The New Dimensions Café

Lindsay Andreotti is the founder of several companies and has held leadership positions in small and large organizations, including government, nonprofit, and Fortune 500 companies. For many years she served as an organizational development coach, business transformation consultant, and executive coach. She believes that when you are authentic and in your brilliance, you can achieve anything. She's the founder and host of The Kindness Club. She's the author (with co-author, Brian Hilgendorf) of Sex, Intimacy and Business: A Revolution Has Begun And It's Time To Get Undressed (Brilliance Press 2005)

Interview Date: 9/5/2022.   Tags: Lindsay Andreotti, kindness, Kindness Club, love, compassion, self-critic, mother’s dealing with children freaking out, kindness currency, kindness coins, Personal Transformation, Social Change/Politics

Leslie Shore has worked in the retail industry and personal management fields as well as being a professor and instructional designer where she has gained much wisdom in what it takes to be an effective listener. She is the owner of “Listen to Succeed,” a consultancy that focuses on using listening analytics to help personal and professional clients achieve their highest level of effective communication. Her book is currently being used as a text book in several universities. She is the author of Listen to Succeed: How to Identify and Overcome Barriers to Effective Listening. (self published 2012)

Interview Date: 4/15/2016      Tags: Leslie Shore, barriers to listening, emotions, interrupting, attention, daydreaming, being present, emotional IQ. body language, eye contact, Personal Transformation, Self Help

Richard Strozzi-Heckler, Ph.D. is a coach and consultant on embodied leadership and mastery and has spent more than five decades researching, developing, and teaching Somatics and embodiment practices to organizations in such fields as education, healthcare, leadership team development, military, technology and international peace work, including the United States Marine Corps.He holds a Shihan 7th -degree black belt in aikido and has founded and cofounded several Aikido schools and projects including the Mideast Aikido Project and Training across Borders, organizations that bring citizens from warring countries together to practice aikido. He was advisor to General Jim Jones, the Supreme Allied Commander of Europe from 2003 to 2006 in Afghanistan. He is the founder of the Strozzi Institute, where he teaches courses on somatic coaching and leadership in action. He is the author of many books including In Search of the Warrior Spirit, Fourth Edition: Teaching Awareness Disciplines to the Green Berets (Blue Snake Books 2007), Embodying The Mystery The Art of Somatic Coaching: Embodying Skillful Action, Wisdom, and Compassion (North Atlantic Books 2014) and Somatic Wisdom for Emotional, Energetic, and Spiritual Awakening (Inner Traditions 2022)

Interview Date: 8/26/2022    Tags: Richard Strozzi-Heckler, aikido, grasping, averting, impermanence, murmuration of Starlings, Chӧgyam Trungpa, certainty, shamanic journey, feral cat, Arkan Braveheart, Arkan Lushwala, Sun Dance ceremony, Spirit, Personal Transformation, Philosophy, Spirituality

Stephen G. Post, Ph.D. is among a handful of individuals awarded the National Distinguished Service Award from the National Alzheimer’s Association. Post is a leader in research on the benefits of giving and on compassionate care in relation to improved patient outcomes and clinician well-being. In 2001 he founded The Institute for Research on Unlimited Love, which researches and distributes knowledge on kindness, giving and spirituality. Post served as a co-chair of the United Nations Population Fund Conference on Spirituality and Global Transformation. He’s a professor in the Department of Preventative Medicine at Stony Brook University and founder and director of the Stony Brook Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics. He is the author of: Why Good Things Happen to Good People: How to Live Longer, Healthier, Happier Life by the Simple Act of Giving (Broadway Books 2008), The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease: Ethical Issues from Diagnosis to Dying (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2nd edition 2000), God and Love on Route 80: The Hidden Mystery of Human Connectedness (Mango 2019) and Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People: How Caregivers Can Meet the Challenges of Alzheimer’s Disease (Johns Hopkins University Press 2022)

Interview Date: 8/19/2022     Tags: Stephen G. Post, caregiving, dementia, Alzheimer’s, deeply forgetful people, declining cognition, compassionate care, medical treatments as an assault, music and Alzheimer’s, offering emotional dignity, good language when in cognitive decline, Health & Healing, Death & Dying, Philosophy

Robert W Jensen, Ph.D. is professor emeritus in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of many books including Plain Radical: Living, Loving and Learning to Leave the Planet Gracefully (2015 Skull Press), The End of Patriarchy: Radical Feminism for Men (Spinifex Press 2017) and The Restless and Relentless Mind of Wes Jackson: Searching for Sustainability (University Press of Kansas 2021)

Wes Jackson, Ph.D.is recognized as a leader in the international sustainable agriculture movement and earned his Ph.D. in genetics. He is cofounder and president emeritus of the Land Institute in Salina, Kansas, and a 1992 MacArthur Fellow. He is the author and co-author of numerous books, including Hogs Are Up: Stories of The Land, With Digressions and New Routes for Agriculture. (University Press of Kansas 2021) and Consulting the Genius of the Place: An Ecological Approach to a New Agriculture (Counterpoint 2011)

