Steve Chandler is now the author of 30 books that have been translated into over 25 languages. His personal success coaching, public speaking and business consulting have been used by CEOs, top professionals, major universities, and over 30 Fortune 500 companies. Drawing on Steve’s more than 20 years of working with professionals to dramatically improve their success, the “MindShift” he offers frees people from unnecessary pessimism and puts them back in touch with the source of their enthusiasm for work and life. Learn more about Steve at www.stevechandler.com. TOPICS: How to stop people pleasing + Why it’s important to know how to say no and create boundaries + The difference between reactive and creative thinking + Why when you slow down you can be more efficient and enjoy the process so much more + Realize you always have a choice in everything you do + How to create more time for pleasure and what thoughts/stories limit us + What we can do to experience true joy & happiness.
Catherine Ingram is an international dharma teacher with communities in the U.S., Europe, and Australia and the author of Passionate Presence: Seven Qualities of Awakened Awareness. Since 1992 she has led Dharma Dialogues, which are public events that focus on directing awareness toward greater wellbeing in an ethical and happy life. Catherine also leads numerous silent retreats each year in conjunction with Dharma Dialogues. She is president of Living Dharma, an educational non-profit organization founded in 1995. For more information, visit www.dialogueswithcatherine.com. TOPICS: How to have your life be a meditation + How to interrupt and navigate your problems/negative stories with more grace and ease + Why gratitude is so important for instant happiness + Why embodiment is so important to pleasure and joy + How to experience more wonder, delight and divinity right here and now + The importance of silence and rest.
Lisa Schrader, the Founder of Awakening Shakti, has impacted the lives of thousands of people over the past 10 years as a sacred sexuality workshop leader, author, speaker and coach. Her work has been featured on Oprah, Oxygen and VH1. She is the author of Kama Sutra 52: A Year's Worth of the Best Positions for Passion and Pleasure from Quiver Books. She has a private coaching practice supporting clients worldwide and is certified through the International Coach Federation. For more information, visit awakeningshakti.com. TOPICS: How to bring the element of pleasure to any task + Why trusting your divine feminine is vital for ecstasy + Learn a new way of making love + Why it's truly a courageous leap to truly honor your own heart & rhythm + How your body and sexual energy are so important for health, happiness & wellbeing.
Born and raised in Austria, Michaela received two Degrees in Psychology from the University of Vienna and received further extensive training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Hypnosis, NLP, and Yoga. Upon moving to the United States in 1994, Michaela quickly became counselor to the stars in Hollywood, California, working with the world’s best-known celebrities, including actors, producers, writers, musicians, and international business founders. Michaela began studying with David Deida in 1997 and in 2007 began co-teaching with him, focusing on women’s empowerment in the 21st Century. Michaela is currently the only counselor in the world personally trained and authorized by David Deida. Recently, Michaela began making available her unique services to those outside the Hollywood elite, offering women’s workshops, couples intensives, relationship counseling, and co-ed trainings. Learn more about Michaela at www.michaelaboehm.com TOPICS: Why we it’s important that pleasure is a priority + Why women are built for pleasure + How you can find pleasure in the mundane + How to balance the masculine and feminine parts of yourself + Why women experiencing is pleasurable for men + The difference between men and women wiring around pleasure.
Alan Cohen, M.A., is the author of 24 popular inspirational books and CD's, including the best-selling The Dragon Doesn't Live Here Anymore, the award-winning A Deep Breath of Life, and the classic Are You as Happy as Your Dog? He is a contributing writer for the New York Times #1 bestselling series Chicken Soup for the Soul, and his books have been translated into 24 foreign languages. His work has been featured on Oprah.com and in USA Today, The Washington Post and 101 Top Experts. Alan's radio program Get Real is broadcast weekly on Hay House Radio, and his monthly column From the Heart is featured in magazines internationally. Alan is a featured presenter in the award-winning documentary Finding Joe, based on the teaching of visionary mythologist Joseph Campbell. TOPICS: What soul pleasure is + How to trust and relax into life more + Why passion & desire are so vital to our well-being + How joy can be your compass + How to navigate fear & rejection + How to live in the love frequency and say yes to your dreams.
Sara Gottfried M.D. teaches men and women how to reset their hormones naturally with food so that they can rock their mission. She is a Harvard-educated physician, speaker and author of the New York Times bestseller The Hormone Cure: Reclaim Balance, Sleep, Sex Drive and Vitality Naturally with The Gottfried Protocol (Simon & Schuster, 2013). She is regularly featured in national media, from O Magazine to 20/20. Known for effortlessly blending the seriousness of one’s health with playfulness and humor, Dr. Gottfried is a systems-based functional medicine coach, MIT-trained bioengineer, mom/wife and certified yoga teacher. In our highly-anticipated interview, Dr. Gottfried will share the science of how GM foods may hijack your energy, weight, mood, fertility, and sex drive. Learn more at http://www.saragottfriedMD.com TOPICS: How pleasure can help balance your hormones + What is happening on a cellular level when you're experiencing pleasure + 3 step process to experience more pleasure + Digital prescription for lowering your cortisol and deal with all the stress in your life + Tips to connect with your children and have more fun + What the Charlie's Angels of Vitality are and why they've got your back + Why the divine feminine is crucial for women's joy and happiness.
