Debra Oliver
Debra Oliver is a life-long student of the Ancient Wisdom. She entered the Arcane School at the age of nineteen. She studied Gurdjieff with J.G. Bennett at the International Academy for Continuing Education, Sherborne, Gloucestershire, England, and pursued further studies with Torkum Saraydarian, Agni Yoga and the work of Lucille Cedercrans.
Debra, founder of Common Ground Mediation Services, has been a mediator and trainer since 1989. She has served over ten thousand clients and trainees in the US, Nepal, and Russia. While serving a variety of businesses, non-profits, and state agencies, she also specializes in Restorative Justice. Debra has worked with law enforcement agencies and municipalities, providing training and community dialogue services especially in response to community crises.
Lyrata Barrett
Lyrata has been student of the wisdom for 42 years.She studied the Shamanic and Mystical pathsincluding the Western Occult tradition with herteacher Shakmah Winddrum and associatedteachers. Through world travel doing spiritual workshe became aware of cultures and humanityworldwide. Lyrata began teaching and advising 15years ago, holding meditation circles and full andnew moon meditations, ceremonial rites and givingclasses. Lyrata presently gives classes in theWisdom online and is working on a podcast calledLet’s Talk Change for The Institute for Global Transformation. Completed Lucille Cedercrans Nature of the Soul and Teaching Training 1 & 2, and is going through the Arcane School.
Jonathan Eveleigh
Jonathan is a practitioner and student of the Ageless Wisdom—Science of Consciousness. His career over 30 years in IT and process development led him to work in numerous organisations including Cern, Geneva and the JET Fusion Project, Oxford. He lives a Permaculture lifestyle and has been a Trustee of the UK Permaculture Association. He is co-founder of a People's Council community development initiative in Portugal, is administrator for several spiritual groups promoting inter- group cooperation and concepts for empowering humanity in this transition period.
Martha Gallahue
Martha Gallahue is an ECOSOC Representative at the UN for URI and co-coordinator for URI UN with Audrey Kitagawa. She focuses on the achievement of 2030 SDG Agenda in the NGO Committee Finance for Development, a substantive UN Committee within CONGO. At the UN, she promotes universal ethics, Global Movement for the Culture of Peace, interfaith harmony, and the UN Spiritual Caucus. She is a clergy Leader with the American Ethical Union.