Professor / Author / Activist

Dr. Bayo Akomolafe

Dr. Bayo is a celebrated speaker, post humanist thinker and intellectualist that has founded the Emergence Network as a planet-wide initiative to provide new ways to respond to the critical challenges we currently face as a species.

Author / Innovator / Creator

Jamie Wheal 

Jamie's work explores revolutionary ways to work and live that are in alignment with natural human needs and abilities. He is an expert in peak performance and leadership, weaving together aspects of culture, biology and psychology to create a more clear picture of how we can thrive in this modern world.

Activist / Artist / Futurist / Creator

Adah Parris

Adah helps organizations and individuals develop innovative, cultural approaches to empower leaders to make a positive and lasting impact on the planet. She challenges conventional thinking and offers new approaches to business and leadership in her many speaking engagements including her TED Talk on Ancestorship.

Author / Philosopher

Charles Eisenstein

Charles creates intersectionality between topics like history, economics, spirituality and the environmental movement. He weaves together many threads, taking holistic perspective on the topic and crafting an inspiring narrative that echoes in the hearts of many.

Author / Poet / Somatic Educator

Kai Cheng Thom

Kai is a non-binary trans woman and formal social worker, that infuses their unique experiences into compelling essays about how to fall back in love with being human. They believe that each person is born to reshape the world and uses the power of story to invoke cultural transformation, towards a world based on the wisdom of love.

Author / Futurist / Visionary

Daniel Pinchbeck

Daniel is a visionary writer that shares his insight on how we can transition our culture to the new consciousness paradigm and leave behind the materialist view of the world. His work explores how the current ecological crisis could be a rite of passage for our species, calling us to utilize the digital communication tools we currently have to craft a world that is more free, just and sustainable for all.

Writer / Animist / Author

Sophie Strand

Sophie focuses her work on spirituality, storytelling and ecology, creating love stories that unite and inspire. Her poems, essays and books convey her reimaginings of past events from the perspective of a queer eco-feminist.

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Ali Katz

Today, she works to help as many people as possible to live beyond choices based in scarcity, fear or greed. I envision a world in which we are able to be in harmony with ourselves, each other and the planet. A world where people care for each other. A world without Money Dysmorphia, where we each get to live free and be clear on who we are, why we are here, and what’s ours to do.

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Benjamin Von Mendelssohn

For many years, Benjamin was head of the Institute for Global Peacework, strongly focusing on the Middle East. Ever since 2005, he led Grace Pilgrimages with Sabine Lichtenfels through Israel-Palestine and Colombia. In 2012, with Sabine Lichtenfels, he began the annual Global Love School.
In 2013, he took the helm of The Grace Foundation for Humanizing Money, which allows people with money and other resources to support a global system change by investing in emerging Healing Biotopes.

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Chief Oba Femi 

Chief Oluwo Obafemi Fayemi Epega is a world-renowned Babalawo and the founder of O.I.D.S.I. (Obafemi Institute for the Divine & Universal Study of Ifa). He was initiated as a priest of Obatala in January 2004, and received his Tefa in February 2005 from the late Oluwo Dr. Afolabi Epega at the Epega Compound in Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria. He strongly believes that the restoration and preservation of African divine sciences and traditions can restore psychological balance and personal empowerment to all people.

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Gigi Coyle

Gigi Coyle has sat in circle, walked on pilgrimage, offered the practice of council, served as a facilitator for many kinds of passages, events, and gatherings in over 20 countries since she was in 5th grade. She now is 74. Best known as a community activist, carrier of council, rite of passage guide, mentor and guardian for individuals, communities, networks, organizations as well as ceteceans. Caretaker-steward of land and water; visionary for an alliance, Live Beyond Boundaries., devoted to the emergence of local and global sanctuaries - “watering holes” - she is focused on healing ways through ceremony, inter-generational, cross- cultural projects of prayer, action and service. Co-founder of Walking Water (Walking-Water.org), Co-author of The Way of Council; The Box, Remembering the Gift; Kaleidoscope: Finding My Way Home and A Practice of Council, Ways of Council, along with other pamphlets, articles and interviews available.

