Lyceum Center Faculty
DOUG BENNETT - dougbennett@centeredliving.net
Doug Bennett has had a life-long interest in spiritual matters, or in terms of his engineering upbringing, in the nature of the reality that is commonly called spiritual. His work experience includes chemical engineering and training and consulting in software system design. During a particularly discouraging stint working in the headquarters of a large corporation, he took up yoga, baking cookies for hospital staff and patients, Therapeutic Touch (an energy healing technique used by nurses) and music healing as a Certified Music Practitioner (hand drumming) in the Music for Healing and Transition Program.
Kim Bennett’s parents taught her to make pie crust at age 8. She started working as a natural foods cook at age 14. She has cooked at the folksy Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine and the fancy Astra Café in New York City. She received a bachelors degree in fine art from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1998 and is a working artist who likes to read about food.
Pat Bennett holds an M.A. French Literature. She is an artist and has taught piano for 27years.
"Dr Clayton has been a colleague for more than ten years... He founded the first Philosophically oriented Drug Rehabilitation Clinic....is one of the pioneers of the philosophical counseling movement. His groundbreaking work in philosophical counseling reflects his high level of scholarship as well as his commitment to contemporary social problems." -- Dr N Dianuzzo, Montclair State University, New Jersey
Larry McLean holds degrees from Duke University, University of Chicago and Syracuse University and has spent over ten years teaching Finance and Economics at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has over twenty years of executive corporate experience and several years as an independent management consultant.
DAVID O'DONAGHUE - info@lyceumproject.com
David O'Donaghue has a masters in art therapy and a doctorate in clinical psychology with a focus in Jungian and Archetypal Psychology. He has taught Jungian classes as a member of the core faculty of Antioch University and given lectures and workshops at Jung Societies in various cities. He has recently completed all class work for a doctorate in philosophy at the University of South Carolina. For more info about David, see the director's page.
Susan Snowden is an award-winning writer, poet and book editor. She has taught writing at an urban university, a community college, and at numerous writers' conferences and workshops. Her stories, articles, interviews and reviews have appeared in city, regional and national publications. Her poems have won prizes (most recently, the 2001 James Still Award for Poetry from the Appalachian Writers Association) and been published in literary journals and anthologies, e.g., Now and Then, Waterways, The Writer's Exchange, Raising Voices and Earth and Soul: An Anthology of North Carolina Poetry. In 2000 she was awarded a NC Arts Council grant to complete her novel, Southern Fried Lies. In addition to her writing, Susan formed Snowden Editorial Services in 1985. Since then she has edited books (fiction and nonfiction), stories and articles for authors and publishers. She especially enjoys helping individuals get their books published; she assists them by editing their work, helping them target markets, and proofreading their galleys (when they do get published!). Susan has degrees in journalism and English literature (M.A., New York University) and earns her living as a writer, editor and teacher. Her website is http://www.bookaneditor.com.