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Eben Alexander & Karen Newell
Speakers, Authors, Founders
After decades as a physician and teacher at Harvard Medical School and elsewhere, renowned academic neurosurgeon Dr. Eben Alexander thought he knew how the brain, mind, and consciousness worked. A transcendental Near-Death Experience (NDE) during a week-long coma from an inexplicable brain infection changed all of that – completely. Memories of his life had been completely deleted, yet he awoke with memories of a fantastic odyssey deep into another realm – more real than this earthly one!
Since his 2008 NDE he has been reconciling his rich spiritual experience with contemporary physics and cosmology. We are conscious in spite of our brain. By probing deeply into our own consciousness, we transcend the limits of the human brain, and of the physical-material realm. His story offers a crucial key to the understanding of reality and human consciousness.
A pioneering scientist and thought leader in consciousness studies, Dr. Alexander has been a guest on Dr. Oz, Oprah, and many other media programs. His most recent book, Living in a Mindful Universe: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Heart of Consciousness (co-authored with Karen Newell), has garnered accolades from many scientists around the world who study the mind-body question and the nature of consciousness. His earlier books, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife and The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife, have collectively spent more than two years atop the New York Times and international bestseller lists. www.ebenalexander.com
As an innovator in the emerging field of brainwave entrainment audio meditation, Karen Newell, co-founder of Sacred Acoustics, empowers others in their journeys of self-discovery. Using Sacred Acoustics recordings, she teaches how to connect to inner guidance, achieve inspiration, improve wellness and develop intuition.
In her search for answers to fundamental questions, it became clear that direct experience is crucial to full understanding. To bolster her strong sense of inner knowing and alignment with her higher nature, she enrolled in a series of hands-on experiential courses to investigate and develop such skills as lucid dreaming, astral travel, telepathy, remote viewing, self-hypnosis, and different forms of energy healing.
She developed a facile expertise in living through daily connection with universal consciousness using heart awareness as a central element. At international workshops presented with best-selling author Dr. Eben Alexander, Karen demonstrates key practices of consciousness exploration: heart awareness, intention, maintaining neutrality, emotional management and cultivating internal knowing. She is co-author with Dr. Alexander of their latest book, Living in a Mindful Universe: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Heart of Consciousness.
After decades as a physician and teacher at Harvard Medical School and elsewhere, renowned academic neurosurgeon Dr. Eben Alexander thought he knew how the brain, mind, and consciousness worked. A transcendental Near-Death Experience (NDE) during a week-long coma from an inexplicable brain infection changed all of that – completely. Memories of his life had been completely deleted, yet he awoke with memories of a fantastic odyssey deep into another realm – more real than this earthly one!
Since his 2008 NDE he has been reconciling his rich spiritual experience with contemporary physics and cosmology. We are conscious in spite of our brain. By probing deeply into our own consciousness, we transcend the limits of the human brain, and of the physical-material realm. His story offers a crucial key to the understanding of reality and human consciousness.
A pioneering scientist and thought leader in consciousness studies, Dr. Alexander has been a guest on Dr. Oz, Oprah, and many other media programs. His most recent book, Living in a Mindful Universe: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Heart of Consciousness (co-authored with Karen Newell), has garnered accolades from many scientists around the world who study the mind-body question and the nature of consciousness. His earlier books, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife and The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife, have collectively spent more than two years atop the New York Times and international bestseller lists. www.ebenalexander.com
As an innovator in the emerging field of brainwave entrainment audio meditation, Karen Newell, co-founder of Sacred Acoustics, empowers others in their journeys of self-discovery. Using Sacred Acoustics recordings, she teaches how to connect to inner guidance, achieve inspiration, improve wellness and develop intuition.
In her search for answers to fundamental questions, it became clear that direct experience is crucial to full understanding. To bolster her strong sense of inner knowing and alignment with her higher nature, she enrolled in a series of hands-on experiential courses to investigate and develop such skills as lucid dreaming, astral travel, telepathy, remote viewing, self-hypnosis, and different forms of energy healing.
She developed a facile expertise in living through daily connection with universal consciousness using heart awareness as a central element. At international workshops presented with best-selling author Dr. Eben Alexander, Karen demonstrates key practices of consciousness exploration: heart awareness, intention, maintaining neutrality, emotional management and cultivating internal knowing. She is co-author with Dr. Alexander of their latest book, Living in a Mindful Universe: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Heart of Consciousness.
Anna Bacchia
Researcher, Teacher, Writer, Innovator
Honorary Signatory of the Fuji Declaration. She is a Creative Member of the Club of Budapest
For her research in human sciences and intercultural EDU Projects involving 67 Countries, Anna Bacchia is among the laureates of the Luxembourg World Peace Prize 2017, and member of the World Peace Forum.
Founder of the Consciousness Institute in Lugano Switzerland, and of the LIFE Leaders.international® Educational Programs, in 40 years of teaching she has trained thousands of persons in Europe, China, United States, South America.
Anna Bacchia’s Project One Earth Choir involves every year millions of people, spread all over the Earth, on the theme: “we have many native languages, but one unique human language, we are one only humanity”. www.OneEarthChoir.net
For her Researches published as proceedings of the ICSV International Conferences on Sound and Vibration, Anna Bacchia has been nominated member of the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration IIAV, Auburn Alabama, USA. She is member of the Italian Association for Cognitive Sciences. And Research Fellow of the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research, Italy.
Honorary Signatory of the Fuji Declaration. She is a Creative Member of the Club of Budapest
For her research in human sciences and intercultural EDU Projects involving 67 Countries, Anna Bacchia is among the laureates of the Luxembourg World Peace Prize 2017, and member of the World Peace Forum.
Founder of the Consciousness Institute in Lugano Switzerland, and of the LIFE Leaders.international® Educational Programs, in 40 years of teaching she has trained thousands of persons in Europe, China, United States, South America.
Anna Bacchia’s Project One Earth Choir involves every year millions of people, spread all over the Earth, on the theme: “we have many native languages, but one unique human language, we are one only humanity”. www.OneEarthChoir.net
For her Researches published as proceedings of the ICSV International Conferences on Sound and Vibration, Anna Bacchia has been nominated member of the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration IIAV, Auburn Alabama, USA. She is member of the Italian Association for Cognitive Sciences. And Research Fellow of the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research, Italy.
Christopher Bache
Professor Emeritus in Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University where he taught for 33 years. He is also adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Emeritus Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and on the Advisory Council of Grof Legacy Training. An award winning teacher and international speaker, Chris’ passion has been exploring the philosophical insights and experiences that emerge in nonordinary states of consciousness, especially psychedelic states. Chris has written four books: Lifecycles - a study of reincarnation in light of contemporary consciousness research; Dark Night, Early Dawn - a pioneering work in psychedelic philosophy and collective consciousness; The Living Classroom, an exploration of teaching and collective fields of consciousness; and LSD and the Mind of the Universe, the story of his 20 year journey with LSD.
Michael B. Beckwith
Founder and Spiritual Director of the Agape International Spiritual Center.
Michael Bernard Beckwith is the Founder and Spiritual Director of the Agape International Spiritual Center, a trans-denominational community headquartered in Los Angeles comprised of thousands of local members and global live streamers.
Widely recognized for his teachings on the science of inner transformation, Dr. Beckwith embraces a practical approach to spirituality utilizing
meditation, affirmative prayer, and Life VisioningTM,
These practices teach us to take the experience of inner peace and awakened awareness into our everyday lives.
Dr. Beckwith is a sought after meditation teacher, conference speaker, and seminar leader on the Life Visioning ProcessTM.
As co-founder and president of the Association for Global New Thought, he hosts conferences featuring harbingers of world peace including His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and had the distinguished honor of presenting to Nelson Mandela the Gandhi King Award.
Three of his books—Life Visioning, Spiritual Liberation, and TranscenDance Expanded—are recipients of the prestigious Nautilus Award. His new app, Beckwith Inspires, features essential spiritual tools, technologies, and practices to help shift perceptions and transform lives. He has appeared on OWN’s SuperSoul Sunday and Help Desk; Dr. Oz; CNN, The Oprah Show; Larry King Live; Tavis Smiley; and in his own PBS Special, The Answer Is You. He is a member of Oprah’s esteemed inaugural SuperSoul 100. His weekly Instagram Live series, Lifting the Veil, airs Wednesdays at 1pm. For more information visit: agapelive.com
Michael Bernard Beckwith is the Founder and Spiritual Director of the Agape International Spiritual Center, a trans-denominational community headquartered in Los Angeles comprised of thousands of local members and global live streamers.
Widely recognized for his teachings on the science of inner transformation, Dr. Beckwith embraces a practical approach to spirituality utilizing
meditation, affirmative prayer, and Life VisioningTM,
These practices teach us to take the experience of inner peace and awakened awareness into our everyday lives.
Dr. Beckwith is a sought after meditation teacher, conference speaker, and seminar leader on the Life Visioning ProcessTM.
As co-founder and president of the Association for Global New Thought, he hosts conferences featuring harbingers of world peace including His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and had the distinguished honor of presenting to Nelson Mandela the Gandhi King Award.
Three of his books—Life Visioning, Spiritual Liberation, and TranscenDance Expanded—are recipients of the prestigious Nautilus Award. His new app, Beckwith Inspires, features essential spiritual tools, technologies, and practices to help shift perceptions and transform lives. He has appeared on OWN’s SuperSoul Sunday and Help Desk; Dr. Oz; CNN, The Oprah Show; Larry King Live; Tavis Smiley; and in his own PBS Special, The Answer Is You. He is a member of Oprah’s esteemed inaugural SuperSoul 100. His weekly Instagram Live series, Lifting the Veil, airs Wednesdays at 1pm. For more information visit: agapelive.com
Gregg Braden
Five-time New York Times best-selling author, scientist, international educator and renowned as a pioneer in the emerging paradigm based in science, spirituality, social policy and human potential.
From 1979 to 1991 Gregg worked as a problem solver during times of crisis for Fortune 500 companies, including Cisco Systems, where he became the first Technical Operations Manager in 1991. He continues problem-solving today as his work reveals deep insights into our origin, our potential, and how these understandings inform the policies underlying everyday life and the emerging world. To date his research has led to 15 film credits and 12 award-winning books now published in over 40 languages
The United Kingdom’s Watkins Journal lists Gregg among the top 100 of “the world’s most spiritually influential living people” for the 7th consecutive year, and he is a 2020 nominee for the prestigious Templeton Award, established to honor “outstanding individuals who have devoted their talents to expanding our vision of human purpose and ultimate reality.”
Gregg is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and is active with visionary organizations including the HeartMath Global Coherence Initiative and The Arlington Institute. He has presented his discoveries in over 30 countries on six continents and has been invited to speak to The United Nations, Fortune 500 companies and the U. S. military.
From 1979 to 1991 Gregg worked as a problem solver during times of crisis for Fortune 500 companies, including Cisco Systems, where he became the first Technical Operations Manager in 1991. He continues problem-solving today as his work reveals deep insights into our origin, our potential, and how these understandings inform the policies underlying everyday life and the emerging world. To date his research has led to 15 film credits and 12 award-winning books now published in over 40 languages
The United Kingdom’s Watkins Journal lists Gregg among the top 100 of “the world’s most spiritually influential living people” for the 7th consecutive year, and he is a 2020 nominee for the prestigious Templeton Award, established to honor “outstanding individuals who have devoted their talents to expanding our vision of human purpose and ultimate reality.”
Gregg is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and is active with visionary organizations including the HeartMath Global Coherence Initiative and The Arlington Institute. He has presented his discoveries in over 30 countries on six continents and has been invited to speak to The United Nations, Fortune 500 companies and the U. S. military.
Sesto & Gabriele Castagnoli
The Green Pilgrims.
Sesto Giovanni Castagnoli has a wide range as an international entrepreneur, development consultant and spiritual bridge builder. He advises companies and individuals and gives lectures and workshops on issues of Spirituality in Business Life, Natural Economic and Financial Systems, Mutual Understanding of Cultures and Religions, Noosphere and other topics related to the change of consciousness. Sesto Castagnoli was also founding president of the World Spirit Forum, co-founder of the World Transforming Initiatives and founder or board member of many other organizations. In 2014 he started off the YES Initiative to reduce youth unemployment and in February 2017 he initiated the Future Cooperative that aims to develop, finance and distribute technical and social innovations.
For more information: https://evolutant.weebly.com/sesto-giovanni-castagnoli
Gabriele Castagnoli started her career in advertising and marketing. Later she founded ‘oralab—develop mutually’ to persue her passion for individual and collective development between the poles of cosmos, man and culture. About the three year long ‘pilgrimage into society’ she undertook with her husband starting in 2016, she is writing a book currently.
