Alejandro Agudo
Alejandro Agudo is a bilingual translator (Spanish/English) and is a co-translator for the IANDS published book, The Self Does Not Die. The Spanish title is El No Yo Muere. Alejandro is a researcher, writer, and videographer in Madrid, Spain. He is especially interested in the Near-Death experience, and other similar experiences. Alejandro is the interviewer for the new Spanish NDE video with Ingrid Hansen-Garcia Honkala, PhD.
PMH Atwater, LHD
P. M. H. Atwater, L.H.D. had three near-death experiences within three months in 1977. The following year, she turned to research and became one of the original in the field of near-death studies, having now completed 18 books on the subject. Some of her findings have been verified in clinical settings, among them the prospective study done in Holland, published in Lancet Medical Journal (12-15-01). Her work covers nearly 5,000 adult and child experiencers. She has been given many awards, traveled the world – always inviting people to look beyond what they think they know.
Rebecca Austill-Clausen, MS-OTR
Rebecca Austill-Clausen is an Occupational Therapist, Reiki Master Teacher, author, and inspirational speaker. She has extensive experience in after-death communication, shamanism Reiki, meditation, sound healing, automatic writing, and crystal energy. After 20 years, Becky finally gained the courage to share her STE journey, sold her large rehabilitation business, and published the award-winning book, Change Maker, How My Brother’s Death Woke Up My Life. Rebecca was honored to be the Healing Room Coordinator for the 2019 IANDS Conference in Philadelphia. She is presenting a 7 week LIVE online one day a week course on techniques to increase after-death communication this October.
Tricia Barker, MFA
Tricia Barker experienced a profound near-death experience during her senior year of college. Her near-death experience story has been featured on I Survived: Beyond and Back and covered in National Geographic. Tricia’s memoir, Angels in the OR: What Dying Taught Me About Healing, Survival, and Transformation tells a story of her near-death experience, teaching mission, and eventual triumph over trauma in her past. The book also focuses on the importance of being of service to the world. Tricia is a graduate of The University of Texas. She also received her MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. Currently, she teaches English and Creative Writing in Fort Worth, Texas.
Chris Batts
Chris Batts is an author and motivational speaker who had a near death experience that happened after a suicide attempt. He experienced a distinct lack of love and care in his childhood years. In his book Boom – The Life and Times of a Suicide Near Death Experiencer, Chris goes in detail about his life, what led up to his suicide attempt and how his life has changed thereafter. He was taken to the spiritual realm and experienced telepathic thoughts from God and told “Yes, I am. God, Yes I am real, Yes, angels are real. They are a gift from me.” Chris felt pure love from God and was overwhelmed because he didn’t believe in any of this before. He then met many angels including two, who were oddly “familiar” – and is still in continual contact with them to this day. They guide his understanding of the spiritual realm and how it works. One of Chris’s strongest missions is to get the word out about suicide prevention. Many people who go through dark times and depression don’t realize how much they are loved. God’s message to Chris was: to “Go and Tell Everyone that I Love them.”
Mary Jo Bulbrook, CEMP/S/I, DEd, HTCP, ICF
Mary Jo Bulbrook is an expert in multi-dimensional health and healing, a master practitioner/specialist and teacher of family care and energy modalities including Energy Medicine, Healing Touch, Energy Psychology and Transpersonal Studies. She has taught psychiatric mental health nursing worldwide and communicates between realms of living, before, during and after life.
Maggie Callanan, RN, Kelvin Chin, JD, & Kitty Edwards, MA
Maggie Callanan: RN with 25 years “hands on” experience in the care of the dying in Hospice. Author of the award-winning, “Final Gifts”. Simultaneous 30 yrs experience as writer, speaker, expert witness and consultant on End of Life Care issues.
Kelvin Chin was a test subject in the first medical studies on meditation done in the U.S. in 1971. Kelvin teaches on video conference and in-person — to 28 countries so far. Kelvin Chin has been meditating for 49 years, teaching it for 46 years, and has had many experiences “piercing the veil.”Kelvin experienced near-death in the ocean at age 20. His clients are diverse, from age 4-94, the healthy to the emotionally or mentally challenged, and the fullof-life to end-of-life. He teaches a meditation technique called “Turning Within.” His clients report relief from panic attacks, PTSD, anxiety, better health, faster healing, and balanced spiritual and psychic abilities. Kelvin is the author of the best-selling Overcoming the Fear of Death: Through Each of the 4 Main Belief Systems — a non-religious approach to the 4 Beliefs that underlie all religious and cultural beliefs. He uses these principles to help people reduce and eliminate their fears of death. He has taught in healthcare and universities, is a graduate of Dartmouth, Yale, and Boston College Law School, has lived in 8 countries and currently resides in Los Angeles, California. He is the Executive Director and Founder of the Overcoming the Fear of Death Foundation and the “Turning Within” Meditation Foundation.
