Thought-Leaders
There are many amazing individuals who have and who are contributing to the study of aging. It is our honor and privilege to highlight some of them on this website. Stay tuned! We will be adding more each week. As of now the list is up to 35+. So much insight, sensitivity, experience and know-how!
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Maya Angelou
Poet, Activist
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Valerie Andrews
Journalist
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Hannah Arendt
Political Theorist
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Sr. Wendy Beckett
British Religious Sister
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Jean Shinoda Bolen
Psychiatrist, Author, Speaker
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Bob Chapman
Business Leader
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Pema Chödrön
American Buddhist Nun
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Gene Cohen
Psychiatrist
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Stephen Covey
Educator, Author, Speaker
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
American-Hungarian Psychologist
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Joan Erikson
Artist, Author, Educator
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Wilda C. Gafney
Bible Scholar, Professor
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Marie de Hennezel
Psychotherapist, Author
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James Hollis
Licensed Jungian Analyst
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Gordon D. Kaufman
Theologian, Professor
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Helen Luke
Author
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Mechtilde of Magdeburg
Author
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John O’Donohue
Author, Priest, Philosopher
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Erving Polster
Veteran Teacher, Author
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Ira Progoff, PhD
Psychotherapist
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Carl Rogers
Psychologist, Author
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Richard Rohr
Priest, Author
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May Sarton
Poet, Novelist
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Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Rabbi
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Edwin S. Shneidman PhD
Clinical Psychologist
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Kathleen Dowling Singh
Practitioner, Speaker
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Teresa of Avila
Spanish Carmelite Nun
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Virginia Woolf
Writer
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Additional Thought-Leaders
- Valerie Andrews
- Maya Angelou
- Hannah Arendt
- Angeles Arien
- Mary Catherine Bateson
- Jean Shinoda Bolen
- Sr. Wendy Beckett
- Robert Butler
- Julie Cameron
- Bob Chapman
- Joan Chittister
- Pema Chödrön
- Gene Cohen
- Stephen Covey
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- The Dalai Lama
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Peter Drucker
- Joan Erikson
- Piero Ferrucci
- Victor Frankl
- Wilda C. Gafney
- Joan Halifax
- Marie De Hennezel
- Charles Garfield
- James Hollis
- Susan Jacoby
- Carl Jung
- Gordon D. Kaufman
- Thomas Keating
- Dilgo Khentsye
- Helen Luke
- Gabriel Marcel
- Abraham Maslow
- Mechtilde of Magdeburg
- John O’Donohue
- Erving Polster
- Ira Progoff, PhD
- Karl Rahner
- Otto Rank
- Carl Rogers
- Richard Rohr
- May Sarton
- Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
- Edwin S. Shneidman PhD
- Kathleen Dowling Singh
- Florida Scott-Maxwell
- Cindy Spring
- Teresa of Avila
- Phyllis Tickle
- Lars Tornstam
- David Whyte
- Virginia Woolf
- Irving Yalom