Elena Mustakova
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Dr. Elena Mustakova is a Bulgarian-American psychologist, social scientist, spiritual philosopher, and educator dedicated to the evolution of individual and collective consciousness toward a peaceful planetary civilization.
Dr. Mustakova has four decades of consulting individuals and communities in challenging historical and geopolitical contexts. Her integral clinical approach, blending her Bulgarian roots with Western democratic values and Middle Eastern spiritual sensibilities, fosters mindful resilience, deep dialogue, psycho-spiritual integration, and relational and community health. She illuminates the systemic links between individual health, culture, moral development, language, societal and planetary health. As professor in psychology, Elena received the Carter Campus/Community Partnership Award for founding an immigrant Latino Community Initiative with her graduate students. Elena’s re-thinking of the field of moral psychology in the context of the study of critical consciousness won her the 1995 Dissertation Award of the Henry A. Murray Research Center at Harvard, and the 1998 Best Dissertation Award of the Association for Moral Education. She is senior editor of a comprehensive Springer International Psychology 2014 volume “Toward a Socially Responsible Psychology for a Global Era”. Her recent book, Global Unitive Healing: Integral Skills for Personal and Collective Transformation, has been called “a hymn to collective sanity”, offering “potent and wise medicine for our time.”
In 2022, Elena co-founded The Unitive Justice and Global Security Thought Leaders Synergy Circle. In 2023, she co-founded The Unitive Earth Governance Collaborative. In 2022, Elena returned to Bulgaria to serve cultural transformation in the challenging Balkan context. She founded IntegraLight Transdiciplinary Institute for Consciousness, Society, and Wellbeing, which collaborates with the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research, and offers educational programs introducing the critical nature of the global consciousness shift under way to people in all sectors of society.
Global culture change is all about the awakening of ordinary citizens to the call of the times, to the interdependence between their individual consciousness and the state of the planet, and empowering people to join the most exciting work of this century – transforming planetary governance to serve global justice and regeneration.