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This year our keynote speaker will be Dr Enid Hendershot, aka Prabhavati Dwabha. She will tell us, with her unique humour and colourful manner, all about her life journey; from the lights of Hollywood to the banks of India's sacred Ganges river. The 60-something Colorado native struggled to make it as an actress in Los Angeles in the 1970s, but shed all desire for fame and recognition as she boarded a flight to Pune.
Although she still loves a bit of drama in her life, the ego has gone -- shed on a transformational journey that ended in the foothills of the Himalayas, where for the last 25 years she has fought to improve the lives of women and children.
Dwabha‘s path has taken her to the feet of a spiritual master who directed her to establish Ramana’s Garden, a school on the banks of the Ganges, where she has offered a home and sanctuary to 60+ children of the ‘untouchables’ and educates and feeds 200 daily.
Ramana’s Garden includes an organic farm, an angora rabbit project and the only organic café in Rishikesh where nutritious food feeds not only the school but happy tourists.
She has just received a prestigious humanitarian award celebrating her indomitable spirit and deep commitment to the underprivileged.
Bhakti Yoga Festival 2017 Spiritual Humanitarian Award
Divine Shakti Leadership All INdia 2018
The ONE who gives the most Hong Kong 2018
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Conference “Brève Histoire du Pays d’Enhaut”, by Pierre Favrod Coune.
Christopher James Hampton, CBE, FRSL (born 26 January 1946) is a British playwright, screenwriter, translator and film director. He is best known for his play based on the novel Les Liaisons dangereusesand the film version Dangerous Liaisons (1988) and also more recently for writing the nominated screenplay for the film adaptation of Ian McEwan's Atonement.[1]
Hampton became involved in the theatre while at Oxford University
Hampton won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1988 for the screen adaptation of his play Dangerous Liaisons. He was nominated again in 2007 for adapting Ian McEwan's novel Atonement.
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Tiana Alexandra-Silliphant (Thi Thanh Nga; August 11, 1961) is a Vietnamese-American actress and filmmaker. Her award-winning 1992 film From Hollywood to Hanoi, was the first American documentary feature film shot in Vietnam by a Vietnamese American. It was shown at film festivals and movie theaters across the U.S., and highlighted the plight of Amerasians, as well as the devastating effects of Agent Orange.
Tiana starred opposite actors Robert Duvall, James Caan and Rod Steiger in feature films such as Sam Peckinpah’s The Killer Elite, and Catch The Heat.
She also starred in the made-for-television features Pearl and Fly Away Home, written by her late husband Stirling Silliphant. Tiana was Associate Producer on David Cronenberg’s 2011 feature film A Dangerous Method.
Tiana’s film The General & Me focuses on her 25-year relationship with General Võ Nguyên Giáp, Ho Chi Minh’s trusted military strategist during the Indochina and Vietnam Wars.
Nicholas Vreeland, also known as Rato Khen Rinpoche, Geshe Thupten Lhundup, is a fully ordained Tibetan Buddhist monk and Abbot of Rato Dratsang, a 10th century Tibetan Buddhist Monastery, as this year’s keynote speaker. Vreeland, born in Geneva as the son of diplomat Frederick Vreeland and grandson of fashion icon Diana Vreeland, first studied film at New York University, and became a photographer and apprentice to Irving Penn and Richard Avedon. On a photographic assignment in India in 1979, Vreeland, met the Dalai Lama, and was asked to photograph his first trip to North America. In 1985 Vreeland became a monk and was awarded a Geshe degree, equivalent to a PhD. In 1998, he returned to New York to assist his teacher, Khyongla Rinpoche, and to help run Kunkhyab Thardo Ling—the Tibet Center, which Rinpoche founded. In 2012, His Holiness the Dalai Lama appointed Vreeland Abbot of Rato Dratsang, in the Mungod Tibetan Settlement in Karnataka, India which is one of eleven important Tibetan Government monasteries under His Holiness's authority. H.H. The Dalai Lama commented. that “Vreeland's special duty is to bridge Tibetan tradition and the Western world.”
Vreeland now spends half of his time in Rato Monastery in India, and the other half in the United States, where he is the Director of The Tibet Center, New York City's oldest Tibetan Buddhist center. An exhibition of twenty of Vreeland's images has traveled to twelve cities around the world, and has raised funds to enable the rebuilding of Rato Monastery in India.
