HeatherAsh Amara is the author of the bestselling Warrior Goddess Training series, The Seven Secrets of Happy and Healthy Relationships with don Miguel Ruiz Jr., and The Warrior Heart Practice. She is dedicated to inspiring depth, creativity, and joy by sharing the most potent tools from a variety of world traditions. HeatherAsh studied and taught extensively with don Miguel Ruiz, author of The Four Agreements, and continues to teach with the Ruiz family. Raised in Southeast Asia, HeatherAsh has traveled the world from childhood and is continually inspired by the diversity and beauty of human expression and experience. She brings this open-hearted, inclusive worldview to her writings and teachings.
Heather teaches at the Chartres Academy as well as on Toltec Wisdom.
Esperide Ananas Ametista, MA., Hon PhD, Wisdom University is a Socio-psychologist, energy therapist, spiritual facilitator, and expert in meditation and creative visualization. She has worked for international organizations including the European Parliament and the UN, specializing in gender equality. Almost thirty years ago, Esperide decided to become a resident citizen of the Spiritual Federation of Damanhur to deepen her spiritual practices and metaphysical knowledge. There, she graduated in Spiritual Healing, specializing in cellular rejuvenation and energy activation of the human being. For many years, she has conducted research into ritual since ancient time, and led hundreds of people to retrieve memories of the vastness of their presence throughout time, in order to better identify their current life purpose. She is trained in transformative peace negotiation, and is a certified SoulCollage facilitator. Esperide speaks five languages fluently, is a writer, and loves poetry, literature, films and music. She is also a published lyricist.
Azadeh Ardakani is a strategic sustainability professional and has over 10 years of experience launching strategic impact-driven initiatives through partnerships, campaigns, annual reporting, conferences, and education. She has completed her postgraduate degree in Corporate Social Responsibility. Azadeh collaborates with purpose-driven leaders in need of strategic campaign development, execution, research and analysis, course design, impact assessment, and reporting. Her core values drive Azadeh. Azadeh is a co-contributor of The World Guide to Sustainable Enterprise and an art book about the challenges of the 21st century.
Azadeh teaches the Sustainable Development - Measuring Progress course.
Jure Biechonski has an MSc in Counselling-Psychology. He has traveled in his personal and academic journey from the Jungian approach, through Humanism and Existentialism to the transpersonal. The approach to psychological practice will be mainly through active imagination and symbolism. Jure is a board member and vice president of Eurotas (European Transpersonal Association). His interests are somatic therapy, psychoneuroimmunology, investigating how the mind is affecting the physical body, how our personal perceptions are influencing our psyche. By using symbolism Jure is interested in transpersonal art and transpersonal education, his presentations can be seen on YouTube. Jure is the director of a transpersonal school of Hypnotherapy and psychology in Estonia, as well as traveling the world offering seminars in medical schools, universities, and hospitals in 65 countries around the world.
Karen “Mari” Castle, PhD, is a Holistic Health practitioner and Author of two books. After experiencing a dream of Inanna in 2001, Mari wrote two manuscripts, along with her doctorate dissertation, to spread Inanna’s story to others. For the last decade, Mari has studied Ancient Wisdom, Transpersonal Psychology, Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture and has 15+ years experience with Shamanism and Holotropic Breathwork. She traveled internationally hosting workshops and sharing her knowledge of holistic medicine worldwide, with a special opportunity to work with Dr Andrew Weil on a Mindful Living project. She speaks widely about the collective of humankind reclaiming and healing their inner connection to the sacred feminine and masculine within, and restoring a connection with nature.
Apela Colorado Ph.D., of Oneida-Gaul ancestry, has dedicated her life’s work to bridging Western thought and indigenous worldviews. As a Ford Fellow, Dr. Colorado studied for her doctorate at both Harvard and Brandeis Universities and received her Ph.D. from Brandeis in Social Policy in 1982. She founded the Worldwide Indigenous Science Network (WISN) in 1989 to foster the revitalization, growth, and worldwide exchange of traditional knowledge and to safeguard the lives and work of the world’s endangered traditional culture practitioners. In 1997, Dr. Colorado was one of twelve women chosen from 52 countries by the State of the World Forum (http://www.worldforum.org) to be honored for her role as a woman leader.
Richard Combrink, MBA specialises in building businesses from start-up to re-engineering, across a number of industries. He has operated in roles that include Chairman, Director, CFO, Project Manager and CEO in numerous private and public businesses. He has significant risk-management experience, has been a management consultant for Cap Gemini and has deep experience in financial services, having established investment funds in both the public and the private sector, one of which was a private equity fund in sustainability. He is currently an independent management consultant specialising in helping entrepreneurs set up, manage and change their businesses.
Richard first qualified with a B.Sc. and HDE (both from University of Cape Town) to teach at high schools, then later qualified with a B.Compt. (University of South Africa) and MBA (UCT) to formalise his interest in business, although remains involved in teaching through adult education programmes.
Richard has a passion for assisting entrepreneurs and creating jobs through enterprise development. He writes articles, talks on the radio and presents to entrepreneur audiences about business investments, starting and growing a business and dealing with problems entrepreneurs face every day. He has been ‘tuned in’ to the development of sustainability from its initial singular focus on global warming to the full development of integrated reporting.
Brenda Crowther, MA holds a BA (Hons) in Painting & Art History; MA in French Philosophy; and a Diploma in Analytical Psychology (Zürich & London.) She is a Jungian analyst and depth psychologist living in eastern France. She has published many articles and at present is working on a book about the relationship of the soul of the Earth to our dreams. Her inspiration for training as a Jungian analyst was the book she is presenting: Women Who Run with the Wolves – and of course, her dreams. Brenda grew up in a magical, remote region of England, and from early on it was nature and the art of storytelling from her mother that nourished her dreams and deepened her soul.
