Inspiring Women Summit 2010.Devaa Haley Mitchell and Elayne Doughty.Teleseminar.

Inspiring Women Summit 2010

INSPIRING WOMEN SUMMIT 2010

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SPEAKERS

Marianne Williamson

Christiane Northrup

Riane Eisler

Jehmu Greene

Margaret Wheatley

Joan Borysenko

Sonia Choquette

Mona Polacca

Deva Premal

Ariane de Bonvoisin

Jan Yanehiro

Kristine Carlson

Hazel Henderson

Monica Sharma

Arielle Ford

Jennifer Siebel Newsom

Agapi Stassinopoulos

Amy Lenzo

Anodea Judith

Ariel Spilsbury

Belvie Rooks

Beth Wilson

Chameli Ardagh

Charlotte Shelton

Christine Arylo

Claire Zammit

Daphne Rose Kingma

Devaa Haley Mitchell

Dorka Keehn

Elayne Doughty

Elza Maalouf

Gail Straub

Hala Khouri

Jalaja Bonheim

Jan Yanehiro

Janet Attwood

Jennifer Siebel Newsom

Jessica Roemischer

Johanina Wikoff

Juanita Brown

Katherine Woodward Thomas

Liana Chaouli

Lisa Schrader

Luisah Teish

Mama Gena

Marci Shimoff

Marcia Wieder

Mary Manin Morrissey

Michelle Price

Miranda MacPherson

Neelama Eyres

Nina Rothschild Utne

Osprey Orielle Lake

Rita Lustgarten

Sabine Grandke-Taft

SARK

Sherry Anderson

Sheva Carr

Susan Collin Marks

Susan Davis

Suzanne Sterling

Tami Simon

Zem Joaquin

Zen DeBrucke

SPEAKERS

Marianne Williamson

Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed spiritual teacher. Her latest book, The Age of Miracles hit #2 on the New York Times Bestseller list. Among her other 9 published books, four of them -- including A Return to Love - were #1 New York Times Bestsellers. A Return to Love is considered a must-read of The New Spirituality.

Marianne's other books include Everyday Grace, A Woman's Worth, Illuminata, Healing the Soul of America, The Gift of Change and Emma and Mommy Talk to God. She has been a popular guest on television programs such as Oprah, Larry King Live, Good Morning America and Charlie Rose.

Marianne is a native of Houston, Texas. In 1989, she founded Project Angel Food, a meals-on-wheels program that serves

homebound people with AIDS in the Los Angeles area. Today, Project Angel Food serves over 1,000 people daily. Marianne also co-founded The Peace Alliance, a grass roots campaign supporting legislation to establish a U. S. Department of Peace.

In December 2006, a NEWSWEEK magazine poll named Marianne Williamson one of the fifty most influential baby boomers.

Christiane Northrup

Christiane Northrup, M.D., a board-certified ob/gyn, is a visionary pioneer, beloved authority in women’s health and wellness, and the author of the ground breaking New York Times bestsellers Women's Bodies, Women’s Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause. Her third book, Mother-Daughter Wisdom, was voted Amazon’s #1 book of the 2005 (in two categories). Her latest books, The Secret Pleasures of Menopause and The Secret Pleasures of Menopause Playbook, teach how to experience joy, pleasure, prosperity, fulfillment, and vibrant health.

Following a 25-year career in both academic medicine and private practice, Dr. Northrup now devotes her time to helping women truly flourish on all levels through tapping into their inner wisdom.Through her exclusive Women’s Wisdom Circle, Dr. Northrup shares cutting-edge medical and lifestyle advice. For more information about Dr. Northrup and her Wisdom Circle go to www.DrNorthrup.com.

Riane Eisler

Riane Eisler is internationally known for her bestseller The Chalice and The Blade, now in 23 foreign editions, as well as Sacred Pleasure, The Power of Partnership, and Tomorrow’s Children. Her newest book, The Real Wealth of Nations -- hailed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu as “a template for the better world we have been so urgently seeking” and by Gloria Steinem as “revolutionary” – proposes a new approach to economics that gives visibility and value to the most essential human work: the work of caring for people and for our natural environment. She keynotes conferences worldwide, with venues including the United Nations and invitations by Rita Suessmuth, President of the German Parliament, and by Vacrav Havel, President of the Czech Republic.

Dr. Eisler is a leader for peace, environmental sustainability, economic equity, and human rights – pioneering the extension of human rights protection to “women’s rights” and “children’s rights.” With Nobel Peace laureate Betty Williams, she co-founded the Spiritual Alliance to Stop Intimate Violence (SAIV), www.saiv.net. She is president of the Center for Partnership Studies, www.partnershipway.org,, has received many honors, including honorary Ph.D. degrees, the Alice Paul ERA Education Award, and the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s 2009 Distinguished Peace Leadership Award, and is in the award-winning book Great Peacemakers as one of 20 leaders for world peace, along with Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Martin Luther King.

Jehmu Greene

Jehmu Greene is president of the Women’s Media Center (WMC), an organization that amplifies women’s voices in the media through media and leadership trainings, advocacy, and original content. Throughout her career, Greene has skillfully worked with the media to build powerful social justice movements. She is a frequent commentator on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and elsewhere, and former president of Rock the Vote, the largest youth voter registration group.

A native of Austin, TX, Greene has played key roles at both the Center for Policy Alternatives and the Democratic National Committee, where she ran the women’s office. She was an advisor and national surrogate for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, and has worked on over 20 political campaigns at the local, state and national level. She is also the recipient of numerous awards from organizations including Essence Magazine, the National Conference for Community and Justice, the National Council for Research on Women, and the American Association of University Women.

Margaret Wheatley

Margaret Wheatley is an internationally acclaimed writer, speaker, and teacher for how we can accomplish our work, sustain our relationships, and willingly step forward to serve in this chaotic time. She has written five books: Leadership and the New Science (18 languages and third edition; Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future (7 languages and second edition); A Simpler Way (with Myron Rogers); Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (3 languages), and Perseverance (May 1, 2010).

She is co-founder and President emerita of The Berkana Institute, a charitable foundation that works in partnership with a rich diversity of people around the world who strengthen their communities by working with the wisdom and wealth already present in their people, traditions and environment (www.berkana.org). Her numerous articles appear in both professional and popular journals and may be downloaded free from her website: www.margaretwheatley.com. Wheatley received her doctorate in Organizational Behavior and Change from Harvard University, and a Masters in Media Ecology from New York University. She’s been an organizational consultant since 1973, a global citizen since her youth, a professor in two graduate business programs, and a happy mother and grandmother. In 2004, the American Society for Training and Development awarded her their highest honor and dubbed her a ‘living legend.’

Joan Borysenko

Joan Borysenko, Ph.D. is a Harvard Medical School trained cell biologist, a licensed psychologist, and a spiritual teacher. A pioneer in mind-body medicine and psychoneuroimmunology she is the founder of Mind-Body Health Sciences, LLC in Boulder, CO and a New York Times bestselling author of 14 books. Her most recent book is It’s Not the End of the World: Developing Resilience in Times of Change. Joan has also created a series of guided meditation CDs for stress reduction, healing, meditation training, courage, and compassion.

Dr. Borysenko’s most recent program is a 6-month onsite/online SoulCare in Healthcare certificate training (soulcare@joanborysenko.com) offered through the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY October 2010 through May 2011 (two 5-day intensive sessions). She is also a perennially popular national speaker, radio personality, and blogger for the Huffington post and other websites including Oprah.com.

Joan’s work has appeared in newspapers ranging from The Washington Post to the Wall Street Journal. You can find out more about her, view video, read articles, and sign up for a free monthly newsletter at www.joanborysenko.com.

Sonia Choquette

Sonia Choquette: A third generation intuitive and prolific writer, Sonia Choquette's books have sold over a million copies worldwide including her NY Times Bestseller The Answer Is Simple.... Love Yourself, Live Your Spirit.

In working with people for more than 32 years, Sonia insists that the sixth sense is natural to us all. Whether it’s those “hunches” or “feelings” or “vibes,” everyone has them, but unfortunately most people dismiss or ignore them and sadly miss the benefits. With the onset of the changing world we now live in, Sonia emphasizes that using our intuition is “no longer optional. Working with and strengthening our intuition is becoming more and more fundamental to our ability to live harmoniously with ourselves and others in the new world order.”

Paying attention to the sixth sense, learning to listen, to trust it, to train oneself to call on its guidance, these are the challenges facing six-sensory people trapped in a five-sensory culture.

Mona Polacca

Mona Polacca, a Hopi/Havasupai/Tewa elder, has a Master of Social Work degree. She is an honorary member of the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers. She serves on several United Nations committees on indigenous people's issues and is a featured author, speaker, and educator on indigenous people's human rights, aging, mental health, addiction and violence. She is also the President/CEO and faculty of the Turtle Island Project, a non-profit program that promotes a vision of wellness by providing trans-cultural training to individuals, families, and healthcare professionals.

