Geneen Roth’s pioneering books were among the first to link compulsive eating and perpetual dieting with deeply personal and spiritual issues that go far beyond food, weight and body image. She believes that we eat the way we live, and that our relationship to food, money and love is an exact reflection of our deepest held beliefs about ourselves and the amount of joy, abundance, pain or scarcity we believe we have (or are allowed to have) in our lives.

In this inspiring dialogue, Geneen talks about how instead of being punishing, impatient and harsh with ourselves regarding our decisions and beliefs about food, the way to transform our relationship with food is to be open, curious and kind with ourselves. She’ll also explore the benefits that come from using meditation, inquiry, and a set of seven eating guidelines that are the foundation of natural eating.

Geneen Roth has appeared on many national television shows including: The Oprah Show, 20/20, The NBC Nightly News, The View and Good Morning America. She has also written monthly columns in Good Housekeeping Magazine and Prevention Magazine, and is the author of eight books, including the New York Times bestsellers When Food is Love, Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything, and Lost and Found: Unexpected Revelations About Food and Money.

It is no secret that our species is confronting an unprecedented crisis. The immense challenges facing us in regards to our economy, our environment and our dwindling energy and resources are no longer confined to national borders. Our problems have become global, immediate and inescapable, and they are calling on us for new and innovative solutions.

In this powerful dialogue, evolutionary biologist Elisabet Sahtouris discuss why our current global crisis is actually a cause for celebration rather than despair. She sees the massive breakdowns of our current culture and paradigms of power as the very catalysts necessary to push forth one of the greatest evolutionary transformations in our individual and collective consciousness. She explores how old and familiar ways of thinking and problem-solving only continue to leave us in worse conditions than ever before, making it necessary for us to participate in a complete collective re-visioning and radical reorganization of our entire way of being and living into the creation of cooperative and sustainable communities that can meet the demands of our time and make it possible for all sentient beings to thrive and flourish.

Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris is an internationally acclaimed evolutionary biologist, futurist, author and lecturer. She is a member of the World Wisdom Council and a fellow of the World Business Academy, as well as a co-founder of the Worldwide Indigenous Science Network. She has spoken at the World Parliament of Religions, the World Bank, Boeing, Siemens, Hewlett-Packard, Tokyo Dome Stadium, the Australian National Government, Sao Paulo’s leading business schools, and the State of the World Forums in New York and San Francisco. Her books include EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution, A Walk Through Time: From Stardust to Us, and Biology Revisioned (with Willis Harman).

Our adolescent humanity is facing its initiation. The challenges of our time are the initiating factors, forcing a maturity of global cooperation like never before. This profound evolutionary shift is occurring in every aspect of our being—both as individuals and as a civilization.

In this enlightening dialogue, Dr. Anodea Judith tells the human story in terms of developmental psychology, mythology, mysticism, and gender politics. She also describes the visionary journey through the dark night to the dawn of our adulthood, and articulates the big picture, complete with what is being asked of us at this time in history.
She further explores evolution as “the gods’ way of making more gods,” and challenges us all to embrace that dynamic in our everyday lives.

Anodea Judith, Ph.D. is the author of the award-winning book Waking the Global Heart, and is the founder of Sacred Centers and a global teacher on the subject of personal and cultural transformation. She is best known for her groundbreaking books on the chakra system, Wheels of Life, Eastern Body Western Mind, and for her award-winning DVD, The Illuminated Chakras.

People everywhere are waking up to a deep desire to unleash their greatest contribution into the world. Many of us are increasingly hearing the call to wholeheartedly participate in the future evolution of culture and society, but often feel less than equipped to know how to actualize the flowering of our highest potentials.

In this inspiring dialogue, Arielle Ford talks about how each of us intuitively feels we have something unique and important to offer—a piece of the puzzle that only we can bring through the manifestation of our deepest gifts—and explores why we often stumble on our own self-doubt, our fear of failure and/or success, and our tendency to get swept away in the inertia of the status quo, and she offers advice for those of us navigating the difficult journey toward manifesting our highest purpose.

