Steering Committee Members:
Len Belzer: Wrote, produced, hosted internationally syndicated radio show,The Comedy Hour; co-wrote "Spiritual Places In and Around New York City" with Emily Squires; former psychiatric social worker at New York Hospital’s Payne Whitney Clinic; teaches conversational English to immigrants at Riverside Church English Language Program.
Annemarie Colbin, Ph.D: president of Friends of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (FIONS), www.fions.org , consultant, author of Food and Healing and other books; health educator, and founder of the Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts in NYC, www.naturalgourmetschool.com.
Rev. Dr. Thomas A. Downes Ph.D: Clinical Supervisor of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy; Diplomate Status in The American Psychotherapy Association: One of the co-founders of Interspiritual Dialogue in Action; Certified Tai Chi Teacher: Lead UN NGO Representative of Pax Christi International; Fellow status in The American Association of Integrative Medicine.
Jane Hughes Gignoux: FoulkeTale, www.lifedeathbeyond.com , author of Some Folk Say: Stories of Life, Death, and Beyond; storyteller, Civil Celebrant. Presentations focused on "changing the story." IONS Elder Council coordinator www.shiftinaction.org . FIONS board member
Kurt Johnson, Ph.D. is a co-founder of InterSpiritual Dialogue in Action (www.isdna.org & www.isdac.com) and widely engaged internationally in spiritual teaching, professional science, social activism and ethics (www.bcan.ws). He serves in a number of capacities for the American Ethical Union, Humanist Institute and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Linus Roache is an actor by profession and is also the Managing Director of the New York Center for EnlightenNext - www.enlightennext.org
Gerard Senehi has served in several capacities at EnlightenNext: as Director of the New York Center, overseeing its Paris Center, as Director of Human Resources, as a member of the Board at the International headquarters in Lenox, Massachusetts. Currently he is on the Executive Development Committee and bringing the work and perspective of EnlightenNext to corporate audiences.
Emily Squires: Television Director (Sesame Street, Elmo Saves Christmas, The Wubbuloius World of Dr. Seuss, Between the Lions, and others); Documentary Films: “The Art of Being Human: A portrait of Frederick Franck”, ”Visions of Perfect Worlds: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama”, “Five Masters of Meditation.” Writer, Author with Len Belzer of "Spiritual Places In and Around New York City". FIONS Board member
Sheila Wall, MSW: is a certified Executive and Life Coach, specializing in communication and leadership skills. Former careers were as a psychotherapist in a CT Student Based Health Center and a VP in a global risk management company. She is the founder and former chapter leader of the Association for Spirit at Work (ASAW), NYC, a member of ASAW and served on the planning committee for the International Spirit at Work Awards and Conference.
Diane Williams is the founder of The Source of Synergy Foundation; Chairperson Emeritus of the NGO Committee on Spirituality, Values and Global Concerns (NY) at the United Nations, and is on the Council of the Spiritual Caucus UN and the United Religions Initiative UN. She is a United Nations Representative for the Tribal Link Foundation, the Wittenburg Center for Alternative Resources and the International Association of Educators for World Peace.Co-Creators:
Hafeezah Basir
Lisa Caswell
Dorothy Cunha: Being part of The Heart of the Healer Foundation (THOTH) has been my joy and blessing since 2004. THOTH’s work to preserve and share the wisdom of indigenous peoples is critical for creating a peaceful and sustainable world for ourselves and our children. I’m happy to also be a part of InterSpiritual Dialogue in Action and now part of One Voice Coalition.
Karen Davis
Dr. Elizabeth A. Denton: Executive coach and strategic business consultant with Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology and "Transformation Midwife" title given by clients; Co-author of A Spiritual Audit of Corporate America; Board Member of Humanity In Unity; Master Teacher trained by Sai Maa Lakshmi Devi.
Martha Gallahue: President of the National Service Conference of the American Ethical Union, a co-founder of InterSpiritual Dialogue in Action and active in numerous social justice and governance NGO's at the United Nations.
Allyson Grey
Desiree Hurtak, Ph.D. (Cand) MS. Sc, Founder and Director of The Academy For Future Science, an international non-profit organization, which is a UN-NGO (ECOSOC), working towards the development of consciousness and environmental sustainability. She is an adjunct Professor at SUNY, Purchase College, New York and her recent work involves comparative environmental studies and the deeper understanding of indigenous cultures.
Fred Johnson
Michael Johnson
Loch Kelly, founder and Director of Natural Wakefulness Center, is a licenced Psychotherapist, has served as Interfaith Chaplin at Union Theological Seminary, was a member of the Teachers Council of New York Insight Meditation Center and has been authorized to teach by Tibetan Buddhist Mingyur Rinpoche and Zen teacher Adyashanti. He is dedicated to making available practical teachings of awakening and compassionate action that are part of the human lineage. www.lochkelly.org
Audrey Kitagawa: head of the Light of Awareness International Spiritual Family, and is the Special Advisor to the World Federation of United Nations Associations. She is the current Chair of the NGO Committee on Spirituality, Values and Global Concerns, New York
Pamela Kraft: Executive Director of the Tribal Link Foundation an ECOSOC NGO affiliated with the United Nations. She is also a member of the Executive Committee of the NGO Committee for the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples at the United Nations.
