Michelle Seligson, M.Ed
Michelle Seligson was a senior researcher and Associate Director at the Wellesley College Centers for Women (WCW) where, from 1979 to 1999, she founded and directed the National Institute on Out of School Time—NIOST--dedicated to developing and improving after-school child care programs and policies for school-age children. Michelle is also co-author of several books and articles. School-Age Child Care: An Action Manual (Auburn House Publishing Co., 1982) and School-Age Child Care: A Policy Report (1983). The Action Manual was revised and re-published in 1992. Many national research and action projects were initiated during her tenure which charted a course for the fledgling field of after-school programs. Early Childhood Programs and the Public Schools: Between Promise and Practice (Auburn House Publishing Co., 1989) by Mitchell, Seligson, and Marx was the final report of a three -year study of the role of the public schools in early childhood education.
From 1999 to 2006, Seligson researched and wrote a book on the topic of emotional intelligence, relational theory, and group relations, focused on the personal and professional development of youth workers, titled Bringing Yourself To Work: A Guide to Successful Staff Development in After School Programs (Teacher’s College Press, Columbia University, 2003.) A companion to the book, a two-day training program, teaches skill-building in self-awareness and relational and group awareness.
Beginning in 2003, Michelle worked as a producer on an independent documentary about 5 women artists, “Who Does She Think She Is?” released in 2008. The film has received a number of awards from juried film festivals around the US and Canada. In 2007 she retired from Wellesley Centers for Women to concentrate on her training as an analytic candidate at the C.G. Jung Institute of Boston.
She is past president and board member of the Boston Center for the Study of Groups and Social Systems, an organization affiliated with experiential learning in the Tavistock tradition of group relations conferences. Currently she is on the Board of the A.K. Rice Institute, the national organization for group relations. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she has a small private Jungian psychotherapy practice.
Michelle Seligson M.Ed., Harvard Graduate School of Education, 1983
B.A. Simmons College, 1973; University of Chicago 1959-61
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