For more information: www.oralab.ch/english
Sesto Giovanni Castagnoli has a wide range as an international entrepreneur, development consultant and spiritual bridge builder. He advises companies and individuals and gives lectures and workshops on issues of Spirituality in Business Life, Natural Economic and Financial Systems, Mutual Understanding of Cultures and Religions, Noosphere and other topics related to the change of consciousness. Sesto Castagnoli was also founding president of the World Spirit Forum, co-founder of the World Transforming Initiatives and founder or board member of many other organizations. In 2014 he started off the YES Initiative to reduce youth unemployment and in February 2017 he initiated the Future Cooperative that aims to develop, finance and distribute technical and social innovations.
For more information: https://evolutant.weebly.com/sesto-giovanni-castagnoli
Gabriele Castagnoli started her career in advertising and marketing. Later she founded ‘oralab—develop mutually’ to persue her passion for individual and collective development between the poles of cosmos, man and culture. About the three year long ‘pilgrimage into society’ she undertook with her husband starting in 2016, she is writing a book currently.
For more information: www.oralab.ch/english
Deepak Chopra
Founder of The Chopra Foundation , a non-profit entity for research on well-being and humanitarianism, and Chopra Global, a modern-day health company at the intersection of science and spirituality, is a world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation. Chopra is a Clinical Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of California, San Diego and serves as a senior scientist with Gallup Organization. He is the author of over 89 books translated into over forty-three languages, including numerous New York Times bestsellers. His 90th book and national bestseller, Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential (Harmony Books), unlocks the secrets to moving beyond our present limitations to access a field of infinite possibilities. TIME magazine has described Dr. Chopra as “one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century.”
Photo by Michael Allen.
Photo by Michael Allen.
Leslie Allan Combs
Consciousness researcher, neuropsychologist, and systems theorist at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where he is Director of the Consciousness Studies Center. He is also Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina-Asheville, and Director of the Conscious Evolution master’s program at the Graduate Institute of Connecticut. Allan is author or coauthored over 200 articles, chapters, and books on consciousness and the brain, including Consciousness Explained Better, endorsed by Ken Wilber as “the finest book on consciousness in modern times,” The Radiance of Being, with a foreword by Ken Wilber; winner of the best-book award of the Scientific and Medical Network, as well as Thomas Berry, Dreamer of the Erath with Ervin Laszlo. He is Editor of CONSCIOUSNESS: Ideas and Research for the Twenty-First Century, and Co-Editor of The Journal of Conscious Evolution.
Jude Currivan
Cosmologist, planetary healer, futurist and author. She is a life-long researcher into the nature of reality, has a Masters Degree in Physics from Oxford University specializing in quantum physics and cosmology and a PhD in Archaeology from the University of Reading in the UK researching ancient cosmologies. Following an international business career culminating in her being one of the most senior businesswomen in the UK she then chose in the mid-1990s to move on to pursue a calling to serve the emergence of a global shift of awareness.
She has extensive experience and knowledge of world events, international politics, global economic and financial systems and future trends and has spoken on transformational reforms in the UK, US, Europe, Japan and South Korea. Also keeping up with the latest scientific discoveries across many fields of research, she integrates leading edge science, research into consciousness and universal wisdom teachings into a wholistic wholeworld-view. This underpins her work aimed at raising awareness and facilitating transformational and sustainable resolutions to our collective and planetary issues. She is a member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle and lives in Wiltshire, England. Her sixth book The Cosmic Hologram (Inner Traditions, Spring 2017) which Ervin Laszlo who has written the foreword calls a tour de force shares the imminent scientifically-based revolution in awareness of an in-formed and holographic Universe. Co-inciding with its launch, she co-founded WholeWorld-View, aiming to serve the understyanding, expereincing and embodying of unitiy awareness (www.wholeworld-view.org). www.judecurrivan.com
She has extensive experience and knowledge of world events, international politics, global economic and financial systems and future trends and has spoken on transformational reforms in the UK, US, Europe, Japan and South Korea. Also keeping up with the latest scientific discoveries across many fields of research, she integrates leading edge science, research into consciousness and universal wisdom teachings into a wholistic wholeworld-view. This underpins her work aimed at raising awareness and facilitating transformational and sustainable resolutions to our collective and planetary issues. She is a member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle and lives in Wiltshire, England. Her sixth book The Cosmic Hologram (Inner Traditions, Spring 2017) which Ervin Laszlo who has written the foreword calls a tour de force shares the imminent scientifically-based revolution in awareness of an in-formed and holographic Universe. Co-inciding with its launch, she co-founded WholeWorld-View, aiming to serve the understyanding, expereincing and embodying of unitiy awareness (www.wholeworld-view.org). www.judecurrivan.com
Kingsley L. Dennis
Researcher and writer. He is the author of several critically acclaimed books including 'Healing the Wounded Mind', 'Bardo Times', 'The Phoenix Generation'; 'New Consciousness for a New World'; 'Struggle For Your Mind'; 'After the Car'; and the celebrated 'Dawn of the Akashic Age' (with Ervin Laszlo).
Kingsley runs his own book publishing imprint called 'Beautiful Traitor Books' - http://www.beautifultraitorbooks.com/
As well as non-fiction, Kingsley has published fiction - sci-fi novels & children's books - such as the beloved 'The Saffron Collectors' and 'Sophie's Search for No-Where.'
Kingsley is the author of numerous articles on global technologies, new media communications, modern lifestyles, well-being, science & spirituality, and conscious evolution. As well as the academic life Kingsley has also lived and worked for many years overseas, including five years in Turkey. He is UK born and currently lives in Andalusia, Spain.
He can be contacted at his personal website: www.kingsleydennis.com
Kingsley runs his own book publishing imprint called 'Beautiful Traitor Books' - http://www.beautifultraitorbooks.com/
As well as non-fiction, Kingsley has published fiction - sci-fi novels & children's books - such as the beloved 'The Saffron Collectors' and 'Sophie's Search for No-Where.'
Kingsley is the author of numerous articles on global technologies, new media communications, modern lifestyles, well-being, science & spirituality, and conscious evolution. As well as the academic life Kingsley has also lived and worked for many years overseas, including five years in Turkey. He is UK born and currently lives in Andalusia, Spain.
He can be contacted at his personal website: www.kingsleydennis.com
Steve Farrell
Worldwide Executive Director for Humanity’s Team. Humanity’s Team is part of the Conscious Business Alliance that also includes the Club of Budapest, The Goi Peace Foundation and The Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of Public Benefit out of Case Western Reserve University. You can read and sign the Conscious Business Declaration here: http://www.consciousbusinessdeclaration.org/
Steve Farrell is the Worldwide Executive Director for Humanity’s Team, a global grassroots spiritual movement focused on awakening and embodying Oneness so humanity may enjoy a sustainable world of peace, harmony and happiness. Humanity’s Team presently has over 665,000 friends in over 150 countries.
Humanity’s Team projects include: Global Oneness Day – a day that Humanity’s Team created following its visit to the United Nations in May 2010; a Oneness Declaration; a year-round Living in Oneness summit; an annual Spiritual Leadership Award; a Conscious Business Declaration, Conscious Business Practitioner Training, Certification & Consulting, Community Circle, prayer and meditation programs; and service projects focused on helping people and the environment.
Before Steve became involved with Humanity’s Team he co-founded and led two high growth technology companies based in Silicon Valley in the 1990’s that were featured in the INC 500 and spanned the United States and Europe. At this time he was an officer in the Young Entrepreneurs’ Organization and the Young President’s Organization. But he walked away because he felt a calling to help create a new dream based on the Divine in life that humanity can manifest together.
Steve lives with his wife Stephanie and his two children in Boulder, Colorado. http://www.humanitysteam.org. He is a member of the Evolutionary Leaders. http://www.evolutionaryleaders.net/
Steve Farrell is the Worldwide Executive Director for Humanity’s Team, a global grassroots spiritual movement focused on awakening and embodying Oneness so humanity may enjoy a sustainable world of peace, harmony and happiness. Humanity’s Team presently has over 665,000 friends in over 150 countries.
Humanity’s Team projects include: Global Oneness Day – a day that Humanity’s Team created following its visit to the United Nations in May 2010; a Oneness Declaration; a year-round Living in Oneness summit; an annual Spiritual Leadership Award; a Conscious Business Declaration, Conscious Business Practitioner Training, Certification & Consulting, Community Circle, prayer and meditation programs; and service projects focused on helping people and the environment.
Before Steve became involved with Humanity’s Team he co-founded and led two high growth technology companies based in Silicon Valley in the 1990’s that were featured in the INC 500 and spanned the United States and Europe. At this time he was an officer in the Young Entrepreneurs’ Organization and the Young President’s Organization. But he walked away because he felt a calling to help create a new dream based on the Divine in life that humanity can manifest together.
Steve lives with his wife Stephanie and his two children in Boulder, Colorado. http://www.humanitysteam.org. He is a member of the Evolutionary Leaders. http://www.evolutionaryleaders.net/
Barbara Fields
Executive Director, The Association for Global New Thought. She is co-founder and project director of: The Gandhi King Season for Nonviolence; the Synthesis Dialogues I, II, & III with His Holiness, Tenzin Gyatso, the Dalai Lama of Tibet; the U.S. based omni-local initiatives for the Harvard Project on Negotiation’s Abraham Walk Initiative in the Middle East.
Formerly, she served as Program Director of the CPWR, launching the first modern Parliament of the World's Religions centennial celebration in Chicago. She was also program director for the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies facilitated by Purdue University, and was a delegate to the UNESCO Seminar on Religion and Peace in Granada, Spain.
She was Director/Producer of the “Awakened World” Conference Series, including the Gandhi King Peace Train, AGNT’s Interfaith Forum in Rome/Florence, the Awakened World International Film Festival in Santa Barbara, CA and Symposium on Engaged Spirituality in San Diego.
She is the author of AGNT's newest nine module spiritual activist curriculum: "Social Uplift Ministries" (S.U.M.)
Contributing author: The Community of Religions; Two Hundred Visionaries; Women, Spirituality and Transformative Leadership: Where Grace Meets Power.
Awards include: Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters; Religious Science International’s first Peace Award; The Peace Museum's Community Peacemaker Award in the area of Diplomacy; the Gandhi-King-Ikeda Award from Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel.
Formerly, she served as Program Director of the CPWR, launching the first modern Parliament of the World's Religions centennial celebration in Chicago. She was also program director for the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies facilitated by Purdue University, and was a delegate to the UNESCO Seminar on Religion and Peace in Granada, Spain.
She was Director/Producer of the “Awakened World” Conference Series, including the Gandhi King Peace Train, AGNT’s Interfaith Forum in Rome/Florence, the Awakened World International Film Festival in Santa Barbara, CA and Symposium on Engaged Spirituality in San Diego.
She is the author of AGNT's newest nine module spiritual activist curriculum: "Social Uplift Ministries" (S.U.M.)
Contributing author: The Community of Religions; Two Hundred Visionaries; Women, Spirituality and Transformative Leadership: Where Grace Meets Power.
Awards include: Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters; Religious Science International’s first Peace Award; The Peace Museum's Community Peacemaker Award in the area of Diplomacy; the Gandhi-King-Ikeda Award from Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel.
Paola Fiore
With 20+ years of sustainability management and communications experience and 26+ years of environmental studies, Dr. Paola Fiore is a forward-thinking pioneer in sustainability. She leverages her creativity, passion for the environment, her extensive knowledge in environmental law and economics and sustainable development and expertise in solution-focused coaching and neuroscience of conversations to create and promote innovative sustainability solutions that transform companies into profitable and responsible market leaders.
She empowers old and new generations of innovators and sustainability leaders to emerge through helping them define their vision, strategies and goals, as well as refine their accountability and decision-making process and lead personal and organisational change towards sustainability and climate resilience. Driven by authenticity, creativity and the pursuit of excellence, Paola takes a holistic approach towards introducing the SDGs as a core business strategy, while creating a culture of sustainability that supports the transition to a post-carbon economy and society.
She works closely with minor and major stakeholders to ensure that economic, environmental, social, cultural, climate and political factors are taken into account when building or restructuring business systems to support long-term, responsible prosperity. She works in green economy sectors, like agro-industry, sustainable chemistry, renewable energy, green ICT, environmental and climate change services. With business ethics as a core value, she empowers organisations to develop circular economy and climate-resilient business models and use latest tools and methodologies to effectively manage and communicate their services to their target audiences.
Paola partners with corporate and non-profit management to apply responsible leadership principles and find the right balance among economic, social, environmental and climate policies to drive sustainable innovation, increase responsible profits and enhance brand reputation.
https://paolafiore.eu
She empowers old and new generations of innovators and sustainability leaders to emerge through helping them define their vision, strategies and goals, as well as refine their accountability and decision-making process and lead personal and organisational change towards sustainability and climate resilience. Driven by authenticity, creativity and the pursuit of excellence, Paola takes a holistic approach towards introducing the SDGs as a core business strategy, while creating a culture of sustainability that supports the transition to a post-carbon economy and society.
