Dr. Allen Levy—psychologist, licensed social worker, interfaith minister, and seasoned meditation teacher—reflects on modern psychoanalysis, couples therapy, group therapy, and meditation while relating those activities to the much larger context of the evolution of human consciousness.

At the end, Dr. Levy leads a brief, powerful meditation.

Freelance writer Gary Miller, Creative Director of Writers for Recovery, draws people deeper into their life experiences and relationships with each another with 7-minute, open-ended writing exercises where "there is no way to do it wrong." For eleven years, participants in Vermont Recovery Centers, Vermont prisons, and as far away as Ireland and the Dominican Republic, have grown in recovery through the love and humor in this program.

Guest Aviva Okrent shares her fascinating background as she describes what drew her to her current work as a life coach and how she goes about doing it, which is with relentlessly curiosity and attention to the whole person and their relationships.

Guest Gregory Tatro is a co-founder and the Senior Director of Mission and Impact at Jenna's Promise, a 9- to 18- month residential program in Johnson, VT that prepares persons in early recovery from substance use disorders to ultimately merge into communities with the skills and confidence they need for employment and daily life. Gregory shares how the tragic overdose death of his sister Jenna, and how the community responded, gave rise to this nationally recognized program of stigma reduction, hope, and action.

Consultant and trainer Dr. Tabitha Moore encourages us to appreciate our own humanity, including our personal place in history and culture. Also appreciating the humanity of everyone else, and their place in history and culture, has huge benefits, including taking racism out of race relations.

Dr. J. Scott Rutan, a psychologist who spent decades training group psychotherapists, shares how he taught therapists to create safe spaces where people could be honest and vulnerable enough to get out of their own way and into mutually rewarding relationships. You don't need to be a therapist to enjoy and learn from this.

Trainer, facilitator, and instructional designer Jess Sneed is headed to Boston Medical Center to train community professionals in screening and brief intervention for harmful and risky substance use. Jess also is helping develop Macro Motivational Interviewing (Macro MI), which promotes beneficial changes not only in individuals but also in systems around them that make change difficult.

Clinical psychologist, researcher, author, and group psychotherapist Dr. Cheri Marmarosh describes how therapy, especially group psychotherapy, heals trauma from past relationships and helps people express who they are and cope with who they are with.

Bilingual and bicultural psychologist Dr. Carlos Canales expands on how humans develop emotionally, learn to express emotions constructively or otherwise, and become more attuned to themselves and others through group psychotherapy.

Psychologist Dr. Joshua DeSilva and the graduate students they train help marginalized individuals and groups give more to and receive more from their communities—not by telling them what to do, but by listening to who they are.