BEBA (Building and Enhancing Bonding and Attachment): A Center for Family Healing

Advisory Board

William Emerson, Ph.D.

  • Psychotherapist, teacher, trainer and researcher in Pre- and Peri-Natal Psychology
  • Author of numerous articles and videotapes on pre and peri-natal therapy.

Marti Glenn, Ph.D.

  • President Santa Barbara Graduate Institute offering degrees in Pre- and Peri-Natal Psychology and Somatic Psychology.
  • Board of Directors, Association of Pre and Peri Natal Psychology and Health (APPPAH)
  • Psychotherapist, group leader, specializing in Pre and Peri-natal issues.
  • Conference Chair for International APPPAH Congress 1999, 2001

Laura Huxley

  • Major advocate for mothers, families, prenates and infants
  • Wife of author Aldous Huxley

Michelle McDonough, M.B.A.

  • Architect, urban planner, worked in investment banking, commercial real estate development of historic properties
  • Co-founder of US Green Building Council
  • C.F.O. and Strategic Planner for William McDonough Architects, McDonough Consulting, McDonough-Braungart Design Chemistry.
  • Graduate of Barbara Brennan School of Healing and Core Energetics
  • Counseling degree in Pathwork.

William McDonough, A.I.A.

  • Principal and Founder of William McDonough & Partners, Architecture and Community Design and of McDonough-Braungart Design Chemistry, Product & Process Design
  • Author of Cradle to Cradle, Pioneer and visionary in Environmental Design for Architecture, Communities and Products.

Ralph Metzner

  • Pioneer in the study of consciousness and transformative experience.
  • California Institute of Integral Studies, past Academic Dean for 10 years, current teacher.
  • Author of The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience, Green Psychology, The Well of Remembrance.

Julian Moody

  • Small business consultant for 65 years
  • Former BEBA Board member

Michael Narvid, Esq.

  • Lawyer who was on the original BEBA Board of Directors
  • Jenefer Palmer
  • Business Woman, developer of OCEA Natural Skin Care Products
  • Formerly a Polarity Therapist and Cranial Sacral Therapist

Kent Peterson, M.D.

  • Epidemiologist
  • President of Occupational Health Strategies, Inc. based in Charlottesville, VA. OHS provides strategic planning consultation to Fortune 500 employers, health care companies and entrepreneurs on a broad set of issues pertaining to employee and environmental health.
  • Former United States White House Staff Physician.

Kenneth P. Slaught

  • President of Investec Management Corporation, Santa Barbara
  • Vice President of Investec Construction
  • Ecologically sound development projects in SB and other areas.

John W. Travis, M.D., M.P.H.

  • Developed the first Wellness Inventory (1975)
  • Co-authored the Wellness Workbook, Wellness for Helping Professionals, and A Change of Heart: A Global Wellness Inventory.
  • Board Member, Founding Member of CIMS (Coalition for Improving Maternity Services) which created the Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative.
  • Founding President of ATLC (Alliance for Transforming the Lives of Children)

John Vasconcellos

  • California State Senator, D-San Jose, Senate District 13
  • Authored the legislation for the California Task Force to Promote Self-Esteem