Elena Mustakova
Dr. Elena Mustakova has dedicated three and a half decades of work as an educator, psychotherapist and social scientist to the evolution of human consciousness in cross-cultural contexts. Her experience growing up under totalitarianism, and lecturing and serving the cause of social healing on three continents, inform her grasp of the profound historical transformation shaking our planet. As former professor in adult developmental and transpersonal psychology, her scholarship on the development of moral consciousness was described by Norwich University Professor of psychology Melvin Miller as “a courageous tour de force on the order of Maslow’s Toward a Psychology of Being.” Her historical and evolutionary approach to the study of individual and collective consciousness emphasizes the spiritual integration of issues of personal growth and development with collective social change and global sustainability. This approach was reflected in her 2014 edited volume in Springer International Psychology series, Toward a Socially Responsible Psychology for a Global Era, which APA PsycNet called “a path-breaking resource, reframing the field in terms of its responsibility as a healing science and force for social justice.” Mustakova’s scholarship has received academic awards. Her work with communities, which combines social science with the practical experience of Bahá'í spiritual and social justice communities worldwide, received the 2003 Carter Center Campus Community Initiative award
