Notes On Contributors

Raymond Bakaitis is a Los Angeles, California-based psychologist in independent practice. He is the current President of the A. K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems (AKRI). He is a past president of Grex, AKRI's West Coast Affiliate. He is a member of the Lithuanian Group Relations Society and a co-creator of International Group Relations China (IGRC).

Daniela Cabibbe is a mathematician with twenty years of management experience, including serving on boards of commercial companies in Italy, Europe, America, and India. Currently, she is a business consultant in innovation, performance improvements, and organisation change projects, and a Six Sigma Black Belt and Lean Management professional, who leads complex and functional projects. She is company auditor in quality certifications, and was administrator of the Groups Relations Conferences “Authority, leadership, innovation” and “Learning from action” in Italy. She is leader of the Listening Post Steering Committee in The NODO Group (Turin, Italy) and treasurer of the Mito & Realtà Association (Milan, Italy). She has been OPUS International Listening Post (ILP) convenors coordinator since 2022, and is a member of the ILP Steering Group.

Francesca Falcone, PhD, is an academic in the social work undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at the University of Calabria (Italy). She is a member of Il Nodo Group and of the Italian Listening Post (LP) steering group. Her research and consultancy interests are action research and complexity theory, systems psychodynamics of community and value-led organisations, the use of LP as a social science research method, and experience of parenthood in forced migrations.

Bryan Maguire, PhD, CPsychol, AFBPsS, is chair of the Irish Group Relations Organisation. After graduating from the University of California, San Francisco, he lectured and researched in psychology in Wales and Ireland, and currently works as a senior manager in public administration of Irish tertiary educat