Grandmother Mona says:

Indigenous people have come through a time of great struggle, a time of darkness. The way I look at it is like the nature of a butterfly. In the cocoon, a place of darkness, the creature breaks down into a fluid and then a change, a transformation, takes place. When it is ready and in its own time, it begins to move and develop a form that stretches and breaks away from this cocoon and emerges into this world, into life, as a beautiful creature.

We grandmothers, we have emerged from that darkness, see this beauty, see each other and reach out to the world with open arms, with love, hope, compassion, faith and charity.

Deva Premal

Deva Premal's incredible voice and sacred music have touched many lives. Her albums, recorded with her partner Miten, have sold over 900,000 copies. Born in Nürnberg, Germany in 1970 of a mystic/artist father and a musically talented mother, she was taught violin, piano and received voice training. By the time she was five years old, she was already chanting the Gayatri Mantra daily, and since that time she continues to integrate meditation into her life. She has studied Shiatsu, Reflexology, CranioSacral Therapy and Massage, but music remains her first love. The influence of Indian classical music is evident in her singing, although she has never attempted to copy or steal from the tradition. "It just comes naturally, as if I'd heard it all before, in another life." Among the numerous letters of appreciation she has received since the release of her albums, many describe how her music has been used to accompany and enhance the sacred passages of birth and death. In fact, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, the world famous author of On Death And Dying, requested that Miten and Deva bring their music to accompany her passing. "We have played for many people," says Deva, "but to play personally for Elizabeth was something I will never forget.”

Ariane de Bonvoisin

Ariane de Bonvoisin is an author, entrepreneur and an expert on change. She is the founder and CEO of The First 30 Days, a website for helping people make changes in their lives, personal or professional, social or global. Her book The First 30 Days: Your Guide to Making any Change Easier, was published by HarperOne in May 2008. She is also the host of Change Nation, a weekly podcast where she interviews change experts, authors, celebrities and everyday people about getting through change in their lives. Previously she worked at TimeWarner, Sony, and Boston Consulting Group after receiving an MBA from Stanford. She is a frequent speaker on the subject of change and transition. She is passionate about balancing living spiritually with living in this world.

Jan Yanehiro

Jan Yanehiro pioneered the magazine format on television as co-host of “Evening Magazine,” a nightly program in San Francisco that ran for 15 years on KPIX TV. Currently she is the Executive Producer of “Pacific Fusion TV” syndicated in the United States, Europe and Asia. She has hosted 6 documentaries on the redress and relocation issues of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Jan has won multiple awards including an Emmy and the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanitarian Award. She is the mother of six, holds seats on several boards including the Kristi Yamaguchi Always Dream Foundation and The Bank of Marin. Her latest book is titled, “This Is Not The Life I Ordered…50 Ways To Keep Your Head Above Water When Life Keeps Dragging You Down.”

Kristine Carlson

Kristine Carlson captivated readers worldwide with her first three bestsellers, "An Hour to Live, An Hour to Love: The True Story of the Best Gift Ever Given", "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff in Love" and "Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff for Women."

Expanding on the phenomenal success of her late husband Dr. Richard Carlson's work, (Don't Sweat the Small Stuff series), Kristine has continued to share her profound message of empowerment, success, emotional strength and love. An unyielding believer of living in the moment and finding happiness in life, Kris has been featured on national radio and television broadcasts, including: The Today Show, Empowered Living Radio, The View, and The Oprah Winfrey Show. Her most recent book, Heart Broken Open, is a courageously honest memoir of her personal journey through the depths of grief and mourning after the sudden and unexpected loss of her husband. This powerful book has gained the attention and earned accolades of readers and media across the globe. A dedicated mother to her two daughters and "Nana" to her wonderful grandson, Kristine prides herself on creating healthy life-long relationships and personal growth. She participates in numerous charities and is deeply committed to spreading her message of love to the world.

Hazel Henderson

Hazel Henderson is the founder of Ethical Markets Media, LLC and the creator and co-executive Producer of its TV series. She is a world renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, a worldwide syndicated columnist, consultant on sustainable development, and author of The Axiom and Nautilus award-winning book Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy (2006) and eight other books. She co-edited, with Harlan Cleveland and Inge Kaul, The UN: Policy and Financing Alternatives, Elsevier Scientific, UK 1995 (US edition, 1996).

Her editorials appear in 27 languages and in 200 newspapers syndicated by InterPress Service, Rome, New York, and Washington DC. Her articles have appeared in over 250 journals, including (in USA) Harvard Business Review, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor; and Challenge, Mainichi (Japan), El Diario (Venezuela), World Economic Herald (China), LeMonde Diplomatique (France) and Australian Financial Review. Her books are translated into German, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Korean, Portuguese and Chinese. She sits on several editorial boards, including Futures Research Quarterly, The State of the Future Report, and E/The Environmental Magazine (USA), Resurgence and Foresight and Futures (UK).Since becoming a full-time TV producer, Hazel has stepped down from her many board memberships, including Worldwatch Institute (1975-2001), Calvert Social Investment Fund (1982-2005), and other associations, including the Social Investment Forum and the Social Venture Network. She remains on the International Council of the Instituto Ethos de Empresas e Responsabilidade Social, Sao Paulo, Brasil, a Patron of the New Economics Foundation (London, UK) and a Fellow of the World Business Academy.

Monica Sharma

Monica Sharma, trained as a physician and epidemiologist, has been working for the United Nations since 1988. Dr. Sharma is an international expert in large systems change and transformational leadership. As former Director of Leadership and Capacity Development at the United Nations, and presently in United Nations initiatives as well as her work with Universities and large civil society organisations, she designs and facilitates the implementation of programmes for whole systems transformation and leadership development world-wide in both developed and developing countries. Using cutting–edge transformational approaches and methodologies, Dr. Sharma focuses on measurable and sustainable change in the domains of peace and development--in accordance with the Earth Charter and stated MDG goals of countries. Results-oriented partnerships are fostered and implemented with governments, civil society, business and United Nations agencies. Dr. Sharma designed and directed large programmes globally and lived and worked extensively in both developing and developed countries. For example, she developed and implemented transformational leadership programmes in 40 countries generating multiple innovations and large-scale results in the context of HIV AIDS as the global Director of the HIV/AIDS programme of United Nations Development Programme. She also pioneered the strategy for “whole systems transformation” for reducing maternal mortality in South Asia, addressing women’s rights and leadership at all levels. There are several other examples. Dr. Sharma leads teams for policy formulation, strategic direction and programme development in numerous countries, building multi-stakeholders partnerships with governments, civil society and business. She has published and presented over 250 articles journals and international forums. Dr. Sharma has received several honors, including the Spirit of the UN Award (for her “inspirational leadership, skilled wisdom and guidance in developing effective strategic frameworks for action and their application worldwide”), and the Sigma Theta Tau International Award in the field of nursing and health care (for her integration of the new science of consciousness), both in 2009. ‘Development’ of the individual and the collective is being redefined by her, to include the further reaches of the human and cultural capabilities, to cover a deeper balance between humanity and nature, our intellect and emotion, our inner and outer worlds, and to foster its expression through many programmes world-wide in society as well as organizations.

Arielle Ford

Arielle Ford is a leading pioneer and personality in the personal growth and contemporaryspirituality movement. For the past 25 years she has been living, teaching, and promotingconsciousness through all forms of media. Her stellar career includes years as a prominent bookpublicist, author, literary agent, TV lifestyle reporter, television producer, Sirius radio host,publishing consultant, relationship expert, speaker, columnist and blogger for the Huffington Post.

As the president of The Ford Group, Arielle was widely recognized as America's foremost bookpublicist and was instrumental in launching the careers of many NY Times bestselling self-helpauthors including Deepak Chopra, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Neale Donald Walsch,and Debbie Ford.

Arielle is also a gifted writer and the author of seven books including the HOT CHOCOLATE FOR THE MYSTICAL SOUL series, and her most recent, THE SOULMATE SECRET, now in a4th printing and 20 languages.

Arielle is one of the founding partners of the Spiritual Cinema Circle, a subscriber-based monthlyDVD club dedicated to providing movies about love and compassion. She is responsible for therapid growth of this company that has now been acquired by Gaiam, Inc.

Jennifer Siebel Newsom

Jennifer Siebel Newsom graduated with honors from both Stanford University and Stanford Business School. She worked in Africa, Latin America, and Europe on assignments with Conservation International, a global environmental organization. Upon graduation from business school, she moved to Los Angeles to act and produce. More recently she has performed in numerous studio and independent films (In the Valley of Elah, Rent, Something's Gotta Give, Zen Noir, April Fool’s Day, Raw Footage, etc.,) and TV shows (Trauma, Life, Mad Men, NUMB3RS, Strong Medicine, Presidio Med, Days of our Lives, She Spies, etc.,).

