Tony Fredericks
Anthony D. Fredericks, Ed.D. is Professor Emeritus of Education at York College of Pennsylvania. He is an award-winning and best-selling author of more than 170 books –an eclectic array of both adult nonfiction titles (e.g. The Secret Life of Clams) and children’s books (e.g Tall Tall Tree). His highly anticipated book on creativity (From Fizzle to Sizzle) will be published on January 2, 2022. He also pens a regular blog (“Creative Insights”) for psychologytoday.com.
Dr. Cathy Malchiodi
Cathy Malchiodi, PhD, LPCC, LPAT, ATR-BC, REAT holds a doctorate in Psychology with a specialization in research and health psychology, and is a clinical mental health counselor, expressive arts therapist, and art therapist who has spent over 30 years working with individuals with traumatic stress and studying how the arts support reparation, integration and recovery from trauma. She is the originator of Somatosensory Psychotherapy® and Trauma-Informed Expressive Arts Therapy® and is the founder and executive director of the Trauma-Informed Practices and Expressive Arts Therapy Institute that trains mental health and health care practitioners in medical, educational, and community settings and assists in disaster relief and humanitarian efforts throughout the world.
Cathy has given more than 550 invited presentations in the US, Canada, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Australia and has published numerous articles, chapters, and more than 20 books, including Trauma and Expressive Arts Therapy: Brain, Body and Imagination in the Healing Process, Understanding Children’s Drawings, Handbook of Art Therapy, Creative Arts and Play Therapy for Attachment Problems, and Creative Interventions with Traumatized Children. She has received numerous awards for distinguished service, clinical contributions and lifetime achievements, including honors from the Kennedy Center and Very Special Arts in Washington, DC. A passionate advocate for the role of the arts in health, she is a contributing writer for Psychology Today Online with more than 5.8 million readers and a visual artist and occasional ukulele and hulusi musician.
Nico Allen
Nico Allen is a Brooklyn-based movement catalyst, coach, DJ, and theater maker. Nico leads weekly movement classes in Brooklyn. He is a founding team member of Alcalme’s "Prosecutor Well-Being Initiative" and has helped co-create a trauma-informed curriculum for lawyers to enhance well-being. Nico is a graduate of the Schulich School of Music at McGill University, the William Esper Studio Actor's Training Program, and is completing his certification to be a 5Rhythms Facilitator. Connect with him on Instagram @bodyw_rk.
David Essel
David Essel, M. S. O.M., is a number one best-selling author (11), counselor, master life coach, international speaker and minister whose mission is to positively affect 2 million people or more every day, in every area of life, regardless of their current circumstances..
Celebrity Jenny McCarthy says “David Essel is the new leader of the positive thinking movement.”
David’s newest top selling book, #11, called “Love and relationship secrets….that everyone needs to know!” , has been labeled as the “New bible on love and communication.”
His 10th book book went #1 bestseller in 3 months, a mystical romance novel set in the Hawaiian Islands called ”Angel on a Surfboard”, which offers the 6 keys to deep love.
Another #1 best seller ”FOCUS! SLAY YOUR GOALS…THE PROVEN GUIDE TO HUGE SUCCESS, A POWERFUL ATTITUDE AND PROFOUND LOVE”, was recently selected by the influential blog BOOKAUTHORITY.ORG as one of the top 100 GOAL SETTING BOOKS OF ALL TIME.
David’s work of 40 years is also highly endorsed by the late Wayne Dyer, “Chicken Soup for the Soul” author Mark Victor Hansen, as well as many other celebrities and radio and television networks from around the world.
He is verified through Psychology Today as one of the top Counselors and Life Coaches in the USA, and is verified through Marriage.com as one of the top relationship counselors and experts in the world.
David accepts new clients every week into his 1 on 1 programs from around the world at www.davidessel.com.
Chris McMahon
Health and Mindset Coach
Jeannie Kulwin
Jeannie Kulwin is a Stress Coach and Breathwork Facilitator with over 19 years of teaching experience in the LA's public schools. She's a Meditation Teacher, Sound Healer, Yoga Instructor, Reiki Practitioner and Functional Nutrition Guide whose on a mission to bring healing, freedom and joy into the world. Currently she helps overwhelmed professionals reduce stress so they have guilt-free fun and make more money and impact using her Signature Stress Detox Formula.
Eric Maisel
Dr. Eric Maisel, a retired family therapist and active creativity coach, is the author of 50+ books and developer of the philosophy of life known as kirism.
