The Art & Science of Transformational Change May 12 - 16

Russ Hudson

Russ Hudson is widely regarded as one of the top teachers and developers of the Enneagram system in the world today. He co-authored with Don Richard Riso five best-selling books on the subject, including The Wisdom of the Enneagram, Personality Types, and a scientifically validated test instrument, the Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator (RHETI). He recently released an audiobook The Enneagram: Nine Gateways to Presence and holds a degree in East Asian Studies from Columbia University. Russ has appeared on Good Morning America, and The CBS Morning Show as an expert on personality type. 

Bill Bengston, PhD

William Bengston, PhD, is a professor of statistics and research methods at St. Joseph's College in New York, and president of the Society for Scientific Exploration, an international group of scientists who study anomalies. Bill has been researching anomalous healing for over forty years, and has numerous academic publications. Author of The Energy Cure, he has lectured widely in the U.S., Canada, and Europe.

Bill's research has produced the first successful full cures of transplanted mammary cancer and methylcholanthrene induced sarcomas in mice by energy healing techniques that he helped to develop. 

Belleruth Naparstek, ACSW, BCD

Clinical social worker, author, and guided imagery pioneer Belleruth Naparstek is founding CEO of HealthJourneys.com and the voice on 63 of its award-winning recordings. Prevention Magazine reports she has quietly created an underground revolution in mainstream healthcare by persuading institutions as diverse as Kaiser Permanente, the NIH, the US Army, Johns Hopkins, Blue Shield of California, Stanford University, and Progressive Insurance to distribute her guided imagery, in many instances free of charge. She has just completed a system-wide guided imagery certificate training course for all V.A. employees and is now building custom streaming pages and clinical apps, in English and Spanish, for organizations to distribute at scale.

George Limberakis, LCMHC, DCEP

George Limberakis, LCMHC, DCEP, ACAP-EFT, is a licensed clinical mental health counselor in private practice in Salt Lake City, Utah for 15 years. George is an ACEP member and is certified by ACEP as an advanced practitioner of EFT (ACAP-EFT) and Diplomate in Comprehensive Energy Psychology (DCEP).

Caroline Sakai, PhD

Caroline E. Sakai, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice. She was formerly Chief Psychologist at Kaiser Behavioral Health and Behavioral Medicine in Honolulu. She is a certified trainer in TFT. She has been to Rwanda eight times, most recently in 2019.

Debra New

Debra New is a pastoral counselor and director of the Nalaniikaleomana Foundation 501c3. The organization has helped with the Rwanda missions over the past three years and has assisted in the development of sustainability projects at Kahumana in Waianae Hawaii.

Grace Alvarez Sesma

Grace Alvarez Sesma, Mexican/Yaqui, is a practitioner of Mexican Traditional Healing (Curanderismo). In addition to her cultural healing practice, she is a facilitator for San Diego State University's Academy for Professional Excellence School of Social Work Tribal Star program. As a cultural educator, she works with healthcare providers to promote understanding of Mexican and Indigenous culture-specific healing interventions, Indigenous protocols, and to encourage mutually respectful collaboration.

Dawson Church, PhD

Dawson Church, PhD, is a best-selling science writer and award-winning researcher. His book The Genie in Your Genes was the first book to demonstrate that emotions drive gene expression. Bliss Brain demonstrates that peak states rapidly remodel the brain. Dawson has conducted dozens of clinical trials, and founded the Veterans Stress Solution, which has offered free treatment to over 20,000 veterans with PTSD. Dawson shares these health and performance breakthroughs through EFT Universe, one of the largest alternative medicine sites on the web.

Gregory Carpenter, LMFT

Greg Carpenter, LMFT, is a marriage and family therapist, performance coach, trainer and sound therapist. He utilizes mind-body therapies for relieving stress/anxiety, relationship concerns, and increasing vitality. Greg has found meridian tapping, Intention Energy Process and sound therapy to be the most effective techniques in moving towards personal transformation.

Pam Altaffer, LCSW

Pamela Altaffer, LCSW has been a psychotherapist for 30 years. She specializes in relationships and sees clients from around the world. Pamela has been using energy psychology for over 20 years. She is a co-creator of Ask and Receive and presents internationally. Pamela is past president of ACEP.

Thomas Altaffer, MSW

Thomas Altaffer, MSW is a psychotherapist, life coach, author and international trainer. He is the co-creator of Ask and Receive as well as the developer of several other mind/body therapies including Releasing Through Love and Higher States Therapy.

