BOARD OF SUPERVISORS


	Steven Schmitz Dr. Schmitz is a professor at Sofia University (USA) and the Integral Transpersonal Institute (Italy) teaching shamanism and Transpersonal psychology. He has a private practice in Shamanic Counseling and is Board Secretary of EUROTAS and Co-President of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology.

	Stuart Sovatsky Stuart Sovatsky, is co-president of the US ATP and Kundalini Chant-master since 1974 and author of Advanced Spiritual Intimacy.

	Vitor Rodrigues Vitor Rodrigues, PhD is a Psychologist, Psychotherapist and writer (12 books published plus many articles in different publications or books). He has been lecturing in courses and workshops in many countries, mainly about Regression Therapy and Psychic defense.

	Jure Biechonski Jure Biechonski is a Counseling – Psychologist, founder and director of SACH International. School of Analytical and Cognitive Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy, TERVIKLIK MINA School of Transpersonal hypnotherapy-psychology & founder and Creator of THA (Transpersonal Hypno-Analysis). He conducts courses in 6 different countries and lectures in more then 62 countries worldwide. Jure brings to the course 28 years of practice as a psychotherapist and his 9 years study of Hypnotherapy and NLP to an advanced level.

	Rona Newmark Rona is an Associate Professor at Stellenbosch University, South Africa and also runs a private practice. She has been registered as a psychologist for 19 years, and is involved in the training of educational psychologists and intern psychologists. She was also involved in the leadership for the development of a model for the Institutionalization of Service-Learning for SU in collaboration with the Division for Community Interaction, one of two representatives for SU to attend the Service learning capacity building workshops presented by the Community Higher Education Service Partnerships and served as a. co-developer and co-presenter of the first Capacity Building Programe for academics at SU as part of a partnership between the Unit for Educational Psychology and the Division for Community Interaction SU. She has been on the conference committees for various International conferences in Service-learning in collaboration with University of Indianapolis, currently co-ordinates Community interaction and Sexuality & Life skills Education for the Faculty of Education at Stellenbosch University. She has advanced training in Clinical Hypnotherapy, Quantum Biofeedback, EMDR and doctoral training as a RoHUN therapist (Delphi University, Georgia. Her current research interests include Community Interaction, Transpersonal Psychology, Hypnotherapy, Quantum Biofeedback, EMDR and Quality of Life issues. She has published in national and international journals, is a core member of EDTR and supervises research of Masters and Doctoral students.

	Giovanna Calabrese Medical Doctor, Psychiatrist and Transpersonal Psychotherapist. Giovanna has always been interested in research, using both quantitative and qualitative approaches.

	Regina U Hess EUROTAS Board of Directors, Co-founder EUROTAS Division of Transpersonal Research; Ph.D. in transpersonal studies (U.S.) & qualitative research (UK), clinical psychologist & body-centered Gestalt psychotherapist (Germany), emphasis, transcultural healing practices, research, arts and film

	Serge Beddington-Behrens "Exploring the many faces of the Spiritual Activist" Why we are all challenged to be Spiritual Activists today? If we want an improved society, then all of us are called to play some role in having this come about, as the many problems which we all face in the world at this moment, will not somehow magically be healed unless millions of us all over the world find our own way of contributing to the process. And age must not be an excuse for doing nothing!

	Ashok Gangadean Ashok Gangadean is Margaret Gest Professor of Global Philosophy at Haverford College (USA) where he has taught for the past forty-six years. He was the first Director of the Margaret Gest Center for the Cross–Cultural Study of Religion at Haverford, and has participated in numerous professional conferences on inter–religious dialogue and East–West comparative philosophy. His primary concern throughout his career has been to clarify the universal logos or common ground at the heart of human reason and rational life. He is Founder–Director of the Global Dialogue Institute which seeks to embody the ideological powers of global reason in all aspects of cultural life. He is the author of Meditative Reason: Toward Universal Grammar and Between Worlds: The Emergence of Global Reason and Meditations of Global First Philosophy: Quest for the Missing Grammar of Logos. He also produced a six CD audio performance of his Awakening of the Global Mind with Sounds True. His current forthcoming book: Awakening Global Enlightenment: The Maturation of our Species. www.awakeningmind.org