Brian Robertson
Brian Robertson is the world’s foremost expert on Holacracy, a revolutionary framework for self-managing organizations. After years as CEO of an award-winning software company, he co-founded HolacracyOne to share this innovative method with other organizations. The Holacracy framework integrates the collective wisdom of individuals throughout an organization and offers a toolset for each person…
Lev Natan
Lev Natan is the founder and director of the Alliance for a Viable Future, where he guides social impact leaders to choose their path of courage and wisdom. He has been catalyzing change as a coach, consultant, teacher, circle facilitator and sound healer for over ten years. To learn more and been in touch visit www.allianceforaviablefuture.org.
Jennifer Dumpert
Jennifer Dumpert is a San Francisco-based writer and lecturer, and the founder of the Oneironauticum, an international organization that explores the phenomenological experience of dreams as a means of experimenting with mind. She also teaches the practice of Liminal Dreaming — surfing the edges of consciousness using hypnagogic and hypnopompic dream states. Jennifer has lectured and led…
Christopher Schaefer
Christopher Schaefer Ph. D. is a retired adult educator, community development adviser, and social activist living in the Berkshires. He has been on an inner journey for many decades and has had a lifelong involvement with Waldorf education. He is the author of a number of books, most recently, Re-Imagining America : Finding Hope in Difficult Times, available from www.hawthornpress.com, and from…
Suzanne Fowle
Suzanne Fowle lives in Housatonic, Massachusetts, a small village named for the river that runs through it. She has also lived along the Clark Fork in Missoula, Montana, the James (North Dakota), the Potomac (Washington, DC), and she grew up in the floodplain of the East and Hudson Rivers, in New York City. Suzanne is a wildlife biologist, specializing in reptiles, amphibians, ecological…
Lisa Fithian
Lisa Fithian is an anti-racist organizer who has worked for justice since the 1970s. Using creative, strategic, nonviolent direct action and civil disobedience, she has won many battles and trained tens of thousands of people while participating in a range of movements and mobilizations, including Occupy Wall Street, anti-WTO and corporate globalization protests all over the world, the climate…
Gary Gach
Gary Gach has been hosting Zen Mindfulness Fellowship weekly in San Francisco for ten years now. He's also author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Buddhism and editor of What Book!? – Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop. His work has appeared in Atlantic, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, In These Times, Lilipoh, Mindfulness Bell, The Nation, Utne, Words without Borders, and Yoga Journal. Currently…
Photography, Scott London
Scott London is a San Francisco-based photographer whose images have appeared in books, newspapers and magazines worldwide. His publishing credits include Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Newsweek, The Atlantic, GQ, Architectural Digest, the New York Times and National Geographic Traveler. His work has also been the subject of features in Wired magazine and on CNN and the Discovery Channel.
Scott…
Caveat Magister
For the last ten years, Caveat Magister, aka Benjamin Wachs, has been actively writing about Burning Man culture and engaging with Burning Man at the cutting edge of its philosophy, composing over 250 articles about it for the Burning Man website. By 2015, this work had made him, outside of Larry Harvey and his fellow founders, one of the leading interpreters of Burning Man within its own…
The Sun of Darkness
The center and the periphery are changing places. This is part of a larger epochal shift that we can best understand through a mythological and cosmological lens.