Sandi Radomski, ND, LCSW

Mary Sise, LCSW, DCEP

Mary Sise, LCSW, DCEP, is past president of ACEP, co-author of The Energy of Belief and author of Tapping the Panic Out of Pandemic. An international speaker, she has a private practice in Latham, NY.

Willem Lammers, MSc, Dpsych

Willem Lammers MSc, DPsych is a Swiss/Dutch psychotherapist, a supervisor, and a consultant to organizations with over 40 years of experience in the field. He trained in transactional analysis, NLP, EMDR and energy psychology. He developed Logosynthesis and teaches this amazing new model around the world. He has written ten books.

Asha Clinton, MSW, PhD

Asha Clinton, MSW, PhD - A former Princeton professor, Dr. Clinton began to develop Advanced Integrative Therapy in 1999, and has created 15 AIT seminars. She is internationally known as an excellent presenter, for her skill in treating trauma, psychogenic illness, and spiritual impasse, and for her humanitarian aid work.

Roger Jahnke, OMD

Roger Jahnke, OMD, is chief of staff at the Health Action Integrative Medicine Clinic in Santa Barbara California. He is director of the Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi (IIQTC), a mind-body research and training institute that has trained 2000 teachers and practice leaders and has contributed to research in numerous respected medical journals. With 10 research trips to Asia's universities, hospitals, temples and sacred mountain sites, Roger has distilled the essence of qi/prana cultivation in his widely revered books The Healer Within and The Healing Promise of Qi.

Sarette Zecharia, PhD, DCEP, EHP-C

Sarette Zecharia, PhD, DCEP, EHP-C, is a psychologist in Arizona. She is an ACEP board member, chair of the CEP committee, a CEP trainer, and a consultant. Her primary focus is bringing energy psychology/medicine into mainstream healthcare. Her specialties include pain, trauma, food for mood and pain, and qigong.

Susan Kane-Ronning, PhD

Susan Kane-Ronning, PhD, is a licensed psychologist specializing in trauma and child behavior disorders. She operates ArmchairEd and ArmchairEdClockhours, providing online continuing education and graduate credit to educators, and is a national trainer for PESI. Susan maintains a private practice and is an environmental activist.

Michelle Earnest, MSN, EEM-AP

Michelle S. Earnest, MSN, EEM-AP, is a nurse practitioner, EEM advanced practitioner, former hospital/hospice chaplain, faculty member of the Eden Energy Medicine Certification Program and former director of the program. Bridging conventional health care, energy-based therapies, and spirituality, Michelle teaches, presents, and practices a unique holistic approach to healing.

Amanda Freger, DCEP, LPC

Amanda Freger, DCEP, LPC, has served in multiple roles within many service lines of behavioral health treatment, including acting as a supervisor in outpatient and residential settings. In providing decades of psychotherapeutic treatment to various populations, she has gained extensive experience with those with autism spectrum disorders. Mandi is a former ACEP Board member and holds diplomat status in Comprehensive Energy Psychology.

Jude Currivan, PhD

Jude Currivan, PhD, is a cosmologist, planetary healer, futurist, and author. She was previously one of the most senior businesswomen in the UK. Co-founder of WholeWorld-View, Jude integrates leading edge science, consciousness research and universal wisdom teachings into a wholistic world-view that underlies her work serving conscious evolution and empowering transformational resolutions to collective human and planetary issues. A member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle she is also the international and award-winning author of six books, including The Cosmic Hologram: In-formation at the Center of Creation.

Judith Swack, PhD

Judith A. Swack, PhD, is a scientist, teacher, healer and visionary, and a winner of the 2015 ACEP award for Major Contribution to the Field of Energy Psychology. She has synthesized biomedical research with techniques from other healing systems to create Healing from the Body Level Up, an innovative and powerful methodology with transformative results.

Diane Poole Heller, PhD

The effectiveness of body-oriented treatment strategies for PTSD such as somatic experiencing and energy psychology has been demonstrated. However, most practitioners are not well versed in the role of attachment styles in therapy. Explore the importance of attending to insecure attachment issues in psychotherapy in areas such as a predictor of traumatic distress, therapeutic engagement, and a predictor of treatment outcomes. Learn how insecure attachment issues manifest in trauma treatment, no matter what type of approach you use, and how you can customize treatment to the needs of your client’s attachment style . Discover how to use the self-administered attachment style questionnaire as a psychoeducational tool to help increase your client's self-awareness and motivation. You can take the test at dianepooleheller.com

David Feinstein, PhD

David Feinstein, PhD, is a clinical psychologist who has received nine national awards for his books on consciousness and healing. He has served on the faculties of Antioch College and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He and his wife, Donna Eden, have built one of the world’s largest and most vibrant organizations teaching Energy Medicine.