Kitty Edwards’s childhood near-death experiences introduced her to the world beyond death. She has studied with wisdom keepers on three continents, learning various methods to cross the threshold of death in service to herself and others. In her private practice as an Ayni Energy practitioner, Kitty helps those confronted by death find the courage to release their fears. Kitty is an author of many articles on the use of rituals to prepare for death as a rite of passage. Mythic and energetic rituals deepen our understanding of the psychological and emotional closure needed in the dying process. Kitty is the Executive Director of The Living & Dying Consciously Project, a non-profit organization that offers workshops in Conscious Transitions: Living with Dying and Conscious Caregiving. She is the co-founder of the No Regrets Project and Conversations on Death in Boulder, Colorado where she works from home in these unusual times.
Sandra Champlain
Sandra Champlain conducts an internet radio show, lectures, and has authored a #1 International Best Seller, “We Don’t Die – A Skeptics Discovery of Life After Death”, and documentary “We Don’t Die”. She is co-host of “Diamond in their Own Backyard” radio show.
Caroline Chang, Nell Rose Foreman, Nancy Regan & Rosemary Ringer
Caroline Chang is the Producer and Host of Awake 2 Oneness Radio, Founder of The KYLE Foundation (Keep Your Light Expanding), and Co-Founder of Universal Oneness Alliance. She was inspired by her inner Spirit guidance six months after the transition (passing) of her son to launch her show and found a non-profit foundation in her son’s memory. The mission of Awake 2 Oneness Radio and The KYLE Foundation is to inspire the world to awaken to the Universal Truth of Oneness. Science and Spirituality are teaching us we are literally all connected, we are all ONE and when Humanity awakens to this Truth there will be peace on earth. Caroline is also the former producer for Xpnsion Network, Global Oneness Day 2017, and Living in Oneness Summit. She is the former Executive Assistant to the Director of Humanity’s Team, a non-profit organization founded by Neale Donald Walsch, author of the Conversation with God bookseries. The mission of Humanity’s Team is also to Awaken the world to Oneness.
Nell Rose Foreman lost her beautiful 23-year-old son Jack to a horrific 9 month battle with Glioblastoma, an insidious brain cancer that began just after he graduated from college. Shortly after his transition, she started getting signs from Jack. Previous to Jack’s death, Nell Rose was a resiliency coach. She created a process using a blend of conscious and subconscious work that includes mindfulness, neuroscience, psychology, and ancient wisdom to successfully allow people to achieve what they want. Now she is using this same process to help herself to survive, heal and thrive after child loss. She feels traditional thinking of grief focuses on disconnection, and after receiving several signs from her son, it has challenged her own beliefs and now she is working towards connection with him.
Nancy Regan, an aerospace engineer, is a leading authority on Reliability Centered Maintenance. She took a five-year hiatus from her career to care for her mother with advancing Alzheimer’s. Little did she know that the experience would culminate in a Spiritually Transformative Experience (STE) that helped transform her consciousness and brought her the three greatest gifts of her life – gifts that are helping her achieve her life’s purpose.
For 20 years, Rose Thornton (Rosemary Ringer) enjoyed a national reputation as an expert on old houses. The author of nine books, Rose has been featured on everything from PBS’ “History Detectives” to BBC Radio. In 2016, her husband committed suicide and two years later, Rose was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. After a “routine” medical procedure, Rose bled to death. In heaven, she was told that if she agreed to return to earth, she’d be restored to wholeness. Subsequently, medical tests affirmed that not only had the disease disappeared, but she was also healed of the crippling grief.
Christine Clawley, MA, LPC & Robin Richardson, MMH, LMHC
Christine Clawley: After a near-death experience in 2008, my personal values, perspectives, and life direction were permanently altered. I began experiencing heightened intuition, synchronicity, as well as increasingly vivid dreams. I started searching out other worldviews and techniques that could help explain and help me better understand these experiences. In 2012, I began studying Carl Jung, who emphasized the importance of dreams, the collective unconscious, and synchronicity. I completed my studies at Pacifica Graduate Institute in 2015 and became a licensed professional counselor in 2018. My professional work has led to work with a diverse population in a variety of settings, including homeless shelters, hospitals, prisons, and community mental health centers.
