Highlights:

Andrea M. Schara

Work History

1978-1980 – Community Faculty, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Va.

1976-1980  – Tidewater Psychiatric Hospital, Virginia Beach, Virginia

1980- 1999 - Hired by Murray Bowen, M.D. as the Audiovisual Coordinator and worked on the clinical staff in the department of Psychiatry, Georgetown University Family Center

1980-1999  – Private practice including biofeedback practice at the Bowen Center.

1990 - Appointed to the faculty at Georgetown University Family Center. Continuing coaching practice and neurofeedback training and giving talks on the applications of Bowen Theory in the United States, Japan, Norway, Sweden and France

Major Achievements:

• Organized the audio visual library, photographing, and videotaping Dr. Bowen.
• Oversaw the donation of fifteen years of Dr. Bowen’s clinical tapes with two families to the National Library of Medicine.
• Developed a pilot research project – A Ten Year Study of 50 Families with AIDS- Won a poster presentation at the NIH for this work.
• 1993 Began neurofeedback practice,
• 1993-2003 Supervised in the special post-graduate training Georgetown Family Center
• 1997- Developed Web site – www.ideastoactiom.wordpress.com
• Founded a non profit- Leaders for Tomorrow 2003 to educate the public on how leaders emerge from families and gain relationship knowledge useful in leading organizations or small groups.

2003 to present:

Moved to Darien, CT, where I am writing and consulting to individuals and train individuals in neurofeedback to increase and maintain optimal functioning.

Education:

1960-1962 Marymount College, Tarrytown, New York

1976-1982 Georgetown University Family Center, Postgraduate Program

1982-1986 Georgetown University, BA

1876- 1981 Post Graduate program at the Georgetown University Family Center

Published Papers:1. “AIDS and the Family”, Family Center Report Vol. 10:1, Georgetown Family Center, 1989.
2. “Communicating Your Diagnosis.” Lifetimes, Standtlanders, Pittsburgh, PA.
3. “Biofeedback and Family Systems Psychotherapy in the Treatment of HIV Infection”. Biofeedback and Self Regulation; 15:1, p 70-71, 1990.
4. “The Family Emotional Unit and Responses to HIV/AIDS”. Paper selected for presentation by the Office on Aids at NIMH, Second Annual Meeting, 1994.
5.”Leaders, Cooperation, and Anxiety”, The Emotional Side of Organizations, Georgetown Family Center, 1996.

Book to be published September 2008: The Mindful Compass: Navigating in the Social Jungle for Fun and Profit