Several of these films have screened at Cannes and Toronto film festivals, among others, and the majority have been winning awards on the international film festival circuit. She also enjoys acting in the theater and portrayed both Tess and Elizabeth in the San Francisco Playhouse's production of Six Degrees of Separation. Most recently Jennifer worked on Tales of an Ancient Empire in the role of Queen Ma’at. She is attached to both Sleeping with the Lion and Bus Trip.

Jennifer formed Girls' Club Entertainment, LLC as an umbrella entertainment company to develop and produce independent films with strong social, political, and cultural significance, focused primarily on empowering women. She produced and starred in the independent feature The Trouble with Romance, which was released by Warner Brothers on Pay Per View and On Demand in February, 2009. Jennifer can be seen in seasons 1 and 2 of NBC's Life as Jennifer Conover (opposite Damien Lewis). Most recently Jennifer starred in The Gold Lunch (directed by Joanna Kerns and co-starring Paul Blackthorne), The Butler's in Love (directed by David Arquette and co-starring Thomas Jane), and Hallmark’s The Nanny Express. She sits on the Board of Directors for the International Museum of Women. Jennifer is currently directing the documentary film Miss Representation while fulfilling her many duties as First Lady of San Francisco.

Agapi Stassinopoulos

Agapi Stassinopoulos is an author and motivational speaker. She was born in Athens, Greece and educated at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. She holds a Master's Degree in applied psychology from the University of Santa Monica. She is the author of Conversations with the Goddesses and Gods and Goddesses in Love, which has been translated in seven languages. Her one-woman show, Conversations with the Goddesses, became a PBS special and aired nationwide.

She is a frequent lecturer for women's groups and business conferences, and facilitates workshops and empowerment seminars for diverse audiences. She also works with teenagers, helping them build their self-esteem and realize their dreams.

Agapi recently collaborated with her sister, Arianna Huffington, to complete her book, On Becoming Fearless, from which her workshops were developed.

Amy Lenzo

Amy Lenzo is the Founder of the Beauty Dialogues, an online blog designed to celebrate beauty. On her blog Amy explores not just the beauty of form, but also those patterns of essential wholeness that go beyond the visible. She is also a student of The Beauty Way, and has studied with mentors Pele Rouge, Firehawk, Rainbow Hawk and Wind Eagle on this topic.

Amy is also the Director of Global Communications for the World Café Community Foundation. She is one of the pioneers in hosting interactive World Cafés online. By adapting available technology, she’s found that it’s not only possible to create the hospitable space necessary to convey the essential World Café experience in the virtual medium, but that it actually offers many advantages. Powerful and effective World Cafés can be held virtually with large and small groups just about anywhere in the world – bypassing many of the economic, environmental and personal limitations of travel without sacrificing the intimacy and interaction of deep conversation.

Amy is also responsible for designing and hosting the World Café’s virtual communications infrastructure as well as supporting the dissemination of ideas in the World Cafe book, including 8 translations world-wide into Japanese, mainland Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean, Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese, and German (& 3 in process).Drawing on her deep understanding of the World Café principles and her skills and experience applying technology to human needs, Amy currently hosts online World Cafes using a variety of interactive media.

Finally, Amy is the Designer & Creative Director of Clear Light Communications, which offices services in web design and online communications. She is passionate about the natural world and the power of art and imagination.
Website(s):
http://www.theworldcafe.com/
http://www.beautydialogues.com/

Anodea Judith

Anodea Judith, Ph.D. is a best-selling author, international workshop presenter, psychologist, yoga teacher, philosopher, and evolutionary activist, whose passion is awakening humanity to its amazing potential before we throw it all away. Ordained as a priestess in 1985, she served in the Church of All Worlds for 20 years, as president and founder of its teaching organization, Lifeways, which led to her research in ancient history, mythology, and Goddess traditions. Since her first book on the chakras (Wheels of Life, 1987) became a classic, her many books have been translated into 16 languages and spawned the birth of her current organization, Sacred Centers. Having spent two decades as a somatic psychotherapist working with individuals, she left her practice to teach worldwide and address the issues that affect us all. Her latest book, Waking the Global Heart: Humanity’s Rite of Passage from the Love of Power to the Power of Love charts our social evolution to the current time and won two literary awards for best book on social change and mind-body-spirit. She also produced an award-winning DVD, The Illuminated Chakras, which has traveled the world in 7 languages, delighting audiences everywhere.

Ariel Spilsbury

Ariel Spilsbury is a planetary mystic, and she has devoted her life to the conscious awakening of all beings. This takes the form of traveling to share the wisdom of the Divine Feminine around the globe, which she has done for over thirty years. She has offered this work through writing, teaching, sacred theater presentations, creating a metaphysical store, conferences, consciousness events, lectures, seminars, starting a metaphysical newspaper, moon circles for women, spiritual counseling and maintaining a temple for the Goddess for twenty five years.

Ariel offers spiritual counseling service and various workshops with the intention of planetary awakening. She offers Initiation into the Mysteries of the Divine Feminine, Mayan Initiations, Divine Child Workshops and a sound and light technology called crystal singing. Ariel magnetizes sacred circles of light around the planet to bring people together in divine communion, love and remembrance. The present focus of her awareness is grounding a Living Mystery School, priestess training and sound and light temple on Earth called The Sanctuary of the Open Heart www.sanctuaryoftheopenheart.org.Ariel is a also the author of the 13 Moon Oracle and the co-author of the Mayan Oracle. The Soulful Women program is based on the 13 Moon Oracle, which can be ordered online for those who want to deepen their understanding of the material. Go to http://www.holographicgoddess.com/Oracles.html

Belvie Rooks

Belvie Rooks is the Co-Founder of Growing a Global Heart (www.growingaglobalheart.com), a project to plant a million trees along the Transatlantic route and the underground railroad to honor and remember the millions of people who died during the slave trade and to help combat global warming and catastrophic climate change.

She is a writer, educator and producer whose work weaves together the worlds of spirituality, feminism, ecology and social justice with a passion for engaged dialogue as a way of bridging various divides. She is a producer on a film project with Danny Glover about Albert Einstein and Paul Robeson's relationship during the McCarthy Era She is a Core Faculty member of Holy Names University's Culture and Spirituality Program and is a former Bioneers board member. Her family history is chronicled in, THE SEED OF SALLY GOOD'N: A Black Arkansas Family, 1833-1953 (University of Kentucy Press).

Her published works have appeared in a number of books, publications and anthologies including: Sacred Poems and Prayers in Praise of Life,; The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult by Alice Walker; My Soul is a Witness: African American Women’s Spirituality. She is co-editor of Paris Connections: African American Artists in Paris (QED Press) which won an American Book Award.

Beth Wilson

Beth Wilson is a best-selling author, speaker, life coach and women's empowerment expert whose active involvement with parenting and women’s issues, as well as personal growth and change, gives her a unique perspective on the challenges facing men, women and families today.

Beth originated and coined the phrase “The Sisterhood Code”. She has actively worked toward assisting women to move beyond divisive behaviors and, instead, become a more unifying force for change. Her idea that some women possess “the sisterhood gene” has provided a meaningful answer to the “mean girl” dilemma. According to Wilson the “sisterhood gene” can be activated if it isn’t already operating. And waking up the “sisterhood gene” is like waking up a sleeping giant because it makes women less susceptible to the cultural messages that so often strip us of our strength by encouraging us to war with each other instead of joining forces to shaping a new world in partnership with men.

Wilson’s client list includes politicians, celebrities, scholars, royals, Olympians, models, parents, journalists and financial executives. She conducts life coaching sessions over the phone and travels extensively to meet with clients in the U.S., Canada, Australia and Europe.

CHAMELI GAD ARDAGH

CHAMELI GAD ARDAGH is the founder of the Awakening Women Institute. She is a pioneer on contemporary feminine spirituality, and is inspiring women around the world through her breakthrough methods for awakening and empowering of women and girls. She is especially appreciated for her passionate love of mythology and storytelling as a method for illuminating our hidden strength and beauty. She is initiator of a global network of groups for women, and the author of two books on feminine empowerment and spirituality, which have been published in three languages. Chameli was born in Norway and now lives in Northern California with her husband Arjuna and two bonus sons. Her website is: www.awakeningwomenblog.com.

Dr. Charlotte Shelton

Dr. Charlotte Shelton is President & CEO of Unity, an international movement dedicated to supporting people of all faiths on their spiritual journeys and helping them apply positive spiritual principles in their daily lives. Prior to Unity, she was Chair of the Management, Marketing & M.I.S. Division at the Helzberg School, Rockhurst University and a visiting professor in Peking University’s International MBA program, Beijing, China. Charlotte has also owned her own consulting business, WiseWork, and has held HR senior management positions in Kansas City financial services and energy organizations. She is the author of Quantum Leaps: 7 Skills for Workplace Re-Creation (Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999), and coauthor of The NeXt Revolution: What Gen X Women Want at Work and How Their Boomer Bosses Can Help Them Get It (Davies-Black, 2005). She contributes to numerous trade and academic journals and has recently been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Inc. and Glamour magazines. She is a frequent speaker at seminars and conferences throughout the world.

