The New Dimensions Café

Robert Atkinson, Ph. D., is an internationally recognized authority on life story interviewing, personal mythmaking, and soul-making, and is professor emeritus of cross-cultural human development and religious studies at the University of Southern Maine. He’s the director of Story Commons. His journeys have taken him on a series of adventures, including: sailing on the maiden voyage of the Clearwa...

Jonas Koffler is a creative media consultant, producer, and writer. He advises internationally recognized thought leaders and creative artists, helps organizations innovate, develops strategy and intellectual property for start-ups and billion-dollar companies alike.  He is co-author with Neil Patel & and Patrick Vlaskovits of Hustle: The Power to Charge Your Life with Money, Meaning, and Mom...

Kelly Shelstad has more than 16 years' experience working with youth in the classroom and in wilderness settings with a major in Elementary Education and a minor in Environmental Education. She has been teaching at Siskiyou School, a Waldorf school in Ashland, Oregon. With 3 other adults, she has sailed 1000 miles in open water from Fiji to New Zealand in a 39-foot boat. And has also co-created a...

Terry Tempest Williams is a naturalist, environmentalist, and award-winning author. In 2014, on the 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act, Ms. Williams received the Sierra Club’s John Muir Award honoring a distinguished record of leadership in American conservation. She is currently the Annie Clark Tanner Scholar in Environmental Humanities at the University of Utah. Tags: Terry Tempest Williams,...

Stephen Dinan is a social entrepreneur, visionary political strategist, and founder and CEO of The Shift Network . He is the author of:  Radical Spirit: Spiritual Writings from the Voices of Tomorrow (New World Library 2002) and Sacred America, Sacred World: Fulfilling Our Mission in Service to All (Hampton Roads 2016) Tags: Stephen Dinan, transpartisan, democracy, progressives, conservatives...

Jacob Needleman, Ph. D. is a professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University and former director of the Center for the Study of New Religions at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He has also served as a research associate at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.  Tags:  Jacob Needleman, silence, awareness, presence, meaningful, questions, happine...

Leslie Shore has worked in the retail industry and personal management fields as well as being a professor and instructional designer where she has gained much wisdom in what it takes to be an effective listener. She is the owner of “Listen to Succeed,” a consultancy that focuses on using listening analytics to help personal and professional clients achieve their highest level of effective communi...

Kira Asatryan is a certified relationship coach who provides individual life coaching, relationship coaching, conflict mediation, and couples’ coaching. Before becoming a relationship coach, she was director of performance marketing for prominent Silicon Valley technology start-ups and cofounded an online marketing consultancy. She lives in San Francisco, and is the author of:  Stop Being Lon...

David Gibson is a leader in the field of sound healing and therapy. He’s the founder and director of the Globe Sound and Consciousness Institute in San Francisco which offers an Associates degree in sound healing therapy. He is also the producer of sound healing music and runs the sound therapy center at the Institute offering different types of sound healing treatments. He is a founder of the Sou...

Martin Adams is a social innovator, systems thinker, and community organizer. He has been on a lifelong quest to create a fair and sustainable world in collaboration with others. Through his non-profit work, he saw firsthand the extent to which our economic system causes human and ecological strife. Consequently, Adams has devoted himself to the implementation of a new economic paradigm that allow...

Colleen Mauro is the founder and former editor-in-chief of  Intuition  magazine published from 1988 to 2001. It explored the potential of the mind and the many varied ways of intuitive knowing, and featured research and how-to information on intuition, inspiration, and telepathy for the general reader.  Tags:  Colleen Mauro, Intuition, telepathy, soul, communicating with higher...

Michael N. McGregor is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Portland State University. He has lectured at universities, conferences, and community events on both Robert Lax and Thomas Merton and is a member of Biographers International Organization and the International Thomas Merton Society. Tags:  MichaeMcGregor, Robert Lax, Thomas Merton, History, Philosophy, Spirituality

John J. Prendergast, Ph. D. is a psychotherapist, retired professor of psychology, spiritual counselor, and founder and editor-in-chief of  Undivided: The Online Journal of Nonduality and Psychology.   Tags:  John J. Prendergast, non-dualism, wisdom, inner knowing, body, wisdom, knowledge, circle work, vibrant silence, inward alignment, safety, need for approval, trusting inner guid...

Don Oscar Miro-Quesada is a respected kamasqa curandero and shamanic adept from Peru, and has been guiding cross-cultural, ethnospiritual apprenticeship expeditions to sacred sites of the world since 1986, with special emphasis on Peru and Bolivia. He's been a popular faculty member at numerous U.S. colleges and universities. He originated the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition of cross-cultural shamanism,...

Sera Beak is a Harvard-trained scholar of comparative world religions who spent years traveling the world studying spirituality with Sufi dervishes, Tibetan monks, Croatian mystics, shamans, and more. She is a workshop facilitator and speaker. Sera Beak is the author of: The Red Book: A Deliciously Unorthodox Approach To Igniting Your Divine Spark (Jossey-Bass 2006) and Red Hot & Holy: A Heretic’s...

Connie Baxter Marlow and Andrew Cameron Bailey are filmmakers and social philosophers whose films, books, workshops, and public appearances spread their optimistic vision for the future of humanity. They have a home base in Sedona Arizona but spend most of their lives on the road. Their films include In Search of The Future: What Do The Wise Ones Know? and The American Evolution: Voices of America...

Sondra Barrett, Ph. D. is a biochemist who completed her postdoctoral training in immunology and hematology. She has developed both basic cancer research and supportive care programs while working with children with life-threatening illnesses. She has also studied the expressive arts, energy practices, and shamanism.   Tags:  cells, meditation, thymus, blood, viruses, bacteria, worry, ph...

Robyn Posin, Ph. D. is a licensed clinical psychologist, living in Ojai, California.  She works as a therapist, coach and mentor, specializing in transforming the inner critic into an empowering ally, and developing a fiercely protective inner caregiver as we learn to re-parent our wounded self.    Tags:  Robyn Posin gentle, voices inside, abandoning altar, belly, gut, listenin...

Arlene Goldbard is a writer, speaker, consultant, workshop leader, and cultural activist whose focus is the intersection of culture, politics, spirituality, the arts and artists. She is a fierce advocate for the power of human creative expression.  Tags:  Goldbard, paradigm shift,  Datastan, Stories, availability cascade, attention, resilience, possibility, Czechoslovakia Velvet , B...