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Cool Courses: “Sacred Botany: Re-Seeing the Plant Kingdom”
KATYA APEKINA You’ve heard of the World Wide Web, but have you heard of the Wood Wide Web? It’s nature’s social network. An underground system of roots, fungi, and bacteria found below forest floors which allow trees to communicate with each other and share resources. Trees, it turns out, are very generous. “Mother trees, when…
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Investigating the Gaps in Down Syndrome Care
When Nicole White’s daughter, Kate, was born and diagnosed with Down Syndrome, the first thing she did was look at the current research. “I found it received less funding than comparable things like Cystic Fibrosis and Autism,” says White. “It’s one of the lower funded areas of genomic diagnosis. I wondered ‘Is there a reason…
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Three Tips for Transformative Change in the Workplace
Change is never easy, particularly in the workplace. It’s not a groundbreaking concept, yet many organizations struggle to remedy it. According to Chron.com: “Transformative change involves an organization making a radical move in its business or strategic model, often requiring changes in company structure, culture, and management.” While organizational change is intended to help companies…
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Meet the Graduate School of Leadership and Change’s Newest Core Faculty Member
Dr. Fayth Parks officially joined the Graduate School of Leadership and Change in July 2022. Prior, she has been at Georgia Southern University for over 20 years, most recently as Professor in the Counselor Education Program in the Department of Leadership, Technology and Human Development. Her areas of deep interdisciplinary interest are spirituality and servant…
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Dr. Mangione Chairs Conference on Clinical Supervision and Advanced Student Contributes to Everyone’s Learning
Antioch New England Professor of Clinical Psychology Dr. Lorraine Mangione chaired the Massachusetts Psychological Association (MPA) Training Committee’s Conference on Clinical Supervision. Held on June 8, 2022, in Marlborough, Massachusetts, the conference was entitled Competency-Based Approaches and Social Justice Contexts. As Director of Practica and past Chair of the MPA’s Training Committee, Mangione spearheaded the…
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Antioch Spotlight: MA in Teaching Alum Jeff Imboden
We recently caught up with Jeff Imboden, an alum of Antioch New England. He graduated with his MA in Teaching in 1975 and applied it to his career as a Parole Officer. A retired member of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole Central Office, he focuses on community betterment and empathy. Read…
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Reflections from the GSLC Founding Faculty
Dr. Elizabeth Holloway and Dr. Jon Wergin Contemplate Retirement. The Graduate School of Leadership and Change teaches reflective practice—now it is time for Drs. Elizabeth Holloway and Jon Wergin to reflect back on the past twenty years, as these two founding faculty members are set to retire. SERENDIPITY HAPPENS How did you first learn about…
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Cecile Richards to Serve as Keynote for Low Residency MA in Clinical Psychology Inaugural Residency
Cecile Richards, Reproductive Rights Activist and Former President of Planned Parenthood, Will Speak on Reproductive Health Rights during the Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology Inaugural Residency. Cecile Richards, Co-Founder of Supermajority and Former President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood Action Fund (2006-2018), will serve as the keynote speaker Antioch University’s…
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Antioch Alum Changes Mental Health Landscape in Massachusetts
When Jennifer Hylton was a student at an all-girls school in Jamaica in the 1960’s, she was a ringleader, bringing people together and listening to everyone’s problems. At the same time, she loved spending time alone in the school’s little library, paging through the encyclopedia—the analog equivalent of falling down a Google hole. It was…
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