Arielle Ford worked in nearly every aspect of public relations and marketing for over twenty-five years before she began writing her own books. Her clients included bestselling authors in the field of self-help, spirituality and personal growth, including Deepak Chopra and Neale Donald Walsch (11 of whom reached #1 on The New York Times bestseller list). Her own books, include the bestselling The Soulmate Secret, and Wabi Sabi Love.

The ecological and the social challenges we face in the world right now can all be seen as a product of the imbalance between the masculine and the feminine energies that are held inside all of us. It’s up to each of us as individuals to try to balance that energy in ourselves and to point out the imbalances we see around us and try to help others see them so they can strive for balance, too.

In this powerful dialogue, Nina Simons discusses her own journey to understanding those challenges and unleashing her capacity and authenticity as a leader and a trainer of others. She talks about the Dalai Lama’s statement that Western women will save the world, and she explores the difficult road we all face in trying to overcome our cultural conditioning and how those difficulties are only compounded for women (especially those of color) who have been undervalued, under-seen and dismissed, and who face a very unlevel playing field and a deeper level of shame and abuse. She also offers guidance for how to help transform the systems that perpetuate that imbalance by speaking out and working to reclaim and revitalize the feminine energy in the world.

Nina Simons is the co-founder of Bioneers, an organization focused on healing our relationships with ourselves, with each other, and with the Earth. Through Bioneers, she offers intensive trainings in a cultivating women’s leadership. She also edited the anthology, Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart, which contains 30 essays by powerful women leaders, and is being used by educators in numerous college and graduate-school programs.

As we move through our lives, we (and those we love) encounter a host of temptations to stray from the path of healthy habits and behaviors, and it’s not always easy to say “No.” Once you’ve strayed from the path, it can be even more challenging to find your way back, and that process can be fraught with emotional and even physical tolls. The temptations we face in modern times include over-indulgence in food, prescription painkillers, nicotine, alcohol and other drugs, television, internet porn, and gaming—all issues our ancient ancestors never encountered, so these require new skills to overcome them.

In this enlightening dialogue, Connie Barlow shares her story and explores ways we can help ourselves and others to make the journey back to that healthier and more productive path, and more easily stay on it to begin with. She talks about how one of the keys to this lies in avoiding the impulse to focus on blaming, shaming and guilt, and instead focusing on forgiveness, healing and nurturing ourselves and those around us to become the highest version of who we are.

Connie Barlow is the founder of Torreya Guardians and co-facilitator of the Evolutionize Your Life Online Course with her husband and mission partner Michael Dowd. She is also the author of four popular science books (two published by MIT Press), that explore the heart of an evidence-based approach to meaning, inspiration, and right relationship to reality. Those books include The Ghosts of Evolution, and Green Space, Green Time: The Way of Science.

In our concern for what is happening in our world and to our planet, many of us have a deep desire to find our voice and contribute our gifts in the biggest way possible, to really have an impact on changing things for the better. Unfortunately we often find ourselves debilitated by what seems to be almost an epidemic of brutal inner criticism and self-judgment. The question is: How can we break free from the trap of those negative patterns so we can show up every day to live our highest calling?

In this liberating dialogue, Amy Ahlers discuss how she reached her own realizations regarding happiness not being about a better job, or a better car, or a better guy, or losing five pounds, or anything like that. She calls this belief that things outside of us can make us happy “the big fat lie,” and she explores the keys to getting your inner-critic out of your head and taking a completely different approach to life, where you nurture and cultivate a loving relationship with yourself, and then consciously pursue things that add fun, joy and enthusiasm to your day, and this then becomes the foundation for your success.

Amy Ahlers is an International Certified Success Coach and the CEO of Wake-Up Call
Coaching, as well as being the co-creator of Inner-Mean-Girl Reform School. She has been featured on ABC, TLC and FOX, as well as in The Washington Post, The Oakland Tribune, and on many radios stations. She is sought-after as a speaker and an expert coach who has worked with a wide array of clients—from artists to lawyers and CEOs, helping them all to reach greater levels of success.