Christine Arylo

After earning her MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and spending over twelve years marketing big brands such as Gap Inc., Visa, and Frito-Lay, Christine Arylo traded in building images for corporations for the chance to inspire women to break free from their limiting and outdated self-images.

A self-admitted, but recovering, achievement junkie and doing addict, Christine is a transformational teacher and coach who writes and speaks about the struggles and possibilities that this generation of woman -- today’s 21st century woman -- faces with life and love.

The popular author of Choosing ME Before WE, Every Woman’s Guide to Life and Love, www.mebeforwe.com. Christine’s opinions have been featured on ABC, CBS, FOX, and E! Entertainment TV, and in publications such as the Daily Om and The San Francisco Chronicle.

Known as the “Queen of Self-Love,” Christine is the creator of Madly in Love with ME™, an international self-love movement that includes an official self-love holiday (Feb 13) and is dedicated to making self-love a tangible reality. Christine is the co-founder of Inner Mean Girl Reform School™,a virtual school and community dedicated to transforming women’s self-sabotaging inner voices so they can stop being so darn hard on themselves.

Claire Zammit

Claire Zammit is the co-creator of the Feminine Power courses for women and co-leads a thriving community of thousands of women throughout the world. Claire is a highly trained specialist in transformative education with a unique gift for designing and facilitating dynamic, leading edge programs that give participants access to life-altering shifts that lead to embodied and lasting change. Claire is currently completing her doctorate in the field of Transformative Learning and Change at the California Institute of Integral Studies, researching the life-changing transformations of women in her year-long Feminine Power Mastery program. She also holds a Masters degree in Social Ecology and a BA in Communication. Claire is the co-author of the forthcoming book, Feminine Power: Awakening to the Creative Force of Life and co-creator and co-host of the internationally acclaimed Women on the Edge of Evolution teleseries.

Daphne Rose Kingma

Daphne Rose Kingma is an undisputed expert on matters of the heart. Prior to writing The Ten Things to Do When Your Life Falls Apart: An Emotional and Spiritual Handbook, she authored 12 books on love and relationships. Among her best selling titles are: The Future of Love: The Power of the Soul in Intimate Relationships; True Love; Finding True Love; The Men We Never Knew, and the classic on the psychological journey of ending a relationship, Coming Apart: Why Relationships End and How to Live Through the Ending of Yours.

Daphne has been a six-time guest on Oprah, and her work has been featured on hundreds of radio programs, as well as in newspapers and magazines throughout the country. A charismatic speaker, Daphne has presented keynotes to audiences throughout the United States and Europe, and presents workshops at The Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA as well as for numerous corporations and private organizations.

Daphne is also a highly esteemed emotional healer. For more than twenty years, she has offered private consultation to clients in Beverly Hills and Santa Barbara, California, as well as by phone to people all over the U.S. and in Europe, providing insight, transformation and healing of the heart. Her remarkable gift for sorting out the emotional issues in any life situation, whether in complex corporate environments or intimate relationships has earned her the affectionate title “the Einstein of Emotions.”

Her books have sold over a million copies and been translated into fifteen languages.

Rev. Devaa Haley Mitchell

Rev. Devaa Haley Mitchell works as a spiritual guide and leadership coach. She runs ongoing programs to support women in awakening to their full potential through the organization she founded, Radiant Essence Services (www.radiantessence.com).Recently, along with her husband Stephen Dinan, Devaa founded the Inspiring Women Summit, the largest virtual gathering of women in history. Over 28,000 women from more than 121 countries gathered together in dialogues and networking circles to expand the capacities of women.

Devaa served as the Director of Member Engagement at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), an organization bridging science and spirituality. Previously, she was the Founder and Executive Director of the Full Circle Fund, dedicated to building a new generation of civic leaders. Devaa also worked as an Associate Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group where she offered management advice to Fortune 500 Companies.

Devaa was ordained as an interfaith minister by the Chaplaincy Institute and also received a BA in Anthropology with Honors and an MA in International Development from Stanford University. She was awarded a fellowship from the Fulbright Foundation, which she used to conduct research in the Brazilian Amazon on sustainable economic development for local indigenous groups using culturally and ecologically appropriate strategies. Devaa was also one of 26 contributors to a book called Radical Spirit, which focuses on Gen-X spiritual perspectives.
Website(s):
http://radiantessence.com

Dorka Keehn

Dorka has been a leader in the women’s movement for the last two decades. She is a founder of EMERGE AMERICA, the premier training program for Democratic women who plan to run for political office. She has been appointed three times and currently serves on the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women chairing the Justice & Courage Domestic Violence Project. She was also the West Coast Director of Voters For Choice, the largest non-partisan, independent pro-choice political action committee in the U.S.

Dorka also works in the arts. She is currently completing ECO AMAZONS, the first illustrated book on American women environmentalists with photographs by Colin Finlay to be published in 2011. She is the producer and host of the arts and culture radio and internet program, KEEHN ON ART (keehnonart.com.) She installed in 2008, The Language of the Birds, a solar powered permanent sculpture commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission, that was voted one of the best public artworks in the United States by Americans for the Arts. As a filmmaker, she has produced several films for television including the two-time Emmy award winning documentary, OF CIVIL WRONGS AND RIGHTS: The Fred Korematsu Story (PBS POV 2001.

Elayne Kalila Doughty

Elayne Kalila Doughty MA, MFT, Co-host of The Inspiring Women Summit, Founder of Planet Breathe, The Soul Spa, And The Queens of Transformation. She is a Psychotherapist, Spiritual Midwife, Speaker,Transformational Coach and Women’s Empowerment Expert. With her extensive background in addictions, recovery, trauma, mental health and spiritual guidance she has over 20 years experience of working with women who are transforming a painful past to a powerful present and an extraordinary future.

Elayne is the author of the Soul Spa Breathe Cards and Meditation Audio Series andThe Soul Spa Experience -9 Guided Meditations to Cleanse Your Soul, Nourish Your Heart & Transform Your Life. Both audio programs blend clinical expertise, artistic creativity and deep soulful wisdom to empower women to live their “greater than imagined possibilities”. It is her privilege and honor to walk beside women as they recover, remember and awaken and come home to themselves, so that they can be of deeper service on the planet.

Elayne has designed The Safe Embrace: 7 Steps to Healing Trauma nd Coming Home to Yourself a global program that promotes trauma healing, empowerment, and actively seeds the vision of a world where women are respected, adored and revered. Her work is profoundly informed by the knowing that healing women and girls is paramount to the survival and evolution of our communities, our humanity, and our planet. Currently Elayne is implementing this program with Eve Ensler (the Vagina Monologues) and her foundation, www.VDay.org , at the City of Joy in Bukavu, Congo. This transformational program will seed women leaders at a grass roots level throughout the Congo.

Elayne is a sought after teacher and speaker in the field of Women's Healing, Transformation and Leadership, and has a private practice seeing in person clients in the Bay Area and globally via the internet. www.planetbreathe.com

Website(s):
http://www.planetbreathe.com

Elza S. Maalouf

Elza S. Maalouf is an Arab-American futurist and cultural development specialist with focus on cultural, business and political reform in the Arab world. As one of the foremost expert in Memetics of the Middle East, Elza is recognized as one of today’s brightest minds. She is co-founder of the Center for Human Emergence Middle East, http://www.humanemergencemiddleeast.org a think tank that emphasizes the scientific understanding of cultures through the prism of the "bio-psycho-social systems" framework of Drs. Clare W. Graves & Don E. Beck. She has pioneered the use of Integral and Spiral Dynamics methodologies in the Middle East. To this rich body of work, Elza is now adding her original concept of Innovations in Memetic Technologies&™ which includes depth psycho-spiritual understandings and indigenous-designed applications.

Her firm Integral Insights Consulting (IIC) http://www.integralinsights.net advises business leaders in the West and the Middle East. Elza offers unique, culturally informed integral solutions as the region transitions from oil wealth based economies to fully integrated sustainable economies. IIC stands on the forefront of advisory services to facilitate the transition with a focus on the Mid-East’s most precious resource, Gen Y.Elza speaks with a rare authority about what it takes to evolve structures of society in ways that support women.

http://www.globalfeminine.org Her work with women and girls in the Palestinian Territories, Syria, Lebanon, Kuwait and Dubai has earned her wide respect and affection.

