Archives for April 2012

Daniel J. Siegel Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine where he is also on the faculty of the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development and the Co-Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. Dr. Siegel is the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational center devoted to promoting insight, compassion, and empathy in individuals, families, institutions and communities. He has published extensively, including Mindsight, which offers readers an in-depth exploration of the power of the mind to integrate the brain and promote well-being. His latest parenting book, The Whole-Brain Child: 12 … [Read more...]

Diane Musho Hamilton DIANE MUSHO HAMILTON is an exceptionally gifted mediator, group facilitator, and one of the leading contemporary spiritual teachers of our time. Combining decades of innovation in conflict resolution with an enthusiasm for life, she knows how to address the challenges of our modern experience with an uncommon spiritual perspective. With extraordinary warmth, depth and insight, she encourages us to consciously evolve beyond old and limited ideas of who we are so that we might discover our own unique expression of wisdom and of compassion in this time. More about Diane… As a mediator, is well known as an innovator in dialogues, especially … [Read more...]

Bruce Tift Bruce Tift, MA, LMFT, has been in private practice since 1979, taught at Naropa University for 25 years, and given presentations in the U.S., Mexico, and Japan.  He had the good fortune to be a student of Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, and to meet a number of realized teachers.  His new CD, "Already Free:  Buddhism Meets Psychotherapy on the Path of Liberation," explores the human issues of neurosis, anxiety, body awareness and relationship dynamics.  He lives in Boulder, CO, with his wife and twin daughters. Website: www.shambhalamountain.org/teachers/Bruce_Tift Sounds True: www.soundstrue.com/authors/Bruce_Tift   … [Read more...]

Katie Byron Byron Katie has one job: to teach people how to stop suffering. When Katie appears, lives change. As she guides people through her simple yet powerful process of inquiry, called The Work, they find that their stressful beliefs—about life, other people, or themselves—radically shift. Through this process, Katie gives people the tool to set themselves free. In 1986, at the bottom of a ten-year fall into depression, anger, and addiction, Byron Katie woke up one morning and realized that all suffering comes from believing our thoughts. She realized that when she believed her stressful thoughts, she suffered, but that when she questioned them, she didn’t suffer, and … [Read more...]

Saniel Bonder Saniel Bonder received an honorary scholarship upon entering Harvard in 1968 – but promptly had it revoked for helping occupy a building in a Viet Nam War protest. Soon afterward, he began two decades of spiritual quest, mostly with the 20th century Heart-gurus Ramana Maharshi and Adi Da. (He did come away from Harvard with a B.A., in Social Relations.) After leaving Adi Da’s work in 1992, to his surprise Saniel quickly underwent the radical shift he had sought. Since then he has helped hundreds of people awaken similarly and then clarify and express their distinctive gifts in service. The international Waking Down in Mutuality movement he founded now has over … [Read more...]

Linda Groves-Bonder Linda is Saniel Bonder’s full partner in The White-Hot Yoga of the Heart transmission and teachings and a Founding and Senior Teacher of the Waking Down in Mutuality work. Linda was born into a large family in the Midwest. As a young child, she recognized inconsistencies in the teachings of her native Catholicism. In adult life she was never attracted to join any formal spiritual organization. She gravitated to an experiential path, learning life lessons through meditation, reading, and attending seminars and workshops. From her childhood, her intuitional support and compassionate counseling of others took place quite naturally. Upon first attending … [Read more...]

Gail Larsen Gail Larsen is the founder of Real Speaking® and the award-winning author of Transformational Speaking: If You Want to Change the World, Tell a Better Story (Random House and Brilliance Audio). She delights in each person finding their distinctive and influential way to speak from the truth of who they are and what they care about to open hearts, inspire change, and move people to act. An SBA award-winning entrepreneur and catalyst for life-affirming ventures, her original approach to communication draws from her own journey as a previously reluctant speaker, her study of indigenous wisdom, twenty-five years in the world of speaking, and wide experience in … [Read more...]

Tiffany Shlain Tiffany Shlain, Filmmaker & Founder of The Webby Awards Honored by Newsweek as one of the "Women Shaping the 21st Century," Tiffany Shlain is a filmmaker, founder of the Webby Awards, and co-founder of The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences. A celebrated thinker and catalyst, Tiffany is known for her ability to illuminate complex ideas in culture, science, technology and life through her unique films, dynamic talks, and innovative projects. She delivered the campus-wide keynote commencement address at UCBerkeley and her films and work have received 50 awards and distinctions. Her last four films premiered at Sundance, including her … [Read more...]

Thomas Hübl Thomas Hübl was born in Vienna in 1971. As a 26-year-old medical student who was also very interested in bodywork and related therapies, he felt a strong inner calling. He took the radical step of following this inner wish, abandoning his studies and spending the next four years in retreat in the Czech Republic. During this time he did almost nothing except meditate and explore the spaces of inner consciousness. Looking back on this time, Thomas speaks of a fundamental opening that took place. After returning to Vienna, he started offering one-to-one sessions. His ability to touch people very deeply and encourage them to take a look beyond what they usually see … [Read more...]