Daniel Bowling 
Mediator and ADR Program Staff Attorney for the US District Court for Northern California
more Co-editor and co-author of Bringing Peace into the Room: The Personal Qualities of the Mediator and their Impact on Conflict Resolution (Jossey-Bass, 2003). Daniel Bowling co-founded the first mediation organization in South Carolina, the Low Country Mediation Network. As Executive Director of SPIDR, he managed the merger among SPIDR, AFM, and the Conflict Resolution Education Network, and served as the first CEO of ACR. ACR is the US nation’s largest professional association for mediators, arbitrators, educators and other conflict resolution practitioners. ACR works in a wide range of settings throughout the United States and around the world.
He is working on a new book on Mindful Mediation.

Dana Curtis
Mediator, Attorney, Dana Curtis is a pioneer and leader in the Bay Area alternative dispute resolution (ADR) field
more She was among the first attorneys in the country to devote her career exclusively to mediation, beginning her full-time practice in 1991, before most lawyers could distinguish between mediation and other forms of ADR. Since serving for four years as a Circuit Mediator on staff with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Ms. Curtis has maintained her Sausalito-based practice, Dana Curtis Mediation.  The Los Angeles Daily Journal has recognized her as one of the 50 "Best Neutrals" in California.

Bruce Edwards
Mediator, Attorney, Founding partner of JAMS - The Resolution Experts^®, the largest business mediation organization in the U.S.
more Extensive expertise in handling complex, multiparty cases with emphasis on construction, business, employment, and traumatic personal injury matter
Recognized as a "Best Lawyer, Alternative Dispute Resolution Category," Best Lawyers in America, 2009
Mediated over 4,000 disputes throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico since 1986; disputes have involved a wide variety of legal issues including construction, personal injury, healthcare, employment, business, professional malpractice, mass tort, and insurance coverage 
Settled over one-half billion dollars in construction claims since 2001 in California, Nevada and Washington. 

Ulrike Gamm
Co-founder of Konfliktkultur-Kulturkonflikt, Organizational consultant, International management trainer
more Associate member of the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt (IFF Vienna)
Mediation research experience includes a study for the Austrian National Bank concerning education and development in the field of business mediation and a study for the Austrian Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour entitled “Business mediation for small and mid-sized enterprises in Austria” and the latest study on “Conflict costs in family enterprises”

Friedrich Glasl
Political science scholar and instructor, mediator, consultant and author of numerous professional articles and books on leadership, organization, and conflict management.
more Co-founder of “Trigon Entwicklungsberatung,” a change management consultancy; Conducts external and internal qualification training courses for conflict management and mediation; Conflict management, mediation in the political context, in business, and in non-profit organizations
Author of numerous professional articles on leadership, organization, and conflict management, as well as the essential works Conflict Management, Self-help in Conflict, and Dynamic Organizational Change.

Ilse Gschwend 
Educational therapist for systemic psychotherapy, responsible for the curriculum of training courses for supervision and systemic consulting
more Main focuses: team development, supervision, coaching, systemic constellations in the organizational and management context, large group facilitation, training courses for System Constellations in psychotherapy and consulting (Austria, Spain).
Psychotherapy for individuals and couples.

Bill Hartgering
A founding member of JAMS, Bill Hartgering established EnDispute’s Chicago office in 1982 that merged with JAMS in 1994. His practice includes the resolution of well over 1,000 complex matters more arising in 45+ states and foreign countries, training for DR practitioners, firms and governments in the US, Thailand, Hong Kong, Lithuania, and Latvia, and co-mediations with a sitting federal judge and a variety of experts.

Bill Hartgering taught negotiation and DR at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and the School of Law, and Thailand’s Thammasat University. He has particular expertise with intra family business/partnership, franchise, IT/intellectual property, environmental, healthcare, and insurance related issues in matters involving numerous parties, sensitive subject material or high emotion.

Peter Heintel
Professor of philosphy and Group Dynamics at the Institute of Philosophy of the Alpen-Adria-University of Klagenfurt; Vice Chancellor of the University of Klagenfurt from 1974- 1977. Professor emeritus since 10/2009
more Management consultant to numerous Austrian as well as international organisations and businesses; President of the Senate of the University of Klagenfurt from 2003 to 2005; member of the Institute of Intervention Research and Cultural Sustainability since 2001.

