Annual Gathering 2025 – Expanding Minds, Connecting Hearts
Speakers
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Federico FagginPhysicist, Engineer, Inventor, EntrepreneurFederico Faggin received a Laurea degree in Physics, summa cum laude, from the University of Padua, Italy, in 1965, and moved to Silicon Valley in 1968. He developed the MOS Silicon Gate Technology in 1968; the world’s first microprocessor, the Intel 4004 in 1971, and several highly successful microprocessors, like the Intel 8080 and the Z80 produced by Zilog, his first startup company. Faggin was CEO of several high-tech startup companies he founded and directed since 1974. He is currently president of Federico and Elvia Faggin Foundation, dedicated to the science of consciousness. Faggin has received many international awards, including the 2009 National Medal of Technology and Innovation, from President Barack Obama. In 2021 he published his autobiography Silicon.
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Louise LivingstoneFounder of the Heart Sense Research InstituteLouise Livingstone, PhD, is Founder of the Heart Sense Research Institute. She has an MSc in Holistic Science with distinction from the Schumacher College in Devon, UK, and a PhD from Canterbury Christ Church University in Transformative Learning. During her research she spent four years in deep conversation with her own heart, diving deeply into its many layers and learning its wisdom. Her work aims to re-imagine the long-forgotten, wise and intelligent heart for contemporary times; guiding individuals into the numerous layers of their own hearts, illuminating different hearts to help navigate daily life with heart-based awareness. Louise has a flourishing private mentoring practice, and runs a three-month introduction to Heart Sense personal development course based on her research, within which participants meet four different hearts. She also runs a one-year apprenticeship; a programme within which participants work deeply with six more hearts.
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Scherto GillDirector of Global Humanity for Peace InstituteProf Scherto R. Gill is Founding Director of Global Humanity for Peace Institute, University of Wales Trinity St David, where she coordinates the UNESCO Collective Healing Initiative. She teaches on MA in Peace Studies, and MA in Intercultural Understanding, and is interested in mentoring doctoral researchers who are keen to embark on interdisciplinary inquiries into positive peace, harmony, deep dialogue, and holistic well-being. Scherto is the author and co-author of many books, including Lest We Lose Love, an exploration of Love in Western philosophy. She is a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (FRSA), and a laureate of the 2022 Luxembourg Peace Award.
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Sarah Stewart-BrownEmeritus Professor of Public HealthProf Sarah Stewart-Brown is Emeritus Professor of Public Health at the University of Warwick. She is a public health doctor whose career has spanned academic and service practice and now includes consultancy, coaching and wellbeing teaching and training. Her research underpinned her leadership in neglected aspects of public health including public mental health. Early in her career Sarah worked in the UK NHS in paediatrics and in public health giving her practical experience of health care as well as expertise in research and teaching. She has published over 250 peer review journal publications, books, book chapters and reports.
She holds a PhD from Bristol University and is a fellow of the Faculty of Public Health and the Royal College of Physicians of London. She has advised English, Scottish and Welsh Governments on public mental health. In 2015 Sarah was awarded the prestigious Wilfred Harding Prize by the Faculty of Public Health in recognition of her contribution to and leadership in public health. Sarah has been curious about the human potential for wellbeing from early adulthood and has engaged with this agenda from a personal and interpersonal perspective as well as an academic one.
She has been a student of the Ridhwan School of Human Development for 15 years, trained to teach a bodywork called Zero Balancing and recently completed Philip Shepherd’s Embodied Presence Process training and is offering Radical Wholeness workshops in the UK. She now offers coaching, experiential teaching in small groups, consultancy and lectures supporting others who want to explore wellbeing in the context of their work, home, health and relationships.
