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Susan Baller-Shepard
Rev.
Susan Baller-Shepard has received her master of divinity from McCormick
Theological Seminary and her master of Social Work from University of
Illinois. She has studied poetry at Illinois State University in the
Bloomington-Normal area where she lives with her husband and three
children.
As a pastor, Baller-Shepard is ordained as a
minister of Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (USA) She has
been a pastor at churches in Springfield, Peoria, and Rochester,
Illinois; leads retreats throughout the state. She has been active with
a Presbytery partnership with churches of northeastern Brazil.
Baller-Shepard also leads a Spirituality Book Club.
Baller-Shepard
was the keynote speaker for the Athena Awards for the
Bloomington-Normal Chamber of Commerce. She has dedicated her life to
preaching.
www.spiritualbookclub.com
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 | Jakob Bösch
is the Medical Director of Psychiatric Outpatient Services and Day
Clinics in Baselland, Switzerland, and Assistant Professor of
Psychiatry and Psychosocial Medicine at the University of Basel.
After completing his medical studies, Dr. Bösch obtained a postdoctoral
scholarship for experimental medicine and worked at the Institute of
Brain Research and the Psychiatric University Hospitals in Zurich,
where he was appointed Head Physician and Assistant Professor.
Dr. Bösch is strongly committed to promoting the self-help movement in
the health sector and to building up community support groups. He
has studied spiritual healing for many years and conducted extensive
research on this subject, including the effects of spiritual healing in
conjunction with conventional medical treatment. His current main
topic in teaching and research is: “Reconciliation and forgiveness is
healing - healing is reconciliation and forgiveness”.
Jakob Bösch’s book "Spiritual Healing and Conventional Medicine" (2002)
is a bestseller, already in its fourth edition. Dr. Bösch has
received awards from numerous organisations, including the Swiss
Society of Psychiatry, the Swiss Association for Natural Healing and
the Swiss Federation of Parapsychology.
www.jakobboesch.ch
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George G. Caudill jr.
A
graduate of Drake University Law School, George G. Gaudill jr. was executive
Director of the Iowa International Development Foundation, which
fostered economic ties between Iowa, the Soviet Union, Central and
Eastern European nations.
He now works in Public Strategies' Government Relations practice group,
offering counsel and guidance to high-profile national clients on
government affairs and grassroots efforts. Caudill served in the
White House Office of Communications, where he designed the daily
visual communications plan for President Bill Clinton. He has been
leader of the 2004 Senator John Kerry's campaign for President of
the United States.
How do you present media images, around the globe, that are not
offensive and are culturally relevant? How do you responsibly use media
events? George is keenly aware of the impact of visual media and sees
his work as imbued with ethical responsibility.
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 | Anouk Claes
has been practicing spiritual science since 1987. Belgian born,
she speaks six languages and has lived in Basel, Switzerland since
1992, with the exception of a three-year stay in China. Besides
running her own spiritual consulting and teaching office, she works
intensively with the Psychiatric Outpatient Services of Baselland
(Medical Director, Dr. J. Bösch), conducts courses and acts as
supervisor of therapist groups.
From early childhood, Anouk has been endowed with the gift of sight,
which has enabled a deeper understanding of the human condition and led
to a burning desire to bring spirituality to the foreground. In
her teachings, she helps every individual to find their own spiritual
path.
Anouk is an extraordinary individual, capable of astonishing
insight. She has the rare ability to provide clear and easily
comprehensible explanations of emotional and spiritual conditions. Her
method can best be described as “Practical Spirituality”.
|  | Simon Cohen
is a visionary writer and trainer on religion and the
media. After his Theology degree from Nottingham University in England,
Simon worked in the media industry for four years before setting up
Tolerance Limited, a media organization that promotes inter faith
dialogue and understanding.
Simon is agnostic, but is passionate about the role faith communities
have to play in contributing to a more peaceful society. He trains and
advises organizations how to improve and increase their media coverage.
In July 2004, he ran a media empowerment session at the Parliament of
World Religions. Simon is editor of adamandeveit.net, a religious
tolerance website aimed at secular society, and runs a number of other
websites and events that promote inter faith dialogue.