Brigitte Laemmle
Certified psychologist, family therapist ("Verein zur Förderung der Familientherapie und -beratung / VFT"), trainer for systemic therapy (DGSF). more Professional therapist for families and couples since 1971. Media advisor on psychological matters, various radio programmes since 1989. 1994 – live counselling show on national TV „Laemmle Live“. Co-Author of „Familienbande“ (family ties), „Laemmle-Live“, "Erklär mir deine Welt" (Explain your world to me).

Amoura Latif
Amoura Latif is an artist in the realm of Oriental Dance, having lived and worked extensively in the US, the Near East and Europe. more She presents workshops and projects internationally, including at such prestigious events as the annual Bolzano Dance Festival in Italy. Through her artistic direction, she has brought the dance to the theater in innovative productions. (Salam Orient festival 2011, Augenblick 2008, El Jameel 2005, Alwan el Shark, 2002..) and as a performer she joined the contemporary theater company Cabula 6 in site specific pieces ( Cafe Bonbon, Implulsetanz 2007 Crash Course (Tanzquartier Wien 2009) and the award winning community arts project Life on Earth - Macondo.

Recent project is ‘Dancing on the Nile’  a cultural and movement immersion experience in Luxor, Egypt, which she directs.

Amoura Latif is a certified instructor of the Heart Rhythm Meditation method which she combines with movement improvisational practices to deepen realization of our presence, uniqueness, possibilities and directions for change.

Thomas Macho
Cultural Scientist, Professor of Cultural Theory and History at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin
more He worked on the philosophy of music, on the metaphors of death and on issues in cultural history.
Thomas Macho co-founded the Hermann von Helmholtz-Centre for Cultural Techniques at the Humboldt-Universität and was spokesperson of the DFG-Research Group »Bild – Schrift – Zahl«.
Since 2009 he has been member of the scientific advisory board of the International Research Institute »Morphomata – Genesis, Dynamics and Mediality of Cultural Figurations« at the University of Cologne.
Thomas Macho is involved in the Cross-Sectional Group ‘Histories and Genealogies of Culture Theories'.

Mario Patera
Associate Professor at the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt (IFF), special field mediation; Co-Founder of Konfliktkultur-Kulturkonflikt
more Head of the Department for Intercultural Social Competence at the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt (IFF Vienna
Co-mediator for family and business mediation; Psychotherapist; Coach
University Professor for mediation at the Universities of Vienna, Graz, and Klagenfurt, at Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and at the Technical Universities of Vienna and Graz; Instructor at the Bern University of Applied Sciences and University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, Harvard Law School; Co-lecturer at Stanford University
Project leader of several research projects regarding business mediation, e.g. “Business mediation for small and mid-sized enterprises in Austria” and “Conflict costs in family enterprises”

Ulli Sanou
Is in charge of „beatfactory“ drumming school as well as a certified Feldenkrais® trainer. Her activities as a drumming and dance instructor are based numerous field trips to Mali, Burkina Faso, and Guinea, and on many years of stage-experience with Sanza and other groups. more
Drumming
It is virtually impossible not to be sucked in by the magic rhythms of drums – particularly when you yourself are drumming with a group of people. Ulli Sanou will be our guide when West African drums lead us into the exciting world of music, and she will make us familiar with the techniques and the do’s and don’ts of making music together. This hands-on approach guarantees an intense experience of time and time-rhythms.

Dancing
African dance movements convey energy and a zest for life. They are a mixture of spontaneous reactions to a variety of rhythms and traditional movements, which are being danced over and over again – in unique variations and emotions. Every single one of this dance steps is based on a simple, anatomically logical movement. Once the body has learned the priciple of such a movement, variations are easy to find.

Daniel J. Siegel
Worldwide known for his work in Interpersonal Neurobiology. He is clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine where he is on the faculty of the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development and the Co-Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center.
more Daniel J. Siegel is worldwide known for his work in Interpersonal Neurobiology and author of several books including The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being, The Developing Mind: Toward a Neurobiology of Interpersonal Experience and Parenting from the Inside Out, which he co-wrote with Mary Hartzell in 2003.
Siegel completed his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and his post-graduate medical education at UCLA. Dr. Siegel is currently clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine where he is on the faculty of the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development and the Co-Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and is the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute.
Siegel's most recent work integrates the theories of Interpersonal Neurobiology with the theories of Mindfulness Practice and proposes that mindfulness practice is a highly developed process of both inter and intra personal attunement.

