Bob Johnston OmniMind Constituents
. . . for integral self, organization and ecosystem health
About My Offerings
I will be glad to provide current endorsements upon request
I offer custom designed intensive experiential integral Omniversal Mind Science-based transformation workshops which focus on realizing oneness with our Source, healthful aging, cocreative self-managing, integral creative leadership, and integral organization transformation. Also, related workshops on open systems planning, integral teambuilding, conflict management, and associated consulting services.
My Background
First, you should know my full name is Robert Wayne Johnston. But only my parents called me Robert; most people know me as Bob.
My professional experience is in two parts: pre-retirement and post-retirement.
Starting in 1952 I held teaching jobs in the Los Angeles City Schools and in human resources management with Lockheed and Itek space research and engineering organizations in the Stanford Research Park.
After transfer in 1966 from Stanford to Itek's corporate offices in Lexington, Massachusetts I became a pioneer in the then new field of integral organization transformation and development when I started a corporate-wide organization development program for Itek. Later I focused primarily on starting new Integral Natural Science-based organization development projects from scratch for Fortune 500 corporations such as Honeywell, TRW, McCulloch and Western Gear. Based on survey-feedback data, I worked with top managements to design corporate-wide transformation projects, including open systems planning, integral leader-manager workshops, integral team building, and related integral OD interventions.
As my successes in organization transformation became known, I was recruited to teach as adjunct professor in two graduate schools of business, one at Boston College, the other at Pepperdine University. I was also called to present papers and workshops at professional society meetings, some forty-three in all. And I published seventy-five articles in magazines and journals, and custom-wrote thirty-one books for clients, including a textbook on integral Human Behavior in Organizations for MBA students.
During the ten years before retiring, I changed somewhat the focus of my vocation to introduce my innovative in-depth integral transformational self-management processes in psychiatric and head injury rehabilitation and gerontological settings. The results were very rewarding and I was asked to present papers on my projects at two professional conferences.
I retired in 1995, but not to the golf course or rocking chair. I decided it was time to give back something of my bounty to society by making my professional services available, mostly gratis, to non-profit organizations. That has included designing and leading approximately three dozen workshops of two to thirty hours in duration on various aspects of consciousness expansion, healthful aging, and creative leadership for various non-profit organizations. Those include the University ofMassachusetts Amherst, The Amherst Senior Center, The Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst, The White House Conference on Aging, The Massachusetts Council on Aging, the National Council on Aging, the Massachusetts Governor’s Conference on Aging, the American Society on Aging, and a few Institute of Noetic Sciences conferences. In addition, I wrote ten columns on healthful aging for The Good Life, published by the Greenfield Council on Aging.
A member of IONS for about twenty-five years, during the past ten years I have facilitated 465 meetings of The New Options Group, a conjointly affiliated IONS, Amherst Council on Aging and Unitarian Universalist community group in Amherst, MA. And I continue to post mostly articles of various sizes on shiftinaction.com.
As to my education, initially good 12th century western theological training, it could be said to have begun when in my mother's womb I 'attended classes' with her in a Pentecostal Assemblies of God theological school. My family was very devout and raised me to become a minister. In fact, my parents stipulated unless I agreed to go into the ministry they would not finance my education. I agreed and went to theological school. By the time I graduated I had developed reservations* so severe I decided to change my profession to educational psychology. Consequently, my parents demanded the return of all monies expended on my ministerial training which I returned over the course of a few years. In transferring to California State University LA I 'lost' all but 45 of the 137 semester hours I earned in theological school, and I was on my own financially. I graduated with a BA in clinical psychology and later took graduate work at the University of Southern California and Boston University. Finally, at age 45 I finished my PhD in the human sciences at California Western University. What was in 1968 considered leading edge, my dissertation focused on A Gestalt Existential Model of the Management Process: Foundation for a Psycho-Organic Systems Approach to Organization Development. That was to become the foundation for evolving a Omniversal Mind Science formulated through channeled participation with Omniversal Mind for transformational action research conducted in a variety of individual and organization settings.
Collateral with the above I intensively studied Eastern religions, Jungian and Assagiolan psychologies, the integration of Eastern and Western psychologies, the Kabbalah, group dynamics at the National Training Laboratories, psychic healing with Lawrence LeShan, mind-body healing with Herbert Benson at Harvard Medical School, biofeedback with Elmer Green at the Menninger Foundation, and associated subjects elsewhere.
In my early years I was a professional musician (trombone), and composed the lyrics and melody for a published song.
My wife Millis and I travel in all directions around our mostly still beautiful Earth.
My pre-retirement professional memberships included:
The Organization Development (OD) Network
The Association for Transpersonal Psychology
The Association for Humanistic Psychology
The American Management Association
The Association for Training and Development
The National Society on Aging
The Massachusetts Council on Aging
The American Society for Psychic Research
The Institute of Noetic Science
*If interested in the details you may wish to review my post Some Notes About Why I Transcended Christianity http://www.shiftinaction.com/node/3679.
