Judith Lewis Herman

Judith Lewis Herman M.D. is a part-time Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. In the thirty years prior to her retirement, she was Director of Training at the Victims of Violence Program at The Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge, MA. She is the author of the award-winning books Father-Daughter Incest (Harvard University Press, 1981), and Trauma and Recovery (Basic Books, 1992). She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship in 1984 and the 1996 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. In 2007, she was named a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Her new book, Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice, was published in March 2023.

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Kai Cheng Thom

Kai Cheng Thom, MSW, MSc, is a certified somatic sex educator, qualified mediator, clinical hypnotherapist, and certified professional coach based in Tkaronto/Toronto. She is also the author of five award-winning books in various genres. Kai Cheng’s work focuses on the intersection of social justice, pleasure activism, and transformative approaches to healing conflict. A noted speaker and practitioner of somatic wellness, healing, and group process facilitation, Kai Cheng supports individuals and groups who are seeking to repair relationships and make transformative change. She also teaches as Adjunct Faculty at the Institute for the Study of Somatic Sex Education.

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Dr. Anita Sanchez, Nahua (Aztec) & Toltec

Anita Sanchez, PhD, Nahua (Aztec) and Toltec, is an international consultant, trainer, and speaker for Fortune 500 businesses and education. She is passionate about leadership, empowerment of women, culture change, diversity, and inclusion. Her life’s work is bridging Indigenous wisdom and science for business and societal renewal.  She inspires people to discover and trust their gifts so they become a life-giving force for themselves, people, and the planet. She is the author of eight books including the internationally award-winning book The Four Sacred Gifts: Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Times (Simon & Schuster,) and coming in September 2024, Kaleidoscope Mind: Getting More Done by Letting More Go.

Her recent awards include Mogul’s 2022 “Top 100 DEI Leaders,” Conscious Company Media’s 2020 “World Changing Woman,” and the World Woman’s Foundation 2020 “Woman of the Hour,” which was part of the #SheisMyHero campaign to inspire one million girls to live their dreams and learn leadership. Anita leads an annual journey into the sacred headwaters of the Amazon each year. She is a grandmother, auntie, mother, and partner and resides in Colorado, USA.

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Thomas Hübl 

Thomas Hübl, PhD, is a renowned teacher, author, and international facilitator who works within the complexity of systems and cultural change, integrating the core insights of the great wisdom traditions and mysticism with the discoveries of science. Since the early 2000s, he has led large-scale events and courses on the healing of collective trauma.

He is the author of Attuned: Practicing Interdependence to Heal Our Trauma—and Our World and Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds. He has served as an advisor and guest faculty for universities and organizations, as a coach for CEOs and organizational leaders, and is currently a visiting scholar at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University.

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