James O’Dea is Co- Director of The Social Healing Project and has conducted healing and reconciliation dialogues for the past twelve years He is currently launching a Social Healing Institute. He is a member of the faculty of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and its past President. He was Executive Director of The Seva Foundation and the Washington Office Director of Amnesty International. He is currently facilitating a 5-month global Peace Ambassador Training hosted by The Shift Network. He lectures widely, offers intensive trainings and sacred activist retreats. He is a member of the Advisory Board of The Peace Alliance. His book Creative Stress: A Path For Evolving Souls Living Through Personal and Planetary Upheaval has been called “the medicine for our times” and recent critically acclaimed essay, Creative Atonement in a Time of Peril  appears in Beyond Forgiveness: Reflections on Atonement.