Mark Forman, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist with twenty-five years experience working with individuals, couples, teens, and families. His text – A Guide to Integral Psychotherapy Complexity, Integration, and Spirituality in Practice – is one of the seminal works in the field of Integral Psychotherapy. He is more recently the author of The Monster’s Journey, a book which takes a look at trauma through the lens of Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey. This book is a major inspiration for these gatherings.

Dr. Forman graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Delaware where he studied philosophy and religion. He is a long-term practitioner of yoga, reiki, martial arts, and meditation, particularly in the Hindu Tantric and Yogic Traditions. He spent ten years as a child-and-adolescent psychotherapist and has trained in a wide variety of adult therapeutic settings and with a number of different adult clinical populations as well. His areas of training include Integral-developmental, Jungian, cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, multicultural, transpersonal, trauma-based, and attachment-based psychotherapies.