What I Do
I provide specialized professional instruction in the form of workshops, lectures, keynote speeches . I am a psychologist specializing in career and workplace issues, like overcoming job burnout, self management and self-leadership, mediating disputes, giving directives as examples. Many of these "works' have been transformed into my books.
My Approach
My work blends humanistic psychology and Eastern philosophies with principles of behavior psychology for the objective of creating a strategy for handling the many challenges we're encountering in today's workplace.
My Education
My masters of science is in vocational rehabilitation counseling from San Francisco State. My doctorate is in counseling psychology from Stanford University. After leaving Stanford, I translated my counseling "technology" into workplace applications.
I consider myself to be functioning as the college professor - only the world is my classroom. I teach - tho my students are rarely in the classroom but in the workplace. I develop models and theories, but they have a practical application rather than being academic. I depend upon grants to support my writings - only I provide my own grants from investments I created for that purpose. And yes, I too, face the terrors of "publish or perish".
Hands On
I was a member of the staff development team at Stanford University for nearly twenty years. I offered workshops through DeAnza College Short courses and UC Berkeley Extension for nearly a decade. Intermittently, I lead workshops through San Francisco State Downtown Program, West Valley College, Foothill College, Diablo College, and others. The people attending my formal classes were working professionals, predominently in the electronics industry since I started off in Palo Alto. It was during this time that I developed the material in my books.
I also developed specialized training for corporations including Hewlett Packard, Cisco Systems, Genentech, Sun Microsystems, Tap Plastics, GTE Strategic Systems, TRW-CI; governmental agencies including Department of Energy, IRS Revenue Officers, State of California Disability Evaluation; and associations such as State Bar of California. I was faculty for eight years in the Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Executive Seminars for City Managers.
I am best known for my work on job burnout.
Booksandauthor.com: Who were your early literary influences?
Dr. Potter: None. Grad school thesis
Booksandauthor.com: Why did you write "Animal House on Acid"? http://www.animalhouseonacid.com
Dr. Potter: Off-the-grid story. Barrington Hall is a famous place. Events were huge drama in City of Berkeley
Booksandauthor.com: Where was Barrington Hall? How long were you a neighbor?
Dr. Potter: BH is on South Side of UCB (Berkeley) campus and one of the USCA - University Students Coop – houses. 6 Years
Booksandauthor.com: Talk a little about problems for you being a neighbor of Barrington Hall. Was there outcome legally from publishing "Animal House on Acid"?
Dr. Potter: Constantly harasses by nameless students – bottles thrown, death threats, trash and rats thrown on yard.
Punk rock music at all hours. Outcome: Numerous threats and persons who had lived in BH who have not seen the book, putting bad reviews on amazon, threats of lawsuits.
Booksandauthor.com: What was Onngh Yanngh?
Dr. Potter: Those who know don’t tell; Those who tell don’t know.
The BH “code of silence”
Booksandauthor.com: What was the significance of the number 23?
Dr. Potter: 23 is considered to be a prepitious number – it is lucky, unlucky, sinister, strange and sacred to the goddess Eris – the goddess of chaos and confusion. 2 divided by 3 - .666 – the sign of the beast. 23 is deeply mysterious, extremely special and wonderfully interesting.
Booksandauthor.com: When was RONIN publishing born?
Dr. Potter: Ronin evolved from the wildly successful, grand-breaking And/Or Press – which suffered a “hostile takeover” in 1984. Ronin emerged from the ashes of And/Or – like the phoenix – and was born in the hose next to BH .
Booksandauthor.com: What was the last book you read?
Dr. Potter: Publishers don’t “read” - creating ms and books. Just sent BOOK OF SACRAMENTS: RITUAL USE OF MAGICAL PLANTS and SEXY SACRAD MUSHROOMS to printer.
Booksandauthor.com: What's next?
Dr. Potter: Creating right now: CITIZEN NINJA:STAND UP TO POWER and TRAINING BLACK SPIRIT: ETHICS FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN TEENS.
