
Alexandra
Merrill (B.A. Smith, M.A. Yale), President of Merrill
Consulting Associates, is a professional member of National Training
Laboratory Institute and the Indian Society of applied Behavioral
Sciences. Her expertise lies in teaching about archetypal processes
in group life, comparative mythologies and cross-cultural themes
which are always embedded in group life. She works with the visible
and invisible differences, the unconscious processes and the legacies
of oppression which are both empowering and inhibiting the growth
of the life force in the collective. As a feminist
she always seeks to focus the group work on the processes which
oppress the human spirit in men and women and then collaborate
with the group in lifting the oppressive energy of the system.
A teacher, an artist and a counselor, Alexandra
is the founder of Dragon Farm, a not-for-profit Maine educational
collaboration whose mission is to further action-research projects
in the field of women's development and to build the capacity of
women as community and political leaders. Her current research interests
lie in the areas of articulating a theory for the process of the
all-female group and in following an 10-year action research leadership
project with a large national community of women. She is also developing
regional, national, cross-cultural and cross-discipline teams of
women working for social change in the USA and in India where she
also lives for part of each year. She is the creator of Woman's
Way, a 9-day empowerment-workshop for women in its 27th year now
and of many other collaborative leadership training programs.
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