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Dianne Lobes, Licensed Professional Counselor - Pauletta Feldman

Dianne is a creative and committed professional counselor (Oregon) and psychologist (Ohio), prolific writer, energizing educator and incurable political media wonk living in the country outside Eugene, Oregon. GoodChoice Counseling is her private practice for in-person, phone and online counseling. Making Conscious Choices for reaching your goals is her signature training presented to businesses, organizations and private groups.

Consciousness studies is her passion, about which she is writing a book, and she plans to write a book in her next life (when she has the time) about another obsession entitled Physics is Phun. She is helping Amit Goswami, Ph.D., professor emeritus in physics at the Institute for Theoretical Science at the University of Oregon, craft his upcoming online course on Quantum Activism and monistic idealism, which will explain how consciousness, not matter, is the ground of all being.

Dianne works with CEUPlus creating onine continuing education courses for all professionals. Her course in Motivational Interviewing should be online at the CEUPlus website in March 2009.

Several political campaigns have used Dianne's writing and media talents in recent years, and she has published opeds and articles in

• Common Dreams
• The Eugene Register-Guard
• Buzzflash
• History News Network
• Moondance
• North by Northwest Online Magazine

and other venues.

Dianne has been fortunate to study transpersonal psychology and to travel France and Greece with the inimitable Jean Houston, learn meditation with the very peaceful Jon Kabat-Zinn at Omega Institute, and to study with, hug and share a quiet dinner with the effervescent and always inspirational Joan Borysenko.

Dianne has worked as a media consultant, and has taught at several universities at the graduate and undergraduate levels. She holds a B.A. in Communications (cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) from the University of Kentucky, and a doctorate in Counseling from the University of Cincinnati. She claims she will go for no more degrees, but you never know. If she were offered a scholarship to study in Paris.....or Jamaica.....