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Feedback from clients on Paul's work:
“It’s NOT one of those nebulous creativity workshops, it’s focused and it’s clear and you (Paul) have a very specific skill set, and you’re very able and you’re very clear.”
“I’ve been awestruck at how we’ve collectively constructed something so cohesive.”
“Paul created a very safe structure, which invited in hierarchy and invited in power struggles, but also set up a safe structure to resolve any conflict.”
“I don’t have a background in movement or anything, and I was concerned enough about being here, but I found a place that I was comfortable in. It’s very significant for me to find a place where I was comfortable with movement. That’s tribute to you and to the group.”
“You could NOT verbalise what was going on!”
“I have a reaffirmation of the softness and gentleness and delicacy (of myself). I would be seen as a strong person, a manager, stoic, quite yang, quite logical, quite objective, and this has been really nice …to find a gentle part of myself that I don’t normally show. It was quite nice to welcome that back.”
“This would be great for dealing with diversity issues.”
“ I felt that I showed so much more of myself in that dance than if I’d sat here for an hour and tried to explain myself”

San Francisco-based Dr. Paul Loper heads "have more fun - body", facilitating the integration of mind and body in all forms of communication. Passionately committed to an integral, connected path of human flourishing, Paul lives and works in the arts as well as more pragmatic, “useful” realms.

As an educator/facilitator/academic, he obtained a Ph.D. in Learning and Change in Human Systems (from the California Institute of Integral Studies), is faculty for St. Mary’s College of California (Masters in Leadership program), facilitates T-groups and is teaching assistant to David Bradford for Stanford University (Graduate School of Business), and has taught or presented at 12 additional colleges and universities, as well as at several national and international conferences. Paul has published a number of articles, dealing in different ways with his collaborative, multi-epistemological Chormmunity workshops, which have been used by organisations and companies including Kellogg's, Kerry Foods, EDF Energy, and the Berkana Institute to deepen their understanding of and creative access to relationships and groups.

As an artist, a recent project was “Studio Time,” that explored listening for form, letting creative structures arise and connect to each other in a collaborative inquiry into Making Work. He also acts in the theatre, building today on two earlier decades of professional performing throughout North America, Europe, Scandinavia, and Israel. He danced with Twyla Tharp, ISO (formerly Momix), Michael Moschen, the American Dancemachine, Philippe Découfflé, the Pet Shop Boys, and Grace Jones, doing concert work, musicals, variety shows, and performance art as well as film and television. An award-winning choreographer, he has created nearly 50 works. Paul was assistant to Broadway director-choreographers Ron Field and Lynn Taylor-Corbett. For his dance teaching (modern and jazz technique, contact improv, repatterning movement fundamentals, theatredance, pedagogy, and composition; grounded in the Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis System), he was awarded le Diplôme d’État, France’s national dance teaching diploma.