Thomas Hübl DIV 9

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.

Stephen Gyllenhaal

In 2017, after 50 years in the psychological sector, Stephen founded The Identity Development Institute focusing on the impact of trauma from conception through pre-verbal development.

He’s also been an award-winning Hollywood director, primarily focusing on psychological issues: adoption and racism–LOSING ISAIAH, dissociative Identity Disorder–SHATTERED MIND, racism and mental illness–PARIS TROUT; autism and tourettes–A DANGEROUS WOMAN, bullying–GIRL FIGHT, repressed memory–A KILLING IN A SMALL TOWN, agoraphobia–SO B IT, alternative healing–LEAP OF FAITH, unconscious drives–TWIN PEAKS, and WATERLAND.

In 2016 he turned to documentaries: IN UTERO, exploring the science of human development from conception through birth, UNCHARITABLE (2023) targeting society’s primary “engine of change,” the mission-driven non-profit sector, and how it’s hobbled by an outdated ethos, and THE BOND (to be released in 2024,) a film for expectant parents exploring the science and millennia-old-feminine-wisdom of how to best nurture children in the womb.

He’s father to two wonderful filmmakers as well as a young son, grandfather to two grandkids, he’s published a book of poetry, Claptrap: Notes From Hollywood, and is writing two books: A Professional Patient and Liquid Motel.

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Ed Yong

Ed Yong is a British-American science journalist. He reports for The Atlantic and is based in Oakland, California.

For his coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ed won the Pulitzer Prize in explanatory journalism and numerous other prestigious awards. He was also a two-time finalist for the National Magazine Award in public service.

He is the author of two New York Times bestsellers—An Immense World, about the extraordinary sensory worlds of other animals; and I Contain Multitudes, about the amazing partnerships between animals and microbes. An Immense World won the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and was listed as one of the top books of the year by the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, Barack Obama, and more than 30 other lists.

Prior to joining the Atlantic, Ed’s writing was also featured in National Geographic, the New Yorker, the New York Times, and many other publications. His TED talk on mind-controlling parasites has been watched by over 1.9 million people. 

Ed cares deeply about accurate, nuanced, and empathetic reporting, clear and vivid storytelling, and social equality. He writes about everything that is or was once alive, from the microbes that secretly rule the world to the species that are blinking out of it, from the people who are working to make science more reliable to those who are using it to craft policies. He is married to Liz Neeley, founder of Liminal Creations, and is a parent to Typo, a corgi. 

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Nadine B. Hack

Nadine B. Hack is the CEO of beCause Global Consulting. Her awards include Responsible CEO of Year Shortlist; Top Corporate Social Responsibility Leader; Top Trustworthy Business Leader Lifetime Achievement; Top Ethical Green Business Influencer; Enterprising Woman of Year; Inspiration Lifetime Achievement presented at Säid Business School Oxford University. Her company beCause Global Consulting was named Best Specialist Stakeholder Engagement Consulting Firm, and featured in a cover story in AI Global Media magazine. 

She is a Forbes Councils author and her TEDx talk “Adversaries to Allies” has 15K+ viewers. She’s the first female Executive-in-Residence at IMD Business School, focusing on responsible leadership, diversity and inclusion, sustainability, human rights, global citizenship, entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership development. She’s a fellow at Salzburg Global Seminar and New Westminster College. She holds Master’s degrees from Harvard and New School.

She’s currently writing a book, “The Power of Connectedness” with a foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Boards include: senior advisor Global Citizens Circle; Geneva Center for Business and Human Rights; Robert F Kennedy Human Rights Switzerland; Synergos Institute; and the Africa-America Institute.

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Kayly Ober

Kayly Ober is a senior program officer for the climate, environment, and conflict program at USIP. Prior to USIP, she was the senior advocate and program manager of the climate displacement program at Refugees International. She also served as a member of the Task Force on Displacement established under the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage.

She has worked on climate change and migration issues for more than 15 years, during which time she has held positions at organizations such as the Asian Development Bank, the Overseas Development Institute, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the World Bank, where she authored the flagship report “Groundswell: Preparing for Internal Climate Migration.”

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Yehudit Sasportas

Yehudit Sasportas is one of the most prominent and prolific Israeli artists working in the local and international art scene today. Her work is focused on site-specific installations, which include sculptures, drawings, video, and sound works, and calls for an intense and overwhelming sensory experience. Her installations have gone through a process of adapting and responding to the architecture of various museum spaces while forming into artworks that present a new way of reading architecture itself, as well as the wider cultural context it was created in.

Her sculptural installations deal with a fascinating correspondence taking place between subconscious materials, unspoken and unseen, and the way these layers of information activate conscious areas across the surface. Sasportas’ Active Consciousness films, which were made over the course of more than seven years, present relatively simple actions, yet such that provoke a deep and condensed discussion about the manner in which we experience, understand, and project our own personal stories onto reality. This series as well as others have brought Sasportas’ works to receive meaningful recognition as an artist with clear political relevance.

Sasportas represented Israel in the 2007 Venice Biennial and has presented more than ten international museum solo exhibitions during the last decade, in venues such as The Arter Museum, Istanbul, The Kunsthalle Basel, The Berkley Museum of Art, San Francisco, The Kunstverein Braunschweig, DA2 Domus Atrium, Salamanca, and The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

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Lama Rod Owens

Lama Rod Owens is a Black Buddhist Southern Queen. An international influencer with a Master of Divinity degree in Buddhist Studies from Harvard Divinity School. He’s also an author; some of his works include Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger and Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation, which he co-authored. His teachings center on freedom, self-expression, and radical self-care. 

A leading voice in a new generation of Buddhist teachers with over 11 years of experience, Lama Rod activates the intersections of his identity to create a platform that’s natural, engaging, and inclusive. Applauded for his mastery in balancing weighty topics with a sense of lightness, the Queen has been featured by various national and international news outlets. 

Highly sought after for talks, retreats, and workshops, his mission is to show you how to heal and free yourself. 

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