Transforming Self, Transforming Institutions: The Life and Leadership Lessons of Faith Gablenick

by Ruthellen Josselson

Faith Gabelnick was a pioneer in group relations work in the United States. She used her group relations learning to be a transformative leader within the educational system. She died at age 60, shortly after stepping down as the first woman president of Pacific University. Prior to this major role, she had been Assistant Director of the Honors College at University of Maryland, Dean of the Honors College at Western Michigan University, and Provost of Mills College. Ruthellen Josselson is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at The Fielding Graduate University and was formerly a Professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Visiting Professor at Harvard University. She is the author of Playing How People Create One Another, Revising The Story of Women's Identity from College to Midlife and other books and professional papers. She received the Henry A. Murray Award and the Theodore R. Sarbin Award from the American Psychological Association. After covering publishing and mailing costs, all proceeds will benefit A. K Rice Institute

112 pages, Paperback

Published July 1, 2012

About the author

Ruthellen Josselson, PhD, is Professor of Clinical Psychology at Fielding Graduate University. She was formerly Professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Visiting Professor at Harvard University School of Education, and Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University. Dr. Josselson is a cofounder of the Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology; coeditor of 11 volumes of The Narrative Study of Lives, a series dedicated to publishing qualitative research; coauthor of Five Ways of Doing Qualitative Analysis; and author of many journal articles and book chapters that explore the theory and practice of qualitative inquiry. She has conducted workshops on interviewing skills for qualitative inquiry in the United States, France, Norway, Finland, Israel, and the United Kingdom. Based on interviews she has conducted over 35 years, she has written two books exploring women’s identity longitudinally (Finding Herself and Revising Herself) and three other books (The Space Between Us, Best Friends, and Playing Pygmalion). Dr. Josselson is a recipient of the American Psychological Association’s Henry A. Murray Award and Theodore R. Sarbin Award as well as a Fulbright Fellowship.