Ruth Cunningham is a professional musician and a sound healing practitioner. She was a founding member of the group Anonymous 4 and toured for many years with them. Now she teaches workshops on using the voice and music as tools for healing and transformation. She also does meditations, public concerts and sings for church services. With the covid crisis she began doing more teaching and music online. For four years she was the musician at Ubiquity’s wisdom school at Chartres and there provided music for daily programs as well as playing by the Labyrinth and in the crypt. She also ran a choir for the participants. See also www.ruthcunningham.com and https://www.youtube.com/ruthreid/.
Jude Currivan PhD is a cosmologist, planetary healer, futurist and author. A life-long researcher into the nature of reality, she has a Masters Degree in Physics from Oxford University specializing in quantum physics and cosmology and a PhD in Archaeology from the University of Reading in the UK researching ancient cosmologies. Following an international business career culminating in her being one of the most senior businesswomen in the UK, in the mid-1990s she moved on to pursue a calling to serve the emergence of a global shift of awareness. She integrates leading-edge science, research into consciousness and universal wisdom teachings into a wholistic wholeworld-view, underpinning her work aimed at raising consciousness and facilitating transformational and sustainable resolutions to our collective and planetary issues. She is a member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle (www.evolutionaryleaders.net) and lives in Wiltshire, England. Jude’s sixth book The Cosmic Hologram (Inner Traditions, March 2017) is the first of the Transformation trilogy whose second and third books will be Gaia: Her-Story and Many Voices, One Heart. See www.judecurrivan.com. Jude teaches the Decoding Life course.
Gabriella Delmonte is Doctor in Sciences of Education, Expert of Training processes, Pedagogist, Transpersonal Advanced Professional Counselor, Supervisor and Trainer.
She studied and practiced Psychosynthesis and Biotransenergetics. She deals with their applications in the field of education and especially the training of educators. She works for the promotion of integral and transpersonal theories and methods for a change in the paradigm of education. She works as a counselor and trainer with educators, parents, teachers, counselors, music-therapists and others, who work in the field of help relationships. She worked at University Milano-Bicocca as an assistant in the Science of Educations department, in the courses of Psycho-Pedagogy of Language and Communication and Theories and models of Pedagogical Counseling. She also worked at the University of Studies of Milan as a trainer in Sciences of Education in a course for the enablement of future school teachers. She works as an education counselor and collaborates as a counselor and trainer with counseling schools, music-therapy schools, companies. She published some articles on Psychosynthetic Counseling. She is the author of books: Sulle tracce dell’Invisibile (On the path of the Invisible) and (with M.T. Marraffa) Laboratorio transpersonale (Transpersonal laboratory). Recently she authored the book (to be published) Transe Learning. An Integral Transpersonal Education model for education in 21st century, about an Integral Transpersonal Education paradigm and the contribution of Biotransenergetics to learning issues.
Gabriella teaches the Integral Transpersonal Education course.
Mary Francis Drake, MA, MSW is Senior Adjunct Faculty in the Psychology Department at the University of Massachusetts–Lowell Campus and Online. She has been teaching for UMASS Lowell for 35 years. Her teaching, private practice counseling and spiritual direction offerings have focused on women and raising the energy of the Feminine to restore our beings and our planet to balance. With 25 years as a Psycho-Spiritual Counselor, 17 years as a Priest, and now Bishop (2 years) in the Mystical Christian Tradition, Mary Francis continues to broaden her scope in the area of Conscious Evolution by ordaining independent Priests and offering spiritual direction to seekers. She is also a poet and author of 3 books related to her ecclesiastic training and its transforming power: This Much I Know Is True, 2016 (essay collection, amazon.com, lulu.com); beauty, grit & grace, 2018 (poetry collection, lulu.com); and Dancing in the Doorway: A Life’s Journey Between Worlds, 2022, (purposeful memoir, amazon.com, lulu.com). Mary Francis is currently a doctoral student in Ubiquity University’s Doctor of Ministry Program. She is also the mother of 3 young adult children. She has recently moved to Vermont to start a Queen Mothers Home for elderwomen to age in place with dignity and community, harvesting the gold of the elder years for the sake of future generations.
Guy du Plessis holds a BA in Psychological Counseling (cum laude), BA Honors in Psychology (cum laude), and MA in Psychology (cum laude) degrees from the University of South Africa. He is a PhD Candidate at Stellenbosch University, and conducting part of his PhD research at the Catholic University of Leuven. He is a registered psychological counsellor with the HPCSA, and has worked in the addiction treatment milieu for over 17 years as an addictions counsellor, head of treatment, program & clinical director, trainer, and researcher.
He is the author of the books An Integral Guide to Recovery: Twelve Steps and Beyond, and An Integral Foundation of Addiction and its Treatment, co-author of Mind-Body Workbook for Addiction: Effective Tools for Relapse Prevention and Recovery, and has published numerous academic articles in the fields of addiction treatment and studies, theoretical psychology and philosophy. He is a Faculty Member in the School of Behavioral Sciences at California Southern University, Faculty Member at the Wayne Institute for Advanced Psychotherapy at Bellarmine University, Researcher at Momentum Mental Healthcare SA, and Executive Director of the Mind-Body Bridging Institute.
Linda Elder, PhD is an educational psychologist and a prominent authority on critical thinking. She is President of the Foundation for Critical Thinking, and Executive Director of the Center for Critical Thinking. Dr. Elder has taught psychology and critical thinking at the college level and has presented to more than 50,000 educators at all levels. She has co-authored four books, including, “Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Learning and Your Life,” “Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life,” and, “30 Days to Better Thinking and Better Living.” She has co-authored 24 Thinker’s Guides on critical thinking.
