Keynote Addresses

Self-Empowerment on Social Media

Shared Experiences for the Creative Evolution of Humanity

How to Curate the Live Social Experience

Marianne Williamson is the author of 13 books including 4 New York Times bestsellers. Marianne is perhaps most famous for this important quote, that has been frequently attributed to Nelson Mandela:

Our deepest fear Is not that we are Inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

In a fun role-reversal, Marianne will interview David Larson Levine about the origin story of the Scoby Social app and share her thoughts on the role of social media curation and the shifting landscape of our global community.

Wakeful Living

Experiential Learning and the Legacy of K. Bradford Brown

How to Masterfully Navigate the Ups and Downs of Life and Love

For over three decades, Warren Kahn has been a student, practitioner and coach in the art of wakeful living. As one of the few people on the planet to have reached the status of Senior Trainer in the More To Life program developed by Dr. K. Bradford Brown, Warren has facilitated thousands of individuals through deeply transformational shared experiences around the world.

Warren is stewarding the legacy of experiential learning pioneered by Dr. Brown, a psychotherapist working with some of the most significant minds in the field, including Victor Frankl and Alan Watts, into today's ever-changing landscape with a new set of offerings that connect social, physical, spiritual and psychological development into a powerful, effective, and cutting-edge framework centered on authenticity, creativity and love. These techniques and philosophical understandings are applicable to every professional and personal challenge life presents.

Warren has utilized some of the More To Life transformational tools, practices and understandings and adding his own awakenings and insights to create the Master Navigator Program, where anyone with the intention to grow into their most empowered and creative selves can become Master Navigators in their own right.

Join us as Warren shares his experiences working with Dr. Brown and so many others all over the world, and the inspirations that led to the development of his Master Navigator Program.

Your Hosts

Business Performance

Shared Experiences for Growth and Expansion

How to Master Shared Experiences for Massive Success in your Career, Business or Practice

David Larson Levine has been a tech entrepreneur since 1993, founding one of the first web development firms, a FinTech company, a video game technology company, a solar energy platform, and a security token marketplace. 

David will provide practical, actionable methods for mastering the live, online, shared experience in any context. Masterful shared experience guides can conduct more productive meetings, close more deals, support, heal, entertain, transform, engage, and enrich the lives of colleagues, prospects, partners, customers, and clients.

In our age of isolation, conflict, division and chaos, mastering the role of Shared Experience Guide is an essential skill for every executive, entrepreneur, and professional.

Team Psychology

Shared Experiences for Deeper Connection

Tools for High Performance Teams in the Organizational Setting

Judi Dumont-Barter is an occupational psychologist with a background in human resource management, training & development, and motivation & performance.

Judi will share a variety of experiential tools and practices for use in one-on-one coaching, group processing, team facilitation, sales calls, and corporate training.

Personal mastery is a hot topic in organizations ranging from startups to non-profits to major corporations, creating high demand for leadership development coaches, facilitators, consultants and trainers with expertise in guiding shared experiences.

Authentic Communications

Shared Experiences for Community Building

How to Create Authentic Community in Any Setting

Bill Thatcher has worked in corporate communications and led several non-profits including M. Scott Peck's Foundation for Community Encouragement.

Bill will provide guidelines and demonstrate techniques for creating authentic community and share the profound results for individuals and organizations that can be achieved with authentic community.

Passing from superficial collegiality to heartfelt connection is a truly transformative, and rare, experience in the organizational setting that can have profound benefits for every participant and the organization as a whole. 

Applying the Shared Experience

Corporate Sponsorships, Teamwork & Major Media

Shared Experiences for Competitive Advantage

The Spontaneous Enterprise Meets Experience Media 

As President of Miller Brewing Company, Jeffrey Hembrock was responsible for global operations, marketing, supply chain, and sponsorships. 

Denise Denson, as EVP at Viacom, negotiated distribution deals with Comcast, Verizon and other major carriers.

Jeffrey and Denise will share their thoughts on how shared experiences will change the landscape of the corporate enterprise, collaboration, sponsorships, brand building, and entertainment.

