Dr Michael Butler is Professor of Work & Organisational Psychology at Aston Business School - he will be exploring if our brains have been damaged by civilization! http://www1.aston.ac.uk/aston-business-school/staff/academic/wop/dr-michael-butler/

Dr Mark Hensman ‘Wired for “Why?” – neurology and spirituality’An educator with a theological background who has become interested in neurology and what new findings this science has to offer to our understanding of  learning and spirituality. This interest was sparked by research for his doctoral studies when he observed two villages in western Thailand over a two year period, one that was predominantly Catholic and the other, Buddhist. Later he wrote an unpublished paper called ‘The Neurology of Spirituality in Secular Education’ which has formed the basis for a new values-based approach to learning at the Harrow International Schools. Dr Hensman has been a headmaster in New Zealand and, for seven years, at Harrow International School, Bangkok. He is currently Director of Schools for Harrow International.

http://www.harrow.asia/our_people_Dr_J._Mark_Hensman.php

Raquel Martins, came to China in the mid sixties with her idealist Brazilian parents who joined the Communist revolution - she never left China and will tell small parts of her amazing story.

Dr Anthony Poole (works on the evolution of DNA and the origin of life. He been a Monbusho Scholar at the University of Tokyo and a Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Research Fellow at Stockholm University. He is now based at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and usually falters if you ask him about his own origins http://www.biol.canterbury.ac.nz/people/poole.shtml 

Chandran Nair is the Founder and CEO of what he believes is a “first”. The. Global Institute For Tomorrow (GIFT) is an independent social venture think tank based in Asia. The YLP is a unique executive learning programme aimed at developing leadership and business skills by applying these in an experiential context to design commercially viable solutions for socially responsible projects in Asia. http://www.globalinstitutefortomorrow.com/

Charles Rycroft:  Senior Consultant at IWNC, He will be “Celebrating the Wiggly World of Alan Watts”. Charles is from the UK where Alan Watts was also born--Charles journey has taken him through Italy and across Asia, working in jobs as diverse as advertising executive, disc-jockey, nightclub manager, song-writer, photographer and documentary film-maker, media-centre director, communications specialist and media and fundraising manager—a  wiggly path of which he feels Alan Watts would have wholeheartedly approved.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Watts

Terry Small: is a master teacher and learning skills specialist and an expert on getting more out of your brain! http://www.terrysmall.com/