Pat holds an advanced degree in management and organizational development from Antioch New England Graduate School. She is a consultant, educator, and scholar in that field, who has extensive hands-on experience in all facets of management and organizational development - including financial management; program development, administration, and evaluation; strategic planning; staff recruitment and supervision; and team-building. She has worked in various capacities, and at all levels of organization over the past 30 years - as director of programs delivering essential social services, supervising contract management teams that oversee multiple multi-million dollar contracts, developing and installing complex computer information systems, and as the executive director of an agency whose mission is the empowerment of women and girls and the elimination of racism.
For a seven year period, as an adjunct faculty member with Antioch New England, Pat supervised graduate students in designing practicums in the field of organizational development and management. A member of the Association for Psychological type, she is certified to administer the MBTI, which she regularly uses as a management tool in her own organization and in her consulting practice. Secure in her knowledge of the traditional management techniques and practices, and her competence in the application of these, Pat has developed a unique management style that she sees as a much-needed 'feminine' alternative to the way the field is normally approached, and a natural consequence of having deeply honored her own culturally-devalued personality type (INFP/Nine).
Working closely with John Fudjack, and her son, Andrew Dinkelaker - a social ecologist and union organizer - she has focused her efforts as a consultant on non-standard forms of organization associated with the under-represented personality types. Pat is a long-time advocate of diversity in the workplace. With the assistance of Andrew and John, Pat has helped others to use non-hierarchical structures, operate according to the principles of participatory democracy and consensus decision-making, and organize in ways that promote individual empowerment and 'collaborative actualization' - a term coined by Pat to suggest that profound spiritual and personal development in the individual is best fostered in a supportive COMMUNITY. She feels that this is especially true, as Andrew has demonstrated in a Master's thesis on the subject, of communities which are deeply 'democratic' - a word that he has defined in terms of a characteristic organizational form capable of simultaneously engendering personal autonomy and social cohesion.
Pat, Andrew, and John have come to believe that these forms of organization are especially effective because they encourage individuals to utilize ALL of their mental capacities, including those that are currently undervalued, undeveloped, and underutilized in standard organizations - feeling and intuition. They have presented workshops and papers on this topic at professional conferences,
and for small groups, and are putting together a book on the subject.
Pat has also trained extensively with Natalie Rogers and others at the Person-Centered Expressive Therapy Institute, where she has had the opportunity to explore the use of various art forms in inner personal work and group work. Natalie Roger's unique approach to expressive arts is based on the quintessentially INFP/ENFP approach to therapy developed by Carl Rogers - it is 'non-directive', 'process-oriented', and 'person-centered'. Pat's work at the Institute has given her a valuable first hand experience of the benefits of genuinely 'facilitative' environments. Her application of
these principles to the workplace is a pioneering effort.
John Fudjack
John's educational background is in the philosophies of mind, science, and religion. In the early 1970s, he worked with C.O. Evans to present a model of consciousness that was hailed by philosopher H.D.Lewis as more helpful
than a similar work written on that topic by Karl Popper, and more likely to be useful to the scientist. The model construes consciousness as a complex phenomenon in which 'objects of attention' are selectively brought into the explicit focus of awareness of the individual against a background or context that is less directly experienced as an 'underlying feeling state' in the 'subsidiary awareness' of the individual. Using the model that they created, Evans and Fudjack critiqued the prevailing model of consciousness in the West (which they called the 'spotlight model'), as it manifested in the works of Freud, Jung, and others. In their work they turned special attention to Milton Erickson, whose hypnotherapeutic techniques they believe to be best explained in terms of theparadigm they were suggesting.
Encouraged by Erickson to put the model into practical use, John later founded a non-
profit educational institute and dedicated his efforts to the design and implementation of innovative educational programs based on the model. Serving individuals with extreme behavior problems, he counseled children and their families, and worked as an educational consultant to schools, residential facilities, and community groups on various projects that carefully incorporated Ericksonian techniques and similar methods of his own
creation into the structural design of remedial and therapeutic programs.
John was also the director of the first 'respite' program in the U.S., serving families
with individuals who had severe and multiple disabilities, and the largest Family Supports Program in New York State. He has acted as adjunct at various colleges, and has taught meditation to individuals at Buddhist centers, in professional training programs, and
in universities. He works with Pat and Andrew Dinkelaker as a part-time management
consultant specializing in deeply democratic organizational forms, and is currently occupied with work on various manuscripts.
John became a Buddhist in 1963, beginning formal studies and practices at that time. He has been intensely involved in these activities ever since. Having studied under the tutelage of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Kalu Rinpoche, and Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, he had done various meditation retreats and practices when he was invited in the 1980s to attend a traditional Tibetan 3-year retreat.
John first became interested in personality studies in the late 1960s, when he came across the work of Theodore Adorno on authoritarian personality, and the characterological
studies of Wilhelm Reich. In the 1970s he was introduced to a personality typology associated with Tibetan Buddhism. Based on the (pre-Jungian) Tibetan mandala teachings, it connects everyday personality traits and 'conflicting emotions' to particular forms of 'wisdom' into which they can be transformed through specific advanced spiritual practices. In the mid-1980s John came across the MBTI, which he began to use as a management tool, for the purpose of team-building. With the appearance of Palmer's first book in the late 1980s, he incorporated the Enneagram into his typological repetoire, believing it to be unique in its capacity to describe some of the DYNAMICS of ordinary personality change. In 1994, he was inspired by Pat Dinkelaker's work and collaborated with her on a study of organizational forms and their relationship to personality type. They focused on an exploration of the organizational structures that honor the culturally undervalued personality types, forms that are conducive to spiritual actualization, individual autonomy, and community. They continue to be particularly interested in the phenomenon that Pat named 'collaborative actualization', and in articulating the meta-psychological principles on which a genuinely 'socio-spiritual'
psychology might be constructed.
John's interest in the relationship between the Enneagram and the MBTI was a natural by-product of these other activities. He was presented with the opportunity to publish early (1989) thoughts on the deeper spiritual meaning of the enneagram, when, after introducing the enneagram to Jack Labanauskas and Andrea Isaacs in 1994, they created the 'Enneagram Monthly'. That piece now appears as one of the
'collected papers' at this web site, along with other articles that John and Pat have
since written on the subject.