Jyoti (Jeneane Prevatt, Ph.D.)
Jyoti is internationally known as a spiritual and psychological consultant working with spiritual emergence as it manifests through the individual and community. She has explored multi-cultural approaches that raise consciousness in the body, resulting in a healing of body, mind and Spirit. Her spiritual and psychological insights provide a balanced approach to integrating one's life. Her extensive study of indigenous healing and spiritual practices combined with her training in Jungian and psychological approaches to mental health have inspired a variety of projects.

Her consistent focus is to actively affirm our role as guardians of this planet, consciously creating communities, through business and social reform that bring heart and divine intention to the forefront. She resides in the village of Kayumari, as one of its founding members, which is located in Sonora, California. She travels lecturing and developing communities across the United States, Europe and South America.

Russell D. Park, Ph.D.
Russell D. Park is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in transpersonal psychology and neurotherapy. Russell is a contract faculty member for the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology and the Union Institute. As the former research coordinator for the Spiritual Emergence Network, founded by Stan and Christina Grof, Russell has taught professionals in Europe, South America, and the United States in the diagnosis, treatment, and transformative potential of spiritual emergence phenomena.

In addition, he has background in clinical laboratory medicine, alternative healing approaches, biotechnology research, and computer science applications and practices. Other interests include personal empowerment, the interface between psychology and spirituality, drug additions, and the use of visual and auditory media for psychological change. Russell, together with his wife, Jyoti, teaches seminars and workshops on transformational process to an international community of professionals.

Nancy Rowe, Ph.D., REAT
Nancy Rowe has worked in the field of spirituality and transpersonal psychology for over 15 years.  She is on the Faculty of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology and has a heart-centered counseling and expressive arts therapy practice in the Hudson River Valley.
Nancy is most interested in helping others to reconnect to Earth, to their imaginations, and to their creative, intuitive selves. Her devotion to Earth is expressed through her spiritual practice, in the retreats, pilgrimages, and workshops that she facilitates, in her writing, photography, and work with Woodstock Land Conservancy. She lives in the Catskills in the wilds of the Woodlands!

Ryan Brandenburg
Ryan Brandenburg has been practicing Zen meditation since 1968. He is an ordained Soto Zen Buddhist priest in the lineage of Kobun Chino-roshi and was the Director of Chino-roshi's temple, Jikoji, for 12 years. He trained with Zen shiatsu master Ryuho Yamada-roshi in the 70's and again in the 90's, and currently is on the teaching staff of the Institute For Conscious Bodywork. He is active in Native American ceremonial ways and has been integrating earth-based forms of worship and prayer with Zen meditation since 1970. He is a board member of the Center for Sacred Studies and resides in Sonora, California.

Gloria D. Karpinski
Gloria D. Karpinski is a holistic counselor, spiritual director, teacher and author. Her seminars as well as her individual in-depth life attunements emphasize the relevancy of universal spiritual principles to everyday life and the interdynamics of mind, body, emotions and spirit.

Gloria graduated from the University of North Carolina. Prior to her ordination by the International Church of Ageless Wisdom, an interfaith church without walls, she was a journalist. For twenty-plus years, Gloria has taught all over North America and in many other countries.

She has conducted seminars and given lectures for such diverse groups as psychotherapists, actors and doctors, in venues ranging from large conferences to colleges, churches, hospitals and specialized groups.

Gloria is the author of Where Two Worlds Touch: Spiritual Rites of Passage (1991) and Barefoot on Holy Ground: Twelve Lessons in Spiritual Craftsmanship (2001), both published by Ballantine Books.

Gloria lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Her web site www.gloriakarpinski.com includes a calendar of her workshops, lectures, Intensives and other specialized programs.

David Lukoff, Ph.D.
David Lukoff is a Professor of Psychology at Saybrook Graduate School and co-author of the DSM-IV diagnostic category "Religious or Spiritual Problem." He is president of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology and has authored over 70 publications on religious and spiritual issues in clinical practice. He lectures and gives workshops internationally on spiritual emergence issues.

Visit the Spiritual Competency Resource Center to learn more about David Lukoff and resources available for mental health professionals.

Ann Rosencranz, M.A.
Ann Rosencranz is a counselor, minister, and translator, having traveled nationally and internationally as a liaison to make alliances between indigenous and non-indigenous cultures. She is Program Director of the Center for Sacred Studies and one of the organizers of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. She is also co-founder of Morningstar Foundation which offers spiritual and emotional care for people facing the end of life. Ann resides at Kayumari, a spiritual community in California with her husband, her son and her extended family.

Flordemayo
Flordemayo was born in a small village on the Nicaragua/ Honduras border. Her father was a local shaman and her mother was a midwife and a healer. She studies under Don Alejandro Oxlaj, a head of the Mayan Council of Elders, and considers her Mayan heritage a keystone of her work.

Flordemayo has presented at numerous conferences within the United States and internationally, including Body and Soul and Noetic Sciences. She is a member of The International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers who have joined in a global alliance of prayer, education, and healing of this planet. She is also a director at the Institute of Natural and Traditional Knowledge , a school of ancient knowledge for the future.