Jean Shinoda Bolen

Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD, is a Psychiatrist, Jungian analyst and an internationally known author and speaker. She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, a former clinical professor of psychiatry at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, University of California Medical Center and a past board member of the Ms. Foundation for Women, the International Transpersonal Association, and the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco.

She is the author of thirteen books in over one hundred foreign editions. She is a NGO Permanent Representative to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women from the Women’s World Summit Foundation (Geneva), also represents Pathways To Peace, The Millionth Circle, Earthchild Institute, Women’s Perspective, and the International Public Policy Institute. She is in three acclaimed documentaries: the Academy-Award winning anti-nuclear proliferation film “Women – For America, For the World,” the Canadian Film Board’s “Goddess Remembered,” and “Femme: Women Healing the World.

STEPHEN GILLIGAN, Ph.D., is a psychologist in Encinitas, CA. He was one of the original NLP students at UC Santa Cruz, where Milton Erickson and Gregory Bateson were his mentors. After receiving his psychology doctorate from Stanford University, he became one of the premier teachers and practitioners of Ericksonian hypnotherapy. This work evolved into his original approaches of Self-Relations and Generative Self and was further developed with Robert Dilts into Generative Coaching. In response to the unprecedented meta-crisis we are currently facing, all this work is now woven into a Creative Mind meta-structure that honors and seeks to realize the interconnection of all life—friends and enemies, nature and humans, spirit and matter.

He has taught in many different cultures and countries over the past 30 years and has published extensively. His numerous books include The Hero’s Journey: A Voyage of Self-Discovery (co-authored with Robert Dilts), the classic Therapeutic Trances, The Courage to Love, The Legacy of Erickson, Walking in Two Worlds (with D. Simon), Generative Trance: The Experience of Creative Flow, four volumes of Generative Coaching, and his ongoing six-volume series on Creative Mind.

Donald Meichenbaum, PhD in Clinical Psychology is currently the Research Director of the Melissa Institute for Violence Prevention, Miami (www.melissainstitute.org). He is one of the founders of cognitive behavior therapy and was voted one of the most influential psychotherapists of the 20th century. His latest books include Roadmap to Resilience (www.roadmaptoresilience.com) and Evolution of Cognitive Behavior Therapy: A Personal and Professional Journey.

Michael M Miller, MD, is a board-certified general and addiction psychiatrist and is board-certified in Addiction Medicine by the American Board of Preventive Medicine. He is a skilled individual, family and group psychotherapist along with being expert in the medication management of addiction and co-occurring psychiatric disorders, treating patients of all ages. He also works an independent consultant to a wide range of non-profit, governmental, and health care clients, serves as an expert witness, and is widely respected as a teacher. Dr. Miller was a clinician and educator specializing in addiciton medicine in Wisconsin for 40 years before relocating to California. He now serves as an addiction psychiatrist at the Jerry L Pettis VA Medical Center in Loma Linda, California, where he is active in clinical teaching in the addiction medicine fellowship program of Loma Linda University. He is a full professor in the medical schools at LLU and UC-Riverside, teaching residents from varoius specialties along with medical students. Dr. Miller is past president of the American Society of Addiction (ASAM), has served as co-author and editor of the ASAM Criteria, and led the development of the 2011 ASAM Definition of Addiction. He was a founding board member of both the American Board of Addiction Medicine (ABAM) and the American College of Academic Addiction Medicine (ACAAM). He has been a leader in organized medicine and public health, including serving over 25 years in the AMA House of Delegates and as chair of the AMA Council on Science and Public Health

Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD, is a Psychiatrist, Jungian analyst and an internationally known author and speaker. She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, a former clinical professor of psychiatry at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, University of California Medical Center and a past board member of the Ms. Foundation for Women, the International Transpersonal Association, and the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco.

She is the author of thirteen books in over one hundred foreign editions. She is a NGO Permanent Representative to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women from the Women’s World Summit Foundation (Geneva), also represents Pathways To Peace, The Millionth Circle, Earthchild Institute, Women’s Perspective, and the International Public Policy Institute. She is in three acclaimed documentaries: the Academy-Award winning anti-nuclear proliferation film “Women – For America, For the World,” the Canadian Film Board’s “Goddess Remembered,” and “Femme: Women Healing the World.

Dr. Patricia Arredondo is President of the Arredondo Advisory Group specializing in diversity management strategy and executive coaching primarily in with women and men of color. A licensed psychologist, she is former president of The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Chicago. Patricia is author of more than 100 publications and widely recognized for her contributions as a servant leader. Her scholarship addresses Latinx and immigrant mental health, women’s leadership and multicultural competencies for psychological research, training, and practice. Her more recent books are Latinx Immigrants (2018) and Women and the Challenge of STEM Professions: Thriving in a Chilly Climate (2021). Patricia regularly presents to State psychological associations and other organizations on culture-centered psychotherapy and the complexity of counseling with multi-generational Latinx families in the U.S. Patricia is a Fellow of APA divisions 17, 35, and 45, and of the American Counseling Association. She is also the first Latina president of ACA. Patricia is a Faculty Fellow with Fielding Graduate University a serves on its Marie Fielder Center for Social Justice. Other board service is with Gay Sons & Mothers. Latina Researchers, and the National Latinx Psychological Association; she is the founding president. Of Mexican-American heritage and from Lorain, Ohio, she also speaks and writes about the cultural borderlands women of color have to navigate. Her doctora degree in Counseling Psychology is from Boston University. Patricia resides in Phoenix and Mexico City.

Carol Gilligan PhD, first achieved large-scale recognition from the psychological and educational communities with the publication of her groundbreaking book, In A Different Voice (1982). Harvard University Press describes it as "the little book that started a revolution." Following In A Different Voice, she initiated the Harvard Project on Women's Psychology and Girls' Development and co-authored or edited five books with her students: Mapping the Moral Domain (1988); Making Connections (1990); Women, Girls, and Psychotherapy: Reframing Resistance (1991); Meeting at the Crossroads: Women's Psychology and Girls' Development (1992) -- a New York Times notable book of the year -- and Between Voice and Silence: Women and Girls, Race and Relationships (1995).

Her 2002 book The Birth of Pleasure, was described by The Times Literary Supplement as “a thrilling new paradigm.” She has received a Senior Research Scholar Award from the Spencer Foundation, a Grawemeyer Award for her contributions to education, a Heinz Award for her contributions to understanding the human condition, and was named by Time Magazine in 1996 as one of the 25 most influential Americans. Carol is a Professor at NYU School of Law.

Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD, is a Psychiatrist, Jungian analyst and an internationally known author and speaker. She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, a former clinical professor of psychiatry at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, University of California Medical Center and a past board member of the Ms. Foundation for Women, the International Transpersonal Association, and the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco.

She is the author of thirteen books in over one hundred foreign editions. She is a NGO Permanent Representative to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women from the Women’s World Summit Foundation (Geneva), also represents Pathways To Peace, The Millionth Circle, Earthchild Institute, Women’s Perspective, and the International Public Policy Institute. She is in three acclaimed documentaries: the Academy-Award winning anti-nuclear proliferation film “Women – For America, For the World,” the Canadian Film Board’s “Goddess Remembered,” and “Femme: Women Healing the World.