Healing Special Relationships

Frank West has practiced psychotherapy and family counseling for over fifty years. He holds a master’s degree in divinity from the Union Theological Seminary in New York, where he specialized in the psychology of religion. He completed his graduate and postgraduate studies in psychology at the American Foundation of Religion and Psychiatry, the William Alanson White Institute, the City College of New York, and the Nathan Ackerman Institute for Family Therapy. Frank served as lecturer and supervisor in both psychoanalysis and marital/family therapy at the Blanton-Peale Institute, the Union Theological Seminary, and the Millhauser Research Laboratory at NYU Medical Center.

He maintained a private psychotherapy practice in Manhattan for twenty-five years before relocating his practice to Guilford, Connecticut, in 1984. Soon after moving to Connecticut, he and his late wife, Martha, began studying A Course in Miracles, whose psycho-spiritual precepts have since become the cornerstone of his work with patients.

Frank is a member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, and a founding member of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors. He continues to maintain a full schedule of private and group therapy patients.

Dale Goldstein is a Clinical Social Worker and Licensed Psychotherapist who has been actively exploring, since 1966, the uses of meditative, healing, and psychotherapeutic tools in the process of healing individuals, groups, and organizations.
Dale attended the University of Michigan and Wayne State University, where he received a B.S. in Secondary Education in 1967, and a Master of Social Work degree in 1969. In 1971, feeling a lack of depth in his life, Dale moved to Rochester, NY to practice Zen under the guidance of Roshi Philip Kapleau. In 1980, he changed to an inquiry/awareness meditative practice with Toni Packer, with whom he worked for eight more years. Since then, Dale has continued to explore the uses of meditative, healing, and psychotherapeutic tools for opening the heart/mind with a number of world-renowned teachers.
In 1977, Dale co-founded and directed the Rochester Center for the Healing Arts, a wholistic health education and multi-disciplinary treatment center. During this time, Dale also trained in Polarity Therapy, a healing art, with Dr. Pierre Pannetier, and practiced and taught Polarity Therapy throughout the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.

Grown Up Love

Gloria Arenson is a California based psychotherapist specializing in cutting edge therapies such as Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), an acupressure based method, Thought Field Therapy (TFT), Tapas Acupressure Technique (TAT) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). She is a licensed hypnotherapist and is trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Psychosynthesis. She is an approved ACEP Certification Consultant and is a Diplomate in Comprehensive Energy Psychology.

Gloria specializes in using and teaching EFT, the revolutionary mind/body approach to provide rapid, effective and often permanent relief from mental and emotional pain. She has helped thousands of people to recover successfully from eating disorders, compulsive spending, anxiety, fears, phobias, PTSD, panic disorder and other problems.

Gloria Arenson maintains a private practice in Santa Barbara, California.

H3. On Conscious Living and Dying

Annamaria Hemingway MA (ABD) is a writer and speaker on the topic of Conscious Living and Dying. She is also a spiritual counselor and member of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS).

The Father of Neurofeedback

President, International MindFitness Foundation, Infinite Potentials Incorporated. Certifications: Biofeedback Certification Institute of America (BCIA) Senior Fellow, BCIA EEG Fellow, BCIA Certification in Stress Management Education, National Registration of Neurofeedback Providers, Diplomate, Neurotherapy and Biofeedback Certification Board, Diplomate in both Neurofeedback and Biofeedback.

Corporate Responsibilities: Founder of Biofeedback Resources International, Co-founder Bio-Monitoring International (develops life sciences products including an EEG performance enhancement system that is selling well in the Asian market), Founder of Health Training Seminars. President and Founder of The International MindFitness Foundation (a 501 c3 not for profit). Founder of American BioTec Corporation and Infinite Potentials Incorporated. Since 1971 Adam and the organizations he has founded or co-founded have provided leadership in the development of biofeedback hardware and software, as well as innovative and effective business models for practitioners.

In her incredible 40 plus year career, Aleta St. James has been the role model for regeneration, defying limitation, and living your dreams at any age. She has been described as the Indiana Jones of the soul, traveling the globe in her own spiritual quest, sharing her renowned healing gifts with thousands of people throughout the world in seminars, workshops and private sessions. Perhaps most famously, Aleta made worldwide news in 2004 when she became the oldest woman in America at the time to give birth to twins, at age 57. She blew the lid off of society’s perception of aging.

