About Skip

Skip Robinson is partially retired and maintains a limited consulting practice primarily for public jurisdictions, non-profit 501(c)(3) organizations, foundations, health care systems, and educational institutions. Consulting subjects have included health system design, curriculum development, conflict and its collaborative resolution, integrative learning (and its application through learning communities and in large systems), human resources (health care/employee benefits), organization systems, and sustainability. In his consulting practice, he facilitates groups and studies, does system design, teaches, writes, does collaborative negotiation, mediation, program development, and, on occasion, collaboratively writes multi-party negotiation simulations (a form of improvisational drama) for regional or national organizations particularly in other countries.

He has taught and published in a number of fields (please see Publications list) and has been a primary consultant to three television series, two on inner and outer resources in social action, distributed across the U.S. by PBS satellite.

He is a lecturer in Psychology at Sonoma State University and directs a campus-community initiative on the Sonoma County Health Care Crisis. At SSU, he has recently taught psychology courses on the person in society, a case-study seminar on health care crises in Sonoma County, and interdisciplinary courses in the Freshman Seminar program. Also, as SSU adjunct faculty, he teaches psychology courses on collaborative conflict resolution: interest-based negotiation, mediation, and cross-cultural conflict and communication in the SSU Conflict Resolution Certificate Program, which he helped create a decade ago. He guest lectures in the SSU M.A. Program in the Psychology of Organization Development.

At Sonoma State University, other courses he has taught and team-taught have been on the development of the person, work in organizations, recent psychological theory (particularly humanistic-existential-transpersonal psychology), sustainability, psychology-and-poetry taught as a poetry writing workshop, war and peace, global studies (which B.A. program he helped found a decade ago), learning (and learning communities), business (health and benefit system design), history of consciousness, and the nature (promise and tragedy) of the "commons".

He has taught and facilitated studies and organizational system development on grants from such foundations as the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the San Francisco Foundation, the Vanguard Foundation, the Foundation for Social Innovation - U.S.A., the Meadows Foundation, the Tides Foundation, the Gere Foundation, and the Initiatives Foundation. He has served as a consultant to and negotiator for a number of public jurisdictions/governmental organizations, non-profit organizations, and educational and health care organizations, sometimes individually and sometimes in coalitions.

He teaches collaborative conflict resolution internationally with the Conflict Resolution, Research, and Resource Institute, Inc. (CRI) and National Center Associates, Inc. (NCA), Tacoma, and has been associated with CRI and NCA on projects in the U.S., the Soviet Union, the Russian Republic, Poland, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Cuba, for which last case he served in 1994-95 as project director and team teacher in a CRI collaboration with the graduate school of the Cuban Government's Foreign Ministry, the Instituto Superior de Relaciones Internacionales (ISRI). In spring 2000 he collaboratively drafted international economic negotiation simulations in Havana for possible CRI-ISRI professional and graduate seminar use. For a year, three years ago, with colleague Jennae Wallach, MHSA, he independently consulted with the Gere Foundation and the Initiatives Foundation to develop, negotiate, initiate quality control measures, and do multi-year design and planning for a pilot health project in Karnataka State, South India, for senior teachers and destitute exiled Tibetan Buddhist clergy, with plans for expanding to laity, under the aegis of the Central Tibetan Administration, India.

He has been in discussion on recent CRI proposals focused on the Middle East and the Horn of Africa.

In the past, he has taught as adjunct and core adjunct faculty at such other schools as the University of California, Seattle University, and the University of Missouri. At the University of San Francisco he taught for several years in the Masters in Rehabilitation Administration Program (M.R.A.) and guest taught in the USF non-profit management Masters program.

Mr. Robinson has his B. A. in English (minor in Speech & Theater) from the University of Illinois, his M. A. in Psychology from Sonoma State University, is a graduate of the Graduate Internship in Teaching Program at the University of California, Berkeley, and has his Ph.D. in Psychology (humanistic, transpersonal, and clinical) from the Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, San Francisco.

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