Simon has been featured numerous times on television, radio and in the
press for his creative approach to furthering understanding between the
world's faiths. He has been voted as one of the top thirty young media
professionals in Britain for the last two years, and has been
recognized by the Millennium Commission as one of the leading social
entrepreneurs in the country.
www.tolerancelimited.com
www.adamandeveit.net
|  | Walter De Brouwer
Time and CNN have called him a "serial entrepreneur", The Sunday Times
nicknamed him a 'collateral thinker', INSEAD identified him as a key
entrepreneur for Europe, The Financial Times first referred to him as
"the Ubernerd" and for the 20th Anniversary of The Wall Street Journal
Europe, the paper tapped Walter De Brouwer (Turing Industries) as one
of four “guru’s” to depict the World in 2023. De Brouwer started his
career as an assistant university lecturer but left academia to become
an entrepreneur in 1989. In 12 years’ time he set up more than 40
companies.
www.turingindustries.com
|  | Lynnclaire Dennis
Author
and artist Lynnclaire Dennis has the heart of an artistic visionary and
the mind of a scientific pioneer. With clarity, courage and love she
will introduce WSF participants to Mereon, “ described as a “quanta of
sound, light, time and matter that will lead to a new understanding;”
or “the blueprint of consciousness, the core of creation.”
A decade of collaborative efforts with an impressive array of rigorous
researchers has revealed the elegant dance that links chaos and
harmony, reunites science and spirit, and demonstrates the strength and
wisdom that comes of balancing intuition and cognition. Revealing
how symbol, process and substance are one, Mereon’s dynamic
architecture shines new light on a timeless knowledge, weaving an
elegant tapestry of unity from the very heart of diversity.
Lynnclaire is working in the fields of science, art and education,
using Mereon to assist in transforming inner beliefs and external
perspectives into new technologies of minding.
www.centresa.ch
www.reweavingharmony.org
www.mereon.org
|  | Margarete Friebe
psychoanalyst, focussing on early Christianity in the field of depth
psychology and eastern and western philosophy since 1960. She teaches
psychoanalysis in combination with an applied spiritual
consciousness-training on international platforms since 1973. As
founder director of the Alpha-Institute in CH-Adligenswil-Lucerne she
holds workshops and lectures for the general public, for
business-people, i.a. at the World Economic Forum in Davos,
Switzerland, and for MDs. Based on her extensive research she has
developed a mental training for various needs in daily life, the
Friebe-Alpha-Training®. She is author of numerous books and has
recently founded the INTERNATIONAL WHITE CROSS, a peace foundation for
the development of world peace through the education and training of
the emotional heart.
http://www.alpha-training.de
|  | Martin Frischknecht
Is a dedicated journalist and publisher of spiritual
books. As founder and main editor of the journal "Spuren -
Magazin für neues Bewusstsein" (magazine for enlighted consciousness)
he contributes actively to a growing network of holistic healing,
therapy and spirituality. Not confined to a certain religion he is a
dedicated explorer of spiritual practices and an expert in various,
mainly buddhist methods of meditation. He encourages his readers to
share their own experiences with others.
http://www.spuren.ch
|  | Michael Fromm
is co-founder of the german section of ICF, the International Coach
Federation and member of the Syndicate for Coaching
(Interessengemeinschaft Coaching). As member of the board at "Spiritual
Venture Network", a group of people sharing economic responsibility and
spiritual growth, he is head of
the ressort "leadership and spirituality". Together with his wife
Barbara Fromm they founded their own company "Growth and Creativity"
("Wachstum und Kreativität") in 1996. Since then Michael Fromm works as
business- and lifecoach, as well as trainer and consultant for
executives. He is author of several books on leadership and coaching
(Führen aus der Mitte, 2004).
http://www.frommundfromm.de/
|  | Terry Gallagher
is an educator with Scarboro Mission, priest, marathon runner, former
Missionary in the Philippines, a profound theologian and "one of the
funniest fun-loving people you will ever meet". Fr. Terry founded a
mixed community of men and women to live and work in the inner city of
Edmonton/Can., introduced the celebration of the diversity of cultures
in one parish in Scarboro, supports Inter-religious Dialogue
activities, helps organize meetings of youth an adults with leaders or
teachers of other Faiths, attended the 4th Parliament of World
Religions, Barcelona and brought the "Golden Rule" poster to the
Secretary General's office ot the UN.
www.scarboromissions.ca
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 | Ashok Gangadean
is Professor of Philosophy at Haverford College
(Haverford, PA), where he has taught for the past thirty five years. He
was the first Director of the Margaret Gest Center for Cross-Cultural
Study of Religion at Haverford. With his Global Dialogue Institute he
seeks to embody the dialogical power of global reason in all aspects of
cultural life. He has also developed a powerful “Whole Child Education“
Pilot Project, supported by UNICEF and the Ministry of Education in
Indonesia.
Professor Gangadean demonstrates in his numerous books (eg. The
Awakening of the Gobals Mind), conferences and TV-Shows that there is a
fundamental Logos or Universal Grammar underlying all cultures,
religions, philosophies and ideologies.