Aleta has also gained fame as an internationally renowned energy healer, intuitive life coach and successful author of the top-selling book, Life Shift: Let Go and Live Your Dream. Aleta’s empowering private sessions, healing meditations, and online courses facilitates the release of energy blocks and raises a person’s vibration so that they are able to align with their life’s dreams.

Integrity Intelligence

An international speaker, trainer and consultant, he has provided programs for companies, nonprofits, educational institutions, religious institutions and healthcare organizations, and has mentored helping professionals, politicians, business and community leaders, and World Trade Organization ambassadors.

Buddhist Meditation Practices

Sharon Salzberg first encountered Buddhism in a course on Asian philosophy at the State University of New York. In 1970, her interest in the subject took her to India. She attended her first Buddhist meditation retreat in Bodh Gaya, the site of the Buddha’s enlightenment. For the next three and one-half years, Salzberg studied with teachers from India, Burma, and Tibet. She returned to America and began giving reteats. In 1976, Salzberg established with Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield the Insight Meditation Society, which now ranks as one of the most prominent and active meditation centers in the Western world. Salzberg and Goldstein expanded their vision in 1989 by co-founding the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies (BCBS). In 1998, they initiated the Forest Refuge, a long-term retreat center secluded in a wooded area on IMS property. She now divides her time between homes in New York City and Barre, Massachusetts.

Transcending the Ego

Australians, Nouk Sanchez and Tomas Vieira are the authors of best-seller ‘Take Me to Truth, Undoing the Ego’. Initiated by A Course in Miracles (ACIM), their twenty year Spiritual Awakening journey together, led to the almost total deconstruction of their lives and belief systems before emerging from the process together. Their uniquely dynamic family experience of learning the Course, as a couple, and then with their daughter, is quite unprecedented. No amount of theory can hold a candle to experience. Amidst much lightness and laughter, these authors share a profound dedication to learning and living the Course, without one iota of compromise to its principles.

Nouk and Tomas joined in a divine commitment in 1984. The call they heard beckoned them to discover the indestructible nature of love. Driven by this deep desire to discover the nature of True Love, their journey saw them relinquish the dysfunctional’form’ of their relationship, being (special-conditional) marriage, in order to restore the ‘content’, being unconditional love. Theyfound that beneath layers of ego fear and past conditioningwas a LOVE that could never be threatened; not be anyone or anything…not even death.
The precious insights gained from their life-transforming experiences are shared in their best-selling book, “ Take Me to Truth,” their profound 4-day workshop on 8-DVD’s titled “Undoing the Ego II”, and their 6-CD set “The Miracle of Trust”. The result of their experience offersprofoundly practical teachings that clearly define the blocks and stages involved in Spiritual Awakening.

On Meditation, Self Healing and Energy Psychology

Patricia Carrington, Ph.D. is a leading psychologist and expert on stress management. She is a Clinical Professor at UMDNJ-Robert Johnson Medical School and a former member of the Princeton University Psychology Faculty. She has been the recipient of the National Mental Health Association Award for the Most Outstanding Preventive Health Program of the Year.

On Remote Viewing

Stephan A. Schwartz is the Senior Samueli Fellow for Brain, Mind and Healing of the Samueli Institute, and a Research Associate of the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory of the Laboratories for Fundamental Research. He is the columnist for the journal Explore, and editor of the daily web publication Schwartzreport.net in both of which covers trends that are affecting the future. He also writes regularly for The Huffington Post. Previously he was the founder and Research Director of the Mobius laboratory, and Director of Research of the Rhine Research Center, Senior Fellow of The Philosophical Research Society, Special Assistant for Research and Analaysis to the Chief of Naval Operations, and an editorial staff member of National Geographic. For 40 years he has been studying the nature of consciousness, particularly that aspect independent of space and time. Schwartz is part of the small group that founded modern Remote Viewing research, and is the principal researcher studying the use of Remote Viewing in archaeology. Using Remote Viewing he discovered Cleopatra’s Palace, Marc Antony’s Timonium, ruins of the Lighthouse of Pharos, and sunken ships along the California coast, and in the Bahamas. He also uses remote viewing to examine the future. Since 1978, he has been getting people to remote view the year 2050, and out of that has come a complex trend analysis. His submarine experiment, Deep Quest, using Remote Viewing helped determine that nonlocal perception is not an electromagnetic phenomenon. Other areas of experimental study include research into creativity, meditation, and Therapeutic Intent/Healing. He is the author of 50 technical papers and reports. In addition to his experimental studies he has written numerous magazine articles for Smithsonian, OMNI, American History, American Heritage, The Washington Post, The New York Times, as well as other magazines and newspapers. He has produced and written a number of television documentaries, and has written four books: The Secret Vaults of Time, The Alexandria Project, Mind Rover and his latest, Opening to the Infinite.