She works closely with minor and major stakeholders to ensure that economic, environmental, social, cultural, climate and political factors are taken into account when building or restructuring business systems to support long-term, responsible prosperity. She works in green economy sectors, like agro-industry, sustainable chemistry, renewable energy, green ICT, environmental and climate change services. With business ethics as a core value, she empowers organisations to develop circular economy and climate-resilient business models and use latest tools and methodologies to effectively manage and communicate their services to their target audiences.
Paola partners with corporate and non-profit management to apply responsible leadership principles and find the right balance among economic, social, environmental and climate policies to drive sustainable innovation, increase responsible profits and enhance brand reputation.
https://paolafiore.eu
Siegmar Gerken
With over 40 years of teaching experience, Siegmar Gerken is a pioneer in the field of Body-Oriented Mindfulness-Centered Therapy, Somatic, Humanistic, Positive and Transpersonal Psychology, with expanded studies in psychodynamics and behavioral approaches. Teaching at the cutting edge of research and the application in our field of therapy, healing and consciousness studies, he searches to touch the essence of a person with competence, love and joy, supporting the full potential to be realized.
He is the co-founder with his wife Cornelia of the International Institute for Core Evolution and CoreSoma and the founder of the International Institute for Energy and Consciousness.
Siegmar studied psychology, education and anthropology. He taught on the faculty of the JFK University Somatic Psychology Department, the Esalen Institute, and the Behavioral Therapy Training Institute in Hamburg. He teaches at universities and and private institutes worldwide, on the interconnectedness of psychosomatic processes as they manifest on the levels of body, emotions, mind, will and consciousness. His research in energy field documentation with Prof. F. Popp on psycho-emotional states opened new horizons to scientists and practitioners worldwide. He is co-founder of the Scientific Committee of the EABP. Dr. Gerken is a lecturer, therapist, trainer and supervisor.
He also leads the specialized Core Evolution Trauma Trainings; Management Teaching in Authority and Leadership and the Energy & Consciousness Programs™ for Applied Psychology, Spirituality and Science.
www.CoreEvolution.de
He is the co-founder with his wife Cornelia of the International Institute for Core Evolution and CoreSoma and the founder of the International Institute for Energy and Consciousness.
Siegmar studied psychology, education and anthropology. He taught on the faculty of the JFK University Somatic Psychology Department, the Esalen Institute, and the Behavioral Therapy Training Institute in Hamburg. He teaches at universities and and private institutes worldwide, on the interconnectedness of psychosomatic processes as they manifest on the levels of body, emotions, mind, will and consciousness. His research in energy field documentation with Prof. F. Popp on psycho-emotional states opened new horizons to scientists and practitioners worldwide. He is co-founder of the Scientific Committee of the EABP. Dr. Gerken is a lecturer, therapist, trainer and supervisor.
He also leads the specialized Core Evolution Trauma Trainings; Management Teaching in Authority and Leadership and the Energy & Consciousness Programs™ for Applied Psychology, Spirituality and Science.
www.CoreEvolution.de
Rob Gierke
Global Citizen, Business Educatior, Coach
My true purpose is to drive consciousness development and to help businesses make a positive impact globally. Being a global citizen, having a business background and speaking 6 languages I want to contribute to dignified life in the world.
I was born in East Germany in 1977 and grew up in the city of Jena. Until the age of 12 I experienced the experiment socialism-communism. While religion did not play a role in my family I was raised on humanistic values. I learned Russian as my first foreign language and attended an elite sports school. As I grew up in this political-economic system I saw first hand how businesses operated in context of the rigid paradigm. I also witnessed the effects on people and the environment. In 1989 the Berlin wall fell and Germany was reunited in October 1990. An entire new world opened up for me. I graduated from high school and went on to study Business Administration. I finished my college degree in Arizona where I moved in 1998 at Northern Arizona University. After a first work experience in the San Francisco Bay Area I returned to Northern Arizona University in 2000 to attend the MBA program. I graduated with an MBA degree with emphasis in international marketing and finance in 2001. In the same year I joined the Salt Lake Organising Committee to stage the 2002 Winter Olympics and Paralympics in Salt Lake City. During this experience I really took the humane Olympic values in. In spring 2002 I returned to Germany and started a 14 year career at global sports brand adidas where I worked in various positions within global marketing and finance. Working for a global brand and leading a team which was located around the world gave me global exposure. During the many business trips I did not only get to see the market places and consumers in the various countries, but also got to experience the social and environmental problems around the globe. At adidas I met many very inspirational purpose-driven people some of whom have become lifetime friends. I also volunteered for adidas' own foundation "adidas fund" in the favelas of Brazil working with youth to teach positive values on the basis of sports. Grateful for all the experiences and learnings I could gain I left adidas in 2016 in good terms to pursue my life's purpose. At the end of 2016 I served several weeks as a volunteer in one of the largest refugee camps in Lesbos, Greece where thousands of refugees who fled from the IS war and the crises in Africa live in inhumane conditions. This profound and very humbling experience has strengthened my intent to leverage my skills to create more dignity in the world. I am also greatly concerned about the destruction of ecosystems. The polar bear has become the tragic symbol of global warming. I love nature and I love polar bears. I am fully committed to do what is necessary to protect mother Earth as I deeply believe that economy is only a subset of ecology.
I strongly believe in the consciousness development of people. Therefore, I trust that businesses will transform our world positively and that the 17 UN sustainable development goals will be achieved. I am part of this journey and serving this transformative process is my personal purpose. With great passion I guide businesses to find and act out their own true purpose which fosters dignified life in the world.
My true purpose is to drive consciousness development and to help businesses make a positive impact globally. Being a global citizen, having a business background and speaking 6 languages I want to contribute to dignified life in the world.
I was born in East Germany in 1977 and grew up in the city of Jena. Until the age of 12 I experienced the experiment socialism-communism. While religion did not play a role in my family I was raised on humanistic values. I learned Russian as my first foreign language and attended an elite sports school. As I grew up in this political-economic system I saw first hand how businesses operated in context of the rigid paradigm. I also witnessed the effects on people and the environment. In 1989 the Berlin wall fell and Germany was reunited in October 1990. An entire new world opened up for me. I graduated from high school and went on to study Business Administration. I finished my college degree in Arizona where I moved in 1998 at Northern Arizona University. After a first work experience in the San Francisco Bay Area I returned to Northern Arizona University in 2000 to attend the MBA program. I graduated with an MBA degree with emphasis in international marketing and finance in 2001. In the same year I joined the Salt Lake Organising Committee to stage the 2002 Winter Olympics and Paralympics in Salt Lake City. During this experience I really took the humane Olympic values in. In spring 2002 I returned to Germany and started a 14 year career at global sports brand adidas where I worked in various positions within global marketing and finance. Working for a global brand and leading a team which was located around the world gave me global exposure. During the many business trips I did not only get to see the market places and consumers in the various countries, but also got to experience the social and environmental problems around the globe. At adidas I met many very inspirational purpose-driven people some of whom have become lifetime friends. I also volunteered for adidas' own foundation "adidas fund" in the favelas of Brazil working with youth to teach positive values on the basis of sports. Grateful for all the experiences and learnings I could gain I left adidas in 2016 in good terms to pursue my life's purpose. At the end of 2016 I served several weeks as a volunteer in one of the largest refugee camps in Lesbos, Greece where thousands of refugees who fled from the IS war and the crises in Africa live in inhumane conditions. This profound and very humbling experience has strengthened my intent to leverage my skills to create more dignity in the world. I am also greatly concerned about the destruction of ecosystems. The polar bear has become the tragic symbol of global warming. I love nature and I love polar bears. I am fully committed to do what is necessary to protect mother Earth as I deeply believe that economy is only a subset of ecology.
I strongly believe in the consciousness development of people. Therefore, I trust that businesses will transform our world positively and that the 17 UN sustainable development goals will be achieved. I am part of this journey and serving this transformative process is my personal purpose. With great passion I guide businesses to find and act out their own true purpose which fosters dignified life in the world.
Mark Gober
An international speaker and author of An End to Upside Down Thinking (2018), which was awarded the IPPY best science book of 2019. He is also the author of An End to Upside Down Living (2020) and host of the podcast Where Is My Mind? (2019). Additionally, he serves on the Board of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and the School of Wholeness and Enlightenment. Gober’s background is in business as a Partner at Sherpa Technology Group in Silicon Valley and previously as an investment banking analyst in New York. He graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University, where he wrote his award-winning thesis on Daniel Kahneman’s Nobel Prize–winning “Prospect Theory” and was elected a captain of Princeton’s Division I Tennis Team.
Jane Goodall
British ethologist known for her exceptionally detailed and long- term research on the chimpanzees of Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania.
Alison Goldwyn
Creative Producer & Climate Alchemist
“Climate Change has brought us to our knees. Changing the Emotional Climate can bring us to our senses.”
Alison is a multi-talented "Climate Alchemist" and Founder & Creative Director of an epic future televisionary event called Synchronistory®.
She has been “party planning” for the last 34 years on behalf of this music-propelled, interstellar “B'earthday” Party for the Planet celebrating Every living being – broadcast live worldwide!
Affiliated with Al Gore / The Climate Reality Project, Ervin Laszlo / The Club of Budapest, and apolitical global governance platform Simpol (Simultaneous Policy), Alison hopes to shift perceptions about the world around us and within us by changing our emotional climate ... piece by peace.
Education through enlightened entertainment becomes the bedrock for edutainment, with Synchronistory's out-of-this-world event. Through the Wisdom of the Ancients and the wizardry of Technology, Sync re-writes our timeworn storyline with an uplifting new thru- line where Every being is the star of the show – musically vivifying our forgotten love story between Nature & Human Nature ... and our relationship to the Greater.
As our Earthly world is upended with complications, and the worldwide Aerospace Industry ventures into Outer Space Exploration, Sync's dazzling companion ride through Inner Space Exploration opens our eyes; helping a world of 8 billion earthly stars get Spaced Out & Tuned In with a spectacular Cosmic show that takes us where few Humans have dared to go ... Within.
In addition to her creative skills in music, writing, design, and marketing, she is Founder & Creative Director of a unique global brand indirectly linked to Sync which tangibly illuminates our forgotten love story between Nature & Human Nature with conscious jewels for a precious world: J'aimestones® fine art jewellery.
Alison believes that the gaping hole in our global whole is due, in part, to a disconnect from Soul ... and that Civilisation's healthy maturation hinges on rekindling this timeless connection.
The greatest threat to Humankind is a lack of Humankind(ness). It's also our greatest immune boost. Let's spread That virally ... and restore Humanity in sanity by making history in synchronicity!
www.synchronistory.com www.jaimestones.com www.simpol.org
“Climate Change has brought us to our knees. Changing the Emotional Climate can bring us to our senses.”
Alison is a multi-talented "Climate Alchemist" and Founder & Creative Director of an epic future televisionary event called Synchronistory®.
She has been “party planning” for the last 34 years on behalf of this music-propelled, interstellar “B'earthday” Party for the Planet celebrating Every living being – broadcast live worldwide!
Affiliated with Al Gore / The Climate Reality Project, Ervin Laszlo / The Club of Budapest, and apolitical global governance platform Simpol (Simultaneous Policy), Alison hopes to shift perceptions about the world around us and within us by changing our emotional climate ... piece by peace.
Education through enlightened entertainment becomes the bedrock for edutainment, with Synchronistory's out-of-this-world event. Through the Wisdom of the Ancients and the wizardry of Technology, Sync re-writes our timeworn storyline with an uplifting new thru- line where Every being is the star of the show – musically vivifying our forgotten love story between Nature & Human Nature ... and our relationship to the Greater.
As our Earthly world is upended with complications, and the worldwide Aerospace Industry ventures into Outer Space Exploration, Sync's dazzling companion ride through Inner Space Exploration opens our eyes; helping a world of 8 billion earthly stars get Spaced Out & Tuned In with a spectacular Cosmic show that takes us where few Humans have dared to go ... Within.
In addition to her creative skills in music, writing, design, and marketing, she is Founder & Creative Director of a unique global brand indirectly linked to Sync which tangibly illuminates our forgotten love story between Nature & Human Nature with conscious jewels for a precious world: J'aimestones® fine art jewellery.
Alison believes that the gaping hole in our global whole is due, in part, to a disconnect from Soul ... and that Civilisation's healthy maturation hinges on rekindling this timeless connection.
The greatest threat to Humankind is a lack of Humankind(ness). It's also our greatest immune boost. Let's spread That virally ... and restore Humanity in sanity by making history in synchronicity!
www.synchronistory.com www.jaimestones.com www.simpol.org
Michiko Hayashi
Global Director and Ambassador of “EMOTO PEACE PROJECT” Non- Profit Organization
Michiko Hayashi, born in Japan, whose father was a chief Buddhist priest. She learned to be humble, honest, diligent, and compassionate from who he was. She has a B.A. from a university in the USA with foreign language major (fluent in Japanese, English and Spanish). She worked at the Ministry of Transportation in Costa Rica in 1980 – 1981 before graduating from the US university.
