Theme: SHIFTING/ MIND.BODY.LIFE

OUR 2020 overarching theme is “Shifting” Mind.Body.Life.

We will again feature top line speakers, offering new research and fresh perspectives on how best to achieve real change, meaningful work, wellness, joy, freedom, and purpose while investing in a vibrant and compassionate community.

Our annual show always feature A-list speakers bringing thought-provoking ideas on a broad set of topics focusing on how we'll live, cope, work, stay healthy, and thrive in the world to come.

The College of Marin
835 College Ave
Kentfield, California, 94904
United States

Beth Rattner

Beth Rattner has been working for regenerative design since 2000 and has been the executive director of the Biomimicry Institute since 2012. The Institute brings the practice of bioinspired design to hundreds of thousands of people a year through its education and entrepreneurship programs. Beth speaks publicly on how biomimetic design of human products and systems can restore our economy and environment, which in turn spur social equity. Her long-standing interest in permaculture and herbalism served as a foundation for this deep attention to the natural world. Prior to this position, Beth worked with William McDonough and Michael Braungart on The Upcycle, the sequel to Cradle to Cradle, before she helped co-found the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute and became its executive director.

Christine Carter

Christine Carter, Ph.D., is an author, speaker, and coach. Her books include The New Adolescence: Raising Happy and Successful Teens in an Age of Anxiety and Distraction (2020), The Sweet Spot: How to Accomplish More by Doing Less(2017) and Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents (2011). A sociologist and senior fellow at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, Carter draws on the latest scientific research in psychology, sociology, and neuroscience to help her clients lead their most meaningful, joyful, and productive lives. She lives with her husband, four teenagers, and dog Buster in Marin County, California.

Dakota Peebler

A teen is fighting for the future and explains why adults today cannot keep doing “business as usual.” Dakota is a youth activist who at 11 years old started a global movement — Heirs to Our Oceans — alongside her sister focusing on youth empowerment and connection in purposes of ocean and water protection and climate action. Her human impact focus is land-sea pollution, especially harmful algal blooms due to overuse of chemical fertilizers and the harm on keystone species and humans. Dakota has assisted in organizing and teaching at leadership summits and community forums, she has spoken to local, state and federal lawmakers urging for protection of ocean and waterways for her generation, and she has held workshops for youth at various venues. Dakota was featured in films and Heirs to Our Oceans is making a full-feature about her journey in starting a movement.

Dameion Brown

Dameion discovered Shakespeare through MSC’s Shakespeare at Solano Prison program while serving 23 years of a life sentence. Upon release, he took on the role of Othello, winning the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for “Best Actor.” He has continued to work as an actor with Marin Shakespeare Company, Ubuntu Theatre, Theatre First, and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre.

Daniel Kraft

Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, and innovator and is serving as the Chair of the XPRIZE Pandemic Alliance Task Force. With over 25 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research and healthcare innovation, Kraft has chaired the Medicine for Singularity University since its inception in 2008, and is founder and chair of Exponential Medicine, a program that explores convergent, rapidly developing technologies and their potential in biomedicine and healthcare. He is often called upon to speak to the future of health, medicine and technology and has given 5 TED and TEDMED Talks.

Darren Zook

Darren Zook teaches in Global Studies and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. During his time at the University of California, Berkeley, Darren Zook has taught and published on a wide variety of topics, including the politics of music, human rights and international law, terrorism and security studies, multiculturalism and diversity, cybersecurity, and economic policy with a focus on anti-corruption programs. Zook has been recognized many times for his contributions to education. He was the first recipient of UC Berkeley’s Golden Apple award (best professor on campus as chosen by the students), and was also named one of the “Top Ten Most Inspiring Professors at Cal” by College Magazine. Zook is the author of a four-volume book project entitled Ourselves Among Others, which is an engaged critique of current diversity policy and practice in the United States. He has also published a comprehensive guide to law school, as well as The Cedars of Lebanon, his first novel.