He is Co-Convenor of the recently formed World Commission on Global
Consciousness and Spirituality which brings eminent world leaders
together in sustained deep dialogue to cultivate global visions and
wisdom for the new millennium.
www.global-dialogue.com
|  | Lama Gangchen Rimpoche
born 1941 in Tibet. He studied buddhist philosophy, dialectics and
tibetan medicine at the Universities of the Monastery in Tashilumpo,
Westtibet, and in Sera near Lhasa. Rimpoche was tutored a.o. by Ling
Rimpoche and Trijang Rimpoche, tutors to the Dalai Lama, as well as by
the Dalai Lama himself.
With the occupation of Tibet he left his home country for India. After
further studies at various Indian Universities and his many years of
working as healer and general practitioner he could be convinced by
friends 12 years ago to become a teacher in the West. Here T.Y.S. Lama
Gangchen devotes his
life to the healing of the ecosystem of our planet and the healing within each individual being.
The "Lama Gangchen World Peace Foundation", founded in 1992, is an
active part of the U.N.O. The Foundation has suggested a permanent
spiritual forum of all religious traditions with the aim of an
institutionalisation of all world religions in the United Nations.
http://www.lgpt.net/
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 | Peter Grieder
was born 1928 into a Swiss family well known for its third
generation fashion house, over which he presided for thirty years.
Early in his youth, he became deeply fascinated with Eastern
philosophies. This eventually led him to travel extensively into the
hidden countries of the Himalayas. Finally, he became Curator of the
Tibetan Monastic Institute in Rikon, Switzerland. In addition to being
a regular lecturer at the C. G. Jung-Institute for Eastern wisdom
teachings, he was for many years a renowned guest speaker for Tibetan
Buddhisme at various universities in Europe. Peter Grieder and his wife
Marina Gschwind have six children, one of whom is a Tibetan foster son.
www.grieder-tibet.com
|  | Anton Gunzinger,
Professor at the ETH Zurich, founded in 1993 Supercomputing Systems
Ltd. at Technopark Zurich. The goal of his company is to introduce
affordable supercomputers to industrial companies. In 1994 Anton
Gunzinger was the only Swiss citizen to be named by Time magazine as
one of the 100 leaders who will influence the 21st century. 2001 he was
awarded the “Entrepreneur of the Year 2001” in the category
trade/services.
http://www.scs.ch
|  | Prabhu Guptara
Professor Prabhu Guptara is Executive Director,
Organisational Development, Wolfsberg (a subsidiary of UBS - one of the
largest banks in the world). He is also Freeman of the City of London
and of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists, and
Chartered Fellow of the of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and
Development; he is also Fellow: of the Institute of Directors, of the
Royal Commonwealth Society, and of the Royal Society for the
Encouragement of the Arts Commerce and Manufactures; and he continues
to supervise PhD research at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland)
as well as to be Visiting Professor at various Universities and
Business Schools around the world.
Organiser, chair and lecturer by invitation for numerous international
conferences, he has contributed widely to radio and television in the
UK and other countries (The Money Program, Any Questions) and has
written for Financial Times (London, UK), The Guardian, The Times and
other publications; articles, for example, in The Gower Handbook of
Management, The Gower Handbook of Quality, and the International
Encyclopedia of Business & Management (Routledge). His best-known
research publication is "Top Executives in the Global 100 Companies and
their IT-Competence".
www.prabhuguptara.pro.tc/
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 | Claus Hipp
For over 40 years HiPP GmbH is dedicated to bio-organic farming and
food processing. In taking responsibility for a natural and healthy
nutrition for babies, Prof. Dr. Claus Hipp has found his task for life. Hipp
proves that ecology can be in harmony with economy: his enterprise is
market leader worldwide in processing bio-organic food. Hipp guarantees
with his own name for the security and quality of every product and is
held in high reputation and appreciation by his customers.
As in hardly any other company the protection of the environment is an
integral part of the company's agenda. In 2001 Claus Hipp has been
awarded the Initiativpreis der Deutschen Ernährungsindustrie (the
Initiative Award of Geman Food Industry) for his untiring commitment
for humanity, nature and environment.
http://www.hipp.de
|  | Hans Jecklin
is entrepreneur and author. Leading positions in cultural and social
institutions. Today Hans Jecklin is engaged in purpose- and
vision-finding with large groups, teams and individuals. Also:
coaching. mentoring. individual retreats. He is author of the book:
Wirtschaft wozu? - Abschied vom Mangel" (Economy what for? – Farewell
to neediness), co-authored by Martina Köhler.
www.integralewirtschaft.info
|  | Annette Kaiser
mystic, mother, wife and economist. She manages Villa
Unspunnen and is the spiritual head of Windschnur in Germany. During 17
years she was a pupil of Irina Tweedie, an international Sufiteacher of
whose work she is the official representative since 1997. Annette
Kaiser teaches meditation and dream seminars in Europe. She has
developed the integral "DO"- training and is author of several books.