Between March, 2004 and October 2014, she worked as an administrative personal assistant to Dr. Masaru Emoto until his transition in 2014. He was the founder of the Emoto Peace Project, the pioneer of HADO (vibration), researcher of water, and author of world best-seller “The Message from Water”, “The Hidden Messages in Water”, etc. She is the successor of Emoto Peace Project, distributes children’s book “The Message from Water” for free to children, and gives lectures to all generations to teach water memory and that our consciousness creates realities as well as sharing the importance of living positively, kindly and with respect based on love and gratitude through “The Message from Water” to make the world a harmonious and peaceful place. The children’s book “The Message from Water” has been translated into 34 languages.
Michiko Hayashi, born in Japan, whose father was a chief Buddhist priest. She learned to be humble, honest, diligent, and compassionate from who he was. She has a B.A. from a university in the USA with foreign language major (fluent in Japanese, English and Spanish). She worked at the Ministry of Transportation in Costa Rica in 1980 – 1981 before graduating from the US university.
Between March, 2004 and October 2014, she worked as an administrative personal assistant to Dr. Masaru Emoto until his transition in 2014. He was the founder of the Emoto Peace Project, the pioneer of HADO (vibration), researcher of water, and author of world best-seller “The Message from Water”, “The Hidden Messages in Water”, etc. She is the successor of Emoto Peace Project, distributes children’s book “The Message from Water” for free to children, and gives lectures to all generations to teach water memory and that our consciousness creates realities as well as sharing the importance of living positively, kindly and with respect based on love and gratitude through “The Message from Water” to make the world a harmonious and peaceful place. The children’s book “The Message from Water” has been translated into 34 languages.
Hazel Henderson
Founder of Ethical Markets Media, LLC (USA and Brazil), a Certified B Corporation. She is a world-renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, a worldwide syndicated columnist, and author of award-winning Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy (2006) and eight other books. She created the Ethical Markets TV series in global distribution at www.films.com, the EthicMark® Awards, the Green Transition Scoreboard® and co-created Ethical Biomimicry Finance®.
Her editorials are syndicated globally by Inter Press Service, and her book reviews appear on SeekingAlpha.com. Her articles have appeared in over 250 journals, including Harvard Business Review, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, as well as journals in Japan, Venezuela, China, France and Australia.
Since becoming a full-time media executive in 2004, Hazel has stepped down from many of her board memberships, including Calvert Social Investment Fund (1982-2005), the Social Investment Forum and the Social Venture Network. She has been Regent's Lecturer at the University of California-Santa Barbara, Horace Albright Chair in Conservation at the University of California-Berkeley, and advised the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment, the National Academy of Engineering and the National Science Foundation from 1974 to 1980.
She remains on the International Council of the Instituto Ethos de Empresas e Responsabilidade Social, Sao Paulo, Brasil; is a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science and the World Business Academy; and is an Honorary Member of the Club of Rome. She shared the 1996 Global Citizen Award with Nobelist A. Perez Esquivel of Argentina. In 2007, she was elected a Fellow to Britain’s Royal Society of Arts, founded in 1754.
In 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2014, she was honored as a "Top 100 Thought Leader in Trustworthy Business Behavior" by Trust Across America. In 2012, she was honored with the Reuters Award for Outstanding Contribution to Development of ESG & Investing at TBLI Europe. In 2013, she was inducted into the International Society of Sustainability Professionals Hall of Fame.
Her 2014 monograph, Mapping the Global Transition to the Solar Age, published by ICAEW and Tomorrow’s Company, UK, is available for free download from www.ethicalmarkets.com.
Her editorials are syndicated globally by Inter Press Service, and her book reviews appear on SeekingAlpha.com. Her articles have appeared in over 250 journals, including Harvard Business Review, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, as well as journals in Japan, Venezuela, China, France and Australia.
Since becoming a full-time media executive in 2004, Hazel has stepped down from many of her board memberships, including Calvert Social Investment Fund (1982-2005), the Social Investment Forum and the Social Venture Network. She has been Regent's Lecturer at the University of California-Santa Barbara, Horace Albright Chair in Conservation at the University of California-Berkeley, and advised the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment, the National Academy of Engineering and the National Science Foundation from 1974 to 1980.
She remains on the International Council of the Instituto Ethos de Empresas e Responsabilidade Social, Sao Paulo, Brasil; is a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science and the World Business Academy; and is an Honorary Member of the Club of Rome. She shared the 1996 Global Citizen Award with Nobelist A. Perez Esquivel of Argentina. In 2007, she was elected a Fellow to Britain’s Royal Society of Arts, founded in 1754.
In 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2014, she was honored as a "Top 100 Thought Leader in Trustworthy Business Behavior" by Trust Across America. In 2012, she was honored with the Reuters Award for Outstanding Contribution to Development of ESG & Investing at TBLI Europe. In 2013, she was inducted into the International Society of Sustainability Professionals Hall of Fame.
Her 2014 monograph, Mapping the Global Transition to the Solar Age, published by ICAEW and Tomorrow’s Company, UK, is available for free download from www.ethicalmarkets.com.
Fabrizio Hochschild
UN Under Secretary General. Special Advisor on the Preparations for the Commemoration of the
United Nations’ 75th Anniversary
United Nations Secretariat, New York
In his current role Mr. Hochschild is heading the Secretary-General’s vision for a global citizen conversation ahead of the UN@75 anniversary in 2020. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Hochschild served as Assistant Secretary-General for Strategic Coordination in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General (2017-2019).
Previously, Mr. Hochschild served as Deputy Special Representative for the UN peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic (MINUSCA) in 2016, UN Resident Coordinator, Humanitarian Coordinator and Resident Representative of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Colombia from 2013 to 2016, and as Director of the Field Personnel Division for the United Nations from 2010 to 2012. He started his careen in 1988 with UNHCR and served in various field settings.
A graduate of the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, he has published studies and articles on leadership, on the protection of civilians, on transitional justice and reconciliation among other topics.
United Nations’ 75th Anniversary
United Nations Secretariat, New York
In his current role Mr. Hochschild is heading the Secretary-General’s vision for a global citizen conversation ahead of the UN@75 anniversary in 2020. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Hochschild served as Assistant Secretary-General for Strategic Coordination in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General (2017-2019).
Previously, Mr. Hochschild served as Deputy Special Representative for the UN peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic (MINUSCA) in 2016, UN Resident Coordinator, Humanitarian Coordinator and Resident Representative of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Colombia from 2013 to 2016, and as Director of the Field Personnel Division for the United Nations from 2010 to 2012. He started his careen in 1988 with UNHCR and served in various field settings.
A graduate of the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, he has published studies and articles on leadership, on the protection of civilians, on transitional justice and reconciliation among other topics.
Jean Houston
Scholar, philosopher and researcher in Human Capacities, is one of the foremost visionary thinkers and doers of our time. She is long regarded as one of the principal founders of the Human Potential Movement.
Dr. Houston is noted for her ability to combine a deep knowledge of history, culture, new science, spirituality and human development into her teaching. She is known for her inter-disciplinary perspective delivered in inspirational and humorous keynote addresses.
A prolific writer, Dr. Houston is the author of 26 books including “Jump Time”, “ A Passion for the Possible”, “Search for the Beloved”, “Life Force”, “The Possible Human”, “Public Like a Frog”, “A Mythic Life: Learning to Live Our Greater Story”, and “Manual of the Peacemaker”.
As Advisor to UNICEF in human and cultural development, she has worked around the world helping to implement some of their extensive educational programs. In September of 1999, she traveled to Dharamsala, India as a member of a group chosen to work with the Dalai Lama.
Dr. Houston has also served in an advisory capacity to President and Mrs. Clinton as well as assisting Mrs. Clinton in her writing of her book, “It Takes A Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us”. She has met with President and Mrs. Carter, and with leaders in many countries and cultures. As a high school student she worked closely with another First Lady of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt, in developing strategies to introduce international awareness and United Nations work to young people. Since 2003, she has been working with the United Nations Development Program, training leaders in human and cultural development as well as in Social Artistry, a community-leadership training program that she developed.
Together with other international agencies and companies, over the last 45 years, Dr. Houston has worked in over 100 countries. In 1965, along with her husband Dr. Robert Masters, Dr. Houston founded The Foundation for Mind Research. She is also the founder and principal teacher, since 1983, of the Mystery School, now called the Renaissance of Spirit, a school of human development, a program of cross-cultural, mythic and spiritual studies, dedicated to teaching history, philosophy, the New Physics, psychology, anthropology, and the many dimensions of human potential.
In 2008, the Jean Houston Foundation was formed to teach Social Artistry in the United States and overseas. This training has been conducted in Albania, the Eastern Caribbean, Kenya, Zambia, Nepal, and the Philippines.
A powerful and dynamic speaker, she holds conferences and seminars with social leaders, educational institutions and business organizations worldwide. Jean Houston has worked intensively in 40 cultures helping to enhance and deepen their own uniqueness while they become part of the global community.
Dr. Houston is considered one of the most evocative and entertaining speakers on aligning the human spirit, potential and action with the needs of the time. Her talks are legendary for their ability to inspire, inform and activate her audience. Her lifetime passion is to encourage the inherent possibilities, visions and capacities that lie within each person and/or group, and translate them into positive action.
Dr. Houston is noted for her ability to combine a deep knowledge of history, culture, new science, spirituality and human development into her teaching. She is known for her inter-disciplinary perspective delivered in inspirational and humorous keynote addresses.
A prolific writer, Dr. Houston is the author of 26 books including “Jump Time”, “ A Passion for the Possible”, “Search for the Beloved”, “Life Force”, “The Possible Human”, “Public Like a Frog”, “A Mythic Life: Learning to Live Our Greater Story”, and “Manual of the Peacemaker”.
As Advisor to UNICEF in human and cultural development, she has worked around the world helping to implement some of their extensive educational programs. In September of 1999, she traveled to Dharamsala, India as a member of a group chosen to work with the Dalai Lama.
Dr. Houston has also served in an advisory capacity to President and Mrs. Clinton as well as assisting Mrs. Clinton in her writing of her book, “It Takes A Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us”. She has met with President and Mrs. Carter, and with leaders in many countries and cultures. As a high school student she worked closely with another First Lady of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt, in developing strategies to introduce international awareness and United Nations work to young people. Since 2003, she has been working with the United Nations Development Program, training leaders in human and cultural development as well as in Social Artistry, a community-leadership training program that she developed.
Together with other international agencies and companies, over the last 45 years, Dr. Houston has worked in over 100 countries. In 1965, along with her husband Dr. Robert Masters, Dr. Houston founded The Foundation for Mind Research. She is also the founder and principal teacher, since 1983, of the Mystery School, now called the Renaissance of Spirit, a school of human development, a program of cross-cultural, mythic and spiritual studies, dedicated to teaching history, philosophy, the New Physics, psychology, anthropology, and the many dimensions of human potential.
In 2008, the Jean Houston Foundation was formed to teach Social Artistry in the United States and overseas. This training has been conducted in Albania, the Eastern Caribbean, Kenya, Zambia, Nepal, and the Philippines.
A powerful and dynamic speaker, she holds conferences and seminars with social leaders, educational institutions and business organizations worldwide. Jean Houston has worked intensively in 40 cultures helping to enhance and deepen their own uniqueness while they become part of the global community.
Dr. Houston is considered one of the most evocative and entertaining speakers on aligning the human spirit, potential and action with the needs of the time. Her talks are legendary for their ability to inspire, inform and activate her audience. Her lifetime passion is to encourage the inherent possibilities, visions and capacities that lie within each person and/or group, and translate them into positive action.
Suzanne Hubbard
Artist
I grew up with the perspective, conscious evolution. In fact, I am as old as the worldview is new. In the background of my childhood, while I was playing with horses in my room, my parents Barbara Marx Hubbard and Earl Wade Hubbard were seeking answers to questions such as, what is a deeper human purpose and what is the significance of all that is humanly possible? They came up with three answers which have remained fertile in my mind. We can choose conscious evolution for what is humanly possible to have peaceful purposes. They believed a characteristic of being human is the potential to become universal self-conscious. I personally connected the dots with this potential and responding as how evolution can co-evolve with our species. Conscious evolution greatly influenced my relationship with three important areas of my life, being an artist, mother, and gardener. I pursued tapestry weaving and over the course of 45 years I have woven many commissions, shown in galleries and museums, taught weaving, and exhibited rugs in decorator show houses. I never considered making art a career, however. Weaving, teaching, living the life of an artist, and contemplative writing are processes which involve cyclic and whole-oriented rhythms of integration and reintegration as do mothering and gardening. Their unifying behavior patterns communicate universal self-awareness as well as a tactility which (manually) manifests expressions of life’s / our indigenous qualities of wholeness. I realized a universal self-perspective, which relates by becoming a personal expression, could transform a deeply divided world. We have become even more polarized from the effects of the pandemic and with the killing of African American George Floyd. This is a seminal event because it revealed all dominant perspectives are implicitly biased. At the same time COVID-19 struck in early 2020, I completed The Unwritten Book and Your LifeBook Journal: An Organic Personal Conscious Evolution. The book has taken a quarter of a century to write, because coevolving with Nature has never been considered human work. I am supporting unbiased and integrative (conscious evolutionary) seeing, being, and becoming (universal-self) expressive of who we truly are. The immense suffering of unemployment today reflects an early human decision to separate from a world of mutual sustainability.
