Michael McPherson grew up in a typical midwestern American household: church on Sundays and sports as soon as he was old enough to walk. As a child, Michael was sensitive to the energies around him. Because his family was so emotionally and sexually repressed, he grew up thinking that there was something wrong with him that made him different from the rest of his family. In his young life, when it came to sex, Michael was both paralyzed with fear yet desperate to learn more. That fear drove Michael to explore his sexuality “behind closed doors” and adopt shame as his self-punishment, a burden he carried well into his late twenties all because nobody was brave enough to have an open conversation with him about sex.

In his book Everything You Never Learned About Sex: Take Back Your Masculine Power & Use Your Sex Energy For Good, an all-inclusive look into a man’s world, Michael shines a light on what it was like for the men of his generation to mature sexually, and why so many still haven’t.

Since the beginning of 2019, Michael has offered his time and energy as a mentor to both men and women desiring to grow in the areas of sex, sexuality, intimacy, inner-child work, and divine union. Connect with him online here. 

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Pierre Pradervand studied at the universities of Geneva, Bern and at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, before receiving a Doctorate in sociology from La Sorbonne University. A true world citizen, Pierre has labored most of his life for social justice, living in or visiting 40 countries on every continent. From his Geneva home Pierre is now active as a writer, speaker and workshop facilitator, helping people to live simpler, yet richer, more contented lives. His workshops provide personal development tools that empower attendees to strengthen their internal anchors and advance on their spiritual path. Pierre is also an independent celebrant for weddings, burials and other events.

Pierre is the author of 365 Blessings to Heal Myself and the World: Really Living One’s Spirituality in Everyday Life, O Books, and The Gentle Art of Blessing, Simon and Schuster.

He has also authored Messages of Life from Death Row, Booksurge Publishing; and Listening to Africa, (a 14,000 km. trip through over 100 villages of the Sahel, Kenya and Zimbabwe undertaken in 1987, talking with around 1300 peasant farmers) Praeger Publishers. Fifteen books, mostly on personal development and spirituality, are in French and have been published in 15 languages, including Japanese, Arabic and Russian.

Learn more about The Gentle Art of Blessing, winner of the 2010 Gold Nautilus Book Award for Spirituality, at gentleartofblessing.org/about-us/. You can find Pierre Pradervand at pierrepradervand.com.

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Jessie Gray, the visionary of Flying Pig Improv in Wichita, Kansas, loves working and playing with people who want to soar. To do that in improv, she creates a safe and fun environment where teachers, attorneys, artists, film-makers, restaurant servers, entrepreneurs, caregivers, performers - literally, everyone, can take risks, explore their own genius, and literally celebrate “mistakes” as they make them. Every game, every scene is an opportunity for gold. And each person in the room makes a huge impact on the experience.

Jessie has more than 40 years of stage experience from coast to coast as an actor, director, producer and choreographer.

A few years ago, she became fascinated with the spontaneous and unscripted world of improv. After intensive study in the San Francisco Bay Area (where she lived for almost 30 years), she began to perform, and then to teach classes, and then to direct and coach improv troupes weekly. She was a regular performing troupe member of Awkward Face at Pan Theater in Oakland, CA, and Flash Mob Musical Improv in San Francisco. She also teaches an annual workshop at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico as part of the summer Creative Arts Festival as well as other improv workshops around the country by request.

A theater alumnae from Wichita State University, she learned from the best: Dr. Richard Welsbacher, Joyce Cavarozzi, Mary Jane Teall, Audrey Needles, and Gina Austin-Fresh among others. She also was a student of improv notables in California’s Bay Area, which include David Alger, David Razowsky, Rachael Hamilton, Tracy Burns, Mick Laugs, and Los Angeles-based Meisner coach, Matt Chait. And now she has brought her vast experience and deep knowledge back to her hometown of Wichita, Kansas, where she has built a new improv home at Flying Pig Improv.