Defining herself as a pathbreaker for people, she focuses on
transconfessional spirituality as well as the awareness of our "mundane
life" as a way of living united in the "One World".
http://www.villaunspunnen.ch/
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Audrey E. Kitagawa
Born
and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, Audrey is a cum laude graduate of the
University of Southern California, and a graduate of Boston College Law
School. She practiced law in Honolulu for twenty years.
Audrey
Kitagawa dedicates her life to worldpeace and practical spirituality.
Her commitment has led her to work – among various other commitments
for worldpeace, global consciousness and spirituality to be an advisor
to the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General
for Children and Armed Conflict at the United Nations. She is Founder
and Director of Vision for Humanity and Co-Facilitator of the United
Religions Initiative Cooperation Circle at the United Nations.
Audrey Kitagawa’s articles on Practical Spirituality, Peace and Globas Consciousness are published worldwide.
www.srkspiritualfamily.org
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 | Peter Koenig
has studied the phenomenology of money since the early 1980s, giving
presentations and performing original research with small
groups.. In 1980 he gained an MBA at the International Management
Institute (Univ. of Geneva), then formed a partnership under the style
of Hargrove Associates in Zürich, developing quality management
trainings, leadership and strategic development processes for
companies. The stimulus for his monetary research began through
observing the arbitrary effects of financial tools used in the context
of these activities. In 1987 he became independent, as a financial and
organisational consultant to companies and non-profit organisations. In
1994 he launched his first public Money Seminar and in 1999 initiated a
new international conference series on Money & Business
Partnership. These seminars, conferences and a new book series are
designed to complement one another and meet the growing need of people
who, like the author himself in the 80s, seek to develop wise,
inspired, intelligent and ordered responses in dealing with money, in a
seemingly contradictory world.
|  | Clemens Kuby
studied history, law, sociology and economy and then completed his
studies at the Deutschen Film- und Fernsehakademie (German Academy for
film and tv). Since 1982 he produced for several tv-channels and from
1983 to 1998 he worked as lecturer for AV medias at a senior technical
college in Munich. With his popular film "Das alte Ladakh" he proved
that a documentary can impress spectators. He was awarded the
Bundesfilmpreis. His next film" Tibet -Widerstand des Geistes " was
shown several times on tv and over 60.000 spectators saw it at the
cinema. With "Living Buddha" he was able to repeat his success and was
awarded with the "Bayrische Filmpreis". His film "Todas - am Rande des
Paradises" was awarded in Munich by Interfilm Akademy with the ONE
FUTURE price and was a sucess in the cinema. Clemens Kuby visited
shamanists all over the world and completed his latest film "Unterwegs
in den nächsten Dimension", a film about spiritual healing and
exceptional healing methods and traditions in Peru, Russia, the
Phillipines, Nepal, Burma and Corea.
www.clemenskuby.de
|  | Bernard Margueritte
A Sorbonne graduate, he joined le Monde in 1965, and was their
Correspondent for Eastern Europe in Warsaw from 1966-1970. Expelled
from Poland in 1971, he moved to Vienna. From 1975-1977 he was a
Research Fellow at Harvard University. He returned to Warsaw in 1977 as
a correspondent for French newspapers and radio. He was again at
Harvard from 1993-1994 as Visiting Fellow at the Russian Research
Center and the Center for Press and Politics. He is co-author of books
on “Austria” and “Planification in Eastern Europe” and author of a
research paper “The New Central Europe: the difficult birth of a free
press”. Bernard Margueritte became deputy president of the ICF
International Communications Forum in 1996 and President in 2001.
www.icforum.org
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Nina Meyerhof
Nina
Meyerhof’s intent and focus is, and has been for several years, to
acknowledge diversity and at the same time help bring the human family
into holistic communication and mutual understanding. It is through
educational processes that we may all learn to live a more ethically
responsive and harmonious life. Towards this end, she has been active
on the very local community level, the local-global level and the
international world level.
As President of Children of the
Earth, and founder of the Vermont Peace Academy Nina Meyerhof is a
spokesperson around the world on Peace and Spirituality. She is
dedicated to the elimination of poverty and establishment of equity for
all. She has been honoured with several awards, among others the Mother
Theresa Children Right’s Award (1995) and the International Association
of Educators for World Peace Award (1999).
www.children-of-the-earth.org
Her books and articles on holistic education and peace are published worldwide.
