Michael Bernard Beckwith is a world leader and teacher in the New Thought–Ancient Wisdom tradition of spirituality. He is the founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center, cofounder of the Association for Global New Thought, and the Season for Nonviolence, which are extensions of his vision of one human family united on a foundation of peace, based on the spiritual origin of every man, woman, and child.

Dr. Beckwith's renown as a harbinger of the world's quest for peace has drawn into his visionary orbit those whose names are synonymous with this goal. Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas K. Gandhi, shares with Dr. Beckwith the national co-directorship of A Season for Nonviolence. SNV promotes and teaches the principles of nonviolence embodied by Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and is endorsed by UNESCO on behalf of its Culture of Peace and Nonviolence Appeal by Nobel Peace laureates. Other notable supporters include Dr. C.T. Vivian, Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne of Sri Lanka, His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet, Coretta Scott King, and Dr. Robert Muller.

Dr. Beckwith is author of Inspirations of the Heart, Forty Day Mind Fast Soul Feast, A Manifesto of Peace, and Living from the Overflow.

Since early 1995 Denise Brown has traveled to various states speaking on the epidemic of domestic violence. She has addressed university student bodies, men in prison and in batterers' treatment programs, women at risk, church groups and various educational and legislative forums. Ms. Brown has helped raise funds for local shelters all across the country with her appearances, and has assisted in the success of a major project called the Vine System. This Program is an automated victim notification service of the release of batterers from jail or prison.

As part of her commitment, Ms. Brown has worked to help pass a variety of legislative solutions for domestic violence. One of her most important projects was to lobby on behalf of the Violence Against Women Act. Senator Arlen Spector of Pennsylvania contacted Ms. Brown and asked for her assistance on a portion of the bill that was being stalled in committee in the U.S. Senate. With a potential slashing of its federal allocation to domestic violence services, Denise Brown testified to the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee for increased funding for the Violence Against Women Act. After her testimony, that portion of the bill's funding was increased from eighteen million to thirty-two million dollars. U.S. Senators Biden and Hatch have cited Denise Brown as "having done more for the issue of domestic violence than any other individual."

Denise Brown has made a life-long commitment to educate the public as well as improve the quality of living for women and children who have been victims of domestic violence, She is determined to banish the darkness and end the silence.

Deepak Chopra is founder of The Chopra Center at La Costa Resort & Spa;  President of The Alliance for a New Humanity Chopra is known worldwide for his published works.

The author of more than 49 books and more than 100 audio, video and CD-ROM titles, he has been published on every continent, and in dozens of languages. More than twenty million copies of Deepak’s books have been sold in worldwide, and his best-sellers include The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence; How to Know God: The Soul’s Journey into the Mystery of Mysteries, Perfect Health; The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success and Grow Younger, Live Longer: 10 Steps to Reverse Aging  and The Path to Love. He also wrote the book, Peace is the Way.

Deepak Chopra's popularity as an international presenter and keynote speaker is exemplified in an impressive list of honorariums. As the keynote speaker, he appeared at the inauguration of the State of the World Forum, hosted by Mikhail Gorbachev and the Peace and Human Progress Foundation, founded by the former president of Costa Rica and Nobel Peace prizewinner Oscar Arias. He participates annually as a lecturer at the Update in Internal Medicine event sponsored by Harvard Medical School, Department of Continuing Education and the Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 1997.  Chopra has been a keynote speaker at several academic institutions including Harvard Divinity School, Harvard Business School, and Kellogg School of Management.  He is the recipient of the Einstein Award through Albert Einstein College of Medicine in collaboration with the American Journal of Psychotherapy.  Along with Nobel Peace Laureates Oscar Arias, Betty Williams and others, Deepak Chopra is a founding director of the Alliance for the New Humanity.  The Alliance for the New Humanity is committed to creating a critical mass of consciousness in the world for social justice, economical freedom, ecological balance and conflict resolution.  He regularly mentors corporate and political leaders through his Soul of Leadership workshops.