Robin Richardson is a licensed psychotherapist who practices in Sarasota, FL. She is a National Board-Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist at the fellow level who utilizes music, sound, and light in her counseling practice to help facilitate healing for her patients. She is also a Clinical Certified Trauma Specialist, Clinical Family Trauma Specialist, and has knowledge and use of RRT and EMDR. She is also is an ordained minister with the Cosmic Church of Spiritual Light, and a lifelong student of metaphysics, religions, and the ancient perennial wisdom teachings. Her three children are the highlight of her life.
Diane Corcoran, PhD, RN
Dr. Diane Corcoran obtained her PhD in Nursing from the University of TX at Austin in 1981. At that time she was also serving as an Officer in the U. S. Army – with a career that lasted 25 years. She heard her first NDE account from a young soldier. In 1981 a new organization was incorporated and is now known as the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS). Diane has served on the Board of Directors numerous times and this includes many years as President. She helped facilitate research conducted on the reality of events which we now know as Near-Death Experiences (NDEs). Diane now has her own consulting firm and that young soldier in Vietnam — he had told Diane about his NDE before there was a name for these type experiences. Diane is currently listed in Wikipedia.
Janet Crawford, RN, DNP
Janet Crawford has six degrees and six board certifications; over 42 years as a Critical Care Nurse, EMT Level 1 ER tech, ICU at age 20, 12 years as a Flight Nurse, Directing Life Fighting helicopter programs, Director of ICU’s and ER’s. Janet is a greatly sought after conference speaker both nationally and internationally. She has talked to and resuscitated many NDEr’s.
Elaine Drysdale, MD
Dr. Elaine Drysdale, BA (Psychology), MD, FRCPC (Psychiatry), is a Clinical Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at U of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Her major focus has been to help people with life-threatening illnesses cope with their medical, psychological, social, and spiritual challenges, and she has taught for thousands of hours the staff and patients at medical and psychiatric wards, emergency departments, and in palliative care and hospice settings. She has been the Psychiatric Consultant to the Leukemia/Bone Marrow Transplant Programme of B.C. for over 25 years; was on staff at the BC Cancer Agency for 25 years; and has been a consultant in Palliative Care. She co-led a weekly group for 6 years for women with terminal cancer, as part of a research study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, and felt honoured to give eulogies at many of the funerals. She has taught about NDEs for over 25 years to seriously ill patients afraid of dying, to bereaved family members, to depressed patients feeling a lack of purpose in their lives, and to health care professionals. She believes that especially during the Covid pandemic, we can all use the wisdom from “Near Death Experiences” to give hope to so many who are grieving or frightened of dying.
Norma Edwards, DDiv
Rev. Dr. Norma Edwards is a Near Death Experiencer, a recognized Change Agent, Spiritual Therapist and Certified NLP Life Coach. She is an expert at merging spiritual orientation into clinical practice. Dr. Edwards is the Founder and Director of Reprogram Your Life, a Talk Show host and Motivational Speaker. A Wisdom Keeper on the planet she is noted for her work in the fields of re-alignment, Rites of Passage and Life Coaching at its very best. She is perpetually open to Divine guidance. Dr. Edwards is married with five children, eight grandchildren and presently lives with her husband in the Carolinas.
Ali Ghasemian, PhD
Ali Ghasemian received his Bachelor’s in biomedical engineering and Master’s in psychology from Isfahan University, Iran, and his PhD in psychology from Chamran University of Ahvaz, Iran. Since 2017, he has worked as a couples therapist and Imago therapist in Isfahan, Iran. He is also active in research on NDEs. In particular, he has collaborated with colleagues to investigate and publish findings on NDEs among Shia Muslims in Iran. He is the founder of the first NDE community and online magazine about NDEs in Iran. Ghasemian currently resides in Isfahan, Iran, with his wife.
Suzanne Giesemann, MA
Suzanne Giesemann is a Messenger of Hope who shares The Awakened Way.
