Welcome From
Elizabeth Lesser and Steve Leicach

Keynote
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.
Mindful Aging: Coming to Our Senses as Individuals & as a Species
We are all brief sojourners on this planet, no matter how old we get to be. How can we make the best use of our time here to optimize our own well-being across the lifespan, in the face of aging, stress, pain, and illness, and also contribute to the health of our endangered planet and the health of our self-endangered species? Jon Kabat-Zinn is one of the nation's foremost authorities on mindfulness, meditation, and healing and their medical and societal applications. In this keynote he suggests that it is only through the cultivation of intimacy with the nature of our own mind that we will be able to live lives of satisfaction, meaning, and connectedness, and thus age well. We can also contribute to restoring wisdom and balance and wakefulness to a world in which the human mind unexamined, "filled with desire and fastened to a dying animal," in William Butler Yeats' words, has managed to become the auto-immune disease of the planet.
CE credit available.

Keynote
Billie Jean King
Create Your Legacy & Pass the Baton
What is important to you in your life? What are you passionate about? How do you want to be remembered? What is your legacy? What are you doing to make this world a better place for the next generations? Billie Jean King, sports legend and social pioneer, shares experiences and lessons learned from her own journey as a professional athlete, activist, coach, mentor, and entrepreneur, and offers her philosophy on staying active in mind, body, and spirit. She challenges you to think about your own life, shape your own legacy, and find your part in building the foundation for tomorrow.