Conference Presenters
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Teddie Potter PhD, RN, FAAN, FNAP
Keynote: Planetary Healing
Dr. Potter is deeply committed to climate change and planetary health education. Dr. Potter is the inaugural director of the Center for Planetary Health and Environmental Justice at the School of Nursing at the University of Minnesota READ MORE...
Brenda J. Allen PhD
Keynote: Thinking Under the Influence
Professor Emerita Brenda J. Allen (Ph.D., Howard University) is the former Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Colorado Denver and the Anschutz READ MORE...
Kenneth Cohen, M.A. Indigenous Health & Culture Educator
Keynote: Native American Healing: Honoring Reciprocity Between People & Planet
Ken Cohen, traditional healer and cultural educator, was mentored since his youth by noted medicine men and women who taught him the values by which he lives. READ MORE...
Kathleen (Kay) Adams LPC
Keynote: Masterminding Planetary Healing
Kathleen (Kay) Adams LPC is a best-selling author, speaker, psychotherapist and visionary. Her first book, Journal to the Self, is a classic that has helped define the field of journal therapy. She has also written The Write Way to Wellness: A Workbook for Healing and Change, READ MORE...
Clare Biedenharn DMin, BCC
Keynote: Heart to Heart: Deep Listening as Transformation
Dr Clare Biedenharn, DMin, BCC, first introduced the Quaker Listening Model (QLM) to nurses through a listening study at a Southern hospital where she served as critical care chaplain. The study was shaped by Dr Biedenharn’s almost three decades of chaplain experience in industry and critical care with primary focus in hospital critical care READ MORE...
Annis Parker RGON, ADN, DipEd, CHTP/I
Presentation: The Natural World and Planetary Healing
Annis is a New Zealand Registered Nurse who has practiced in many parts of the world, specializing in High Tech surgery: oncology; bone marrow transplant; disaster medicine; teaching and management. Living outside of NZ for 20 years, working in private READ MORE...
Aidan Key BA, Speaker, Author, Educator
Keynote: The Heart of the Matter
Speaker, author, and educator, Aidan Key’s work centers on gender diverse children. Key, founder of Gender Diversity, works nationally with hundreds of K-12 schools and youth-based agencies providing professional development, strategic READ MORE...
William Redpath, Advanced Certified Rolfer
Keynote: Trauma Energetics
William Redpath shares his discoveries about how brain registers its traumata. Classically trained in the humanities and intellectual history at Yale and Cambridge Universities, for over 50 years, Redpath has served as a lay therapist, special education instructor, READ MORE...
Dessa K. Bergen-Cico Ph.D., CHES, CAS
Keynote: Planetary Healing and the Geopolitics of Addiction
Dessa Bergen-Cico, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Public Health, a core faculty in the Renee Crown Honors Program, faculty member in and Neuroscience, and Coordinator of the Addiction Studies programs at Syracuse University. Dessa has worked in READ MORE...