Jonathan is a purpose guide, psychotherapist, meditation teacher, and integral mentor in private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 20 years. Jonathan is the founder and lead teacher of the Purpose Guide Institute, Integral Awakening Center and Green Sangha.  He teaches purpose discovery at San Quentin Prision and also serves as adjunct faculty at John F. Kennedy University 

Jonathan is a contributing author (along with Ken Wilber and Ervin Laszlo) to the book anthology, Purpose Rising (2017).  Jonathan has taught at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Kaiser Permanente, Green Gulch Zen Center, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Open Circle, Bay Area Integral, The Nondual Wisdom & Mental Health Conference, iEvolve, Marina Counseling Center, and iRest Institute.

Jonathan has co-taught with human potential pioneer George Leonard, Buddhist activist Joanna Macy and depth psychologist Bill Plotkin.  Jonathan taught at Kaiser Permanente  including: Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, Mind-Body Medicine, Overcoming Depression, Couples Communication and Integral Life Practice.  
 

Joanna Macy PhD, is a scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. A respected voice in the movements for peace, justice, and ecology, she interweaves her scholarship with five decades of activism. As the root teacher of the Work That Reconnects, she has created a ground-breaking theoretical framework for personal and social change, as well as a powerful workshop methodology for its application.

Many thousands of people around the world have participated in Joanna's workshops and trainings. Her group methods, known as the Work That Reconnects, have been adopted and adapted yet more widely in classrooms, churches, and grassroots organizing. Her work helps people transform despair and apathy, in the face of overwhelming social and ecological crises, into constructive, collaborative action. It brings a new way of seeing the world, as our larger living body, freeing us from the assumptions and attitudes that now threaten the continuity of life on Earth.

Jean Houston Ph.D, scholar, philosopher and researcher in Human Capacities, is one of the foremost visionary thinkers and doers of our time. She is long regarded as one of the principal founders of the Human Potential Movement.

Dr. Houston is noted for her ability to combine a deep knowledge of history, culture, new science, spirituality and human development into her teaching. A prolific writer, Dr. Houston is the author of 26 books including Jump Time, A Passion for the Possible, Search for the Beloved, Life Force, and The Possible Human. As Advisor to UNICEF in human and cultural development, she has worked around the world helping to implement some of their extensive educational programs.  Dr. Houston has also served in an advisory capacity to President and Mrs. Clinton as well as assisting Mrs. Clinton in her writing of her book, It Takes A Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us. Jean Houston’s mind should be considered a national treasure”, said Buckminster Fuller, a renowned American philosopher, thinker, visionary, inventor, architect, engineer, mathematician, poet and cosmologist. 

Michael Meade, D.H.L., is a renowned storyteller, author, and scholar of mythology, anthropology, and psychology. He combines hypnotic storytelling, street-savvy perceptiveness, and spellbinding interpretations of ancient myths with a deep knowledge of cross-cultural rituals. He has an unusual ability to distill and synthesize these disciplines, tapping into ancestral sources of wisdom and connecting them to the stories we are living today. He is the author of The Genius Myth, Fate and Destiny: The Two Agreements of The Soul; editor, with James Hillman and Robert Bly, of Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart. Meade is the founder of Mosaic Multicultural Foundation, a nonprofit network of artist, activists, and community builders that encourages greater understanding between diverse peoples.

Bill Plotkin, Ph.D., is a depth psychologist, wilderness guide, and agent of cultural evolution. As founder of western Colorado’s Animas Valley Institute in 1981, he has guided thousands of women and men through nature-based initiatory passages, including a contemporary, Western adaptation of the pan-cultural vision quest. Previously, he has been a research psychologist (studying non-ordinary states of consciousness), professor of psychology, psychotherapist, rock musician, and whitewater river guide. In 1979, on a solo winter ascent of an Adirondack peak, Bill experienced a call to adventure, leading him to abandon academia in search of his true calling. Bill is the author of Soulcraft: Crossing into Mysteries of Nature and Psyche (an experiential guidebook), Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World (a nature-based stage model of human development through the entire lifespan), and Wild Mind: A Field guide to the Human Psyche  (an ecocentric map of the psyche — for healing, growing whole, and cultural transformation). He has a doctorate in psychology from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Stephen is a teacher, author, storyteller, spiritual activist, farmer and founder of the Orphan Wisdom School, a teaching house and learning house for the skills of deep living and making human culture. It is rooted in knowing history, being claimed by ancestry, working for a time et to come.

Daniel G. Newman is the Co-Founder and President of MapLight, whose groundbreaking database connects data on campaign contributions, politicians, legislative votes, industries, companies, and more to show patterns of influence never before possible to see. Newman has led MapLight from a 2005 startup to an established national resource for citizens and journalists.

