Karla McLaren, M.Ed. is an award-winning author, social science researcher, and empathy pioneer. Her lifelong work focuses on her grand unified theory of emotions, which revalues even the most “negative” emotions and opens startling new pathways into self-awareness, effective communication, and healthy empathy.
Karla is the author of The Art of Empathy: A Complete Guide to Life's Most Essential Skill (2013), The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You (2010), and the new Dynamic Emotional Integration Workbook® (2018).
Katherine Center is the New York Times bestselling author of How to Walk Away and Things You Save in a Fire, as well as five others, including Happiness for Beginners and The Bright Side of Disaster. Her fourth novel, The Lost Husband, is soon to be a movie starring Leslie Bibb and Josh Duhamel. Katherine has been compared to both Nora Ephron and Jane Austen, and the Dallas Morning News calls her stories, “satisfying in the most soul-nourishing way.” Katherine recently gave a TEDx talk on how stories teach us empathy, and her work has appeared in O Magazine, USA Today, InStyle, Redbook, People, The Atlantic, Real Simple, and others. Katherine lives in Houston with her husband and two sweet kids. Visit her online at www.katherinecenter.com!
CYNTHIA LI, MD, received her medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. She has practiced as an internist in settings as diverse as Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, San Francisco General Hospital, and St. Anthony Medical Clinic serving the homeless. After an autoimmune illness left her housebound for 2 years, she dove into the root causes of her illness, and returned to medicine as a very different doctor. Currently, she has a private practice in integrative and functional medicine, and serves on the faculty of the Healer’s Art program at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine. She lives in Berkeley, CA, with her husband and their two daughters.
Amanda Stern is the author of the novel The Long Haul, the memoir Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life, and eleven children’s books written under pseudonyms. She founded the popular Happy Ending Music and Reading Series in 2003, which had its final show at Joe’s Pub in June 2018. She lives in Brooklyn with her daughter Busy, who just happens to be a dog.
Azizi Birkeland travels the world with her life-learning family comprised of her husband and two young daughters. Her passion to dismantle one self-limiting belief at a time led her to create two new business ventures.
The first is Stone Soup Family Pop Up Communities, which provide 1-3 month opportunities for families on extended travel to come together as a community, to create powerful experiences. The other is In Her Wild, an online sanctuary to guide women to embrace their femininity without the need to protect it, compete or feel the need to “do it like a man.”
She promotes using "The Art of Self Prioritization", a playful way to explore yourself and bring out what lies beneath waiting to be revealed so that you can live unleashed, unapologetic and unafraid.
Alejandra Siroka M.A. has devoted her life to the study of language and communication. She is a truth seeker who is dedicated to discovering and sharing methods which allow people to live with integrity. Inspired by her belief that developing conscious communication skills is essential in the path of transformation. She founded Language Alchemy - a transformative process which allows individuals and groups to develop thriving relationships and fulfilling lives by speaking their truth with power and compassion.
Andrea Scher, CPCC is an artist, an online workshop teacher and a big believer in the transformative power of creativity. Through her e-courses - Mondo Beyondo, Superhero Photo, Cultivating Wonder and more - Andrea inspires people to live authentic, colorful, and creative lives. She is best known for the award winning blog - Superhero Life.
If your intuition is pulling you toward Superhero School, I'd love to have you! This 4-month small coaching program begins Monday, February 4th, 2019. Lots more info + opportunity to register here.
Just 20 spots this time. I hope it's you!
Andrea Scher, CPCC is an artist, an online workshop teacher and a big believer in the transformative power of creativity. Through her e-courses - Mondo Beyondo, Superhero Photo, Cultivating Wonder and more - Andrea inspires people to live authentic, colorful, and creative lives. She is best known for the award winning blog - Superhero Life.
If your intuition is pulling you toward Superhero School, I'd love to have you! This 4-month small coaching program begins Monday, February 4th, 2019. Lots more info + opportunity to register here.
Just 25 spots this time. I hope it's you!
Andrea Scher, CPCC is an artist, an online workshop teacher and a big believer in the transformative power of creativity. Through her e-courses - Mondo Beyondo, Superhero Photo, Cultivating Wonder and more - Andrea inspires people to live authentic, colorful, and creative lives. She is best known for the award winning blog - Superhero Life.
If your intuition is pulling you toward Superhero School, I'd love to have you! This 4-month small coaching program begins Monday, February 4th, 2019. Lots more info + opportunity to register here.
Just 25 spots this time. I hope it's you!