Kevin Red Bear Dubrow LCSW
Background Information 2011 

Since 1971, Red Bear (Kevin Dubrow LCSW) has been called a group facilitator, a group leader, a sensitivity trainer, a school social worker, a clinical social worker, a counselor, a therapist, a supervisor, a program coordinator, a program director, a trainer, workshop leader, retreat leader, Visionquest guide, consultant, a community builder, teacher and teaching fellow. He has also been called a mentor, a guide, a master, a sage and a shaman. He is also a friend, a father and a Soul-Mate. Further, he has been called a storyteller, a poet, a scholar, a writer, a Green Man, an artist, a Trickster and a reader of a staggering amount of books. It is said he draws on many models of traditional therapy, but his mind and heart is in Jungian, Zen, Tao, Native American and Ancestral, Ancient Wisdom, Those that have shared with him say they are amazed by his wondrous INTUITION and open, curious, almost always working--except when he is meditating---Mind. He cries and laughs when remembers hearing these as he continues on his Journey which began in 1970.

In 1974, Kevin Red Bear Dubrow received his cum laude Bachelors in Business Administration with a double major in industrial psychology and clinical psychology from Baruch College of the City University of New York. For over three years while at college, he received training and was a leader for Lamport Leader Society (small groups dynamics and processes and sensitivity training) and 212 Jungian Social Group Works Project. He received formal training in small groups and organizational development from National Training Laboratories (NTL, Bethel, Maine) as well as at the New York University's Small Group Lab. He became a leader for many New York area colleges and community centers in small group dynamics and processes. In 1976, he received his masters in clinical practice with individuals, families, and groups and group treatment from the School of Social Service Administration (SSA) of the University of Chicago. He completed doctoral course work and exams at the SSA of the University of Chicago in 1982, and for two years was an Edith Abbott Teaching Fellow, field work supervisor, instructor, and co-instructor at the University of Chicago. He was mentored by and co-taught group treatment classes with Emanuel Hallowitz. For five years, Kevin was an instructor in the Labor Education Program of the United Food & Commercial Union in conjunction with the University of Illinois. He was an instructor and co-instructor at SSA of the University of Chicago. He has initiated and directed several mental health and alcohol and drug counseling programs as well as programs for adolescent sex offenders, adolescent violent repeat offenders, and suicidal and post-hospitalized adolescents. He was the only school social worker for 11 schools (K-8) and for 5 years directed an after school and summer counseling program for 2 junior high schools. Kevin Red Bear Dubrow is a Board Certified Diplomate in Clinical Social Work (BCD) and an Illinois Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW). He has trained and studied in many, many models of counseling and therapy. He has studied, utilized, taught and trained in many paradigms of counseling, therapy and mentorship. He has been in workshops with Jacob L. Moreno (and uses psychodrama in his work), Robert Bly, Virginia Satir, Carl Whitaker, Carl Rogers, Aaron Beck, Albert Ellis, Jay Haley, Salvador Minuchin, Murry Bowen, Clifford Sager, and many others.

Since 1976, throughout the Chicagoland area as well as in Illinois, Arizona, Wisconsin, New York, Iowa, Nevada, Florida, Oregon and Maine, he has conducted hundreds of workshops, training programs, consultations, student assemblies, inservices for schools, parent universities, special education cooperatives, youth service agencies, community groups, colleges and universities, probation and court services departments, unions, hospitals, and corporations. For a single school to countywide, statewide and national conferences, he has done training, professional development, workshops and seminars on over 40 themes and topics. Red Bear feels that there must be great laughter, wonderful stories and having the Self and Soul touched by his all programs. Since 1998 three to four times a year, Red Bear has led three and four day Retreats and VisionQuests in Illinois, Wisconsin and Sedona, Arizona. He has written many training manuals utilized by schools, special education cooperatives, and agencies that counsel difficult youth on a wide variety of themes. Red Bear is known for his ability to reach and help change human beings from a wide variety of socioeconomic groups having and causing a wide range of problems, issues and troubles as well as training and mentoring others on how to understand and work with youth, teenagers and adults. He initiated and directs an ongoing consultation and training program for those interested in being group leaders, effective change agents and healers for social workers, teachers, artists, physical therapists and martial art teachers. For 12 years, he offered his own full day workshop on a wide variety of themes in working with youth at Chicagoland area hotels.