In spite of the fact that all women share a deep connection to an indestructible source of energy and light, they often feel overwhelmed, exhausted and depleted from the complexities and responsibilities they face as women living in modern times. And while this radiance is always accessible, it’s a constant challenge to stay focused on it because there is so much that needs to be done out there in the world that they lose touch with that connection within themselves.

In this powerful dialogue, Devaa Haley Mitchell talks about the clear shift happening for women right now that is urging them and supporting them to evolve and change how they see themselves and their value within the world culture. She discusses the huge emphasis that has historically been placed on women’s physical beauty being their primary source of value and power, and she explores the new ways that value is being defined with the advent of women being allowed to do things like vote, own property and run successful businesses. She offers tips for how you can tap into that inner-radiance and be more centered in yourself, allowing you to focus less on trying to please others and focus more on trying to change the entire fabric of society, radiating that higher expression of beauty in your life.

Devaa Haley Mitchell is an Interfaith Minister and Life Coach, and is the founder
of Radiant Essence Services. She was the Director of Member Engagement at the
Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), and was also an Associate Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group where she offered management advice to Fortune 500 Companies. She has a BA in Anthropology and an MA in International Development from Stanford University, and she received a fellowship from the Fulbright Foundation that she used to conduct research in the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest on sustainable economic development for local indigenous groups.

The continuing increase of women in the workforce may be the most important shift now affecting gender relations and the evolution of our culture as a whole. The entrance of women into nearly every area of public life has set new expectations for employers and spouses, while throwing out all the old assumptions about what it means to be a
woman. As women learn to juggle the roles of wife, boss, mother and friend,
they often put a lot of pressure on themselves to try to have it all as they struggle to integrate the many demands placed on them by modern life.

In this inspiring dialogue, Elizabeth Jarosz discusses the many pressing concerns now facing the new generation of working women, and she shares her experiences of being on the front lines of this emerging inquiry and helping carve out new pathways for women in high-powered business environments. She explores the ways women’s roles and the rules associated with those roles have changed and are constantly being redefined, and she addresses questions like: What does it mean to be a mother now that women are juggling so many other roles in their lives? How should women interact differently with our spouses or those they are dating? She’ll help you look deep inside yourself in order to determine what you really want and what is really going to make you happy and fulfilled and create the balance you need to be successful in every area of your life.

Elizabeth Jarosz is a market research expert who specializes in understanding the human condition, and she is the president of Pulse40, Inc, a pioneering market research company. Many TV sponsors, including Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo, Visa, and Warner Bros use her for their deepest consumer interviews.

Over the last fifty years, one of the biggest shifts that has happened in the developed world is a radical evolution of the relationship dynamics between men and women. We are no longer coming together just to spawn offspring and maintain comfort and security. A whole new paradigm of partnership and co-creativity is emerging that is both exciting and confusing.

In this powerful dialogue, Kathlyn Hendricks discusses her own journey in relationship and explores the differences between the “Betty Crocker” era she grew up in and the world we live in today, along with the challenges that have arisen during the transition away from the time when women stayed home and men made the money to provide for the family. In that earlier time, women’s creative and transformative impulses were often repressed because marriage was considered the highest aspiration women were supposed to have, and Kathlyn focuses on what women can do now to fully embrace the new frontier of co-creativity that is rising and bring their unique genius into collaboration with others on a larger scale, in spite of the fact that the true value women can bring to the table is still largely invisible and undervalued by the larger culture.

Kathlyn Hendricks, Ph.D. received her doctorate in transpersonal psychology in 1982 and has been a Board-Certified Dance/Movement Therapist of the American Dance Therapy Association since 1975. She has taught in the graduate programs of the University of Colorado, Union Graduate School, Antioch University and Naropa Institute. Together with her husband, Gay Hendricks, Kathlyn has worked with thousands of individuals and couples in developing their method of body-centered and relationship transformation, and she has authored or co-authored nine books, including: Conscious Loving, At the Speed of Life, The Conscious Heart, Lasting Love, and Spirit-Centered Relationships.