Newman’s innovative use of technology to reveal influence in government earned him a position on Fast Company’s list of the 100 Most Creative People in Business in 2010 and recognition as a World Affairs Council Civic Innovator in 2014. He has led MapLight to several awards including a Knight-Batten Award for Innovations in Journalism; a James Madison Freedom of Information Award; a Library Journal Best Reference Award; and a Webby Award nomination for Best Politics Website.

A national expert on money and politics issues, Newman regularly discusses MapLight’s research findings and his views on the broader trends of money in politics in documentary films and on national news outlets including NPR, PBS, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, FOX Business News, and more.

Patrick Sandone, MBA is the Founder and President of Net Driven, the leading provider of website and internet marketing solutions for the automotive industry. Patrick is a regular speaker at automotive industry events on the topic of websites and internet marketing. Patrick was inspired to found Net Driven while working with his family’s business, Sandone Tire Car Care Centers in Scranton, PA.

He also worked at Monitor Clipper Partners in Boston, MA and Paris, France, focused on investing in internet businesses, and the Investment Banking firm of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in New York City. Patrick holds an MBA from Columbia University and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa.

Chris is a speaker, teacher, business coach and eLearning expert who is a leader in the development of highly-lucrative and transformative online learning programs that inspire, engage and connect learners across cultures.

He has helped dozens of authors, teachers, experts and mission-driven organizations build and launch their online learning programs including Neale Donald Walsch, Jean Houston, Arielle Ford, Shakti Malan, Evolving Wisdom, Thrive Academy, San Francisco Zen Center, and Google's Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute. He guided many of them to 6-figure launches of their courses.

Dr. Aftab Omer is the founder and president of Meridian University in Petaluma, California. He received his Bachelor’s from M.I.T. and his Doctorate from Brandeis University. Formerly a faculty member in both the Psychology and Sociology departments at Sonoma State University, he is currently the President of the Council for Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychologies.

Aftab’s research has focused on the emergence of human capacities within transformative learning communities and his work includes assisting organizations in tapping the creative potentials of conflict, diversity, and complexity. His published articles include The Spacious Center: Leadership and the Creative Transformation of Culture and Between Columbine and the Twin Towers: Fundamentalist Culture as a Failure of Imagination.

Brian Stafford, MD, MPH is a depth psychiatrist, wilderness guide, poet, essayist, and agent of human and cultural transformation. Previously, he was an academic pediatrician, and an adult,  adolescent, child, perinatal and infant psychiatrist with numerous clinical, research, and educational publications as well as many institutional, state, and national awards.

He left academic medicine and Western culture to move to the wild Pacific coast of Costa Rica where he founded Eco-Psyche-Artistry. He completed the intensive training as a psycho-spiritual wilderness guide with the international leader in this work, the Animas Valley Institute, and now guides individuals to the place they most long and fear to go – their soul place and purpose. He returned to the US and now guides primarily in Ojai, California.

Katherine is a Purpose Guide™, Associate Director at Purpose Guides Institute, and Suzuki Cello Teacher living in Asheville, NC. With a background in classical music, she brings attentiveness, creativity, care and joy to her interactions with clients and students. Her deepest devotion is to the Mystery moving its way through and as each and every one of us. She supports others to reconnect and realign to the root of who they are and what they deeply care about, leading to empowerment and healing. She hopes to serve as an invitation and witness to the freedom of Being beyond Knowing.

Niharika is a Soul Purpose Guide™ & Senior Mentor at Purpose Guides Institute, and Soul Plan Practitioner. She lives in Auroville, India, a community centred around the philosophy of Integral Yoga. She completed an Ed.M in Human Development & Psychology from Harvard, received a PG Diploma in Counseling and Guidance, and trained with the Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy. Her work is in service to the spirit of the divine feminine and her resurfacing in our world: through the Way of the Heart, the Way of Love, and the Way of the Earth. Instagram

Michael has spent most of his adult life learning and living what he calls the Mitakyasin Way—how to live in Right Relationship and Reciprocity with all life. Mitakuye Oyasin literally means ‘All My Relations’.  He was trained to be a fire keeper for sacred ceremony and answers the call when medicine people need him.  He is a spiritual mentor, vision quest guide and invitationalist to other two-legged people on how to live in Right Relationship and Reciprocity with All Life!

Natasha is a Purpose Guide™, Interim Associate Director and Mentor at the Purpose Guides Institute, and is a Senior Executive in the mental health field in Canada. Having roots in environmental behaviour change, she has an abiding belief that when people connect with - and live from - purpose, this leads to a profound sense of belonging to the world. And the ripple effect is immeasurable.