Speakers

Alicia Lieberman, Ph.D.

Irving B. Harris Endowed Chair in Infant Mental Health
Professor and Vice Chair for Academic Affairs
UCSF Department of Psychiatry
Director, Child Trauma Research Program
San Francisco General Hospital

Dr. Lieberman is currently the Director of the Early Trauma...

Dr. Joseph Bobrow, Roshi

Clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, former Chief Psychologist and Director of Training, Department of Psychiatry, Kaiser Medical Center, South San Francisco, CA. Community organizer. Zen master, Deep Streams Institute. Founder and President, Coming Home Project.

Ajahn Amaro

Ajahn Amaro trained in Thailand with Ajahn Chah and with Ajahn Sumedho at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in England. He is co-abbot of Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery in Redwood Valley, California where he resides with a small monastic community. The author of Small Boat, Great...

Ann Ulanov

Ann Belford Ulanov, Ph.D., L.H.D. is the Christiane Brooks Johnson Professor of Psychaitry and Religion at Union Theological Seminary New York City, a psychoanalyst in private practice and a member of the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association. Her numerous books include, Spirit...

David M. Black

David M. Black is a Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society and Fellow of the Institute of Psychotherapy, London. He edited Psychotherapy and Religion in the 21st Century: Competitors or Collaborators? and has written on psychotherapy in relation to science, consciousness,...

Donald Kalsched

Donald E. Kalsched Ph.D. is a Jungian analyst, clinical psychologist, supervising and training analyst with the Inter-Regional Association of Jungian Analysts, and faculty member of the Westchester Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. His writings focus on the area...

Gerald Fogel

Gerald Fogel is a training and supervising analyst, founding member, and former director of the Oregon Psychoanalytic Institute. Before moving to Portland in 1996, he had been affiliated with the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center in New York City. He has edited books on...

Helen Marlo

Helen Marlo, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Burlingame, CA, working with adults and children. She is Associate Professor and Director of the Master of Art's in Clinical Psychology Program at Notre Dame de Namur University. She is a candidate, in analytic...

Jack Kornfield

Jack Kornfield, Ph.D., trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand, India, and Burma. He is a founding teacher of the Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock Center and has taught meditation internationally since 1974. He holds a doctorate degree in clinical psychology, and...

Joanna Macy

Joanna Macy, Ph.D., is a scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. She has created a new theoretical framework for personal and social change, and a workshop methodology for its application that helps people transform despair and apathy, in the face of...

Matthieu Ricard

Matthieu Ricard is a Buddhist monk who had a promising career in celluar genetics before leaving France to study Buddhism in the Himalayas in 1970. He is an author, translator, photographer, and an active participant in scientific research on the effects of meditation on the brain. He...

Paul Ekman

Paul Ekman is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at UCSF and an expert on the physiology of the human face, especially as it relates to interpersonal deception, emotional expression and non-verbal communication. The author of Emotions Revealed: Understanding Facial Expressions, Emotions...

Sharon Salzberg

One of America’s leading spiritual teachers and authors, Sharon Salzberg is cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, Massachusetts. She has played a crucial role in bringing Asian meditation practices to the West. The ancient Buddhist practices of vipassana (...

Richard C. Miller, Ph.D.

Richard, author of Yoga Nidra: The Meditative Heart of Yoga, is a contemporary spiritual teacher of nondualism. He is the founding president and CEO of the Center of Timeless Being, founding board member and past president of the Institute for Spirituality and Psychology, and co-founder...