LINDA ABRAMS, LCSW-R, is the founder of the Alternate Roots Center for Transformation in Hamburg, New York, an organization that provides experiential programming and adult mentorship to young people navigating the transition to adulthood. A social worker for more than 20 years, she has established a holistic family practice, Linda Abrams and Associates, also in Hamburg. Linda starts each day by listening to Bob Dylan's "Serve Somebody" while feeding her cats, dogs and teenage children.

THOMAS CAPSHEW, BA, MSW, JD, PhD holds a doctorate in social work and a law degree. He writes about spirituality for a living and engages in practices to manifest the divine in this world.

DOUGLAS K. CHUNG, MSW, MA, PhD, has taught Qigong Therapies courses in social work graduate school since 1995. He integrates Yin Yang Theory, Meridian Theory, 5 Elements Theory, Systems Theory, Cognitive and Behavior Theory and Energy Therapies for holistic health and grant programs.

PENNY COHEN, LCSW, has been counseling, lecturing and conducting workshops nationally at professional conferences, universities and organizations on personal, career and spiritual development and Kabbalah for the past 15 years. She holds a Master's degree in social work from Columbia University, is a licensed psychotherapist, certified hypnotherapist, EMDR practitioner and Life Coach. She has a private psychotherapy and life coaching practice in Westchester County, New York and works with people in person and on the phone. She is the author of Personal Kabbalah: 32 Paths to Inner Peace and Purpose.

BONNIE COLLINS, EdM, LCSW-R, is a family therapist as well as being on the faculty of the School of Social Work at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She and her co-presenter, Trina Laughlin, have published The Power of Story: A Process of Renewal for Therapists Who Treat Trauma (Whole Person Press, 2005).

ERIC CUESTAS-THOMPSON, LMSW, LISAC, is a bi-lingual social worker employed with In Balance. His areas of expertise include EMDR, couple's work, adolescents and working with the Spanish-speaking population.

YVONNE R. FARLEY, MSW, LISW, is a graduate of the University of Iowa and is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University Of Iowa School of Social Work. She teaches in the area of social work practice as well as teaching an elective on Spirituality and Ethics in Social Work Practice. She was employed in multiple clinical practice settings for more than 20 years and specialized in recovery from trauma before joining the faculty.

ELIZABETH HAZELWOOD, MSW, PhD, is a social advocate, part-time academic and holistic healthcare professional, has expertise in hypnosis, EMDR, family therapy and management. Her ongoing journey with cancer enriches her understanding of spiritual transformations.

SUSAN ELLEN HEGEMEYER, Over the last thirty years Susan Ellen Hegemeyer has studied and been initiated into Native American spiritual traditions, Hinduism, Tibetan Buddhism, Celtic and ancient esoteric Christian mystic traditions. Susan has degrees in medical hypnotherapy, clinical hypnotherapy and Doctorate in Esoteric Studies. She offers a life study and passion of: spiritual wisdom, transformational brain wave patterns, inner visioning, music and sound healing. She brings this wisdom to her work as a spiritual teacher, music and sound therapist, composer, healing practitioner and songwriter. She has been offering special training's and workshops since 1987. She leads group and private sessions for Mirasol: an in patient eating disorder center for women, Immune Recovery and Wellness: a cancer and immune compromised illness clinic and teaches for Pima Community College. Additionally she offers year long training programs and private sessions in Tucson, Arizona.

JULIE ANN HICKS, BSW, MSW, CMT, is a trauma psycho-therapist, educator and licensed holistic therapies practitioner. She has 23 years experience in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, applying holistic, integrative principles and practice methods to her trauma recovery work. Her thesis explores the shift within the helping professions towards spiritual healing paradigms, leadership wellness and the impact of unhealthy leadership in the trauma recovery field.

MARK HOMAN, MSW, is on the faculty of Pima Community College. He is the author of Promoting Community Change: Making it Happen in the Real World, now in its third edition, and Rules of the Game: Lessons from the Field of Community Change, both published by Brooks/Cole. He has a long history of political activism and community organization related to hunger, neighborhood empowerment, foster care, children with special health care needs, and reproductive rights. He has served as a consultant and guest lecturer at other colleges and universities in the U. S., Russia, and Sweden.

MARION MOSS HUBBARD, Ph.D., is a transpersonal business consultant, offering telephone coaching, organizational consultation and inspirational presentations for personal and professional growth. She also wrote Work as a Heroic Journey.

JENNIFER JUDELSOHN, LCSW, is an artist, psychotherapist, educator, soulworker and author/illustrator of Songs of Creation: Meditations on the Sacred Hebrew Alphabet (2002). She is an internationally renowned presenter on the mandala process, creative alternatives in Jewish education and meditation and spiritual practices.

CHRISTINE KESSEN DSW, LCSW, is an Assistant Professor at Marywood University. Dr. Kessen lectures on spirituality and social work practice. She has been a practitioner and teacher of meditation for over 15 years.

EVAN W. KLIGMAN, MD, Evan W. Kligman, MD is a board-certified family physician and geriatrician, practicing in Northwest Tucson since August of 1998. He is currently Professor of Public Health, Family and Community Medicine, and Medicine at the University of Arizona's Colleges of Public Health and Medicine, Co-Director of the Arizona Center on Aging and Arizona Geriatric Education Center, and associate medical director for the inpatient unit of Casa de la Luz Hospice in Tucson. He was ordained as an interfaith contemplative minister by the Interfaith Theological Seminary of Tucson in April of 2003. He has served as an Attending Physician for the Program in Integrative Medicine and a volunteer chaplain at University Medical Center in recent years.

