Randy Crutcher, EdD

Randy has served on the teaching faculty of Southwestern College in Santa Fe providing learning environments for MA Counseling students in Foundations: Theory and Practice of Counseling, Group Dynamics, and Career and Life Development courses. He has been in clinical practice as a counselor and currently works as a life coach and small business coach. He strongly supports the institution’s transformational education philosophy.
He has an MA in Counseling and Research Psychology from Cal Poly Humboldt where he was both on staff and faculty. He earned his Educational Leadership and Organizational Transformation doctorate in a unique collaborative learning doctoral program at the University of La Verne, La Verne, CA. This led to work in organizational development as both practitioner and consultant.

His contribution to the field of action research was implemented through two years working with the statewide California Conservation Corps. Research objectives were aligned with helping develop diverse populations of young adults acquiring leadership skills and job attainment in the natural resource field. This work culminated in a dissertation mapping the phenomenological and discursive process for engaging corps members in a democratic learning process with staff utilizing specific dialogue techniques and other group development interventions. An extra step was added to the action learning cycle that included both generative and reflective group dialogue.

In addition, he has done pioneering work in creating court-mandated group re-education for men who batter, a center for men’s health, wellness and reproductive responsibility, positive masculinity men’s groups, retreats and communities. He has participated in and led anti-sexism, anti-racism, and anti-homophobia campaigns and programs. Randy has an intersectional approach to human development and consciousness-raising.
He has had a lifelong commitment to ecological awareness, sustainable living and education. He has co-developed community organizations that promote connection to our precious planet, its systems and life forms.