Leonard Gibson, Ph.D., graduated from Williams College and earned doctorates from Claremont Graduate School in philosophy and The University of Texas at Austin in psychology. Lenny has forty years of experience working with non–ordinary states of consciousness. He has taught at The University of Tulsa and Lesley College and served his clinical psychology internship at the Boston, Mass. V.A. Hospital. He currently teaches Transpersonal Psychology at Burlington College. Lenny serves on the board of the Association of Holotropic Breathwork International, assists with town and regional planning, and plays clarinet in local bands. A survivor of throat cancer, he facilitates the head and neck cancer support group at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.

Elizabeth Gibson, M.S., holds a bachelor’s degree in literature and a master’s degree in biology from The University of Tulsa. She has completed Herbert Benson’s Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Previously she worked as a consultant at Arthur D. Little, Inc., and Radian Corporation in the areas of environmental protection and food research. She is a writer and homemaker with interests in nutrition, yoga, and music. Elizabeth is a coauthor of the teaching manual MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for the Treamtment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and the editor of Stanislav Grof ’s The Ultimate Journey: Consciousness and the Mystery of Death, both recently published by MAPS. She is also the editor of the weekly Environment Section of the Rutland Herald/ Times Argus newspapers.

Elizabeth and Lenny are Grof–certified Holotropic Breathwork™ facilitators. They have raised their two sons on a hillside in Pawlet, VT, where they have built a retreat and offered workshops since 1994.