Publications, Performance, and Video Work

Robert P. (Skip) Robinson Ph.D.

February 2016

"A Brief Review of Issues Central to the Funding of Public School District Post- Retirement Health Benefits," developed to send to the Research Division, National Education Association, 1989.

Animal Poems, unpublished poetry book, 1997.

Ark, unpublished novel.

Arriba Juntos! Rough book draft about collaborative conflict-resolution studies with the senior graduate school of the Cuban Foreign Ministry. Aspects of this is being published as Chapter 3 in On the Midnight Train: Moscow to Leningrad.

“Back the Night Before,” poem included in An Eye for an Eye Makes the Whole World Blind – Poets on 9/11, Edited by Alan Cohen and Clive Matson, Oakland: Regent Press, 2002. (The book won the nationwide Josephine Miles Award for Literature, Oakland/PEN for 2003.)

Being with Josie: Poetry and Remembrance, memoir being completed now.

"Bridging the Gap: The Role of Conflict Resolution Training Within the Higher Institute of International Affairs of the Cuban Foreign Ministry," seminar listed as former Ambassador John McDonald, Bruce Johnsen, Jon Townsend, Skip Robinson, and former Cuban Ambassador Oscar Garcia, M.D., in Proceedings, Focus on the Future: Leading the Way to Dispute Resolution in the 21st Century, Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution, 24th Annual International Conference, 1996.

Can Boswell Walk? Can Boswell Fly? Manual on developing cable public access TV for nuclear, social, ecological issues, San Francisco Study Center, 1984.

Charitable Employee Benefit Design, technical book on health and welfare benefit design and administration for 501(c)(3) employees and retirees, San Francisco Study Center, 1985.

“Coming Back From Polarization – Thoughts on Polarization and Transparency in Psychotherapy and Mediation – Applying Jourard, Lincoln, Fisher, Maslow, Keen, Koppelman, and Schneider,” Practical Reader in Mediation (in Russian), Russian- American Program on Conflictology, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2007. Included as Chapter 4 in On the Midnight Train: Moscow to Leningrad, and online through SSU ScholarWorks. “Compassion in Peace-Making Among Religions,” presented as guest speaker, Santa Rosa CA Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship, January 2005.

"Designing Employee Benefit Packages You Can Afford," four-hour television program, Valley Volunteer Bureau, shown on East Bay Viacom Cable public access TV channels, 1986.

Employee Benefit Design, technical book on health and welfare benefit design, San Francisco Study Center 1990.

The Eye Staring Straight Into Mine, poetry book, Berkeley: Embassy Hall, 1988.

Garnet, ten poems, Volume II, Oakland, 1982.

"George IV Prepares for War - Om Namo Bhagavate Muktanandaya," long poem, Special Supplement, Poetry: USA; performed with Tom Slocumb, musician, and broadcast by KPFA-FM, Berkeley, and by RFPI, an international short-wave broadcast station on the grounds of the United Nations University for Peace, San Jose, Costa Rica.

"Groping Toward Our Ecozoic Future," editor of dialogue between the Reverend Thomas Berry and Ram Dass, Hanuman Foundation, 1993. From “Two Talks with Ram Dass”, SSU psychology print 2006.

“Historic Nuremberg Agreement Broken – Nuremberg Principles Prohibit ‘Aggressive War’,” North Bay Progressive, Santa Rosa, Summer 2003.

How Then Shall We Live? Primary consultant, television series by Original Face Video, (shown on PBS stations in over 60 cities), 1984.

"How to Get Environmental and Peace Films on Local TV," Can Boswell Walk? Can Boswell Fly? Became a section of a nationally used video manual) Berkeley: The Video Project, 1988.

“Husserl’s Fear,” long poem and one-act play (performed at Sonoma State) 1995.

“Identifying Eight Trillion Dollars in U.S. Federal Savings and Revenue Increases: 23 Ways to Help Balance the U.S. Federal Budget,” Daily Censored, 2013.

In Nature, poems and photographs. In submissions. 2016.

"Introduction," Health Plan Design for California Non-Profit Organizations, manual written by Adele Amodeo, MPH, Patricia Mullen, Dr.PH., and Jennae Wallach, MHSA, San Francisco Study Center, 1985. Editor, Lama Writings, limited print run of 200 copies, dialogues between Ram Dass and Daniel Ellsberg about the global thermonuclear crisis, Lama Foundation, Taos, New Mexico 1984.

“Maximize the Vote on Election Day,” chapter in 50 Ways to Love Your Country, Move-On.org and Inner Ocean Publishing, April 2004. Audiobook version, Audiopartners, Auburn, CA, May 2004.

Meditations, unpublished poetry book. 1997.

Mind•Emotion•Body•World•Time, Brief introduction to the history of consciousness, Masters thesis in Psychology at SSU, available at Sonoma State University Schulz Library, 1994. Online beginning 2015 in the SSU ScholarWorks program.

No Other Generation, film transcript print edition editor, Oakland: Seagull Press; and San Francisco: Association for Humanistic Psychology, 1983.

On the On Walking Together Away From the Brink, editor, Seagull Press 1983, an edited Ram Dass-Daniel Ellsburg dialogue about some roots of the nuclear and ecological crises, done in conjunction with what became the TV series, How Then Shall We Live?