Linda teaches the Foundations of Critical Thinking course.
Dr. Duane Elgin has an honorary Ph.D. for work in ecological and spiritual transformation from the California Institute of Integral Studies, an MBA from the Wharton Business School, and an M.A. in economic history from the University of Pennsylvania.
His books include: The Living Universe: Where Are We? Who Are We? Where Are We Going? (2009); Promise Ahead: A Vision of Hope and Action for Humanity’s Future (2000), Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life that is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich (2010, 1993 and 1981), and Awakening Earth: Exploring the Evolution of Human Culture and Consciousness (1993). With Joseph Campbell and other scholars, he co-authored the book Changing Images of Man (1982). In addition, Duane has contributed chapters to twenty-two books, and has published more than a hundred major articles and blogs.
In the 1970s, worked as a senior staff member of a Presidential Commission on the American Future, looking ahead from 1970 to 2000. He then worked as a senior social scientist with the think-tank SRI International where he coauthored numerous studies of the long-range future: Anticipating Future National and Global Problems (for the National Science Foundation), Alternative Futures for Environmental Policy (for EPA), The Future of the Automobile (for the Ford Motor Co.), and Limits to the Management of Large, Complex Systems (for the President’s Science Advisor).
Ludwig Max Fischer, PhD taught German Literature, intercultural communication and comparative mythology for over thirty years at several universities. He has published academic books and written articles in professional journals. Beyond his career as a teacher and scholar, he studied in depth the history of natural healing methods and took many seminars at Esalen, Findhorn, and Breitenbush, and is involved in the holistic, ecological movement. Ludwig Max Fischer has given lectures at Omega Institute, Rancho La Puerta and at conferences in many countries including China, Brazil and Egypt. Currently he resides with his wife Gabriella Martinelli and a Havanese named “Elvis” in Victoria, BC, Canada and is working on a third book on Hermann Hesse, a book on Edmond Szekely, and Arnold Ehret.
Dr. Grof received his Ph.D. from the Czechoslovakian Academy of Sciences and his M.D. from the Charles University School of Medicine, Czechoslovakia.
Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Dr. Grof is a psychiatrist with more than 50 years of experience with non-ordinary states of consciousness. In 1967, Dr. Grof was invited by Johns Hopkins University to be a clinical and research fellow. After completing his fellowship, Stan remained in the United States and continued his research as chief of psychiatric research at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center and as assistant professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. Stan then developed Holotropic Breathwork, an innovative form of experiential psychotherapy, with his wife, Christina. Currently, he is professor of psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). Among his publications are more than 130 articles in professional journals and the books Realms of the Human Unconscious; LSD Psychotherapy; Beyond the Brain; The Adventure of Self-Discovery; Beyond Death; The Stormy Search for the Self; The Holotropic Mind; Books of the Dead; The Cosmic Game; The Transpersonal Vision; The Consciousness Revolution; Psychology of the Future; When the Impossible Happens: and The Ultimate Journey.
Dr. Grof has taught courses on transpersonal psychology and holotropic breathwork.
Marilyn Hamilton, PhD is the author/innovator of the paradigm-shifting frameworks, research and impact designs of Integral City website, blogs, courses and books (Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive; Integral City Inquiry & Action: Designing Impact for the Human Hive; and Integral City 3.7: Reframing Complex Challenges for Gaia’s Human Hives). Marilyn Hamilton, Founder of Integral City Meshworks, lives in Findhorn The Park, Scotland. See also www.integralcity.com.
Andrew Harvey is an internationally renowned religious scholar, writer and teacher, and the author of more than 40 books, including the critically acclaimed The Hope; Son of Man, and Savage Grace with Carolyn Baker. Born in south India in 1952, Harvey has devoted much of his life to studying the world’s mystical traditions, including intensive study of Hinduism, Buddhism and, Sufi mysticism.
Andrew teaches in the annual Chartres Academy program and on other Ubiquity pilgrimages.
Regina U. Hess PhD is a clinical psychologist (University of Heidelberg, Germany) with a joint Ph.D. in Transpersonal Psychology (Institute of Transpersonal Psychology/Sofia University, U.S.) & and in embodied phenomenology (‘Centre for Qualitative Research, Bournemouth University, UK). She is a body-centered Gestalt psychotherapist, creative therapist, and transpersonal psychotherapist and supervisor. She works on the integration of ancient healing traditions with modern sciences. Regina has a broad experience in humanitarian fieldwork and research on issues of global health in India and Nepal. She has lived and worked extensively on different continents and understands herself as a global citizen. Regina survived the 2004 Asian Tsunami, which led to her doctoral dissertation and later specialization in transpersonal trauma work after global disasters. She maintains a private practice in Amsterdam Netherlands, with a focus on healing individual and collective/transgenerational transcultural trauma drawing on different shamanic traditions especially the therapeutic use of altered states of consciousness. She is faculty at the Alef Trust, UK and the Ubiquity University-Integral Transpersonal Institute, Netherlands/Italy in the PhD program and at international transpersonal educational institutes, as well as being an independent researcher. She has specialized in embodied phenomenological approaches and transcultural field research. She intertwines arts-based methods and film for the dissemination of knowledge to a wider public. She is the head of peer-reviewing at the Integral Transpersonal Journal and is on the editorial board at the Forum Qualitative Social Research. Regina is Secretary of the Board of Directors of the European Transpersonal Association and the International Transpersonal Association. She is co-founder of the international Transpersonal Research Network and of the EUROTAS Division of Transpersonal Research and co-organizes the bi-annual Transpersonal Research Colloquium. She is a member of the Swiss Medical Association for Psycholytic Therapy, and is in the Integration Team of the MIND European Foundation for Psychedelic Science co-developing and co-facilitating integration courses, manual development and research.
