| In a small organization with a very large mission, no staff member is limited to job description and everyone does some of everything. Staff members work in teams bringing the full range of their experience and perspective to the wide array of tasks necessary to build our ship even as we are moving forward towards our new horizons. We are establishing the cultural DNA now for the establishment of a person-centered organization that unleashes and integrates the knowledge and potential of all team members. | ||
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Co-Director, Barry Barkan, has been inducted into the Ashoka Fellowship for leading social innovators around the world. The primary architect of such core programs as the Live Oak Project and the Elders Guild, he is a community developer and is known in his spiritual community as a Baal Bracha, master of blessing. He is a co-founder of the Pioneer Network and the Spiritual Eldering Project and has written widely about culture change. | |
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Co-Director, Debora Barkan, has been a community developer applying the Live Oak regenerative community approach to culture change in nursing homes, assisted living, senior centers and congregate housing organizations for close to 30 years. With 17 years management and social work experience in elder care, she has developed a variety of Live Oak management tools to accelerate culture change marketed through the Live Oak Group. She is among the founders of the Pioneer and conscious aging movements. | |
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Development Director, Bob Berke, was a co-founder of the first Live Oak Project in Oakland, California, in 1977. After almost 25 years, he has rejoined the Live Oak Institute staff. Bob was the founder and CEO of Bay Area Recovery Centers, a publicly traded company, that applied the Live Oak Regenerative Community model to treating head injured people in non-institutional residential environments. He has served as development director for a number of Bay Area service delivery organizations. | |
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Project Manager Elders' Guild, Shoshana Dembitz | |
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Research Director, Claudia Landau, M.D., Ph.D., | |
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Alan Barkan designed the web site (as well as a number of others) and is our generalist who is building organizational structure and providing expertise for the implementation of Institute programs and marketing and refinement of our products. He has been a small business consultant and writer on the interface of technology and people, a restauranteur, teacher, salesman and sidewalk vendor. | |
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