I grew up with the perspective, conscious evolution. In fact, I am as old as the worldview is new. In the background of my childhood, while I was playing with horses in my room, my parents Barbara Marx Hubbard and Earl Wade Hubbard were seeking answers to questions such as, what is a deeper human purpose and what is the significance of all that is humanly possible? They came up with three answers which have remained fertile in my mind. We can choose conscious evolution for what is humanly possible to have peaceful purposes. They believed a characteristic of being human is the potential to become universal self-conscious. I personally connected the dots with this potential and responding as how evolution can co-evolve with our species. Conscious evolution greatly influenced my relationship with three important areas of my life, being an artist, mother, and gardener. I pursued tapestry weaving and over the course of 45 years I have woven many commissions, shown in galleries and museums, taught weaving, and exhibited rugs in decorator show houses. I never considered making art a career, however. Weaving, teaching, living the life of an artist, and contemplative writing are processes which involve cyclic and whole-oriented rhythms of integration and reintegration as do mothering and gardening. Their unifying behavior patterns communicate universal self-awareness as well as a tactility which (manually) manifests expressions of life’s / our indigenous qualities of wholeness. I realized a universal self-perspective, which relates by becoming a personal expression, could transform a deeply divided world. We have become even more polarized from the effects of the pandemic and with the killing of African American George Floyd. This is a seminal event because it revealed all dominant perspectives are implicitly biased. At the same time COVID-19 struck in early 2020, I completed The Unwritten Book and Your LifeBook Journal: An Organic Personal Conscious Evolution. The book has taken a quarter of a century to write, because coevolving with Nature has never been considered human work. I am supporting unbiased and integrative (conscious evolutionary) seeing, being, and becoming (universal-self) expressive of who we truly are. The immense suffering of unemployment today reflects an early human decision to separate from a world of mutual sustainability.
Emmanuel Itier
An experienced feature film Producer, Emmanuel Itier directed several pictures before completing in 2012 the Peace documentary ‘The Invocation’ narrated by Sharon Stone and staring Desmond Tutu, His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Deepak Chopra as well as many worldwide peace activists. In 2013 Mr. Itier executive-produced a Drama filmed in Hong Kong: ‘Red Passage’ which won many Awards in the Festival circuit. Emmanuel Itier has also been a successful Music and Film journalist for both Rock Magazines,
French TV networks and various websites for the last twenty five years. Finally Itier has been a buyer for many French and American Film distribution companies for the last twenty years. He was on the board of directors of the Santa Barbara Film Festival for a decade and he writes poetry. He is also very involved with charities and the political world. Mr. Itier seats on the board of Directors of ‘Darfur Women Action Group’ in an attempt to bring Peace to Darfur. He is also the founding President of the Rotary E-Club of World Peace (www.RotaryEclubofWorldPeace.org ) and he is part of the U.N Association, Santa Barbara chapter. Lately he joined the World Council of Wisdom (https://thevisioneers.ca ) to bring Peace to the World.
Mr. Itier grew up in France and he moved in the USA thirty years ago. He resides in Santa Barbara, California with his wife and three sons. Emmanuel Itier released in 2014 another inspiring documentary Celebrating Women around the planet: ‘FEMME-Women healing the World.’ This Documentary earned over 20 Awards around the World.
Late 2017 Mr. Itier completed his third feature Documentary: ‘Shamanic Trekker’, about shamanism in Peru. Mr. Itier has just released two more documentaries in order to keep “Making Peace, One movie at a time.” These films are part of a series called ‘The Oneness Collection: Documentaries for a conscious Humanity.’ The first one is called ‘The Cure: Healing The Mind, Healing The Body, Healing the Planet’ and the politically loaded Doc: ‘We The People: A Re-Evolution of Economics and Politics’, which is sure to shake the system!
Mr. Itier is a recipient of the ‘2018 Global Citizen Award’ from the prestigious United Nations Association and he was named President of The Year 2018 by the Rotary E-Club of World Peace.
In 2020 the impactful and very timely 6th documentary directed by Emmanuel will be released:‘Guns, Bombs & War: A Love Story’.
Finally, Mr. Itier has formed a spiritual and political movement in France called ‘The French Victory’ with the ambition to run for President in 2022. His vision is: “I, The People – We, President.” In Oneness, we shall heal the World.
French TV networks and various websites for the last twenty five years. Finally Itier has been a buyer for many French and American Film distribution companies for the last twenty years. He was on the board of directors of the Santa Barbara Film Festival for a decade and he writes poetry. He is also very involved with charities and the political world. Mr. Itier seats on the board of Directors of ‘Darfur Women Action Group’ in an attempt to bring Peace to Darfur. He is also the founding President of the Rotary E-Club of World Peace (www.RotaryEclubofWorldPeace.org ) and he is part of the U.N Association, Santa Barbara chapter. Lately he joined the World Council of Wisdom (https://thevisioneers.ca ) to bring Peace to the World.
Mr. Itier grew up in France and he moved in the USA thirty years ago. He resides in Santa Barbara, California with his wife and three sons. Emmanuel Itier released in 2014 another inspiring documentary Celebrating Women around the planet: ‘FEMME-Women healing the World.’ This Documentary earned over 20 Awards around the World.
Late 2017 Mr. Itier completed his third feature Documentary: ‘Shamanic Trekker’, about shamanism in Peru. Mr. Itier has just released two more documentaries in order to keep “Making Peace, One movie at a time.” These films are part of a series called ‘The Oneness Collection: Documentaries for a conscious Humanity.’ The first one is called ‘The Cure: Healing The Mind, Healing The Body, Healing the Planet’ and the politically loaded Doc: ‘We The People: A Re-Evolution of Economics and Politics’, which is sure to shake the system!
Mr. Itier is a recipient of the ‘2018 Global Citizen Award’ from the prestigious United Nations Association and he was named President of The Year 2018 by the Rotary E-Club of World Peace.
In 2020 the impactful and very timely 6th documentary directed by Emmanuel will be released:‘Guns, Bombs & War: A Love Story’.
Finally, Mr. Itier has formed a spiritual and political movement in France called ‘The French Victory’ with the ambition to run for President in 2022. His vision is: “I, The People – We, President.” In Oneness, we shall heal the World.
Garry Jacobs
American social scientist, educator, and international management consultant who travelled to India in 1971 in search of spiritual enlightenment and has spent about 40 years there studying the Integral Philosophy and Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. His research, consulting work and publications focus on the need for integrated, transdisciplinary, human-centered and value-based theories and strategies to promote peace, employment, social equality, sustainable development and personal growth in the fields of business, economy, education, governance, international security and psychology.
As Director of Social Science Research at The Mother’s Service Society (India), he heads a research team applying Sri Aurobindo’s social evolutionary thought in Management, Economics, Education, Global Governance, Social Development, Psychology, Literary Criticism and other fields.
He is also Chairman of the Board of the World University Consortium, President of the World Academy of Art & Science (USA), a Full Member of Club of Rome International, Editor of Cadmus Journal, and Distinguished Professor of Transdisciplinary Social Science at Person-Centered Approach Institute (Italy).
At the end of the Cold War, Mr. Jacobs served as founder and Secretary General of the International Commission on Peace & Food, and editor of the Commission’s report to the United Nations in 1994. His work includes a plan to create 100 million jobs in 10 years which was adopted by the Government of India in 1992, as well as research, consulting assignments and executive programs for many corporations around the world. Jacobs is author of two books on business management, a book on Sri Aurobindo’s teachings, a spiritual novel tracing the process of self-discovery and business expansion based on spiritual principles entitled The Book: The Spiritual Individual and the Living Organization, and hundreds of articles on a wide range of global social issues and spiritual subjects.
As Director of Social Science Research at The Mother’s Service Society (India), he heads a research team applying Sri Aurobindo’s social evolutionary thought in Management, Economics, Education, Global Governance, Social Development, Psychology, Literary Criticism and other fields.
He is also Chairman of the Board of the World University Consortium, President of the World Academy of Art & Science (USA), a Full Member of Club of Rome International, Editor of Cadmus Journal, and Distinguished Professor of Transdisciplinary Social Science at Person-Centered Approach Institute (Italy).
At the end of the Cold War, Mr. Jacobs served as founder and Secretary General of the International Commission on Peace & Food, and editor of the Commission’s report to the United Nations in 1994. His work includes a plan to create 100 million jobs in 10 years which was adopted by the Government of India in 1992, as well as research, consulting assignments and executive programs for many corporations around the world. Jacobs is author of two books on business management, a book on Sri Aurobindo’s teachings, a spiritual novel tracing the process of self-discovery and business expansion based on spiritual principles entitled The Book: The Spiritual Individual and the Living Organization, and hundreds of articles on a wide range of global social issues and spiritual subjects.
Annette Kaiser
A spiritual teacher and spiritual director of the ‘Villa Unspunnen’ (CH) and has been conducting meditation retreats worldwide since 1991. She follows the pathless path of love that Irina Tweedie taught her. Annette Kaiser is the author of several spiritual books, has developed the ‘DO-Path’ and teaches the art of spiritual dreamwork. As a visionary of a Universal Spirituality she is committed to ONE World – ONE Humanity – ONE Consciousness, locally/globally: recently by initiating the co-creating-europe movement.
For more information: www.goldenerwind.ch/en/annette-kaiser | www.co-creating-europe.eu
For more information: www.goldenerwind.ch/en/annette-kaiser | www.co-creating-europe.eu
Jennifer & Charles Kim
Charles and Jennifer Kim are a husband and wife team heading The Peace School, an independent not-for-profit organization teaching practices for a peaceful life and world. Master Charles Kim worked side-by-side with his father, who founded The Peace School in 1972, and became president of the organization upon his father’s passing in 1999. Master Kim has taught meditation, yoga and traditional martial art for peace for more than five decades and has dedicated his life to world peace. He is author of the book, Peace Breathing: Lessons on Achieving Peace in Everyday Life. Jennifer Kim is director of The Peace School and trained directly under the founder for over two decades. She has been teaching yoga and Peace Breathing meditation since the early 1980s. The Kims conduct many of the School’s offsite programs for corporations, conferences and community groups as well as Peacebuilding workshops for schools. Jennifer chairs the Chicago Build the Peace Committee, formed in 2008 to expand the reach of Peace Day in Chicago. The Peace School founded this observance in 1978 and organizes annual Peace Day events that celebrate unity and diversity in Chicago and the world. The Peace School has worked in cooperation with the U.N. International Day of Peace since it was created in 1981 and was named a Peace Messenger organization by the United Nations in 1987.
Alexander Laszlo
Alexander Laszlo, Ph.D., is President of the Board of Directors of the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (BCSSS), Director of Research and Programs at the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research (LINPR), Chief Edunaut at Vivir Agradecidos, and Scientific Director at EARTHwise Centre. He served as the 57th President and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS), and was Director of the Doctoral Program in Management at the Graduate School of Business Administration & Leadership (EGADE-ITESM), Mexico, and Founding Director of the Doctoral Program in Leadership and Systemic Innovation at ITBA, Argentina. As Professor of Systems Science and Evolutionary Development, he teaches on evolutionary leadership, collaboration, and systems thinking at a variety of MBA and Doctoral programs internationally, and serves as President of the Honorary Board of Advisors of the World Complexity Science Academy (WCSA). He has worked for UNESCO, the Italian Electric Power Agency, and the U.S. Department of Education, has held visiting appointments with the London School of Economics and the European University Institute, and has been named a Level I Member of the National Research Academy of Mexico (SNI). He is on the Editorial Boards of seven internationally arbitered research journals, recipient of the Gertrude Albert Heller Award, the Sir Geoffrey Vickers Memorial Award, and the Förderpreis Akademischer Klub award, author of over one hundred journal, book, and encyclopedia publications, and a 6th Degree Black Belt in traditional Taekwon-do.
Born in Fribourg, Switzerland, he is holder of a PhD in Science and Technology Policy from the University of Pennsylvania from where he also received his MA in History and Sociology of Science. His BA is from Haverford College in Political Science. Current research interests involve exploration of full spectrum human becoming at the nexus of holistic being, transcendent consciousness, and curated emergence. Research projects include the embodied aspects of science and spirituality as a living field of consciousness; empathy-based education; the relationship between sustainability and thrivability; systemic innovation for planetary flourishing; and syntony as an organizing force in societal evolution.
Born in Fribourg, Switzerland, he is holder of a PhD in Science and Technology Policy from the University of Pennsylvania from where he also received his MA in History and Sociology of Science. His BA is from Haverford College in Political Science. Current research interests involve exploration of full spectrum human becoming at the nexus of holistic being, transcendent consciousness, and curated emergence. Research projects include the embodied aspects of science and spirituality as a living field of consciousness; empathy-based education; the relationship between sustainability and thrivability; systemic innovation for planetary flourishing; and syntony as an organizing force in societal evolution.