Brooke Grove, MA, MFT
Brooke Grove is a Near-Death Experiencer, intuitive guide, Spiritual coach, empathetic healer, wisdom teacher and writer in co-creation with Spirit. A former psychotherapist, Brooke has advanced degrees in Clinical Psychology, Marital and Family Therapy and Clinical Art Therapy. Additionally, Brooke has completed certifications in Transpersonal Psychology, Eco-Psychology and Meditation. Brooke’s background in the healing arts includes being a Reiki Master of a Shamanic-oriented lineage, Tera Mai Seichem. She maintains a private healing practice, wherein she specializes in teaching other experiencers and/or intuitives how to fully align, embody and ground their gifts. Brooke is a poly-trauma survivor and a certified Trauma specialist.
Ingrid Honkala, PhD
From the moment of her NDE at the age of two, Ingrid Honkala was aware of other dimensions of life than those most of us normally experience. She was also gifted with the wise input of “Beings of Light” who gave her invaluable insights and assistance as she faced the challenges of growing up and finding her professional destiny as an oceanographer. Throughout her life journey from her native Colombia to Europe and her eventual home in the USA — and from a deadly war zone to underwater explorations and a NASA research center — Ingrid teaches how any human experience can be illumined from within when we are tuned in with inner guidance.
Barbara Ireland
Barbara Ireland is author of the Amazon bestseller, “How To Stop Negative Thoughts: What My Near Death Experience Taught Me About Mind Loops, Neuroscience, and Happiness,” and contributing author to “The Transformative Power of Near-Death Experiences: How the Messages of NDEs Can Positively Impact the World.” She is a speaker and founder of The De-Looping Method that uses neuroscience to interrupt repetitive, negative thoughts (based on her NDE), and creator of the Blueprint For Magic method for conscious creating. Ireland trains individuals and corporations (Boeing and others) to stop worry, raise low self-esteem, and develop conscious creating (NDE-based workshops). She is also a musician, jazz singer, and avid hiker.
Pat Johnson & Chris Kito
Pat Johnson experienced an NDE as a result of a kayaking accident in 2010. Pat has been a self-employed businessman most of his life. He and his wife Jody own a furniture store and loan business in Brenham, Texas. They have five children and sixteen grandchildren. Since Pat’s NDE he has been an active member of IANDS. He was the leader of the Austin chapter of IANDS for two years. He is the cofounder of the newly formed Houston IANDS chapter. He was a key organizer of the “Wisdom of the Near Death Experience,” symposiums. He has been has been featured in several articles and television shows. Pat is a regular lecturer at Texas State University where he speaks on his NDE, the after effects of it and how students can use what he has learned to improve their lives.
At the age of 24, Chris Kito went into anaphylaxic shock from a food allergy and it lead him into a life changing Near-Death Experience, in 2012. He will be discussing the events leading up to the NDE, the NDE experience, the NDE event’s aftereffects upon him, and how he has been integrating the experience into his life, both personally and professionally. Chris will also discuss the opportunities and challenges of this life-altering event and how it affects individuals entering adulthood.
Lisa Jones & Paula Lenz
After a transformative shared-death experience, Lisa Jones expresses her passion for life by exploring death. Author of Art of Living Happy After the Loss of a Loved One: A Real-Life Awakening, speaker, and host of the Exploring Death podcast, she has had the privilege to work with groups and individuals, business leaders, entertainers, and fellow spiritual seekers. Lisa brings refreshing clarity and honesty to a challenging subject. She seeks to use her gifts to give encouragement, comfort, and inspiration to a culture that has hidden death and dying from view. You’ll be uplifted by her energy and touched by her warmth.
After a 40-year business career, Paula Lenz, now an author/speaker, is featured at conferences and on worldwide podcasts/YouTube. Her transformative experiences in Infinity with her deceased brother inspired her to help those who have lost loved ones. She now teaches her Oneness experience through her Meld Into Spirit Technique.
