Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 48 minutes ago
What if education wasn’t just about information, but transformation? In this episode, Dr. Bernard Beitman speaks with Adi Vickers, a consciousness educator whose work spans continents, cultures, and classrooms. Together, they explore how spiritual awakening, embodied presence, and compassion can reimagine what it means both teach and learn.
Adi Vickers is an educator, counselor, and co-founder of Asana International School in County Kerry, Ireland, where she has championed holistic and transformative education since 1993. With over three decades of teaching experience across Ireland, Italy, Spain, Laos, and India, Adi integrates Rogerian counseling, NLP, and hypnotherapy into her approach to consciousness-based education.
She co-founded A Place For Us, an educational NGO in India that supports marginalized youth through integrative, heart-centered learning. Her work includes pioneering teacher training programs with the NGO Food For Life, and leading Ireland's first consciousness education initiative with the Alef Trust.
Adi is currently pursuing a PhD focused on transpersonal approaches to secondary education and continues to explore how presence, mindfulness, and storytelling can transform the classroom into a space of shared growth and healing.
Dr. Bernard Beitman is a Yale- and Stanford-educated psychiatrist and the founder of The Coincidence Project. He served as chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia and has authored two books, Connecting with Coincidence and Meaningful Coincidences. Through his Psychology Today blog, podcast, and public appearances, he has reached millions with his pioneering work in the field of Coincidence Studies.
#coincidence #serendipity #synchronicity
00:00 - 03:45 — Welcome and Introduction to Adi Vickers
03:45 - 13:20 — What Makes a Heart-Centered Teacher?
13:20 - 23:15 — Education as a Sacred Practice
23:15 - 33:40 — Working with Trauma and Building Trust
33:40 - 43:55 — Supporting Marginalized Youth in India
43:55 - 52:30 — Integrating Presence and Spirituality in Schools
52:30 - 1:06:50 — Reflections and Closing Thoughts
What if education wasn’t just about information, but transformation? In this episode, Dr. Bernard Beitman speaks with Adi Vickers, a consciousness educator whose work spans continents, cultures, and classrooms. Together, they explore how spiritual awakening, embodied presence, and compassion can reimagine what it means both teach and learn.
Adi Vickers is an educator, counselor, and co-founder of Asana International School in County Kerry, Ireland, where she has championed holistic and transformative education since 1993. With over three decades of teaching experience across Ireland, Italy, Spain, Laos, and India, Adi integrates Rogerian counseling, NLP, and hypnotherapy into her approach to consciousness-based education.
She co-founded A Place For Us, an educational NGO in India that supports marginalized youth through integrative, heart-centered learning. Her work includes pioneering teacher training programs with the NGO Food For Life, and leading Ireland's first consciousness education initiative with the Alef Trust.
Adi is currently pursuing a PhD focused on transpersonal approaches to secondary education and continues to explore how presence, mindfulness, and storytelling can transform the classroom into a space of shared growth and healing.
Dr. Bernard Beitman is a Yale- and Stanford-educated psychiatrist and the founder of The Coincidence Project. He served as chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia and has authored two books, Connecting with Coincidence and Meaningful Coincidences. Through his Psychology Today blog, podcast, and public appearances, he has reached millions with his pioneering work in the field of Coincidence Studies.
#coincidence #serendipity #synchronicity
00:00 - 03:45 — Welcome and Introduction to Adi Vickers
03:45 - 13:20 — What Makes a Heart-Centered Teacher?
13:20 - 23:15 — Education as a Sacred Practice
23:15 - 33:40 — Working with Trauma and Building Trust
33:40 - 43:55 — Supporting Marginalized Youth in India
43:55 - 52:30 — Integrating Presence and Spirituality in Schools
52:30 - 1:06:50 — Reflections and Closing Thoughts