Check out Flying Pig Improv’s classes, workshops, and performance schedule at flyingpigimprov.com.

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Registered Play Therapist Kate Weir (She/Her/Hers) has 13 years of experience working in the counseling profession with children, teens, young adults and families. Kate is certified as a Licensed Professional Counselor- Supervisor (LPC) and a Professional School Counselor (grades K-12), and is a Registered Play Therapist (RPT).

As a play therapist, Kate is passionate about helping her young clients to heal and grow through play. She loves using creative, playful and expressive techniques with her pre-teen and teenage clients as well. Kate also enjoys consulting with parents about child-parent relationships and child development.

Kate is an instructor with Heartland Play, a play therapy training institutes and has also given presentations and conducted workshops for the Missouri Association for Play Therapy and other organizations.

Kate is a member of the American Counseling Association and she is a Past President of the Missouri Association for Play Therapy. She is passionate about and dedicated to obtaining continuing professional development, education, and peer supervision in order to continue to grow as a professional.

Kate cherishes family time with her fun and loving three-year-old son, her amazing husband and her sweet beagle. Kate loves being an aunt and a sister. She enjoys dancing, swimming, traveling, reading, learning and of course, playing!

Kate is also the owner of the Kindred Collective, a comprehensive group mental health practice in Columbia, Missouri. Find her (and them) at kindredcollectivecomo.com/.

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Lionel Friedberg is an Emmy Award-winning film and T.V. producer and writer. Lionel grew up in South Africa and began his career at the first television station in Central Africa in Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia, in 1961. He worked as a Director of Photography on 18 feature films and wrote, produced and directed for National Geographic, PBS and national broadcast and cable networks including the Discovery Channel, A&E and The History Channel. He is also a New York Times bestselling author. He is based in Los Angeles, California.

His book Forever in My Veins: How Film Led Me To The Mysterious World Of The African Shaman from 0 Books, o-books.com, is full of the observations that have taught him that life is far more complex and infinitely stranger than we can imagine. When he was struck by an unexpected life-threatening illness, his efforts to find a way to save his life took him back to Africa, where he encountered the age-old rituals and powerful healing methods of African shamans. Their mysterious ways have much to teach us and are as relevant today as they were in ancient times.

You can find Lionel online at lionelfriedberg.com, on Facebook @LionelFriedbergAuthor, on Twitter @FriedbergLionel, and on Instagram @LionelFriedberg.

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Timothy Carson is the curator of The Liminality Project. In addition to holding a Bachelors degree in Education and Masters degree in Theology, his Doctoral research and dissertation focused on Liminality.

Tim is the author of Liminal Reality and Transformational Power (Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 2016), editor of the anthology Neither Here nor There: The Many Voices of Liminality (Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 2019), and co-author of Crossing Thresholds: A Practical Theology of Liminality (Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 2021). His current project is editing an anthology on liminality with an international group of writers entitled The Liminal Loop: Twelve Tales of Transformation. It will be released in the late fall of 2021. Tim teaches liminality courses in the Honors College of the University of Missouri.

Following many years serving as a parish pastor, Tim continues to write, edit, blog, facilitate groups and seminars focused on liminality, and work with people making life’s great passages. Tim works with individuals as an EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) and Matrix Reimprinting Practitioner.
Tim and his wife live in Central Missouri near the banks of the Missouri River and enjoy the arts, cinema, travel, motorcycling, playing Celtic music and exploring every unknown threshold.
Find out more at https://www.theliminalityproject.org/.

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Lisa Samet, ND, is a well-known health practitioner who has appeared on the Dr. Oz show to promote homoeopathy and naturopathic healing. She has an international practice based in Montreal, specializing in homoeopathy, emotional wellness, nutrition & lifestyle optimization. When emotional issues are an obstacle to healing, Dr. Samet uses the Emotional Repatterning techniques presented in her book, Emotional Repatterning, to help patients uncover and rebalance the deep, subconscious beliefs that often underlie their unhappiness, "stuckness" and mental or physical pain. The results have been nothing short of life-changing! She has written this book to broaden access to the tools that she uses in her practice to help people change their perspectives, subconscious beliefs and ultimately suffer less.

