ADVISORY BOARD
ASOKA BANDARAGE
Scholar and practitioner Asoka Bandarage has taught at Yale, Brandeis, Mount Holyoke (where she received tenure), Georgetown, American, and other universities and colleges in the U.S. and abroad. Her research interests include social philosophy and consciousness; environmental sustainability, human well-being and health, global political economy, ethnicity, gender, population, social movements, and South Asia.
(from the website Bandarage.com )
E-mail: asokabandarage@gmail.com
NORA BATESON
Nora Bateson is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, and educator, as well as President of the International Bateson Institute, based in Sweden. An international lecturer, researcher and writer, Nora wrote, directed, and produced the award-winning documentary, An Ecology of Mind, a portrait of her father, Gregory Bateson. Her work brings the fields of biology, cognition, art, anthropology, psychology, and information technology together in a study of the patterns in the ecology of living systems.
(from the website batesoninstitute.org/nora-bateson/ ) E-mail: norabateson@aol.com
ERVIN LASZLO
Ervin Laszlo is a philosopher and systems scientist. He has published more than 101 books and over 400 articles and research papers. Laszlo is the founder and president of The Club of Budapest and of The Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research. The recipient of various honors and awards, including Honorary Ph. D.s from the United States, Canada, Finland, and Hungary, Laszlo received the Goi Award, the Japan Peace Prize in 2001, the Assisi Mandir of Peace Prize in 2006, and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 and 2005.
(from the website ervinlaszlobooks.com/ )
CHRIS LASZLO
Chris Laszlo is the author of The Sustainable Company: How to Create Lasting Value through Social and Environmental Performance (2003, 2005). He is a Co-Founder and Partner of Sustainable Value Partners, which has trained thousands of Fortune 500 executives in "Sustainability for business advantage." He is currently Visiting Professor at the Case Weatherhead School of Management in Cleveland, Ohio, and Visiting Professor at Cedep, the Executive Education program at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.
E-mail: chris.laszlo@case.edu
DAVID MCCONVILLE
As a researcher, creator, and educator, I develop experiences and environments designed to explore reciprocal relations and regenerative processes within living systems. Primarily collaborative endeavors, these projects integrate storytelling, scientific data, and immersive displays to visualize complex interconnections across places, cultures, disciplines, and nested scales of phenomena.
E-mail: david@spherical.studio
JEFFERY A. MARTIN
Dr. Jeffery A. Martin is a founder of the Transformative Technology space, serial entrepreneur, and social scientist who researches personal transformation and the states of greatest human well-being. He spent the last 15+ years conducting the largest international study on persistent non-symbolic experience (PNSE), or as it’s publicly known Fundamental Wellbeing, which includes the types of consciousness commonly known as persistent awakening, enlightenment, nonduality, the peace that passeth understanding, unitive experience, and hundreds of others. More recently, he has used this research to make systems available to help people obtain profound psychological benefits in a rapid, secular, reliable, and safe way.
DANIEL CHRISTIAN WAHL
"I have a passion for building bridges between diverse stakeholders, perspectives, disciplines, and world-views. I bring innovation, creativity, and whole systems design to enterprises, projects, and educational programs that foster effective collaboration in the transition towards a thriving and innovative culture of sustainability, resilience, and wellbeing."
STANLEY KRIPPNER
Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., has held faculty appointments at Akamai University, Fordham University, Kent State University, New York University, Saybrook University, Sofia University, The University of Puerto Rico, Wagner College, and the California Institute for Integral Studies. He is the former Director of the Child Study Center, Kent State University in Kent, OH, and of the Dream Laboratory, Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY. He has received lifetime achievement awards from the Parapsychological Association, the International Association for the Study of Dreams, and the Society for Humanistic Psychology. He is the past president of all three groups as well as the Society for Psychological Hypnosis which awarded him its 2002 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Professional Hypnosis. Krippner is a Fellow of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, and five divisions of the American Psychological Association, which granted him its 2002 Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Development of Psychology. He is co-author of the award-winning book Personal Mythology, and co-editor of the award-winning book Varieties of Anomalous Experience and has published over 1,000 peer-reviewed articles. Since 2010, he has held international certification as an Advanced Alcohol and Other Drugs Counselor.