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Jeanne Achterberg, PhD, is a scientist who has received international recognition for her pioneering research in medicine and psychology. She is currently a Professor of Psychology at Saybrook Institute, San Francisco. She has authored over 100 papers and five books, including Imagery in Healing, Woman as Healer, and Rituals of Healing, a primer on the use of creative therapies for health and medicine. Lightning at the Gate is the story of her personal healing journey. In April of 2001, she was featured in TIME magazine as one of the six innovators of alternative and complementary medicine for the coming century. She is currently senior editor for the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. Her most recent research was on the effect of distant healing and prayer on brain function. In spring of 2008, Sounds True, Inc. published her CD series entitled Intentional Healing.
Michael Lerner, PhD, is president and founder of Commonweal, a health, environmental and educational center in Bolinas, California, and of Smith Farm Center for Healing and the Arts in Washington, D.C. He is co-founder with Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D. of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program, a week-long retreat for people with cancer featured by Bill Moyers in his award winning PBS series “Healing and the Mind.” Smith Farm Center offers a four-day Cancer Help Program. Lerner is the author of Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer, (MIT Press). Please consult http://www.commonweal.org and www.smithfarm.com.
Sista Monica Parker is a blues and gospel singer, a songwriter, record producer, speaker, and musical minister reaching out to nursing homes, cancer survivors, and spiritual communities. Sista Monica is a Soul Survivor! She captivates with her remarkable story and songs of surviving a rare life threatening cancer, Synovial Sarcoma, in 2003. Now seven years later, she is determined to sing and live out her purpose. Sista Monica gives a renewed meaning to blues as healing music. Surviving cancer has given new power and freedom to her lyrics. Her inspirational Sweet Inspirations CD was released in September 2008. Her 9th CD Soul, Blues and Ballads earned her a 2010 nomination for the “Best Soul Blues Female Artist of the Year Award” by the Blues Foundation (“Grammy” of the Blues world). On her Mo Muscle Records, she releases her 10th CD Singin’ In The Spirit in March 2010. Please visit www.sistamonica.com.
Laura Pole, President of Eating for a Lifetime, is a Health Supportive Gourmet Chef, an Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist, Certified Nia Fitness Instructor, and a professional musician with over 30 years experience in health care, health education and entertaining people. Laura first learned the art of good cooking in Louisiana at the apron strings of incredible Cajun and Creole home cooks. Laura blends her passions for food, entertaining and health into a career of nurturing people through nourishment. Laura is considered an authority in shaping the field of health supportive cooking for people with serious illness.
Martin L. Rossman, MD, Dipl.Ac is a physician, author, speaker, and a nationally Board-Certified acupuncturist who has practiced traditional Chinese acupuncture since 1972. A graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School in 1969, he has had a long-standing interest in the practical importance of attitudes, beliefs, emotions, and mind/body practices in medicine and health. Dr. Rossman is the author of Fighting Cancer From Within (Holt, NY, 2003) and the award winning self-help book, Guided Imagery for Self-Healing (New World Library, Oct 2000). He is also the creator of dozens of guided imagery audios and home study courses for both public and professionals. He created www.thehealingmind.org to make these invaluable self-care resources widely and inexpensively available. He is also the Founder and Director of the Collaborative Medicine Center, Greenbrae, California; Co-Founder, Academy for Guided Imagery, Malibu, CA; and a member of the Clinical Faculty at the University of California Medical School in San Francisco. Please visit www.thehealingmind.org.
Jonna Tamases is an actress and 3-time cancer survivor (Hodgkin’s Disease, Large-Cell Lymphoma, Breast Cancer). She has turned her experience into a highly acclaimed one-woman show, Jonna’s Body, please hold. The show has gotten rave reviews and was nominated for two Ovation Awards: Best World Premiere Play and Best Lead Actress. The recently released movie version has won 6 national film festival awards, including Audience Award for Best Comedy Short (Asheville Film Fest.), Best Short Comedy and Best in Show (MAGA Film Fest.), and Best Actress (2009 Show of Your Shorts Fest.). For more information visit http://www.jonnasbody.com and www.jonnasbodymovie.com.