After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, followed by 10 years in marketing with Proctor & Gamble, Dr. Samet realized that her real love was naturopathic healing. She received her Doctorate from the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine in 1998 and has been in private practice since then. Naturopathic healing focuses on prevention and using natural approaches to stimulate the body's ability to heal itself. The primary goals of the naturopathic approach are to address the cause of illness rather than simply treat or suppress symptoms, and to treat the patient as a whole—physically, mentally and emotionally—to regain optimal health.

Dr. Samet publishes a monthly newsletter with over 1,000 subscribers and is the featured author of "Dr. Samet's Insights," a monthly blog on the Washington Homeopathic Products website, which receives approximately 60,000 visits per month. She's a lecturer and presenter of webinars on various topics, including Emotional Repatterning, homoeopathy, menopause, and the aging brain.
Find Dr. Samet online at http://www.lisasamet.com. Purchase her book, Emotional Repatterning, at emotionalrepatterning.ca. Dr. Samet is on Instagram @lisasametnd.

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Amanda Hindson has always been drawn to change and transformation and believes that life can be both incredibly beautiful and tremendously difficult. We live in the space of “already but not yet,” as we long for healing, wholeness, and restoration but find ourselves in broken places. Hindson knew since childhood that she wanted to focus on helping others, and after a decade of providing consulting and event management for leadership development companies, she decided it was time to follow her heart and become a therapist. 

She truly believes that some of our greatest discoveries and healing are borne from a place of conflict or pain, and that some of our most profound strength and resilience come out of challenging seasons and relationships. No stranger to suffering herself, she finds it a privilege to journey alongside others who are seeking wholeness.  

Amanda has been married for fourteen years and is a proud mother of two wonderfully wild little boys. She enjoys reading, cooking and eating delicious food, traveling, cultural exploration, playing outside, laughing, and generally enjoying the good things in life. She holds a BS in Psychology and an MA in Marriage and Family Therapy. 

Learn more about KC Well Co, the therapy and counseling collective co-founded by Amanda and her husband and housed in the historic Luzier building in Kansas City, MO, at kcwellco.com.

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Fred Matser is the founder & chairman of the Fred Foundation and a leading Dutch humanitarian. He has been active in social and ecological transformation and is the founder or co-founder of a wide range of charitable foundations that span the fields of health, environment, nature conservation, peace and global transformation. The principles underlying these foundations are based on inspiring co-creativity, self-sufficiency, empowerment, inspiration and harmony. 

Matser’s book Beyond Us is a collection of essays that confront us with our dysfunctional yet unexamined ways of being and living in the early 21st century. It’s a companion piece to his film, Beyond Me, which can be streamed for free at beyondmedocumentary.org/en/watch-film-en/.

This short and vigorous book consists of a penetrating collection of interrelated essays whose defining characteristic is that they pin down, magnify and mirror back to us, with embarrassing clarity and force, our most dysfunctional yet unexamined ways of thinking, living and relating to each other in the early 21st century. Our ills are diagnosed with x-ray vision and laser precision. 

The book assesses our situation from a neutral vantage point outside the cultural echo chamber of values, opinions and beliefs in which most of us find ourselves immersed. In doing so, it reveals what most of us can't see. It confronts us with unpleasant truths about ourselves, the acknowledgement of which is imperative if we are to heal and improve our lives. The book also points to sane ways forward, and the appropriateness of these ways become self-evident once they are elucidated. 

Purchase Beyond Us at johnhuntpublishing.com/iff-books/our-books/beyond-us. Follow Fred Master on Instagram @beyondmebeyondus, on Facebook @beyondmebehondus, on Twitter @FredMatser, and on YouTube.