Betty Alice Erickson is a licensed professional counselor, and marriage and family therapist in private practice for over 25 years in Dallas, TX and an International teacher of Ericksonian psychotherapy and hypnosis. Her published works include New Lessons in Hypnosis, and chapters in numerous books, as well as articles in various professional journals. Recipient of an honorary Ph.D., from the Republic of Armenia Ministry of Education and Science in 2012, she has also received numerous awards and honours including the first Bi-Annual Award: Premio Internazionale Franaco Granone Award given by the Centro Italiano di Ipnosi Clinico-Sperimentale in October 2003, Milton Erickson Gesellschaft (Institute) (MEG) Prize for Excellence in Teaching and Promoting Ericksonian Hypnosis and Psychotherapy in October 2001. She is an Honorary Member of the Swedish Society for Clinical Hypnosis and an Honorary Member of the Milton Erickson Gesellschaft of Germany (MEG). Bradford Keeney, Ph.D.

, is an internationally renowned spiritual teacher, shaman, traditional healer, creative therapist, and improvisational performer. As a fieldworker, Keeney has been called "the Marco Polo of psychology and an anthropologist of the spirit" by the editors of Utne Reader. He spent over a decade travelling the globe, living with spiritual teachers and healers who trusted him to share their words with others - modern cultures in need of elder wisdom. The result of Keeney's work is one of the broadest and.