Keynote & Plenary Speakers

We are honored and excited to have the following keynote speakers at our conference.

Daniel Foor, PhD

Daniel Foor

Daniel Foor, PhD is a teacher and practitioner of practical animism who specializes in ancestral and family healing and in helping folks learn to relate well with the rest of life. His keynote theme will be Ancestral Healing Fundamentals: Toward Psychological, Cultural, and Ritual Proficiencies for Responsible Engagement with the Dead. His recent ancestors are settler-colonialists to Pennsylvania and Ohio from England, Germany, and Ireland. He is a doctor of psychology, marriage and family therapist, amateur naturalist, life-long student of earth-honoring traditions, and the author of Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing. Since 2005 Daniel has guided ancestor-focused ritual in eight countries, and he is now training others to guide psychologically grounded and ritually effective ancestor-focused healing. His approach is non-dogmatic, kind, and rooted in an ethic of social and earth justice. Daniel lives with his wife and daughter in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, traditional homeland of Cherokee peoples. He is honored to offer the keynote address at the 2020 conference. For more information see ancestralmedicine.org.

Lisa Iverson

Lisa Iversen, MSW, LCSW, has been a facilitator of Systemic and Family Constellations for 21 years and psychotherapist for 27 years. Her keynote theme will be In the Shadows of History: Influence of Collective Movements on Constellation Fields of Practice. Lisa's work integrates ancestral prayers, shamanically infused indigenous wisdom, and western-based, systemic knowledge, weaving teaching into all aspects of her work.

Her first book, Ancestral Blueprints: Revealing Invisible Truths in America's Soul (2009), reflects on the relationship between ancestry, psychotherapy, colonialism, slavery, and democracy. A frequent conference presenter, her Tedx Talk (2015) promotes consciousness of inherited American individual-collective trauma and grief. Lisa’s programs include Family Matters, Whiteness Is Not an Ancestor, and BOB + BART, co-developed with organizational psychologist Kate Regan.

She is stewarding a collection of essays written by white women disentangling the role of whiteness & trauma bonds in their lives & lineages. "The Place of Whiteness in Our Lives," will be released summer of 2020. Raised in a Midwestern farm family, she lives with her husband & daughter in the Pacific Northwest where she directs the Center for Ancestral Blueprints. http://www.ancestralblueprints.com.

Lisa Iversen

Joe Nunziata

Joe Nunziata is a best-selling author, business consultant, professional speaker and life coach. His keynote theme will be Spiritual Selling: How to Use the Attractor Sales System to Create Success in Your Business and Life. He has been delivering his life-changing message at events and seminars since 1992. His enlightening programs are a unique blend of spirituality, psychology, philosophy and the power of internal energy. Joe teaches that to make permanent changes you must clear your negative energy and break destructive patterns of behavior at the core level. This transformational process creates new energy and beliefs designed to help you achieve sustained, positive growth in all areas of your life. He has appeared on many television and radio programs including Good Day New York and Street Talk on Fox TV, Gaiam TV, Cablevision News 12, Better TV, The Braveheart Network and various radio stations across the country. Books include: Chasing Your Life, Karma Buster, Spiritual Selling, Finding Your Purpose and No More 9 to 5. Other programs include: Change Your Energy Change Your Life, No More Mental Barriers, Connecting to Your Spirit and The 7 Keys to Transformation.

Jane Peterson, PhD

Jane Peterson, PhD, draws upon a broad intellectual background, from chemistry to the fine arts, from shamanism, NLP and hypnotherapy to cognitive neuropsychology, somatics, trauma, and attachment theory.

Her keynote theme will be Climate Change and Constellations: How Can the Past Guide Us Through an Uncertain Future? She has a PhD in Human and Organizational Systems and is a certified INFOSYON Master Trainer. She has taught systemic constellation work in several countries and served for 9 years as on the faculty at the Systemic Constellation Intensive in Germany. She founded the Human Systems Institute in 1999 and continues to teach and consult. In 2016, she and her husband established Olmstead Road Permaculture Farm near Portland, Oregon USA.

Jane Peterson

Sarah Peyton

Sarah Peyton, constellations facilitator, Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication and neuroscience educator, integrates constellations, brain science and the use of resonant language to heal trauma with exquisite and warm gentleness. Her keynote theme will be Dissolving Unconscious Contracts with our Family Line. She teaches and lectures internationally, is a regular contributor to The Knowing Field International Constellations Journal is an annual guest speaker and teacher at the ISCA Intensive in Germany and is the author of the book “Your Resonant Self: Guided Meditations and Exercises to Engage Your Brain’s Capacity for Healing." She is currently at work on a second book, commissioned by W.W.Norton, on the relational neuroscience of the unconscious contracts that constellations so often let us disentangle.

Elena Veselago

Elena Veselago is a leading Russian constellations facilitator, leader and organizer of the Russian professional constellation community. Her keynote theme will be Teen Suicide: Combining Russian and American experience. Having started her study of constellations directly with Bert Hellinger, Elena then continued her education with the most important international constellations masters. She studied with 28 masters from Germany, the Netherlands, the USA, Australia, and other countries, including professionals who offer shamanic training. Elena is a regular presenter at international professional conferences in Europe, the USA, and Australia. She is also an organizer of the largest constellations conference in Russia, “The Open Field.” Combining deep sensitivity to the knowing field, good knowledge of systemic laws, and access to great resources of both humanity and nature, Elena created her own style of doing constellations, as well as developed a correspondent vocabulary of definitions along with techniques that serve their integration

Elena Veselago