Tom Hennes is the founder of Thinc Design, an internationally recognized experiential design firm whose projects include the National September 11 Memorial Museum, South Africa’s Freedom Park, the Empire State Building Observatory, and numerous other museums, aquariums, pavilions, and other heritage and commemorative sites in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Over the past two decades, he has shaped a psychoanalytically- informed method of practice he terms relational design, which envisions experiential space both as a dynamic environment rich in implicit and explicit interpersonal confluences, and as a process with potential far beyond the boundaries of the completed project. His current work includes a long-term consultancy with the City of New York on design for human experience in borough-based jails that will replace those on Rikers Island. He has taught and lectured widely and writes extensively on the intersection of design, psychoanalysis, and group relations theory. He also serves on the William Alanson White Institute Board of Trustees.

Leo Wilton, PhD, Professor, Department of Human Development, State University of New York at Binghamton; Lifetime Member, Association of Black Psychologists; President, A. K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems (AKRI); Member and Past President, New York Center for the Study of Groups, Organizations, and Social Systems; Secretary, Washington-Baltimore Center for the Study of Group Relations (WBC); Co-Creator, Group Relations International; Member, International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO); Fellow, American Psychological Association (APA).

An organizational consultant and health and wellness strategist, Joanne works with organizations, community groups and individuals.  Her work involves exploring the unconscious and social dynamics that impact individual and group effectiveness, and is informed by and embodies group relations theory, social dreaming, and health and wellness strategies.   Joanne has hosted numerous social dreaming matrices, and is an active member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations, and the New York Center for the Study of Groups, Organizations and Social Systems.  

Susan Convery, LCSW is an individual and group psychotherapist, almost a psychoanalyst and future sex therapist. She enjoys melding the unconscious, power, groups, sex and dreams to help people connect and heal. Susan has been part of the New York Center for the Study of Groups, Organizations, and Social Systems’s Social Dream Matrix host team since 2021.

As an Interpersonal psychoanalyst and organizational consultant, Martin Walker has worked with individuals, families and larger systems. Bilingual (English/Spanish), he has lived on four continents and worked extensively with trauma and underserved communities. Lifelong contemplative practice and Yoga Alliance certification has led him to approach both psychoanalytic and organizational practices with body/mind perspectives. Partnering with Gordon Lawrence, he helped form the hosting practice of social dreaming. He has presented on it at conferences, including ISPSO’s, and is currently board member of the Centre for Social Dreaming as well as founding participant of the New York Center for the Study of Groups, Organizations, and Social Systems’ social dreaming hosting team.