Robert Frager
- Ph.D., Social Psychology, Harvard University, 1967
- B.A., Psychology, Reed College, 1961
Bob is the founding President of the Institute, and is currently a Professor and the Director of the Spiritual Guidance Specialization. He was trained in Aikido in Japan where he was a personal student of the founder of Aikido, and holds a 7th degree black belt—the highest honor ever awarded to a westerner. He is a transpersonal psychologist, consultant, educator and a spiritual teacher in the Sufi tradition. He holds the rank of Professor and is Director of the Spiritual Guidance Program.
Before founding the Institute, Bob taught psychology and religious studies for seven years at University of California Berkeley and University of California Santa Cruz. He co-authored Personality and Personal Growth (5th edition), and edited Love is the Wine, an introduction to Sufism; Who am I? Personality Typologies for Self Discovery, an anthology of personality typologies; and Essential Sufism, an anthology of Sufi teaching materials. He is the author of Heart, Self and Soul: The Sufi Psychology of Growth, Balance, and Wholeness, an introduction to Sufi Psychology. His most recent publications deal with such subjects such as the transpersonal dimensions of Aikido and spirituality in business.