Presenters
We’re excited to feature a variety of presentations at this year’s Holistic Teaching and Learning Conference.
Curious about something or someone specific? This list is alphabetized by last name.
| Featured Presenters | Session Titles |
| Jack Miller | Featured Speaker and Panelist, and Teaching with Grace |
| Marni Binder | Featured Panelist |
| Tobin Hart | Featured Panelist and The Embodied Mind: Knowing, Learning and the Body |
| David Marshak | Featured Panelist and Inviting Youths to Claim the Power of Their Imaginations |
| Prapapat Niyom | Featured Panelist (Roong Aroon School + Arsomsilp Institute of the Arts) |
| Bruce Novak | Featured Panelist, and Why Holistic Education Is Now the World’s Deepest, Geo-logical Necessity |
| Andrea Purcell | Featured Panelist (Big Picture Learning) |
| David West | Featured Ceremonial Leader and Panelist |
| Session Presenters | Session Titles |
| Emily Belcastro | The A (affirm) R (relate) O (options) Method- A Holistic and Social Emotional-Based Approach to Conflict Resolution |
| John Bickart | Intuitive Education |
| Tom Browning | Cultivating Equitable Beliefs with Core Reflection |
| Amy Chapman and Arlène Casimir | Awakened Schools: How to Create a Spiritually Supportive School Culture |
| Jessica Coles-Black | Creating and Keeping an Empathic Environment–The Holistic Way |
| Rupert Collister | Holistic Teacher Education: In Search of a Curriculum for Troubled Times – Lessons for wholeness and hope |
| Paul Condon and Stasie Maxwell | Recovering the Relational Starting Point of Meditation |
| John Creger | Make Your Classes Lively with an Arc of Self-Discovery |
| Katie Doering | Walking Alongside The Grieving |
| Susan Howson and Stacey Drew | Love, Peace, and Harmony Practices and Meditation: Transforming the Frequency and Vibration of a Classroom for Student Success |
| Heather Hutton | Social Emotional Learning in the Elementary Music Classroom |
| Tamara James-Wyachai | Looking In, Looking Out: Developing Roong Aroon International School |
| Sunnya khan | Transfiguration through Expressive/ Intuitive Writing |
| Younghee Kim, Rebecca Tree, and Paula Lynam | Play for Spiritual and Soulful Connections |
| Andrea Laubstein, Camden Vancil, and Robin Ann Martin | Living and Learning at Roong Aroon School in Thailand |
| Jing Lin, Denise McHugh, and Amanda Fiore | Incorporating Contemplative, Holistic Learning and Being into Higher Education for a Peaceful and Sustainable World |
| Bob London | The Mystery of Spirit: Implications for Secular Education A holistic approach to mathematics education; a curriculum of nonroutine problems |
| Michael Maser | Personal Ecolography Surveying (Students) to Better Personalize Pedagogy |
| Tom McGuire and Christopher Nye | Case Studies of Highly Successful Schools that Educate the Whole Child |
| Haley Moore | Music and Mindfulness |
| Haley Moore and Ali Smith | Team Building in Your Classroom: Activities for All Ages |
| Ayako Nozawa | Finding Hope in Connection During Pandemic: Connection Practice for Children and Educators in USA, Japan, and South Africa |
| Nick Ordeson and Michele Pavilionis | The Connection Circle Experience |
| Annie O’Shaughnessy | The Power of Restorative Practices in Holistic Education |
| Renee Owen | Transforming Our Colonial Structures into Living Systems |
| Michele Pavilionis | Connecting Native American Studies and Outdoor Adventure Leadership with Holistic Education |
| Margaret Perrow and Jay Schroder | Teach from Your Best Self |
| Tom Peterson and Jeremy Surry | Reclaiming Annoying and Defiant Students |
| Giovanni Rossini | Narrative, Wisdom and Artful Contemplation |
| Angela Stoltz, Rico Newman, Sher Ayers, Kyle Harmon, and Peter Brooks | Decolonizing Educational Practices Through Interconnected, Whole Body Learning Aligned with Indigenous Knowledge Systems |
| Laurel Tien, Renee Owen, Paul Freedman, and Sarah Grulikowski | Visioning for The Holistic Education Review (HER) |
| Lisa Tucker | Flourishing in the Holistic Classroom: A Spiral Model for Teaching and Learning |
| Maria Vamvalis | Holistic Climate Justice Education as an Educational Imperative |