Gail Straub

A pioneer in the field of empowerment, Gail Straub co-directs the Empowerment Institute, a school for transformative social change where her primary focus is women¹s empowerment. For the last three decades she has offered her work to tens of thousands of people throughout America, Europe, Russia, China, Africa, Afghanistan, and Asia. She co-founded IMAGINE: A Global Initiative for the Empowerment of Women to help women heal from violence, build strong lives, and contribute to their communities. IMAGINE initiatives are under way in Afghanistan, Sudan (Darfur), South Africa, India, and Nigeria. Gail has consulted to many organizations furthering women¹s empowerment including the Chinese Women¹s Federation, the Russian American Humanitarian Initiative, Women¹s Leadership Center at Omega, World Pulse, and Women for Women International.

Gail is the author of four books including, with her husband David Gershon, the best selling Empowerment: The Art of Creating Your Life As You Want It, the critically acclaimed, The Rhythm of Compassion: Caring for Self, Connecting with Society, and the awarding-winning feminist memoir Returning to My Mother¹s House: Taking Back the Wisdom of the Feminine. Her greatest passions are women¹s empowerment, engaged spirituality, and writing books.Website(s): http://www.empowermenttraining.com/http://www.imagineprogram.net/

Hala Khouri

Hala Khouri, M.A., E-RYT, has been teaching the movement arts for almost 20 years. Her roots are in Ashtanga and Iyengar yoga, dance, Somatic Psychology, and the juicy mystery of Life itself. Creative movement and honest self-exploration has always been a source of tremendous healing for Hala, and her calling to pass this on to others has been clear to her since she began teaching at the age of 16. Hala earned her B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Religion from Columbia University and has a Master's degree Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She wrote her thesis on using yoga and other complementary disciplines such as eco-psychology and somatics for self-empowerment to inspire a global shift towards peaceful and sustainable living. She is also a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner with a focus on trauma's impact on the body-mind and ways to resolve it. Hala is one of the creators of Off the Mat, Into the World , a yoga and activism initiative that aims to get yogis to take their practice outside of the yoga studio and to touch the lives of others. She currently lives in Venice, California with her husband Paul and their son Sebastian.

Jalaja Bonheim

Jalaja (pronounced DJA-la-dja) Bonheim, Ph.D. is an internationally known speaker, teacher, author, and one of the foremost experts in the use of circle gatherings as a tool for empowering women.

Raised in Austria and Germany, she spent several years in India studying classical Indian temple dance. Her first books were inspired by her passion for integrating sexuality and spirituality, and celebrating the feminine spirit. Aphrodite’s Daughters: Women’s Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul explores the central role of sexuality in women’s spiritual journey. It quickly became an underground classic, and has changed the lives of thousands of women. She is also the author of The Hunger for Ecstasy: Fulfilling the Soul’s Need for Passion and Intimacy and Goddess: A Celebration in Art and Literature.

For over 25 years, Jalaja has been leading circles and training a community of circle leaders in Circlework, the unique method she developed for healing individuals and communities. She works with Jewish and Arab women in Israel and Palestine, and is now beginning to work with women from Afghanistan. She is the founder and visionary director of the Institute for Circlework (www.instituteforcirclework.org) and has trained hundreds of Circlework leaders including ministers, teachers, social workers, psychotherapists, and executives. She also serves as a consultant to groups who need help in working through conflicts and challenges.

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Janet Attwood

Janet Attwood is the co-author of the New York Times Bestseller, The Passion Test- The Effortless Path To Discovering Your Destiny, and co-author of From Sad to Glad: 7 Steps to Facing Change with Love and Power. As an expert on what it takes to live a passionate life, she has shared the stage with, The Dalai Lama, Sir Richard Branson, Jack Canfield, Lisa Nichols, and other top transformational leaders.

Janet has personally trained over 550+ Passion Test Facilitators and over 60 Passion Test for Business facilitators from around the world. Janet's other programs include, The Passion Test for Coaches, (accredited by the ICF) The Passion Test for Teens, The Passion Test for Kids, The Passion Test Reclaim Your Power Program for the homeless, and, The Passion Test Empowered Youth Program, for kids in lockdown detention centers.

For her ongoing work with homeless women and youth in detention centers, Janet received the highest award for volunteer service in the U.S. from the President of the United States, The Presidents Volunteer Service Award. Janet is President of an organization in India, called, “The World United” whose sole purpose is to promote conscious, healthy and sustainable choices for a better world. She is also a founding member of the Transformational Leadership Council, that Jack Canfield, the co-author of the Chicken Soup Series, put together after taking Janet’s Passion Test.
Website(s):
http://www.thepassiontest.com

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Jessica Roemischer

Jessica Roemischer is a pioneering pianist, educator, and developmental thinker, whose unique methodologies, including music, are freeing the human spirit. Since graduating magna cum laude in art and aesthetics from Princeton University in 1982, Jessica Roemischer has taught hundreds of individuals on four continents, including at Middlebury College, VT where she was on the Applied Music Faculty from 1989-99. Her wide experience has led to the conviction that the ability to express beauty through music is a dimension of our essential nature. Roemischer’s eclectic background includes writing, journalism and photography. As a Senior Editor for What is Enlightenment? magazine from 2002-7, she produced what is considered the finest and most accessible introduction to the evolutionary framework of Spiral Dynamics. Her insight into the dynamics of human emergence, and especially the development of women, undergirds her endeavors. Jessica is also deeply involved with the Center For Human Emergence-Middle East and is one of the leaders of the Global Feminine Alliance. In performances, workshops, coaching sessions, consulting and lessons--as well as in her acclaimed music program at Riverbrook Residence for Women in Stockbridge, MA--Jessica is sharing the catalytic power of her work with individuals and groups throughout the United States and internationally.

Johanina Wikoff

Johanina Wikoff, PhD is an author, consciousness explorer, relationship coach, and innovative facilitator of transformation who has guided thousands of people through crisis, growth and learning to sustain embodied living and loving since 1980. In the 1960s and 70s Johanina studied Tibetan Buddhism, yoga, and movement therapy. She trained as a body worker; in Reichian Therapy and breath work; and in Somatic Psychology for her masters degree. Two decades later she focused on the relationship work of David Schnarch, Harville Hendrix, John Gottman and John Welwood for her doctorate in psychology. Her work draws upon multiple healing systems: east-west psychology, body mind and energy therapies, and the wisdom of multiple spiritual traditions. In addition to a private practice focusing on individuals and couples; she mentors, teaches classical and western tantra, and offers Transformation Soup workshops, Love, Sex & Aging Salons, and private intensives for individuals and couples,. She is the author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Kama Sutra.

Juanita Brown

Juanita Brown, Ph.D., is the Co-founder of the World Café, an innovative face to face and virtual approach to large group dialogue and engagement now being used by leaders on six continents to foster constructive engagement on critical organizational and societal issues. Juanita has served as a senior affiliate with the MIT Sloan School's Center for Organizational Learning (now the Society for Organizational Learning), as a research affiliate with the Institute for the Future and as a Fellow of the World Business Academy. Her award-winning book, The World Cafe: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations that Matter , co-authored with David Isaacs and the World Cafe Community, has been translated into 10 languages.

Juanita and David have recently re-located to her family’s 90 acre farm in Western North Carolina. There, in collaboration with younger leaders as well as her 90 year-old mother, Millie, a Florida civil rights pioneer, Juanita is co-creating Together for Life, a gathering place nurturing multi-generational partnerships for community resilience and engaging the World Café’s global network in fostering a new paradigm for multi-generational leadership in addressing local and global

challenges.
Website(s):
http://www.theworldcafe.com
http://www.theworldcafecommunity.org

Katherine Woodward Thomas

Katherine Woodward Thomas is the national bestselling author of Calling in “The One,” a licensed psychotherapist and the co-creator and co-leader of the Feminine Power transformative courses for women. Katherine is a creative and inspired transformative educator with nearly 20 years experience designing and facilitating leading edge seminars that support the emergence of life-altering shifts in consciousness in both individuals and in groups. She is the co-creator and co-host of the highly acclaimed Women on the Edge of Evolution teleseries, which gathers thousands of women weekly to engage the world’s most preeminent female luminaries, thinkers, scientists, artists and agents of change. Katherine is an honored member of the Evolutionary Leaders Group, which both supports and promotes a call to conscious evolution, and she is currently co-authoring the forthcoming book, Feminine Power: Awakening to the Creative Force of Life.

Liana Chaouli

Image Therapist, Couture Designer, Executive Director of Image Therapists, Intl., and Internationally recognized Speaker, Liana Chaouli, has spent two decades advising CEO’s, celebrities and political figures on matters of personal style and image.