Insa Sparrer
Psychologist, Co-founder of the SySt®-Institut, where she is teaching Systemic Structural Constellations (SySt®)
more She is working in the fields of therapy, consulting, mediation, supervision und teaching. She gives seminars in university courses, at teaching institutes for psychotherapy and teaching institutions for systemic consultation and coaching in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Hungary, Greece, Netherlands and England.
Insa Sparrer is author and co-author of many books and articles.

Godehard Stadtmueller
Medical doctor, Head physician, Specialist for neurology and psychiatry and as well specialist for psychotherapeutic medicine
more Head physician, responsible for private patients, studied medicine and philosophy in Munich and Montpellier.
Beside his education in depth psychological psychotherapy he worked as lecturer at an institute for behaviour therapy, has degrees in hypnotherapy and in bonding psychotherapy. After working at the Rheinische Landes- und Hochschulklinik in Essen, the Klinikum Munich-Bogenhausen and as senior physician of the Psychological University Clinic Freiburg  he changed his position in 1995 and went to Adula Klinik in Oberstdorf as the founding chief physician.
Lecturer at the Süddeutsche Akademie für Psychotherapie (South German Academy for Psychotherapy) and at the Centre for Integrative Psychotherapy in Munich.
Supervisor and lecturer at the Deutsche Fachgesellschaft für tiefenpsychologisch fundierte Psychotherapie DFT (German society for psychotherapy based on depth psychology), and founding member of the Conference of Directors for psychotherapeutic medicine in Bavaria. Among other tasks he worked as an adviser for the government of Südtirol for the establishment of a psychosomatic clinic.
Dr. Stadtmüller is authorized by the Bayerische Landesärztekammer (Bavarian chamber of doctors) to do professional training in psychotherapeutic medicine, psychiatry and psychotherapy, member of the Organizational Committee of EAP - European Association for Psychotherapy.

Matthias Varga von Kibéd
Professor at the Institute for Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Theory at the University of Munich, Co-founder of the SySt®-Institut
more Assistant Professor at the Institute for Medical Psychology at the University of Munich and at the Academy of Fine Arts
Professorships at the Universities of Munich, Vienna, Klagenfurt, Ljubljana, Graz, Konstanz, Maribor and Tübingen
Together with Insa Sparrer, created the “Systemic Structural Constellation”
Co-founder of the Institute for Systemic Education, Training and Research (SYST®) in Munich.

Caroline Welch Siegel
Legal expert and mediator, CEO of Mind Your Brain, Inc. and Executive Vice-President and General Counsel of MindSight Media, LLC.
more Caroline Welch Siegel studied at the University of Wisconsin Law School, University of Southern California (Speech Communication) and the University of Wisconsin (Psychology and Speech). Mediation of over 100 litigated cases, including intellectual property, employment, municipal and construction matters.
As Vice President of the Legal Division of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. she reported to the General Counsel and was responsible for managing corporate litigation and pre-litigation matters, representing company in judicial proceedings, drafting agreements and providing legal support to all departments.

Rebecca Westerfield
Founding member of JAMS and serves as President of RockRose Institute. Rebecca Westerfield has received numerous awards and recognition as a distinguished mediator and lectures at the law schools of University of California – Berkeley and Stanford University.more Business mediator at  JAMS - The Resolution Experts®, the largest business mediation organization in the U.S. Multiple honors as a mediator (e.g. recognized as a Best Lawyer, Alternative Dispute Resolution Category, Best Lawyers in America, 2008, 2009 and 2010, recognized as One of the Top Three Best Neutrals in the Bay Area, The Recorder, 2007, Top 40 California Neutral, Daily Journal, 2007 and 2008, One of the 500 Leading Judges in America,  2006)

Verena Winiwarter
Dean of the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies, Professor for environmental history, habilitation in human ecology, University of Vienna. more Member of the Commission for Interdisciplinary Ecological Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Research Fields of Verena Winiwarter are: Environmental history of agrarian societies, with particular interest in knowledge about soils in these societies, Environmental History of Austria, Theory and methodology of environmental history, Epistemology of interdisziplinary research.