Acknowledgments: A Professional Family Tree

Steven would like to acknowledge major influences which contributed to his professional orientation, and comes with affection and gratitude. While each contributor is a leading professional in their field, their fundamental contribution has been spiritual in nature.

Coryl Crane Sensei
6th Degree Black Belt, North County Aikikai
Artist, author, lecturer, internationally recognized Aikido Instructor, and Founder, North County Aikikai (Solana Beach, CA). Crane Sensei’s heritage in aikido includes her training under Chiba Shihan, 8th Dan (uchideshi under the Founder, O-Sensei), and the mindfulness of Zen practice and Iaido, the sword art of the live blade.
www.NCAikikai.org

Stephen Gilligan, PhD
PhD, Stanford, Clinical Psychology
Author, Psychologist, Lecturer, and Founder, ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Omega Institute (Encinitas, CA), internationally recognized authority on NLP and Ericksonian Hypnotherapy, and creator of Self-Relations Therapy. Gilligan’s professional heritage include his close association with Milton Erickson, systems and strategic intervention theory, and aikido.
www.StephenGilligan.com

Peter Levine, PhD
PhD Berkeley, Medical Biophysics
PhD, International College Los Angeles, Psychology
Lecturer, Author and Founder, Ergos Institute and The Foundation For Human Enrichment (, Colorado) and creator of Somatic Experiencing®, one of the most influential trauma treatment traditions today. Levine’s professional heritage include a wide range of body-mind traditions including hypnosis, eidetics (after Akhter Ahsen), biophysics, and Reichian theory. www.traumahealing.com

Lee Edward Travis, PhD (1896-1987)
PhD, University of Iowa

Teacher, author of the first and authoritative text in speech pathology, among first persons to record EEG, Founder and Dean, Fuller Seminary Graduate School of Psychology, and innovator in the field of “Self-Healing.”