Continuing Education Faculty

Suzanne E. Berger, M.F.A., Johns Hopkins University, M.Ed., Northeastern University, is a poet, essayist, teacher, and author of These Rooms, Legacies, and Horizontal Woman. She has taught at Metropolitan College, Boston University, Harvard University Summer School, and the Radcliffe Seminars. She has won awards from MacDowell Colony, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, and the Somerville Arts Council, and earned a Pushcart Prize, a teaching citation from the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, and a prize for Vogue from Easter Seals for writing about disability. Her work has been published in major literary magazines, including Ploughshares, Agni Review, The New Yorker, and Harvard Review.

Deborah Crane holds a Certificate in Voice Movement Therapy, from Oxford-Cambridge and RSA Examinations Board, after training with VMT founder Paul Newham, and a MA Degree from Villanova University. She has maintained a VMT practice for ten years. She has over twenty years experience counseling at-risk youth and is an accomplished presenter.

Saphira Linden, MA, RDT-BCT, LCAT, CP has been an educator, therapist and theater artist for over 40 years and has developed her own pioneering approach in drama therapy. Ms. Linden is a Registered Drama Therapist and a Board Certified Trainer with the National Association for Drama Therapy. She is also a Certified Practitioner of Psychodrama with The American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama. Ms. Linden is a Lesley University adjunct faculty member in Expressive Therapies and the Co-Founder and Director of The Omega Transpersonal Drama Therapy Certificate Program in Boston for the past twelve years. She is as an authority on experimental, participatory and transformational theater, and has created educational vehicles for a wide variety of audiences. She is currently the editor and a contributing author of The Heart and Soul of Therapy: A Transpersonal Approach Through Theater Arts. For more information on her current work, please visit www.omegatheater.org.

Florence Meleo-Meyer is a senior teacher and Director of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction professional training programs at the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She has taught meditation and yoga since the 1970s, and has brought practical applications of mindfulness meditation to people working in psychology, medicine, business, and education in the United States and abroad.

Janet Surrey is a clinicial psychologist and a Founding Scholar of the Jean Baker Millker Training Institute at the Stone Center, Wellesley College. Dr. Surrey has been consulting and teaching Relational-Cultural Theory nationally and internationally for over 20 years, and has been working to synthesize Buddhist and relational psychology. She has co-authored or co-edited a number of books, including Women's Growth in Connection, Women's Growth in Diversity, Mothering Against the Odds: Diverse Voices of Contemporary Mothers, We have to Talk: Healing Dialogues Between Women and Men, and Bill W. and Dr. Bob: Thee Story of the Founding of Alcoholics Anonymous.