Joan Z. Borysenko, Ph.D., has been described as a respected scientist, gifted therapist, and unabashed mystic. Trained at Harvard Medical School, she was an instructor in medicine until 1988. Currently the President of Mind/Body Health Sciences, Inc., she is an internationally known speaker and consultant in women' health and spirituality, integrative medicine and the mind/body connection. She is the author of nine books, including New York Times bestsellers.Gordon Dveirin, Ed.D., is president of Dveirin & Associates, a consulting firm in organizational and human development. Dr. Dveirin is currently strategic architect of the Nurturing Pedagogy Project? three-year national demonstration project involving the National Network for Educational Renewal and the Passageways Institute. In 2004, he co-founded the Claritas Institute for Interspiritual Inquiry and its Interspiritual Mentoring Program, based on a lifelong interest in mindful inquiry and approaches to Presence.