Jensen and Jackson are coauthors of An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, And the Fate Of Humanity. (University of Notre Dame Press 2022)

Interview Date: 8/12/2022    Tags: Wes Jackson, Robert W Jensen, down-power, Wallace Stegner, Henry David Thoreau, World is more beautiful than useful, beauty, attention, consumerism, origins of civilization, we are carbon-based, Mary Oliver, pay attention, be amazed, tell about it, Ecology/Nature/Environment, Philosophy, Social Change/Politics, technology

David Gibson is a leader in the field of sound healing and therapy. He’s the founder and director of the Globe Sound and Consciousness Institute in San Francisco which offers an Associates degree in sound healing therapy. He is also the producer of sound healing music and runs the sound therapy center at the Institute offering different types of sound healing treatments. He is a founder of the sound healing research Association designed to help bring sound healing into the mainstream. He is the author of The Complete Guide To Sound Healing (Sound Healing Center 2013)

Interview Date: 3/8/2016   Tags: David Gibson, sound, sound healing, pain, disease, frequency, ultrasound, anxiety, grief, grieving, emotion, emotions, crystal bowls, Tibetan bowls, vibration, white noise, Health & Healing, music, science

Joseph Selbie, a dedicated meditator for nearly 50 years, has taught meditation and yoga throughout Europe and the United States. He is a founding member of Ananda, a meditation-based community and spiritual movement inspired by Paramahansa Yogananda. He resides with his wife at the long-standing Ananda Village near Nevada City, California. He is the author of The Yugas: Keys to Understanding, The Physics of God: How the Deepest Theories of Science Explain Religion and How the Deepest Truths of Religion Explain Science (New Page Books 2021) and Break Through the Limits of the Brain: Neuroscience, Inspiration, and Practices to Transform Your Life (New Page Books 2022)

Interview Date: 7/29/2022    Tags: Joseph Selbie, brain science, the brain’s filtering system, angels, multiple personality disorders, the mind, sensory input, nonlocal mind, emotional body, negative neural brain circuits, quantum field of intelligence, astral body, Meditation, Spirituality, Science

Will Jawando is an attorney, an activist, a community leader, and a councilmember in Montgomery County Maryland, a diverse community of more than 1 million residents. Called “the progressive leader we need” by the late Congressman John Lewis, Jawanda has worked with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Sherrod Brown, and Pres. Barack Obama. He is the author of My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist’s Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022)

Interview Date: 7/8/2022  Tags: MP3, Will Jawando, Black men, Black boys, Kalfani, mentors, mentoring, fatherhood, mentorship, basketball, Barack Obama, NAACP, Catholic University, Alia Jawando, Coach Wayne Holmes, AmeriCorps program, Wayne Farrell, My Brother’s Keeper, Social change/politics, Personal Transformation, Men’s studies, Community

Mark Nepo is a poet and philosopher and a most eloquent spiritual teacher. In 2015, he was given a Life-Achievement Award by AgeNation and in 2016 was named by Watkins: Mind Body Spirit as one of the Most Spiritually Influential Living People. He was part of Oprah Winfrey’s The Life You Want Tour in 2014 and has appeared several times with Oprah on her Super Soul Sunday program on OWN TV. As a cancer survivor, Mark devotes his writing and teaching to the journey of inner transformation and the life of relationship. He is the author of many audio learning projects and over 20 books including Reduced To Joy (Cleis Press 2013, Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close To What Is Sacred (Free Press 2012), The One Life We’re Given: Finding the Wisdom That Waits in Your heart (Atria Books 2016), Drinking from the River of Light: The Life of Expression (Sounds True 2019), The Book of Soul: 52 Paths to Living What Matters (St. Martin’s Essentials 2020), Surviving Storms: Finding the Strength to Meet Adversity (St. Martins’ Essentials 2022)

Interview Date: 7/20/2022  Tags: Mark Nepo, Japanese Haiku poet, Masahide, storms, suffering, grief, disappointments, loss, broken open, premature baby, incubator, silence, stillness, solitude, global body, injustice, web of interconnection, falling down, getting up, corridor of aliveness, lifeforce, Philosophy, Personal Transformation, Spirituality

Kira Asatryan is a certified relationship coach who provides individual life coaching, relationship coaching, conflict mediation, and couples’ coaching. Before becoming a relationship coach, she was director of performance marketing for prominent Silicon Valley technology start-ups and cofounded an online marketing consultancy. She lives in San Francisco. She is the author of Stop Being Lonely: Three Simple Steps to Developing Close Friendships and Deep Relationships (New World Library 2016)

Interview Date: 4/3/2016   Tags: Kira Asatryan, depression, anxiety, loneliness, isolation, friendship, affection, support, respect, appreciation, encouragement, comfort, open ended questions, conversation, communication, feeling lonely in a crowd, Relationships, Psychology, Personal Transformation, Self Help