Jim Hickman is the founding Board Chair of Ubiquity University and serves as the company’s CFO. He spent 30 years developing economic, professional and cultural relations between the United States and the countries within the former Soviet bloc, which included co-founding and serving as President/CEO for three companies: the Russian long-distance company Rustel; commercial enterprise company, AJ Ventures, Inc.; and Mosaic Ne
tworks, focused on international telecommunications projects. He also served as VP of the State of the World Forum, working with President Gorbachev and Jim Garrison. His publications include Your Y2K Personal Protection Plan (Harper-Collins); and numerous published articles. Jim received his Masters Degree in Psychology from Sonoma State College. He is a certified instructor from the Institute of HeartMath. Since 2005, he has lived in Bolivia with his family, where he is currently writing two books – Successful Living in Turbulent Times and The Illusion of Reality.
Jim teaches Neuroscience at Ubiquity.
Michelle Holliday, MA is a visionary author, facilitator, consultant and researcher. For the past two decades, her work has centered around “thrivability” — a set of perspectives and practices based on a view of organisations and communities as dynamic, self-organizing living systems. Her research and practical experience are brought together in the highly acclaimed book, The Age of Thrivability: Vital Perspectives and Practices for a Better World, as well as in a popular TEDx talk. As part of the global Art of Hosting community of practice, she has designed and hosted hundreds of strategic conversations for clients and the public, from 5 to 500 people. After living in 19 cities, including Moscow, London, Paris, New York and a small town in Scotland, she now calls Montréal home.
Michelle teaches the Foundations of Regeneration course.
Dr. Jean Houston received her Ph.D. from the Union Graduate School and her B.A. from Barnard College.
Dr. Houston is a scholar, philosopher and researcher in human capacities and has long been regarded as one of the principal founders of the human potential movement. Together with her husband Dr. Robert Masters, Dr. Houston founded the Foundation for Mind Research in 1968. She is also founder and principal teacher of the Mystery School, a program of cross-cultural, mythic and spiritual studies, dedicated to teaching history, philosophy, the new physics, psychology, anthropology, myth and the many dimensions of human potential. A powerful and dynamic speaker, Jean is also founder of the International Institute of Social Artistry™.
She has also worked extensively with 40 different cultures, helping them to maintain and strengthen their own uniqueness as they become part of the global community. Dr. Houston has recently formed the Jean Houston Foundation as an independent non-profit leadership training organization that designs and delivers innovative and catalytic leadership training globally, assisting in creating positive change at the local and global level, and working together with the UN, the Institute of Cultural Affairs, and other organizations. She is a prolific writer and author of 19 published books, including A Passion for the Possible, Search for the Beloved Life Force, The Possible Human, Public Like a Frog, A Mythic Life: Learning to Live Our Greater Story, The Passion of Isis and Osiris, and Jump Time.
Dr. Houston has taught a range of courses at the graduate level, in particular at the Chartres Academy.
Dr Wolfhardt Janu is core faculty for the Hack your World courses. He holds a PhD in chemistry and worked for 10 years in academic research. He then moved to be a freelancer in software and hardware development for customized laboratory solutions.
At the same time he set up his own private laboratory to investigate the relationship between matter and consciousness, his main scientific interest for 25 years. Together with his colleagues and friends he developed a new method to scan the output of two random number event generators (REG’s) for correlations, which enables one to detect with high precision changes in a non-local field, mainly known as the field of consciousness.
On his journey, he has been practicing Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu for 19 years, discovered African Shamanism (Sangoma) and (co-)led several private scientific teams investigating the “paranormal” in theory and practice. In 2007 he got to know the work of Ken Wilber and since then he and his team(s) have been using the Integral map as the main tool to navigate and communicate on the margins of the so-called “unknown”.
Wolfhardt Janu is married, has two children and lives in Austria.
Dr. Pier Luigi Lattuada of the Integral Transpersonal Institute, Milan, Italy is a Medical Doctor. He has a PhD in Clinical Psychology and is also a psychotherapist and founder of Biotransenergetics.
Pier Luigi is the Director of Integral Transpersonal Institute of Milan and of the Transpersonal Psychotherapy School, which has been fully recognized by the Italian Ministry of Education since 2002. He is also Director of Transpersonal Counseling Training in Milan.
Pier Luigi is a board member of the Italian Psychotherapy Associations Federation, a member of Story of Sanitary Art Academy, Rome, past medical director of Life Gate Holistic Medicine of Milan, and Scientific Director of Integral Transpersonal Journal. He is co-Vice-President of EUROTAS.
Pier Luigi has published thirteen books since 1985, more than 30 articles since 1980 and presented Biotransenergetics in more than 50 International Conferences in several countries: Italy, France, Spain, Austria, Moldova, Latvia, Switzerland, Bulgaria, USA, Brazil, Greece, since 1988.
