Social Meditations

"the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function"

F. Scott Fitzgerald

How can we see the open and mutli-perspectived experience of beings as an expression of reality itself?

Stanley Nyoni is the co-founder of Leading from Love, Diamond Leadership Academy and The Sustainability Collaborative. He longs for love and connection in all relationships including the one with nature.

In his interactions with multiple business executives, senior government officials and academics he realizes that we lack the courage to put love in the centre of what we do. Together with colleagues he is prototyping what Leading from Love would look and feel like for teams and organizations.

Stanley has extensive experience training and facilitating organizational culture and sustainability change programs for corporate clients in Europe, Asia and Africa. He is also developing a regeneration project in Zimbabwe through Seeds conscious currency.

Stanley received a Batchelor in Civil Engineering from the University of Zimbabwe, a Masters in Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Infrastructure at KTH-Sweden, and a certificate in facilitating Cross-Sector Partnerships from Cambridge University-UK.

Simón Guendelman is a psychiatrist, psychotherapist and researcher in the laboratory of clinical psychology of social interactions at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany. His research areas include emotion regulation, empathy and social cognition, and applications in mental health and psychiatry of mindfulness and compassion interventions. He uses behavioral, psychophysiology and neuroimaging methods. He teaches at the pre and postgraduate level in Germany and Chile. He also collaborates in various interdisciplinary projects on art and science.

Simón Guendelman es médico psiquiatra, psicoterapeuta e investigador en el laboratorio de psicología clínica de las interacciones sociales en el Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Universidad de Humboldt, Alemania. Sus áreas de investigación incluyen la regulación emocional, empatía y cognición social, y aplicaciones en salud mental y psiquiatría de intervenciones de mindfulness y compasión. Utiliza métodos conductuales, psicofisiología y neuroimágenes. Realiza docencia a nivel de pre y postgrado en Alemania y Chile. Además colabora en diversos proyectos interdisciplinarios sobre arte y ciencia.

Adler Archer is a biomedical innovation researcher, systems engineer, and social entrepreneur. He researches clinician-led innovation creation, innovation diffusion, and population health informatics at Johns Hopkins and the University of London. Adler has led a boutique consulting firm called Allasys since 2005, which provides technology services to federal government agencies, including NASA, NIST, and the Departments of Commerce, Defense, the Interior, and Veterans Affairs.

Adler is passionate about service. He served on active duty in the U.S. Air Force from 2000 – 2004 and then lobbied for critical veterans' causes, including "Jail Diversion and Trauma Recovery" in Colorado and "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repeal at the White House and the United States Capitol. Adler launched Adloris Foundation 501(c)(3), a nonprofit deploying community based applied mindfulness initiatives through its Wakeful Warriors program and sustainable agriculture initiatives through its Busted Bounty program.

Adler has completed a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from New York Law School, Master of Science (M.S.) in Health Sciences Informatics from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Mindfulness Neuroscience from King's College London, Master of Professional Studies (M.P.S.) in Organizational Communications from the University of Denver, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in General Studies from Columbia College, and Associate of Applied Sciences (A.A.S.) in Scientific Analysis Technology from the Community College of the Air For

Miguel Gomes was born and raised in Connecticut, but it wasn’t until he moved to Boston as an adult that he became interested in learning more about mediation. Soon after his move, Miguel joined a meditation center in Brookline and has been practicing for the last 15 years. Miguel is a certified meditation instructor, and teaches at a variety of mediation centers, financial institutions and with private clients. Miguel is a classically trained cellist and enjoys playing music with friends in his spare time.