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Omega Institute for Holistic Studies

Founded in 1977, the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies is a nonprofit organization that offers diverse and innovative educational experiences, which inspire an integrated approach to wellness and personal and social change. Omega welcomes more than 20,000 people to its workshops, conferences and retreats on its beautiful 195-acre Rhinebeck, NY campus and at locations around the world.

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Cheri Huber

Cheri Huber has been a student and teacher of Zen for over 30 years. She is the author of 19 books, including Transform Your Life (Keep It Simple, 2007), Making a Change for Good (Shambhala, 2007) and The Depression Book (Keep It Simple, 2004). She is the founder of the Palo Alto Zen Center and the Zen Monastery Peace Center, and the founder and director of Living Compassion, a nonprofit organization dedicated to peace and service.

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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, PhD

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is the founder and co-director of the non-profit research institute, Quality of Life Research Center (QLRC). The QLRC focuses on the study of “positive psychology.” Positive psychology focuses on human strengths such as optimism, creativity, intrinsic motivation, and responsibility. He has authored many books including Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life. He is noted for his work in the study of happiness and creativity, but is most recognized as the architect of the notion of “flow,” which is a mental state of operation in which a person in an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity.

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Michael Gelb

Michael J. Gelb is the world’s leading authority on the application of genius thinking to personal and organizational development. He is a pioneer in the fields of creative thinking, accelerated learning and innovative leadership, and the author of numerous books, including the New York Times bestseller How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day, and the more recent Innovate Like Edison: The Success System of America’s Greatest Inventor.

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Carol Dweck, PhD

Carol Dweck, PhD is Stanford University psychologist and leading researcher in the field of motivation, why people succeed and how to foster success. She is author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. In Mindset, Dweck argues that shifting from a “fixed mindset” to a “growth mindset” creates motivation, increases productivity, enhances relationships and builds self-esteem.

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Martin E.P. Seligman, PhD

Martin Seligman, PhD is widely considered a founder of “positive psychology.” He is professor of psychology and director of the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania. He has authored numerous books including The Optimistic Child, Child’s Play, Learned Optimism, Authentic Happiness and Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being. His research areas are positive psychology, “learned helplessness,” depression, optimism and pessimism. www.authentichappiness.com

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Heidi Grant Halvorson, PhD

Dr. Heidi Grant Halvorsen is a rising star in the field of motivational science. She is author of Succeed: How We Can All Reach Our Goals and her blogs are featured in the Harvard Business Review, Psychology Today and Huffington Post. Grant believes success is really all about strategy – how we set goals, how we pursue them, and how we deal with obstacles we encounter along the way.

www.heidigranthalvorson.com

Twitter: @hghalvorson

Rick Hanson, PhD

Rick Hanson, PhD is a neuropsychologist and author of the bestselling Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom. His free weekly e-newsletter, Just One Thing, suggests a simple weekly practice designed to help readers find joy, peace of mind and more fulfilling relationships. www.rickhanson.net

Brian Johnson

Brian Johnson has created a variety of tools to help people lead “an authentically awesome life.” His collection of PhilosophersNotes review the best ideas from the top personal growth books. His “Optimal Living 101″ classes relay the essential teachings of dozens of great teachers condensed into 10 Principeles. His “Blissitations” are guided meditations, visualizations and affirmations. Find out more about all the various tools Brian has to help you “get your shine on” via his Web site.

http://www.brianjohnson.me/

Twitter: @_Brian_Johnson

Better Life Index

Are you ready to help create better policies for better living? This nifty interactive tool from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) promotes policies that improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world. The “Better Life Index” allows users to develop, visualize and compare 11 well-being indicators with citizens of 34 countries in the hopes of empowering them to become more engaged in policy-making processes.

www.betterlifeindex.org

Byron Katie

A best-selling author best known for her books Loving What Is and A Thousand Names For Joy, Byron Katie believes her job is to teach people how to stop suffering. Her simple process of inquiry, known as “The Work,” helps individuals dismantle their stressful beliefs about life, other people and themselves, and then set a new course.

www.thework.com

Twitter: @ByronKatie

Reveal

This non-profit, founded by Meggan Watterson, MTS, MDIV, serves to empower and advance a new wave of feminine spiritual teachers. These fiery 20- to 30-something leaders honor the body as sacred, and work to help women claim the authentic voice of their souls and reveal the next generation of feminine spirituality.

http://revealconference.org/

Twitter: @revealnyc

Margaret Moore

This veteran of the biotechnology industry shifted her focus in 2000 and created Wellcoaches Corporation to establish professional coaches in healthcare and wellness as a way to create “Well-Beings.” She is co-director of the McLean/Harvard Medical School Institute of Coaching, an organization seeking to build a coaching road map for physician visits and for studying the integration of wellness coaching into primary care.

Her “Coach Meg” blog includes 40-minute coaching session podcasts on many aspects of life and well-being along with commentaries on each session and related issues in health and well-being.

http://www.coach-meg.com/

Cheryl Richardson

This author, radio host and advocate for “radical self care” has been helping people achieve an authentic, balanced, full-potential life for years. Richardson, a pioneer of the life coaching movement, believes that “self-care” is vital because when we care for ourselves, we naturally begin to care for our families, friends, communities and environment in a healthier and more effective way.

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Twitter: @coachoncall

Common Dreams

Founded in 1997, this non-profit, nonpartisan citizens’ organization has a mission has a mission to inform, inspire and ignite change for the common good. The Web site publishes breaking news from progressive perspectives as well as the latest ideas and opinions from leading progressive thinkers, writers and activists.

www.commondreams.org

Twitter: @commondreams

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