TRINA M. LAUGHLIN, LCSW-R, is the Clinical Supervisor for the Family Violence Program at the Society for the Protection and Care of Children in Rochester, New York. She directs a private practice group specializing in trauma and has co-authored The Power of Story: A Process of Renewal for Therapists Who Treat Trauma (Whole Person Press, 2005) with Bonnie Collins.

LEWIS MEHL-MADRONA, MD, PhD, is currently Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of Arizona and is the author of Coyote Medicine, Coyote Healing, and the just released, Coyote Wisdom: The Power of Story in Healing. He is a graduate of Stanford University School of Medicine and completed residencies in family medicine and in psychiatry at the University of Vermont College of Medicine.

MUH BI LIN, PhD, is Associate Professor at Western Kentucky University.

MARY LOCKE, LCSW, ACSW, DCSW, plays Native American flute and uses many types of music to enhance well-being. She owns Listening Winds, is a member of the International Native American Flute Association and the Sound Healers Association.

JON H. MCCAINE, PhD, Dr. McCaine currently serves as Senior Vice President and National Clinical Director for Youth Services International. He is responsible for the design and oversight of developmental programs for high risk children and adolescents across the country in residential and community based services. Dr. McCaine is also the Clinical Supervisor for a consortium of specialized program; the Discovery Network for delinquent sexual conduct; the Choices Network for substance abuse and sales; the Futures Network for pre-adolescents; and the Athena's Circle, a consortium of programs for high risk girls.

SUZANNA McCARTHY, MSW, LICSW, is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and Spiritual Director. Her practice is called Wisdom's Gate and is in Seattle. Suzanne counsels individuals and offers classes, workshops and occasional retreats on integrating the Sacred Feminine into one's life.

SALLY MANSHARDT, RN, BSN, is a mental health nurse providing counseling services to the SMI population through a community mental health agency. She is a seasoned non-violent peace and social justice worker who has been willing to be arrested for acting on her convictions against war and militarism. She has also participated in Samaritan Patrols to try to prevent deaths of undocumented persons crossing from Mexico through the Arizona desert in search of work.

ANN WEAVER NICHOLS, DSW, ACSW, is an Associate Professor at ASU School of Social Work, Tucson Component. She teaches policy, community, and organizational practice; strategies against discrimination; and social work and criminal justice. A life-long activist for civil and human rights, death penalty abolition, and prison reform, she is also an advocate related to children's issues, anti-racism, and health care reform. She spent her last sabbatical leave studying forgiveness from a micro and macro perspective. She is honored to have been designated as the new Executive Director of the Society for Spirituality and Social Work, July 2005.

BRIAN OUELLETTE, MSW, RSW has been involved in planning the four annual conferences on Spirituality and Social Work held in Canada. He is an original member of the Canadian Network on Spirituality and Social Work and has been teaching a course on Spirituality and Social Work at St. Thomas University in New Brunswick, Canada since 1994.

JUAN PAZ, DSW, is currently an associate professor at the Arizona State University School of Social Work. As a curandero, he uses indigenous Mexican Indian beliefs and practices in his healing work. A great deal of his work is based on the every day practices of the Mexican origin people of the Southwest. He learned a great deal of what he does from family members, other curanderos/curanderas and spiritual healers from different tribes in the Southwest. This spring and summer he has spent some time working with healers from the Tohono O'Odham tribe. The focus of his work is on the spiritual aspects of healing. He uses prayer, flowers, music, incense and mediation in his spiritual healing work (limpias). He has used these to help people with problems such as alcoholism, substance abuse, incest, child abuse, AIDS and a variety of other physical and mental problems related to the spirit.

VERONICA PENA, MSW, received her master's degree from the University of Michigan. She has a broad range of professional experiences. She directed a group home for adolescent boys and girls, was a Clinical Assistant Professor at Arizona State University and worked as a community education and development specialist. Ms. Pena enjoys working with community organizations that promote literacy and grass-roots leadership. She is a strong advocate for prevention and empowerment. She believes that it is important to offer community members opportunities to share their expertise with each other. It is her goal to expose community members to strong and powerful leaders who care about one another.

REBECCA PHILLIPS, BSW, RSW, is an experienced social worker, working with youth and families. She is also a Reiki Master and Craniosacral therapist. Rebecca is dedicated to anti-oppressive practice and the attention to spirituality in social work.

DR. PAUL SKINNER, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, has served a very lengthy and productive interdisciplinary career a the University of Arizona. His research and teaching interests over many years ranged from psycho-physics and psycho-physiology, to electro-physiology and computer analysis of auditory sensory, neural and cortical systems, to quantum consciousness and to cognitive and behavioral sciences. Skinner's computer research led to numerous publications and to international recognition, which resulted in a fellowship to Cambridge University with the British Interdisciplinary Research Program.

DON STREIT, MSW, LCSW, ACSW, is a field instructor and psychotherapist in Little Rock, Arkansas. He presents workshops on the Jungian approach to dream interpretation, with an emphasis on archetypal stories.

PHILIP TAN, MSW, PhD, teaches at California State University at Long Beach. His special interest is in the confluence of spirituality and mental health. Knowledgeable about Easter religions, he has studied the spiritual expressions of various minority populations in the United States.