Thomas Hübl DIV 8

Thomas Hübl, PhD, is a renowned teacher, author, and international facilitator who works within the complexity of systems and cultural change, integrating the core insights of the great wisdom traditions and mysticism with the discoveries of science.  Since the early 2000s, he has led large-scale events and courses on the healing of collective trauma, with a special focus on the shared history of Israelis and Germans, and facilitated healing and dialogue around racism, oppression, colonialism, and genocide.

He is the author of the books, Attuned: Practicing Interdependence to Heal Our Trauma—and Our World and Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds. He has served as an advisor and guest faculty for universities and organizations and is currently a visiting scholar at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University.

adrienne maree brown

adrienne maree brown grows healing ideas in public. Through her writing, which includes short and long-form fiction, nonfiction, spells, tarot decks, and poetry; her music, which includes songwriting, singing, and an upcoming immersive musical ritual; and her podcasts, including How to Survive the End of the World, Octavia’s Parables, and The Emergent Strategy Podcast, adrienne has nurtured emergent strategy, pleasure activism, radical imagination, and transformative justice as ideas, frameworks, networks, and practices for transformation.

Her work is informed by 25 years of social and environmental justice facilitation primarily supporting Black liberation, her path of teaching somatics, her love of Octavia E Butler and visionary fiction, and her work as a doula.

She is the author/editor of several published texts including Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (2017), Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (2019), Grievers (2021,) and Maroons (2023) the first two novellas of her speculative fiction trilogy.

After a multinational childhood, adrienne lived in New York, Oakland, and Detroit before landing in her current home of Durham, NC.

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Tiokasin Ghosthorse

Tiokasin Ghosthorse is an educator, musician, and international speaker on peace. He is a member of the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation of South Dakota and has a long history with Indigenous activism and advocacy. Tiokasin is the Founder, Host, and Executive Producer of First Voices Radio for the last 31 years in New York City and Seattle/Olympia, Washington.

In 2016, he received a Nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize from the International Institute of Peace Studies and Global Philosophy. Other recent recognitions include Native Arts and Cultures Foundation National Fellowship in Music (2016), National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship Nominee (2017), Indigenous Music Award Nominee for Best Instrumental Album (2019), and National Native American Hall of Fame Nominee (2018, 2019). He was also recently nominated for the 2020 Americans for the Arts Johnson Fellowship for Artists Transforming Communities.

Tiokasin is a master musician of the Lakota cedar flute(s) where stories and cultural knowledge are conveyed through music. We must stop with the idea of creating peace on Earth and begin creating peace with Earth. Tiokasin is a “perfectly flawed human being.”

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Eileen Fisher

Eileen is the Founder of EILEEN FISHER, Inc, the design company known for making simple, timeless clothes. She ventured into clothing design in 1984 with an original concept—a system of shapes that work together to help women get dressed easily—that still defines her line today.

A sustainability pioneer, Eileen created the company’s first Social Consciousness role more than 25 years ago. The company’s commitment to creating a regenerative manufacturing model is part of her vision for a future without waste. In 2022, Eileen announced that she would step down as CEO but remain at EILEEN FISHER, Inc. to focus on the clothes.

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Dr. Julia Kim

Julia Kim is an explorer of the terrain connecting inner transformation and systems change. She draws on her past career as a physician and public health researcher in Africa and Asia, Senior Policy Advisor at the United Nations (UNDP and UNICEF,) and Program Director at the Gross National Happiness (GNH) Centre in Bhutan. She integrates global experience in the fields of leadership development, contemplative practice, program facilitation, research, and policy in the fields of well-being, well-being economics, global health, and sustainable development. Julia is an associate of the Presencing Institute and an Executive Committee member of the Club of Rome. She holds degrees from Cornell University, the University of Manitoba, Tufts University, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Ohad Naharin

Ohad Naharin is a choreographer and the creator of the Gaga movement language. Born in 1952 in Mizra, Israel, he began his dance career with Batsheva in 1974 and made his choreographic debut in New York in 1980. In 1990, Naharin was appointed Artistic Director of Batsheva Dance Company and established its junior division, Batsheva – the Young Ensemble. In addition to his stage-work, Naharin developed Gaga, the innovative movement research and daily training of Batsheva’s dancers that has spread globally among both dancers and non-dancers. Gaga’s movement language is continually evolving.

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Lama Tsomo

Lama Tsomo is an American lama, author, and co-founder of the Namchak Retreat Ranch, an organization dedicated to sharing Tibetan Buddhist wisdom and meditation practices. Born into a Midwestern Jewish household, she followed a path of spiritual inquiry and study that ultimately led to her ordination as a lama in Tibetan Buddhism. After a decade of practice, she became fluent in Tibetan and now teaches students in the U.S. and abroad. She is particularly passionate about reaching young people and supporting those working for positive social change. She holds an M.A. in Counseling Psychology, and is the author of the Ancient Wisdom for Our Times Tibetan Buddhist Practice Series, and co-author of The Lotus & the Rose: A Conversation Between Tibetan Buddhism & Mystical Christianity. 

Major (Rtd) Cormac Doyle and Josh Goldberg

Cormac Doyle hails from Ireland. A near-death experience at age 15 influenced his desire to pursue a career helping others. He trained as a Registered Nurse Mental Health and completed his initial training in Dublin. He immigrated to England in 1985. After several years he enlisted in the Royal Air Force and completed 25 years of military service, serving in both the Royal Air Force and later the British Army. He has served on numerous deployments from The Former Yugoslavia to Iraq and Afghanistan. He is a qualified Flight Nurse. He has worked at the command level within the RAF and the Army. 

His extensive experience as a clinician has equipped him with the skills to develop a service unique to veterans’ mental health, which he self-funds. His particular area of interest is the assessment, management, and treatment of stress reactions, PTSD,  CPTSD, and their impact on individuals, families, and work relationships. Cormac has created UltraBLS/VRT as an enhanced intervention based on EMDR, constructive conversation, progressive relation, client self-development, a

nd human performance. With a colleague he has opened a one-to-one bespoke psychological trauma mental health retreat in Bulgaria – The Serenity Project. He trains selected individuals in UltraBLS/VRT. Learn more here.

Josh Goldberg became the first Chief Executive Officer of the Boulder Crest Foundation, a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring first responders, combat veterans, and their family members live great lives in the midst of struggle, stress, and trauma. In this role, Josh is responsible for Boulder Crest’s operations and activities, overseeing Boulder Crest Arizona, Boulder Crest Virginia, the Boulder Crest Institute, Boulder Crest’s Training and Education work (to include the Warrior PATHH and Struggle Well program and mobile applications,) and their fundraising, marketing, and partnership efforts. 

Josh, along with Boulder Crest’s Founder and Chairman, Ken Falke, co-authored Struggle Well: Thriving in the Aftermath of Trauma. In addition, Josh and Ken co-authored Transformed by Trauma: Stories of Posttraumatic Growth alongside Dr. Richard Tedeschi and Dr. Bret Moore.

In 2017, Josh was named one of 60 Presidential Leadership Scholars. Established by the presidential centers of George W. Bush, William J. Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and Lyndon B. Johnson, the Presidential Leadership Scholar program is an innovative leadership program designed to ensure that scholars have the opportunity to succeed in creating and executing meaningful and impactful leadership projects in communities across the nation. Learn more here.