Alanis Morissette

Over 25 years after the breakthrough debut of Jagged Little Pill, an album that earned four Grammys, sold 30 million records, and garnered a dedicated worldwide fan base, Alanis Morissette remains a celebrated artist with a fierce commitment to authenticity and vulnerability. Beyond her musical achievements, Alanis is equally as defined by her work as a powerful advocate for mental health, female empowerment, and wholeness rather than wellness.

Alanis’s journey and reach extends far beyond her chart-topping singles and sold-out tours. She has actively engaged in numerous endeavors beyond music, putting her focus on a return to wholeness, self-growth, empowerment, art, psychological and spiritual healing, trauma recovery, and relationships. Facilitating her message through performances, writing, interviews, teachings, workshops, and public speaking, Alanis has shared the stage with some of today’s great thinkers and change agents, including Oprah Winfrey, Arianna Huffington, Neale Donald Walsch, Richard Schwartz, Peter Levine, Marianne Williamson, and others. She has led workshops online and at learning institutions such as UCLA, Omega Institute, Esalen, and 1440 Multiversity.

In 2016, she began the Conversation with Alanis Morissette podcast, featuring conversations with esteemed authors, doctors, educators, and therapists, discussing a wide range of psychosocial topics from spirituality to recovery and developmentalism. Guests have included prominent figures like Gabor Maté and Dan Siegel, offering listeners profound insights into psychological well-being and personal growth, allowing and inviting her audience to return to embodiment, empowerment and a felt sense of one’s most essential Self.

She has also been a lifetime passionate supporter of female empowerment, regularly partnering with charities like Equality Now, with whom she has worked for over three decades. Her dedication has earned her recognition, including the Global Tolerance Award from the United Nations and the Rock the Vote’s Patrick Lippert Award. These honors reflect her commitment to making the world a safer and more inclusive place, particularly for young people.

Through her music, advocacy, and personal endeavors, Alanis Morissette continues to inspire and empower individuals worldwide, making her connection with other people in multiple ways the epicenter of her life’s mission.

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Alok Vaid-Menon

ALOK (they/them) is an internationally acclaimed author, poet, comedian, and public speaker. As a mixed-media artist, their work explores themes of trauma, belonging, and the human condition. They are the author of Femme in Public (2017,) Beyond the Gender Binary (2020,) and Your Wound/My Garden (2021,) and the creator of #DeGenderFashion: an initiative to degender fashion and beauty industries. In recognition of their work, they have been honored as the inaugural LGBTQ Scholar in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania and awarded a GLAAD Media Award and Stonewall Foundation Visionary Award.

Over the past decade, they have toured in more than 40 countries, most recently selling out their runs at the Soho Theatre in London, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and the Kennedy Performing Arts Center. Their show has been described as “Provocative and powerful,” “A potent combination of comedy and poetry,” and “A Jaw-dropping celestial event.” On screen, they will make their feature film debut in Absolute Dominion opposite Patton Oswalt and next can be seen in Emmie Lichtenberg’s film Complicated Order opposite Midori Francis. On television, they have appeared on Hulu’s Planet Sex with Cara Delevingne, ABC’s PRIDE: To Be Seen – A Soul of A Nation, Netflix’s Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness, and The Trans List.

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Judith Orloff, MD

Judith Orloff, MD is a psychiatrist, an empath, and the author of the new book The Genius of Empathy (with a foreword by the Dalai Lama,) which offers powerful skills to tap into empathy as a daily healing practice in your life and relationships. She also wrote The Empath’s Survival Guide and Thriving as an Empath. Dr. Orloff is a New York Times bestselling author and a UCLA clinical faculty member. She synthesizes the pearls of conventional medicine with cutting edge knowledge of intuition, energy, and spirituality. Dr. Orloff specializes in treating highly sensitive people in her private practice. She has been featured on The Today Show, CNN, Oprah Magazine, and The New York Times.

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Martín Prechtel

As an avid student of Indigenous eloquence, innovative language, and thought, Martín Prechtel is an award-winning writer, artist, and teacher. Through both his written and spoken work, he hopes to promote the subtlety, irony, and premodern vitality hidden in any living language. A half-blood Native American with a Pueblo Indian upbringing, he left New Mexico to live in the village of Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala, eventually becoming a full member of the Tzutujil Mayan community there.

For many years, Martín served as a principal in that body of village leaders responsible for piloting the young people through the meanings of their ancient stories in the rituals of adult rites of passage.

Once again residing in his beloved New Mexico, Prechtel teaches at his international school, Bolad’s Kitchen and his audial lecture series Please, Come Sit by My Fire.

Prechtel immerses his students in the world’s lost seeds, sacred farming, forgotten music, magical architecture, ancient textile making, metalsmithing, traditional tools, musical instruments, and food. By exploring their deeper meanings through ancient stories and texts, and teaching with traditional riddles, he hopes to inspire everyone to revitalize real culture and find a sacred connection to the natural world in their daily lives. Prechtel lives with his family in Northern New Mexico.

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