David Luke PhD is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Greenwich, UK, where he has been teaching an undergraduate course on the Psychology of Exceptional Human Experience since 2009, and he is also Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Psychedelic Research, Imperial College London, and Lecturer on the MSc Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology for Alef Trust and Liverpool John Moores University. His research focuses on transpersonal experiences, anomalous phenomena and altered states of consciousness, especially via psychedelics, having published more than 100 academic papers in this area, including ten books, most recently Otherworlds: Psychedelics and Exceptional Human Experience (2nd ed., 2019). When he is not running clinical drug trials with LSD, conducting DMT field experiments or observing apparent weather control with Mexican shamans he directs the Ecology, Cosmos and Consciousness salon at the Institute of Ecotechnics, London, and is a cofounder and director of Breaking Convention: International Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness. He has given over 350 invited public lectures and conference presentations; won teaching, research and writing awards; organised numerous festivals, conferences, symposia, seminars, retreats, expeditions, pagan cabarets and pilgrimages; and has studied techniques of consciousness alteration from South America to India, from the perspective of scientists, shamans and Shivaites. He lives life on the edge of Sussex.
David teaches on the Science and Consciousness courses.
Lee Mason is a graduate of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA), where he studied Physical Therapy. During this time, Lee facilitated thousands of treatment sessions with patients in various sectors of the Dutch healthcare industry, including private practices, rehabilitation centers, a hospice and a university hospital (VU University Medical Center Amsterdam). As a teacher, Lee has facilitated courses and workshops for students of universities in Amsterdam (UvA), Utrecht (UU) and Eindhoven (TU). In addition, he has provided individual coaching for clients employed by Accenture, Amsterdam University (VU) and the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture & Science (OCW). Lee has a keen interest in holistic approaches to health and well-being and has studied systemic therapy (constellation work) in the lineage of Bert Hellinger. Through the Integral Flourishing course, Lee aims to offer participants a number of practical techniques that can help them to concretely improve the quality of their daily lives. Lee teaches the Integral Flourishing courses. Parts 1 and 2.
Kazuma Matoba, PhD was born in Kobe/Japan and studied Linguistics and International Politics at Sophia University in Tokyo. After his PhD study in Germany, he has taught and researched at several Universities in Japan and Germany. Since 2018 he has been Professor for intercultural education at Witten/Herdecke University in Germany. He is co-founder of the Institute for Global Integral Competence (www.ifgic.org), managing director of the Academy of Inner Science Graduate Program, and Master of Arts in Inner Science at Ubiquity University. One of his research topics is “Global Social Witnessing” and leading a research project (www.globalsocialwitnessing.org).
Peter Merry received an M.Sc. in Human Ecology from Edinburgh University, a B.A. Combined Honours in French and German from Exeter University, and a Ph.D. from Ubiquity University.
Peter serves as Ubiquity University’s Chief Innovation Officer. He is a recognised expert in the field of evolutionary systems dynamics and Spiral Dynamics Integral in particular. His first book was published in English and Dutch (Evolutionary Leadership, 2005) and his second in 2019 (Why Work? on designing work for people and planet). His third book Leading from the Field was published at the end of November 2020. He has an MSc in Human Ecology from Edinburgh University and a PhD from Ubiquity’s Wisdom School on volution theory (see www.volutiontheory.net). His personal website is www.petermerry.org. His academic profile with papers can be found at https://ubiquityuniversity.academia.edu/PeterMerry/Papers.
Peter teaches the Transformational Leadership, Merry Musings and Introduction to Energetics courses as well as hosting the annual Science and Consciousness event.
Eduard Muller, PhD is Founder and rector of the University for International Cooperation since 1994 working on permanent innovation in education, leading UCI to be a pioneer in online education in over 60 countries. He has overseen the launch of many innovative programs in many different fields. He has visited over 90 countries and carried out professional activities in more than 35 of them on all continents, having given more than 300 international conferences across five continents in recent years on global change and regenerative development.
He is currently globally recognized for his work in Regenerative Development leading the Regenerate Costa Rica initiative to convert the country into the first actively regenerative nation. He is a member of the Global Council for the Wellbeing Economy Alliance and the Bounce Beyond project. He was a member of the Scientific Council for Climate Change of Costa Rica and country negotiator at the Convention of Biological Diversity. He is also the chairholder of the UNESCO Chair for Biosphere Reserves and Natural and Mixed World Heritage sites.
Dr. Caroline Myss received a Ph.D. from Greenwich University, an M.A. from Mundelein/Loyola University, and a B.A. in Journalism from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College.
Dr. Myss teaches in Ubiquity University’s Wisdom School of Graduate Studies and at the undergraduate level. She began her career as a medical intuitive in 1984 when she met Dr. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D., a Harvard trained neurosurgeon with an interest in the science of medical intuition. They began a professional collaboration that continues to this day. During their early years together, Dr. Shealy helped Caroline to develop her skills by having her conduct health readings on his patients. During this time, Dr. Myss developed the field of Energy Anatomy, a science that partners specific emotional/psychological/physical/spiritual stress patterns with the specific diseases these patterns create or influence. This analysis proved so accurate that it became the subject of a book co-written by Caroline and Norm, The Creation of Health. In 1996, Caroline compiled her medical intuitive experience with her work in the field of human consciousness for the book, Anatomy of the Spirit, a New York Times bestseller published in 18 languages. Her next book, Why People Don’t Heal and How They Can also became a New York Times bestseller, as did her fifth book, Sacred Contracts.
In 2003, Caroline founded CMED (Caroline Myss Education), her own educational institute. The Institute draws students from 19 nations and across the United States. In 2004, her sixth book, Invisible Acts of Power, again was another New York Times bestseller as was Entering the Castle: Spiritual Direction for Dialoging With Your Soul, published in 2007. Her latest book is Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason, published 2009.
Dr. Myss has taught a number of courses at Ubiquity including at the Chartres Academy.
Ing. Arnold Nageler worked on site as a mechanical engineer in installation technology and civil engineering for fifteen years, as well as being a salesman in this area.
