What the Experts Know
WHAT THE EXPERTS KNOW
Website: http://whattheexpertsknow.com/
Starts: Oct 1 , 2012
Ends: Nov 29, 2012
Host: Astrid Witt
SPEAKERS
Debra Burdick
Margaret Ashley
Len Histon
Dr. Sarah Farrant
Jill Hope
Ellen Hayakawa
Beth Lambert
Kent Healy
Andrew Hewitt
Debra Poneman
Daniel Poneman
Bobbi DePorter
Anat Baniel
Rodger Bailey
Suzy Miller
Zahra Lightway
Kellyann Conway
Caroline Cory
Jennifer Hough
Marci Shimoff
What The Experts Know
Website: http://whattheexpertsknow.com/
Starts: January 23, 2012
Ends: March 29, 2012
Host: Astrid Witt
SPEAKERS
Resa Steindel Brown
Barb Lundgren
Steve G. Jones
Brent Cameron
Zack Jezek
Dr. Kytka Hilmar-Jezek
Dean Larson
Dr. Joe Rubino
Dr. Jacqueline Chan
Dr. Jerry Kartzinel
Surprise Guest
Shawn Stevenson
Janet Bray Attwood
Bret Warshawsky
Laura L. Brown
Astrid Witt
Dr. Caron Goode
Bill Ayling
Ellen Hayakawa
Brian Scrone
Go to the Website Hosting the Teleseminar Series
What the Experts Know on Learning and Education :
Empowering the Children of Today to Become Our Visionary
Leaders of Tomorrow
Website: http://whattheexpertsknow.com/
Starts: July 18, 2011
Ends: August 11 , 2011
Host: Astrid Witt
SPEAKERS
Peter Tongue
Jennifer Hough
Maureen Healy
Harrison Klein
Bruce Scott
Suzy Miller
Kiran Bir Sethi
Mark Waldman
Terry Damlos
Zahra Lightway
Michael Simonson
Laurie Ferris
Izzy Kalman
Anna Maria Pierce
Vishen Lakhiani
SPEAKERS AND TOPICS
Peter Tongue – Honoring the needs of consciously awake children
Maureen Healy – 5 Keys to True Happiness for Kids
Bruce Scott – Free the Children
Suzy Miller – A New Way To Understand the Diagnosis of Autism
Kiran Bir Sethi – Empower the children to change the world
Michael Simonson – Opening to Love through Mastering Fear
Laurie Ferris – Overcoming the symptoms of ADHD without drugs
Terry Damlos and Zahra Lightway – Helping
communities to create New Education Programs
Jennifer Hough – Step into your true light
Vishen Lakhiani – Nothing is impossible if you set your mind to it
Izzy Kalman – Transforming Bullies into Buddies
Mark Waldman – The power of mindfulness
Harrison Klein – Learn how to transform your dreams into reality!
Anna Maria Pierce - Heal yourself, heal your life
SPEAKERS
Peter Tongue
former high school principal, is now a spiritual life coach – why traditional schools deny many children what they really need
Jennifer Hough spiritual teacher and founder of the largest Holistic Nutrition Practice in Canada – unhappy in school but outrageously successful in loving life
Harrison Klein
growing up with symptoms of Aspergers, Harrison is now an internationally acclaimed entrepreneur and life coach, teaching the “I am principle” to make your dreams come true
Maureen Healy
founder of a worldwide organization focused upon fostering happiness in children
Bruce Scott, PhD
teacher, author, psychotherapist – let children inspire you to deeply respect their true value
Suzy Miller
author, teacher and radio host, originally a pediatric speech language pathologist radically transforms our perception of autism
Kiran Bir Sethi
visionary leader and founder of her own school, infecting children with the belief “I CAN” to make this world a better place
Mark Waldman
neuroscientist and bestselling author – how to change your subconscious beliefs to bring more peace into your life and into the world
Terry Damlos and Zahra Lightway
brilliant, innovative teachers who founded their own schools and are now providing support to take schooling into your own hands
Michael Simonson and Laurie Ferris
transforming the label of ADD/ ADHD into admiration for your energy sensitive child, who assisted mother of Zach, who was labelled ADHD, in learning to transform his rage and his behaviour by understanding energies
Izzy Kalman
nationally certified school psychologist – the expert on bullying, who is using his scientific background to teach kids, parents and schools his unique approach to turning bullies into buddies.