Genny Krackau, Rev. Bill McDonald & Tony Woody
Genny Krackau is a multiple spiritually transformative and out-of-body experiencer (STE/OBE), lecturer and author of a one of a kind combat neardeath-experience (NDE) book Beyond The Explosion, Stories of the Light. Genny personally relates to the near-death experiencer since she also had spiritual experiences since the age of nine. Genny is a life resident of San Antonio, Texas, military city USA. She spent the majority of her civil service career working in the U.S. Army Medical Department (AMEDD) and retired from the U.S. Army Medical Command, Fort Sam Houston, Texas. After her retirement she worked several government contract jobs within the AMEDD. Of special interest was a research study with wounded warriors for combat related injuries. Additional research included military and civilian burn injuries, supporting a clinical trial for head injury patients and hearing conservation research with the Department of Defense Hearing Center of Excellence. Her sincere dedication and compassion for the military and patients is well established by her numerous accomplishments and awards. She always put the patient first and foremost in any job she performed. By compiling these combat near-death experience stories, she once again is serving the military in a very unique and special way. Additionally, she has supported numerous IANDS conferences as a volunteer, as a featured panelist for the Military NDE Discussion Groups moderated by Dr. Diane Corcoran, and supported The Experiencer’s Lounge. She has been a guest on several talk radio programs and podcasts.
Rev. Bill McDonald was a Huey helicopter crew-chief/door-gunner in Vietnam. He was awarded The Distinguished Flying Cross, The Bronze Star Medal, 14 Air Medals, The Purple Heart Medal and other medals and ribbons. He had many STEs while in combat, as well as before and after the war including NDE-like experiences which he writes about in his books. He has been associated with around a dozen films, TV shows and videos including a PBS TV special called “The Art of Healing” and on the History Channel with the documentary “In the Shadow of the Blade”. He has authored several books that deal with his 3 NDE-like events and his many STEs.
Tony Woody is a US Navy Chief Petty Officer (ret.) with 22 years of honorable service as an Instructor Flight Engineer on the P3 Orion aircraft. In 1982 during an emergency landing the aircraft suddenly departed the runway at just over 135 knots (155MPH) and the plane narrowly missed slamming into a firetruck already sitting a mere one hundred feet off to one side of the runway. He realized that imminent death was only seconds away causing raw visceral terror in the moment and it triggered a spontaneous Out of Body Experience ((OBE). The OBE was later followed by a full blown Spiritually Transformative Experience (STE) that instantly placed Chief Woody in the direct Presence of an infinitely intelligent all powerful Supreme Being of living Light. The Light was expressing unconditional Love, Wisdom, Purity, Power, Perfection and much more while also pouring out eternal Life, Light and Energy on a Cosmic scale; all of It coming straight from the Unifed Heart Flame of that Mighty “I AM” Presence. Tony will talk about his own subsequent spiritual crisis and struggles caused by his profound life changing Experience in the Light.
William Letson
William (Bill ) J. Letson is a retired fire captain and forester of 35 years. He is the author of Full Contact Kundalini, a book about his Near Death Experience in 1994, where it eventually led, and what he has learned regarding the true nature of our earthly journey and our connection to an eternal higher consciousness of pure love. Bill lives in Atascadero, California with Lia, his wife of 40 years, along with their ranch cats, running dogs, and joyful egg laying hens. He likes to split his time between California and Costa Rica.
Anita Moorjani
In February of 2006, Anita Moorjani was on her deathbed. Having suffered from cancer for several years, Moorjani was in a coma with malignant tumors throughout her body. Doctors told her husband and mother that she had only hours to live. After coming out of a 30-hour coma, Moorjani emerged from an out-ofbody experience where she says she experienced the afterlife and gained a new understanding of our physical life. Medical records show that Anita was miraculously found cancer free within three weeks of her NDE. The lessons from her experience in the other realm were powerful: Love yourself unconditionally, live fearlessly, release your fears and be yourself. Surviving cancer and a NDE have shaped Anita’s life and work. She has since shared her story with audiences all around the world as a highly sought-after inspirational speaker. Anita will inspire you to transform your life by living more authentically, discovering your greatest passions, transcending your deepest fears, and living from a place of pure joy. You will feel energized as Anita explains such mind-bending concepts as timelessness, non-duality, and simultaneous realities, in such simplified terms that everyone will understand. You will experience many “aha” moments as she explains how by merely understanding and becoming aware of these concepts, and adopting an “inside out” view of the world, you can radically alter your reality instantly.
Mary Neal, MD
Dr. Mary Neal was the Director of Spine Surgery at the Univ. of Southern California. She is currently in private practice in Jackson Hole, WY. Mary has authored 2 New York Times Best-selling books about my NDE and its integration into my daily life. She is a sought after Keynote Speaker, and subject of many media events featuring her NDE including a late 2019 episode on Headline News/CNN on the subject of Near-Death Experience.
