Christopher Willard, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist at Harvard Medical School and author of over 18 publications for children and adults. An internationally sought-after speaker and mindfulness educator, his books include Growing Up Mindful, Raising Resilience, The Breathing Book, Alphabreaths: The ABCs of Mindful Breathing, and Alphabreaths Too. https://www.drchristopherwillard.com
Do you feel depleted and just can’t give anymore?
Yasmine Cheyenne is a self-healing educator, author, speaker, and mental wellness advocate who helps people learn how to cultivate daily practices to build healthy, joyful lives. Yasmine believes in “Self-healing For Everyone™” and launched The Sugar Jar Community™ app, a safe space with resources to support mental health. She has been featured on the Today show and in InStyle, Forbes, Refinery 29, The Every Girl, Poosh, and more. https://yasminecheyenne.com
Is it possible to return to joy after the loss of a loved one?
Sherry Walling, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, speaker, podcaster, author, and mental health advocate. Her company ZenFounder, helps entrepreneurs and leaders navigate transition, rapid growth, loss, conflict, or any manner of complex human experience. https://www.sherrywalling.com
Are you looking to live a life of kindness, self-compassion, and selflessness?
Kevin Griffin is a leader in the mindful recovery movement and a Community Dharma Leader at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. He is the author of multiple books, including the best-selling Buddhist recovery book One Breath at a Time. He has studied with leading Insight Meditation teachers, including Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein, and he regularly teaches and leads retreats. https://www.kevingriffin.net
Do you know the ancient Buddhist techniques for transforming emotional pain, anxiety, and stress into complete mental well-being?
Khentrul Lodrö T’hayé Rinpoche is a United States-based Tibetan monk and the director of Katog Choling, a Tibetan Cultural Center. He oversees meditation groups across North America and in Australia and South Africa. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, he traveled year-round teaching seminars and leading retreats, and he now holds online retreats for his students around the globe. He is also the abbot of a monastery in Tibet. Khentrul Rinpoche is one of the only monks in the world with three khenpo degrees—equivalent to three PhDs in Buddhist philosophy. Many of his students have nicknamed him “the mind training Khenpo” for his passion for teaching mind training practices. https://katog.org
Are health food making your sick?
Sally K. Norton, MPH, received her bachelor’s degree in nutritional science from Cornell University and her master’s degree in public health from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Sally is a leading expert on dietary oxalate. https://sallyknorton.com/
Are we in need of a new architecture for peace?
Wise woman and practical visionary, Libby Hoffman has worked for more than 30 years at the nexus of international peace-building, organizational development, spirituality, and social transformation. She is the president of Catalyst for Peace, a private foundation she established in 2003 to grow a new architecture for peace — one that works from the inside out, where those most impacted by violence and war lead in building peace and restoring social wholeness. https://libbyhoffman.com
Looking to teach children the importance of caring for others and to never give up?
Harry Einhorn is a composer, artist, and meditation instructor. He has helped coordinate Buddhist practice and study programs throughout the world. Harry has over a decade of experience working with kids teaching art in theaters, schools, and museums, including the Rubin Museum of Art in New York. Harry currently resides in Taiwan where he lectures at a Buddhist university. https://harryeinhorn.co/about
Looking for a children’s book that teaches positive life lessons?
Laura Burges (Ryuko Eitai) is a lay entrusted Buddhist teacher in the Soto Zen tradition. She lectures, offers classes, and leads retreats at the San Francisco Zen Center and at other practice places in Northern California. She is the abiding teacher at Lenox House Meditation Group in Oakland. Laura taught children for 35 years and now mentors other teachers. https://www.sfzc.org/teachers/ryuko-laura-burges
Is there a simple way to teach children to meditate?
Francesca Hampton has been a Buddhist practitioner since the ’70s and helped to establish Tibetan Buddhist centers in California. She later worked as an English language editor at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives and spent a number of years in India and Tibet. She eventually settled into a career as an English as a Second Language and Adult Education teacher. She has authored a few self-published short stories and children’s books. Now semi retired, she finds herself in a golden situation that allows time for meditation, writing, and photography. https://sites.google.com/site/abouttheauthorfhampton/abouttheauthor
Do your children know of the story of Buddha and a simple rose?
Mallika Chopra is Chopra Global’s Chief Executive Officer, a mom, media entrepreneur, author, and public speaker. Mallika shares insights she gained while seeking meaning and balance as a mom and entrepreneur who felt she was overwhelmed by work, family, and too many responsibilities. Mallika has taught meditation to thousands of people, and is currently a mindfulness consultant for the animated series, Stillwater, on Apple TV+. She enjoys speaking to audiences around the world about intention, balance and living a life of purpose. Mallika has a BA from Brown University, an MBA from Kellogg Business School, and an MA in Psychology and Education with a mind body spirit concentration from Teachers College, Columbia University. https://chopra.com
Do you know about a fresh approach for treating mental health issues by blending mindfulness and spirituality?
