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Peter A. Levine, PhD, is the developer of Somatic Experiencing© and founder of the Foundation for Human Enrichment. He teaches trainings in this work throughout the world and in various indigenous cultures. Levine is the author of the best-selling book Waking the Tiger : Healing Trauma : The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences and he has recently co-published a comprehensive book on childhood trauma, Trauma Through a Child's Eyes: Awakening the Ordinary Miracle of Healing as well as a guide for parents, Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parents' Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience. He is the recipient of the 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award from the the US Association of Body Psychotherapy.

Peter Palanca is the executive vice president and chief operating officer of Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities, a nonprofit agency serving people with substance use and mental health disorders. A lifelong teacher and mentor to many, Palanca also holds a faculty appointment as senior lecturer of Addiction Studies at Governors State University.  

Phil Lane, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and psychotherapist in private practice. Phil has previous experience working in community mental health, running group therapy, and working in-home with families and teens. He is the author of the forthcoming book, Understanding and Coping with Illness Anxiety, due to be published in November 2023. He specializes in treating anxiety and panic disorders, assisting clients with life transitions and adjustments, and working with grief and loss, and practices with a humanistic and existential approach. Phil lives and practices in Central New Jersey.  

Phil Stark, AMFT, is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist in Los Angeles. He is also an author and screenwriter, with credits such as Dude, Where’s My Car?, That ‘70s Show, and South Park. His new book "Dude, Where's My Car-tharsis?" is available on Amazon

Philip J. Guerin, MD is a psychiatrist, family therapist, author, and the founder of the Center for Family Learning in Westchester County, New York. He has written several influential books and articles in the field of family therapy, including The Evaluation and treatment of marital conflict: A four-stage approach and Working with relationship triangles: The one-two-three of psychotherapy.

Philip C. Kendall, Ph.D., ABPP is a researcher, scholar, and clinician, professor of psychology, and director of the Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders Clinic at Temple University. His CV lists over 450 publications, including over 30 books and over 20 treatment manuals and workbooks. He is one of the most highly-cited individuals in all of the social and medical sciences. Dr. Kendall has designed and evaluated treatment programs for youth, including the Coping Cat child therapy workbook series. His programs has been identified as empirically-supported, have been translated and implemented in over a dozen countries, and are the focus of numerous federally-funded research initiatives in treatment and prevention across the globe.

Philip G. Zimbardo, PhD, is a psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University, where he taught for 50 years, starting in 1968. He continues to conduct research at Stanford and teach at the former Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, now Palo Alto University. He is also president of the Heroic Imagination Project, which teaches people how to overcome the natural human tendency to watch and wait in moments of crisis.

Zimbardo is probably best known for his 1971 Stanford prison experiment, which demonstrated the power of social situations to influence people’s behavior. He has authored more than 300 professional articles, chapters and books representing his broad and varied interests in topics ranging from exploratory and sexual behavior in rats to persuasion, dissonance, hypnosis, cults, shyness, time perspective, prisons and madness. His books and textbooks for college students include Psychology and Life, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil and The Time Paradox.