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Brad Blanton, Ph.D.
Taber Shadburne
Susan Campbell, Ph.D.
Clara Griffin
Raven Dana
Jerry Griffin
Anne Bryer

Brad Blanton, Ph.D.
Founder

Dr. Brad Blanton is a psychotherapist, author, seminar leader, District Chairman of The Independent Green Party of Virginia and candidate for United States Congress in 2006. He describes himself as "white trash with a Ph.D." Armed with quick wit and an engaging Southern accent, he speaks with an unwavering honesty that is both disarming and challenging, a quality that has earned him admirers as well as detractors. His first book, Radical Honesty: How To Transform Your Life By Telling The Truth , became a nation wide best seller in 1996 and has been translated into seven languages. The new revised edition was just released by Sparrowhawk Publications in April 2005. His second book, Practicing Radical Honesty: How to Complete the Past, Live in the Present and Build a Future with A Little Help From Your Friends, about the relationship between personal transformation and social transformation, is the first cause of his current candidacy for congress. In 2002, consistent with that same theme, he published Honest to God: A Change of Heart that Can Change the World (with Neale Donald Walsch). Also in 2002 he published Radical Parenting: Seven Steps to a Functional Family in a Dysfunctional World , which is about child rearing, and Brad says it is the most radical book he has ever written. In 2004 he edited and published The Truthtellers: Stories Of Success By Radically Honest People which is made up of inspiring stories of what happened to people from all walks of life, who read Brad's books or graduated from his eight day residential Workshop called The Course in Honesty , when they tried being honest in the real world. His first novel, Beyond Good and Evil: The Eternal Split-Second Sound-Light Being is to be released in the summer of 2005.

Brad has been interviewed on hundreds of television and radio shows in the US and abroad, including 20/20 with John Stossel, Dateline-NBC, CNN Talk Back Live, Montel Williams, Sally Jesse Raphael, Iyanla, Roseanne, and others. He has been written about in Men's Health, Inner Self, Cosmopolitan, Family Circle, The Chicago Herald-Tribune, The Washington Post and many others.

Brad earned his doctorate from the University of Texas in 1966 when he was 25 years old. He trained at Esalen Institute in California with Fritz Perls, Bob Hall and Jim Simpkin. He was founding president of the Gestalt Institute of Washington, D.C. in 1970. He spent 25 years in the private practice of clinical psychology and became the Director of The Center for Well Being in Washington, D.C. where he did psychotherapy with individuals, couples, and groups. He also served as a consultant to corporations, government and the media. In 1990 he moved to central Virginia and founded Radical Honesty Enterprises, a private corporation, and the Center for Radical Honesty, a nonprofit corporation that promotes honesty in the world. He created the Course in Honesty Eight Day Workshop and, for the last fifteen years, has conducted that and other workshops at the rate of six to ten times a year in the U.S., Canada and Europe. He has conducted workshops at the Rowe Camp and Conference Center, Omega at Rhinebeck, New York and Omega at the Crossings in Austin, Texas and other growth centers. He has conducted corporate trainings in the United States, Canada, Germany, Sweden and Denmark.

Brad has spent many years as an activist in the civil rights movement (1959-1964), marching against the Vietnam war (1963-1972), traveling around the US and Canada as a hippie in an old school bus (1970's) and the world (1980's until current times) dedicating himself to honesty, self discovery and contribution to other people. This, along with being a 40-year veteran of the human potential movement, has helped him develop a unique perspective on human nature. All of these experiences helped form his views about radical honesty. He teaches that the primary cause of stress, depression and anger is, "living in a story and lying to maintain it."

Taber Shadburne
Master Trainer

Taber Shadburne has a B.A. in music and comparative religion (summa cum laude) and an M.A. in counseling psychology, and has completed numerous professional trainings, including Hakomi Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Gestalt Dreamwork, Process-Oriented Psychology, and all of the training in the facilitation of Community-Building (including the Leadership Education Program) offered by M. Scott Peck's Foundation for Community Encouragement. He has worked as a psychotherapist in Portland, Oregon at Garlington Community Mental Health, Catholic Family Service, and Kerr Youth and Family Service. For seven years, Mr. Shadburne taught and led psycho-educational groups for Kaiser-Permanente (the largest HMO in America) in subjects that included Couples Communication, Stress and Anxiety Management, Self-Esteem and Working with Depression.

