Greg Johnson

Greg Johnson is the executive director of the Community Health Foundation (CHF), the parent organisation of Concord Institute. In 1970, he began studying macrobiotics with Michio Kushi, the foremost educator and authority on macrobiotics. Macrobiotics, the ancient art and science of health and longevity, was reintroduced in the West with a distinct Oriental flavour by Nyoichi Sakurazawa in the 1950s and by several of his disciples, Herman Aihara and Michio Kushi, in the 1960s. In 1973, Greg encountered the transformational work of Werner Erhard, who had developed a group process intended to bring contextual awareness to our life situation.

In subsequent years, including 10 years in Japan, he sought the opportunity to integrate these two bodies of work into a single cohesive educational curriculum. Seeing these as expressions of a major reconciliation of mind and body and East and West, his search came to fruition in 1994, when he received word of the potential closing of a leading macrobiotic educational organisation in London, the Community Health Foundation, due to the loss of their director and a dire financial situation. After reviewing his proposal, the trustees of the organisation hired him as their director, opening the way for a major reinvention of the educational curriculum that has guided the organisation for the past 13 years.

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Tom Monte

Tom Monte has written more than 30 books and many hundreds of articles on virtually every area of health and well-being. His latest book, Unexpected Recoveries: Seven Steps to Healing Body, Mind, and Soul When Serious Illness Strikes (St. Martins Press) reports the common characteristics among people who have overcome life-threatening and even so-called "terminal" diseases. Unexpected Recoveries includes many remarkable case histories of people who recovered their health after doctors told them that such a recovery was impossible. The book provides a wealth of practical and inspirational guidance. It is a comprehensive guide to body, mind, and spiritual transformation.

For the past twenty years, Tom has lectured and provided in-depth transformational workshops throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan. Among the many places where Tom has lectured are Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and the University of Massachusetts, in Amherst. In May 2005, he was the keynote speaker for the American Cancer Society's Living with Cancer Conference in Augusta, Maine.

www.tommonte.com

David Norris

Dr. David Norris began his professional life as an academic in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. After spending two years in Berlin on a Fulbright Fellowship to research his doctoral dissertation, which he completed in 1971, he became an Assistant Professor at City College of New York. In that same year, he participated in a 2-weekend programme called the EST Training (which later became the Landmark Forum). Three years later he resigned his professorship, shifted his life direction and began a 20-year period on the EST staff as a manager and then as an EST Trainer (later Landmark Forum Leader). During those 20 years he immersed himself in the principles and practices of individual transformation as well as learning the craft of leading courses for small and large groups of people. He led EST and Landmark programmes world-wide, including in India, Australia, most of Western Europe, the Middle East and throughout the USA and Canada. This gave him the opportunity to explore deeply the nature of human being in many different cultures and thereby to discover the differences between what is essentially human and what is primarily on the surface, that is, the cultural identity. After leaving Landmark, he changed life direction again and began working with corporations as a management and organisational consultant, exploring the dynamics of transformation in complex non-linear systems. He also began a course of study in the human emotional body. In his words: “I’ve had two major educations in my life: one was Columbia University, where my intellect was formed; the other was EST/Landmark, where my understanding of transformation was developed. And now I’m in the middle of my third education, where I’m learning to trust and be led by life.”

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Michael Rossoff

Michael has been involved in macrobiotic and natural healing for 35 years. After studies with Michio Kushi in the ’60s and ’70s, he directed various macrobiotic centers in the Washington, D.C. area for 20 years. In addition to teaching and counseling, he published a macrobiotic magazine, MacroMuse, for 7 years in the 1980s. Further, Michael has taught in many cities in America, Canada, Europe and in Israel. He continues to travel for teaching and counseling in the U.S. (most frequently to the Washington, DC area) and Europe.

He studied acupuncture in England in the 1970s and has practiced continuously since 1978. He did further studies for the entire year of 1999. Michael was the academic dean and a core teacher at Atlantic University of Chinese Medicine outside of Asheville, North Carolina for three years. He maintains a private counseling and acupuncture practice plus teaches occasionally in other cities. Further, he teaches Shiatsu Massage regularly at the N.C. School of Natural Healing in Asheville. He remains an inspiring teacher and healer.

www.michaelrossoff.com

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