Rob has spent a lifetime exploring the dynamics of many kinds of transformational groups, in the workplace as well as for psychological and spiritual development.  Rob has worked as a professional facilitator for three decades as an organizational development consultant, and is the primary author of a widely used start-up guide for integrated project teams in government.  He started the first “spiritual friends” (kalyana mitta) group, and helped mentor others, for the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, and has started and guided the formation of many other developmental groups in church, hospital, and professional settings both in-person and on-line.  Rob has worked extensively with a wide variety of group-based facilitation and developmental approaches, including communities of practice, the Technology of Participation, the Fourth Way, Bohmian Dialogue, Insight Dialogue, psychodrama, storytelling, and interpersonal mindful inquiry. 

• Rob’s Work with Groups Today

Today Rob brings this wealth of experience to guiding groups of people who wish to learn together and support one another with meditation practice, mindfulness in daily life, and leveraging the power of inquiry, dialogue, the Enneagram, and other powerful developmental approaches.  As the Buddha said, “Sangha - spiritual friendship - is the ENTIRE path.”  As powerful as individual practices can be, to transform more deeply requires the help and insight of others.  Most of what the Buddha called “dukkha” - unnecessary suffering - is based on deep social conditioning that starts with our families in infancy.  Deeper transformation thus requires exploration in a social context, a group of trusted companions, a sangha.  Rob is expert at helping transformational groups form and sustain this level of trust and deep exploration.