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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.