Shared experiences promise to be disruptive in the media landscape, with audiences spending more time in conversation and participatory activities rather than passively consuming streaming media and posting on social media. 

The workplace is also changing and growing more spontaneous as executives, managers, and employees rely more on shared experiences that are recorded, transcribed and processed by machine learning systems and less bound to databases, reports, memos, and messaging.

Alex Mcgruder
Fitness Coach

Colleen Cotter
Real Estate Agent

The Revolution in Service Delivery

Shared Experiences for Professional Services

How Leveraged Service Delivery Models Can Provide More Client Value with Less Time, Effort and Resources

Alex Mcgruder is a health, wellness and fitness coach.

Colleen Cotter is the Broker/Owner of My Sand Diego Realty, a successful real estate agency in Southern Californa. 

Alex and Colleen will describe innovations in the delivery of professional services and opportunities for providers to leverage shared experiences in building a flourishing practice with less time, expense and effort.

Consultants, marketing agencies, realtors, lawyers, accountants, therapists, financial advisors and professionals of all kinds are getting off the time and materials treadmill and finding new ways to deliver their services through shared experience models, which can increase the value of their offerings to clients while reducing the effort involved with service delivery, marketing and sales.

Local is Global

Shared Experiences from the Neighborhood to the Planet

How Changing your Life Changes the World 

Earl Hairston is a street poet, recording artist, actor and filmmaker who is breaking through with a unique blend of reality, spirituality and mega-mojo.

As Mayor of Charlestown, WV, Scott Rogers fought Rockwool, a toxic polluter sited across the road from an elementary school.

Earl Hairston performed at anti-Rockwool protests and prayer gatherings, while building a career in the arts on the streets of Martinsburg, WV. 

Beyond the formality of hearings, public comment, negotiations and compliance, or the resistance of protesters, activists, and concerned citizens, shared experiences represent the possibility of deeper engagement, connection and partnership between people serving in different roles such as public official, artist, corporate executive, parent, or advocate.

Omnipresence and the New Network

Shared Experiences and Technology

How to Incorporate Live Online Experiences in Applications, Systems, and Processes

John is developing the Eden Project to bring life, beauty, and nature into the built environment. 

Robert Whetsel is an senior executive at a federal agency leading digital transformation; he formerly served as Chief Data Scientist for the US Department of Defense.

Dedicated apps and services for shared experiences such as Clubhouse and Zoom are growing rapidly while mainstream social media services like Facebook and Twitter are adding the capabilities. At the heart of all of this is machine learning, which can transcribe, analyze and mediate video conferences in real-time.

Incorporating shared experiences into consumer apps, SaaS platforms and the enterprise isn't just a technical exercise. The shift from asynchronous to real-time is a deep cultural shift that will change the very nature of our relationship with software systems and with each other.

Peace and Justice

Shared Experiences for a Just Society and the Preservation of our Planetary Ecosystem

How to Co-Create a Flourishing World for Everyone

As director of the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa-USA, Sarah Jewell develops sustainable peace and justice programs inspired by Leymah Gbowee and other Nobel Laureates for communities, business, and public servants.

Mark Andersen, the co-founder of Positive Force DC and We Are Family has worked with inner-city seniors in Washington, DC since 1989 and authored or contributed to numerous books.

Sarah and Mark are committed to bringing peace and justice to their communities and providing systems and models that others can adopt to find their own voice and guide others toward a world where everyone is recognized, significant, valued and supported.

While social media promised to bring people together, it has also deepened rifts and stoked violence. We will explore ways that shared experiences can form the foundation for deeper, more authentic online connections that encourage peace and justice to thrive in every heart and soul.

Mastering the Shared Experience

Promoting Health and Wellbeing

The Shared Experience as Inclusive and Supportive for All Participants

How to Provide Transformational Experiences for Mind, Body, Heart and Soul.

Zoe Levine is a music therapist and Zumba instructor who works in the Annapolis, MD public school system.

Nicole Triplett has developed "OHMstead," a guided practice that combines Reiki, Yoga, and Krav Maga, an Israeli form of martial arts, for complete and optimal health.

By recognizing the significant and unique gifts of every participant in a shared experience and putting neurodivergence and neurodiversity as at the center, rather than the periphery, Zoe and Nicole guide shared experiences that nourish and sustain each participant as a whole person.