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Joshua Michael Schre

Joshua Michael Schrei is a podcaster, mythteller, teacher, and a lifelong student of the cosmologies and mythologies of the world — in particular the Indian subcontinent. Throughout a lifetime of teaching, study, meditation and yogic practice, wilderness immersion, art, music, and public speaking, Josh has sought to navigate the living, animate space of the imagination and advocate for a world that prioritizes imaginative vision. Josh has taught intensive courses in mythology and somatic disciplines for over 20 years. He is the founder of The Emerald Podcast, which combines evocative narrative, soul-stirring music, and interviews with award-winning authors and luminaries to explore the human experience through a vibrant lens of myth, story, and imagination.In 2013, he took the helm of The Grace Foundation for Humanizing Money, which allows people with money and other resources to support a global system change by investing in emerging Healing Biotopes.

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Ke'oni Hanalei

Ke'oni Hanalei is the founder of Pohala, a provider of esoteric Hawaiian botanical medicine and activist organization. He is connected with his lineage of over one thousand generations back and seeks to embody and honor the wisdom he has received from his pre-Polynesian ancestors. His work includes his podcast as well as Project Moku’ula ~ Return to Piko which is a restoration project on the island of Māui following the aftermath of the horrific wildfires.

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Kimberly Ann Johnson

Kimberly Ann Johnson is a somatic experiencing practitioner, sexological bodyworker, birth doula, educator and author. She seeks to help women heal trauma, awaken their power, and feel at home in their bodies to start living life on their own terms.

She uses her training, education, experience, and advocacy to help women get closer to their blueprints, and unpack all those layers of habits and conditioning, so they can hear what their body’s telling them, and know who they really are. 

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Liv Boree

A self-confessed nerd with a first class degree in astrophysics, Liv combined her science background and passion for games to become one of the most recognizable faces in professional poker. She was the #1 ranked female player from 2014-2016, and holds both European Poker Tour and World Series of Poker championship titles after winning more than $4 million on the international circuit.

Liv is also a philanthropist, and in 2014 co-founded Raising for Effective Giving (REG), a research and advisory nonprofit that uses the philosophies and strategies of Effective Altruism to identify and raise money for the most globally impactful charities.

Since retiring from professional poker in 2018, Liv is now focused on education to inspire others with the rational thinking techniques she has learned through both poker and Effective Altruism.

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Miki Kashtan

Miki Kashtan is a practical visionary pursuing a world that works for all, exploring the application of the principles and tools of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to social transformation. She dreams of local and global systems based on care for the needs of all life.

She is also an author and has published three books so far and numerous blog posts on her website. She also offers interactive services on topics such as Facing Privilege, Overcoming Patriarchy, Questioning Money, and Reckoning with Collapse. Miki invites us to grapple with the most difficult challenges we are facing, individually and collectively, to be able to lead lives of meaning and integrity, even joy, in perilous times.

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Raffaello Manacorda

Raffaello Manacorda is an international Tantra teacher and practitioner. He has been practicing Tantra for more than 15 years and has undergone intensive training in several styles of Yoga. After completing an MA in Philosophy, Raffaello decided to spend more than twelve years living in alternative communities and experimenting with radically alternative lifestyles.

It was in these wild years that he first encountered Tantra, the "rebel way to Spirit". This encounter developed into a life-long practice, first on a solo journey, then studying Tantra and Yoga in some of the best worldwide schools. Raffaello serves as lead faculty in ISTA, the International School of Temple Arts, and teaches and lectures worldwide. He is currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program in Wisdom Studies with Ubiquity University (California).

Raffaello is the co-creator of the ISTA Practitioner Training (PT), ISTA’s program for coaches and practitioners in the field of conscious sexuality.

He is part of the ISTA Lead Circle and of the ISTA Council (Governance)

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Sabine Lichtenfels

Sabine is a theologian, peace activist, author and co-founder of Tamera. She heads Tamera’s Global Love School as well as the department for spiritual ecology, Terra Deva.