Jul Bystrova
Jul is founder of the Inner Resilience Network and Director of the Era of Care project, which works with frontline communities. She has a 25 year history of community activism and a thriving private practice in trauma-informed mind-body healing work. She has served as an Interfaith Minister, an academic in Interdisciplinary research and a boots-on-the-ground activist. She writes about cultural healing, interpersonal and psycho-spiritual topics. She also serves on the Transition US Collaborative Design Council and has been raising awareness on justice issues. In 2018, she received the TUS Social Justice award for her support in raising awareness and diversity in the Transition community.
Scott Brown
Scott is a visionary peacemaker, transpersonal psychologist, and life and relationship coach who guides individuals and groups into the deepest levels of personal and collective healing and resilience. His integrated approach brings together psychology, spirituality, nature-based healing, and transformational activism. He is a leading advocate for bringing the principles and practices of restorative justice to bear on the full range of social issues and is the author of Active Peace: A Mindful Path to a Nonviolent World.
Scott is a visionary peacemaker, transpersonal psychologist, and life and relationship coach who guides individuals and groups into the deepest levels of personal and collective healing and resilience. His integrated approach brings together psychology, spirituality, nature-based healing, and transformational activism. He is a leading advocate for bringing the principles and practices of restorative justice to bear on the full range of social issues and is the author of Active Peace: A Mindful Path to a Nonviolent World.
Ikela Lewis is a mindfulness-based substance use counselor at non-profit addiction treatment center in Carson City, NV where he works primarily with individuals in overcoming addiction to heroin and methamphetamine. He holds a BA in Psychology from Sierra Nevada College and will soon be beginning a MA in Transpersonal and Mindfulness Based Clinic Mental Health Counseling. He was a speaker at the 2019 UCLA Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference and the 2019 NURS Undergraduate Research Conference. He is the founder of the Sierra Nevada College Meditation Sangha and practitioner of mindfulness meditation within the Dhamra Zephyr Meditation Insight Community. Ikela has a deep passion for the multi-faced practices of mindfulness and compassion based meditation, as well as the utilization of holistic and spiritual practices as means to make meaningful change within his community.
Tobin McKee
Tobin is a Middleway Method Somatic Educator, and co-founder of Middleway Network, fostering the creation of new, free wellness training and educational resources for all people, giving special attention to underserved populations. Tobin also serves as a Core Team Member at Cooperation Humboldt, dedicated to building a Solidarity Economy on the North Coast.
Tobin is a Middleway Method Somatic Educator, and co-founder of Middleway Network, fostering the creation of new, free wellness training and educational resources for all people, giving special attention to underserved populations. Tobin also serves as a Core Team Member at Cooperation Humboldt, dedicated to building a Solidarity Economy on the North Coast.
Galen Meyers
Galen is a co-founder and facilitator for CAIPP.org where he helps equip groups, communities, and organizations to capture the social and business benefits of Cooperation Science, Ethical Design, and Humane Technology. He is a passionate, perpetual student of Life and the wholistic sciences, with an undergraduate background in math, physics, and biology. Galen is certified as a yoga and meditation instructor, a group facilitator, and a permaculture designer. He is proudly serving on the Collaborative Design Council for Transition US.
Galen is a co-founder and facilitator for CAIPP.org where he helps equip groups, communities, and organizations to capture the social and business benefits of Cooperation Science, Ethical Design, and Humane Technology. He is a passionate, perpetual student of Life and the wholistic sciences, with an undergraduate background in math, physics, and biology. Galen is certified as a yoga and meditation instructor, a group facilitator, and a permaculture designer. He is proudly serving on the Collaborative Design Council for Transition US.
Diana Kubilos
Diana is a passionate ‘Transitioner’, having co-founded a Transition chapter in her former home of
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and now working on community resilience-related initiatives in her hometown of Ventura, CA. Diana is especially interested in the intersection between community resilience, and the building of systems of social justice, and community dialogue and collaboration.