He has been training in Martial Arts and Japanese natural Medicine for over 20 years, and holds a master teacher degree in both disciplines. Arnold’s studies of Japanese medicine led him to study therapeutic massage, including many different Western and Eastern approaches and techniques. In this he founded a new life - treating patients, giving courses in Martial Arts, Amatsu Ryoho, Self-Hacking and development, communication, body language and natural movement. He is the highest ranked Amatsu Ryoho practitioner in Austria.
On his journey he has been involved with several native Traditions, mainly Shinto – Japanese Tradition, the Lakota Tradition, and Hungarian and Mongolian Traditions. He leads Vision Quests and facilitates Sweat Lodge Rituals based on the Lakota Traditions. Arnold integrates music, dancing, carving, drawing, painting and reading in his life, and does all kinds of relevant research to develop a bigger picture.
He is married, has a daughter, and lives in Austria.
Michael Oswald holds an MSc in computer science, and works in the space industry as a senior expert for mission control systems and satellite testing.
He has been training in Japanese martial arts and Japanese medicine for more than 20 years, and is head of the Austrian Association for Promotion of Amatsu Ryoho (a special Japanese Medicine), for which he also holds a teachers degree. He is also qualified in western therapies (massage, NLP master practitioner) and has been training and using other disciplines like EMDR, psycho-kinesiology, systemic therapies and shamanism in his work.
Through the NLP training, he became engaged with Integral Metatheory and uses it as his main tool for development, teaching, treating and work. He has held several talks and taught courses about Integral Metatheory and how to apply the principles in real life. He is also a musician, playing guitar and a little bit of keyboard, and is trying out vocals by
writing, arranging and producing his own music.
Paula Petry, PhD is an author, speaker, presenter, and energy medicine practitioner. She specializes in stress and burnout, grief and loss, mindfulness, and personal empowerment.
Dr. Paula Petry’s journey of self-discovery, healing, and personal empowerment began with the birth of her daughter, Alexandra, who was born with a severe disability. In lieu of accepting the fate prescribed by physicians, other health professionals, and educators, Paula chose to pave a new path for not only her daughter, but for many others. She became a strong advocate to meet the needs of her daughter and in that she formed what is now one of the leading parent advocacy organization in the country. She brought that knowledge and her passion for family-centered care services to her faculty position at the University of Miami, School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics— for over a decade preparing pediatricians to work with children with special health care needs. Her daughter’s death brought great loss, suffering, and new beginnings. She studied energy medicine, sound healing, mindfulness, and somatic therapies to heal. She now finds purpose and meaning in helping others pave their path forward to their own bright beginnings.
Dr. Petry has provided hundreds of energy medicine healing sessions to individuals with chronic pain, grief, depression, anxiety, burnout, and high levels of stress. Individuals consistently report higher satisfaction with their lives, a sense of renewal, and a new found purpose and meaning in their lives.
D.Min., Wisdom University
M.F.A., Naropa University
B.A., Purdue University
Rev. Dr. Rayne is a Unitarian Universalist Lay Community Minister and Spiritual Director in Buxton, Maine and also serves as Director of Organizational Architecture for Ubiquity University. Calen is a member of our core faculty for the Chartres Academy.
In both his Spiritual Direction and Earth Medicine practices, Dr. Rayne draws on decades of experience and training in following disciplines: labyrinth, reiki, kaballah, meditation, energy healing, Himalayan singing bowl, earth energies, feng shui/space clearing, dowsing, contemplative brush, Egyptian Bio-geometry, alchemy, sacred geometry, Druid geomancy, psychomanteum and medical intuitive work. He has trained with alchemists of the first religion of the Himalayas (nameless religion), known as “patterns of heaven and earth” or “sacred conventions.”
Dr. Rayne builds labyrinths, designs and consults on sacred landscapes, and produces energy mandalas and altars for healing for a global clientele. Visit themonklibrary .com for more about Calen’s work.
Calen teaches Energetics of Art (1, 2 and 3) and is faculty at the Chartres Academy and Science and Consciousness.
Kate Raworth (sounds like ‘Ray-worth’) is a renegade economist focused on exploring the economic mindset needed to address the 21st century’s social and ecological challenges, and is the creator of the Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries. She is a Senior Research Associate at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute, where she teaches on the Masters in Environmental Change and Management. She is also Professor of Practice at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. Her internationally acclaimed framework of Doughnut Economics has been widely influential amongst sustainable development thinkers, progressive businesses, and political activists, and she has presented it to audiences ranging from the UN General Assembly to the Occupy movement. Her book, Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist was published in 2017 and has been translated into 18 languages.
Banafsheh is the Co-director of Chartres Academy and faculty at Ubiquity University.
A master Persian sacred dancer, choreographer, transformational teacher and founder of Dance of Oneness®, she performs and teaches internationally, initiating people into the wisdom of their body, inspiring them to live their everyday life as a sacred dance. Banafsheh is one of the only dance artists who has mastered a fusion of high level dance technique with spiritual embodiment. She is among the few bearers of authentic Persian dance in the world, and the pioneer in creating a liberated feminine expression in the Sufi dance genre previously performed only by men.
Banafsheh's dance certification program, Dance of Oneness® is dance practiced as a spiritual path and science of embodiment—a joyful, loving and contemplative way to embody spirit and live freely, peacefully, passionately and of service in the world. Operating in 3 dimensions: the art of dance, rigorous technique and self-expression; wisdom teachings; and healing; Dance of Oneness® is based in Sufi ritual and whirling, flamenco, Persian and Modern dance, Tai chi and Chi gong. Sufi teachings and the poetry of Rumi, Divine Feminine wisdom, Science of Mindfulness, the Gurdjieff Work, Chinese Medicine and the Chakra system are the theoretical groundwork.