Ervin Laszlo
Ervin Laszlo spent his childhood in Budapest, Hungary. He was a celebrated child prodigy on the piano, with public appearances from the age of nine. Receiving a Grand Prize at the inter- national music competition in Geneva, he was allowed to leave Hungary and begin an international concert career, first in Europe and then in America.
Laszlo received the Sorbonne’s highest degree, the Doctorat ès Lettres et Sciences Humaines in 1970. Shifting to the life of a scientist and humanist, he lectured at various U.S. Univer- sities including Yale and Princeton. Following his work on modeling the future evolution of world order at Princeton, he was asked to produce a report for the Club of Rome, of which he was a member. In the late 70s and early 80s, Laszlo ran global projects at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research at the request of the Secretary-General. In the 1990s his research led him to the discovery of the Akashic Field.
The author, co-author or editor of 101 books that have appeared in a total of 23 languages, Ervin Laszlo has also written several hundred papers and articles in scientific journals and popular magazines. He is a member of numerous scientific bodies, including the Inter- national Academy of Science, the World Academy of Arts and Science, the International Academy of Philosophy of Science, and the International Medici Academy. He was elected member of the Hungarian Academy of Science in 2010.
The recipient of various honors and awards, including Honorary Ph. D.s from the United States, Canada, Finland, and Hungary, Laszlo received the Goi Award, the Japan Peace Prize in 2001, the Assisi Mandir of Peace Prize in 2006, and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 and 2005.
Laszlo received the Sorbonne’s highest degree, the Doctorat ès Lettres et Sciences Humaines in 1970. Shifting to the life of a scientist and humanist, he lectured at various U.S. Univer- sities including Yale and Princeton. Following his work on modeling the future evolution of world order at Princeton, he was asked to produce a report for the Club of Rome, of which he was a member. In the late 70s and early 80s, Laszlo ran global projects at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research at the request of the Secretary-General. In the 1990s his research led him to the discovery of the Akashic Field.
The author, co-author or editor of 101 books that have appeared in a total of 23 languages, Ervin Laszlo has also written several hundred papers and articles in scientific journals and popular magazines. He is a member of numerous scientific bodies, including the Inter- national Academy of Science, the World Academy of Arts and Science, the International Academy of Philosophy of Science, and the International Medici Academy. He was elected member of the Hungarian Academy of Science in 2010.
The recipient of various honors and awards, including Honorary Ph. D.s from the United States, Canada, Finland, and Hungary, Laszlo received the Goi Award, the Japan Peace Prize in 2001, the Assisi Mandir of Peace Prize in 2006, and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 and 2005.
Philippe Laurent
Photographer
Light is my first contact with the environment. Throughout my life she has guided me and dominated my sensations.
Shadow preceded me until that last moment just before my birth.
The appearance of things, of forms, is a fact of light. Its absence destroys all visual perception we may have of the object. Light makes one see but mostly, it makes one think.
Its variations and modulations travel the hours, the days, the seasons, the climates — all participating intimately in my joy, as in my sorrow.
To enlighten is to illuminate...or better yet, to luminate. To shed light. It is also to emote. And Life is cradled only by shadows and light.
Light is my first contact with the environment. Throughout my life she has guided me and dominated my sensations.
Shadow preceded me until that last moment just before my birth.
The appearance of things, of forms, is a fact of light. Its absence destroys all visual perception we may have of the object. Light makes one see but mostly, it makes one think.
Its variations and modulations travel the hours, the days, the seasons, the climates — all participating intimately in my joy, as in my sorrow.
To enlighten is to illuminate...or better yet, to luminate. To shed light. It is also to emote. And Life is cradled only by shadows and light.
Helena Lindemark
Founder & CEO of Sustainable Development Sweden AB and the founder and Chairperson of the 2022 Initiative Foundation. Her focus on sustainable development started in 1991 as Programme Officer and head of the United Nations Capital Development Fund’s office in Bolivia. She has also worked at FAO, the EU, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida, former SIDA) and within both private companies and Civil Society Organisations (CSO) for several years.
Helena has a talent for seeing the big picture and for turning problems into opportunities. She has extensive experience as speaker, trainer, coach and workshop facilitator in relation to sustainable development. Participants have mainly been leaders and specialists from ministries, authorities and private organisations from Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America. She has also been involved in several projects, programmes and plans as expert on Impact Assessment (IA) and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA).
During the last few years her focus has primarily been on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda with a holistic perspective, based on the need to focus on environmental and climate issues for the survival of future generations on Planet Earth. As representative of Globetree, a CSO accredited to both UN Environment and UN ECOSOC, she is also engaged in UN meetings and consultations since September 2019.
Sustainable Development Sweden AB was formed with the purpose to accelerate sustainable development in Sweden and internationally, based on the fact that Sweden is often seen as a role model within sustainability. To match the purpose, Helena initiated the potentially global project “the 2022 Initiative” in 2014, and founded the non- profit 2022 Initiative Foundation in 2017. The foundation is today a member of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and was launched internationally during the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2020. To a large extent thanks to Helena’s efforts in relation to the 2022 Initiative, the Swedish Government has proposed a UN Conference in Stockholm in 2022, 50 years after the first UN Conference on Sustainable Development was held in Stockholm in 1972. 2022 is also halfway to 2030 since the agreements on the 2030 Agenda and the climate in 2015. An important part of the idea behind the 2022 Initiative is to accelerate sustainability by adding milestones to the 2030 Agenda, to facilitate action from today’s leaders on the long-term SDGs.
Within Sustainable Development Sweden, Helena is also involved in the development of a digital tool, simplifying the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda, based on a holistic perspective, and facilitating a process for Impact Assessment, development of sustainability strategies, plans and actions to reach the SDGs.
Helena Lindemark has a degree of M.Sc. in international Business Administration and Economics, complemented with Environmental Economics. Swedish is her mother tongue and she is fluent in English and Spanish.
Helena has a talent for seeing the big picture and for turning problems into opportunities. She has extensive experience as speaker, trainer, coach and workshop facilitator in relation to sustainable development. Participants have mainly been leaders and specialists from ministries, authorities and private organisations from Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America. She has also been involved in several projects, programmes and plans as expert on Impact Assessment (IA) and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA).
During the last few years her focus has primarily been on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda with a holistic perspective, based on the need to focus on environmental and climate issues for the survival of future generations on Planet Earth. As representative of Globetree, a CSO accredited to both UN Environment and UN ECOSOC, she is also engaged in UN meetings and consultations since September 2019.
Sustainable Development Sweden AB was formed with the purpose to accelerate sustainable development in Sweden and internationally, based on the fact that Sweden is often seen as a role model within sustainability. To match the purpose, Helena initiated the potentially global project “the 2022 Initiative” in 2014, and founded the non- profit 2022 Initiative Foundation in 2017. The foundation is today a member of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and was launched internationally during the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2020. To a large extent thanks to Helena’s efforts in relation to the 2022 Initiative, the Swedish Government has proposed a UN Conference in Stockholm in 2022, 50 years after the first UN Conference on Sustainable Development was held in Stockholm in 1972. 2022 is also halfway to 2030 since the agreements on the 2030 Agenda and the climate in 2015. An important part of the idea behind the 2022 Initiative is to accelerate sustainability by adding milestones to the 2030 Agenda, to facilitate action from today’s leaders on the long-term SDGs.
Within Sustainable Development Sweden, Helena is also involved in the development of a digital tool, simplifying the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda, based on a holistic perspective, and facilitating a process for Impact Assessment, development of sustainability strategies, plans and actions to reach the SDGs.
Helena Lindemark has a degree of M.Sc. in international Business Administration and Economics, complemented with Environmental Economics. Swedish is her mother tongue and she is fluent in English and Spanish.
Bruce Lipton
An internationally recognized leader in bridging science and spirit. Stem cell biologist, bestselling author of The Biology of Belief and recipient of the 2009 Goi Peace Award, he has been a guest speaker on hundreds of TV and radio shows, as well as keynote presenter for national and international conferences.
Dr. Lipton began his scientific career as a cell biologist. He received his Ph.D. Degree from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville before joining the Department of Anatomy at the University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine in 1973. Dr. Lipton’s research on muscular dystrophy, studies employing cloned human stem cells, focused upon the molecular mechanisms controlling cell behavior. An experimental tissue transplantation technique developed by Dr. Lipton and colleague Dr. Ed Schultz and published in the journal Science was subsequently employed as a novel form of human genetic engineering.
In 1982, Dr. Lipton began examining the principles of quantum physics and how they might be integrated into his understanding of the cell’s information processing systems. He produced breakthrough studies on the cell membrane, which revealed that this outer layer of the cell was an organic homologue of a computer chip, the cell’s equivalent of a brain. His research at Stanford University’s School of Medicine, between 1987 and 1992, revealed that the environment, operating though the membrane, controlled the behavior and physiology of the cell, turning genes on and off. His discoveries, which ran counter to the established scientific view that life is controlled by the genes, presaged one of today’s most important fields of study, the science of epigenetics. Two major scientific publications derived from these studies defined the molecular pathways connecting the mind and body. Many subsequent papers by other researchers have since validated his concepts and ideas.
Dr. Lipton’s novel scientific approach transformed his personal life as well. His deepened understanding of cell biology highlighted the mechanisms by which the mind controls bodily functions, and implied the existence of an immortal spirit. He applied this science to his personal biology, and discovered that his physical well-being improved, and the quality and character of his daily life was greatly enhanced.
Dr. Lipton has taken his award-winning medical school lectures to the public and is currently a sought after keynote speaker and workshop presenter. He lectures to conventional and complementary medical professionals and lay audiences about leading-edge science and how it dovetails with mind-body medicine and spiritual principles. He has been heartened by anecdotal reports from hundreds of former audience members who have improved their spiritual, physical and mental well being by applying the principles he discusses in his lectures. He is regarded as one of the leading voices of the new biology.
Dr Lipton’s work summarizing his findings, entitled, The new updated 10th Anniversary Edition of The Biology of Belief, (Hay House Publishing, softcover, ISBN 978-1-4019-4891-7). His second book, Spontaneous Evolution, Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There From Here. (Hay House Publishing, ISBN 978-1-4019-2580-2) and his third book, The Honeymoon Effect, The Science of Creating Heaven on Earth. (Hay House Publishing, ISBN 978-1-4019-2386-0)
Dr. Lipton began his scientific career as a cell biologist. He received his Ph.D. Degree from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville before joining the Department of Anatomy at the University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine in 1973. Dr. Lipton’s research on muscular dystrophy, studies employing cloned human stem cells, focused upon the molecular mechanisms controlling cell behavior. An experimental tissue transplantation technique developed by Dr. Lipton and colleague Dr. Ed Schultz and published in the journal Science was subsequently employed as a novel form of human genetic engineering.
In 1982, Dr. Lipton began examining the principles of quantum physics and how they might be integrated into his understanding of the cell’s information processing systems. He produced breakthrough studies on the cell membrane, which revealed that this outer layer of the cell was an organic homologue of a computer chip, the cell’s equivalent of a brain. His research at Stanford University’s School of Medicine, between 1987 and 1992, revealed that the environment, operating though the membrane, controlled the behavior and physiology of the cell, turning genes on and off. His discoveries, which ran counter to the established scientific view that life is controlled by the genes, presaged one of today’s most important fields of study, the science of epigenetics. Two major scientific publications derived from these studies defined the molecular pathways connecting the mind and body. Many subsequent papers by other researchers have since validated his concepts and ideas.
Dr. Lipton’s novel scientific approach transformed his personal life as well. His deepened understanding of cell biology highlighted the mechanisms by which the mind controls bodily functions, and implied the existence of an immortal spirit. He applied this science to his personal biology, and discovered that his physical well-being improved, and the quality and character of his daily life was greatly enhanced.
Dr. Lipton has taken his award-winning medical school lectures to the public and is currently a sought after keynote speaker and workshop presenter. He lectures to conventional and complementary medical professionals and lay audiences about leading-edge science and how it dovetails with mind-body medicine and spiritual principles. He has been heartened by anecdotal reports from hundreds of former audience members who have improved their spiritual, physical and mental well being by applying the principles he discusses in his lectures. He is regarded as one of the leading voices of the new biology.
Dr Lipton’s work summarizing his findings, entitled, The new updated 10th Anniversary Edition of The Biology of Belief, (Hay House Publishing, softcover, ISBN 978-1-4019-4891-7). His second book, Spontaneous Evolution, Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There From Here. (Hay House Publishing, ISBN 978-1-4019-2580-2) and his third book, The Honeymoon Effect, The Science of Creating Heaven on Earth. (Hay House Publishing, ISBN 978-1-4019-2386-0)
Amy Loewan
"My art is about nature and its many manifestations.
The purpose of my work is to promote peace, harmony
and understanding."
