Howard Kirschenbaum is Professor Emeritus and former chair of counseling and human development, Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development, University of Rochester. He has written or co-authored 25 books and numerous articles and book chapters in the fields of education, psychology and history, including his recently published work Coming of Age in the Baby Boom: A Memoir of Personal Development, Social Action, Education Reform and Adirondack Preservation. He has given presentations and workshops on values and character education, Carl Rogers and the person-centered approach to counseling and psychotherapy, humanistic education, grading alternatives, and related subjects in 48 U.S. states and Canadian provinces and 14 other countries, and his books have been translated into a dozen foreign languages. He was formerly executive director of the National Humanistic Education Center and the National Coalition for Democracy in Education. He has a Doctor of Education degree from Temple University. His website is www.HowardKirschenbaum.com.

He is also a leader in the field of historic preservation in the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York State. He has owned, managed or was instrumental in the preservation of several Adirondack “Great Camps”—multi-building compounds of rustic, architecturally distinguished buildings listed as National Historic Landmarks. He wrote three books about these places: Sagamore, Santanoni and White Pine Camp. He was founder and first president of Adirondack Architectural Heritage, the non-profit, historic preservation organization for the Adirondack Park.

Dr. Leland W. Howe received his M.S.W and Ph.D. from Michigan State University and served as a Professor of Psychological Education at Temple University for ten years. He is the author and co-author of numerous books and professional articles, including the worldwide bestseller, Values Clarification, which received the Pi Lambda Theta Outstanding Book of the Year Award in 1973. While teaching at Temple University, Dr. Howe received the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching.

Upon leaving Temple University, Dr. Howe completed an advanced training program in Bioenergetic Analysis and was certified as a Bioenergetics Therapist and a Local Trainer in Bioenergetics for the Society of Bioenergetic Analysis in Rochester, Michigan. At that time he also started a private practice in Bioenergetic Analysis in East Lansing, Michigan.

Dr. Howe currently lives in Grand Ledge, Michigan with his wife Sandy Eyre, where he has a private practice and conducts research and does trainings on a revolutionary new healing process using body wisdom and spontaneous energetic movement, called Spontaneous Energetic Healing™.

Sidney B. Simon is internationally known for his pioneering work in Values Clarification, now retired as Professor Emeritus from the University of Massachusetts. Over 100 articles and some 13 books authored or co-authored came out of that adventurous academic life.

Smon was a guest expert on the Oprah Show, and also shared his wisdom on a Phil Donahue program about Fathers and Sons.

More recently, he has been active in a Florida literary arts community. Simon is a drama critic for the SANIBEL CAPTIVA ISLANDER, and a participant for the past five years in ART POEMS.

His just published book, LIVING AND LOVING IN THAT CONDO WITH A VIEW OF THE GULF, is a rich tapestry of story poems about people growing older in a mythical condo in Florida.