Meet the team

Rebecca Weslie Ellison, M.A. is the Co-Founder of Taretok Child Prosperity, a Tanzanian-based nonprofit organization focused on early childhood education, economic development for women. She provides consulting support for monitoring and evaluation for nonprofit organizations. Along with her role as a full-time caregiver for a parent she is a certified Group Relations Consultant for the A.K Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems (AKRI), and member of The Washington-Baltimore Center for Group Relations (WBC). She is a member of the Local Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Montgomery County Central, former Auxiliary Board Member for Maryland and Delaware, and former Regional Training Institute Board member for the Atlantic States. She believes that “soul” is rational and immortal and is the first to recognize the divine essence at the heart of all created things. As the soul represents such an important portal for learning she continues to integrate a soul framework into her many roles within secular and faith communities.

Email: rwellison9@gmail.com

For decades Charla Hayden’s work life has been characterized by serving in a variety of internal leadership, teaching, and external organizational consulting roles. Her particular interests focus on health care delivery, education, and public service systems, and on understanding the multiple cultural shifts affecting the U.S. and other countries based on changing assumptions about leadership, education, and individual and group responsibility. Her approach uses a whole systems perspective, meaning that no organization exists in isolation and that understanding mutual influences matters.

 Mojgan Jahan is a clinical psychologist in private practice in San Diego. As a healthcare provider certified in Mind Body Medicine, she frequently provides training on the topics of stress management and prevention of burnout. As a Master Trainer, she has taught principles of Mind Body Medicine to over 800 healthcare providers. Mojgan specializes in mindfulness and compassion-based approaches to treating trauma, depression, anxiety, chronic illness and pain. She is passionate about social justice and her work is infused with her values. She believes her experience as an immigrant and living in different cultural milieus enables her to appreciate multiple perspectives.  

Mojgan’s application of Group Relations concepts has benefited her work with various organizations. She is currently a member of A. k. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems, GREX, its West Coast affiliate.

David Roth, Ph.D, is board-certified as a clinical chaplain and diplomate in pastoral supervision by the College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy, and formerly director of spiritual care and clinical supervisor for chaplaincy training at Kaiser Permanente in Northern California.

David received a BA in socio-cultural anthropology from Temple University, an MA in religious studies from Providence College, a graduate diploma in spirituality, as well as a licentiate and a PhD in theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome.

His training includes a one-year residency in clinical pastoral care at Lehigh Valley Hospital, a Level I Trauma Center affiliated with the Penn State University School of Medicine, a year-long traineeship in sex and relationship therapy at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School/University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and a fellowship in psychoanalysis at the NYU Psychoanalytic Institute (now Psychoanalytic Association of New York) affiliated with NYU School of Medicine.

David has been a professor of spirituality, pastoral ministry and applied ethics in the graduate schools of several colleges and universities and was the first clinical professor of chaplaincy at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.

In 1989 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. He is the first person from the clinical pastoral field to be admitted to the clinical register of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society.

Dr. Romo is a spiritual counselor at Kaiser Permanente where he assists in finding meaning, purpose and connection in life changing events. He is a Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) facilitator trainer and educator who helps people see and transform individual and systemic problems.  Previously, his teacher education scholarship focused on multicultural identities in teaching and learning in the San Diego-Tijuana geo-political border region, as well as how institutional and interpersonal trauma impacts mental, physical and behavioral health.

Dr. Romo is a Minister for Healing and Healthy Environments at Pilgrim United Church of Christ. Dr. Romo is a certified AK Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems consultant and has directed Group Relations conferences and events. www.jaimeromo.org

Tara Victor, PhD, ABPP/CN, is a faculty member of the Dominguez Hills Department of Psychology and Associate Clinical Professor at UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences. She is a Board Certified Clinical Neuropsychologist and has a Private Practice. Dr. Victor is a Member of the Grex Strategic Planning Committee and Associate & Certified Consultant, AK Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems.

Organizational Consultant, Credentialed Mediator, AKRI Certified Consultant, Visual Artist, Past President and Fellow A K. Rice Institute, Board member San Diego Psychoanalytic Center, Past President Threshold Foundation, Founder of Subjective Technologies Inc. an early stage virtual reality startup, Grex member and former board member.