In 2020, Unleashing the Artist Within, The Creativity Workbook for Coaches and Creatives, Lighting the Way, and The Power of Daily Practice appeared.
In 2021, Transformational Journaling for Coaches, Therapists and Clients, The Great Book of Journaling, and Redesign Your Mind appeared.
Dr. Maisel, widely regarded as America's foremost creativity coach, has writing extensively on the challenges of the creative life. His books in this area include The Fearless Creating, Coaching the Artist Within, Creative Recovery, The Van Gogh Blues, and Mastering Creative Anxiety.
His books specifically for writers include Deep Writing, Write Mind, Living the Writer's Life, A Writer's Space, A Writer's Paris, and A Writer's San Francisco.
Dr. Maisel also writes extensively in the areas known as critical psychology and critical psychiatry, where he is a thought-leader and advocate for significant shifts in mental health paradigms and practices. His books in this area include Rethinking Depression (New World Library), The Future of Mental Health (Routledge), and Humane Helping (Routledge).
Among his other books for mental health professionals are Helping Parents of Diagnoses, Distressed and Different Children, 60 Innovative Cognitive Strategies for the Bright, the Sensitive and the Creative, and Helping Survivors of Authoritarian Parents, Siblings and Partners, all from Routledge.
Dr. Maisel leads workshops for writers online and around the world in locations like London, Paris, New York, San Francisco, Dublin, Rome, and Prague. He writes the "Rethinking Mental Health" blog for Psychology Today (with 3 million views) and three weekly blogs for The Good Men Project, including "Redesign Your Mind" and "Kirism Today."
Dr. Maisel trains creativity coaches, runs support groups for creativity coaches, and provides keynotes for organizations like the American Mental Health Counselors Association and the Interntional Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry. He divides his time between Walnut Creek, California, where he and his wife life, and Belmont, California, where his grandkid babysitting skills are required.
Cantor Lisa Levine
Rabbinic Pastor Cantor Lisa Levine RYT500 is a nationally known composer, recording artist, author, and worship artist. After earning her BA in Music from UCI and studying in Israel at the Hebrew University and Reuben Academy she went on to HUC-HIR DFSSM in New York, where she was ordained 1989. She received her doctorate in Sacred Music from HUC in 2014 after 25 years of dedicatedd service to the Jewish people. Lisa has spent her long and esteemed career building bridges through music and bringing people of all faiths and cultural diversity together in prayer and song.
Lisa’s original music catalogue includes 10 acclaimed CD’s and 8 Songbooks. Her Choral Series is published by Transcontinental Music Publications and her music appears in over two dozen compilations. Reb Lisa’s poems appear in the WRJ Torah Commentary, WRJ Centennial Covenant Book and Georgetown Hospital’s Lombardy Voices. Her song “Ki Anu Amecha” was commissioned by the American Conference of Cantors for the new Reform HHDay Mishkan HaNefesh and Esau Enai part of the new Reform HHDay collection. Lisa is the creator and author of “Yoga Shalom” a unique prayer embodiment Book/CD/DVD practice which is popular around the world. She is the voice of prayer in Hebrew In Harmony curriculum with Behrman House Books. Her most recent CD recordings are “Bridge to Peace” songs for chaplaincy, peace and healing and “Jospel Jam” which tells the story through song of Jewish Gospel. Lisa’s first collection of poetry “Heart of Light: Poems of Longing, Loss and Life” with artwork by Julie Silver was recently published and is available on Amazon.
In 2018 Lisa received Ordination as Rabbinic Pastor through Aleph Alliance for Jewish Renewal. She is a JSSA (Jewish Social Services Agency) Chaplain and shares Music and Chaplaincy in conferences around the country. Reb Lisa is a member of the American Conference of Cantors, OHALAH, Women Cantor’s Network, NAJC Neshama and NewCAJE. She serves on the Board of Ezra Uganda Assistance
and is the Co-President of the RPA Rabbinic Pastoral Association of Aleph. Lisa is a 500 hour RYT and teaches Yoga Shalom at Home weekly via zoom with a growing following. She is the Artist in Residence at Temple Rodeph Shalom Aberdeen, NJ as well as Rabbinic Chaplain of Riderwood
Village in Silver Spring MD. While not zooming around the world sharing her music and yoga, she enjoys gardening, cooking, canning and tennis!
GS Youngblood
"I coach men in relationship. I help you see yourself more clearly. I help you bring more leadership to your relationship in support of creating more ease, play, sexuality, respect, and attraction. The nature of my work is laid out in my book The Masculine in Relationship: A Blueprint for Inspiring the Trust, Lust, and Devotion of a Strong Woman. The book is structured around a clear three-part blueprint for developing your masculine core."
