The New Dimensions Café

Linda Graham, MFT is a licensed psychotherapist and meditation teacher in full-time practice in the San Francisco Bay area. She integrates her passion for neuroscience, mindfulness, and relational psychology through trainings, workshops, and conferences. She publishes a monthly e-newsletter entitled Healing and Awakening into Aliveness and Wholeness and weekly e-quotes on resources for recovering resilience, archived on her website. She is the author of Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-Being (New World Library 2013) and Resilience: Powerful Practices for Bouncing Back from Disappointment, Difficulty, and Even Disaster (New World Library 2018)Tags: Linda Graham, resilience, resilient, rewiring our brains, imagination, visualization, guided meditation, negative spiral, AFGOS, Another frickin growth opportunity, curiosity, optimism, awe, gratitude, self compassion, Science, Personal Transformation, Self Help, relationship

Dan Millman teaches worldwide, speaking to women and men from all walks of life, including leaders in the fields of health, psychology, education, business, politics, sports, entertainment, and the arts. He is the author of many books including: Way of the Peaceful Warrior (H.J. Kramer 1994) (adapted into a major film starring Nick Nolte and Amy Smart) and The Four Purposes of Life: Finding Meaning and Direction in a Changing World (New World Library 2011) Tags: Dan Millman, arising moment, Self Help, Philosophy, Personal Transformation, Psychology

Jacques Vallee, Ph.D. is one of today's most widely respected researchers of unexplained aerial phenomena. He earned a Masters Degree in Astrophysics while living in France and holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Northwestern University. His life experience was the model portrayed by François Truffaut in the Steven Spielberg award winning film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He is the author of numerous books, including: Passport to Magonia, (his seminal work) and Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects from Antiquity to Modern Times (co-author with Chris Aubeck) (Tarcher/Penguin 2010) Tags: Jacques Vallee, UFOs, Parapsychology/Paranormal, Intuition/Psychic 

Don Lattin is a journalist covering alternative and mainstream religious movements. His work has appeared in dozens of U.S. magazine and newspapers. He's been a commentator on many television news programs. He is the author of many books including Jesus Freaks; A True Story of Murder and Madness on the Evangelical Edge (HarperOne 2008), Following Our Bliss: How Spiritual Ideals of the Sixties Shape Our Lives Today (Harper Collins 2004), Shopping for Faith: American Religion in the New Millennium (co-author  Richard Cimino) (Jossey-Bass 2002), The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America (HarperOne 2010).  Tags: Don Lattin, Richard Alpert, Ram Dass, Timothy Leary, psychedelic research, History, Social & Political Change

Cathy Hawk is founding director of Get Clarity International. She along with her partner, Gary Hawk are experts in human energy systems and have mentored and consulted with thousands of individuals and business leaders to turn human energy into peak experience and peak performance. They are the co-authors of Creating the Rest of Your Life: An Atlas for Manifesting Success and Excellence in Life and Work (Brilliance Press 2007), Get Clarity, The Lights-On Guide to Manifesting Success in Life and Work (Get Clarity Press 2011), Get Clarity for Powerful Partnering: From Power Struggles to Co-Creative Adventures (co-author Theresa Byrne) (Amazon Digital Services 2018)Tags: Cathy Hawk, negative words, positive words, words that symbolize conflict, shorthand language, words have vibrational frequencies, deadline, timeline, knocking it out of the park, overwhelmed, exhausted, stop look and listen, stumbling block, Personal Transformation, Philosophy, Business

Jane Hirshfield is a poet, translator, and essayist and is the author of many collections of poetry and other books, including three collections of women poets from the past. Her awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, the Academy of American Poets, and the National Endowment for the Arts, three Pushcart Prizes, the California Book Award, The Poetry Center Book Award, and other honors. Her poems appear regularly in magazines such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Poetry and have been included in six editions of The Best American Poetry. Her poetry books include The October Palace (HarperCollins 1994), Lives of the Heart (Harper Collins 1997), Women in Praise of the Sacred (HarperCollins 1994), Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry (Perennial 1998), After (Harper Collins 2006), Given Sugar, Given Salt (Harper Collins 2001), The classic translation of the ancient Japanese court women, The Ink Dark Moon (Vintage 1990), Come, Thief (Knopf 2011), Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World (Alfred A. Knopf 2015), The Beauty: Poems (Alfred A. Knopf 2015)  Tags: Jane Hirshfield, poetry, Art, Creativity

