Lissa is a conventionally trained OB/GYN physician who gave up clinical practice in 2010 to teach and write full time.

Shiloh Sophia lives life as a great adventure narrated by the creative fire of her Muse! She has dedicated her life to the belief that self-expression is a basic human right and shares her message with tens of thousands around the world through her paintings, poetry, and teachings. For the past 25 years, she has led a global movement of revolutionary education and art focused on healing and transformation called Intentional Creativity®. 

Jeffrey Rediger, MD, MDiv, is a physician, best-selling author, and popular speaker with an interest in the intersection of science, spirituality, trauma healing, and social justice. He is a Harvard Medical School professor and the Medical Director at Harvard's psychiatric hospital McLean Southeast Hospital. A licensed physician and psychiatrist, he also has a Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary. He is known within the Harvard/ McLean community for his compassionate and non-pathologizing approach to treating mental illness in a trauma-informed, social justice- conscious way that acknowledges what is right about people, honoring the unique divinity of all humans from a humanistic and spiritual perspective. He adheres to the mantra developed by one of his former Harvard colleagues and co-founder of Partners In Health Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, who said, “The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.” 

Growing up with an incarcerated father and a mother who struggled with mental illness and substance abuse, Deran gained knowledge and experience of discrimination, poverty, and social services at a very early age. It was no shock that she later decided to pursue a career as a helping professional.

Anasuya Godis is a globetrotting Mystic Midwife, Spiritual Coach, Conscious Channel, Curator of Transformative Experiences, Writer, and Painter. As a Cultural Ambassador, she has developed empowerment programs for people to speak the unspeakable, love their broken selves and own their innate power by combining the power of storytelling, empathy and the creative arts/theater to teach the power of Words to heal and manifest desired shifts in being. Anasuya has empowered Women and young people through her programs all across New York City as a Teaching Artist uplifting youth-at-risk, homeless youth, survivors of sexual abuse and other traumas. 

Keli Rankin, Lissa Rankin's sister, is a Behavior Specialist at a Mental Health Crisis Facility, as well as a gifted writer, poet, and singer. She was formerly employed as a caregiver for developmentally delayed adults, as well as being a cult survivor. As a bisexual, biracial woman who grew up in a white family in the Christian church in the American South, she holds a unique and nuanced point of view about spirituality with a keen eye towards inclusivity for marginalized people.

A prolific writer and co-author, with Michael Nichols, of Family Therapy: Concepts and Methods, the most widely used family therapy text in the United States, Dr. Schwartz developed Internal Family Systems in response to clients’ descriptions of experiencing various parts–many extreme–within themselves.

Dr. Penn is currently the Director of Service Integration with Ocean Health Initiatives, a Federally Qualified Health Center based in Monmouth and Ocean Counties in NJ; Staff physician with Medimorphosis, Physician Assisted Weight Loss and formerly served as the Acting Medical Director for Quality Community Health Care, a Federally Qualified Health Center in Philadelphia. 

Rebekah “Bex” Borucki, founder of BEXLIFE® and the BLISSED IN® wellness movement, is a mother of five, meditation guide, birth doula, mentor for creative healers, and author of books for big and little readers. She has taught meditation as a profound act of self-care that can be executed effortlessly and effectively to hundreds of thousands of individuals online and in live workshops for more than a decade. Rebekah’s mission is to make mental-health support and stress-management tools accessible to all.

Thomas Hübl is a modern mystic, a spiritual teacher whose work integrates the core insights of the great wisdom traditions with the discoveries of contemporary science, illuminating both with his profound understanding.