Dan Short, PhD is currently director of the Milton H. Erickson Institute in Phoenix. He has served as Assistant Director for the Milton H. Erickson Foundation, and was formerly the Executive Editor of the Milton H. Erickson Foundation Newsletter. Dr. Short is the lead author of Hope and Resiliency, in co-authorship with Betty Alice Erickson and Roxanna Erickson Klein. He is also the author of Transformational Relationships and numerous professional articles, book chapters and other publications, having recently collaborated with Roxanna Erickson Klein to define Ericksonian Psychotherapy in the SAGE Encyclopedia of Counselling and Theory. Currently teaching Clinical Hypnosis at the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine, he conducts consultation groups for professionals in the Phoenix metropolitan area, as well as providing supervision of professionals in the United States and abroad, presenting seminars and workshops as visiting Faculty at Institutes around the world.