Dr. Allen Levy—psychologist, licensed social worker, interfaith minister, and seasoned meditation teacher—reflects on modern psychoanalysis, couples therapy, group therapy, and meditation while relating those activities to the much larger context of the evolution of human consciousness.

At the end, Dr. Levy leads a brief, powerful meditation.

Freelance writer Gary Miller, Creative Director of Writers for Recovery, draws
people deeper into their life experiences and relationships with each another with
7-minute, open-ended writing exercises where "there is no way to do it wrong."
For eleven years, participants in Vermont Recovery Centers, Vermont prisons, and
as far away as Ireland and the Dominican Republic, have grown in recovery
through the love and humor in this program.

Guest Aviva Okrent shares her fascinating background as
she describes what drew her to her current work as a life
coach and how she goes about doing it, which is with
relentlessly curiosity and attention to the whole person
and their relationships.

Guest Gregory Tatro is a co-founder and the Senior
Director of Mission and Impact at Jenna's Promise, a 9-
to 18- month residential program in Johnson, VT that
prepares persons in early recovery from substance use
disorders to ultimately merge into communities with the
skills and confidence they need for employment and daily
life. Gregory shares how the tragic overdose death of his
sister Jenna, and how the community responded, gave
rise to this nationally recognized program of stigma
reduction, hope, and action.

Consultant and trainer Dr. Tabitha Moore encourages us
to appreciate our own humanity, including our personal
place in history and culture. Also appreciating the
humanity of everyone else, and their place in history and
culture, has huge benefits, including taking racism out of
race relations.

Dr. J. Scott Rutan, a psychologist who spent decades
training group psychotherapists, shares how he taught
therapists to create safe spaces where people could be
honest and vulnerable enough to get out of their own way
and into mutually rewarding relationships. You don't need
to be a therapist to enjoy and learn from this.

Trainer, facilitator, and instructional designer Jess Sneed
is headed to Boston Medical Center to train community
professionals in screening and brief intervention for
harmful and risky substance use. Jess also is helping
develop Macro Motivational Interviewing (Macro MI),
which promotes beneficial changes not only in individuals
but also in systems around them that make change
difficult.

Clinical psychologist, researcher, author, and group
psychotherapist Dr. Cheri Marmarosh describes how
therapy, especially group psychotherapy, heals trauma
from past relationships and helps people express who
they are and cope with who they are with.