I provide specialized professional instruction in the form of workshops, lectures, keynote speeches . I am a psychologist specializing in career and workplace issues, like overcoming job burnout, self management and self-leadership, mediating disputes, giving directives as examples. Many of these "works' have been transformed into my books.
My Approach
My work blends humanistic psychology and Eastern philosophies with principles of behavior psychology for the objective of creating a strategy for handling the many challenges we're encountering in today's workplace.
My Education
My masters of science is in vocational rehabilitation counseling from San Francisco State. My doctorate is in counseling psychology from Stanford University. After leaving Stanford, I translated my counseling "technology" into workplace applications.
I consider myself to be functioning as the college professor - only the world is my classroom. I teach - tho my students are rarely in the classroom but in the workplace. I develop models and theories, but they have a practical application rather than being academic. I depend upon grants to support my writings - only I provide my own grants from investments I created for that purpose. And yes, I too, face the terrors of "publish or perish".
Hands On
I was a member of the staff development team at Stanford University for nearly twenty years. I offered workshops through DeAnza College Short courses and UC Berkeley Extension for nearly a decade. Intermittently, I lead workshops through San Francisco State Downtown Program, West Valley College, Foothill College, Diablo College, and others. The people attending my formal classes were working professionals, predominently in the electronics industry since I started off in Palo Alto. It was during this time that I developed the material in my books.
I also developed specialized training for corporations including Hewlett Packard, Cisco Systems, Genentech, Sun Microsystems, Tap Plastics, GTE Strategic Systems, TRW-CI; governmental agencies including Department of Energy, IRS Revenue Officers, State of California Disability Evaluation; and associations such as State Bar of California. I was faculty for eight years in the Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Executive Seminars for City Managers.
I am best known for my work on job burnout.
Booksandauthor.com: Who were your early literary influences?
Dr. Potter: None. Grad school thesis
Booksandauthor.com: Why did you write "Animal House on Acid"? http://www.animalhouseonacid.com
Dr. Potter: Off-the-grid story. Barrington Hall is a famous place. Events were huge drama in City of Berkeley
Booksandauthor.com: Where was Barrington Hall? How long were you a neighbor?
Dr. Potter: BH is on South Side of UCB (Berkeley) campus and one of the USCA - University Students Coop – houses. 6 Years
Booksandauthor.com: Talk a little about problems for you being a neighbor of Barrington Hall. Was there outcome legally from publishing "Animal House on Acid"?
Dr. Potter: Constantly harasses by nameless students – bottles thrown, death threats, trash and rats thrown on yard.
Punk rock music at all hours. Outcome: Numerous threats and persons who had lived in BH who have not seen the book, putting bad reviews on amazon, threats of lawsuits.
Booksandauthor.com: What was Onngh Yanngh?
Dr. Potter: Those who know don’t tell; Those who tell don’t know.
The BH “code of silence”
Booksandauthor.com: What was the significance of the number 23?
Dr. Potter: 23 is considered to be a prepitious number – it is lucky, unlucky, sinister, strange and sacred to the goddess Eris – the goddess of chaos and confusion. 2 divided by 3 - .666 – the sign of the beast. 23 is deeply mysterious, extremely special and wonderfully interesting.
Booksandauthor.com: When was RONIN publishing born?
Dr. Potter: Ronin evolved from the wildly successful, grand-breaking And/Or Press – which suffered a “hostile takeover” in 1984. Ronin emerged from the ashes of And/Or – like the phoenix – and was born in the hose next to BH .
Booksandauthor.com: What was the last book you read?
Dr. Potter: Publishers don’t “read” - creating ms and books. Just sent BOOK OF SACRAMENTS: RITUAL USE OF MAGICAL PLANTS and SEXY SACRAD MUSHROOMS to printer.
Booksandauthor.com: What's next?
Dr. Potter: Creating right now: CITIZEN NINJA:STAND UP TO POWER and TRAINING BLACK SPIRIT: ETHICS FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN TEENS.
