About Ivan Sokolov

I have been involved in change management in some form for thirty years, starting out in family counselling and communications skills training. For a while I combined co-Directing (with my wife) the UK's first major parent education charity with training members of the helping professionals in communication skills. I was a founding member of the Community Building in Britain group that introduced the Scott Peck Community Building workshop model to the UK and was one of the first trained facilitators for those events in the UK in the early 90s. I was a partner in two successful organisation change consultancies during the 90s, was an early pioneer at taking spirituality into business management, as well as developing effective use of collaborative development workshop models in organisations large and small. I balanced corporate consulting with consulting to voluntary organisations and community groups, including facilitating large scale processes such as Future Search conferences and Open Space events. I have trained extensively in Client centered counselling and consulting, NLP, Gestalt psychotherapy and various models of group dymanics. I have a MSc in Change Agent Skills and Strategies from the University of Surrey. I have written extensively on various aspects of change, development and communications over the years and been involved in the publication of books and magazines both in print and online. I emigrated to New Zealand in 2000 with my Kiwi wife and 3rd son, leaving behind two grown up sons by my first marriage. I have been involved in Aliveworld since shortly after its inception and have worked full-time at bringing it to fruition for five and a half years.