Wisdom Circle

Gaiafield Wisdom Council

The Gaiafield Wisdom Council are self-selected members of the Wisdom Circle who provide strategic and hands-on guidance for active Gaiafield Center projects. We are eternally thankful for their wisdom and hard work.

David Nicol

(Gaiafield Center Co-Founder, Project Director)

For many years I have sought to integrate my personal spiritual journey to wholeness with a passionate desire to play a role in the collective global transformation that so many leaders recognize as the great possibility and challenge of our times. What has emerged as a focus is the concept and practice of “subtle activism” – how we may exert a subtle (but perhaps crucial) positive influence on the collective psyche through acting together on subtle planes of consciousness, such as collective meditation, prayer, or ritual work. I am working on a PhD dissertation at the California Institute of Integral Studies on the concept of subtle activism. In my past life, I worked as an environmental lawyer in Australia, my native land. California has been my home base since 2000.

Leslie Meehan

(Gaiafield Center Co-Founder, Project Council Chair)

Leslie grew up in a small town in upstate New York, happily meandering and snow sledding in the pastures behind her house. She hit the engineering highway through a Stanford MSEE and Silicon Valley management, with a couple round-the-world (de)tours along the way. She has graduated to joy & serenity in her integral life as a very active mom, energy healer, philosophy doctoral student, interspiritual minister, systems architect, and caring human being. It’s an amazing journey to be making school lunches, running with my dog, theorizing how healing works across eleven dimensions, and designing a website all in one morning; what a life! Leslie brings her whole cosmic being’s love and compassion and wisdom and pizzazz to her wisdom community subtle healing practice with forests, turtles, children, and all sentient beings. Namaste.

Sean Kelly

(Gaiafield Center Co-Founder, Faculty Advisor)

Sean Kelly received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Ottawa in 1988. He has taught religious studies at the University of Windsor, the University of Ottawa, and Carleton University (Canada). He currently teaches courses such as the History of Western Thought, the Psychology of Religion, Transpersonal Theory, and Transdisciplinary Methodologies. Sean is the author of Individuation and the Absolute: Hegel, Jung, and the Path Toward Wholeness (1993), and co-editor of Ken Wilber in Dialogue: Conversations with Leading Transpersonal Thinkers (1997) He has practiced as a transpersonally oriented counselor and has been teaching Tai’ Chi since 1990.

Mark Dammer

(WiseUSA Technical Director, Live Event)

Integrating science, technology and spirituality has always been part of my life. I have a degree in (marine) biology and I am working with computers and the development of electronic circuits, hard- and software for over 26 years now. I love meditating, spending time in nature or in community, dancing or watching the sky through my telescope. In the same way I love conducting experiments on the effect of human consciousness on plants or electronic random number generators and the beauty of numbers when they turn into graphics, animation or sound. Since I joined the Findhorn Community in 2001 and even more since I got on a Buddhist path, my focus has shifted from a simple “I want to know” attitude towards finding applications for the “mind over matter” phenomenon that benefit the whole world. I feel deep gratitude for being involved in the design and development of the live conferencing and broadcasting technology for this project. Originally from Germany I am now living in the Findhorn area in Scotland for over seven years.

Joseph Giove

(WiseUSA Long Program Co-ordinator & Communications Director)

Joseph Giove is a technologist, biomedical engineer and clinical hypnotist whose passion is the practical application of consciousness research at both individual and collective levels. He has created and orchestrated hundreds of global meditations through InfinityAffinity.org, which he founded in 1998. He is the founder and executive director of Common Passion, a global collaborative of peace-creating groups that aims to create social and environmental harmony through science-based applications of collective consciousness. Joseph is based in Lafayette, California.