With a Masters of Fine Arts in Dance and Choreography from UCLA and a Masters in Chinese Medicine, Banafsheh is dedicated to individual and collective healing through conscious dance. Banafsheh's award-winning work has been presented in North America, Europe and Australia. Her dance film, In the Fire of Grace traces Rumi's journey of the soul in dance. Based in Topanga, California, she performs and teaches across North America, Europe and Turkey.
Banafsheh teaches at the annual Chartres Academy.
Born and educated in Scotland, Manda Scott started life as a veterinarian, specialising in anaesthesia and equine neonatal intensive care. She worked in the clinical departments of the Universities of Cambridge and Dublin, at specialist equine practice in Newmarket and at the Animal Health Trust. The shift to a career as a novelist began with crime novels, but it was the move to writing the internationally best-selling Boudica: Dreaming series that allowed her to give up the day job. Soon after publication of the first book, she began teaching contemporary shamanic practice (shamanic dreaming) and has done so ever since. More recently, she gained a Masters in Regenerative Economics from Schumacher College, as a result of which, she set up Accidental Gods as a podcast and membership programme to facilitate the conscious evolution of humanity, in service to the web of life. She lives with her wife on a smallholding on the border between England and Wales and is currently training in veterinary and human homeopathy. (Photo of Manda Scott credited to Faith Tillera)
Manda teaches the Boudica course.
Cynthia Scott, PhD is a Professor at Presidio Graduate School and teaches the Leadership for Sustainability Course for MBA, MPA and Executive Certificate students. As a founding partner of Changeworks, she designed, lead and coached leaders facing a broad range of social innovation and organizational changes. She uses her background as an anthropologist, psychologist and designer to create mission driven, high engagement approaches to creating sustainability initiatives. Cynthia is co-author of 14 books including, “Leadership for Sustainability and Change.” She completed her BS in Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley, her M.P.H. in Health Planning and Administration at University of Michigan and her PhD in Psychology at the Fielding Graduate School.
Cynthia teaches the Leading Change course.
Dr. Rupert Sheldrake received a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and a B.A. in Biology from Cambridge University.
He is a biologist and author of more than 75 scientific papers and 10 books. A former research fellow of the Royal Society, he studied the natural sciences at Cambridge University. He then studied philosophy at Harvard University, where he was a Frank Knox Fellow, before returning to Clare College, where he completed a Ph.D. in biochemistry. From 1968 to 1969, based in the botany department of the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Dr. Sheldrake studied rain forest plants. From 1974 to 1985 he was principal plant physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Hyderabad, India. While in India, Rupert also lived for 1-1/2 years at the ashram of Fr Bede Griffiths in Tamil Nadu, where he wrote his first book, A New Science of Life. In September 2005, he was appointed to the Perrott-Warwick Scholarship administered by Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr. Sheldrake’s books include: Dogs that Know When Their Owners are Coming Home, and Other Unexplained Powers of Animals (1999) (Winner of the Book of the Year Award from the British Scientific and Medical Network); The Sense of Being Stared At, And Other Aspects of the Extended Mind (2003); Trialogues at the Edge of the West With Ralph Abraham and Terence McKenna (1992); and Natural Grace: Dialogues on Science and Spirituality (1996), and his most recent Science Set Free (2013).
Dr. Sheldrake has taught various workshops including this one on The Frontiers of Science.
Vandana Shiva, PhD holds a Master’s degree in physics and PhD in the philosophy of science, and has recevied an impressive number of awards. In 1993 she won the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”. In 2003, Time magazine had called her an “environmental hero” and Asiaweek magazine nominated her one of the continent’s five most powerful communicators.
In 1982 she created the Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, and in 1987 she founded Navdanya, a movement in defence of food sovereignty, seeds, biodiversity and the rights of small farmers which promotes organic agriculture and fair trade.
Shiva has written numerous books, including “Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology“, “The Violence of the Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology, and Politics” and “Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge”. She is on the boards of a number of organisations, including the World Future Council, International Forum on Globalisation and Slow Food International. In 2004 she founded Bija Vidyapeeth, or the School of the Seed, an international college where, among other things, meetings on organic farming techniques and natural insecticides are held.
Prof. Julene Siddique (MA, MMus, CERT) is the arts and impact specialist for the Global Leadership 21 project – a partnership between the World Academy of Art and Science and UN Office Geneva. Through this she is bringing forward arts within the socio-systemic framework for global systems change. She is at the cutting edge of socio-systemic research and the new paradigm of social sciences bringing together system sciences and social sciences for an integral science of society. Her research is focused on understanding mindsets, mechanisms and intersectional dynamics occurring between individual and collective processes of change and transformation. Her current framework for ‘Socio-Systemic Innovation’ is being brought forward by The Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research for prototyping innovations for integral societal transformation. She is an active contributor towards the new paradigm of social sciences being brought forward by The World Academy of Art and Science. She holds an MA in Anthropology of Development from SOAS, University London as well as an MMus in Composition from the Royal College of Music. Julene teaches the High Impact Innovation Design course.
Dr. Gyorgyi Szabo is the Dean of Graduate Studies of Ubiquity University. She was a Co-Founder and Academic Dean of the ‘Ervin Laszlo Center for Advanced Study’ (ELCAS). She served as the Director of Research and Development of the Center’s Exploratoria Program. Gyorgyi was co-creator of the WorldShift International Foundation, and the WorldShift 2012 organizations, and is on the Advisory Board of the Memnosyne Foundation. She lectures worldwide and has published two books and papers including in The Scientific and Medical Network’s Review, The Shift Network, and World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research. Gyorgyi Szabo holds a PhD in Sociology - Summa Cum Laude awarded by the Sorbonne, University of Paris. She is also a trained Reiki and Reconnective Healing practitioner. Her holistic approach to metaphysics and interest in conscious evolution serves as foundation for her work in facilitating cooperative evolution toward a peaceful and sustainable world.
