A true world citizen, Pierre Pradervand has laboured a great deal of his life for social justice, living in or visiting 40 countries on every continent. From his Geneva home, Pierre is now active as a writer, speaker and workshop facilitator, helping people to live simpler, yet richer, more contented lives. His workshops provide personal development tools that empower attendees to strengthen their internal anchors and advance on their spiritual path. Pierre is also an independent celebrant for weddings, burials and other events.

Fred Matser is the founder and chairman of the Fred Foundation and a leading Dutch humanitarian. He has been active in social and ecological transformation and is the founder or co-founder of a wide range of charitable foundations that span the fields of health, environment, nature conservation, peace and global transformation. The principles underlying these foundations are based on inspiring co-creativity, self-sufficiency, empowerment, inspiration and harmony. Fred is the author of “Beyond Us”, released February 1st, 2021.

Christopher Keevil is an ordained Zen priest and senior dharma teacher in the Single Flower Sangha. He has been practicing Zen since 1991 and teaching since 1998 in the lineage of his teacher, Zen Master Bo Mun (George Bowman), who is a dharma heir of the Korean Zen Master Seung Sahn.

Christiane Michelberger, is a retired physician, psychoanalyst, and past spiritual seeker who currently mentors seekers in their quest to awaken.

Over ten thousand hours of meditation and 40 years of studying Buddhist scriptures didn’t stop her from having debilitating fear when she found out she had breast cancer.

She wasn’t able to cope and questioned whether everything she had done up until that point was a complete lie. She discovered a book that led her to ask one simple question. That one question led to a true awakening. She realized she had been spiritually sleepwalking. She had replaced one illusion for another. But this was only the first step.

Dr Hassan Tetteh is a US Navy Captain, an associate professor of surgery at the Uniform Services University of Health Sciences, and adjunct faculty at the Howard University College of Medicine. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow from 2012 to 2013, assigned to the US Congress Congressional Budget Committee. Currently, Dr. Tetteh is a thoracic surgeon for Medstar Health and Walter Reed National Military Center. He leads a specialized thoracic adaptive recovery team in Washington DC, and his research in thoracic transplantation aims to expand heart and lung recoveries and save lives.