Reverend Sylvia Sumter

Sylvia E. Sumter

Reverend Sylvia E. Sumter is currently the Senior Minister of Unity of Washington, DC and has served in this position since 1991. Prior to her tenure in Washington, DC, she served as the Chairperson of Communication Studies and Skills Department for the Unity School of Religious Studies, in Unity Village, Missouri. She was licensed as…

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Joan Borysenko, PhD

Joan Borysenko

Joan Borysenko, Ph.D. has been described as “a respected scientist, a gifted therapist, and an unabashed mystic.” Author of 14 books, as well as numerous audio and video programs, Joan is trained as a cancer cell biologist, psychologist, and spiritual director. Her doctorate is from the Harvard Medical School where she served as instructor in…

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Gordon Dveirin, EdD

Gordon F. Dveirin

Gordon Dveirin, Ed.D. is an organization and human development consultant, spiritual educator, and co-author of two books: Saying Yes to Change and Your Soul’s Compass: What is Spiritual Guidance. Co-founder and co-director of The Claritas Institute for Interspiritual Inquiry, he is a founding and active board member of the Passageworks Institute dedicated to the social,…

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Lori Leyden, PhD, MBA

Lori Leyden

Lori Leyden, PhD, MBA is an internationally known trauma healing professional, transformational leader and mentor who courageously follows her heart, makes dreams become a reality and inspires others to do the same. With her unique brand of heart-centered humility, humor and grace, Dr. Leyden finds the miracles that are possible out of tragedy and has…

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Barbara Dossey, PhD, RN

Barbara Dossey

Barbara Dossey, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, HWNC-BC, is an internationally recognized integrative, holistic nursing pioneer, a nurse theorist (Theory of Integral Nursing; co-author, Theory of Integrative Nurse Coaching), and Florence Nightingale Scholar. She is Co-Director, International Nurse Coach Association (INCA) and Core Faculty, Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program (INCCP), Miami, Florida; International Co-Director, Nightingale Initiative…

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Larry Dossey, MD

Larry Dossey

Dr. Larry Dossey is a physician of internal medicine. He was a co-founder of the Dallas Diagnostic Association and is former Chief of Staff of Medical City Dallas Hospital. He served as a field battalion surgeon in Vietnam in 1968-9, where he was decorated for valor. He later completed his residency in internal medicine at…

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David Gershon

David Gershon

David Gershon, co-founder and CEO of Empowerment Institute, is one of the world’s foremost authorities on behavior-change and large-system transformation, and applies this expertise to issues requiring community, organizational, and societal change. His clients include cities, government agencies, large corporations, and social entrepreneurs. He has addressed a wide diversity of issues, ranging from low carbon…

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Rinaldo S. Brutoco

Rinaldo Brutuco

Rinaldo Brutoco is an accomplished futurist, author, speaker and founding president of, the World Business Academy, a collaborative network of mindful individuals collectively exploring the leading edge of business and a pre-eminent publisher of new paradigm business literature. He is the co-author of a book published last year, Freedom From Mid-East Oil, and several other…

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Sarah McCrum

Sarah McCrum

Sarah McCrum is a coach and author whose work explores how we can be fully human and fully alive in an age of exponential expansion in technology. Her initial search for answers arose from working with children. After 4 years teaching, she joined BBC Radio, specialising in interviewing children. For 10 years she recorded radio…

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Gino Pastori-Ng

Gino Pastori-Ng

Gino was born and raised in Oakland, California, a city that provided profound life lessons on culture and social justice. The powerful connection between the former and the latter was illuminated throughout his childhood at La Pena Cultural Center in Berkeley. His formal education took place at UC Santa Cruz, where walks through the forest…

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