Uploaded January 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Producer/Host Victoria VanAyerst
The Art of Conscious Living, The Search for Hope Parent/child discussion.
GUESTS:
Berenice Meza
Challengeday.org
A Challenge Day is a 6 1/2 hour experiential program, in which we send two of our highly-trained, passionate Leaders from the San Francisco Bay Area to your school to lead a workshop for 100 students (grades 7-12) and 25 or more adults, including teachers, staff and family members.
You learn about Challenge Day and present the idea to your school through parents, students, administrators, teachers, faculty or other community members you believe would like to be involved.
Being the Change you wish to see in the world -- Gandhi The change starts here - where you and other youth around the nation are inspired to create change in your schools and communities!
To bring Challenge Day to your school - the first step complete is to present Challenge Day to a teacher, counselor on someone on administration. As you have seen on the MTV show "If You Really Knew Me", Challenge Day is a powerful, emotional and youth centered program. Often, youth have issues that may come up for them during the course of the program and they may need additional adult support. We want to make sure all students who participate in the program receive the support that they may need.
Daniel Holeman
awakenvisions.com
My primary function in life is that of a Spiritual Guide and Messenger. Since my teens my life has been a ministry in service to our direct experience of God/Source and living in alignment with that awareness. The artwork is an expression of that role and also grabs people's attention and directs it to the conversation of Spiritual Awakening, humanity's Transformation and the latest word coming through from the expanded realms.
Our world is now in a period called "The Great Turning" -- a stage of great transformation and awakening. Such a huge event will take the concerted efforts of millions upon millions of people, each doing their particular part. My part is to assist in the awakening of the consciousness, as it is from that place of awakened living that all true and lasting solutions are found.
When a person lives from the foundational awareness of the oneness of existence, they treat others with respect, as equals, with honesty and generosity. There can be no place for lying, cheating, greed, deception, violence, corruption, forcing one's will on others, taking advantage of others, exploiting people or natural resources for personal gain, etc. All the suffering and problems our world faces arises from consciousness believing it is separate from the One.
Shiloh Boss
shilohboss.com
Individual Mentoring & Guidance
As a participant in your living reality, I'm here to strategically support your movement forward. My offering to the emerging world begins with you and then expands. Most importantly, this aspect of my service is about holding space as your witness in mindful reflection. From there, we begin to notice core patterns that are playing out in your nature. Then we explore these dynamics and how they relate with the dynamics of the living universe and the very nature of who you are and what you have come here to be.
I see a natural intelligence working through all things and in our space together we make room, take time, and investigate the inherent order that is working through you. In a spirit of curiosity, authenticity, and integration, we explore the wholeness that is finding its way by means of your current being. Through exploration and experimentation, one is able to evolve into the next level of living in empowered and choice-full ways. This is Concious Evolution!
With a rich background in supporting individuals through learning, growth, change, and transformation, I have a wealth of resources to draw on to aid in your full becoming. Sessions range from framing lifes current challenges and mapping out scales of perspective to illuminate your growth to inner contemplative body journeys that reveal the deep wisdom embedded within.
Some areas of my training that inform the support and guidance I can offer you: Transpersonal Psychology, Chinese 5 Elements & Taoist Studies, World Wisdom Teachings, Brain & Body Development, Coaching, The Dynamics of Trauma & Recovery, Shamanic Healing, Quantum Physics, Cosmometry and Patterns of the living universe, Conflict Resolution, Body Psychology, Effective Communication, Mythology, Buddhist Psychology, Martial Arts,,,,
When another person makes you suffer, It is because he suffers deeply within himself.
And his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment, he needs help.
Thich Naht Hahn, .Buddhist psychology.
Producer/Host Victoria VanAyerst
The Art of Conscious Living, The Search for Hope Parent/child discussion.
GUESTS:
Berenice Meza
Challengeday.org
A Challenge Day is a 6 1/2 hour experiential program, in which we send two of our highly-trained, passionate Leaders from the San Francisco Bay Area to your school to lead a workshop for 100 students (grades 7-12) and 25 or more adults, including teachers, staff and family members.
You learn about Challenge Day and present the idea to your school through parents, students, administrators, teachers, faculty or other community members you believe would like to be involved.
Being the Change you wish to see in the world -- Gandhi The change starts here - where you and other youth around the nation are inspired to create change in your schools and communities!
To bring Challenge Day to your school - the first step complete is to present Challenge Day to a teacher, counselor on someone on administration. As you have seen on the MTV show "If You Really Knew Me", Challenge Day is a powerful, emotional and youth centered program. Often, youth have issues that may come up for them during the course of the program and they may need additional adult support. We want to make sure all students who participate in the program receive the support that they may need.
Daniel Holeman
awakenvisions.com
My primary function in life is that of a Spiritual Guide and Messenger. Since my teens my life has been a ministry in service to our direct experience of God/Source and living in alignment with that awareness. The artwork is an expression of that role and also grabs people's attention and directs it to the conversation of Spiritual Awakening, humanity's Transformation and the latest word coming through from the expanded realms.