David Allen
David Allen created Getting Things Done®. GTD is the work-life management system that has helped countless individuals and organizations bring order to chaos. GTD enables greater performance, capacity, and innovation. It alleviates the feeling of overwhelm—instilling focus, clarity, and confidence.
After decades of in-the-field research and practice of his productivity methods, David wrote the international best-seller Getting Things Done.
Published in over 28 languages, TIME magazine heralded it as “the defining self-help business book of its time.” In 2015, he released a new edition of the book, with new insights, updates, and discoveries about the GTD methodology and its many personal and professional applications.
Today, David Allen is considered the leading authority in the fields of organizational and personal productivity. The David Allen Company, run by David and his wife Kathryn, oversees the certification academy and quality standards for Global Partners offering Getting Things Done courses and coaching around the world.
Liane Gabora
Liane Gabora is an interdisciplinary cognitive scientist at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on how culture evolves, how the creative process works (with an emphasis on concept combination and cross-domain thinking), and how it fuels the evolution of culture, as well as more generally, the different ways in which evolutionary processes could--and do--work. Her Ph.D. thesis was the first publication to introduce a quantum formalism for modeling the contextual nature of concept interactions, and she is the first author (with her Ph.D. supervisor, Diederik Aerts) of the first paper on this topic. She was the first to develop a computational model of cumulative cultural evolution, to develop an autocatalytic framework to explain the integrated nature of human cognition, and to explain creative insight at the level of neural cell assemblies. Over the last two decades, further developments of these ideas, both theoretical and empirical, has led to the Self-Other Reorganization (SOR) theory of cultural evolution, and a theory of creativity--honing theory--that synthesizes research on complex systems, associative memory, and formal models of concept combination. She has over 200 scholarly publications in diverse journals that span psychology (e.g., Psychonomic Bulletin & Review), cognitive science (e.g., Cognitive Science), biology (e.g., Journal of Theoretical Biology), computer science (e.g., Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence), physics (e.g., Foundations of Physics), mathematics (e.g., Journal of Mathematical Psychology), anthroplogy (e.g., Current Anthropology), archaeology (e.g., World Archaeology), and interdisciplinary reserach (e.g., Journal of the Royal Society Interface), as well as literary journals (e.g., Fiction). She has given lectures worldwide. She is a published fiction writer, and composes music. She is writing a nonfiction book titled Dawn of the Creative Mind and will eventually return to a novel titled Quilandria.
Alex Dull
Recreation Therapist
My work as a Recreation Therapist expands across the lifetime. In my clinical roles at the VA & Johns Hopkins, I facilitated a variety of programming such as cooking classes, tai chi & yoga, adapted sports & cognitive games, and community outings. I also have experience planning & implementing large events and staff trainings.
In my role as a community Recreation Therapist & Travel Trainer, I worked with individuals who experienced barriers on the metro & public transportation. We worked together to navigate safely & effectively using public transit.
I have worked with individuals who are 1 years old all the way through to 101 years old from injury recovery to Dementia to Autism to stroke rehabilitation. In all of the roles I work in, I practice with a holistic & person-centered approach.
Yoga Practitioner
My work & experience as a yoga practitioner has opened the door to the most amazing experiences of my life. Since surrendering to this path, I have explored & deepened my understanding of my mind/body/spirit in really profound ways. My goal as a yoga practitioner is to always meet you where you are with each breath and in each moment. Each practice we move through together will be intentional, unique, and diverse. I am committed always being a student first and deepening my practice & understanding so I can continue to offer relevant & inspiring experiences.
Nature Guide
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Shalom Mayberg
Shalom has over 9 years of holding sound bath classes and workshops and has been teaching students how to play the Crystal Bowls for over 5 years. As a sound healing instructor, much of the work he teaches is transformative and intuitive-based; some techniques are centuries old while others are modern-day practices. This unique training method helps his students deliver the best possible sound bath experiences.
Aaron Glazer
Drummer, teacher, kundalini yoga practitioner
Coleen Dieker
Colleen Dieker's thirst for adventure reaches beyond her favorite thrill-seeking hobbies, which include skydiving and snowboarding. It also infuses her many musical pursuits.