As an Image Therapist, she works closely with Entertainment Industry executives and celebrities with both their personal and award show wardrobes. Ms. Chaouli is a “go-to” expert for numerous news sources as an image and personal stylist and appears on major TV and radio shows. She authors articles in national and regional journals, addresses corporate groups, associations, and trade conventions on the impact of image and style on individual and corporate performance.For more information on Liana's work, visit www.imagetherapists.com and for upcoming events visit http://www.imagetherapists.com/theauthenticyou/

Lisa Schrader

Lisa Schrader is a sacred sexuality teacher, author, and coach and the founder of Awakening Shakti. Her work has been featured on Oprah, Oxygen and VH1. She is the author of "Kama Sutra 52: A Year's Worth of the Best Positions for Passion and Pleasure" from Quiver Books. She's a certified coach with the International Coach Federation and has been in private practice for over 10 years supporting women and couples with awakening their sacred sexual power.
Website(s):
http://www.awakeningshakti.com

Luisah Teish

Luisah Teish is a writer, performer and ritual priestess. She is the author of several books on African and African American Spiritual Culture and Feminist Myth. They include Jambalaya: The Natural Woman's Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals a women's spirituality classic, Carnival of the Spirit: Seasonal Celebrations and Rites of Passage, Jump Up: Good Times Throughout the Seasons with Celebrations from Around the World, and What Don't Kill Is Fattening Revisited: Twenty Years of Poetry, Prose, and Myth.

Other writing credits include contributions to thirteen anthologies and published articles in magazines such as Essence, Ms., Shaman's Drum, and the Yoga Journal.

Teish is an initiated elder (Iyanifa) in the Ifa/Orisha tradition of the West African Diaspora, and she holds a chieftaincy title (Yeye'woro) from the Fatunmise Compound in Ile Ife, Nigeria. Presently she is the Chair of the World Orisha Congress Committee on Women's Issues. She is also a devotee of Damballah Hwedo, the Haitian Rainbow Serpent, under the guidance of Moma Lola.

She was awarded a Ph.D. in Spiritual Therapeutics from Open International University's School of Complementary Medicine in Colombo Sri Lanka in 1993.She holds an Inter-Faith minister's license from the International Institute of Integral Human Sciences.Teish designs and conducts weddings, naming ceremonies, memorials, and a host of seasonal celebrations. Teish designed a Rites of Passage program for the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and is the director of the Full Faze Passage Council, a multi-racial, multi-cultural network of artists, consultants, and spiritual advisors experienced in events design and production.

She is the Olori (director) of Ile Orunmila Oshun (The House of Destiny and Love- www.ileorunmilaoshun.org) and the School of Ancient Mysteries/Sacred Arts Center in Oakland, Ca. She has taught at the University of Creation Spirituality- Naropa Oakland, John F. Kennedy University, The Institute for Transpersonal Psychology and New College of California.

Mama Gena

Mama Gena (Regena Thomashauer) is one of a handful of pioneers on the planet researching the nature of pleasure. An expert in the field of female sensuality, she uses more than 15 years of research to give today’s women a context in which to maximize their power, passion, enthusiasm and creativity. Regena is the author of three books: Mama Gena’s School of Womanly Arts: Using the Power of Pleasure to Have Your Way with the World; Mama Gena’s Owner’s & Operator’s Guide to Men; and Mama Gena’s Marriage Manual.

She partnered with Mag Rack to create the sexy, TV on-demand, self-empowerment series, Mama Gena’s School of Womanly Arts. She has been a frequent guest on NBC-TV's Today show and has appeared on 20/20 (where one of her segments garnered a 20/20 record of more than one million website hits), the Rachael Ray Show, Lifetime Live, The Other Half and has been interviewed on a multitude of national and regional broadcasts including NPR's The Next Big Thing. Regena has also hosted Starz Encore's Love Stories channel.

Regena's programs at the School of Womanly Arts have been profiled in The New York Times, Elle and New York magazine. Her views on personal development and the power of women have been featured and quoted in several national publications including Glamour, Newsweek, Marie Claire, Allure, Self, InStyle and The Washington Post.For more information go to www.mamagenas.com.

Marci Shimoff

Marci Shimoff is the author of the instant runaway bestseller, Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out, which offers a revolutionary approach to experiencing deep and lasting happiness. It immediately soared to #1 on many national bestseller lists including Amazon and Barnes and Noble.com, and debuted at #2 on The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. Fedex/Kinkos selected Happy for No Reason as their featured book for April, May and June of 2008. In addition, she’s a featured teacher in the international film and book sensation, The Secret. Marci has also hosted a national PBS special called Happy for No Reason.

Marci is also the woman's face of the biggest self-help book phenomenon in history, Chicken Soup for the Soul. Her six bestselling titles in the series, including Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul and Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul, have met with stunning success. Her books have sold more than 14 million copies worldwide in 33 languages and have been on the New York Times bestseller list for a total of 108 weeks. Marci is one of the bestselling female nonfiction authors of all time.

A celebrated transformational leader and one of the nation's leading experts on happiness, success, and the law of attraction, Marci has inspired millions of people around the world, sharing her breakthrough methods for personal fulfillment and professional success. President and co-founder of the Esteem Group, she delivers keynote addresses and seminars on self-esteem, self-empowerment, and peak performance to corporations, professional and non-profit organizations, and women's associations. She has been a top-rated trainer for numerous Fortune 500 companies, including AT&T, GM, Sears, Kaiser Permanente, and Bristol-Myers Squibb.

As an acclaimed authority on success and happiness, Marci is often approached by media for her insights and advice. She has been on more than 500 national and regional television and radio shows including The Today Show, The Big Idea with Donny Deutch, Montel Williams Show, MSNBC, PBS and NPR. She’s been interviewed for more than 200 newspaper articles. Her writing has appeared in national women's magazines, including Ladies Home Journal, SELF, Body and Soul and Woman's World.Marci earned her MBA from UCLA and holds an advanced certificate as a stress management consultant. She is a founding member and on the board of directors of the Transformational Leadership Council, a group of 100 top leaders serving over ten million people in the self-development market.Through her books and her presentations, Marci's message has touched the hearts and rekindled the spirits of millions of people throughout the world. She is dedicated to fulfilling her life’s purpose of helping people live more empowered and joy-filled lives.
Website(s):
http://www.happyfornoreason.com/

Marcia Wieder

Marcia Wieder, CEO/ Founder of Dream University® is leading a Dream Movement. She’s been coaching, training and speaking for 20 years. Her inspiring message has touched audiences from 50-5000 at companies like AT&T and American Express.The author of 14 books and a thought leader on vision, she has appeared on Oprah often and Today. Whether teaching at the Stanford Business School, speaking to executives in China, or at Girl Scout Camp, her riveting style impacts audiences world-wide. She is the personal Dream Coach to Jack Canfield, stars in Beyond the Secret with Bob Proctor and is a member of the Transformational Leadership Council with Lynne Twist and Marianne Williamson.

As past president of the National Association of Women Business Owners she assisted former U.S. presidents, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter and George Bush Sr. As a columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle, she urged readers to take “The Great Dream Challenge.”

Website(s):
http://www.DreamUniversity.com

Mary Morrissey

Mary Morrissey's transformational talks and seminars have made her one of the elite teachers in the human potential movement. She is the president and founder of LifeSOULutions, an international company providing programs and products that transform dreams into reality. Her work takes her weekly to different parts of the globe. Mary is the Co-Founder and the first President to the Association for Global New Thought. Along with Dr. Michael Beckwith, she became the first New Thought minister to be appointed to the Executive Counsel of the Parliament of World Religions. She has spoken three times at the United Nations as the national Co-Chair for A Season of Non-Violence, and has received the honor of being inducted into the Martin Luther King Order of Preachers. Representing the Association for Global New Thought, she has co-convened and facilitated 3 different weeklong meetings with His Holiness The Dalai Lama in leading conversations with world leaders, and addressing the most significant issues our world is facing. In addition, as part of the Gandhi-King delegation, she met with Nelson Mandela in Cape Town, South Africa.

Michelle Price

Michelle Price is committed to inspire and empower women to leverage their intellectual property and become visionary thought leaders, create wealth and leave a legacy using entrepreneurship as the vehicle.

After 23 years of working in corporate America, she took a leap of faith to go from corporate wage slave to the entrepreneur lifestyle she craved – her very first client went from unknown author to NY Times best seller and cultural hero in under 18 months.

A leader in using new technologies for over a decade, Michelle has always had a keen sense for the next big thing. Today, as Founder of A Third Mind Digital Media, she’s leading the edge as a social media capitalist and master influencer.

Michelle intuitively discovers exactly what differentiates an expert. Her team creates systems that maximize and leverage all opportunities available to monetize their message in a way that feels good and creates lasting relationships with fans.

Her clients have already made it to Oprah, blog for the Huffington Post, and have been written up in Fortune, Business Week, “O” and many others.

And for the past seven years, 100% of her clients have been referred from her own social network.

Miranda Macpherson

Miranda Macpherson is a contemporary spiritual teacher, counselor and author of the spiritual guidebook Boundless Love (Random House 2002). Miranda has been teaching internationally since 1995 and is known for her depth of presence, clarity, and refined capacity to guide people into direct experience of the sacred.

Miranda’s professional career began in the media. After three years studying communication at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, she came into early success as a television presenter, but was quickly disillusioned by the media machine. At the age of 22 Miranda dedicated herself entirely to further spiritual study and practice, and relocated to the United Kingdom. Within a few years she began a spiritual counseling practice, and has been in full time spiritual service since then.