For 18 years, Kevin Red Bear Dubrow was the editor, writer, and publisher of the newsletter: Red Bear's Journey, which had over 550 readers.. He is a poet, Native American flute player, and conga drum player. He is an avid reader who has read over 1,00s of books. He loves telling the many, many stories he has created as well as stories from teachings from around the Earth. He offers storytelling creation and telling programs (The Alchemical Story: The Art and Craft of Teaching Stories) and environmental/nature programs (The Green Man and Green Women walking gently on Mother Earth under Father Sky). For over 40 years, Red Bear has studied and sought teaching and experiences from many traditions and wisdoms of indigenous peoples (i.e. Native American Tribes) and Eastern paths (Buddhism, Zen and Taoism).

From 1977-1984, he was in part-time private practice doing home-visit therapy for severely acting-out and acting-in teenagers and their families. In 1984, he started a full-time private practice (Dubrow and Associates) working with referrals from schools, probation and court service departments, police departments, hospitals and many other sources. In his beautiful Brookfield offices with over 20 windows that open, he continues the tradition Morton Mintz and many others mentored him in. He mentors teenagers, young adults and adults on their true journeys. He has great passion for mentoring, it is his beloved vocation. His mentoring is an art form that draws from many wellsprings of wisdom that is ever changing, growing, evolving. He shares his life with his Soul-Mate (Desert Lizard), three daughters, two step-daughters, and two female cats. He loves seeking meaning and wisdom. He is a Green Man who is fully alive in Nature. He is a Warrior and a Lover with lots of King, Trickster, Shaman, Medicine Man and Magician energy too. Since 2001, he is the mentor and guide for a community/sanhga of true journeyers. He enjoys making people laugh and helping them find their Self and Soul. Since 1970, he is on his true Self and Soul journey that continues to amaze, delight, confuse, and baffle him as he walks, dances, swims and soars in Chaos. Oh, he loves to be silly, laugh and laugh with others, and be unpredictable.

A sampling of the places Kevin Red Bear Dubrow LCSW has done workshops, training programs, consultation, conferences, storytelling and staff development to outstanding evaluations:

Baruch College (CCNY), Bates (Maine) College, Beloit College,
Elmhurst College, Lewis and Clark (Oregon) College
School of the Art Instituite Chicago
Illinois State Social Workers Conference
Illinois State School Social Workers Conference
Illinois Secondary School Deans Association Conference
Chicagoland High School Deans Conferences
National Clinical Social Workers Conferences
National Association on Sexual Assault Conference
National Juvenile and Family Court Judges Conference
Arizona Special Education Coordinators Conference
Illinois High School Environmental Clubs Conference
Illinois Juvenile Officers Conference
Rock Island-Milan-Quad Cites School Training Institute
South Suburban Alcohol and Drug Abuse Conference
Yorkville Community Conference on Gang Violence
UFCWorkers Midwest Conference, UFCW Local 881 Conferences
Social Service Administration, University of Chicago Summer Institutes, University of Chicago
Continuing Education. University of Illinois Labor Education-UFCW 881
Special Education Cooperatives: AERO, CASE, LADSE, NSSEO, NWSEO, SASED, SEDOL, WEST 40, Winnebago Special Education, Du Page County Probation Department, Kane County Probation Department,
University of Chicago Hospitals, Mt. Sinai Hospital, Illinois Central Community Hospital, Loretto Hospitals, Cicero Public Schools (K-12), Berwyn Public Schools (K-12), Schaumburg Schools (K-8), Rock Island Schools, Lyons Township High School, Glenbard North-South-East-West High Schools, Hinsdale Central-South High School, Downers North and South High School, Wheaton Warrenville South-Wheaton North High Schools, Oak Park-River Forest High School and Special Education Department.West Chicago High School, Willowbrook High School, Leyden East and West High Schools, Fenton High School, Maine Township High Schools, Morton East & West High Schools, Niles Township High Schools, York High School, Goldwater (AZ) High School, Reavis High School, Stagg High School, Willowbrook High School, Forest Park School System, S. E. Gross Middle School, Immaculate Conception Junior High School, Posen-Robbins Schools (K-8), Forest View Alternative School, Pride Alternative School, Carmel Montessori, Villa (AZ) Montessori School, Illinois Technology Center (DAVEA), PARENT UNIVERSITIES (K-12), SNOWBALLS (High School) and SNOWFLAKES (Junior High School) Presentations (including keynote speaker), Bloomingdale Township Committee on Youth, Carol Stream Police Department, Wheaton Police Department, Salvation Army Gang Intervention Center, Rausch(Suicide Prevention and Groups for Families Grieving a Suicide) Foundation, Braveheart: Youth and Family Grief Groups, St. David's Hospice, Jewish Community Centers (JCCs) in New York City and Chicago, 92nd Street YMJA/YWJA, Clinical Psychiatric Associates, Touchstone Group, Consultation for Private Practice Practitioners and Group Practices, UFCW Local 881, Recovery Systems Incorporated, F. W. Means Corporation

