"The love that unfolded was incredible!!  Thank you for being part of the healing process of and for Africa."

Karambu L. Ringera, PhD is the founder and President of International Peace Initiatives (IPI), an organization that supports grassroots organizations and leaders throughout Africa. IPI programs include the AIDS Orphans Education Fund and the Women's International Grassroots Peace Congresses. A native of Kenya, Karambu recently completed her Ph.D. in International Communications at the University of Denver. She holds two Masters degrees from Natal University in South Africa, and the Iliff School of Theology in Colorado. Karambu convened a Women’s International Grassroots Peace Congress in Nairobi, Kenya in August 2005 that attracted over 200 people from Africa, Asia, Seychelles, Taiwan, Canada, and USA. She is organizing another IPI Women’s International Grassroots Peace Congress to be held in Kenya in August, 2007. She is also running for Parliament in 2007 (the only woman with 14 male opponents) and representing North Imenti, a region of 400,000. www.ipeacei.org and www.karambu.com

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“This workshop had many aspects that would benefit this country [South Africa] greatly.  I think it can be used by individuals to reconcile with many different aspects of their lives -- racism, sexism, and unfinished business of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.”

Nomfundo Walaza, MA is the executive director of Desmond Tutu's Center in Cape Town, South Africa. She is a clinical psychologist who has worked in the human rights field for 15 years. She served for 11 years as Executive Director of the Trauma Centre for Survivors of Violence and Torture in South Africa, where she focused on empowerment and healing for victims of trauma and violence, many of whom suffered severely at the hands of the Apartheid government. Nomfundo is passionate about women’s issues, and restoring the dignity of those who have suffered as a result of human rights violations and abuses. She is concerned about escalating violence toward the most vulnerable citizens including children, the elderly and disabled. “In order to help my country heal from the legacy of segregation and discrimination, I believe it is critical to address racism, sexism, and homophobia and their impact on the lives of South Africans today.”

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“I was deeply moved and changed, and am profoundly grateful for the whole experience. I see more about how I re-enact dysfunctional gender scenarios, despite my conscious commitment to change. Satyana Institute’s vision [of gender reconciliation] is unique, and uniquely valuable to the world.”

Peter Rutter, MD, is a psychiatrist and Jungian analyst practicing in New York City. He has been deeply involved in gender justice and reconciliation work over the past two decades through his clinical work, his service as a mediator and expert legal witness, and his books — Sex in the Forbidden Zone — and — Understanding and Preventing Sexual Harassment. — His chapter, “Reasonable Woman/Reasonable Man: The emergence of a modern archetype of gender equality in political life,” in the book —The Vision Thing: Myth, Politics and Psyche in the World,— describes the way in which values such as equality can evolve, from their source in the psyche and spirit, into new justice-oriented cultural standards.  He has served as faculty for the Satyana Institute’s Gender Reconciliation program, and as a board member of the San Francisco Zen Center and the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco.

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Guest faculty in past events have included:

Mahnaz Afkhami, former Executive Director of the Sisterhood is Global Institute and founding president of Women’s Learning Partnership, author, Women in Exile

Sherry Anderson, senior author of The Feminine Face of the Divine and co-author of The Cultural Creatives.

Carol Flinders, author of At the Root of This Longing: Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger with a Feminist Thirst

Judith and Robert Gass, organizational consultants, teachers, and trainers
Andrew Harvey, spiritual teacher and author of many books including The Direct Path, Son of Man, and Rumi: The Way of Passion.

Diane Haug, MA LPCC Senior trainer, Grof Transpersonal Training, Co-founder of the Austin Center for Attitudinal Healing

Christopher Kilmartin, co-author of The Pain Behind the Mask

Ravi Ravinda, author of Science and Spirit and the Yoga of the Christ

Paul Ray co-author of The Cultural Creatives

Laura Sewall, author of Sight and Sensibility

Brian Swimme, cosmologist, author of The Universe Story, 2000.

Richard Tarnas, author of Passion of the Western Mind

Lucia Pavia Ticzon, former Chair of the Board, Global Fund for Women, leading feminist activist, 2000-2001.

Anne Yeomans, Co-Founder of The Women’s Well: Women’s Spirituality Program