Seth J. Gillihan, PhD, is a licensed psychologist who specializes in mindful cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). He was a full-time faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania and taught in the Psychology Department at Haverford College. He has been in private practice since 2012. Gillihan completed a doctorate in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of multiple books on mindfulness and CBT and host of the Think Act Be podcast. https://sethgillihan.com
Are you highly sensitive and feeling burned out?
Anne Bérubé, PhD, is a spiritual teacher with an uncommon ability to share her story and insights in a way that awakens the inner wisdom in others. She helps people free themselves from the societal and parental conditioning that is holding them back from realizing the highest calling of their soul. Her work has also allowed her to share the stage with renown self-help luminaries and bestselling authors. www.AnneBerube.com
Can the practice and philosophy of yoga help you cultivate balance in your professional life?
Vish Chatterji is an accomplished executive-turned-coach with a spiritual twist. In parallel to his twenty-year leadership career spanning the automotive, technology and startup industries, he has studied and practiced yoga, meditation, Ayurveda (mind-body medicine) and Jyotish (Karmic Advising). Vish holds a BS in mechanical engineering from Northwestern University, an MBA from University of Michigan and is certified as an Executive Coach through UC Berkeley. https://businesscasualyogi.com
What can living in the Mediterranean teach you about creating a Delicious Life?
Emily A. Francis has a BS in Exercise Science and Wellness with a minor in nutrition and a masters degree in Human Performance. Since moving to the Mediterranean, she has been writing a regular column in the local tourism magazine, Oh My Malta titled Emily In Malta, where she interviews local farmers, fishermen and chefs about the way foods are grown, harvested, caught and prepared on the island. She also reviews restaurants for a collaborative column titled A Chef and a Foodie On Tour, and works as a contributing writer for Malta’s Gourmet Today Magazine. www.EmilyAFrancisBooks.com
What causes us to procrastinate and is there something we ca do change that?
Fuschia Sirois, PhD, is a Professor of Social and Health Psychology at Durham University, and a former Canada Research Chair in Health and Well-being. Prof Sirois’ research focuses on understanding the psychological factors and qualities that confer risk or resilience for physical health and well-being outcomes through self-regulation and emotions. For over 20 years she has researched the causes and consequences of procrastination, and in particular the health consequences of procrastination, as well as how emotions play a key role in explaining why people procrastinate. Her research also examines the role of positive psychology traits, states, and interventions for supporting self-regulation and enhancing health and well-being She has authored over a 120 peer-reviewed journal papers, over 200 conference papers, and edited two books. Her research has been funded by a number of national funding agencies including the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada, The Economic and Social Research Council (UK), and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK). Follow her on Twitter at @FuschiaSirois
Can your dreams help you heal from past trauma?
Linda Yael Schiller, MSW, LICSW, (Watertown, MA) is a mind-body and spiritual psychotherapist, consultant, author, and international teacher. Linda facilitates group dream circles, provides individual, group, and corporate consultation, and trains professionals on working with dreams. She has designed several innovative methods for dreamwork and is trained in numerous mind-body methods such as EMDR, EFT, energy psychology, Enneagram, and integrated trauma treatments. In addition to her professional work with dreams, she has been involved with her own dream[1]sharing group for more than thirty years. For more, visit https://www.ptsdreams.com
Lecia Cornwall is originally from Ontario, and she now calls the foothills of Canada’s Rocky Mountains her home. She is the author of 16 novels and historical fiction titles, and she is currently working on her next book. https://leciacornwall.com
Chanel Cleeton is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick Next Year in Havana, When We Left Cuba, The Last Train to Key West, and The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba. Originally from Florida, Chanel grew up on stories of her family’s exodus from Cuba following the events of the Cuban Revolution. Her passion for politics and history continued during her years spent studying in England where she earned a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Richmond, The American International University in London and a master’s degree in Global Politics from the London School of Economics & Political Science. Chanel also received her Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina School of Law. www.chanelcleeton.com
Bernard Beitman, M.D., is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to systematize the study of coincidences. A graduate of Yale Medical School, he did his psychiatric residency at Stanford University. The former chair of psychiatry of the University of Missouri-Columbia medical school for 17 years, he writes a blog for Psychology Today on coincidence, is the coauthor of the award-winning book Learning Psychotherapy and the founder of The Coincidence Project. https://coincider.com/
