Executive Corner with Stephen Dansiger

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Stick with the Winners! –

Dr. Steven Dansiger played CBGB and Max’s Kansas City in the late 70s; drank, played drums in a toy rock band and then got sober in the late 80s; became an international educator and rocker again in the 90s; and is now a sought after clinician, writer and meditation teacher. Dr. Steve has attempted to cure Marc Maron on his world renowned WTF Podcast, become a master EMDR therapist and provider of EMDR Training and Advanced Topics Courses with the Institute for Creative Mindfulness, and is a pioneer in the Buddhist recovery field. He is the creator and founder of the MET(T)A Protocol (Mindfulness and EMDR Treatment Template for Agencies) which utilizes both Buddhist psychology and EMDR therapy to create an agency’s primary clinical practice system.

Q. If you are in recovery, what was your Drug of Choice and when did you discontinue its use?
A. Alcohol with a side order of anything else I could ingest, 1989.

Q. At which of the schools you attended did you learn the most?
A. All of them: SUNY Empire State, Jersey City State College, NYU, California Southern University, University of Pennsylvania

Q. Do you believe leaders are made or born?
A. I think it’s a combination. Those that are born can squander it, and those that are not born with it can develop it.