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.