Barbara Larisch: psychologist and a New York coordinator for Ken Wilber's Integral Institute.
Rev. Joyce Liechenstein, Ph.D., DAPA, LMHC, is Associate Director of One Spirit Learning Alliance and One Spirit Interfaith Seminary in New York City. One Spirit is committed to educating the public and training interfaith ministers for skillful and loving service in the world. Our mission is to offer experiential programs that encourage the development of a practical spirituality appropriate to the 21st century.
Judy Martin is an Emmy award-winning broadcast journalist who reports on social concerns, business, and work/life integration. She writes WorkLifeMonitor.com and TheChaosMonitor.com. Judy has contributed to NPR News, Marketplace Report, World Vision Report, News 12 Long Island and HD-News. She’s written for CNBC.Com, Motto Magazine, Women’s E-News, and Arts&Understanding Magazine. She is the Author of the upcoming: PRACTICAL CHAOS: A Reporter's Notebook on the Exquisite Nature of Resilience www.JudyMartinSpeaks.com .
Matt Mitler: Director of Theatre Group Dzieci http://dziecitheatre.org, which balances work on performance with work of service, and is committed to Art as a path for transformation. Mr. Mitler is featured in the anthology, Working on the Inside: The Spiritual Life Through the Eyes of Actors by Retta Blaney. Dzieci is profiled in The Encyclopedia of Religion
Deborah Moldow is active in global networking for a culture of peace through the World Peace Prayer Society and the United Religions Initiative, as well as at the United Nations
Tom Moroz
Mitchell Jay Rabin, M.A., L.AC., holistic psychotherapist, stress management consultant, educator, founded the organization A Better World in 1993 to offer services to the larger community. Mitchell authors a weekly E-Newsletter and produces and hosts weekly TV and radio shows both called A Better World through which he dialogues with the sung and unsung heroes of our society. www.abetterworld.net
Swami Ramananda: President of the New York Integral Yoga Institute and has been teaching Yoga for over twenty-five years. He conducts Teacher Training Certification Programs for Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Hatha Yoga and Stress Management.. Swami Ramananda teaches and lectures internationally and at Yoga Journal and Omega national conferences
Richard Schiffman
Bernard StarrAlan Steinfeld: Founder of New Realities TV and News Realities productions; active for many years in bringing spiritual teachers and leaders to the New York community.
Robyn Stratton-Berkessel is enormously grateful for the rich diversity in her life which flows increasingly effortlessly into all aspects of her being and work. How we can positively impact the world using technologies to allow all voices to be heard, the collective wisdom to emerge in an appreciative, honoring way is her passion.
Erin Weinshenk
Steve Wolfe represents Barbara Marx Hubbard and her Foundation for Conscious Evolution to the Coalition for OneVoice. Steven has written and spoken extensively on the spiritual dimension of human evolution into space. His writings have appeared in The New York Times and numerous space publications. A recent essay titled “The Conscious Evolutionary Choice,” appears in Return to the Moon (2006 Apogee Books)Participating Organizations - Links
A Better World www.abetterworld.net A Circle of Sisters www.entrepreneur.meetup.com/5 Academy of Future Science www.futurescience.org Airline Ambassadors www.airlineamb.org Alok Health www.alokhealth.com Amrit Yoga Antidote Collective www.antidotecollective.com Arch Angel Healing Light Center www.archangelhealinglightcenter. Association for Spirit at Work www.spiritatwork.org Association for Spirituality and Psychotherapy www.psychospiritualtherapy.org/ Banyan Education (consulting firm) www.banyaneducation.com Be Human Kind www.behumankind.com Body Temple www.bodytemple.info Breath of Change/ Yee-Ching Lee www.breathofchange.com Center for World Religions www.centerforworldreligions.org Center Point Yoga Studios www.centerpointstudios.com Chapel of Sacred Mirrors www.cosm.org Children of Light www.childrenoflight.com Children of the Earth www.childrenoftheearth.org Chopra Center at Dream Hotel NY www.chopracenterny.com Circles of Light and Empowerment www.childrenoftheearth.org Common Ground www.commongroundfellowship.co Conscious Collaborations www.consciouscollaborations.com CSVGC Values and Business Wksps www.csvgc-ny.org Deida Central www.deidacentral.com Divyanand Spiritual Organization www.dsy-usa.org Dreams into Action www.dreamsintoaction.com Earth Futures Communications www.topdownyoga50megs.com East West Book Store www.eastwest.com Ecofest www.ecofest.com Enlightennext www.enlightennext.org Environmental Library Fund www.remyc.com/ELF.html Envision- consulting and coaching org. www.envisionimpact.cin