Karyn Kedar
Karyn Kedar is an author, poet and inspirational speaker, writing and teaching with honesty and passion about mindfulness practice, forgiveness, beauty, struggle, healing and love. She is a Certified Spiritual Director, an ordained rabbi, and a teacher of mindfulness practice. She guides people of all faiths, as well as the seeker and the perplexed. She leads seminars, workshops, leadership training, and offers keynote speeches as well as and one-on-one and group counseling.
She writes, “Every morning that we are granted another day of life, we are invited to the miracle of awakening. Come to the edge of what you know and sit awhile. Find the courage to live fearlessly; to emerge and unfold; to create a life of meaning & purpose.”
Her books include Amen: Seeking Presence with Prayer, Poetry, and Mindfulness Practice; God Whispers: Stories of the Soul, Lessons of the Heart; and The Bridge to Forgiveness: Stories and Prayers for Finding God and Restoring Wholeness. She is a contributing poet, liturgist and essayist to numerous anthologies.
Karyn and her husband Ezra live outside of Chicago, Illinois. Their three children, spouses and five grandchildren are all finding their paths in Israel.
Jenna Reiss
I am a laugher. I believe that laughing can be the simplest answer to many of life’s strange dilemmas. I find people, their stories, their interests, their talents and shortcomings fascinating. I love building relationships, because I believe there is no end to the depth in human beings and their natural capacity to love or change a life. It is this love that brought me to Breathwork Meditation, and after a decade in Marketing, and on a soul-searching journey for deeper purpose, I felt a sense of urgency to bring this breathwork message to the world. Thus began my journey studying with the highly respected worldwide author, healer and breathwork teacher, David Elliott where I have since been certified and trained a few times over as a Breathwork Instructor. Since then I have also been a student of many master teachers in Buddhist lineages for Meditation, Reiki Facilitator and have been initiated to teach by my mentors for my authentic ability to transmit the teachings of meditation.
From philosophical, life conversations with friends to analyzing and working to push people forward and find their true and highest potential, I’ve always found it important to look deeper. Ask the tough questions, let your body percolate, just be with the information that it brings and you experience soulful evolution.
I teach weekly classes, workshops, private sessions and corporations, helping clients bring awareness to and work through their own stuck energies. I am passionate about creating a practice that is right for your unique-self and best helps you through the experience you need to go through. Infusing David's Breathwork teachings with my life coaching beliefs, I'm honored to coach my students to a higher-state of consciousness, as we work through subconscious blockages and achieve what it is YOU want to create/do or change for yourself and your life, this year. All work is centered around healing oneself and opens us up to come from our natural state of love, thus creating a better place for us all to live in.
Jenna, healer, writer and Breathwork Coach, believes in the personal power of oneself and works with each client to help them re-discover their self-love and higher-truth. With an individualistic and holistic approach, she pulls from a toolbox of intuitive thinking, therapeutic conversation, essential oils, crystal healing and musical sounds to guide students deep into a higher state of consciousness. A natural born connector, she is a human development writer regularly contributing to online publications most recently Thought Catalog, and Liminas Magazine.
Amber Ryan
Amber Ryan is an embodiment architect and maestra sound smith in the world of movement meditation and ecstatic dance. With crystalline clarity, she delivers distilled somatic instruction taking you on a movement music journey into the trance of the dance. Amber’s style of leadership invites presence + somatic awareness, freedom in the form, and space to tune in + be moved by your own inner guide.
Amber is co-founder of The 360 Emergence, along side Kate Shela. She has led groups and experiences at Envision Festival, Wanderlust Festival, Omega Institute, Ester Perel’s Sessions Live, Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, Eileen Fisher’s Learning Lab and many dance floors across the globe. She was a student of the late Gabrielle Roth, and currently studies with Yoga Rupa Rod Stryker.
Annette Dubreuil
MBA - Facilitator - Focusing Teacher - Environmentalist
I’ve been passionate about sustainability since my childhood. I grew up in nature on the beautiful northeast shores of Lake Superior, in Wawa, Ontario. I started my education in environmental science, wanting to better understand the planet. To help “save it!” I learned that we knew quite a bit about the planet already.
Helping change organizations to reduce their impact became my new direction. I did an MBA at Schulich in sustainability and strategy. There, I learned that people have to want change for change to happen. After graduating, I worked for over a decade in communications supporting sustainable research projects.
In 2012 I found the practice of Focusing and knew intuitively that I had to teach it, though at the time I had no idea why. Then it finally made sense. When we feel grounded in our bodies, we are also connected to the Earth. We are our heart-centered calm and compassionate selves. We can access creativity and courage. And create more flourishing organizations and world for all.