About Skip

Dr. Skip Robinson is largely retired. For the 2008-2009 Academic Year, he will teach Person in Society in the regular semester through May and thereafter in January and August Intersession intensives.

In the past, his consulting has been primarily for public jurisdictions here and abroad, non-profit 501(c)(3) organizations, foundations, educational institutions, and health care systems. Over the years, his consulting subjects have included group facilitation, interest-based conflict resolution, health and benefit system design and operation, integrative learning, curriculum development, human resources, organization systems, and sustainability. On occasion, he has collaboratively written multi-party negotiation simulations (a form of improvisational drama) in other countries for regional or national organizations or governments.

He has taught and published in a number of fields and has been a primary consultant to three television series - including one 22-hour series on poetry through the San Francisco State University Poetry Center and two series on personal inner resources in social action. The latter two series were distributed across the U.S. to 60 cities by the Public Broadcasting System satellite.

He has served as President of the Board of California Poets in the Schools and has recently served a three-year term as Secretary-Treasurer of the Council for Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology. For the last five years, he directed and was co-principal investigator on an SSU campus and community collaborative initiative about the Sonoma County health care crisis. (See the program's findings and archive at www.sonoma.edu/programs/healthcrisis/ )

In the United States he has taught at the University of San Francisco, University of California, Berkeley Extension and, San Francisco Extension, Seattle University, as well as with the Conflict Resolution, Research & Resource Institute, Inc. (CRI), Tacoma.

He has taught and facilitated studies 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, the Initiatives Foundation, and The California Endowment.

He has taught, consulted, negotiated, and developed international simulations with CRI on projects in the Soviet Union, the Russian Republic, Poland, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Cuba. In Russia, he was one of a U.S. team collaboratively developing the Soviet Union's apparently first civilian democratic conflict resolution teaching program, co-writing ecological negotiation simulations, teaching conflict resolution to a variety of professionals, from lawyers and psychologists to consultants and governmental officials. With CRI abroad, he taught and consulted with a number of national institutions, including directing a week-long CRI-ISRI joint program of dialogue with the Instituto Superior de Relaciones Internacionales (ISRI), the senior Graduate School of the Cuban Foreign Ministry, Havana.

With another consultant, Jennae Wallach MHSA, he consulted during the year 2000 with the Gere Foundation on behalf of the Central Tibetan Administration in exile, Dharamsala, India, collaboratively developing a health plan and system for senior teachers and destitute Tibetan monks and nuns in exile in Karnataka State, India. He and Ms. Wallach also prepared a five-year organizational development agenda for the parties.

Mr. Robinson has his B.A. with a major in English and a minor in Speech & Theater from the University of Illinois, graduated from the Graduate Internship in Teaching Program at the University of California, Berkeley, earned an M.A. in Psychology from Sonoma State University, and was awarded a Ph.D. in Psychology (Clinical, Humanistic, and Transpersonal) from the Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, San Francisco. He has also studied at Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, and at San Francisco State University.

He has three grown children - Jon, Amy, and Sarah. He lives in Cotati, California.

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