Brennon Moore is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CADC-II), and a Nationally Certified Trauma Therapist (CTT). Brennon has been specializing in young men's trauma for nearly a decade in both a residential and outpatient setting. His interest in trauma healing began in academia while studying experiential and gestalt approaches to treating trauma at The University of Cork in Ireland, and several months working as a counselor with traumatized children in the Middle East during his graduate studies. Brennon is a trained EMDR practitioner, a trained brain spotting and hypnosis practitioner, a trained DBT and mindfulness practitioner, and he is trained in Peter Levine's Somatic Experiencing.

Brennon leads week long-trauma healing retreats and family workshops. During these retreats Brennon helps guide individuals through the darkest parts of their stories in a fully immersive and experiential way. He also speaks nationally on the subjects of childhood trauma, attachment, and addictive disorders. In January of 2017 his first book was released, "Finding a New Tribe: Helping Young Men Recover from Childhood Sexual Abuse and Addiction", and in May of 2018 Brennon opened Skyline Recovery; an outpatient and transitional living program for young men in Bend, Oregon. 
https://www.skylinerecoverybend.com/

Amy Thompson is a gifted and intuitive mentor and coach with over 20 years of experience as a counselor, retreat facilitator, and teacher. She has a passion for guiding people through transformational change with both groups and individuals from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds. She holds a BA in Literature from Dominican University.

An artist, Amy is also a sacred ceremony designer and public speaker. She brings with her a lifetime of training, teachings, and knowledge from an eclectic background of work in the field of human holistic mental health. She empowers those who work with her with mindful self-compassion and radical acceptance.

Amy shares, “I’ve spent my career in service to others, working with adults and children in multiple arenas, including groups, workshops, coaching, and retreats for personal transformation. There is nothing else in the world as satisfying as watching a student/client create the change in their life that they long for and then thrive in it!”

https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/podcast/s7e6-amy-thompson/

Ann Gleig is an Associate Professor of Religion and Cultural Studies at the University of Central Florida. Her research specialization is Buddhism in America, and she is the author of American Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Modernity (Yale University Press, 2019). She is currently working on a collaborative book project with Amy Langenberg on sexual abuse in American Buddhist communities, which is under advance contract with Yale University Press. She is an editor for the Journal of Global Buddhism.https://crcc.usc.edu/people/ann-gleig/

Ted Meissner is the Executive Director of the Secular Buddhist Association. He has been a meditator for over 25 years with backgrounds in Zen and Theravada, and is a UMass Center for Mindfulness Certified MBSR Teacher.

https://secularbuddhism.org/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ted-meissner/

JOHN PEACOCK is both an academic and a Buddhist practitioner of nearly fifty years. Trained initially in the Tibetan Gelugpa tradition in India, he subsequently spent time in Sri Lanka studying Theravada. After doing a doctorate in philosophy, he taught Buddhist and Western philosophy and then Buddhist Studies at the University of Bristol. He went on to be Associate Director of the Oxford Mindfulness Centre , co-direct the Master of Studies programme in MBCT(Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy) at Oxford University, and teach Buddhist psychology on the same course.  John is now retired from academia and continues to teach meditation, as he has done for more than thirty-five years.

For more info: https://bodhi-college.org/presenters/17-john-peacock/

Richard Shankman has been a meditator since 1970, and teaches at Dharma centers and groups internationally. He is guiding teacher of the Metta Dharma Foundation, and cofounder of the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies and of Mindful Schools. He practices and teaches meditation that integrates compassion, mindfulness, concentration and insight as one path of practice. Richard is the author of The Art and Skill of Buddhist Meditation and The Experience of Samadhi. For more info: http://www.richardshankman.org/

We are Insight Meditation teachers who share from a Theravada lens while integrating insights and language from Zen, Buddhist tantra, anti-oppression pedagogies, and body-centered psychotherapy. We believe friendship is the heartwood of the path, that meditation is an act of radical friendship, and that we can extend the warm heart of relatedness to all.  We take the Buddha’s words on awakening seriously, and believe each of us can be liberated from mental and emotional suffering in this very life. For more info: https://devonandnicohase.com/

About Mary Stancavage: ABOUT MARY STANCAVAGE

I started cultivating a spiritual practice over 30 years ago and picked up my first Buddhist book, Start Where You Are by Pema Chödrön soon after that. It resonated with me so completely – this was the life I was attempting to live. I practiced meditation sporadically over the next several years and had a regular yoga practice. In 2005 I began studying with Noah Levine and eventually completed the first cohort of his teacher training. I was empowered to teach Buddhadharma in 2009 and have been facilitating groups and teaching ever since. I have also studied with Arinna Weisman, Ruth King, Gil Fronsdal and James Baraz.

As part of my teaching life I taught meditation in recovery centers in Los Angeles. These practices can offer a way out for so many suffering from addiction and indeed, have helped me in my own recovery of over 37 years. I also completed the Chaplaincy Training Program through the Sati Center and served as a volunteer chaplain at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital in Los Angeles.  The Year to Live practice, based on the book by Stephen Levine, was transformational for me and I have facilitated several groups over the years and continue to bring this much needed practice and reflection on our mortality and humanity to my students. For me info: https://marystancavage.org/

STEPHEN BATCHELOR is a contemporary Buddhist teacher and writer, best known for his secular or agnostic approach to Buddhism. Stephen considers Buddhism to be a constantly evolving culture of awakening rather than a religious system based on immutable dogmas and beliefs. In particular, he regards the doctrines of karma and rebirth to be features of ancient Indian civilisation and not intrinsic to what the Buddha taught. Buddhism has survived for the past 2,500 years because of its capacity to reinvent itself in accord with the needs of the different Asian societies with which it has creatively interacted throughout its history. As Buddhism encounters modernity, it enters a vital new phase of its development. Through his writings, translations and teaching, Stephen engages in a critical exploration of Buddhism’s role in the modern world, which has earned him both condemnation as a heretic and praise as a reformer.

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The mission of the Secular Dharma Foundation (501c) is to foster the advancement of emotional and psychological well-being through the education and integration of mindfulness, psychology, nature-based programming, and various therapeutic modalities. We provide educational tools and resources, mindfulness and emotional skills training through online programs, podcasts, trainings, and retreats.