Jeffery C. Olsen
Jeff Olsen’s latest book, KNOWING outlines the lessons learned from his NDE, as result of a horrific automobile accident which took the lives of his wife and youngest son, also inflicting multiple life-threatening injuries to Jeff including the amputation of his left leg. Olsen is a bestselling author who inspires audiences internationally with his intriguing story of perseverance and inner strength.
Rev. Peter Panagore, MDiv
Rev. Peter Panagore was recruited to TV as the fifth minister of America’s oldest religious broadcast. Peter’s two-minute spot aired for 15 years just before the morning weather on NewsCenterMaine on two NBC stations reaching 80k viewers a day. Previously, Peter served in New England as a United Church of Christ minister. His Audible Best Seller, Heaven Is Beautiful, has been optioned for a film. His first book, Two Minutes for God, is a nondenominal devotional drawn from his 1700 TV stories. He is working on his third book build around his talk and provides mentoring to spiritual seekers worldwide.
William Peters,M.Ed., MFT & Michael Kinsella, PhD
William Peters is the founder of the Shared Crossing Project and director of its research initiative. He presents nationally on the topics of extraordinary endof-life experiences and conscious dying. William is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and trained at the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco. He is currently writing a book informed by his research with Dr. Michael Kinsella.
Michael Kinsella, Ph.D. is a faculty member at Central Michigan University and chief researcher for the Shared Crossing Testimonial Project. He has several publications that examine personal experience narratives of extraordinary phenomena. He is currently writing a book informed by his research with William Peters.
Suzanne Price, MA & Shawna Ristic, MA, TMB-BC
Suzanne Price is a spiritual teacher, research scientist, presenter and cultural anthropologist. Some have called her a visionary due to her persevering quest to bridge universal spirituality and the quantum sciences with a unique unifying approach, a journey inspired by spiritually transformative experiences that began in childhood. In this panel ,she will share with us how inner light and sound with encoded information are the keys to understanding and accessing our STE and NDE experiences. Enjoying a successful career in communications, public relations and marketing, Suzanne never dreamed she would become a scientist delving into physics and spirituality until one day the unusual happened. Suzanne is a sought-after speaker at the Tesla Tech conference in NM.
Shawna Ristic is a nationally renowned body therapist and intuitive healer. She had a Near Death Experience at the age of 19 and returned to life knowing that she was here to help people heal and find their way back to their home, to pure consciousness. With the assistance of a council of light beings she met while on the other side and hundreds of hours of academic and hands-on training, she has spent the last 23 years helping thousands of people integrate their experiences and access their true essence. After receiving a download from her council about our vibrational nature, she developed the Your Unique Vibration workshop series. Shawna works by phone and in person.
Kirsty Salisbury
Kirsty Salisbury is an Auckland, New Zealand, speaker, podcaster and coach who speaks straight from the heart. Her talks explore the topics of death, resilience, regrets, and how we can create opportunity through effective habits. She is engaging, inspiring and filled with passion in a way that connects at a personal level. Through her own story of overcoming death and paralysis, Kirsty is inspiring many people to make meaningful change in their lives. Kirsty is also the host of the podcast ‘Let’s Talk Near Death’, where she connects with guests to discuss life, death, and experiences in between.
Howard Storm
Howard Storm: BFA San Francisco Art Institute. MA & MFA University of California, Berkeley. MDiv United Theological Seminary. Professor of Art at Northern Kentucky University for 20 years. Served as Pastor in churches in Ohio and Kentucky for 30 years. Rev. Howard Storm is an author, artist, and pastor. His NDE account is riveting and profound.
Gregg Unterberger, MEd, LPC
Gregg Unterberger, M.Ed. is former Adjunct Faculty in Psychology at Texas State University, currently in private practice in the Austin,Texas area. He is the developer of Spiritual Activation and Transpersonal Breathwork, two breakthrough modalities that catalyze spiritually transformative experiences for ordinary people without drugs or years of meditative practice. His first book, The Quickening: Leaping Ahead on Your Spiritual Journey was widely anticipated and rushed to a second printing just months after its initial release. Unterberger presents internationally for Edgar Cayce’s Association for Research and Enlightenment and has touched the lives of millions through articles, workshops and his appearances at colleges, retreats and on local and national television.