Vreeland is the editor of the books, An Open Heart, a New York Times best seller, and the 2011 release, A Profound Mind, both authored by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Keynote Speaker 2015
Esther Perel is recognized as one of the most insightful and provocative voices on personal and professional relationships and the complex science behind human interaction.
She is the best-selling author of Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence, translated into 25 languages. Fluent in nine of them, the Belgian native is a practicing psychotherapist, celebrated speaker and organizational consultant to Fortune 500 companies. The New York Times, in a cover story, named her the most important game changer on sexuality and relationships since Dr. Ruth. Her critically acclaimed viral TED Talk reached nearly 5 million viewers in the first year. Known for her keen cross-cultural pulse, Esther shifts the paradigm of our approach to modern relationships.
In addition to Esther’s 30-year therapy practice in New York City, she also serves on the faculty of The Family Studies Unit, Department of Psychiatry, New York University Medical Center and The International Trauma Studies Program at Columbia University.
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Member of the American Family Therapy Academy
Member of the Society for Sex Therapy and Research
AASECT Certified Therapist and Supervisor (American Association for Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists)
- See more at: http://www.estherperel.com
Keynote Speaker 2014
A renowned speaker, and bestselling author, Dr. Gabor Maté is highly sought after for his expertise on a range of topics including addiction, stress and childhood development.
Rather than offering quick-fix solutions to these complex issues, Dr. Maté weaves together scientific research, case histories, and his own insights and experience to present a broad perspective that enlightens and empowers people to promote their own healing and that of those around them.
For twelve years Dr. Maté worked in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside with patients challenged by hard-core drug addiction, mental illness and HIV, including at Vancouver’s Supervised Injection Site. With over 20 years of family practice and palliative care experience and extensive knowledge of the latest findings of leading-edge research, Dr. Maté is a sought-after speaker and teacher, regularly addressing health professionals, educators, and lay audiences throughout North America.
As an author, Dr. Maté has written several bestselling books including the award-winning In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction; When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress; and Scattered Minds: A New Look at the Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder, and co-authored Hold on to Your Kids. His works have been published internationally in twenty languages.
Dr. Maté is the co-founder of Compassion for Addiction, a new non-profit that focusses on addiction. He is also an advisor of Drugs over Dinner.
Dr. Maté has received the Hubert Evans Prize for Literary Non-Fiction; an Honorary Degree (Law) from the University of Northern British Columbia; an Outstanding Alumnus Award from Simon Fraser University; and the 2012 Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award from Mothers Against Teen Violence. He is an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Criminology, Simon Fraser University.
More at http://www.drgabormate.com
Jason Donald was born in Scotland and grew up in South Africa. He studied English Literature and Philosophy at St. Andrews University and is a graduate of the Glasgow University Creative Writing MA.
His debut novel, Choke Chain, published by Jonathan Cape, was shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award and the Saltire First Book Award.
His second novel, Dalila, was published by Jonathan Cape/Vintage in January 2017 to critical acclaim. We were privy to an extract during the Rencontres.
He has also published short stories in various literary journals, including The Astronaut for BBC Radio 4 and Puerta Galera for the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Donald has just written and co-directed his first short film, Passion Gap.
He lives with his wife in Switzerland.
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Fabrizio is a Swiss filmmaker, writer and photographer. He shared with us his journey as a Zen Buddhist. He is also the co-founder of Antior, an association that teaches meditation in the prisons of Switzerland. He sits on the board of the Rain Forest Foundation US and produces an award-winning olive oil in the south of France.
More on: http://fabriziochiesa.com
Dariane is a Jungian analyst, lecturer and supervisor for ISAPZURICH and GAP in London. Her lecture explored how the individuation process is at the centre of C.G. Jung’s psychology. It describes how we can relate to the possibilities within us that we haven’t given birth to. When we orient ourselves to the source of all potential, we begin to dialogue with a wider perspective which Jung calls the Self. This encompasses the wisdom that we carry in our bones, passed down by our family, our ancestors, our tribe. As we become attuned to a deeper sense of who we are, we discover what is absolutely essential to us, what we cannot betray without causing deep injury to what we hold most sacred.
Interestingly, C.G. Jung was posted at the Soldanelle during the first world war and probably stood in the same room in which the presentation took place.
www.dariane.net
Sandro described his journey through the Twelve Steps, a program of recovery with a deep spiritual background. In a previous life he was a colourful member of the rock band sZero Heroes and the Bastards.
more on: http://garagepunkinc.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/all-revved-up-and-ready-to-go-by.html