Anna-Maria Pierce
highly intuitive former teacher now turned life coach counselling young children and their families
Vishen Lakhiani
Entrepreneur, Publisher, Founder of the award winning company MindValley is also one of the most inspriational and sought after speakers in the world
SPEAKERS
Peter Tongue – Honoring the needs of consciously awake children
Peter is an expert on education with thirty years of experience as a principal in two of the most prestigious prep schools in the UK and Canada. Six years ago he has stepped out and has since counselled individuals and groups in resolving their difficulties in life as well as assisting them in awakening to their own spiritual paths. He is now bridging science and spirituality, hosting a weekly radio show with over 150,000 listeners and has co-founded “My Heart Centered Journey” providing services for individuals and businesses to develop their highest potential.
Bruce Scott – Free the Children
Bruce is the author of Being Real: An Ongoing Decision, and Free The Children. He is a parent, writer, psychotherapist, college instructor, teacher, storyteller, radio commentator, and relationship facilitator who lives and works in Santa Cruz, California, Portland, Oregon, via e-mail, and around the country. He is listening for the clear, inherently freeing voices of children, adults, and himself that, when heard fully, often reveal surprisingly creative information and processes wanting to happen behind physical symptoms, conflicts, and so-called impossible situations.
Vishen Lakhiani – Nothing is impossible if you set your mind to it
Vishen is one of the great visionaries in today’s changing times. Intense, a little bit crazy, and damn good at what he does, he is a major influence in the field of personal development. At the tender age of 33, he has already built a multimillion dollar company, created one of the world’s top workspaces and has become a highly requested speaker in the fields of marketing and entrepreneurship. He teaches those vital skills that schools ignore.
Harrison Klein – Learn how to transform your dreams into reality!
Harrison has been a teacher, coach, speaker, marketing director and entrepreneur since 1992 and has created five extremely successful businesses around Personal Development and Creating Wealth. He teaches simple, yet highly effective techniques to accomplish your goals. His message is the continuous unfoldment of unconditional love through consciousness elevations and he lives that purpose wholly.
Mark Waldman – The power of subconscious beliefs
Mark is Adjunct Faculty at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, an Associate Fellow at the Center for Spirituality and the Mind, at the University of Pennsylvania, and a personal development coach. He is the author of 12 books on neuroscience and communication, including the best selling How God Changes Your Brain. Mark has created a series of neuro-training programs for cognitive improvement, stress management, communication, corporate teamwork building, conflict resolution, and weight control. His new book, to be released in 2012, will show you how to resolve conflicts and build trust with anyone, in 7 minutes or less. The working title: Change Your Words, Change Your Brain.
Anna-Maria Pierce – Heal yourself, heal your life
From the age of ten Anna-Maria has used her heightened awareness to help others. As an educator and social worker in Germany she directed a unique home for “dysfunctional” children and later oversaw and reformed the state wide family and youth intervention program. After moving to the US she graduated from Berkeley Psychic Institute and is now using her intuitive gifts to help adults and children alike to transform their life’s challenges and find their inner strength by expanding their awareness. She does this in one on one readings and in workshops throughout the world.
Suzy Miller – A New Way To Understand the Diagnosis of Autism
After a 22-year career as a pediatric speech language pathologist, Suzy met a four-year old child diagnosed with autism who was destined to change not only the way she viewed autism, but life in general. This powerful interaction left her with the skill of telepathy, which she uses to communicate with the highest aspects of who we really are, helping children and parents alike to rediscover and reconnect with the potential and possibilities that have been hidden within them for so long. Suzy holds a Masters in Education and a Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech- Language Pathology.
Michael Simonson – Opening to Love through Mastering Fear
Michael is an energy worker who teaches people how to overcome their fears and open to the truth of who they are. At this time, he is volunteering his time at the Hunter School in New Hampshire, USA to facilitate their pilot program on energies to assist children to be free of all the labels placed upon them, like ADHD, Asperser’s and related conditions. Michael’s work with these “energetically sensitive children” at the school has been documented by Adam Mosston, an Emmy-Award winning TV producer who has captured some of the children’s progress on film.
Laurie Ferris – Overcoming the symptoms of ADHD without drugs
Laurie is the Associate Director of the Hunter School, a small residential school for young children with ADHD, Asperger’s and related conditions. Laurie is also the mother of Zach, an 11 year old boy featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show who spoke about overcoming his rages through understanding energies. “I wanted people to understand that there are other options besides drugging kids and forcing them to learn in outdated, obsolete learning environments that are not conducive to true learning and growth as human beings”
Shelly Lefkoe – Nipping Negative Beliefs In The Bud – The Key To Your Child’s Future Success And Happiness
Shelly is the founder of Parenting The Lefkoe Way, the co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul – A Guide To Effective Parenting and a sought-after speaker as a Parenting Expert. In her interview, Shelly will teach you how to help your children create positive beliefs about themselves and life so they can be, do and have anything their heart desires. She discovered her unique approach to raising children to become healthy adults while helping individuals overcome personal problems using The Lefkoe Method.