Robert Augustus Masters holds a doctorate in psychology and is an experienced psychotherapist, trainer of psychotherapists, and teacher of spiritual deepening. His integral, intuitive work blends the psychological and physical with the spiritual, emphasizing embodiment, authenticity, deep shadow work, emotional openness and literacy, and the development of relational maturity. His books include Divine Dynamite: Entering Awakening's Heartland (Tehmenos Press 2006), Transformation Through Intimacy: The Journey Toward Mature Monogamy (Tehmenos Press 2007), Meeting the Dragon: Ending Our Suffering by Entering Our Pain (Tehmenos Press 2008) and Spiritual Bypassing: When Spirituality Disconnects Us From What Really Matters (North Atlantic Books 2010)  Tags: Robert Masters, Spiritual bypassing, Spirituality, Personal Transformation

Mary Catherine Bateson, Ph.D. is the daughter of Margaret Meade and Gregory Bateson and is a cultural anthropologist. She served as the Clarence J. Robinson’s Professor in Anthropology and English at George Mason University from 1987 to 2002, when she became Professor Emerita. She is a Visiting Scholar at the Center of Aging and Workplace Flexibility at Boston College, and, until recently, was President of the Institute of Intercultural Studies in New York City.  She is the author of many books and papers, including Composing a Life (Grove Press 2001), With a Daughter’s Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson (Harper Perennial 1994), Willing to Learn: Passages of Personal Discovery (Steerforth 2010) and Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom (Knopf 2010).Tags: Mary Catherine Bateson, Ph.D., longevity, Adulthood II, beyond reproductive years, elderhood, mentoring, play, golf, long life, Social Change/Politics, Arts & Creativity, Personal Transformation, Philosophy

Cathy Hawk is founding director of Get Clarity International and Gary Hawk is Managing Director. They are experts in human energy systems and have mentored and consulted with thousands of individuals and business leaders to turn human energy into peak experience and peak performance. Cathy and Gary do this by helping their clients gain clarity of purpose, a refreshed vitality and a riveting focus on creating what’s next in their life and work. As thought and action leaders in personal transformation, the Hawks are principals in Clarity International, a consulting and leadership firm based in Colorado. Their unique Get Clarity retreats and Clarity Circles were created to provide a process where individuals and leaders can explore, refresh, invigorate, and clarify the vision of what they want to create - the vision that drives the energy and actions of them and their people. They are the co-authors of Creating the Rest of Your Life: An Atlas for Manifesting Success and Excellence in Life and Work(Brilliance Press 2007), Get Clarity, The Lights-On Guide to Manifesting Success in Life and Work(Get Clarity Press 2011) and Get Clarity for Powerful Partnering: From Power Struggles to Co-Creative Adventures (co-author Theresa Byrne) (Amazon Digital Services 2018)Tags: Cathy Hawk, Gary Hawk, Cathy and Gary Hawk, communication, partnering, team work, curiosity, inclusion, listening, judgement, collaboration, choice points, energy fields, overdoing, overscheduling, clutter, visionary personalities, positive thinking, Personal Transformation, Relationship/Partnership/Sexuality

Alan Briskin is a pioneer in the field of organizational learning and cofounder of the Collective Wisdom Initiative. His books include: Stirring of Soul in the Workplace (Berrett-Koehler 1998), The Power of Collective Wisdom: And the Trap of Collective Folly (co-authors, Sheryl Erickson, Tom Callanan, and John Ott)(Berrett-Koehler 2009), Daily Miracles: Stories and Practices of Humanity and Excellence in Health Care (co-author Jan Boller) (Sigma Theta Tau International; 1st edition 2006)