Acknowledged as one of the world's greatest leaders in the field of mind body medicine, Deepak Chopra, M.D. continues to transform our understanding of the meaning of health. Through his creation of The Chopra Center for Well Being in California in 1995, Chopra established a formal vehicle for the expansion of his healing approach using the integration of the best of western medicine with natural healing traditions. 

Jan A. Hartke is founder and Executive-Director of EarthVoice, a global environmental organization that is active in over 100 countries, empowering local partners and implementing model projects to promote humane, sustainable agriculture and protect the ecological life support systems of the planet. Mr. Hartke is Chairman of the U.N. Alliance for Sustainable Development and is a strong advocate for multilateral organizations and international financial institutions that protect the environment and promote sustainable development around the world. He was appointed by President Clinton to the Board of Directors of the Enterprise for the Americas – the most significant international environmental Board consisting of Cabinet Members and leading NGOs. Jan's father, former Senator Vance Hartke of Indiana, first introduced legislation to establish a U.S. Department of Peace in the late 1960's. His legislation had bi-partisan support.

Frances Henry is currently the Creator and Coordinator of the Global Violence Prevention Advocacy. Ms. Henry is organizing a coalition of scientists and practitioners of violence prevention spanning suicide, child maltreatment, youth violence, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, elder abuse, and collective violence.

Tricia Jones is a Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at Temple University. She has been involved in theory development and empirical research in the areas of conflict education curricula, the role of emotion in conflict and mediation processes, and the role of communication in negotiation.

Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich, a Democrat of Ohio, is a dynamic, visionary leader of the Progressive Caucus of the congressional Democrats who combines a powerful activism with a spiritual sense of the essential interconnectedness of all living things. His holistic worldview carries with it a passionate commitment to public service, peace, human rights, workers rights, and the environment. His advocacy of a Department of Peace seeks not only to make nonviolence an organizing principle in our society, but to make war archaic. He has been recognized for his advocacy of human rights in Burma, Nigeria and East Timor. On the eve of the World Trade Organization's Seattle conference, Rep. Kucinich organized 114 Democrats to help convince President Clinton to seek human rights, workers rights and environmental quality principles as preconditions in all US trade agreements. 

James O'Dea is the President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and a native of Ireland.  The Institute of Noetic Sciences is a non-profit membership organization founded in 1973 by astronaut Edgar Mitchell.

The Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) conducts and sponsors research into the potentials and powers of consciousness, including perceptions, beliefs, attention, intention, and intuition, and is committed to educating the general public about this research.  The Institute is dedicated to scientific rigor, open-minded approaches, diversity of perspectives and multiple ways of knowing.  It is not a spiritual sect and does not promote political causes.

James O’Dea joined IONS in April 2003. Previously, he spent ten years as the director of the Washington DC office of Amnesty International, where he testified before Congress, met with two U.S. presidents and numerous foreign heads of state and government leaders, and represented Amnesty International to the State Department, the White House, and the World Conference on Human Rights. 

Subsequently, he spent five years as executive director of Seva, a non-profit organization dedicated to international health & development issues in Latin America, Asia, and on American Indian reservations.  Seva is a Sanskrit word meaning service.

Lisa Schirch is an associate professor of peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University. Within the field of peacebuilding, she specializes in alternative security strategies, the use of media and the arts, development, human rights, women, rituals and ceremonies, civil-military relations, civilian peacekeeping and facilitating dialogue in identity-based conflicts. 

Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed author and lecturer. She has published nine books, four of which - including the mega bestseller A Return to Love and Everyday Grace - have been #1 New York Times bestsellers. Her titles also include Illuminata, A Woman's Worth, Gift of Change and Healing the Soul of America. She also edited Imagine: What American Could Be in the 21st Century, a compilation of essays by some of America's most visionary thinkers.

Marianne founded The Peace Alliance, a grass roots campaign supporting legislation currently before Congress to establish a U.S. Department of Peace.

Marianne's newest professional venture is her own radio show, airing on the new XM Radio block called 'Oprah and Friends'.

In December 2006, NEWSWEEK magazine named Marianne Williamson one of the fifty most influential baby boomers.