Tom is pioneering the new field of Human Software Engineering. He created the “Core Dynamics of Common Problems” material which is used extensively as part of the WaveMaker Coach Mentoring Program. He is an extraordinary and entertaining teacher and presenter of the 12 Core Dynamics and Human Software Engineering Seminar Series. He has an unusual gift of making complex things simple and easy to understand.

Tom Stone is an expert in the application of biophysics and changing patterns of energy in the human body. He has studied applied biophysics extensively in Europe with leading experts in the field. Tom has integrated bio-energetic testing, wave interference, and sophisticated electronic technology to be able to pinpoint and resolve the “bugs” in our inner human software. These Human Software Engineering™ techniques can be used to debug and upgrade any aspect of human life.

Tom’s body of experience includes training in the physics and mathematics of music, more than 30 years of practice and teaching of meditation, a deep understanding of addiction recovery, and presentation of hundreds of lectures and seminars. This was the perfect background for becoming a researcher in the application of wave theory and biophysics for transforming the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of human life.

On Her Book, This Time I Dance

Tama J. Kieves, an honors graduate of Harvard Law School, ditched her corporate law firm to write and help others live their most meaningful self-expression. She is the bestselling author of This Time I Dance! Creating the Work You Love (How One Harvard Lawyer Left It All to Have It All) (Tarcher/Penguin), chosen as a Finalist for the National Nautilus Book Award (along with the Dalai Lama!) Featured on Oprah Radio, she is a sought-after speaker and career and success coach, who has helped thousands world-wide to discover, launch, and live their true work in the world.

Says Tama, “If you’re this successful doing work you don’t love, what could you do with work you do love?”

She is also the Founder and President of Awakening Artistry, an organization dedicated to creating and supporting a global family of visionary minds, creative souls, free-spirited entrepreneurs and empowered leaders.

Tama has been inspiring audiences across the country with her electrifying presence, cutting edge humor, emotional realness and the big possibilities she brings into every room. She is also a national presenter for A Course in Miracles, an internationally acclaimed program of living in love instead of fear.

Dorothy has had a private practice in psychotherapy for over 25 years, teaching at the graduate school level, as a Clinical Instructor at the University of Connecticut Medical School, and a the founder her own educational institution, The Institute of Healing Arts and Sciences. As a pioneer in the field, through IHAS she offered a four-year Energy Medicine Practitioner Program as well as two-year Energy Medicine Certificate Program. In addition to being affiliated with over 40 hospitals and medical facilities across the country where her 3rd & 4th year students did medical internships, the school was approved by the Connecticut Commissioner of the Department of Higher Education. For over 15 years the mission of the school was to both train those interested in developing their healing skills in energy medicine as well as to support each student in overcoming the obstacles that kept them from recognizing their truth and living their soul’s purpose. Training basic energy medicine technicians was never her goal, training leaders in the field of integrative spiritual healing was her objective and she was blessed to surpass her many times over.

Catholic Priest and Astronomer

I am an astronomer and came back to the Catholic church as a graduate student (I had grown up Catholic). I came back because I could not shake my sense of and longing for God, but the God I believe in is very different from the God of my childhood because of the vastness and the weirdness of the universe I discovered in my physics & astronomy studies. In 2001-2002 I spent a sabbatical year working with the Vatican Observatory astronomers (all Jesuit priests and top-notch astronomers) so I am not the only person who is able to reconcile God and science. But it has been a long journey reconciling my science and my faith and I just published a book about it: “The Sky is not a Ceiling: An Astronomer’s Faith.”
An award-winning astronomer and the Priest Professor of Physics at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y.