Fruitful Aging: Finding the Gold In The Golden Years
Tom Pinkson, Ph.D., serves as a bridge builder, translating indigenous wisdom into a modern context bringing forth the intelligence and creativity of spiritual awakening, emotional wellbeing, and living in sustainable balance with Mother Earth and the Circle of Life. He is a psychologist, sacred storyteller, spiritual guide, author, musician, ceremonial retreat and vision-fast leader and a devoted grandfather. Tom helped start the first at-home Hospice in the United States. Prior to that, he started a successful wilderness treatment program for heroin addicts.  For 32 years Tom worked with terminally ill children at the Center for Attitudinal Healing in California, successfully integrating the wisdom teachings of the Huichol and other spiritual teachers into the world of the practicing psychologist. The founder of Wakan, a nonprofit organization committed to restoring the sacred in daily life, he lives in Northern California with his wife of 46 years Andrea Danek. Tom helps people wake up and connect to deeper, authentic being, exploring how to live, love and work from the holy place of soul. He helps people remember we are all sacred, worthy, luminous beings; that we are love and our love is for giving.