Lesley Carmack, MS
Lesley received a Master of Psychology in Adult Counseling at Kansas State University. She is a graduate of the Army “Organizational Effectiveness Center and School” at Fort Ord, California. While living in Seoul, South Korea, she studied Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture at the Sudong Medical Clinic. Other trainings include Bio-Energy Healing and Transpersonal and Integral Psychology approaches.
Her work has been informed by a lifelong study and practice of psychology, counseling, science, and healing, to support mind-body-spirit health, healing, and the evolution of human consciousness. Her clairvoyant, intuitive analysis, and healing intervention have been scientifically documented through research studies.
Through Carmack and Carmack LLC, she and her husband, Jim Carmack, co-created and co-facilitated workshops for the military, small businesses, medical facilities, emergency systems, and more on team building, conflict resolution, stress management, organizational effectiveness, strategic planning, and organizational development. Workshops were geared toward enhancing human system potential and elevating individual empowerment alongside group interdependence. Together, they authored instructional textbooks which have been used throughout military services.
As co-owner of Heart-Mind Communications, a counseling and training company based in California, Lesley developed and facilitated international seminars and consulted with medical practices on mind-body-spirit health within the fields of complementary and integrative medicine. These seminars bridged Eastern and Western approaches that focused on Inner Technologies including meditation, applied spiritual practices, and subtle energy healing orientations.
Lesley was a chairperson of the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energy and Energy Medicine (ISSEEEM) conference in 1999, with keynote speakers such as Stan Groff. She has presented for the IONS Conference, the University of 7 Rays Conference, ISSEEM, and the Federal Government.
Lesley co-authored Radiant Awakening: Humanities Transformational Journey, along with Ruth Eichler, MSW. The book has been described by Jean Houston as, “a Mystery School offering training and inspiration for seekers who prepare themselves to be making a difference in both inner and outer worlds.” Lesley continues to support emergent consciousness as a member of the Elmer E. and Alyce M. Green Foundation.
http://www.awakeningheartmind.com
785-817-9136
lesheartmind@msn.com
Karen Malik, MS, MFT BCIA
Karen holds a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology and is licensed in the State of California as a Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT #42895). She is a retired Senior Fellow with the Biofeedback Certification Institute of America and Biofeedback Practitioner (#863). She is a certified Holoenergetic Practitioner (energy healer) and received her Certificate in Psychedelic Assisted Therapies & Research from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in 2017.
Karen has served on the board and is past president of the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energy and Energy Medicine (ISSSEEM), an organization devoted to increasing dialogue among clinicians, healers and the scientific and medical communities as well as documenting and giving scientific credibility for subtle-energy applications. She also serves on the board and is past president of the Cross Cultural Studies Program (CCSP), a nonprofit organization that supports the preservation and cross-cultural understanding between indigenous and modern cultures. She Co-Chaired the Council Grove Conference in the year 2000.
Karen worked with The Monroe Institute (TMI) from 1977 – 2013. She is one of TMI’s original trainers. For over 36 years she played a key role in the overall development of TMI and its programs in expanded states of awareness and the exploration of consciousness. During her tenure she served as Director of the Western Division of The Monroe Institute, Director of the National Coordinators Program, Director of Development, Ambassador at Large and was Senior Residential Facilitator.
Karen’s work in the consciousness field extends both nationally and internationally. As a Transpersonal Guide, Mentor and Therapist, she works with both individuals and groups who are interested in the fulfillment of their personal and spiritual potential. She has had the honor of studying with and receiving teachings from many spiritual teachers, Native American elders, and contemporary leaders in the consciousness field as well as the complementary/mind-body healing arts. She is also a long-time student of A.H. Almaas’ The Diamond Approach.
www.karenmalik.com
785-817-9136
karenmalik333@gmail.com
Jeff Nichols, MD
I grew up in a rural Kansas community, the oldest of two brothers to middle class parents. I graduated as a valedictorian of a high school class of 40. I attended the University of Kansas on a variety of scholarships, graduating with honors and majoring in mathematics, chemistry, and microbiology. I was aiming toward teaching and research in molecular biology, but a dream convincingly directed me away from that path. I studied biochemistry in Germany on a grant and then joined the Peace Corps, teaching microbiology at the University of El Salvador.