Unlike social media communications through chat messages, images, and videos, expertly guided shared experiences that include multi-party audio and video can include the neurological keys to increasing empathy and reducing detachment and emotional indifference.

Worldview, Mindset and Health

Shared Experiences for Metacognitive Trance-based Learning

How to Unlock your Power of Spirit, Fearlessness and Joy Amidst Collective and Individual Challenges

Four Arrows (Donald Trent Jacobs, Ph. D., Ed. D.) is the author of 23 acclaimed books, the recipient of the Martin Springer Institute on Holocaust Studies Moral Courage Award, a former professor of hypnosis at UC Berkeley, and former sports psychologist and performance coach to world champion athletes.

Susan Hermann, Ph. D., MSC, LICSW, MA, trains therapists, coaches, and wellness providers to guide patients through deep transformational journeys and heal multigenerational trauma.

The ubiquity of live online group conversations represents a new opportunity for experienced guides to bring transformational experiences to populations around the world with historically limited access.

At the same time, therapists, coaches, social workers and other mental health practitioners are discovering a vast array of resources and techniques to augment and enhance their practices for the benefit of their clients.

Entrepreneurs

Shared Experiences for Executives, Influencers and Creators

How to Turn Connections and Followers into Clients and Customers

Lester Firstenberger is a lawyer who has been responsible for securitizing over a trillion dollars in assets. Lester is currently leading a startup applying deep learning artificial neural networks for the residential mortgage loan industry from origination and capital markets to servicing and default servicing.

Maayan Gordon has over 2 million followers on Tik Tok and has sold over $1 million of products on Instagram. She is the founder & CEO of Champion Empire, a marketing firm that advises brands and influencers toward business success on social media.

With Instagram adding "Rooms," Twitter introducing "Spaces" and Facebook offering "Hotline," it's clear that social media platforms are taking shared experiences seriously.

Lester and Maayan will share their insights on social media, machine learning and the significance of shared experiences from two different perspectives... one from a technology startup and financial services industry insider, and from from a successful creator on several platforms.

​Self and Other

Shared Experiences for Personal and Professional Development

How to Bring Personal Mastery to Business at the Speed of Reality

Howard Teich is a mindset alchemist, authority on creative consciousness in the workplace, and highly experienced facilitator and consultant who has worked with numerous leading brands.

With a background in both law and biomedical science, Clara Francesca  has fused acting, speech coaching and executive coaching into an original neuroscience-based experiential modality.

Howard and Clara will explore shared experiences as a pathway to clarity at will in when teams at work face conflict, chaos and confusion. Both have developed practical tools and processes for personal mastery and richer engagement with life.

Mastery of the self makes deeper, more authentic connections possible. Shared experiences can be a safe space to guide participants toward personal mastery in a wide variety of settings.

Artists

Shared Experiences for Integrating Art, Work and Life

How to Turn your Passion into a Career

Amelia Lichtenberg is a visual artist, "relationship anarchist" and a pioneering practitioner of psychedelic therapy.

Lauren Baylor is a recording artist preparing to drop her first single on all the major distribution platforms.

The Creator Economy promises to disrupt, decentralize and transform the traditional relationships between artists and their audiences that centered on major studios, record companies, gallaries and agents.

These talented and passionate artists will share their journeys of discovery, their challenges and their triumphs in pursuing their creative lives and building groundbreaking careers. 

Innovating the Shared Experience

Innovators

A Whole New Medium

How to Include Shared Experiences in Every Channel

Charles ("Chuck") Warner is the founder & CEO Innovative Properties Worldwide, publisher of Innovation & Tech Today, Sustainability Today, STEM Today and other magazines, newsletters and journals on a variety of topics.

Kyle Shannon is the founder & CEO of Storyvine, a super cool app for video creation used a wide range of companies to collect and publish compelling stories and testimonials from customers, staff members and partners.

Live shared experiences are a new, distinct medium that can be incorporated into almost any other form of communication, whether based on text, images, audio or video.