Ann Charlotte Valentin, NMD
Dr. Ann Charlotte Valentin is an N.M.D., author, evidential medium, spiritual educator, and a dynamic speaker! She teaches workshops in Spiritual Development, Expanding Consciousness, Spiritual Embodiment as well as Psychic and Mediumship development. She has experienced two out of body near-death Experiences, NDE’s which led her to start medical school at age 54. Dr. Lotte captivates her audiences and inspire them to become the person they were born to be by moving from their mind to their heart. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona, where she operates Center for Integrative Medicine as well as her Spiritual Center, Divine Spiritual Essence.
Ellen Whealton, MA, MT-BC
Ellen Whealton is a board certified music therapist and energy healer with an MA in Transpersonal Counseling from Naropa University. Trained in GIM, Breathwork, Reiki, and Aroma-Release, she teaches how to “tap-in”. She hosts a spiritual-series on AwakeTV. Ellen’s approach stems from a head injury and subsequent NDE that gave her first-hand knowledge of the web of light available to us at all times. She has developed an approach combining transpersonal counseling, music therapy, singing bowls, aromatherapy, & GIM. She helps others connect with something greater, recognize untapped potential, and discover how to lead an inspired, content and harmonious lives.
Karen Wyatt, MD
Dr. Karen Wyatt is the bestselling author of the books The Tao of Death and 7 Lessons for Living from the Dying, which contains stories of patients she cared for as a hospice doctor and the spiritual lessons she learned from them at the end of their lives. Dr. Wyatt also hosts End-of-Life University Podcast, which features conversations with experts who work in all aspects of end-of-life care. She is widely regarded as a thought-leader in the effort to transform the way we care for our dying in the U.S. In addition, she is valued for her application of spiritual principles to illness and healthcare and teaches that in order to live life fully we must each overcome our fear of death and embrace the difficulties that life brings us. Karen’s journey into the realms of spirituality began with the suicide of her own father, after she had graduated from Medical School. Her compassion and loving-kindness is authentic, and experienced-based.
Honoring the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth, the World Health Organization has designated 2020 as the International Year of the Nurse. Nurses and other healthcare providers are uniquely positioned regarding the care of patients who have had near-death and related experiences. To meet their first ethical imperative to do no harm and to meet NDEr patients’ bio-psycho-socio-spiritual needs, nurses need to draw on particular knowledge and attitudes about these experiences. This two-part workshop will provide nurses and other healthcare practitioners with data regarding NDEs and similar experiences that has been compiled from experiencers, caregivers, researchers, and others touched by the phenomena. In Part 1, attendees will learn about the experiences themselves; their incidence and aftereffects; best practices in working with NDEr patients; and resources including those that IANDS provides. In Part 2, attendees will hear from and interact with professional healthcare providers with experience related to NDEs as they provide particularly instructive cases studies that illustrate application of the data provided in Part 1.
Drawing on my 40 years experience in Critical Care and Emergency Medicine, I describe Near Death experiences as heard from my patients, weaving into the presentation scientific research surrounding the Near-Death Experience. I help the healthcare professional or caregiver understand the impact these experiences have on their patients and loved ones, and how to create an environment in which to help them begin to make sense of the experience. By understanding these experiences, a change in the caregiver usually evolves.
Judith Mandalise is a multiple NDEr. She is a licensed professional counselor in private practice with children, adolescents and adults in individual and group settings. She is a former volunteer instructor with the American Red Cross as a ship nurse. Judith is experienced in pediatrics, intensive care and medical/surgical units, and a Specialist in Trauma Care. She is a patient advocate with Swedish Medical Center, Denver, CO.
This lecture and video report on the gap in care for Military Service Members and Veterans’ Near-Death Experiences (NDEs). Experiencers often endure physical and psychological changes after the event. Although large numbers of Veterans have had NDEs in the line of duty, most veterans’ care providers know very little about NDEs because professional training in this area is lacking. In addition, Veterans often hide their NDEs fearing that they will be misunderstood, misdiagnosed or ridiculed. NDEs may also be confused with Post Traumatic Stress or mental illness. Veterans who feel they must suppress their NDEs may experience depression, alcoholism, relationship problems, and other psychological issues. Validation of the NDE, support groups, and counseling may help. This workshop provides a definition for NDE, characteristics of NDEs, similarities and differences of PTS and NDE, and similarities and differences of NDEs and hallucination, as well as a brief protocol for care providers dealing with service members and/or Veterans or service members who have had NDEs.
