Nkem, Farzana, Cheryl, Andrea, Thomas & Alex
Nkem Ndefo MSN, CNM, RN, is the founder of Lumos Transforms and creator of The Resilience Toolkit. She is a skilled practitioner, dynamic speaker, and valued strategist. She is known for her unique ability to connect with people of all types by holding powerful healing spaces, weaving complex concepts into accessible narratives, and creating synergistic and collaborative learning communities that nourish people’s innate capacity for healing, wellness, and connection. Find out more at https://lumostransforms.com/team/nkem-ndefo/.
Farzana Khan is the Executive Director and Co-founder of Healing Justice London (HJL) Her practice works on building community health, repair and self-transformation rooted in disability justice, survivor work and trauma-informed practice working with communities of colour and other marginalised and underrepresented groups. Find out more at https://farzanakhan.net.
Dr Cheryl Grills is a Clinical Psychologist with a current emphasis in Community Psychology. A tenured, Full Professor in the Psychology Department, she has been on the faculty of LMU for 34 years and is Director of its Psychology Applied Research Center. A national Past President of the Association of Black Psychologists, Dr. Grills also founded Imoyase Community Support Services, a 30-year non-profit organization providing action research, program evaluation and strategic technical assistance to social justice and social service community-based organizations. Find out more at https://bellarmine.lmu.edu/psychology/research/parc/ourteam/cherylgrillsphd/.
Andrea Nakayama is an internationally known functional medicine nutritionist, educator, and speaker who is leading a movement to transform the health industry into a system that works, empowering patients and practitioners alike with the systems and tools of functional nutrition. Find out more at https://www.fxnutrition.com/about-andrea/.
Thomas Hübl was born in Vienna, Austria, and studied medicine for several years before abandoning his studies to spend four years in retreat, devoting himself to meditation. This led to a fundamental and revelatory opening, and in the years since then, Thomas has become known internationally as a modern mystic and spiritual teacher whose work integrates the core insights of the great wisdom traditions with the discoveries of contemporary science. Find out more at https://thomashuebl.com/.
Alex Howard is the founder of Conscious Life, and co-host of the world leading Super Conference series. He is also founder of The Optimum Health Clinic, one of the world’s leading integrative medicine clinics, which has a team of 25 full time practitioners supporting thousands of patients in 50+ countries. Find out more at https://www.alexhoward.com.
