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Ellen Bakker

Episode: OQ20: Open voice, open heart, open mind with Ellen Bakker

Guest info: Ellen Bakker is a singer and vocal coach from the Nether­lands. Ellen’s mis­sion is to con­tribute to healthy, effec­tive and ‘happy’ vocal habits, for singers and speak­ers (f.i. teach­ers) alike. Being able to express our­selves well in the way of our choos­ing has a pos­i­tive effect on con­fi­dence and self-esteem and Ellen loves being part of that.

Home­page: Ellen Bakker

Leif Lindh

Episode: OQ19: Leif Lindh and his moose park

Guest info: Leif Lindh is the founder of Gård­sjö Moose Park in Heby, Swe­den, a place where every­one is guar­an­teed a chance to come close to a moose. Before any­thing else he is a vision­ary and a man who doesn’t like giv­ing up.

Home­page: Gård­sjö Moose Park

Emily White

Episode: OQ18: Lonely with Emily White

Guest info: Emily White is a for­mer lawyer who now works as a writer. She wrote LONELY after search­ing for a first-person account of long-term lone­li­ness. Being unable to find one, she wrote the book her­self. White now lives in Toronto, Canada, and is at work on her next book.

Home­page: lonelythebook.com

Dr David van Nuys

Episode: OQ17: A life of dreams with Dr Dave, Part Three

Episode: OQ16: A life of dreams with Dr Dave, Part Two

Episode: OQ15: A life of dreams with Dr Dave, Part One

Guest info: David van Nuys, Ph.D, is Emer­i­tus Pro­fes­sor of Psy­chol­ogy at Sonoma State Uni­ver­sity and served as that department’s Chair for seven years. He has also taught psy­chol­ogy at the Uni­ver­sity of Mon­tana, the Uni­ver­sity of Michi­gan, and the Uni­ver­sity of New Hamp­shire. He runs a mar­ket research con­sult­ing busi­ness, hosts  Shrink Rap Radio Psy­chol­ogy Pod­cast and Wise Coun­cil Pod­cast  and in 2001 co-authored the book, This is the Zodiac Speak­ing: Into the mind of a ser­ial killer, in which he pro­files the mur­derer in this famous, unsolved case.

Home­page: Shrink Rap Radio Psy­chol­ogy Podcast

Gözde Sütçü

Episode: OQ14: Heal­ing through art (EN)

Home­page: gozdesutcu.com

Ken McLeod

Episode: OQ13: Bud­dhism: What’s in it for me? (EN)

Guest info: Ken McLeod is a long time Bud­dhist prac­ti­tioner, teacher, trans­la­tor from Tibetan, author and founder and the exec­u­tive direc­tor of the non-profit Bud­dhist ser­vice orga­ni­za­tion The Unfet­tered Mind, which pro­vides instruc­tion, train­ing pro­grams and guid­ance in Bud­dhist meth­ods for being awake in your life.

Home­page: Unfet­tered Mind

Eric Maisel

Episode: OQ12: Mak­ing art, mak­ing mean­ing (EN)

Guest info: Eric Maisel, PhD., is the author of over thirty-five pub­lished books, both fic­tion and non­fic­tion. Some of the titles are: Coach­ing the Artist Within, Fear­less Cre­at­ing, The Van Gogh Blues, The Cre­ativ­ity Book, Per­for­mance Anx­i­ety, Ten Zen Sec­onds, A Writer’s San Fran­cisco, and A Writer’s Paris.His lat­est book is called Brain­storm: Har­ness­ing the power of pro­duc­tive obses­sions. His new book Rethink­ing Depres­sion is com­ing out in Feb­ru­ary 2012. Dr. Maisel gives work­shops for cre­ative pro­fes­sion­als both in the US and Europe and also works as a cre­ativ­ity coach and cre­ativ­ity coach trainer.

Home­page: ericmaisel.com

Mar­ian Voigt

Episode: OQ11: Mar­ian in 2011 (EN)

Brian Robert­son

Episode: OQ10: Sens­ing real­ity in the orga­ni­za­tion (EN)

Guest info:

Home­page: holacracy.org

Nicola Phillips

Episode: OQ09: Being with fear (EN)

Guest info:

Home­page: nicolaphillips.com

Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak

Episode: OQ08: Life eter­nal (Part 2) (EN)

Episode: OQ07: Life eter­nal (Part 1) (EN)

Guest info: Susanne is a biol­o­gist and founder of Promessa Organic as well as of the non-profit Pro­lif­era. Her pas­sion for gar­den­ing and com­post­ing com­bined with the engi­neer­ing expe­ri­ence lead Susanne to devel­op­ing the tech­nol­ogy of promes­sion, an ecologically-conscious mod­ern bur­ial method, that more and more peo­ple in the West find appeal­ing as it sup­ports life even after our death.

Home­page: Promessa Organic

Erica Hamil­ton

Episode: OQ06: Liv­ing well with a chronic ill­ness (Part 2) (EN)

Episode: OQ05: Liv­ing well with a chronic ill­ness (Part 1) (EN)

Guest info: Erica Hamil­ton, PhD., is a well­ness con­sul­tant, mind­ful­ness instruc­tor, Qigong instruc­tor and the founder of Mind-Body Well­ness. Erica is a long time Bud­dhist prac­ti­tioner and med­i­ta­tor. She now lives in Upp­sala, Sweden.

Home­page: Mind-Body Well­ness

Andy McLel­lan

Episode: OQ06: Liv­ing well with a chronic ill­ness (Part 2) (EN)

Episode: OQ05: Liv­ing well with a chronic ill­ness (Part 1) (EN)

Guest info: Andy McLel­lan, PhD., is a Bud­dhist dad liv­ing some­where in rural Eng­land. He divides his time between drink­ing tea, writ­ing haiku and think­ing deep thoughts although accord­ing to him the drink­ing tea mostly tends to win.

Home­page: Andy’s blog

Christina Boström

Episode: OQ04: Andas! Du lever. (SE)

Guest info: Christina (Kicki) Boström is a breath ther­a­pist resid­ing in Upp­sala, Sweden.

Home­page: Livselixiret

Franklin Veaux

Episode: OQ03: I love you! And you! And you! (SE)

Guest info: 

Home­page: morethantwo.com

Kirsten Holm

Episode: OQ02: Var inte rädd för mörkret! (SE)

Guest info: Kirsten Holm is the Danish-born musi­cian and artist, now resid­ing in Upp­sala, Sweden.

Home­page: rinn.se

Irina Alm­gren

Episode: OQ01: Intro­duc­ing the pod­cast (EN)

Guest info: Irina has the back­ground in teach­ing but always had a huge inter­est for how Inter­net tech­nolo­gies can help facil­i­tate exchange of ideas. She hosts and pro­duces pod­casts Open Ques­tions and CoachXpress.

Home­page: irinaalmgren.com