In her twenties, Miranda completed seminary training in which she studied the world’s spiritual traditions, their distinctions and the universal thread than runs through them all. She was ordained an interfaith minister in 1995 in New York. A year later, she founded the ground breaking educational organization ‘The Interfaith Seminary’ in London, where she was spiritual director for a decade. This was the first seminary training of its kind in Europe, during which she trained and ordained over 1000 students and made a major impact on the spiritual landscape. The work Miranda pioneered made it possible for those outside conventional religious structures to receive quality non-denominational spiritual teachings and support.

During this decade, Miranda created new models for spiritual awakening grounded in universal spiritual principles.

Additionally, Miranda ran a private counseling practice, spoke at conferences and facilitated retreats in renowned centers around the world, particularly at Findhorn in Scotland.

In her thirties, Miranda was graced by a profound nondual awakening in the cave of Ramana Maharshi in India. This silent transmission of pure being beyond mind had a lasting impact on her awareness and changed the orientation of her life and teaching. She handed over the Interfaith Seminary into the leadership of others, to dive deeper into nondual Self Inquiry as embodied by Ramana and other masters within the Advaita lineage. During this time, Miranda moved to the United States.

Miranda’s work today is a synthesis of Self-Inquiry, spiritual psychology, and feminine grace that embraces our everyday human experience as an entry point into the depths of who we truly are. Through a blend of silent transmission and articulate teaching, she leads retreats and offers private sessions oriented towards guiding people into direct experience. Miranda shares from the heart’s wisdom and is a passionate advocate for the true feminine, leading from the ground of unconditional love, compassion, receptivity and surrender. She is currently launching ‘The Feminine Wisdom School’ a new one year program with Lama Palden and Sherry Anderson.

Miranda is based in the San Fransisco bay area, and is currently writing a book on embodied awakening.

Neelama Eyres

Neelama Eyres' vision and greatest joy are to assist people on their journeys of "remembering"who they are. Neelama has been working in the field of personal transformation for over 13 years.Her background includes a B.A. in Comparative Religion, leading meditation and yoga retreats,facilitating seminars and trainings, counseling homeless people, teaching children and coachingadults. Her training began in 1995 as direct, hands-on-experience with participants in personalgrowth intensives.Since 2000, she has been a life coach, facilitator and trainer for transformational workshops inthe U.S., Canada and Europe with Inner Journey Seminars. In 2001, she created Body Embraced,a seminar for women, out of her desire to transform the body discontent that most womenexperience into a vehicle for profound healing and growth. In 2004, she co-created Devotion:Calling The Beloved a spiritual retreat focused on discovering, experiencing and deepening one'spersonal connection to The Divine. In 2008, Neelama completed a training with Dr. Brian Weissin Past Life Regression Therapy. This therapeutic approach helps participants resolve traumasfrom early childhood and former lifetimes so they can live their full purpose and potential in this life.

Nina Rothschild

Nina Rothschild Utne is the former CEO of Utne Reader. Her current venture, Futurefit, focuses on managing our lives toward sustainability, with flow and efficiency. Futurefit considers the common themes in our energy inefficiencies on all levels: personal fears and anxieties, dysfunctional interpersonal relationships; waste; design etc; and examines how we can evolve more consciously. Nina is a founding member of the Headwaters Fund, City of Lakes Waldorf School, UnReasonable Women for the Earth and Code Pink.

Osprey Orielle Lake

Osprey Orielle Lake began her lifelong advocacy for environmental and societal transformation at the age of 17, working to protect Northern California rivers and ancient redwoods. The heart of her commitment to social and environmental issues is expressed in her bronze sculptures and monuments, which depict new cultural narratives. Osprey’s International Cheemah Monument Project involves the placement of eight 5.5 meter (18-foot) tall bronze monuments dedicated to celebrating cultural diversity and care for the earth. Three statues have already been placed -- in Germany; Spain; and the United States. She is the Director of the Women’s 2020 Leadership Caucus for Climate Solutions (a branch of State of the World Forum). The Women’s Caucus provides a richly personal, as well as project-based, approach to speeding up progress towards mutual goals of reducing carbon emissions and creating sustainable communities and lifestyles. Osprey serves on the governing board of Praxis Peace Institute, is an adjunct faculty member of two California universities and speaks at international conferences and universities. Her book, Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature, will be released in the Autumn of 2010 by White Cloud Press.

Rita Lustgarten

Rita Lustgarten, Ph.D., CEO of Global Entrepreneurial Leadership an advanced management and strategic consulting firm, is an international consultant, speaker, seminar leader, organizational psychologist and executive/leadership coach. She specializes in developing and transforming women leaders and entrepreneurs into skilled and effective global entrepreneurial leaders, women who are visionaries having global impact in their businesses and organizations. Through years of experience in the executive sector she has developed a profound understanding of the transformation required for women to come to leadership mastery and become ground-breaking forces for change.

As a visionary, strategist and thought leader, Dr. Lustgarten is passionate about working with companies and businesses that want to leverage their greatest resources, go to the next level, and make a global impact. Her work focuses on uncovering extraordinary human potential within individuals and organizations and advancing transformational leadership development.

In her coaching and leadership work Dr. Lustgarten enters into a unique learning process that powerfully effects and transforms the entrepreneur, the executive and business in such a way as to impact their ability to think differently, access new possibilities, and perform with extraordinary results. Her expertise is in global entrepreneurial leadership, women’s leadership development and the application of transformational technologies to individuals, businesses and organizations.

Sabine Grandke-Taft

Since the late 70's Sabine Grandke-Taft has practices over 20 modalities of body-centered healing as a Physical Therapist, CMT, Feldenkrais Practitioner®, Watsuer, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner [SEP] and Tantric apprentice as well as a student of The Waking Down in Mutuality Process. Sabine is an Embodiment Expert. Through these models, she brings to women and men a bodily approach to healing she calls Symphonic Touch® that teaches us how to feel and open our bodies as the trustable source to live the love and clarity that we already are! Sabine's work is providing the missing link to make your spirit REAL!Born in Germany and immigrated to the US in the late 90's she has also lived and worked in India, Australia and was on staff for 3 years at the Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA. Sabine taught workshops at the Omega Institute, NY and The Crossings, TX. Sabine hosts her Radiant Embodiment workshops and individual Symphonic Touch® consultations for women, men and couples in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA, and throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, NZ and Australia.Sabine is facilitating her workshops internationally by invitation. She currently lives in Marin County, CA with her husband and 'Schmusemutze', the kitten.

SARK

SARK is a best-selling author and artist, with sixteen titles in print and well over two million books sold, including the national bestsellers Succulent Wild Woman, Bodacious Book of Succulence, Eat Mangoes Naked, Prosperity Pie and Fabulous Friendship Festival. Her newest book is Glad No Matter What; Transforming Loss and Change Into Gift And Opportunity.SARK's books are frequently chosen as One Spirit selections, and are translated into a number of foreign languages. Her work is widely used by colleges and universities as required reading and course material and she is a distinguished contributor to many magazines and periodicals. SARK is one of the featured trailblazers in the critically acclaimed PBS Series, "Women of Wisdom and Power". An acclaimed speaker and teacher, she has been teaching and leading workshops for over twenty years. She is a transformational role model offering inspiration and guidance to people in their process of living more powerfully and authentically, and being more actively creative on a daily basis. SARK is also the founder and CEO of Planet SARK, a thriving business that creates innovative products and services to support empowered living, including her newest ePrograms: SARK's Transformation Experience, Juicy Journaling with SARK, Magical Journeys with SARK, SARK's Awesome Anytime Adventure and Dream Boogie with SARK.

Sherry Ruth Anderson

Sherry Ruth Anderson, Ph. D. is the co-author of the The Feminine Face of God: The Unfolding of the Sacred in Women and The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People are Changing the World. In Canada, she chaired the Department of Psychological Research at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry and was Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto Medical School. Her research from that period appears in over a dozen publications including her book with J.R. Martin, Crazy Talk: Studies in Schizophrenic Thought Disorder. She served as a senior research consultant to two departments in the National Institute of Mental Health and the Medical Research Council of Canada.

From her Jewish heritage, Sherry learned to love questions. In her thirties, she met the Korean Zen Master Seung Sahn Soen Sa Nim, studied with him and became Head Dharma Teacher at the Ontario Zen Center in Toronto. During this time, she also hosted a daily radio talk show on psychology and consciousness and co-produced (with Paul Ray) a four part documentary series for the CBC titled “Changing Our Minds.”