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 | Franz Josef Radermacher
mathematician and economist, member of numerous commissions and boards
in industry and politics, director of the Ulmer Research Institute for
Applied Knowledgemanage- ment. Since many years he is commited to the
analysis of
global development. Together with members of the Club of Rome and Club
of Budapest Professor Dr. Dr. Radermacher has developped a "Global
Marshallplan", to combat hunger around the world. Their focus: Until
2030 no child shall ever suffer from hunger on our planet again.
Franz Josef Radermacher will introduce us to this plan at the WSF World Spirit Forum 2005.
http://www.globalmarshallplan.org/index_eng.html
|  | K. H. Reich
Dr.-Ing. Dr. theol. K.H. Reich, Ph.D. is colleague of the Freiburg
University Education Department (Switzerland) and Professor of
Stratford International University, Evanston (USA) and Richmond
(Canada).
During 30 years he was physicist at the CERN laboratory for particle
acceleration in Geneva. In his second career as a
development-psychologist he was winner of the William James Award of
the American Psychological Association for his work on cognitive and
religious development. Prof. Reich is author of numerous scientific
publications, as e.g. "Developing the Horizons of the Mind. Relational
and Contextual Reasoning and the Resolution of Cognitive Conflict"
(Cambridge University Press, 2002).
He writes regularly for ESSSAT- and Zygon Publications at all "European Conferences on Science and Theology" since 1988.
|  | Heinz-Ulrich Richwinn
After his apprenticeship in agriculture, including alternative
agriculture, Heinz-Ulrich Richwinn studied theology at the Kirchliche
Hochschule Bethel, the University of Berne in Switzerland and
Heidelberg University in Germany. He has been the reformed pastor in
Arosa since summer 2001.
"The hospitality of God as a living community" – under this motto he
understands his ministry not only in the village, but also for tourism
in Arosa. In many of his sermons flow economic and social themes.
In the sense of the World Spirit Forum, there will be, starting on
January 22 until the end of the church year in 2005, a transparency
hanging from the tower of the village church. It will read: "The
Economy Shall Serve The People." The accompanying picture is that of
Jesus washing his disciples feet done by the Waltensburger Meisters.
This is a national church action of the WEF 2005 and ÖRK 2006.
Details: www.graubuenden-reformiert.ch
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Bibi Russell
Bibi Russell, a Bangladeshi Fashion designer, graduated at the London College of Fashion in 1975.
After 20 years of work as a top model for Yves Saint Laurent, Karl
Lagerfeld or Giorgio Armani, Bibi returned home in 1995, dedicating her
life to the weavers and artisans of Bangladesh. Under the slogan
“Fashion for Development”, she has set up Bibi Productions in 1995,
aiming to save the weavers by developing and producing fashion based on
the knowledge of the ancient weaver-tradition. Over the years she has
given more than 35.000 Bangladeshi weavers and artisans the opportunity
to utilize their skills and talents to achieve economic independency
and to build towards a prosperous future.
For her work Bibi Russell was appointed several awards and titels, such
as Designer for Development (1999) and Artist for Peace (2001) by the
UNESCO, or the prestigious you can change the world - Award by the club
of Budapest in 2003.
> Article in the German Greenpeace-Magazin
> Fashion for Developement
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 | H.H. Sri Sri Sri Saidas Baba
is
a Hindu who chairs the Sai Foundation Organization Worldwide, an
independent and non-sectarian organization promoting world peace
through faith and selfless service. He presented Hinduism by thinking
about each letter of the word: H for humility; I for individuality; N
for nobility; D for divinity and U for unity. Religion is a means of
holding people together despite individual differences. He stressed the
urgency for establishing a New World Order in which no person will be
persecuted for worshipping God as the individual chooses.
www.saifoundation.org
|  | Salut Salon
Lightning speed, surprising punch-lines, effervescent productions and
virtuous techniques on the violin, cello and the piano, but first of
all music that transforms elegant Salon-classics back to what they once
were – to pure popular music, handmade, of course. Nostalgia
interpreted with ironic charm and quick entertainment. How original an
original can be is shown by the four young ladies with flying fingers,
cheeky voices and a fresh performance. Originating from Hamburg,
Germany, Salut Salon with Iris Siegfried (violin, voice), Angelika
Bachmann (violin), Gesa Riedel (Cello) and Christine Schütz (piano)
have had classical music education. They won contests like “Jugend
musiziert” and have been working as national and international solists
before they started the Salut Salon Quartet.
www.salutsalon.com
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Isira Sananda
Isira Sananda is "one of the world's modern spiritual masters, who speaks the wisdom of the ages with rare clarity."
Recognising
her destiny at the age of eighteen, she committed her life to the
service of inspiring self-realisation and love in humanity. She has
spent the last nineteen years teaching meditation and conscious
awareness to individuals and groups, for both personal and global
transformation.