Terry Damlos and Zahra Lightway – Co-creators of Seeding the Future Now: Helping communities to create New Education Programs Terry Damlos
Terry Damlos
Terry is the mother of four and has 20 years of counselling and teaching experience in public schools including working in the Tenderloin area of San Francisco. Based on her experience that children need an individualized approach to learning, while public schools stress uniformity and testing, she opened a private school, Open Doors Center, in January 2010 on the west side of Phoenix. Here she offers a new approach to education, teaching children to guide their own learning and grow into their full potential. Terry holds a BA in Social Work and a Masters in Education and Curriculum
Zahra Lightway
Zahra is a visionary educator with longstanding experience both in public and private schools. She has opened and run the Light Way Schools in Texas before moving to Durango. Through her Texas-based company, Blue Star Training, she developed state certified training modules for teachers in creating rapport through classroom management and instructional practices. She has also created and led classes in peaceful parenting in Texas and continues to do so in Durango, CO. She holds a BA in French and an M.Ed. in Education Administration.
Maureen Healy – 5 Keys to True Happiness for Kids
Maureen Healy is the founder of Growing Happy Kids and also serves as a child development expert at Psychology Today. She brings 20 years of global experience in how to raise happy and confident kids to this program. Along with her traditional experience, Maureen empowers adults on how to raise happier children leveraging the spiritual wisdom from around the world. Her work has been featured on television, radio and print in the US, Europe and Asia.
Izzy Kalman – Transforming Bullies into Buddies
Izzy is a Nationally Certified School Psychologist and psychotherapist for over 30 years and Director of Bullies to Buddies, Inc. His whole-school violence reduction program is called Victim-Proof Your School and eliminates bullying by teaching people not to think like victims. He lectures full time on bullying and anger control to mental health professionals and educators throughout the country, and has the dubious distinction of being the world’s most vocal critic of the anti-bully movement. Izzy will share his remarkable technique that teaches kids to transform Bullies to Buddies.
Kiran Bir Sethi – Empower the children to change the world
Kiran is the visionary Founder and Director of the Riverside School in Ahmedabad, India. She was awarded the Ashoka Fellow in 2008 for making cities more child friendly and the ‘Call to Conscience’ award at Stanford in 2009 for the citizenship/liberation curriculum she implemented at Riverside School. She has inspired thousands on TED Talks and is currently reaching out around the globe with her “Design for Change” School Challenge, which has over 33 countries participating, and aims to reach 60,000 schools across India with the aim to make this world a better place.
Jennifer Hough – Step into your true light
Jennifer is a master of many arts: Founder of The Vital You Life Make-Over Clinic – the largest Holistic Nutrition Practice in Canada. Creator of the programs Master of The Law of Awakening – going direct with all of life, and Get Out of Your Own Way – ease and flow in every day. In addition she is an extreme Lover of Life who enjoys facilitating her intuitive wisdom to a global audience through radio shows, workshops and travelling experiences to the most intriguing locations on this planet.
ABOUT YOUR HOST
Astrid Witt
Astrid Witt, founder of “What the Experts Know” is still working part-time as a high school teacher in Germany with additional certification as a Learning Facilitator, an approach based on neuroscience and dedicated to changing the paradigm of teaching. Teaching does not mean filling kids with knowledge, true learning happens when they turn knowledge into skills. Therefore teaching needs to facilitate settings where this can happen and also implies coaching and supporting children to help bring out their highest potential.
Having grown up between Germany, Cuba, Ghana and Central America in very different school systems speaking different languages, she later worked in Spain before finally founding a family in Germany. As a mom of four she followed her husband for an extended stay to the US, helping her (non-English speaking) children to successfully find their feet in the American school system, before ultimately returning to Germany and resume teaching. With her own children grown up, she is now committed to changing the way children experience schools by integrating her personal experience with the cutting edge research on learning.
She is a sought after speaker booked by schools and parent organizations offering a research based perspective on how the brain learns and what consequences this should have for our educational systems.
“It is heartbreaking to see how enthusiastic and curious kids come into school and then watch these same children become disinterested and rebellious eighth graders as a reaction to traditional teaching.”
Some of the most innovative schools prove that it is not puberty that creates this effect - it is what and how we teach, not to mention vital life skills we fail to teach.
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