Chuck and Kyle will share their own experiences creating their offerings and building their businesses and reflect on how they continue to innovate with new capabilities and systems as the culture and capabilities of the internet continues to rapidly evolve.

Way Beyond the Law

Shared Experiences on the Cutting Edge of Everything

How to Find your True Calling in Any Domain

Geoff Wilcox is a graduate of Harvard Law School who chose a career path in technology sales, business development and operations that better suited his lifestyle, passions and aspiration.

Kristen Swinehart left her legal practice to serve her clients as a medium and psychic, connecting people with the wisdom and guidance of those who have passed on.

The starting point of a career, professional, expertise or practice is just that -- a starting point. The real work is in finding your own calling, blazing your own path, and developing your own unique gifts to share.

Geoff and Kristen each explore, in very different ways, how a creator can emerge from a traditional field such as law law and find fulfillment by rising to a previously unimagined destiny.

Pathways of Development & Growth

Shared Experiences for Birthing Collective Wisdom

How to Transform and Re-Orient Education

Renee Owen is a professor of educational leadership at Southern Oregon University. She applies a holistic, human-centered approach toward closing the opportunity gap and uplifting the human spirit. Her ongoing interests are in transformative learning, contemplative practices, the neuroscience of racial bias, and self-organizing governance.

Alex Merron is a musician and practitioner of Ecological Design Thinking who offers an intuitive comprehension of complex dynamical systems that are adapted and applied to a diverse yet cohesive range of creative occupations with robust optimism.

Renee and Alex will explore the shift in education from an achievement orientation to one centered on growth and development, as well of from performance to experience.

Education is escaping from the confines of institutions. Courses, coaches, mentors and trainers are now available on any topic from anywhere in the world. Learn how the radical transformation of lifelong leadning and development can benefit you.

Talent Optimization

Shared Experiences for People in the Organizational Setting

How to Foster of Culture of Co-Creativity

Roberto Blain is a co-founder Principal at Cerulean Leadership specializing in strategic planning, organizational culture change, leadership development, and talent management. He is also on the faculty of the University of Southern California. Roberto has served as a senior talent management executive at Walt Disney Feature Animation, provided executive search support for Warner Bros. and led strategic planning initiatives for ABC Entertainment and the Norris Center Hospital.

John Sowalsky is a playwright, director, voiceover talent, musician and technologist who is creating new modalities for marketing, team-building and executive development.

Many corporate leaders understand the critical nature of culture change and the importance of accommodating a new generation of talent.  Workplace dynamics are changing rapidly, but often the most significant opportunities to create and innovate are resisted.

Roberto and John will explore new possibility spaces for teams, leaders and talent in shifting the business setting to a heart-centered, safe space to co-create. 

The Heart and Soul of an Organization

Shared Experiences for Heart-centered Ecosystems

How to Map the Landscape of Relatedness

Dr. Susan Auger is a management consultant, researcher, social entrepreneur, and writer. Through social work training, clinical experience in substance abuse and domestic violence, and a diverse education in philosophy, business and law, Susan has developed a deep insight into dynamics that impact relationships and communication in the workplace and at home.

Dr. Suzan McVicker specializes in Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, a model that resolves long-standing patters of problematic behaviors. IFS is a simple yet sophisticated therapeutic system inolving mind, body, spirit and energy. 

Susan and Suzan are pioneering new systems, models and practices to liberate individuals, groups and organizations from deeply engrained patters that are ultimately self-defeating and introducing heart-centered ecosystems that support, develop and nurture families, communities and regional ecosystems. 

These sessions will provide practical insights and inspirational guidance for therapists, social workers, consultants and executives in creating healthy, effective, loving and safe environments at home and in the workplace.

Making It

Shared Experiences for Living the Dream

How to Simply Pull it Off One Way or Another

Jason Feedy is an English musician who now lives in Los Angeles, California. He has a notable career as a singer, songwriter and front-man, and writes and performs for television, film and stage. A few years ago Jason launched a Joe Cocker tribute band called Mad Dogs and Englishman. Jason also serves as the resident Cantor at Temple Isaiah in Newport Beach.

Jason is our special guest star, swapping life stories and inspiring us to follow our zen wherever it may lead.