Jahmeer Reynolds

Jahmeer Reynolds was born in Trenton, NJ and raised primarily by his grandmother, along with his parents and a host of relatives. His talent as an athlete allowed him to travel the world before completing high school. After graduating from Trenton Central High School, Jahmeer left New Jersey to attend college in Raleigh, North Carolina. In 2004, Jahmeer wrote and directed a stage play about the AIDS epidemic, and toured around the country. This led to Jahmeer becoming a board member of the organization, African Advocates Against Aids in North Carolina. Jahmeer met his wife Shakira in 2010, and Jahmeer became an educator in the Wake County Public School system. Jahmeer has earned his Masters in Education and in 2015 launched the I Promise Mentoring Program to provide support and mentorship to expat young African American men living in the United Arab Emirates. He is currently working towards his doctoral degree in Educational Psychology. For his international efforts Jahmeer was awarded the Blue Sapphire Award for his international community efforts. Of his many accomplishments, Jahmeer is most proud of being a husband and father, and values time with his family above all else.

James Gordon

James S. Gordon, MD, a Harvard-educated psychiatrist, is the author of The Transformation: Discovering Wholeness and Healing After Trauma. He is internationally recognized for using self-awareness, self-care, and group support to heal population-wide psychological trauma. He is founder and executive director of the nonprofit Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, D.C., a clinical professor at Georgetown Medical School, and was chairman (under Presidents Clinton and GW Bush) of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy.

James Nestor

Author of new bestseller BREATH-The New Science of a Lost Art

Jay Alexander

A master magician, mentalist and comic, Jay Alexander is one of the top corporate and society entertainers in the country. Some of his notable appearances include the Today Show, TEDx Talks, MTV, Good Morning America, and special performances for Robin Williams, the Rolling Stones and Apple founder Steve Wozniak. Jay Alexander is the great-grandson of the legendary vaudeville performer, Gentleman Ben Darwin. As a child, Jay found a trunk in his grandparent’s attic that was filled with magical apparatus and escape illusions. His interest in magic was born with this discovery.

Jeffrey Bland

Dr. Jeffrey Bland has been an internationally recognized leader in the nutritional medicine field for over 30 years. He is currently the President of the Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute.

Katrin Preller

Dr. Preller is a recipient of the Pfizer Research Award and the Swiss Society for Biological Psychiatry Young investigators award. Her group’s research focus is centered on the neurobiology and pharmacology of cognitive and emotional processes in health and disease using multi-modal behavioral, electrophysiological and neuroimaging techniques, the development of novel treatment approaches, and the interaction between pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments.

Maya Pisciotto

A gifted local songwriter and vocalist whose music blends synths, strings, and velvety vocals for a sound that feels expansive and raw.

PAIGE RODGERS

Paige Rodgers has spent most of her career helping to solve some of the biggest social and environmental challenges of our time. For the past 20 years she’s worked in tech marketing and communications, helping companies like Autodesk, Salesforce, and StubHub with their sustainability and social impact initiatives.

Phil Rosenthal

Star of Netflix “Somebody Feed Phil” and Producer, Everybody Loves Raymond. Philip Rosenthal is an American television writer and producer who is best known as the creator, writer and executive producer of the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond (1996–2005). In recent years, he has presented food and travel documentaries I’ll Have What Phil’s Having on PBS and Somebody Feed Phil on Netflix. More info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Rosenthal

Renata Giarola

In her free time, she writes about the brain, love, longevity, suffering, and the human condition.

Rhonda Magee

Rhonda V. Magee (M.A. Sociology, J.D.) is Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco, and is an internationally-recognized thought and practice leader focused on integrating Mindfulness into Higher Education, Law and Social Justice. Rhonda recently published her first book, The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming our Communities Through Mindfulness (September, 2019) A student of a wide variety of Buddhist and other wisdom teachers, including Joan Halifax, Norman Fischer and Jon Kabat Zinn, she trained as a mindfulness teacher through the Oasis Teacher Training Institute of the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness. She teaches Mindfulness-Based Interventions awareness and compassion practices from a range of traditions. In October 2019, she received the Garrison Institute’s Insight + Impact Award.