Rahul Prabhakar works as a technical communication professional with Samsung Electronics Company Limited. He is based out of Seoul and is passionate about consumer technologies. He is a leading member of the technical writing community in India and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering Technology and a Diploma in Advertising Management. In the last…
My morning breakout session has a long title: “Accessing Transpersonal Dimensions of Healing Through Writing and Poetry.” Whew! I’m out of breath just saying it. It’s short and sweet, only an hour and 15 minutes including questions. What are the doors that poetry can open at the end of life? –dying hospice patients can write…
Trista Hill is a self-employed fine artist and musician who posts her more personal issues involving creativity on her blog. She is a professional harpist who plays for special events in the central Ohio area, and is making a CD of her own harp compositions. She creates artwork on commission; her vision it to paint…
I’m here in Boulder, Colorado for three days (May 18-20) to present a workshop at the 5th Annual Integrating Spirit & Caregiving Conference with an emphasis on Integral and Transpersonal Approaches to End of Life and Elder Care. The conference is presented by Naropa University Extended Studies and the Center for Contemplative End of Life…
Mary Ann is a part time writer and a full time manager at Borders Bookstore in Union Square. She is currently planning to go to Italy in 2 weeks with some women friends and is feeling guilty that she hasn’t learned the entire Italian language or done more research. Mary Ann has been married forever…
Rigpa is my Buddhist group, headed by my teacher Sogyal Rinpoche. One of Rigpa’s programs is the Spiritual Care Program. The Rigpa U.S. Spiritual Care is run by the rather marvelous Darci Meyers. For five years, the Spiritual Care Program has offered Contemplative End of Life Care: A Certificate Program for Health Care Professionals through…
Bernadette is a writer, author, artist, Feng Shui practitioner and professional organizer. Her passion is to assist others in identifying ways to create sanctuary within and without. Ray is a professional actor and artist, and integrates his love for these crafts with life experience to help others identify and express their own uniquely creative self….
An old friend of mine, Suzanne Maxwell, is working on the Building a Culture of Peace Conference this week in Santa Fe, New Mexico (www.santafescribe.typepad.com/world_peace_conference_sa). Louise Diamond shares these thoughts on the peace community with us from her Peace Report Issue #6. –JGR _____________________________ Who or what exactly is ‘the peace community,’ or for that…
Scott is a poodle-owning, music-loving and cigar-smoking freelance writer and mental health activist based in Toronto. His blog, Finding Your Marbles, is an informative, friendly, and inspired “Handbook for life” for people suffering from mental illness. Scott’s mission is to share skills that enable people to manage their day-to-day lives so that they can overcome…
Participants at the “Building a Culture of Peace” conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico May 16-17, 2007, will listen to speakers: Arun Gandhi Nobel Peace Laureates Rigoberta Menchu Tum and Jody Williams (and, by Video) His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The Five Peace Councils include: Demilitarization and Peace Economy Our Youth, Our Promise Knowing the…