Diana holds a Masters of Public Health, and worked for many years in social work and health
education. She retrained several years ago in mediation and Nonviolent Communication, and is
focused in the areas of compassionate parenting and conflict transformation.
Diana is Latina (Mexican-American) and bilingual. In addition to her current residence and work in
California, she has also lived and worked in Mexico, Brazil, and Malaysia.
Diana is a passionate ‘Transitioner’, having co-founded a Transition chapter in her former home of
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and now working on community resilience-related initiatives in her hometown of Ventura, CA. Diana is especially interested in the intersection between community resilience, and the building of systems of social justice, and community dialogue and collaboration.
Diana holds a Masters of Public Health, and worked for many years in social work and health
education. She retrained several years ago in mediation and Nonviolent Communication, and is
focused in the areas of compassionate parenting and conflict transformation.
Diana is Latina (Mexican-American) and bilingual. In addition to her current residence and work in
California, she has also lived and worked in Mexico, Brazil, and Malaysia.
Kaat Vander Straeten is a long-time community organizer with a Transition focus and a certified permaculture designer in MetroWest Boston, where she founded several organizations for local resilience. Her passion for helping families take care of their deceased is nourished by her love of empowering personal choice-with-responsibility, her service to a regenerative and grief-literate culture, and a concern for social justice. Kaat was trained by Peg Lorenz in after-death body care and has helped several families take care of their loved ones at home.
Kaat works with Peaceful Passage at Home, a group of home funeral guides and advocates based in eastern and central Massachusetts.
Kaat works with Peaceful Passage at Home, a group of home funeral guides and advocates based in eastern and central Massachusetts.
Richard Edelman is a weaver of transformative arts, a multidisciplinary synthesizer, and a scholar of psychotherapy and spiritual consciousness, a husband, father, and grandfather, a scholar, social activist, meditation teacher, guide, and visionary. He works with culture creators, including creative artists, entrepreneurs, helping professionals, and activists, as well as individuals, families, groups, and communities. His work focuses on liberating, healing, and celebrating biospheric consciousness. Richard’s recent activism has been on helping individuals and communities liberate and heal themselves from spiritual abuse. As a climate activist, he works towards low cost community-based climate trauma and resilience services with a mutual aid focus informed by evolutionary consciousness. He is writing a book introducing his concept of Toxic Enculturation and how we can liberate and heal ourselves from it. www.livingartswisdom.com
CONTRIBUTORS
M. Rako Fabioner is a consultant, facilitator, and healer who creates learning environments for people to experience deeper connection, insight, and well-being. He is sought after for his powerful presence and capacity to support individuals and groups during times of transition. Rako has created transformative leadership programs as well as inclusivity and equity focused initiatives for businesses, universities, retreat centers, NGOs and other learning organizations for the past twenty years. He has trained and advised social entrepreneurs, cultural workers, activists, spiritual teachers, and political leaders within the USA, Central America, UK, and Middle East. Rako has also trained and worked closely with leadership from Google, Dignity Health, Adobe, Facebook, Skywalker Ranch, Impact Hub, IONS, and Climate Action Network International. Rako is a founding member of the Guild of Future Architects and Salmon Nation, as well as a core advisor to the How We Deepen, New Stories and Retreat Center Collaboration change networks. He can be reached at mark@rako.life. http://www.rako.life/
Ayako Nagano
Ayako serves on the Board of Transition Berkeley, and on the steering committees for the Green Leadership Trust, a coalition of green non-profit board members of color promoting equity and inclusion within the environmental movement. Ayako serves on the Social Justice Working Group for Transition US, and was recently appointed to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Environmental Justice Advisory Council.
Ayako serves on the Board of Transition Berkeley, and on the steering committees for the Green Leadership Trust, a coalition of green non-profit board members of color promoting equity and inclusion within the environmental movement. Ayako serves on the Social Justice Working Group for Transition US, and was recently appointed to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Environmental Justice Advisory Council.