Becca Tarnas, PhD, is a scholar, artist, and editor of Archai: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology. She received her doctorate in Philosophy and Religion from the California Institute of Integral Studies, with her dissertation titled The Back of Beyond: The Red Books of C.G. Jung and J.R.R. Tolkien. Becca received her BA from Mount Holyoke College in Environmental Studies and Theatre Arts, and MA in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at CIIS. Her research interests include depth psychology, literature, philosophy, and the ecological imagination. She teaches in the Jungian Psychology and Archetypal Studies program at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and for online platforms such as Nura Learning, PsicoCymática, and the Astrology Hub. Becca lives in Nevada City, California, where she has an astrological counseling practice.
Richard Tarnas received a Ph.D. from Saybrook Institute and a B.A. cum laude from Harvard University.
Dr. Tarnas is an instructor in Ubiquity University’s Wisdom School of Graduate Studies and at the undergraduate level. He was born in 1950 in Geneva, Switzerland of American parents. He grew up in Michigan, where he studied Greek, Latin, and the classics under the Jesuits. Beginning in 1972 after graduating from Harvard, he lived and worked for ten years at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, studying with Joseph Campbell, Gregory Bateson, Huston Smith, and Stanislav Grof, and later served as Director of Programs and Education.
From 1980 to 1990, he wrote The Passion of the Western Mind, a narrative history of Western thought which became a bestseller and continues to be a widely used text in universities throughout the world. His most recent book, Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, received the Book of the Year Prize from the Scientific and Medical Network in the UK.
He is the Founding Director of the graduate program in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where he currently teaches. He also teaches on the faculty of the Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, and gives many public lectures and workshops in the U.S. and abroad.
Dr. Tarnas has taught a range of courses for Ubiquity including at the Chartres Academy.
Simona Vigo has a Master’s Degree in Philosophy at the State University of Milan. She is a transpersonal counselor and counselor trainer and graduated from the Integral Transpersonal Institute (ITI) in Milan. In Italy she is member of AssoCounseling (Professional Association of Counselor category). She is a biotransenergetic teacher and tutor supervisor of the Integral Transpersonal Counseling Training in ITI. She is also trainer in BteBodyMindWork (psycho-bodily awareness and dynamic mindfulness practices). She practices as a counselor with an integral-transpersonal approach in individual and group settings. She conducts workshops aimed at discovering and consolidating Soft Skills to promote awareness and the expression of their talents. In particular she works in counseling supporting for the ONLUS Hospital Volunteers Association (AVO) in Sesto San Giovanni (Milan). During the Master Degree in Philosophy, she deepened her studies in humanistic and archetypal psychology both through university courses and numerous theoretical-experiential masters and personal analysis paths. During the training in Transpersonal Counseling she worked on the study of ancient spiritual traditions, in particular related to shamanism. She is founder of the Integral Transpersonal Writing (ITW), an innovative method of writing which integrates techniques of awareness and breadth of consciousness with the philosophical and transpersonal vision. Since 2019 ITW has become a course of Integral and Transpersonal Writing for Integral Transpersonal Institute in the ITI Writing Unit, of which she is responsible. Previously she carried out publishing activities at the Apogeo Srl publishing house for some years first as a collaborator and then as an employee. Then, for ten years, she was chief curator and responsible for the Agorarte SRL Contemporary Art gallery. Responsible for the related editorial series, author of the drafting of all the critical texts relating to the artists and the curatorship of the exhibitions in Milan and Buenos Aires.
Ben Wolfe’s consulting, convening and community-building work on complex issues has attracted clients and collaborators from Canada and the USA to New Zealand. As one of Canada’s Art of Hosting facilitation practitioners he has designed, hosted and facilitated emergent leadership, evaluation, planning and change processes with mental health agencies; regional tourism organizations; leading health, environment and arts NGOs; Fortune 500 companies; community groups and processes; purpose-driven businesses; churches in transition and emerging networks. A past Director of Communications of local and national NGOs, Ben is a winner of multiple awards for his communications and community-building work and is a co-founder of 30 years of participatory initiatives for the public good. Ben is also a photographer, poet and professional square dance caller.
Polly Young-Eisendrath, PhD, is a Jungian analyst, psychologist, and psychotherapist in private practice. She is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Vermont and the founder and director of the Institute for Dialogue Therapy. She is past president of the Vermont Association for Psychoanalytic Studies and a founding member of the Vermont Institute for the Psychotherapies. Polly is also the chairperson of Enlightening Conversations, a series of conversational conferences which bring together participants from the front lines of Buddhism and psychoanalysis. She is the author or editor of eighteen books, ranging from parenting, adult development, intimate and parental love, Buddhist theory, Jungian psychology to women’s development, couple therapy, couple development, and various paths to awakening/enlightenment from meditation to personal love. These books have been translated into more than twenty languages. Her most recent works are The Self-Esteem Trap: Raising Confident and Compassionate Kids in an Age of Self-Importance and Love Between Equals: Relationship as a Spiritual Path. Dr. Young-Eisendrath is a lifelong Buddhist practitioner in Zen, Tibetan, and Vipassana lineages and brings decades of leadership in mindfulness practice within the Buddhist context as well as integrated into her clinical work. See also https://young-eisendrath.com.
