Alfonso Montuori
Alfonso Montuori is Professor and Department Chair of the Transformative Studies Ph.D. and Transformative Leadership M.A. at California Institute of Integral Studies. In 2003-2004, he was Distinguished Professor in the School of Fine Arts at Miami University, in Oxford Ohio, and in 1985-1986 he taught at the Central South University in Hunan, China. A former professional musician, he is the author of several books and numerous articles on creativity, complexity, and education. Alfonso is also a consultant focusing …

Richard Couto, distinguished senior scholar at Union Institute and University, has a background of practice and scholarship in community development. He directed the Center for Health Services, an outgrowth of the student movement, at Vanderbilt University from 1975 to 1988. The program pioneered in campus and community collaboration and bridged the student movement of the 1960s and the current programs of civic engagement of higher education. He won several national awards for this work. In 1991, he became