Corky Becker is interested in the transformation of conversation, interaction and relationship through compassionate listening and open-hearted speaking in clinical and public contexts. She is a clinical psychologist, family and couple therapist, an AAMFT-approved supervisor, consultant, teacher and trainer. She is a faculty member at the Family Institute of Cambridge, and is a Founding Associate at the Public Conversations Project. She is a past president and board member of the Family Institute of Cambridge; she has taught the Intensive Program in Family Therapy for many years, Narrative Approaches to Couple Therapy, Courses on Witnessing, and currently is teaching “From Chronic Conflict to Dialogue in Couple Therapy: Creating Conditions and Resources for Constructive Conversations”. Her trainings for the Public Conversations Project include The Power of Dialogue, Inquiry as Intervention, and The Art of Interviewing. Her fieldwork includes Intra Jewish Dialogue on the Middle East; and dialogues on abortion, class differences, family planning, and the war in Iraq. She has been a consultant to the Harvard Law School Project on Negotiation (Interpersonal Skills Exercise) for many years.

Dr. Becker worked with the Kosova Family Professional Education Collaborative as a member of the AFTA Committee for Human Rights project from 2000-2003, introducing family- and resource-based therapy and setting up systems to provide home-based care for chronically ill psychiatric patients. She is returning to Kosova in November 2005 for the Kosova Mental Health Conference in Prishtina. She has also served on AFTA’s conference program committees.