Kevin Red Bear Dubrow LCSW
Background Information in Jungian Wisdom 

In 1970, Kevin Red Bear Dubrow began being mentored in Jungian Wisdom by Morton Mintz; this mentoring continued for the next six years. Morton Mintz corresponded with C. G. Jung and was a professor in Jungian Social Work at Wurzweiler School of Social Work of Yeshiva University. Morton Mintz created the 212 Jungian Social Group Work Program at Baruch College. Kevin Red Bear Dubrow became Group Facilitator then Group Trainer then Program Coordinator of the 212 Program.

At the University of Chicago, Red Bear studied with Professor of Divinity Peter Homans (author of the seminal work Jung in Context). He wrote two major doctoral papers ("Jungian and the Second Half of Life" and "Jung and Social Work") under Professor Homans' tutelage. He also lectured at the School of Social Service Administration of the University of Chicago on Jungian Dream Work. Since 1976, he uses Jungian Dream Work in counseling, therapy and mentorship sessions.

From 1976-1980, Father Davis Barker Ph.D., who was a Jungian scholar at St. David's Hospice in Glenview, Illinois, mentored Red Bear individually and in groups. He was also mentored individually at St, David's Hospice by Billie Head, a Jungian counselor and educator. He was also a member of an adult Jungian mentorship group. Through St. David ‘s Hospice, he finished the three-year Centerpoint Program in Jungian Studies. Additional focus was on a Jungian approach to Alcoholism and Addictions and Jungian Wisdom on Death and Dying.

Red Bear has attended Jungian programs in New York, Chicago and San Francisco as well as two Jungian Conferences at Notre Dame University. He has been in workshops with James Hillman, Marie Von Franz and Joseph Wheelwright.

Red Bear has read volumes and volumes of the writings of C. G. Jung and well-respected Jungians as well as every novel he can find with Jungian themes. He is a devotee of Joseph Campbell, who was directly influenced and guided by C. G. Jung, and has read all his books on myths as well as many, many other books of myths, stories and fairy tales from cultures and traditions from around the world.

Since 1970, he has studied and been an I Ching reader. He has guided I Ching Retreats in the Chicagoland area, Devil's Lake, Wisconsin and Sedona, Arizona. C. G. Jung was influential in introducing the I Ching to the West and used the I Ching for himself and with his patients. He has worked on 1,000s of dreams using a Jungian approach.

Since 1978, Red Bear has conducted training programs, workshops and seminars for social workers, counselors, therapists and educators drawing on a Jungian approach to working with youth. For the past 17 years, he has guided an annual Adventures in Self and Soul Workshop-Jungian Night (inspired by Morton Mintz) for adult, young adult and older adolescent journeyers including "Dark Night of the Soul", "A Jungian Approach to Fairy Tales", "Rumi, Rilke, Kabir and Dickinson through Jungian Eyes and Ears", "Inner Voices: Exploring the World of Jungian Archetypes", "A Jungian Adventure into Alan Watt's Wisdom of Insecurity", "The TAO Oracle: The I Ching with a Jungian Twist". He has also led programs, workshops and retreats integrating Jungian wisdom with the wisdom of Zen, Tao, Native American and other indigenous peoples. His Jungian Teaching Storytelling Workshops/Retreats and Jungian Dream Work Workshops/Retreats have been amazing experiences.

In all the journeying, mentoring, guiding, teaching, healing, writing, reading, and art he does, he is influenced, inspired, guided and directed by the Jungian Wisdom and what he learned and is still learning from his mentorship with Morton Mintz. He has a great passion, curiosity and love for Jungian Wisdom and where it takes and carries him.