Gary Malkin

(WiseUSA Artistic Director)

“As a composer, the ultimate honor that I could receive would be to learn that my creative efforts were utilized in service to humanity in some way. Therefore, I am deeply grateful to have learned that this recording of sacred words and music was chosen to be the soundtrack to GAIAFIELD’s extraordinary use of the internet – gathering millions of people to breathe together, come to stillness together, and imagine peace together as a world community. This recording features one of the planet’s most beloved and peaceful spiritual teachers, Thich Nath Hanh, along with the evocative chanting of the Buddhist Monk Phap Niem, who hauntingly sings this dedication to the healing of the world. Through the universal language of music, combined with the power of prayer, it is my hope that together we can forge the alloys of peace, taking us from these Dark Ages of war to a time of more peaceful and creative forms of engagement with one another. THE END OF SUFFERING is for all those who are experiencing the sorrows of past and present conflicts, in hopes that it might create sparks of reconciliation, forgiveness, and ultimately, a peace that is the birthright for all humanity. Thank you, GaiaField, for providing this extraordinary opportunity for this recording to be heard throughout the world.” Gary Malkin President WISDOM OF THE WORLD, INC.

Avon Mattison

Avon Mattison is a Peacebuilding and Inter-Organisational Consultant, Advisor and Mentor with over three decades’ experience. She works with innovative leaders, groups and organisations on the “frontline” building Cultures of Peace inter-generationally and inter-culturally for the children of this and future generations.

She is Founder and President of Pathways To Peace (PTP), an international peacebuilding, educational and consulting organisation. PTP has Consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council and is an official Peace Messenger of the United Nations (UN).

A U.S. Foreign Service diplomat for three years serving the European Community, Avon has served as special advisor to Presidential Conferences, renowned international leaders, and emerging youth leaders. A Summa Cum Laude graduate in political science and international communications. She serves on the Advisory Councils/Boards of several international organizations and has been quoted numerous times in publications worldwide.

Through Pathways To Peace, she created the “WE THE PEOPLES” INITIATIVE, now “CULTURE OF PEACE INITIATIVE,” in 1983 with the approval of former UN Assistant Secretary-General Robert Muller. This local/global Peacebuilding initiative unites the strengths of over 300 international organizations and focuses co-operative activities annually on the UN International Day of Peace. Through PTP, Avon inaugurated an ongoing Rights of the Child Caucus within the UN system during the first preparatory conference for the World Summit on Social Development. Avon coordinates PACEM – Pathways Consulting, Educating and Mentoring.

Fumi Johns Stewart

“I strive to become a walking Peace Pole to anchor the energy field of the Universal Message and Prayer, May Peace Prevail On Earth wherever I go!”

Fumi Johns Stewart is Executive Director of The World Peace Prayer Society promoting MAY PEACE PREVAIL ON EARTH activities worldwide. She was born in Tokyo, Japan and grew up with a sincere wish to bridge the two culture of her American and Japanese parentage. Fumi was instrumental in introducing the Japanese based May Peace Prevail On Earth movement to the international community in the early 1980’s. She brought The Peace Pole Project out of Japan and helped to establish the international Peace Pole Movement. She assisted in opening the International Headquarters of The World Peace Prayer Society which was registered as a non-profit corporation in the state of New York in 1988. Fumi also serves as US representative of the Goi Peace Foundation of Japan. She currently lives in San Francisco and travels extensively to promote May Peace Prevail On Earth activities

Lynda Terry

Lynda is the founder of Vessels of Peace, a spiritual development and service network for women. Vessels of Peace women are committed to deepening their connection with Divine Feminine Presence in order to help create lasting peace in our world. Through collective intention, weekly group teleconference call meditations, local meditation circles and other formats, the women hold a space for the healing power of feminine energy to flow through their hearts and into all of humanity and the earth. “Life has put forth a call for us to combine the healing powers of the Feminine, of peace, of silence – like the confluence of three rivers, to merge these streams of energy in service to all,” says Lynda. “Responding to this call meets a deep longing in the heart of humanity.” Lynda also is a meditation teacher, a communications consultant for spiritual groups and initiatives, and author of The 11 Intentions: Invoking the Sacred Feminine as a Pathway to Inner Peace.

Elizabeth Tobin

Elizabeth Tobin is a visionary who is concerned with the practical application of consciousness-based technologies to improve people’s day-to-day lives. She is a pioneer in using the breakthrough process of proxy groups to facilitate individual and collective healing. In keeping with her calling to develop and apply new systems for creating positive social change, Elizabeth has facilitated hundreds of global repatternings using proxy groups and the Resonance Repatterning® process. Elizabeth is also a founding board member of CommonPassion.org. For more information about Elizabeth ’s work click HERE.