Dean Sluyter has led meditation workshops and retreats throughout the U.S. since 1970, at venues ranging from Ivy League colleges to maximum-security prisons. For thirty-three years he taught English and developed the Literature of Enlightenment program at The Pingry School in New Jersey. Sluyter has trained with sages in several traditions, including Vajrayana Buddhism, Advaita, Bhakti Yoga, and Umbanda. https://deansluyter.com
Rachel Turow completed a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Oregon, a clinical internship at the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Turow worked as a supervising psychologist and research scientist at Rush University Medical Center. https://www.rachelturow.com
Phakchok Rinpoche is a beloved Tibetan Buddhist master and the abbot of several monasteries in Nepal. Born in Kathmandu, Rinpoche was recognized at the early age of one as a reincarnated Buddhist master. He travels the world teaching in Buddhist centers, universities, and monasteries. https://www.phakchokrinpoche.org
Daryl R. Van Tongeren, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Hope College. He is interested in deep and enduring questions about the human condition. As a social psychologist, he employs experimental research to investigate meaning in life, religion and identity, and virtues. https://www.darylvantongeren.com
Shaun Tomson started, managed and sold two multi-million dollar clothing brands – Instinct in the 80’s and Solitude (co-founded with his wife Carla) in the 90’s. He is the author of the best-selling books “Surfer’s Code” and “The Code: The Power of “I Will“, and the writer and producer of the award-winning documentary film Bustin’ Down the Door. Shaun is a Business Administration and Finance graduate from the University of Natal and has a Master of Science in Leadership from Northeastern University. He is a World Surfing Champion, an inductee in the Jewish and South African Sports Hall of Fame, the US Surfing Hall of Fame, and has been described as one of the greatest surfers of all time and one of the most influential surfers of the century (Surfer Magazine 1999). https://shauntomson.com/
David Pruitt is a first-generation college graduate from UNC-Greensboro and previously served on the advisory board for their Bryan School of Business. A licensed CPA and a member of the AICPA and NCACPA, David started his business career in an entry-level accounting position before advancing to first CFO, then CEO, of Performance Bike, for a time the largest cycling retailer in the United States. www.DavidLPruitt.com
Jude Currivan, PhD, is a cosmologist, futurist, planetary healer and previously one of the most senior business women in the UK. She has a master’s degree in physics from Oxford University and a doctorate in archaeology from the University of Reading in the UK. She has traveled extensively, worked with wisdom keepers from many traditions, and is a life-long researcher into the nature of reality. She is the author of 6 books, including The Cosmic Hologram, and is a member of the Evolutionary Leaders circle. http://www.judecurrivan.com
Maya van Rossum is a veteran environmentalist on a mission to use our state and federal constitutions to empower activists and provide hope to communities everywhere seeking to address environmental racism, the climate crisis, and the ongoing ravages of polluted water and air, toxic contamination, and withering ecosystems nationwide. She is the founder of Green Amendments For The Generations, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring passage of Green Amendments in every state across the United States that would recognize and protect environmental rights on par with other inalienable civic and political freedoms such as speech and property. https://forthegenerations.org
Is there a transformative power in the space between crisis and action? In liminal space, we can interpret, question, examine, dream, and imagine possibilities for new creativity that is so necessary right now to move on from old problems, beliefs, and myths of the assumptions we have been living in.
Sande Hart is an award-winning leader in the fields of women’s empowerment and interfaith community building. She founded the women’s interfaith international grassroots organization S.A.R.A.H. (The Spiritual And Religious Alliance for Hope) the morning of 911, an instinct to gather women of diverse faiths to protect all that they consider sacred, now in its 20th year. She founded and served as director of Charter for Compassion’s Women and Girls sector, served as chair for the United Religions Initiative for North America and serves on the Women’s Task Force for The Parliament of World’s Religions. She is also the founder of Compassionate California. Sande is currently being inducted into the Women’s Oral History Library of Claremont Colleges. https://www.sandehart.com
Did you know that you have a Devine blueprint for profound healing with the archangels? Tune in for an inspiring discussion with Alexandra Wenman, on her new book Archangel Alchemy Healing: The Celestial Science in the Vibration of the Universe.
Alexandra Wenman is a gifted angel communicator, spiritual alchemist, channel, healer, poet, and presenter. The former editor of Prediction Magazine, she is the founder of Precious Wisdom Alchemy and the creator of The Alexandra Wenman Show on YouTube. She lives in London. https://www.alexandrawenman.com
