After experiencing challenging health and life events, Melanie Jolicoeur

questioned herself and opened up to alternative medicine. Since then, she

aspires to continuously learn about the whole human experience without

judgement. Traveling through nearly 20 countries where she lived, explored

and studied, Melanie has adapted to a holistic nomadic lifestyle in the

past 7 years. It is with humbleness, love and compassion that she wishes to

share her discoveries and her practices so she can serve humanity and be a

guide for all those who wish to expand their consciousness.

Henry Mintzberg is Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill

University. He is a  writer and educator, mostly about management

originations, developing managers, and rebalancing societies, and he is

also an outdoorsman and collector of beaver sculptures.  He is the author

of 20 books, including his latest: Bedtimes Stories for Managers.  He

co-founded and is still active in the International Masters Program for

Managers and the International Masters for Health Leadership as well as a

CoachingOurselves, a peer coaching, and development program.

Dawn is a meditation teacher with a playful and dynamic approach. She is

known for her smiling personality and effective balance of clear, precise

instruction and mental reflection. Dawn has been practicing and studying

Insight Meditation since 2005 and teaching yoga since 2006. Currently, she

is a student in Spirit Rock Meditation Center's four year Dharma Retreat

Teacher Training.   She firmly believes that how we offer ourselves in

practice reflects how we offer ourselves in life, inspiring her to find new

ways to extend her practice beyond the yoga mat and meditation cushion -

and encouraging her students to do the same.

Jane Murray is the Founder of Peacebeam, a conscious start-up delivering 5

minutes of peaceful time well spent to the stressed commuters and workers.

Changing wellbeing to worldbeing and mindfulness to kindfulness.  Jane used

to be a lawyer with extensive commercial experience with venture capital in

start-up/early stage business in a wide variety of sectors.

Jeff Brown is a breakthrough voice in the self-help and spirituality field,

and the author of five previous books: Soulshaping: A Journey of

Self-Creation, Ascending with Both Feet on the Ground, Love It Forward, An

Uncommon Bond, and Spiritual Graffiti. In his previous life, Jeff was a

criminal lawyer and psychotherapist. Since pursuing his path as a writer,

he has launched many initiatives, including founding Enrealment Press, and

an online school, Soulshaping Institute. He is the producer and key

journeyer of the award-winning spiritual documentary, Karmageddon, which

also stars Ram Dass, Seane Corn, Deva Premal and Miten. At present, he is

getting caught up on lost sleep after writing Grounded Spirituality, his

new book to be published in March and preparing for the next stages of his

creative journey and path of sacred activism.

Vlatka Hlupic is a University Professor in London, the CEO of Management

Shift consulting and the Author of Management Shift and Humane Capital. She

is an activist for humanizing management to change the world and a

prominent management consultant and Board adviser, helping organizations

worldwide to substantially improve performance, engagement, innovation, and

profit. She was voted one of the Most Influential International HR Thinkers

in the world.

Martin Ucik is a German born entrepreneur who trained with Eckhart Tolle as

a Power Of Now group facilitator and founded www.singles2couples.org, an

Association for Healthy Relationships. His studies of Ken Wilber’s Integral

Model allowed him to integrate his personal experiences as a divorced

father and the wisdom from over 200 relationship books into Integral

Relationships: A Manual for Men which Ken Wilber calls “a terrific book!”

and his new book Sex Purpose Love. He lives in California.

Samiel Carolina Rodriguez Barros is a New Earth Soul Alchemist, born in

Argentina, living in Spain.  Her work is based on a lifetime of studying

and experiencing what it means to be a divine human, fully expressed, on

Earth.As a intuitive visionary as well as a speaker, writer and

international retreat leader, her mission is to open safe and beautiful

places for us to remember our creative power and key role each one of us

play in the transformation of consciousness.

Daniel Christian Whal is an international consultant and educator

specializing in biologically-inspired whole systems design and

transformative innovation. He is a biologist holds an MSc in Holistic

Science and a PhD in Design.  He has worked with local and national

governments on foresight and futures, facilitated seminars on sustainable

development for the UNITAR affiliated training centre CIFAL Scotland,

consulted with many companies on sustainable innovation, and has

co-authored and taught sustainability training courses for Gaia Education,

LEAD International and various universities and design schools.

Chris Grosso is a public speaker, writer, and author of several books and his lastest is Dead Set On Living:Making the Difficult but Beautiful Journey from F#*cking Up to Waking Up . He writes for several magazines and has performed at many conferences and events. Chris is passionate about his work with people who are in the process of healing or struggling with addictions of all kinds. He speaks and leads groups in detoxes, yoga studios, rehabs, youth centres, hospitals, conferences, and festivals worldwide. He is a member of the advisory board for Drugs over Dinner and hosts The Indie Spiritualist Podcast on Ram Dass’s esteemed Be Here Now Network.