Esoteric Healing New York www.esoterichealingny.org Fellowship of the Heart www.thefreeheart.com FIONS www.fions.org Flavorpill.net www.flavorpill.net Global Dialogue Institute www.global-dialogue.com Global Health Institute Grand Space www.grandspace.com Harmony Channel www.harmonychannel.com Heart of the Healer Foundation www.heartofthehealer.org Himalayan Voices www.himalayanvoices.com Hygeia Foundation Ice Wisdom (Uncle's organization) www.icewisdom.com Inner Splendor Media www.innersplendor.om InnWorldReport.net www.innworldreport.net Institute of Integrative Nutrition www.integrativenutrition.com Institute of International Social Dev. www.iisd-ngo.org Institute of Practical Spirituality Institute of Spiritual Entertainment NY www.ise-ny.org Integral Yoga Institute www.iyiny.org/ International Institute for a Center of Peace International Mahavir Jain Mission www.imjm.org Intn'l Association of Educators for World Peace www.iaewp.net Ion Global Funding/ Global Mortgage Inc. www.ionglobalfunding.com ISDnA (InterSpiritual Dialogue in Action) www.isdna.org Jalaka : Wisdom Technology www.jalaka.com Kosmos Journal www.kosmosjournal.org Lama Gangchen World Peace Foundation www.gpt.net, www.lamagangchen Landsong Associates Light Harmonics Institute www.lightharmonics.com Lotus Wellness Center Mainline Mufon Meaningful World Media Dream Productions www.mediadream.tv Mela Films www.melafilms.com Meta Center NY www.metacenterny.com Metaphysical Center of New Jersey www.metaphysicalcenterofnewjers More than Singing, More than Speaking National Service Conference of the American Ethical Union www.isdac.com Natural Gourmet Institute www.naturalgourmetschool.com Natural Wakefulness Center www.lochkelly.org New Life Magazine and Expo www.newlifemag.com New Realities with Alan Steinfeld www.newrealities.com New York Open Center www.opencenter.org NGO Committee on Spirituality,
Values and Global Concerns (UN)www.csvgc-ny.org Nuclear Age Peace Foundation www.wagingpeace.com NY Appreciative Inquiry Special Interest Grp NY Shamanic Circle www.nyshamaniccircle.org One Source One Light www.onesourceonelight.com One Spirit Learning Alliance www.onespiritinterfaith.org Open International University for Complimentary Medicine www.oiucmglobal.com Out of the Box Institute Partnership for Creative Healing Passion into Practice www.passionintopractice.com Pawling Printery Design and Printer Peace Caravan www.peacecaravan.com Plays for Living www.playsforliving.org Project Harmony www.projectharmonyworldpeace.o Regimer Alternatives www.regimer.com Sacred Centers NY www.sacredcenterny.org Sacred Self Living www.sacredselfliving.net Sea Change NY www.seachangeny.om Serving Those Who Serve www.stws.org Sexy Spirits www.sexyspirits.com Shining River Press Shoji-Living Sibhan Joan Dolan- St. Vincent Hospital
of Behavioral Health Int. Stress MngtSpring Wellness Cooperative www.infinitespring.com Starlite Healing www.starlitehealing.com Straw Town Art Garden Studio Student World Assembly www.studentworldassembly.org Sufi Circle www.suficircle.com Sustainability leadership Alliance Taste of Broadway www.tasteofbroadway.org Temple of Understanding (religious NGO) www.templeofunderstanding.org The Body Talk Center www.thebodytalkcenter.com The Club of Budapest Canada www.clubofbudapest.ca The Concordia Foundation www.concordiafoundation.org The Counscious Gourmet www.theconsciousgourmet.com The Crossings Retreat Center www.thecrossingsaustin.com The Foundation of Consciousness and Higher Knowledge The Healing Arts Comm. Of Ct The Journey www.thejourney.com The Mindshift Institute www.mindshiftinstitute.org The New York Power Team www.nypowerteam.org The World Commission
on Global Consciousness and Spiritualitywww.globalspirit.org The World Sound Healing Organization www.worldsoundhealing.org Theatre Group Dzieci www.dziecitheatre.org Training for Life www.training4life.org Tribal Link Foundation www.tribal-link.org U.S. Partnerships- National Youth Initiatives United Federation of Taino People www.uctp.org Universal Peace Day www.universalpeaceday.com Urban Yogis (yogi apparel) www.urbanyogi.com Values and Business Working Group at the UN www.valuesbusinessvgc.com Vigil 4 Peace www.vigil4peace.org Vistar Foundation www.vistarfoundation.com We the World www.wetheworld.org Westside Cultural Center www.westsideculturalcenter.org What is Enlightenment? Magazine www.wie.org Wisdom's Goldenrod Center for Philosophic Studies www.wisdomsgoldenrod.org Wittenberg Center for Alternative Resources www.wittenbergcenter.org Women Federation for World Peace/ WANGO www.wango.org World Peace Prayer Society www.worldpeace.org World Peace Studio www.worldpeacestudio.com World Wisdom Alliance - see The Club of Budhapest Canada website www.clubofbudapest.ca Yoga for Nourishment www.yogafornourishment.com Yoga Mandali www.yogamandali.com