She was born in Hong Kong, immigrated to Canada and has been based in Edmonton, Alberta since 1978. She received a MFA in Painting from the University of Alberta and is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Amy is celebrated for her dedication to creating artwork to promote peace and understanding. She has an extensive exhibition history of over 100 exhibitions. Her work has been shown across Canada as well as internationally in New York, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Melbourne. Amy has received numerous awards and honours. She was inducted into the City of Edmonton Arts & Culture Hall of Fame in 2012 and was the recipient of a National Award for Excellence in the Arts in 1998. Her large rice paper installation A Peace Project was designated as a Cultural Property of Canada in 2010. Loewan is also a passionate art educator who works with community groups and teaches studio courses in visual arts at the University of Alberta Faculty of Extension.
The purpose of my work is to promote peace, harmony
and understanding."
She was born in Hong Kong, immigrated to Canada and has been based in Edmonton, Alberta since 1978. She received a MFA in Painting from the University of Alberta and is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Amy is celebrated for her dedication to creating artwork to promote peace and understanding. She has an extensive exhibition history of over 100 exhibitions. Her work has been shown across Canada as well as internationally in New York, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Melbourne. Amy has received numerous awards and honours. She was inducted into the City of Edmonton Arts & Culture Hall of Fame in 2012 and was the recipient of a National Award for Excellence in the Arts in 1998. Her large rice paper installation A Peace Project was designated as a Cultural Property of Canada in 2010. Loewan is also a passionate art educator who works with community groups and teaches studio courses in visual arts at the University of Alberta Faculty of Extension.
David Lorimer
A writer, lecturer, poet and editor who is a Founder of Character Education Scotland, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network (www.scimednet.org) and former President of Wrekin Trust and the Swedenborg Society (www.swedenborgsociety.org.uk). He has also been editor of Paradigm Explorer since 1986 and completed his 100th issue in 2019. Originally a merchant banker then a teacher of philosophy and modern languages at Winchester College, he is the author and editor of over a dozen books, including Survival? Death as Transition (1984,2017) Resonant Mind (originally Whole in One) (1990/2017), The Spirit of Science (1998), Thinking Beyond the Brain (2001), The Protein Crunch (with Jason Drew) and A New Renaissance (edited with Oliver Robinson). He has edited three books about Beinsa Douno: Prophet for our Times (1991, 2015), The Circle of Sacred Dance, and Gems of Love, which is a translation of his prayers and formulas into English. His new book of essays, A Quest for Wisdom comes out at the end of 2020.
David is a founding member of the International Futures Forum and was editor of its digest, Omnipedia - Thinking for Tomorrow. He was also a Trustee of the St Andrews Prize for the Environment and a Churchill Fellow in 1978. His book on the ideas and work of the Prince of Wales – Radical Prince - has been translated into Dutch, Spanish and French. He is the originator of the Inspiring Purpose Values Poster Programmes, which has reached over 350,000 young people. See www.inspiringpurpose.org.uk
He is also Chair of the Galileo Commission (www.galileocommission.org) which seeks the widen science beyond a materialistic world view.
David is a founding member of the International Futures Forum and was editor of its digest, Omnipedia - Thinking for Tomorrow. He was also a Trustee of the St Andrews Prize for the Environment and a Churchill Fellow in 1978. His book on the ideas and work of the Prince of Wales – Radical Prince - has been translated into Dutch, Spanish and French. He is the originator of the Inspiring Purpose Values Poster Programmes, which has reached over 350,000 young people. See www.inspiringpurpose.org.uk
He is also Chair of the Galileo Commission (www.galileocommission.org) which seeks the widen science beyond a materialistic world view.
Howard Martin
He is one of the original leaders who helped found HeartMath in 1991. A key spokesperson for the HeartMath Companies, Howard Martin is deeply passionate about the topics he presents.
Through his talks Howard illuminates the intelligence of the heart, describing how we can access it to create positive and sustainable change.
His presentations provide a unique clarity and sense of ease about the evolutionary changes many are experiencing personally, collectively and socially.
Howard shows us how we can actively participate in the creation of our individual and collective future. His Southern roots play into the palpable warmth and gentle humor you will experience when you meet him.
He is a co-author of the highly acclaimed book The HeartMath Solution and contributing author of Heart Intelligence. Most recently, Howard helped to co-create The HeartMath Experience, a new online video program introduced by HeartMath in January 2020.
Howard is also a member of The Transformational Leadership council, an organization founded by author Jack Canfield, and The Evolutionary Leaders, a group of select global visionaries founded by Deepak Chopra.
Through his talks Howard illuminates the intelligence of the heart, describing how we can access it to create positive and sustainable change.
His presentations provide a unique clarity and sense of ease about the evolutionary changes many are experiencing personally, collectively and socially.
Howard shows us how we can actively participate in the creation of our individual and collective future. His Southern roots play into the palpable warmth and gentle humor you will experience when you meet him.
He is a co-author of the highly acclaimed book The HeartMath Solution and contributing author of Heart Intelligence. Most recently, Howard helped to co-create The HeartMath Experience, a new online video program introduced by HeartMath in January 2020.
Howard is also a member of The Transformational Leadership council, an organization founded by author Jack Canfield, and The Evolutionary Leaders, a group of select global visionaries founded by Deepak Chopra.
Lynne McTaggart
An award-winning journalist and the author of seven books, including her forthcoming book, The Power of Eight®, and the worldwide bestsellers The Field, The Intention Experiment and The Bond, all considered seminal books of the New Science and now translated into 30 languages.
Lynne’s been referred over the years as a ‘metaphysical rock star’, ‘the Madonna of the Quantum World,’ ‘the Malcolm Gladwell of the New Science’ and even ‘The Dalai Mama.’
She is consistently voted one of the world’s top 100 spiritual leaders for her ground-breaking work with consciousness and the power of intention, and she’s chiefly known for the quality of her writing and in-depth research.
Lynne is also a dynamic speaker, who regularly gets standing ovations from her worldwide audiences for her inspiring speaking style. She has spoken and held workshops before diverse audiences in most continents around the world from Kuwait to Kuala Lumpur, and everywhere in between.
She’s also architect of the Intention Experiment, a global ‘laboratory’ involving thousands of readers around the world testing the power of group thoughts to heal the world. Lynne, her book and the web-based experiment were prominently featured in Dan Brown’s book The Lost Symbol, and Brown even created a character partly based on her.
As co-founder and editor of the world’s No 1 health magazine, What Doctors Don’t Tell You, now published in 14 countries worldwide, Lynne is a tireless campaigner for consumer rights in health care.
Most recently, she has discovered the Power of Eight®, phenomenon – the fact that intention magnifies and rebounds in a small group, which is presently being studied by a major university.
Lynne’s been referred over the years as a ‘metaphysical rock star’, ‘the Madonna of the Quantum World,’ ‘the Malcolm Gladwell of the New Science’ and even ‘The Dalai Mama.’
She is consistently voted one of the world’s top 100 spiritual leaders for her ground-breaking work with consciousness and the power of intention, and she’s chiefly known for the quality of her writing and in-depth research.
Lynne is also a dynamic speaker, who regularly gets standing ovations from her worldwide audiences for her inspiring speaking style. She has spoken and held workshops before diverse audiences in most continents around the world from Kuwait to Kuala Lumpur, and everywhere in between.
She’s also architect of the Intention Experiment, a global ‘laboratory’ involving thousands of readers around the world testing the power of group thoughts to heal the world. Lynne, her book and the web-based experiment were prominently featured in Dan Brown’s book The Lost Symbol, and Brown even created a character partly based on her.
As co-founder and editor of the world’s No 1 health magazine, What Doctors Don’t Tell You, now published in 14 countries worldwide, Lynne is a tireless campaigner for consumer rights in health care.
Most recently, she has discovered the Power of Eight®, phenomenon – the fact that intention magnifies and rebounds in a small group, which is presently being studied by a major university.
Dena Merriam
A long-time meditation practitioner in the lineage of Kriya Yoga. She came in contact with her guru Paramhansa Yogananda at the age of 20, long after he had left his physical form, and devoted many years to practicing his teachings and studying the texts of the ancient Vedic tradition. During her years of meditation, many vivid memories of past births began to emerge, revealing an intricate and subtle patten of cause and effect, the law of karmic unfolding. These memories became the subject of her books. The purpose of sharing these intimate stories was to help people see the long arch of their life, whether they retain memories or not, to help overcome fear and anxiety about death, to understand more fully the workings of cause and effect and to know that each one of us, moment to moment, is creating the blueprint for our future. Her first book My Journey through Time: A Spiritual Memoir of Life, Death and Rebirth takes Dena on a journey back through seven consecutive lives, revealing the intricate patterns that emerge as one life leads into another, picking up and furthering themes initiated at an earlier time. Her second book The Untold Story of Sita: An Empowering Tale for our Time takes the reader back to a much earlier age, several thousand years b.c.e. to a pre-patriarchal era when humanity had not fully separated itself from the natural world. There are many messages from that time that are particularly relevant today. A third book called When the Bright Moon Rises: Awakening Ancient Memories will be released in the fall of 2020. A fourth book is also in the works: The Seeds of Satya Yuga recounts memories of a life in a far higher age and how events in that life effected subsequent births, carving a path for the soul’s awakening. Dena’s story is the story of each one of us, of course with much variation. The history of each one of us is filled with patterns and interweavings, that unfolding of so many events, the birth and fulfillment of desires and aspirations, loss and gain, all of which have made us who we are today. While on her own spiritual journey of awakening, Dena has been active in the public sphere. Having founded the non-profit organization The Global Peace Initiative of Women in 2002, she has worked to bring spiritual voices to address global challenges. She has spoken in many forums on the need for a shift in consciousness if we are to address successfully ecological decline, economic and gender imbalance, climate instability, violence and other critical issues. Before writing about her own spiritual experiences, Dena wrote about art and spirituality, publishing a number of books on contemporary artists and for some years editing the magazine Sculpture Review. She received her Master’s Degree from Columbia University, has served on numerous boards and in 2014 received the Niwano Peace Prize for her international work.
Bente Milton
Filmmaker & immersive media producer. Founder and owner of Milton Media ApS. Over the years she has written, directed and produced a large number of high profile documentaries. Her work has been distributed to more than 50 countries, and she has more than 20 prestigious awards and nominations to her credit - including: Princes’ Award, Prix Italia, IDA Awards, Golden Gate awards and the Danish Academy Award. In the recent years Bente has specialized in transmedia storytelling - including design and implementation of virtual spaces for community building and education. In 2019 she became co-founder of City-transformers, which is a new initiative focused on empowering urban communities to transform our world. The initiative has special focus on supporting young people with the skills and tools they need to solve the pressing global problems that are threatening the planetary ecology and our human society.
Lady Fiona Montagu of Beaulieu
Born in Zimbabwe, was a Director of Beaulieu Enterprises Ltd and a Trustee of The Countryside Education Trust for over 40 years. In China in 2013, she extolled the virtues and importance of education on an English Country Estate. She was appointed as first Global Ambassador of The Club of Budapest.
She is a Patron of a variety of organisations including The Relational Thinking Network, and a philanthropist who believes that the goal of evolution in our troubled world today is to live in harmony with all of Humanity, all of Life, through harmlessness, wisdom and respecting other peoples’ truths. Her metaphysical teachers are Gillian R Wright and Alan Oken.
She is a Patron of a variety of organisations including The Relational Thinking Network, and a philanthropist who believes that the goal of evolution in our troubled world today is to live in harmony with all of Humanity, all of Life, through harmlessness, wisdom and respecting other peoples’ truths. Her metaphysical teachers are Gillian R Wright and Alan Oken.
Roger D Nelson
Director the Global Consciousness Project. His background includes physics and experimental psychology. He is the author or co-author of over 100 technical papers and two books, Connected: the Emergence of Global Consciousness, and Der Welt-Geist: wie wir alle miteinander verbunden sind (German) with Georg Kindel. He was Professor of Psychology at Johnson State College in Vermont, and in 1980 joined Princeton University's PEAR lab to coordinate research. He created the GCP in 1997, to gather evidence of coalescing global consciousness. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences.
Nitamo Montecucco
Scientific Director of the Villaggio Globale in Bagni di Lucca, Italy. MD. PhD. Researcher in neuroscience and psychosomatic paradigm, expert in the treatment of psychophysical deseases. Co- Director and Dean of the Laszlo – Institute for New Paradigm Research Institute, Tuscany, Italy. Since 1991 he directs a team of doctors, psychologists, physicists, biologists, sociologists and teachers for the development of the new holistic paradigm, and of the neuroevolution of consciousness.
Since the 1989 he develops new scientific researches to psychosomatic health using advanced computerized electroencephalograph capable, through EEG coherence analysis He leads experiments on brain coherence, as a measure of psychosomatic integrity, studying normal people, psychiatric subjects in mental health hospitals as far as meditators in Himalayas and Indian spiritual centres. The researches on brain eeg coherence (synchronization) come publish in English on the scientific magazine " World future”, on Italians, English and German magazines and broadcast on many television network: BBC, Swiss Television, Rai, Mediaset, TMC, etc.