Internal guidance directed me to the University of Kansas School of Medicine, where I received my M.D. During that time, I developed an interest in the human potential movement and spent time at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, learning about myself and alternative forms of healing. I also met and married Josie Norris, M.D., after medial school I completed a year of training in psychiatry and then returned to California for further exploration. Returning to Kansas, I began private practice and working in the Voluntary Controls Program at the Menninger Clinic with Elmer and Alyce Green and others.
I became the medical director and remained there until Menninger began its move to Texas. During that time, Josie and I had six wonderful children, and I have learned more from parenting than any other process in my life. With several other members of the Voluntary Controls Program, I left Menninger to form the Life Sciences Institute of Mind-Body Health in Topeka.
Also, the way I also learned Chinese Medicine and acupuncture, nutrition, and family systems therapy. I also began meditation training with Shinzen Young and have continued to practice and attend periodic retreats. Josie and I separated and divorced and continued to cooperate in raising our children. I moved my practice to Lawrence and broadened it to Complementary Medicine to include the other modalities I had learned. I met and married Jill Mickel and together we have nine children and seven grandchildren.
Elmer requested that I assume the role of financial power of attorney in the years before his death with the specific request that I help him remain at home until his transition and that I help establish a foundation to continue the energy and teaching to which Alyce and he had devoted so much of their lives. In this capacity I worked with Elmer to fulfill those goals. After the initial formation of the Elmer and Alyce Green Foundation, other members of the Board have assumed greater responsibility and done more of the work.
For the last twenty five years, I have lived on nine acres between Lawrence and Topeka, surrounded by greenery and with my wonderful wife, Jill. Since my retirement from medical practice, my interests are music, meditation, gardening, attending to my own aging body, supporting family and friends, and remembering how blessed my life has been and is.
785-817-9136
jeffsnichols@embarqmail.com
Sarah Bremer Parks, MS, LCP
Sarah is a licensed clinical psychotherapist and life skills coach at Synergy Systems Associates in Topeka, KS. She assists individuals seeking to enhance stress management and self-regulation skills, as well as improve overall well-being. Sarah seeks to create safe space for individuals to navigate religious, spiritual, and other transpersonal experiences.
Following graduate school at Emporia State University, Sarah completed her internship at Family Service and Guidance Center. She then joined the staff at The Menninger Foundation and Clinic in Topeka, KS, where she conducted her master’s thesis in Clinical Psychology on sex differences in psychophysiological reactivity. At Menninger, Sarah was hired as a research assistant by Dr. Steve L. Fahrion for an NIH-funded investigation of nonpharmacological interventions for essential hypertension.
Sarah furthered her professional training at Menninger studying and providing individual psychotherapy, group psychotherapy, biofeedback training, and psychophysiological psychotherapy. She provided clinical services in the Biofeedback and Psychophysiology Center under the supervision of Patricia Norris, Ph.D. and worked on inpatient teams addressing Eating Disorders, Trauma Recovery, and with pediatric populations. She participated in Elmer E. Green’s Copper Wall research project within Menninger’s Voluntary Controls Department. Together with her husband, Peter A. Parks, she worked with the administration of The Council Grove Conference for a decade, an initiative originally established in 1969 by Alyce and Elmer Green and others dedicated to the science of consciousness.
Sarah taught undergraduate courses in stress management at Washburn University and graduate seminars at the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry. She served as President of the Biofeedback Society of Kansas (BSK), as Co-Chair of the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energy and Energy Medicine (ISSSEEM), and as a Board Member for the Center for Environmental and Subtle-Energies Medicine Studies, Inc. (CEEMS), among other nonprofits. She is excited to serve on the board of The Elmer E. and Alyce M. Green Foundation. Sarah is an experienced speaker at national, regional conferences and community events. Her professional and transpersonal interests are rooted in Love and in the process of facilitating self-awareness of conscious and unconscious parts of the psyche and body to realize one’s own unique human potential.
Synergy Systems Associates
785-817-9136
sarahbp@cox.net
Peter A. Parks, PhD, LCP, BCIA-CN
Dr. Peter Parks earned a Bachelor of Science degree from University of Memphis with a major in Psychology and minor in Fine Arts. He received two (2) Master of Science degrees from Emporia State University with focus in Counseling Psychology and Art Therapy. He was then employed at The Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas under the direct supervision of Elmer Green, Ph.D. Dr. Green, founder of the Council Grove Conference on Consciousness Studies (1969-2024), was Dr. Parks’ mentor, teacher, and professional collaborator. Dr. Green helped Dr. Parks recognized the importance of exploring uncharted waters in an effort to better understand the impact of forces of nature on human physiology and human consciousness.