She is the author of 'Words of One' and is
currently completing her autobiography - a remarkable story of a modern
Australian woman's journey to enlightenment. Isira's presence has been
sought for sacred gatherings, councils and forums around the world. She
has worked alongside Aboriginal and Native American Elders and Tibetan
Lamas and has been initiated in mysticism and yogic mastery. She is
beyond dogma as she espouses and encompasses the essence of Eastern and
Western traditions.
Isira is the founder and director of Living
Awareness, with two centres in Australia and the World UNITY Project.
As an evolutionary teacher she inspires humanity to reclaim
"response-ability" and our deepest capability to live as the Truth of
who we are.
www.isira.com
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| Bernhard Schaer
is in his 25th year as director of the Parabola-Forum Zürich
(Switzerland), a multimedia - center (including bookstore, gallery and
organisation of international conferences and seminars) for cultural
and spiritual knowledge. Author of several books (Feuer des Eros, 200)
and lecturer at Biel College of Education.
|  | Gundula Schatz
holds a university degree in biotechnology from the University of
Agriculture in Vienna and worked for the Austrian Ministry for
Environment. She joined one of Austria’s most renowned Patent Law firms
and whilst working for Vienna Science and Technology Park she was
co-organizing a conference on the future of information technology.
Gundula Schatz started her political career as national representative
of a European project for young women and is still active in a
non-profit women’s network. Since 2001 she is Vice-Governor of Vienna’s
1st district. Gundula Schatz is Co-founder of “Waldzell - Institute For
Science And Wisdom”.
www.schatz.co.at
|  | Dechen Shak-Dagsay
The tibetan singer Dechen Shak-Dagsay introduces an ancient tibetan
artform to western culture, the tibetan mantra. With her wonderful
voice the artist sings quiet sensitive repeated melodies with texts
originating from ancient tibet but also from her father, a high tibetan
Lama.
Dechen Shak-Dangsay lives in Switzerland. She has had international
acts in Munich (Germany), Porto (Portugal), Istambul (Turkey) or
Santiago de Compostella (Spain), where she has been celebrated,
together with Isabella Rosselini and Bob Wilson, for her interpretation
of the holy tibetan syllables.
www.dechen-shak.com
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| Marina Villa
During four years Marina Villa has influenced EXPO 02, the Swiss ...,
in her function as deputyhead of communications. Originally trained as
a teacher, she has been working as a journalist for swiss television SF
DRS (10 vor 10, Rundschau) and radio 24.
Marina Villa is today’s FOCUS presenter, a discussion platform on Radio
DRS3, as well as communications expert and project coach for various
events.
|  | Andreas Vollenweider
is a well-known artist, recognized worldwide. But how much do we really
know about this amazing musician? Now, at the age of 50, the man from
Zürich can look back to musical collaborations with friends like Bobby
McFerrin, Carly Simon, Zucchero, Milton Nascimento, Bryan Adams and
Luciano Pavarotti and many more. He’s been touring for more than 25
years, appearing in the world’s most prestigious concert halls and has
recorded 14 albums which have sold over 10 million copies. The
self-taught musician, who calls himself a „notorious believer in a
better world“, is an active supporter of a large number of non-profit
organizations dealing with human rights and environmental issues.
Vollenweider has received many international awards including the World
Music Award, the Edison Award a Grammy and has just recently been
nominated for a Latin Grammy.
But this reveals only a small part of a truly universal artist. Most of
all, he’s a restless searcher, both curious and innovative, eager to
share the treasures he finds. Now, fours years after his last album
release, Andreas Vollenweider is back: with a new CD production "VOX"
containing new sounds. The most significant change on „VOX“ is also
reflected in the title of the album. „As long as I can remember, I’ve
always wanted to sing“, he confesses. „But it’s taken nearly my entire
life to liberate this dream. Looking closely at the world today, I’d
say that we people have been too quiet for much too long. Now’s a good
time to raise our voices.“
www.vollenweider.com
|  | Michael von Brueck
is professor for religious studies at Ludwig Maximilian University in
Munich, Germany. He studied theology, the sanskrit and Indian
philosophy in Rostock, Bangalore and Madras. He lectured and studied in
India for 5 years and was trained as a Zen- and Yogateacher in Japan
and India. He has been guest professor in the US for several times and
is a member of numerous international scientific associations. He has
written several bestselling books such as “Bhagavadgita” (1993), “The
world of the Tibetian Buddhism” (1996), “Buddhism and Christianity”
(1997), “How can we live? Religion and Spirituality in a World without
boundaries” (2002).