Pat McCabe
(Weyakpa Najin Win, Woman Stands Shining) is a Diné (Navajo) mother, grandmother, activist, artist, writer, ceremonial leader, and international speaker. She is a voice for global peace, creates art for individual, earth and global healing. She draws upon the Indigenous sciences of Thriving Life to reframe questions about sustainability and balance, and she is devoted to supporting the next generations, Women’s Nation and Men’s Nation, in being functional members of the “Hoop of Life” and upholding the honor of being human.
(Weyakpa Najin Win, Woman Stands Shining) is a Diné (Navajo) mother, grandmother, activist, artist, writer, ceremonial leader, and international speaker. She is a voice for global peace, creates art for individual, earth and global healing. She draws upon the Indigenous sciences of Thriving Life to reframe questions about sustainability and balance, and she is devoted to supporting the next generations, Women’s Nation and Men’s Nation, in being functional members of the “Hoop of Life” and upholding the honor of being human.
Bayo Akomolafe
An academic, poet and philosopher, Bayo has dedicated his life to mediating between the spiritual and the scientific. Raised as a Christian in the hyper-religious Nigerian capital of Lagos, he studied Psychology and then while researching for his PhD spent 7 years lecturing at Nigeria's Covenant University. In 2016, he co-founded The Emergence Network, an alliance of people, initiatives and communities using art, research and ritual to reframe some of the world's interlocking social and environmental problems. First and foremost, though, he is a father. In his book ‘These wilds beyond our fences: Letters to my daughter on humanity’s search for home', addressed to his daughter Alethea, Bayo explores some of life’s most pressing questions related to race, culture and belonging through the lens of fatherhood. By exploring the world at its ‘Aleathean edges', he reminds the reader how wondrous, philosophically and spiritually significant everyday occurrences can be — both when you are a small human discovering the world for the first time, and when you are the adult who helps to guide them on their way.
An academic, poet and philosopher, Bayo has dedicated his life to mediating between the spiritual and the scientific. Raised as a Christian in the hyper-religious Nigerian capital of Lagos, he studied Psychology and then while researching for his PhD spent 7 years lecturing at Nigeria's Covenant University. In 2016, he co-founded The Emergence Network, an alliance of people, initiatives and communities using art, research and ritual to reframe some of the world's interlocking social and environmental problems. First and foremost, though, he is a father. In his book ‘These wilds beyond our fences: Letters to my daughter on humanity’s search for home', addressed to his daughter Alethea, Bayo explores some of life’s most pressing questions related to race, culture and belonging through the lens of fatherhood. By exploring the world at its ‘Aleathean edges', he reminds the reader how wondrous, philosophically and spiritually significant everyday occurrences can be — both when you are a small human discovering the world for the first time, and when you are the adult who helps to guide them on their way.
Aleisa Myles
Aleisa has been a dedicated member of Transition Town Media (TTM) since 2010. Aleisa is a clinical psychologist in Philadelphia, PA. She practices psychoanalytic psychotherapy with survivors of childhood and adult trauma, and addresses themes of spirituality, sexuality, and social justice and equity. Aleisa holds a Psy.D. from the Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology at Widener University, where she now serves as Adjunct Assistant Professor. She presents seminars and workshops on diversity, racism, and psychoanalysis. Aleisa has a lifelong dedication to understanding and bringing transformative change to the typically unrecognized oppression of children and young people, known as childism.
Aleisa has been a dedicated member of Transition Town Media (TTM) since 2010. Aleisa is a clinical psychologist in Philadelphia, PA. She practices psychoanalytic psychotherapy with survivors of childhood and adult trauma, and addresses themes of spirituality, sexuality, and social justice and equity. Aleisa holds a Psy.D. from the Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology at Widener University, where she now serves as Adjunct Assistant Professor. She presents seminars and workshops on diversity, racism, and psychoanalysis. Aleisa has a lifelong dedication to understanding and bringing transformative change to the typically unrecognized oppression of children and young people, known as childism.