"The One and the Four," editor, His Holiness The Dalai Lama’s dialogue with Ram Dass, India, Summer 1990, Hanuman Foundation; also translated into Russian and published in the Narthang Bulletin, St. Petersburg, Russia, and as a publication of Narthang Publications and the Hanuman Foundation, 1993.

“One Nation Thinking of Tearing Itself into Two,” Daily Censored, December 2, 2013.

Outpatient Psychotherapy Plan Design, Managed Care, and a Point of Service Triple Option, doctoral dissertation in psychology, Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, San Francisco 2001. Online through SSU Scholarworks 2015.

Performer of "An Evening of the Poetry of Richard Brautigan," Bonanza Bookstore, Walnut Creek, and The Bookkeep bookstore, Lafayette, 1990.

Performer of own poetry in the Bay Area and Sonoma County, usually with Tom Slocumb on harps and cello. From time to time.

Points Around a Circle of Human Needs, essays and edits, 2002, available through North Light Books, Cotati CA. 2008

The Protection of Nature at Rybachye - Administering the Rybachye Negotiation Simulation, developed with Jon Townsend and Dawn Hooper, for National Center Associates, Inc., the Conflict Resource, Research, and Resolution Institute, Inc., and the Russian-American Program on Conflictology, Leningrad/St. Petersburg, on how to administer a related Russian ecological negotiation simulation. On directing the collaborative ecological negotiation simulation done. 1993.

From Portuguese Beach, SSU class poetry chapbook 1995.

Psychology and Finance, unpublished book developed with Judy Barber, 1981.

Reaching Out, primary advisor to a ten-week Wednesday night Original Face/Change Point course held in Oakland hosted by Ram Dass for approximately 1000 students and, edited, its television production by Change Point which eventually went out to 60 cities by the PBS satellite, 1998.

“Romeo and Juliet Do Not Have to Die,” unpublished essay in circulation and to be submitted to the NCTE’s English Journal combining study of the Shakespeare play, Romeo and Juliet, with study of the non-violent resolution of conflict.

“St. Nicholas and the Elves Meet the Invisible Space Nothing,” children’s book seeking a publisher 2014.

School, written along with Arthur Warmoth, Ph.D. and Hobart (Red) Thomas, Ph.D., book on person-centered education and learning communities, Sonoma State University bookstore, 1994. Out of print. . Standing On a Whale Fishing for Minnows, poetry book, Berkeley: Embassy Hall, 1990.

Editor, Student Community Involvement, book of readings, speeches, and essays about the philosophical basis underlying student social action at the beginning of the 1960s, U. S. National Student Association, Philadelphia, 1962.

Editor, Student Government Bulletin, the magazine of the U. S. National Student Association, Philadelphia, 1961-62.

Teacher and poetry writer, with Clive Matson, semi-annual and quarterly weekend poetry and creative writing workshops, Wilbur Hot Springs 1984-1990.

"Transparency and Interest-Based Collaborative Negotiation About Basic Human Needs,” chapter in Invitations to Dialogue – The Legacy of Sidney M. Jourard, Edited by Anne C. Richards and Tiparat Schumrum, Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1999. A revision is Chapter 3 in On the Midnight Train: Moscow to Leningrad.

"Twenty First Century Navigation," Practical Mystic, Fall 1989.

Two Flies Rising Versus the Dandelion Waves, poetry chapbook, Oakland: Garnet Community Publications, 1983. "Understanding and Using Paradox in Health Care Conflict Resolution," written with Adele Amodeo MPH and Jennae Wallach MHSA, Berkeley: Northern California Council on Mediation, 1990; reprinted 2000 in Association for Humanistic Psychology Perspective.

“What We Can Do Locally – A Brief Case Study on a More Systematic Approach to the Health Care Crisis in Sonoma County,” Proceedings, International Systems Society Conference July 2006. (Also see expansion in www.sonoma.edu/programs/healthcrisis)

Organizer, editor, and co-writer, What We Can Do Locally - Community Working Papers and Case Study in the Sonoma County Health Care Crisis – available on-line at www.sonoma.edu/programs/healthcrisis

When Einstein, Dreaming, Rides a Beam of Light, unpublished poetry book 1996.

Wordcast: Poetry, primary consultant, twenty-two-hour poetry reading video series shown on Viacom San Francisco TV Channel 25, The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University, 1986.

Other poetry and essays have been published in Co-Evolutionary Quarterly, Association for Humanistic Psychology Perspectives, Community Endeavor, Facets, Holyearth Journal, Humpty Dumpty Reports, Northern California Council on Mediation Newsletter, AHP Newsletter, Wilbur Quarterly, Wilbur Poetry Review, and Poets On:

The San Francisco Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Tides Foundation, the Vanguard Foundation, and the Foundation for Social Innovation - USA supported certain of these studies and actions. Several of the poems were first prepared and performed at workshops and readings at Wilbur Hot Springs funded by Poets & Writers, Inc., through grants it received from the James Irvine Foundation, the Lannon Foundation, and the Lila Wallach-Reader's Digest Fund. Final preparation funds for the Bay Area introduction of the television series, How Then Shall We Live? were provided by the Ark Foundation. Over time, a number of other foundations have supported the television series Reaching Out.