Among the researches on coherence, one of the most important discoveries has been that the empathy between peoples is positively correlated to the electroencephalographic coherence recorded between the same eeg points of the brains of a couple or of a group. The interpersonal electroencephalographic coherence seem to be a measure of the empathic communication level, to highlight the psychosomatics blocks and the intracerebral lack or excess of communication.
From 1999 to 2013 teaches psychosomatics and neuropsychology at the Master in Complementary Medicines of the University of Medicine of Milan, WHO (World Health Organization) Collaborating Center of Complementary Medicine. From 1996 to 2013 is the Director of the Psychosomatic PNEI Institute of the Global Village of Bagni di Lucca, where for over twenty years leads important research about the brain and EEG coherence in relation to psychological disease, meditation, empathy and neuropsychical resonance between people.
Since the 1989 he develops new scientific researches to psychosomatic health using advanced computerized electroencephalograph capable, through EEG coherence analysis He leads experiments on brain coherence, as a measure of psychosomatic integrity, studying normal people, psychiatric subjects in mental health hospitals as far as meditators in Himalayas and Indian spiritual centres. The researches on brain eeg coherence (synchronization) come publish in English on the scientific magazine " World future”, on Italians, English and German magazines and broadcast on many television network: BBC, Swiss Television, Rai, Mediaset, TMC, etc.
Among the researches on coherence, one of the most important discoveries has been that the empathy between peoples is positively correlated to the electroencephalographic coherence recorded between the same eeg points of the brains of a couple or of a group. The interpersonal electroencephalographic coherence seem to be a measure of the empathic communication level, to highlight the psychosomatics blocks and the intracerebral lack or excess of communication.
From 1999 to 2013 teaches psychosomatics and neuropsychology at the Master in Complementary Medicines of the University of Medicine of Milan, WHO (World Health Organization) Collaborating Center of Complementary Medicine. From 1996 to 2013 is the Director of the Psychosomatic PNEI Institute of the Global Village of Bagni di Lucca, where for over twenty years leads important research about the brain and EEG coherence in relation to psychological disease, meditation, empathy and neuropsychical resonance between people.
Yasuyuki Nemoto
Advisor to Office Masaru Emoto and Sosei World.
Received Doctor of Science from University of Tokyo in 1988.
He has been giving lectures in plain language about the relationship between “Message from Water” written by the late Dr. Masaru Emoto and new scientific theories on water proposed by the late Dr. Jacques Benveniste, Dr. Gerald Pollack, Dr. Luc Montagnier and Dr. James Oschman.
Especially, he is explaining people about the two newly discovered unique functions of water: (1) Water can memorize and transmit information; (2) Water can store and convert energy.
Received Doctor of Science from University of Tokyo in 1988.
He has been giving lectures in plain language about the relationship between “Message from Water” written by the late Dr. Masaru Emoto and new scientific theories on water proposed by the late Dr. Jacques Benveniste, Dr. Gerald Pollack, Dr. Luc Montagnier and Dr. James Oschman.
Especially, he is explaining people about the two newly discovered unique functions of water: (1) Water can memorize and transmit information; (2) Water can store and convert energy.
Helena Norberg-Hodge
A pioneer of the new economy movement and recipient of the Alternative Nobel prize, the Goi Peace Prize and the Arthur Morgan Award for contributing to “the revitalization of cultural and biological diversity, and the strengthening of local communities and economies worldwide.”. She is author of the inspirational classic Ancient Futures, and Local is Our Future (2019). She is co-author of Bringing the Food Economy Home and From the Ground Up, and producer of the award-winning documentary The Economics of Happiness. Helena is the founder and director of Local Futures and The International Alliance for Localisation, and a founding member of the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture, the International Forum on Globalization and the Global Ecovillage Network.
Tomoyo Nonaka, Suzue Miuchi & Izumi Masukawa
Executive Committee members of Soul of WoMen.
Soul of WoMen (SOW) is a platform started by a group of Japanese women leaders to create a more harmonious and balanced world based on trust and respect for all life.
Tomoyo Nonaka
Tomoyo Nonaka is Chair and Founder of Gaia Initiative, formed in 2007 as a non-profit organization. She advocates a shift in the core values of society and undertakes various forms of educational activities and supports programs for corporations. She formerly served as Chair and CEO of Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd., and was director or advisor for various large Japanese corporations, including Asahi Brewery and Mitsui Fudosan. From 1979 to 1996, she was an anchor for TV programs on NHK and TV Tokyo. She is an honorary member of the Club of Budapest and an Executive Committee member of the Club of Rome.
Suzue Miuchi
Suzue Miuchi is a Japanese mangaka (cartoonist) and author of many works including Glass Mask (Garasu no Kamen). She won the Kodansha Manga Award (1982) for Youkihi-den, and the Japan Cartoonists Association Award (1995). Ms. Miuchi began to work on Glass Mask in 1976, and as of 2014, the collected 49 volumes had sold 50 million copies in Japan, making it the second best-selling manga for girls ever. The story has been made into TV animated series and drama, as well as a stage production, while Kurenai-tennyo has been made into a noh play performed by living national treasure Minoru Gensho Umewaka in 2006, and was also highly successful as an opera in 2020.
Izumi Masukawa
Dr. Izumi Masukawa is the founder of Cosmictune Sound Healing School which teaches the deep connection between sound, the universe, and human beings. She acquired a doctorate in nutrition and bio-electronics and worked at labs in the U.S. and Russia, where she researched unique methods of water treatment such as microcluster technology and found methods to transform harmful magnetic field into harmless field to protect us from EMF and ELF. She is also an advisor to Shijo-Tsukasa, a former marquis family who is the authentic preserver of Japanese cuisine. She is author of over 20 books including Tuning of Life and Water is Intelligent Life.
Soul of WoMen (SOW) is a platform started by a group of Japanese women leaders to create a more harmonious and balanced world based on trust and respect for all life.
Tomoyo Nonaka
Tomoyo Nonaka is Chair and Founder of Gaia Initiative, formed in 2007 as a non-profit organization. She advocates a shift in the core values of society and undertakes various forms of educational activities and supports programs for corporations. She formerly served as Chair and CEO of Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd., and was director or advisor for various large Japanese corporations, including Asahi Brewery and Mitsui Fudosan. From 1979 to 1996, she was an anchor for TV programs on NHK and TV Tokyo. She is an honorary member of the Club of Budapest and an Executive Committee member of the Club of Rome.
Suzue Miuchi
Suzue Miuchi is a Japanese mangaka (cartoonist) and author of many works including Glass Mask (Garasu no Kamen). She won the Kodansha Manga Award (1982) for Youkihi-den, and the Japan Cartoonists Association Award (1995). Ms. Miuchi began to work on Glass Mask in 1976, and as of 2014, the collected 49 volumes had sold 50 million copies in Japan, making it the second best-selling manga for girls ever. The story has been made into TV animated series and drama, as well as a stage production, while Kurenai-tennyo has been made into a noh play performed by living national treasure Minoru Gensho Umewaka in 2006, and was also highly successful as an opera in 2020.
Izumi Masukawa
Dr. Izumi Masukawa is the founder of Cosmictune Sound Healing School which teaches the deep connection between sound, the universe, and human beings. She acquired a doctorate in nutrition and bio-electronics and worked at labs in the U.S. and Russia, where she researched unique methods of water treatment such as microcluster technology and found methods to transform harmful magnetic field into harmless field to protect us from EMF and ELF. She is also an advisor to Shijo-Tsukasa, a former marquis family who is the authentic preserver of Japanese cuisine. She is author of over 20 books including Tuning of Life and Water is Intelligent Life.
James O'Dea
Author of The Conscious Activist, Cultivating Peace , Soul Awakening Practice (June 2017) and other acclaimed works. James is a former President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Washington office director of Amnesty International and CEO of the Seva Foundation. He worked with the Middle East Council of Churches in Beirut during a time of war and massacre and lived in Turkey for five years during civil upheaval and coup d’etat.
He has taught peacebuilding to over a thousand students in 30 countries. He has also conducted frontline social healing dialogues around the world. He is a member of The Evolutionary Leaders group and on the Advisory Board of The Peace Alliance and Kosmos Journal. James also mentors emerging leaders. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Laszlo New Paradigm Institute. James is both an activist and mystic.
He has taught peacebuilding to over a thousand students in 30 countries. He has also conducted frontline social healing dialogues around the world. He is a member of The Evolutionary Leaders group and on the Advisory Board of The Peace Alliance and Kosmos Journal. James also mentors emerging leaders. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Laszlo New Paradigm Institute. James is both an activist and mystic.
Richard Olivier
Awarded Thought Leader 2013 by the Best Practice Institute, Richard Olivier is Artistic Director and founder of Olivier Mythodrama and co-founder of Archetypes at Work™. He works internationally as a leadership development consultant, keynote conference speaker and workshop leader. He was a guest speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2003 and 2009 and collaborates with many other global organizations.
Mila Popovich
Founder and director of EVOLving Leadership which consists of a program, practice and community for transformational leadership.
Pierre Pradervand
Sociologist, author, spiritual thinker, speaker and workshop leader. Pierre Pradervand was born May 31, 1937 and grew up in London and Geneva. He studied at the universities of Geneva, Berne, and Ann Arbor, Michigan. Bearer of a doctorate in sociology from La Sorbonne University, Pierre worked for decades in personal development and social justice. His impressive career includes assignments in 40 countries on five continents as a researcher, coordinator of development programs, journalist, and international adviser. A sought-after speaker by French and English-speaking audiences, Pierre now lives in Switzerland where he writes, gives workshops on personal development and how to include spirituality in everyday life, all of them bearing the "living in a different way” energy. Pierre is also a professional celebrant.
For over 20 years he has been accompanying an amazing Afro-American death row inmate from Texas who has become a spiritual model for hundreds around the world (see his book on Roger W. McGowen, Messages of Life from Death Row). He also volunteers with a Geneva-based international NGO, the Women’s World Summit Foundation which is active in the field of decreasing violence against women and children (see www.woman.ch),
Author of 17 books ( mostl in French), his best-known English books are The Gentle Art of Blessing, 365 Blessings to Heal Myself and the World and Messages of Life from Death Row.
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For over 20 years he has been accompanying an amazing Afro-American death row inmate from Texas who has become a spiritual model for hundreds around the world (see his book on Roger W. McGowen, Messages of Life from Death Row). He also volunteers with a Geneva-based international NGO, the Women’s World Summit Foundation which is active in the field of decreasing violence against women and children (see www.woman.ch),
Author of 17 books ( mostl in French), his best-known English books are The Gentle Art of Blessing, 365 Blessings to Heal Myself and the World and Messages of Life from Death Row.
https://www.facebook.com/ppradervand/
https://gentleartofblessing.org/
http://pierrepradervand.com/
Prince Alfred of Liechtenstein
Prince Alfred of Liechtenstein is the chairman of Almdorf Seinerzeit – a worldwide unique eco retreat and health center consisting of two villages with 51 chalets, a central building, restaurants, etc. in the middle of the UNESCO Biosphere Park Nockmountains, Carinthia, Austria (www.almdorf.com) . He has a master degree in economics and computer science from the University of Vienna. Since 1976 he is the chairman, CEO or board member in different companies in the fields of engineering, investment, trading, banking and consulting. He has written internationally acclaimed books and articles about management theory, business, administration, education, media and new technology. He is the chairman of the advisory board of the International Peace Foundation (www.peace-foundation.net) as well a mediator in and co-organizer of conflict resolution summits and intercultural peace dialogues, which led him inter alia to North Korea, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Singapore and Malaysia. He received a number of honors and awards for his peace work, including the International Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award in New York 1990.
Princess Irene of the Netherlands
Chair of the Lippe-Biesterfeld NatureCollege Foundation.
Irene Emma Elisabeth, Princess of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, Princess of Lippe-Biesterfeld, second daughter of Princess Juliana and Prince Bernhard, was born at Soestdijk Palace, Baarn, on 5 August 1939.
Princess Irene married Prince Carlos Hugo de Bourbon de Parme in Rome on 29 April 1964. They had four children: Carlos (born in 1970), twins Margarita and Jaime (born in 1972) and Maria Carolina (born in 1974). Princess Irene and Prince Carlos Hugo were divorced on 27 May 1981. Princess Irene lives in Switzerland.
Irene Emma Elisabeth, Princess of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, Princess of Lippe-Biesterfeld, second daughter of Princess Juliana and Prince Bernhard, was born at Soestdijk Palace, Baarn, on 5 August 1939.
Princess Irene married Prince Carlos Hugo de Bourbon de Parme in Rome on 29 April 1964. They had four children: Carlos (born in 1970), twins Margarita and Jaime (born in 1972) and Maria Carolina (born in 1974). Princess Irene and Prince Carlos Hugo were divorced on 27 May 1981. Princess Irene lives in Switzerland.