Arash completed his Ph.D. in Management of Technology (Systems Modelling) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), holds a Master of Science in System Dynamics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), and is a Psychoanalyst Diploma Candidate at the CG Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. His experience includes working as a system dynamicist on large scale simulation platforms of socio-technical systems in urban dynamics and circular economy. Arash has a passion for multi-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary approaches to learning and inquiry. Arash teaches systems thinking, system dynamics and learning design at universities in Geneva and Lausanne area, where he has been awarded as the distinguished member of the faculty several times.

James is the architect of the Gifts Compass Inventory, an online psychological self-assessment instrument useful for the dynamic development of unique personality, a process that Carl Gustav Jung termed individuation. He holds a Master’s Degree in Architecture from Harvard University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Arts from DePauw University. His inquiry into Jungian psychology began with Volume VI of the Collected Works, Psychological Types. Recognizing the importance Jung placed on the type model as a compass for understanding orientations to life (“I would not for anything dispense with this compass on my psychological voyages of discovery”—C. G. Jung), he continued his inquiry, reading the rest of the Collective Works to find the important correlations between psychological types and depth psychology.

Faranak is a Jungian analytical therapist trained and based in The Netherlands. She first studied International and European Law at the University of Amsterdam and lived an entrepreneurial life for almost a decade before she came to Jung’s work. The diversity of her background is reflected in her approach to her current work and research that breathes diversity and interdisciplinarity. Her work with the human psyche and the imagination includes private dreamwork as well as indigenous approaches to the collective, social aspect of dreams that weave a story that goes beyond, yet includes the individual. She is also a research student at the University of Amsterdam where she is doing fieldwork research on the intersection of Jungian psycho-spiritual and laboratory alchemy—and the reciprocal relationship of human consciousness and that of nature.

Tamires has a bachelor’s in design at the State University of Sao Paulo, works as a Staff Designer at Nubank, helping people with ther relation with money. She also teaches about mapping experiences at a design school in Sao Paulo for designers who aiming a chaging of career. She has a versatile background for working in service design consultancy, product companies, and software agencies. Always looking to match design with technology to improve our capabilities and project services. Her deep interest in complex issues brought her to Design Dissolve.