is a social worker in private psychotherapy practice.  Through March 2008 she is the Clinical Director of the Southern California Counseling Center in Los Angeles, CA.  She was the Director of Clinical Training Programs at the California Family Counseling Center in the Phillips Graduate Institute in Encino, CA.  In both capacities she administered and designed psychotherapy programs and administered, designed and taught in training programs for entry level therapists.  She has presented and trained in settings throughout California, the U. S. Poland and New Zealand.  She is very interested in change processes in large systems as well as small.  

The working title for her dissertation is “The Tension Between Collaboration and Hierarchy in Collaborative Leadership”.  When a leader assumes a collaborative stance, what are the forces that support that?  What are there forces that pull her to a more hierarchical position?  Are authority and collaboration mutually exclusive?  What organizational values and practices support collaborative positions with a leader?  What organizational values and practices support hierarchical positions with a leader? The dissertation will examine elements of feminism, collaborative theory, dialogue, Buddhism and practices of tai chi, meditation and psychotherapy.

Margery is at a very early stage of study and expects many refinements.