> mehr
> LMU Religionswissenschaft
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Chief Nana Osei Boakyewa Yiadom II
As
a noted African leader, and the first woman chief of her village in
Africa, Nana Yiadom is an administrative judge and conciliator in the
Akan political process as well as head of all Akan cultural and
religious ceremonies.
Having a Master of arts degree from New
York’s Queen’s College, Nana held a fellowship with the United Nation’s
Institute for Training and Research, working for many years with
refugee women and children of Africa. Since 1986 she serves as a
consultant on the UN Decade for Women, advising the Committee on
African Women’s Affairs. Based on her experience with refugees as well
as the impact of ethnic conflicts on innocent people, she founded the
Apeadu Peace Center in Ghana 1993 to build skills for self sustenance,
and to promote workshops and seminars on the issue of tolerance.
An
educator, author, and public relations specialist, Nana is the current
chairperson of United Nations’ Family Rights Committee, and NGO/UN
representative of the Children of the Earth Committee.
Apeadu Children's Peace Center
|  | Carlo Zumstein
After promoting in psychology and psychopathology at the University of
Zürich, Switzerland, Dr. Carlo Zumstein has been head of a treatment
centre for drug and alcohol addicts for five years. After further
education in various psychotherapeutic techniques – among others,
Gestalt- and Familytherapy, clinic hypnosis and NLP – he started his
own practice with the focus on people with depressive illnesses.
In his practice, Carlo Zumstein combines his classical
psychotherapeutic experience with dream-work and healing shamanic
rituals. Since 1994 he collaborates with Michael Harner,
founder-tdirector of the “Foundation for Shamanic Studies”. In his
function as teaching professor at the FSS he teaches Core-Shamanism in
Switzerland, Germany and Italy.
www.flss.ch
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Youth Leaders
| |  | Oran Cohen - South Africa
"I am 23 years old, living in South Africa, working towards Peace and
Transformation of Perception in the Middle East. Born in Israel but
lived most of my life in South Africa I have seen how one man
(Mandela), with a Vision of Peace, can change a country. I know it can
be done with the Palestinian and Israeli situation. I lived in Israel
recently for a year and a half. The longer I spent there, the more I
was amazed at how similar the Israelis and Palestinians actually are.
I believe in real change using Spiritual and Universal truths. It is
the kind of change that happens when connections of the heart are made.
When the perception of separation falls away and all is left are people
looking into each other's humanness and beauty. I truly believe that
peace is Inevitable. We have no choice but to be in peace. Once youth
can see life objectively, beyond judgment, faith or borders, a culture
of peace is inevitable. I strive to help this vision become a reality."
Among others Oran is Founder/Director of The Living Peace Foundation:
www.livingpeace.za.org
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| Gyimah Kofi Ezekiel - Ghana
His interests are public speaking, reading, writing articles, research,
teaching, praying, playing pools and basketball, driving and dancing.
He is board member of the International Youth Professional Foundation
Ghana (IYPF-Ghana). Gyimah is serving as representative responsible for
international affairs of Apeadu Peace Center, which affiliate itself
with children of the earth an NGO, registered under the United Nations
charter. He vied the post of president of student representative
council (SRC) at his university; Organizer and facilitator of the 2004
international leadership conference in Ghana by Apeadu Peace
Center/Children Of The Earth and Representative of Student World
Assembly Methodist University Ghana.
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| Jacqueline Furtado - Sydney, Australia
is a 19 year old student from Sydney, Australia. It has
only been in the past couple of years that Jacqueline has been involved
in peace related projects such as the Share the Spirit of Peace Sydney
Summit and the Share the Spirit of Peace Youth Summit in New York.
Prior to this Jacqueline has, and remains, committed to promoting the
voice of youth whether it be on local issues or on a more global scale.
Related to this Jacqueline has been a member of her local Youth Council
and has been a participant and key organiser of the International Youth
Leadership Conference held in Ghana. Jacqueline says: One of the things
I have learnt is that you cannot separate “political peace” from
“spiritual peace” and that above all Peace starts within the
individual. I have a real desire to further my understanding of
“spiritual peace” so that I can be a true example of Peace.
|  | Colins Edozie Imoh - Lagos, Nigeria
Colins is a member of the international committee of the International
Young Christian Students, a global organisation with headquarters in
Paris. He has extensive experience in grassroots work for local
development, youth empowerment and leadership. He worked in the UNOY
foundation Netherlands as the Africa Desk coordinator of the Africa
Network of Young Peace Builders. He got the Witson Fellowship and
attended the Summer Peace Institute of the Eastern Mennonite University
in Harrisonburg, USA. He also attended a one-month training in
non-violence in Israel. His vision is a world where youths are
empowered to be the voice of the voiceless and a beacon of light and
hope to the world. Currently in focuses his attention on issues of
peace and the environment.
|  | Sushil Koirala - Nepal, China
Sushil Koirala, 22, Medical Student at the Sichuan University, Chengdu,
China. Ongoing: Online course on Conflict Management and Negotiation;
Inter-American Defense College in association with Institute of World
Affairs. Volunteered and actively coordinated the activities of youth
clubs, involved in various fund raising and charity related activities
in Nepal.
