook entitled the "Handbook of Bereavement Research and Practice, Advances in Theory and Intervention”, which has just appeared with APA Press (June, 2008). Also with Robert Hansson, she wrote “Bereavement in Later Life: Coping, Adaptation, and Developmental Influences” (2007). She is member of the Association of Death Education and Counseling (honorary life member), the Bereavement Research Forum, and the International Workgroup on Death, Dying and Bereavement. She received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, and in 2002 she received the Scientific Research Award of the American Association of Death Education and Counseling.


PETER J. WHITEHOUSE
Peter Whitehouse, MD, PHD is Professor of Neurology as well as Professor of Cognitive Science, Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Psychology, Nursing, Organizational Behavior, Bioethics and History. He received his undergraduate degree from Brown University and MD-PhD (Psychology) from The Johns Hopkins University (with field work at Harvard and Boston Universities, followed by a Fellowship in Neuroscience and Psychiatry and a faculty appointment at Hopkins. With colleagues he discovered fundamental aspects of the cholinergic pathology in Alzheimer’s and related dementias, which lead to the development of our current generation drugs to treat these conditions. In 1986 he moved to Case Western Reserve University to develop the University Alzheimer Center He continued his own life-long learning with a Masters Degree in Bioethics and Fellowship in Organizational Behavior at Case. In 1999 he founded with his wife, Catherine, The Intergenerational School, a unique public multiage, community school (www.tisonline.org). He is clinically active at University Hospitals of Cleveland in the Joseph Foley Elder Health Center at Fairhill Center caring for individuals with concerns about their cognitive abilities as they age. He is working to develop an integrative health practice focused on the healing power of storytelling. His research interests include the neurobiology of what he used to refer to as Alzheimer's disease and related conditions, the development of more effective treatments for individuals with cognitive impairment, ethical issues in the medical profession and integrative health care systems. He has a particular interest in narrative medicine and the power of stories to heal.

He is the author (with Danny George) of a provocative book entitled “The Myth of Alzheimer’s: what you aren’t being told about today’s most dreaded diagnosis.” (www.themythofalzheimers.com)