Our world is now in a period called "The Great Turning" -- a stage of great transformation and awakening. Such a huge event will take the concerted efforts of millions upon millions of people, each doing their particular part. My part is to assist in the awakening of the consciousness, as it is from that place of awakened living that all true and lasting solutions are found.
When a person lives from the foundational awareness of the oneness of existence, they treat others with respect, as equals, with honesty and generosity. There can be no place for lying, cheating, greed, deception, violence, corruption, forcing one's will on others, taking advantage of others, exploiting people or natural resources for personal gain, etc. All the suffering and problems our world faces arises from consciousness believing it is separate from the One.
Shiloh Boss
shilohboss.com
Individual Mentoring & Guidance
As a participant in your living reality, I'm here to strategically support your movement forward. My offering to the emerging world begins with you and then expands. Most importantly, this aspect of my service is about holding space as your witness in mindful reflection. From there, we begin to notice core patterns that are playing out in your nature. Then we explore these dynamics and how they relate with the dynamics of the living universe and the very nature of who you are and what you have come here to be.
I see a natural intelligence working through all things and in our space together we make room, take time, and investigate the inherent order that is working through you. In a spirit of curiosity, authenticity, and integration, we explore the wholeness that is finding its way by means of your current being. Through exploration and experimentation, one is able to evolve into the next level of living in empowered and choice-full ways. This is Concious Evolution!
With a rich background in supporting individuals through learning, growth, change, and transformation, I have a wealth of resources to draw on to aid in your full becoming. Sessions range from framing lifes current challenges and mapping out scales of perspective to illuminate your growth to inner contemplative body journeys that reveal the deep wisdom embedded within.
Some areas of my training that inform the support and guidance I can offer you: Transpersonal Psychology, Chinese 5 Elements & Taoist Studies, World Wisdom Teachings, Brain & Body Development, Coaching, The Dynamics of Trauma & Recovery, Shamanic Healing, Quantum Physics, Cosmometry and Patterns of the living universe, Conflict Resolution, Body Psychology, Effective Communication, Mythology, Buddhist Psychology, Martial Arts,,,,
When another person makes you suffer, It is because he suffers deeply within himself.
And his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment, he needs help.
Thich Naht Hahn, .Buddhist psychology.




![Temple Grandin, 2010 100 list 100 most influential people in the world in the category Heroes.
Temple Grandin (born August 29, 1947) is an American doctor of animal science and professor at Colorado State University, bestselling author, and consultant to the livestock industry on animal behavior. As a person with high-functioning autism, Grandin is also widely noted for her work in autism advocacy and is the inventor of the hug machine designed to calm hypersensitive persons.
Grandin is listed in the 2010 Time 100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world in the category Heroes.[1]
Early life and education Grandin was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Richard Grandin and Eustacia Cutler. She was diagnosed with autism in 1950. Having been labeled and diagnosed with brain damage at age two, she was placed in a structured nursery school with what she considers to have been good teachers. Grandins mother spoke to a doctor who suggested speech therapy, and she hired a nanny who spent hours playing turn-based games with Grandin and her sister.
At age four, Grandin began talking, and making progress. She considers herself lucky to have had supportive mentors from primary school onwards. However, Grandin has said that middle and high school were the worst parts of her life. She was the nerdy kid whom everyone teased. At times, while walking down the street, people would taunt her by saying tape recorder, because she would repeat things over and over again. Grandin states that, I could laugh about it now, but back then it really hurt.
After graduating from Hampshire Country School, a boarding school for gifted children in Rindge, New Hampshire, in 1966, Grandin went on to earn her bachelors degree in psychology from Franklin Pierce College in 1970, her masters degree in animal science from Arizona State University in 1975, and her doctoral degree in animal science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989.
Grandin is the focus of a semi-biographical HBO film, titled Temple Grandin,[7] starring Claire Danes as Grandin.[8] The movie was released in 2010, was nominated for 15 Emmys, and received five awards, including Outstanding Made for Television Movie and Best Actress in a Drama.[9] Grandin was on stage as the award was accepted, and spoke briefly on the microphone to the audience. Coincidentally, the 2010 Emmy Awards happened on Grandins birthday.
Based on personal experience, Grandin advocates early intervention to address autism, and supportive teachers who can direct fixations of the child with autism in fruitful directions. She has described her hypersensitivity to noise and other sensory stimuli. She claims she is a primarily visual thinker[10] and has said that words are her second language. Temple attributes her success as a humane livestock facility designer to her ability to recall detail, which is a characteristic of her visual memory. Grandin compares her memory to full-length movies in her head that can be replayed at will, allowing her to notice small details. She is also able to view her memories using slightly different contexts by changing the positions of the lighting and shadows. Her insight into the minds of cattle has taught her to value the changes in details to which animals are particularly sensitive, and to use her visualization skills to design thoughtful and humane animal-handling equipment. She was named a fellow of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers in 2009. Temple Grandin, 2010 100 list 100 most influential people in the world in the category Heroes.](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uKvKdl5hoyg/mqdefault.jpg)





