Stay Awhile: Poetic Narratives About Multiculturalism and Diversity

Louis Hoffman, PhD, is the Executive Director of the Rocky Mountain Humanistic Counseling and Psychological Association (www.rmhcpa.org) and a Licensed Psychologist in Private Practice in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and five of its divisions (Divisions 1, 10, 32, 36, & 52) for his contributions to professional psychology. Dr. Hoffman has published numerous books, including Existential Psychology East-West (Volumes 1 & 2), Humanistic Approaches to Multiculturalism and Diversity: Perspectives on Existence and Difference, and several collections of poetry. An avid writer, he has published over 100 journal articles and book chapters. For more information, visit his website at: www.louis-hoffman.com.

Nathaniel Granger, Jr., PsyD is a Licensed Minister, practicing psychotherapist, author and poet, transformational speaker, and executive coach.  He has been published in The New Existentialists and Journal of Humanistic Psychology and has a twenty-five year span of working in Human Services. Nathaniel is a graduate of the University of the Rockies (formerly Colorado School of Professional Psychology) where he received a Doctorate Degree in Clinical Psychology with a specialization in Forensics. He also received a Masters Degree in Counseling and Human Services and Bachelors Degree in Psychology from University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He has received several awards and scholarships for demonstrated scholarly excellence and dedication to the field of psychology; with particular interests in Existential/Humanistic Psychology relative to diversity and human dignity. Incidentally, Dr. Granger is originally a product of the inner-city, where gross poverty and dropping out of high school facilitated in succumbing to life on the streets of Chicago, where he received Life’s proverbial degree in “hard-knocks.” However, through perseverance and determination, enlisting in the U.S. Army and beginning his formal educational pursuits at the community college level, he has since served in many capacities in the arena of Human Services to include but not limited to Director/Founder and Pastor/Psychotherapist at Be REAL Ministries, Inc. in Colorado Springs, Colorado; Professor of Psychology at Pikes Peak Community College, Colorado Springs and Adjunct Faculty member at Saybrook University in Oakland, California as part of the Existential, Humanistic, and Transpersonal Psychology Specialization and Transformative Social Change Specializations as well the PhD Clinical Psychology Degree Program. Dr. Granger currently serves as Secretary on the Executive Board of the Society for Humanistic Psychology (American Psychological Association, Division 32). His embodiment of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and reenactment of the “I Have a Dream” speech, along with his oratory gifts that gives life to any topic, has rendered Dr. Granger a desired and sought after speaker. His energetic love for humanity is passionately exemplified and warmly accepted, and his doctoral dissertation, “Perceptions of Racial Microaggressions among African American Males in Higher Education: A Heuristic Inquiry,” along with in vivo experiences, and interests in Civil Rights are the substrata upon which a majority of his work in academia, writing, and public speaking is predicated.