SUMMIT PRESENTERS

40 Leading Experts to Guide You

KUTE BLACKSON


Visionary, Transformational Teacher, Author, You Are the One and The Magic of Surrender

STEPHEN PORGES, PHD


Psychologist, Trauma Expert, Research Scientist, Professor of Psychiatry & Originator of Polyvagal Theory

ARAWANA HAYASHI


Meditation Teacher, Choreographer, Performer, Founder of Social Presencing Theatre, Co-Founder of the Presencing Institute

FLEET MAULL, PHD


 Author, Growth Mindset Expert, Meditation Teacher, Social Entrepreneur

RICHARD STROZZI-HECKLER, PHD


Author, Executive Coach, Aikido Black Belt, Somatics Expert, Founder Strozzi Institute

ANDREA PENNINGTON, MD


 Integrative Physician, Trauma Expert, Author of Top Ten Traits of Highly Resilient People

CHRISTOPHER GERMER, PHD


Co-Developer of the Mindful Self-Compassion program & Co-Founder of the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion

DIANE MUSHO HAMILTON


Zen Teacher, Award Winning Mediator, Author, Everything is Workable, Compassionate Conversations

KATIE HENDRICKS, PHD


Author, Psychotherapist, Pioneering Relationship Expert & Conscious Loving Teacher

GAY HENDRICKS, PHD


Author, Psychotherapist, Pioneering Relationship Expert & Conscious Loving Teacher​

VALERIE MASON-JOHN


Co-Creator, Mindfulness Based Addiction Recovery, Co-Founder & Co-Author of 8th Step Recovery

DAWA TARCHIN PHILLIPS


President, International Mindfulness Teachers Association, Founder/CEO, Empowerment Holdings

RONALD SIEGEL, PSYD


Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School, Clinician, Author of The Mindfulness Solution​

LORI SCHWANBECK


Senior Faculty Member at Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute (SIYLI)

JUD BREWER, MD, PHD


Psychiatrist, Mindfulness & Neuroscience Researcher, Habits and Addictions Expert, Author, The Craving Mind

EVELYN OMEGA CANNON, JD


Retired Judge and former Chief of Litigation in Maryland, former President of Baltimore YMCA, Buddhist Practitioner & Meditation Instructor

SPRING WASHAM


Meditation Teacher, Shamanic Practitioner, a Co-founder of East Bay Meditation Center, and Author of A Fierce Heart

ELENA ANTONOVA, PHD


Neuroscience of Mindfulness Researcher, Brunel University London, Kings College London, University of Hertfordshire

SUSAN OLESEK


Transformation Consultant, Human Potentialist, Founder Enneagram Prison Project​

JUSTIN MICHAEL WILLIAMS​


Author, Transformational Speaker, Musician, Mindfulness Teacher, Activist

DAN SIEGEL, MD


Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Founder of Mindsight Institute, Best-Selling Author of Aware, Mind & Brain Storm

SHARON SALZBERG


Co-Founder Insight Meditation Society (IMS), Bestselling Author, Real Change and Real Happiness

JON KABAT-ZINN, PHD


Founder, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Professor of Medicine Emeritus, University of Massachusetts Medical School​

TARA BRACH, PHD


Psychologist, Buddhist Teacher, Author of Radical Acceptance & Radical Compassion

BYRON KATIE


Bestselling Author, Question Your Thinking and Change the World and Loving What is

YONGEY MINGYUR RINPOCHE


Meditation Master, Bestselling Author, Joy of Living, Spiritual Director of Tergar

RHONDA MAGEE, JD


Professor of Law, Mindfulness Teacher, Social Justice Advocate, Author of The Inner Work of Racial Justice

JACK KORNFIELD, PHD


Co-Founder Insight Meditation Society (IMS), Bestselling Author, The Wise Heart and No Time Like The Present

THOMAS HÜBL


Founder, Academy of Inner Science, Author of Healing Collective Trauma

KELLY MCGONIGAL, PHD


Health Psychologist at Stanford University, Author, The Willpower Instinct and The Neuroscience of Change

RICHARD J. DAVIDSON, PHD


Neuroscientist, Founder-Director of the Center for Healthy Minds, Best Selling Author, The Emotional Life of Your Brain and Altered Traits

KRISTIN NEFF, PHD


Co-Founder, Center for Mindful Self-Compassion, Author of Fierce Self-Compassion

TRUDY GOODMAN, PHD


Insight Meditation Teacher, Author, Psychotherapist, Founding Teacher at InsightLA

BESSEL VAN DER KOLK, MD


Professor of Psychiatry Boston University, Pioneering Trauma Researcher and Clinician, Author of The Body Keeps the Score

KOYA WEBB


Yoga Teacher, Holistic Health Coach, Author, Transformational Trainer

RICK HANSON, PHD


Psychologist, Senior Fellow of UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, and NY Times best-selling author of six books including Buddha’s Brain

OTTO SCHARMER, PHD


Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management, Founder of Presencing Institute, Author of Theory U: Leading from the Future as it Emerges

KAIRA JEWEL LINGO


Mindfulness Teacher, Educator, Editor, Planting Seeds: Practicing Mindfulness With Children

PETER A. LEVINE, PHD


Psychologist, Trauma expert, Founder of Somatic Experiencing, and Author of Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma

WINONA LADUKE


Environmentalist, economist, and writer, known for her work on tribal land claims and preservation, as well as sustainable development