Over the next ten years she, with her colleague Patricia Hopkins, researched women's spiritual development. Sherry also was a psychologist in private practice. Since 1990, she has studied the Diamond Approach to Spiritual Development with A.H. Almaas and now teaches this path in the US and Europe.Sherry’s additional focus is on the process of becoming an elder in contemporary society. She is writing a book on elders and what it is to truly ripen. She currents leads inquiry groups for women, for elders, and for writers. She can be reached at www.FeminineWisdomSchool.org

Sheva Carr

Sheva Carr, a licensed doctor of Oriental Medicine and HeartMath trainer, speaks to people all over the world on how to access heart intelligence, and on how to receive the benefits of the heart's impact on consciousness, health, performance and creativity. She is the founding CEO of Fyera! and HeartMath's HeartMastery Program, and is also the Executive Director of the Fyera Foundation and Sunflower SunPower Kids. Sheva has trained and coached numerous hospital staff across the US, and founded the first HeartMath patient education program at Earl Bakken’s Heart-Brain Institute in North Hawaii. She has worked as a coach and consultant to leading cardiologists, heart-brain researchers, and physicists, and has been published in such prestigious journals as Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. She has trained government agencies, and soldiers preparing for deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan. She also acts as a consultant to cutting edge creators of culture in the film,

television, and music industries. Here, she is able to blend her knowledge of fine arts and physiology to facilitate coherent teamwork and align emotional fuel with visionary intent through the power of the heart. Sheva now has over 30 years of experience in the arts and over 15 years of experience in medicine, coaching and stress management research and training.

Susan Collin Marks

Susan Collin Marks is the senior vice president of Search for Common Ground, an international NGO working in conflict transformation and peacebuilding, worldwide. She is a South African, and served as a peacemaker during South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy. She served on one of the eleven Regional Peace Committees, and on a daily basis mediated escalating conflicts, intervened in bloody clashes, facilitated multi-party forums, and helped formulate national policy on community policing. She chronicled South Africa’s National Peace Accord in her book, Watching the Wind: Conflict Resolution during South Africa's Transition to Democracy.

Susan works internationally, and she was portrayed in the PBS documentary Women on the Frontlines. She lived in Jerusalem 2002-2004, co-directing Search’s Middle East program. In 2006, she launched Search’s Leadership Wisdom Initiative offering leadership development and one-on-one support and coaching to political, institutional and civil society leaders. She is a regular workshop leader at the Esalen Institute. She mentors and coaches, speaks, teaches, writes, facilitates dialogue, and supports peace processes and conflict resolution programs internationally. She holds a vision of a world of peace and dignity for all and she believes that our common humanity binds us together more than our differences divide us.
www.sfgc.org

Susan Davis

Susan Davis left a Division Administrator position for Harris Bank's Personal Trust Group after nine years to start Capital Missions Company (CMC), a social venture consulting firm, in June of 1990. From 1965 to 1979, Susan helped start five social ventures: Boston's black newspaper under publisher Melvin Miller (1965); an urban affairs publishing firm under John Naisbitt (1968); the country's first minority enterprise publication (1969); the first national publication for working women (1969); and ShoreBank Corp. under Ron Grzywinski (1973). Susan launched the Development Deposit Program at ShoreBank as one of country's first "cause-related marketing programs."

Ms. Davis used these experiences in business and finance to create a unique networking innovation method now proven successful through 21 networks created over a 31-year period. This method, called KINS® (Key Initiator Network Strategy), uses nature as a model for innovation following a simple 9-step method anchored by 30 people from 30 diverse constituencies.

Susan has used KINS to create a social venture capital industry (Investors' Circle) and a socially-responsible business industry (Social Venture Network). KINS has proved effective to target business parity for women (Committee of 200), to "make solar happen for the world" (Solar Circle), to create a better mousetrap for venture capital (Solaria Investors' Circle) and teach women investors to invest in women-led businesses (Capital Circle) and teach business leaders "EarthCare" (Kindred Spirits Network)—among many others! She launched the Tipping Point Network with the mission of catalyzing a globally sustainable economy. She is now launching a KINS network pro bono in Vilcabamba, Ecuador in collaboration with FlowFunding.org and GlobalGiving.com.

Suzanne Sterling

Suzanne is an ecstatic vocalist and composer whose devotional music has been called a "groove-loving and seductive journey into Spirit" and whose music has been commissioned for film, theatre and DVD. Both as a performing and recording artist, as well as a facilitator of transformational workshops and intensives for many years, Suzanne has received critical acclaim. She has enjoyed mainstage billing at festivals such as Earthdance, Harmony, Burning Man, Joshua Tree Music Festival and The World Festival of Sacred Music (hosted by the Dalai Lama). Suzanne has also been a ritual designer and priestess for many years and has developed curriculums, teacher trainings and apprenticeship programs combining ritual and activism for numerous communities nationwide. She offers a unique blend of yoga, music, sacred ceremony and activism to conferences and festivals worldwide- most recently as featured artist at several Yoga Journal Conferences, Omega Institute, Esalen Institute, Institute of Noetic Sciences. The Global Sound Conference and Earthdance where she led the worlds largest Spiral Dance for 5000 people.

Suzanne is also a co-creator, with Seane Corn and Hala Khouri, of Off the Mat, Into the World, a project offering nationwide training programs and humanitarian tours combining yoga and sustainable activism. www.suzannesterling.com

Tami Simon

Tami Simon is Founder and Publisher of Sounds True, an independent multimedia publishing company based in Boulder, Colorado.

The company’s mission is to inspire, support, and serve continuous spiritual awakening and its expression in the world.Tami is a founding member of the Integral Institute, a long-time member of the Social Venture Network, a Dharma Ocean Foundation board member, and a meditation instructor under the guidance of Dharma Ocean director Reggie Ray, who is carrying on the practicing lineage of Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

Familiar to many as "the voice of Sounds True," Tami introduces each audio program and conducts in-studio author dialogs and podcasts. Celebrating 25 years in 2010, Sounds True has over 600 titles in spoken-word audio, books, music, DVDs, interactive learning kits, and online courses. Its collection focuses on personal healing and spiritual transformation, featuring titles by many of the leading spiritual teachers, authors, and visionary thinkers of our time.

Tami founded Sounds True on the premise that listening is one of the most powerful ways to transform consciousness, whether it is listening to healing music or the voice of an inspired spiritual teacher. She cares passionately about the common path of transformation that is offered by all of the wisdom traditions of the world.

Zem Joaquin

Zem Joaquin is the Founder and CEO of Ecofabulous, the 'inside source for living the well lived ‘eco’ life.' Zem has been a contributing eco-editor at House & Garden, Domino, Architectural Digest and 7×7 Magazines. She received the 2009 Global Green Millennium Founder’s Award for her contributions as a Global Green board member, Co-Chair of Global Green’s San Francisco Committee, and Founder of Global Green’s Successful Annual Fundraiser and Ecofashion event. Mentored by William McDonough, Zem is a certified BuildItGreen design and strategy consultant and Cradle to Cradle enthusiast who helps companies and individuals create beautiful, smart, sustainable spaces and practices. Zem is the eco-luxury specialist for Planet Green’s Alter Eco and regularly contributes to various media. Much of her penchant for superior design came from her years at splendora.com and living in Milan, Paris and London. Her love for the earth, however, can be traced back to her early upbringing on a Palo Alto commune. As a mother of two, Zem is committed to improving all families’ health, education and access to well-vetted information. To that end Zem is an active board member of Global Green, Healthy Child Healthy World,Teens Turning Green, and Architecture for Humanity.

Zen DeBrücke

Zen DeBrücke is an inspirational teacher and speaker and the creator of Smart Soul Academy. Smart Soul Academy is a unique combination of an online training system with offline support. It is made up of individuals with the abilty to be present to the continuous guidance that is being provided by their Internal Guidance System (IGS). This unique, factory-installed system creates one's ability to receive consistent, successful results in life. The Academy and Zen's book, "The Smart Soul: Living from Divine Fascination," provide the practices and inspiration to live authentically as joy and truth.

A successful entrepreneur and business executive, Zen has coached hundreds of business leaders to use their IGS for success in every area of their lives.

Her concern for others propelled Zen to found Smart Soul Academy, which is devoted to training people to use their IGS, allowing them to align themselves with their purpose and stay on track in living it. Her dedication to ecological consciousness, environmental sustainability, spiritual fulfillment and social justice inspired her to found Ahuma institute as a way to provide real support to global leaders. Ahuma is an educational and global media company whose purpose is to bring the philosophy and practice of Power Manifestation and the Internal Guidance System to their organizations. Zen recently joined the Transformational Leadership Council, which includes luminaries such as Jack Canfield, Lynne Twist, and Michael Beckwith. Zen resides in Southern California and is an integral part of the Social Venture Network.Zen is also well known for her earlier work as the CEO of The Netkitchen, an Internet strategy-consulting firm, where she spent four years creating innovative internet campaigns and properties for Fortune 500 companies, including Applied Materials, IBM, Electronic Arts and VISA. She has also contributed to Delta Airlines as the media expert for their in-flight radio program and was a contributing editor to In-Radio Magazine.

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