As researcher, clinician and executive skills coach, Dr. Parks has devoted his professional life to an exploration of naturally occurring rhythms embedded in activities of healthy living. Bridging academic and experiential learning approaches, he embarked on a life-long journey to understand and overcome blocks to creative expression. Learning to embrace paradox, tolerate ambiguity, resist premature closure and develop an “observer perspective,” his passion for understanding the larger challenges facing science and humanity have dominated his thinking in recent years. His current research efforts focus on gravitational field effects as reflected in the domains of electromagnetic fields and human consciousness.
Dr. Parks utilizes psychophysiologic self-awareness training as a tool that offers access to an experientially potent, person-centered, perceptual frame of reference, which promotes mental, emotional, and physiologic flexibility. As a naturalistic observer, he utilizes technological advances to assist in understanding naturally occurring environmental rhythms of nature. With a growing interest in historical perspectives, Dr. Parks has developed an observational strategy which holds promise to increase our understanding of synchronized rhythms of nature and their potential role in answering some of the most elusive questions in the history of modern science
Synergy Systems Associates
785-817-9136
peterparks@cox.net
Bowen F. White, M.D.
Bowen F. White, M.D. combines the talents and expertise of a physician, speaker, consultant, and author. He travels the world conducting seminars, consulting and speaking to public and private organizations.
In 1983, Dr. White founded the Department of Preventive & Stress Medicine for Baptist Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri and the Department of Wellness and Health Promotion before leaving to pursue a private practice and a career as a consultant and speaker. He has given hundreds of keynote addresses and some highlights of his consulting experience include a six-month team building project at NCAA headquarters, three years as corporate medical consultant to the Hazelden Foundation, multiple presentations for Medtronic, Inc. (including their Medtronic Leader program), has been the graduation speaker for MFS leadership training programs, multiple presentations for the Institute for Management Studies, lectured to graduate students at Stanford University on play, design thinking and innovation and worked with the Kansas City Royals on performance enhancement.
As an organizational physician he is interested in the “people piece” of the workplace puzzle: Creating Healthy Work Environments, Team Building, Leadership, Well Being, Performance Enhancement, Stress, Managing Change, Ethics, Sales and Communications. His programs emphasize the need for individuals to take responsibility for their own health and well being as he helps organizations create suspiciously healthy workplaces and homes.
Dr. White’s training programs, seminars, keynote speeches, management retreats, executive mentoring and spouse programs have had an immediate, practical application for such diverse organizations as: Duke University Medical Center, Association for Play Therapy, Hallmark Cards, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, DuPont, 3M, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, AVEDA, Association of American Medical Colleges, New York Life Insurance, Federal Reserve Bank, Beth Israel Hospital, Mercury Marine, Inc., the Foreign Service Institute, MFS, Ameriprise Financial and the Georgetown University Law Faculty.
His message is international. In addition to presentations throughout the US, he has presented at conferences in Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Germany, Austria, India, Ireland, Scotland, Spain, Panama and Israel. He has spoken to educators, managers and the aviation industry in the UK (London, Manchester, Edinburgh), and to staff members stationed at the U.S. Embassy in Budapest, Hungary.
The International Management Center in Budapest asked Dr. White to share his expertise with managers studying their emerging market economy. He has also discussed aspects of executive training and quality programs with industrial managers in Osaka, Japan.
In addition to appearing on the front page of the Wall St. Journal and on national television programs such as CBS This Morning, Desmond Morris’ The Human Animal and the PBS series The Promise of Play, Dr. White is often interviewed by radio, television, newspaper and magazine journalists. Most recently he was interviewed at his home by CNN on the topic of play and relationships. He has eight years of experience as a weekly TV health commentator for Kansas City’s CBS-TV affiliate and also had a three-year stint writing a weekly newspaper column, entitled “Patient Potential,” for the Kansas City Business Journal.
Dr. White is married with four daughters. He contributes his time to The Gesundheit! Institute and is a founding board member for the National Institute for Play. He is the author of two books: Why Normal Isn’t Healthy and with John MacDougal, A Clinician’s Guide to Spirituality. In addition, he created two audio series: The Cry of the Heart and Dr. White’s Complete Stress Management Kit.
Bowen White MD
Stress Technologies
816-7210857
bowenwhite.com