Presenters at the Vienna Congress, September 18th - 22nd, 2000
| Prof. Dr. Ulrich Körtner | ||
| Dr. Tom J. Goulder | Dr. Dietfried Gewalt | Ing. Harald Gnilsen |
| Dr. Ray Trybus | Dr. Wilhelm Zauner | Dr. Werner Pelinka |
Dr. Tom J. Goulder
California
School of Professional Psychology
Dr. Goulder is currently is the Director of Training at the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center for Persons who are Hard of Hearing or Late Deafened and Director of the Greater Minnesota Assessment and Training Program. He has worked in the field of Hearing Loss and Psychology since 1961. He has served as Clinical Administrator of the Saint Elizabeths Mental Health Program for Persons with Hearing Loss, Washington, D.C. (1968-76). Director of the Psychoeducational Center for Emotionally Disturbed Children with Hearing Loss, Boston, Mass. (1976-79). State Director of Mental Health Services for Persons with Hearing Loss, Connecticut and Washington states. He is married and has five children and five grandchildren. His wife, Cathy Kirscher is the Southwestern Coordinator for Helen Keller Center and is a professional who works with Deafblind persons. They live in San Diego, California.
Dietfried Gewalt, Pastor Dr. theol., Hamburg, Germany
Hearing therapist. Since 1969 minister for hearing impaired persons in the Ev. Luth. Church of Nordelben. President of AFES (German Fed. for Pastoral Care to Hearing Impaired Persons). Vice president of IVSS Churchear. Author and editor of several publications on pastoral care to hearing impaired persons.
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Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Zauner
Born 1929 in Windischgarten,
Austria. Studies at the Cath. Theol. Faculty of Innsbruck. 1952 ordained as a priest.
Chaplain and teacher of religion, counselor at the University of Linz. 1970-1994 professor
of Pastoral Theology at the Cath. Theol. Faculty of Linz. Co-editor of the Practical
Theological quarterly publication and of the international periodical DIAKONIA.
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Dipl. Ing. Harald Gnilsen
1977-1985: Studies of
architecture at the Technical University of Vienna. 1979-1989: Employed at several
architect firms and building departments. Since 1990 owner of architect firm in Vienna.
Since 1996 head of the building departmentof the Archdiocese of Vienna.
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Prof. Dr. Ulrich Körtner
Dr. Theol. since 1992
Professor of Systematic Theology at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of Vienna
University. Born 1957. Head of the Institute of Systematic Theology of Vienna University.
Member of the Institute of Ethics in Medicine at Vienna University
and the Scientific Commission for Genetic Analysis and Therapy on Persons of the Austrian government. Chairman of the Rudolf Bultmann Society for Hermeneutical Theology.
Bibliography: Der inspirierte Leser. Zentrale Aspekte biblischer Hermeneutik, Göttingen 1994; Stückweise. Fragmentarische Reflexionen über den Sinn des Lebens, Wien 1995; Bedenken, daß wir sterben müssen. Sterben und Tod in Theologie und medizinischer Ethik (BsR 1147), München 1996; Wie lange noch, wie lange? Über das Böse, Leid und -Tod, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1999; Evangeftsche Sozialethik. -Grundlagen -und Thernenfelder (UTB 2107), Göttingen 1999; Die Gemeinschaft des Heiligen Geistes. Zur Lehre vom Heiligen Geist und der Kirche, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1999
Mag. Dr. Werner Pelinka
Pianist, composer, musicologist
and music-educator. Born 1952.
Lecturer at the Vienna Conservatory, head of the Tomatis Institute for Listening- and Speech Education in Vienna since 1995.
The ear as gateway to the soul - the Tomatis Method
The Tomatis Method was developed in the past decade by Dr. Tomatis, a ENT-Specialist working in Paris. This method is based on a scientific recognition that hearing, understanding, and speaking are functions intricately linked to one another and that their degree and quality of interconnection are features playing a decisive part in the psychic balance of human beings. The capacity to hear and to analyze sounds, to speak and to express, are improved with the help of a special "listening training" carried out with a so-called "electronic ear." A well-functioning ear is the key for an increased degree of well-being and supports the development of communication