Marc David is the Founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, a leading visionary, teacher and consultant in Nutritional Psychology, and the author of the classic and best-selling works Nourishing Wisdom: A Mind-Body Approach to Nutrition and Well Being and The Slow Down Diet: Eating for Pleasure, Energy, and Weight Loss. His work has been featured on CNN, NBC and numerous media outlets. His books have been translated into over 10 languages, and his approach appeals to a wide audience of eaters who are looking for fresh, inspiring and innovative messages about food, body and soul. The Institute for the Psychology of Eating is the world’s only teaching organization dedicated to a forward thinking, positive, holistic approach to nutritional psychology. IPE is unique and revolutionary in its approach – teaching students and professionals how to effectively work with the most common eating challenges of our times in their internationally acclaimed Eating Psychology Coach Certification Training. Learn more here: http://psychologyofeating.com TOPICS: How pleasure impacts your metabolism, digestion and health + Why slowing down is sexy and ideal for optimal health + What pleasure really needs to thrive + How we are biological wired for pleasure + Why vitamin P(leasure) is so vital for health and vitality + Why pleasure & our desires can be scary and what we can do about it + How to trust yourself and yourself and return to your natural state.
Jen Louden is a personal growth pioneer who help launch the self-care movement with her first book The Woman’s Comfort Book. She's the author of five more books on well-being and personal wisdom that have inspired more than a million women in 9 languages. Jen has been a regular columnist for Body & Soul magazine, a radio show host on Martha Stewart’s network, and a spokeswoman for companies like Real Networks and SC Johnson, and she sat on Orpah's couch. She helps creative people who want to change the world get to it. She believes self-love + world-love = wholeness for all. Visit Jen at www.JenniferLouden.com TOPICS: You will learn how to listen to your life + How to value savoring + Why integration & wholeness are so important to happiness + Why using your senses is so important + How you can serve the world more.
Alexandra is the Co-Founder & Chief Goddess of en*theos. She’s a passionate student of Optimal Living and loves rockin’ & optimizing her Goddess life. She also loves inspiring & empowering peeps to rock their most authentically awesome lives. That’s why she created Rock Your Goddess Life, Optimal Parenting 101, The Pleasure Advantage, Blissitations. You can tune into her inspiring weekly videos on her YouTube channel: YouTube.com/MyGoddessLife + TOPICS: How to get the most from this conference and what you need to know about pleasure + Why it's so important to give yourself permission to have more fun + How to stop resisting pleasure + Why having a big YES and a big NO is vital to your happiness + How to "Do You!" + How to rock your authentically awesome self!
Brian and Alexandra Johnson are Emerson's parents and the Chief Philosopher and Goddess at en*theos. :) TOPICS: Questions that came up for Optimal Parenting 101 participants!
Carrie Contey co-founded the Slow Family Living movement. Her scholarly and hands-on research gave birth to, CALMS: A Guide to Soothing Your Baby & What Babies Want: Calming and Communicating With Your Baby. Carrie earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology with a specialty in prenatal and perinatal psychology. TOPICS: How to communicate with your baby in the womb and why it’s important + How we impact our baby's brain + How to calm and soothe your baby and why slowing down is so important
4 questions to ask your baby + How we can have more fun and trust ourselves as parents while creating a family dynamic that works for everyone + How to support your child to stay connected to who they are as they grow up.
Mary Jackson has been a home birth Midwife since 1975. She has attended over 2,000 births in the Santa Barbara, Ventura, and Ojai, California areas. She is currently co-leading the Castellino Prenatal and Birth Training and is participating in cutting edge research about imprints that occur around the time of conception, pregnancy and birth and how they affect us throughout the rest of our lives and what it takes to heal from challenges in these experiences. (She’s also Alexandra and Brian’s midwife! :) TOPICS: How our fears can be a reflection of our own birth experience and why it is important to look at our fears around pregnancy + How to transform pain and be in awe during labor + How to connect with your baby during labor and birth + What an imprint is and how they influence our lives and our baby's lives and how we can heal them + What supported attachment is and why it is important for you to know in order to communicate with your baby + Why co-sleeping can help with breastfeeding and sleep deprivation + Why eating your placenta can help with postpartum depression.
Naomi Aldort is the author of the book Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves. She is an engaging public speaker who travels worldwide and shares her wisdom in lectures, conferences, colleges and private events. Naomi’s guidance has transformed the lives of families around the world. TOPICS: How to listen to your baby's needs + Wants versus primal needs + Projection as a tool for parenting + Options other than saying "No" to our children + How to create self-reliance and self-esteem + How to take the struggle out of parenting.