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Alan Bernstein is a psychotherapist practicing in New York City. He received his BA from the University of Michigan followed by a peripatetic year through Europe working in the Danish Post Office and hanging out at Jazz clubs in Paris. He then completed his course work for his PhD in English Literature at Rutgers University and was appointed its youngest faculty member.
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He soon realized that this was not the career he wished to pursue and began the process of "fully conscious decision-making" exemplified in this book. He went back to school, supported by a National Institute of Mental Health Fellowship, and received his MSW from Yeshiva University. He then started a career consulting to private agencies and to New York's Metropolitan Hospital while maintaining faculty appointments at New York Medical College (Psychiatric Residency Training) and the New York University Graduate School (Post-Masters and Doctoral Programs in Psychotherapy). Thus began his professional exploration of life transitions, accessing creative resources to energize bold moves.
His previous book, Princeton Review's Guide to Your Career, is now in its sixth edition. While continuing his private psychotherapy practice, Alan is also a consultant in organizational development for financial service companies. He serves on three not-for-profit Advisory Boards which touch the lives of many disadvantaged New Yorkers: Creative Alternatives of New York, Publicolor and Camp Interactive. He believes that the process of transition, though daunting, can be cultivated and become an adventure in itself.
John Trauth is a management consultant based in San Francisco. He was born in New York, graduated from Colgate University and received his Masters in Business Administration, majoring in finance, from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College. After graduate school, he and a buddy toured Europe for six months on motorcycles, camping out on the French Riviera and the Greek islands. He moved to San Francisco in 1968 to work as a management consultant, initially in the maritime industry, but found that he was better suited to the financial services industry, particularly community finance.
After retiring in 1995, he and his wife Astrid moved to France for a year where he enrolled at the Sorbonne to study French language, culture and civilization. During that year, he learned a lot about France but he learned even more about himself. Upon returning to San Francisco, he reinvented himself as a part-time management consultant specializing in strategic planning and affordable housing.
In his volunteer work, he is President of the Olympic Club Foundation which raises money and provides funding for athletic programs serving disadvantaged youth throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. He also serves on three other nonprofit Boards as well as on the Advisory Council of the Graduate School of Business Management at the University of San Francisco. He and his wife, Astrid, live in Sausalito and spend one month a year in Paris, consistent with their NewLife Master Plan.
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"'Your Retirement, Your Way' is an indispensable guide for the journey toward retirement. Alan and John's journey began as chance encounter on an Outward Bound course years ago in the wilds of Minnesota; it helped form the bonds of friendship that have infused this book with a the same sense of adventure, opportunity, and self discovery that makes it a 'must read' for anyone on their Outward Bound journey toward retirement."
Rob Chatfield, Outward Bound International. |
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