Jeanne Achterberg is a Professor of Psychology at Saybrook Institute, a research consultant and a board member of many foundations. She also provides training in the use of mind/body therapies for health care professionals in Europe, Japan, Argentina, and to refugees in Kosova and Macedonia. She has authored over 100 papers and five books, including Imagery in Healing, Woman as Healer and Rituals of Healing. Lightning at the Gate, the story of her personal healing journey, was published in 2001. She is currently Senior editor for the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.

Daniel J. Benor is a wholistic psychotherapist who includes a variety of body/mind approaches, spiritual awareness, and healing in the practice of what he calls "WHEE: Wholistic Hybrid derived from EMDR and EFT." He is a founding diplomate of the American Board of Holistic Medicine, Editor of the International Journal of Healing, author of Healing Research, Volumes I-III, Founder of the Council for Healing and Doctor-Healer Networks.

David Bresler is the President and Co-Founder, Academy for Guided Imagery, and Executive Director of The Bresler Center in Los Angeles. He is the former Founder and Executive Director of the UCLA Pain Control Unit and Associate Clinical Professor, UCLA School of Medicine; Former White House Commissioner on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy; Author of Free Yourself From Pain, Break Your Smoking Habit With Guided Imagery, and numerous other books, workbooks, articles, and scientific publications. He is a curriculum advisor for The Inner Game of Volleyball.

Hyla Cass is a board-certified psychiatrist who combines imagery and nutritional medicine in her practice, writings, lectures, and media appearances. She is a former Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA School of Medicine, Associate Editor of Total Health magazine, and author of numerous articles and books, including Natural Highs, 8 Weeks to Vibrant Health, and Supplement Your Prescription. For more information, please visit www.drcass.com.

Effie Poy Yew Chow was appointed to the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy and was the recipient of the “Visionary of the Year 1997,” “The Humanitarian of the Year 1999,” and “The Visionary of the Decade 2000” Awards. Dr. Chow has been working to integrate Traditional Chinese Medicine with Western Medicine for over 40 years. Toward this goal, she founded the East West Academy of Healing Arts (EWAHA) in 1973 and in 1988, an arm of that organization, The EWAHA Qigong Institute, was established to promote research in medical Qigong.

Gavin de Becker is the bestselling author of The Gift of Fear, which spent four months on the NY Times Bestseller List and has been published in 13 languages. He and his work have appeared on the Oprah Winfrey and Larry King shows numerous times, on the pages of Time and Newsweek, and been endorsed by every major women’s magazine. Mr. de Becker was twice appointed to the President's Advisory Board at the U.S. Department of Justice. He is a Senior Fellow at the UCLA School of Public Affairs, and a Senior Advisor to the Rand Corporation.

James Ellroy is one of the world's best-selling crime writers and essayists, known for his unique "telegraphic" writing style, which omits words other writers would consider necessary, and often features just sentence fragments. The author of LA Confidential and The Black Dahlia, he struggled with alcohol and drugs early in his career, but was able to achieve long-term sobriety by creating a powerful inner vision of a satisfying drug free life. He will share his thoughts and experiences about addiction and addictive behaviors.

Lyn Freeman is a specialist, researcher, and consultant of mind-body medicine as treatment for chronic disease. She is the founder and President of Mind Matters Research, an Alaskan-based research center specializing in interventions for late-term and long-term effects of cancer and its treatments. Lyn recently completed a National Cancer Institute-funded research study of an imagery program she created for breast cancer survivors. The imagery program, entitled "Envision the Rhythms of Life" produced statistically and clinically significant outcomes. Lyn has authored academic textbooks, chapters and medical manuals on the evidence, benefits and limitations of complementary and alternative medicine. Her most recent academic text is Mosby’s Complementary and Alternative Medicine: A Research Based Approach(3rd ed) (2008). She is a Professor of Psychology at Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco. More information is available on her website www.compmedalaska.com.

James S. Gordon is the Founder and Director of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, DC, a Clinical Professor at Georgetown University Medical School and former Chairman of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy. He is the author of Manifesto for a New Medicine, Comprehensive Cancer Care, and the soon-to-be-released Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven Stage Journey out of Depression. (Penguin, April 2008).