Conducted a Coaching Education Symposium at the University of Pacific with highly respected coaches from the Moscow Institute for Sport and Physical Culture, where all Soviet national team coaches of the time were educated. It was from this elite coaching education institute that the Soviet participants for this project were selected.

Hosted Ivan T. Frolov, then Editor and Chief of Pravda and a Secretary of the communist Party Central Committee, for his first visit to San Francisco. Dr. Frolov was the leading Soviet philosopher of medical ethics and a close personal advisor to Gorbachev. His delegations met with leading American philosophers, sociologists, journalists, educators and political figures for discussion on perestroika, philosophy and social transformation.

Awarded the Furth Ruble Prizes, an international competition for the best proposals offering a practical solution to the question of ruble convertibility in international trade. Prize recipients were chosen by a panel of Soviet and American scholars that included Abel Aganbegyan, Joseph Brada, Ed Hewett, and Nobel Laureate Wassily Leontief.

Sponsored the first Russian-American conference on psychoneuroimmunology (PNI), an interdisciplinary field concerned with the relationship between psychological processes and the functioning of the immune system. This conference led to productive Russian-American collaborative research in the field and to a follow-up conference, held in 1991 at Leningrad's Institute for Experimental Medicine. This collaborative work that led to the signing of a long-term agreement to work with the World Health Organization in health related issues.

Developed a number of programs through our relationships with the USSR Ministry of Health and the USSR National Research Center for Preventive Medicine. Our concerns included disease prevention and health promotion in the workplace.

Signed an agreement with the World Health Organization (WHO) Europe that called for Esalen to facilitate greater Soviet participation in WHO conferences and initiatives.

Welcomed a Soviet citizen as a member of the Exchange Program staff. Psychologist Viatcheslav (Slava) Loutchkov worked in the United States and studied the interplay of psychological, social, economic, and ideological factors in perestroika. Among the many projects developed during his five-year stay: he analyzed the means of applying perestroika to the science of psychology, worked on an English-Russian, Russian-English dictionary of psychological terms and seeded the idea for an English language library of psychological literature at Moscow State that exists to this day.

Hosted an Ethnic Conflict Resolution in the Soviet Union: The Heritage of Stalinism conference at Esalen Institute that included Soviet and American experts and historians dialoging about the Stalin era and its ramifications to world history. Originally conceived as a comparative look at the tyranny of Stalin and Hitler and its impact on the politics and destiny of each society, the symposium was revised to become a collaboration among American and Soviet scholars, officials, and writers on the psychological roots of ethnic conflict and new discoveries on ways to heal the wounds of such conflict.