The New Dimensions Café

Amy B. Scher is an energy therapist who uses energy therapy techniques to help those who are experiencing illness and those in need of emotional healing. She is the author of How to Heal Yourself When No One Else Can: A Total Self-Healing Approach for Mind, Body & Spirit (Llewellyn Publications 2016)Tags: Amy B. Scher, subtle bodies, allopathic medicine, emotions, energy therapy techniques, anger, thymus gland, immune system, stress, tapping your chest, unconscious emotions, EFT, Emotional Freedom technique, meridians, energy pathways, Lyme disease, Health & Healing 

Father Francis Tiso holds a Master of Divinity degree from Have University, and a doctorate from Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary where his specialization was Buddhist studies. He was Associated Director of the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the U.S. Conference of Catholic bishops from 2004 to 2009, where he served as liaison to Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, the Sikhs, and Traditions religions as well as the Reformed confessions.He is the author of: Liberation in One Lifetime (North Atlantic Books 2014) and Rainbow body and Resurrection: Spiritual Attainment, the Dissolution of the Material Body, and the Case of Khenpo A Chö (North Atlantic Books 2016)Tags: Francis Tiso, Interreligious dialogues, Berlin Wall, refugee migration, meaningful work, religious education, diversity, Eco diversity, religious diversity, Religion, Spirituality, 

Terry Tempest Williams is a naturalist, environmentalist, and award-winning author. She is a recipient of the Lannan Literary Fellowship in creative nonfiction and the 1997 Guggenheim Fellowship, and served as naturalist-in-residence at the Utah Museum of Natural History. 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 divides her time between Castle Valley, Utah, and Moose, Wyoming. She is the author of many books including Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place (Pantheon 1991), Red: Patience and Passion in the Desert (Vintage Books 2002), An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field (Vintage Books 1995) , Leap (Vintage 2001), The Open Space of Democracy (The Orion Society 2004), Finding Beauty in a Broken World (Pantheon 2008), When Women Were Birds (Sarah Crichton Books: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012), The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks (Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016) and Erosion: Essays of Undoing (Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019) Interview Date: 5/5/2012    Tags: MP3, Terry Tempest Williams, journaling, her mother's journals, grief, Mormon women write, full silence, women's friendships, matriarchal line, Women’s Studies, Writing

John Crowley is co-founder of Cool City Petaluma 2030 and co-owner of the Aqus Café in Petaluma, California. He’s a social instigator and champion connection-maker. It was his intention in starting Aqus Café to recreate an Irish pub atmosphere with a focus on social dynamics that create opportunities and support the connection of individuals, businesses, and nonprofits by bringing them together with their various interests, talents, and energy. He believes that social capital determines the health and happiness of a community and that as individuals of a town are provided more opportunities to interact and connect the entire town benefits.Interview Date: 8/19/2022    Tags: John Crowley, social capital, social investment, Cool Petaluma, civic engagement, carbon neutral, cool city challenge, challenge grant, carbon footprint, disaster preparedness, meeting neighbors, support for block leaders, Community, Social Change/Politics

Peter Fiekowsky is an MIT educated physicist and engineer, an entrepreneur, a philanthropist, and a social innovator. He has worked at NASA and the Fairchild/Schlumberger Artificial Intelligence Lab in Palo Alto, California and has taught at MIT. He holds 27 patents and was instrumental in launching the Foundation for Climate Restoration whose purpose is to work with top scientists, innovators, policymakers, and others to create the understanding and policy needed to further climate restoration. He is co-author with Carole Douglis of: Climate Restoration: The Only Future That Will Sustain the Human Race (Rivertown Books 2022) Interview Date: 9/25/2022     Tags: Peter Fiekowsky, Paris Accords, net zero carbon emissions, climate restoration, CO2 in atmosphere, CO2 footprint, development of civilization, history of agriculture, human population, number of children per family, I Am Humanity, Ecology/Nature/Environment, Science