When people dying slowly of a terminal illness are approaching death, they too often have remarkable experiences, as well as an expanded awareness. This is called NDA or Nearlng Death Awareness. These are the messages from those who are dying slowly. They teach us while they are dying because they can’t come back. Although the NDE and the NDA have many similar characteristics, there are profound differences. Understanding the differences and learning how to interact with the dying can help us identify and participate in the NDA while it is actually happening. This information is of vital importance for all critical care clinicians and for all – professional or lay persons who care for, or are close to someone who has had an NDE or to a dying person experiencing an NDA . Whether the dying is fast or slow. These are remarkable messages of peace, comfort and hope that can change our lives.
Experiencers, families and all health care professionals need to be informed about what experiencers are going through, their signs and symptoms including how to help them reintegrate, rebuild and renew after the experience. Help is needed for all affected – the experiencer, family members/friends, and health care professionals. Why? What we do or not do, can affect success with helping navigate the experience and prevent misdiagnosis with consequences of mistreatment. Lack of information and solutions can create and have done so, more and significant problems.
Honoring the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth, the World Health Organization has designated 2020 as the International Year of the Nurse. Nurses and other healthcare providers are uniquely positioned regarding the care of patients who have had near-death and related experiences. To meet their first ethical imperative to do no harm and to meet NDEr patients’ bio-psycho-socio-spiritual needs, nurses need to draw on particular knowledge and attitudes about these experiences. This two-part workshop will provide nurses and other healthcare practitioners with data regarding NDEs and similar experiences that has been compiled from experiencers, caregivers, researchers, and others touched by the phenomena. In Part 1, attendees will learn about the experiences themselves; their incidence and aftereffects; best practices in working with NDEr patients; and resources including those that IANDS provides. In Part 2, attendees will hear from and interact with professional healthcare providers with experience related to NDEs as they provide particularly instructive cases studies that illustrate application of the data provided in Part 1.
Drawing on my 40 years experience in Critical Care and Emergency Medicine, I describe Near Death experiences as heard from my patients, weaving into the presentation scientific research surrounding the Near-Death Experience. I help the healthcare professional or caregiver understand the impact these experiences have on their patients and loved ones, and how to create an environment in which to help them begin to make sense of the experience. By understanding these experiences, a change in the caregiver usually evolves.
Judith Mandalise is a multiple NDEr. She is a licensed professional counselor in private practice with children, adolescents and adults in individual and group settings. She is a former volunteer instructor with the American Red Cross as a ship nurse. Judith is experienced in pediatrics, intensive care and medical/surgical units, and a Specialist in Trauma Care. She is a patient advocate with Swedish Medical Center, Denver, CO.
This lecture and video report on the gap in care for Military Service Members and Veterans’ Near-Death Experiences (NDEs). Experiencers often endure physical and psychological changes after the event. Although large numbers of Veterans have had NDEs in the line of duty, most veterans’ care providers know very little about NDEs because professional training in this area is lacking. In addition, Veterans often hide their NDEs fearing that they will be misunderstood, misdiagnosed or ridiculed. NDEs may also be confused with Post Traumatic Stress or mental illness. Veterans who feel they must suppress their NDEs may experience depression, alcoholism, relationship problems, and other psychological issues. Validation of the NDE, support groups, and counseling may help. This workshop provides a definition for NDE, characteristics of NDEs, similarities and differences of PTS and NDE, and similarities and differences of NDEs and hallucination, as well as a brief protocol for care providers dealing with service members and/or Veterans or service members who have had NDEs.
When people dying slowly of a terminal illness are approaching death, they too often have remarkable experiences, as well as an expanded awareness. This is called NDA or Nearlng Death Awareness. These are the messages from those who are dying slowly. They teach us while they are dying because they can’t come back. Although the NDE and the NDA have many similar characteristics, there are profound differences. Understanding the differences and learning how to interact with the dying can help us identify and participate in the NDA while it is actually happening. This information is of vital importance for all critical care clinicians and for all – professional or lay persons who care for, or are close to someone who has had an NDE or to a dying person experiencing an NDA . Whether the dying is fast or slow. These are remarkable messages of peace, comfort and hope that can change our lives.
Experiencers, families and all health care professionals need to be informed about what experiencers are going through, their signs and symptoms including how to help them reintegrate, rebuild and renew after the experience. Help is needed for all affected – the experiencer, family members/friends, and health care professionals. Why? What we do or not do, can affect success with helping navigate the experience and prevent misdiagnosis with consequences of mistreatment. Lack of information and solutions can create and have done so, more and significant problems.