Since 1990, Taber has been in private practice, providing individual and couples therapy and leading personal growth groups and workshops. While designing and leading his own workshop called Radical Intimacy, he discovered Dr. Blanton's book, Radical Honesty, and came to Virginia to work closely with Dr. Blanton and receive intensive training. Mr. Shadburne is certified as a Radical Honesty trainer and has co-led numerous workshops with Dr. Blanton. He has also conducted Radical Honesty workshops, provided Radical Honesty consultations and private appointments in various parts of the country. Taber Shadburne is Dr. Blanton's senior trainer and has received certification as Master Trainer in Radical Honesty.

When not traveling, Mr. Shadburne is based in San Francisco, California.

Susan Campbell, Ph.D.
Trainer

Dr. Susan Campbell has authored nine books on relationships and conflict resolution, has delivered hundreds of seminars and workshop internationally, and has counseled thousands of individuals and couples. In demand with the press, radio and TV to help interpret the status of contemporary human work and love relations, she has appeared on CNN's NewsNight and Good Morning America and Dr. Dean Edell.

Accomplished in the business world, Susan has directed a think tank, run non-profit organizations, consulted to Fortune 500 companies, and guest lectured at the Harvard, Stanford, and UCLA business schools.

An avid adventurer and proponent of "living your life out loud," she has made millions, lost millions, lived in other cultures, and spent two years sailing her 47-foot sailboat halfway around the world.

Some of her more well-known book titles are: The Couples Journey, Beyond the Power Struggle, and Getting Real.

Her most recent research and writing has focused on dating - a scene widely regarded as fraught with tension and lacking in directness - and she proposes an exciting new model for dating and relating in her book, Truth in Dating: Find Love by Getting Real. Susan is gratified by the feedback from her publisher that in bookstores this book is "flying off the shelves..."

Gregory Small
Corporate Trainer

Greg Small is a graduate of New York Institute of Technology (Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences) and California Coast University (Business Management). Greg worked as quality and organizational development consultant to the Xerox Corporation consultant for over 18 years. While consulting to Xerox, he worked with the Xerox Total Quality Management strategy that received the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. He helped design and implement the Xerox strategy for Self-Directed Work Teams for the U.S. Service Organization, a strategy that encompassed 18,000 employees and 3,000 work teams.

As a private consultant, Mr. Small offers consulting services in strategic planning, organizational assessment, change management, empowerment, meeting effectiveness, team building, conflict management, and leadership development. He has worked with organizations such as Xerox, U.S. Navy Public Works Center, International Business Machines (IBM), Washington State Medical Assistance Administration, New Holland Farming Equipment, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, California Disability Evaluation Division, and U.S. Department of Commerce.

Greg has studied directly under experts such as Dr. Will Schutz (The Human Element), Dr. David Banner (Designing Effective Organizations), and Dr. Brad Blanton (gestalt theory & practices). He has completed training programs with Peter Senge (Fifth Discipline: Systems Theory), Dr. Edwards Deming (Management Practices), Dr. Peter Koestenbaum (Leadership: The Inner Side of Greatness), John Barry (Managing Business Dilemmas), Peter Block (Empowered Manager and Flawless Consulting), Harvard University (Negotiations Project: Getting To Yes), University Associates (Advanced Team Building Methods and Accelerated Training Methods), Robert Camp (Benchmarking Practices), Dr. Margaret Wheatley (Leadership and The New Science), and Kouzes and Posner (Leadership Challenge).

Mr. Small lives in Folsom, California with his wife, Pam Rex.

Clara Griffin
Trainer

Clara Griffin is the founder of Venus Rising and creator of the Your Sexual Self Workshops. She is a sex educator and a sex, intimacy and relationship coach. She is also trained in Ericksonian and traditional hypnosis. She has trained in Gestalt therapy and Radical Honesty™ with Brad Blanton and is a certified Radical Honesty™ trainer.
E-mail Clara at venusrise@aol.com

Raven Dana
Trainer

Raven Dana is a Certified Coach with 24 years' experience in stress management , conflict resolution, hypnotherapy, body language & gestalt methods, team building, meditation, meditation, guided imagery, midwifery, sales training, assertiveness training & couples coaching. Dana is also N.L.P. Certified, and a certified HeartVision™ Trainer. She is the former operations manager for Radical Honesty Enterprises and has trained and co-facilitated with author, lecturer, and gestalt therapist Dr. Brad Blanton.
E-mail Raven at raven@ravenheart.com

Jerry Griffin
Trainer

Jerry Griffin is a Certified Radical Honesty Trainer and one hell of a nice guy who lives in Northern Virginia. Jerry is currently listed in the Guiness Book of World Records as the person having attended the most Radical Honesty workshops. Jerry runs group meetings in the Batterer's Intervention Program, a state-mandated program that provides behavioral counseling for individuals convicted of domestic violence.

Anne Bryer
Trainer