Dorit Cypis, Los Angeles, California, USA
Founding Member
 www.doritcypis.com

Educational Degrees
Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, M.D.R. 2005
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, M.F.A. 1977
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B.F.A. 1975
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B.A. 1975

Professional Licenses

Professorship or University Appointments
Otis College of Art and Design

Past Professorship or University Appointments

• Pasadena Art Center, Pasadena, California
  
• San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
  
• Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California
  
• University of California, Irvine, California
  
• California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, California
  
• University of California, Los Angeles, California
  
• University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
  
• Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
  
• University of Minnesota, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN

Other Academic Affiliations

Language Fluency: English

Language Proficiency: French, Hebrew, Polish

Conflict Resolution In-Country Experience

1) Training/Teaching

2) Mediation

3) Consulting

4) Research

5) Other Activity

• Israel

International Cultural Experience

Professional: Canada, Israel, Poland

Service Areas Significant Experience

• Assessment design facilitation
  
• Conciliation, facilitation & mediation education
  
• Consultation and training in conflict mitigation or prevention
  
• Consensus and coordination building among NGOs...public programs
  
• Critical incident debriefings, consultation and education
  
• Mediation: Train the trainers with ongoing consultation and continuing education
  
• Negotiation models: Interest-based negotiation
  
• Nonviolent communication and dispute resolution processes
  
• Public dialogues: Facilitating meetings and forums open to the public; building capacity and local resources
  
• Trauma and violence desensitization
  
• Training and education of NGO staff regarding bias awareness, forgiveness, prejudice reduction, white privilege and cross cultural issues
  
• Victim offender mediation

Publications

• Subject/Mirror, Within and Without, Mediation and Aesthetics, Conflict Studies:  the New Generation of Ideas (October 28-30, 2004)
• Mediation …our contract with the future, A Sketch of how to do it (2004)
• In the Body of the Beholder, The Politics of Religion (2003)
• The Prisoner’s Dilema: Artist in the Mirror (2002)

Last Revised on 4/4/2008