Presently, actively involved in environmental activities as a volunteer
in Chengdu Urban Rivers Association. Besides, he is a volunteer in
Heifer International. Actively involved in various activities in the
university. Deputy Director, International Affairs, West China Culture
Exchange Center of Chengdu. Special Representative of HURPEC
International (Human Rights and Peace Campaign International) to China
and Nepalese Democratic Youth Council, USA, China Representative.
Founder of Peace for Nepal.
www.peacefornepal.com
|  | Olivia Martin - Sao Paulo, Brazil
is a British/Spanish Sociologist, has an MSc in Development Studies
& International Cooperation and a training certificate in Human
Rights and teaching. After completing a 3-year assignment as the
International Youth Programme Coordinator for the Hague Appeal for
Peace, an international organization based in Switzerland, she moved to
Sao Paulo, Brazil to work with the Latin American office of the Global
Youth Action Network (GYAN). She helped GYAN coordinate several
initiatives linked to social inclusion and youth participation,
including the development of the first Local JAM. Most recently Olivia
has joined Ashoka, where she has assumed the position of Regional
Coordinator of the Innovative Learning Initiative, a global initiative
linked to the concept of youth entrepreneurship ("youth as agents of
change"). Olivia also serves as a member of the International Advisory
Board of the Global Campaign for Peace Education and is an official
representative of the Parlamentary Council for a Culture of Peace of
the State of Sao Paulo.
www.haguepeace.org
www.takingitglobal.org
www.ashoka.org
|  | Benjamin Quinto - New York, USA
Benjamin, 26, became involved with the United Nations
shortly after High School, searching for greater meaning in his life
and wanting to help empower young people around the world. Benjamin’s
focus today, as Founder and Executive Director of the Global Youth
Action Network, is to increase youth participation, action and
recognition, as well as build a network that will facilitate the flow
of information and resources among youth organizations worldwide. The
Network has garnered the interest and participation of young people and
thousands of organizations in almost 200 countries.
In his work towards increasing youth participation within the United
Nations, Benjamin has become a United Nations Representative for the
ONE DAY Foundation (NGO), a representative of Pathways to Peace (NGO)
and acted as Youth Committee Chairperson of the Millennium People's
Assembly Network.
www.takingitglobal.org
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| Princess Ogechi Ukaga - Nigeria (Ghana)
She is National Co-ordinator of the Youth Action Network Nigeria as
well as Member of: Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO), Women in Nigeria
(WIN), Niger Delta Spider (NDS), Nigeria Youth Aids Programme (NYAP)
and Niger Delta Youth Assembly (NDYA). As a consultant she works for
Youth Employment Movement (YEM) and for Non-Governmental Coalition for
Solidarity and Development (NOSAD).
| | | Wantay Lawrence Yealue - Liberia
"Life in sweet and worth living but living right in a path
of peace, non–violence and sustainability is only developed within the
soul of man by His Divine Creator and has a total reflection of a
transformed being that is peaceful and non-violent. I do envision a
world where Divinity will bring peace to mankind and lead him to be at
peace with His Creator, himself, his fellow man and his environment. At
this time, wars and all kinds of violence will be a matter of
past history and peaceful co-existence will be the order of the
day. I am optimistic by this genesis of a new era that everyman will
possess a pure heart, clean hands and a right spirit for a united
world." Wantay is Founder of the Liberian Youth Parliament (2004),
Founder and Director of the Opatafo Peace Club, Volunteer Youth
Advocate and among others Founder and Executive Director of the
Liberian Refugee Youth for peace and development.
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... between Religions and Nations. Reed an excerpt of Sesto Castagnoli's speech.
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Arosa? The WSF Forum? See and hear members of the World Wisdom Council,
having been guest of the WSF in 2006 in a video from "ARI Films".
View Video | | | | | | | | | | WSYC World Spirit Youth Council in Japan
Read about the activities of the WSYC founded on the WSF 2006 by Nina L. Meyerhof.
Kosmos article | | | | | | | | | | Spirit Youth
Check out the new forum of the WSYC World Spirit Youth Council.
link | | | | | | | | | | Report of the 3rd WSF from Diane Williams
Transcending the boundaries ...
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