Linda Yael Schiller, MSE, LICSW is a psychotherapist who has taught dreamwork and led dream groups for over three decades. She teaches and consults on trauma treatment, PTSD, and nightmares. She is the author of: Modern Dreamwork: New Tools for Decoding Your Soul’s Wisdom (Llewellyn Publications 2019) and PTSDreams: Transform Your Nightmares from Trauma through Healing Dreamwork (Llewellyn Publications 2021).Interview Date: 9/15/2022    Tags: Linda Yael Schiller, dream work, nightmares, Justine’s dream of horse and stone wall, sleeping dreams, waking dreams, dreams as homeopathic inoculations, GAIA Method of dreamwork, guided active imagination approach to dreamwork, C.G. Jung, EMDR, Dreams, Personal Transformation

Lindsay Andreotti is the founder of several companies and has held leadership positions in small and large organizations, including government, nonprofit, and Fortune 500 companies. For many years she served as an organizational development coach, business transformation consultant, and executive coach. She believes that when you are authentic and in your brilliance, you can achieve anything. She's the founder and host of The Kindness Club. She's the author (with co-author, Brian Hilgendorf) of Sex, Intimacy and Business: A Revolution Has Begun And It's Time To Get Undressed (Brilliance Press 2005)Interview Date: 9/5/2022.   Tags: Lindsay Andreotti, kindness, Kindness Club, love, compassion, self-critic, mother’s dealing with children freaking out, kindness currency, kindness coins, Personal Transformation, Social Change/Politics

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 communication. Her book is currently being used as a text book in several universities. She is the author of Listen to Succeed: How to Identify and Overcome Barriers to Effective Listening. (self published 2012)Interview Date: 4/15/2016      Tags: Leslie Shore, barriers to listening, emotions, interrupting, attention, daydreaming, being present, emotional IQ. body language, eye contact, Personal Transformation, Self Help

Richard Strozzi-Heckler, Ph.D. is a coach and consultant on embodied leadership and mastery and has spent more than five decades researching, developing, and teaching Somatics and embodiment practices to organizations in such fields as education, healthcare, leadership team development, military, technology and international peace work, including the United States Marine Corps.He holds a Shihan 7th -degree black belt in aikido and has founded and cofounded several Aikido schools and projects including the Mideast Aikido Project and Training across Borders, organizations that bring citizens from warring countries together to practice aikido. He was advisor to General Jim Jones, the Supreme Allied Commander of Europe from 2003 to 2006 in Afghanistan. He is the founder of the Strozzi Institute, where he teaches courses on somatic coaching and leadership in action. He is the author of many books including In Search of the Warrior Spirit, Fourth Edition: Teaching Awareness Disciplines to the Green Berets (Blue Snake Books 2007), Embodying The Mystery The Art of Somatic Coaching: Embodying Skillful Action, Wisdom, and Compassion (North Atlantic Books 2014) and Somatic Wisdom for Emotional, Energetic, and Spiritual Awakening (Inner Traditions 2022)Interview Date: 8/26/2022    Tags: Richard Strozzi-Heckler, aikido, grasping, averting, impermanence, murmuration of Starlings, Chӧgyam Trungpa, certainty, shamanic journey, feral cat, Arkan Braveheart, Arkan Lushwala, Sun Dance ceremony, Spirit, Personal Transformation, Philosophy, Spirituality

Stephen G. Post, Ph.D. is among a handful of individuals awarded the National Distinguished Service Award from the National Alzheimer’s Association. Post is a leader in research on the benefits of giving and on compassionate care in relation to improved patient outcomes and clinician well-being. In 2001 he founded The Institute for Research on Unlimited Love, which researches and distributes knowledge on kindness, giving and spirituality. Post served as a co-chair of the United Nations Population Fund Conference on Spirituality and Global Transformation. He’s a professor in the Department of Preventative Medicine at Stony Brook University and founder and director of the Stony Brook Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics. He is the author of: Why Good Things Happen to Good People: How to Live Longer, Healthier, Happier Life by the Simple Act of Giving (Broadway Books 2008), The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease: Ethical Issues from Diagnosis to Dying (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2nd edition 2000), God and Love on Route 80: The Hidden Mystery of Human Connectedness (Mango 2019) and Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People: How Caregivers Can Meet the Challenges of Alzheimer’s Disease (Johns Hopkins University Press 2022)Interview Date: 8/19/2022     Tags: Stephen G. Post, caregiving, dementia, Alzheimer’s, deeply forgetful people, declining cognition, compassionate care, medical treatments as an assault, music and Alzheimer’s, offering emotional dignity, good language when in cognitive decline, Health & Healing, Death & Dying, Philosophy