TOM ATLEE of Eugene, Oregon, founded the Co-Intelligence Institute (CII) in 1996 to provide an organizational means to manifest ideas and possibilities he had been researching since the Great Peace March in 1986. An avid writer, activist and community volunteer since the late 1950s, Tom has been involved in many citizens groups and publications, particularly around peace and democracy issues. He has served on several nonprofit boards and has consulted internationally. His book The Tao of Democracy has sold hundreds of copies in more than a dozen countries and his articles have been published in dozens of alternative journals including Yes!, The Permaculture Activist, Institute of Noetic Sciences Review, Earthlight, Turning Wheel, The Systems Thinker, and Science of Mind. The websites he has built are visited by thousands of visitors every month. He lives in a co-op house in Eugene, OR, with his partner Karen Mercer, seven other people, four cats, dozens of plants, and thousands of books. For more biographical and bibliographical information on Tom, click here

ADIN ROGOVIN has 30 years varied experience as a corporate manager including 10 years as Chief Financial Officer. He has 17 years service on non-profit Boards and Staff including, The Home of Truth Spiritual Center, Seven Generations Land Trust, Lost Valley Educational Center, Parker Street Coop, The Natural Heritage Institute, The Eugene Children's Peace Academy, The Center for Wise Democratic Processes, Climate Neutral Network, and The Co-Intelligence Institute. Adin's passion is promoting wise collective process and transforming democracy and civic governance through developing, teaching, and implementing citizen deliberative councils and integrated process design. He is co founder of the Eugene Facilitator's Collective, and is a trained Dynamic Facilitator who has worked with The Blue Mountain School, Alpha Farm Community, The Veterans for Peace, Trillium Hollow Cohousing, The New Orleans Community Congress II, and the Pleasantville, NY Great Oak Council. Adin organized The Lane County Low Income People's Wisdom Council and the Walnut Street Coop, a coop house in Eugene.

SUSAN EDWARDS of Eugene, Oregon, has 30 years of experience in teaching, both children and adults. She is currently a community college instructor of computer classes and an indexer of non-fiction books. Susan has many years of experience in consulting, facilitating, counseling and coaching - for businesses, non-profits and individuals. As Director of a non-profit childcare center in Ann Arbor, Michigan, she organized a consortium of child-care providers, business owners and higher education faculty to work towards better childcare practices in the county. She also organized a consortium of Directors of United Way sponsored non-profits. Before formally joining the board of the Co-Intelligence Institute, she worked as a volunteer helping strategize and implement practical directions for the Institute. In addition to serving on the Board of CII, she is co-ordinator of the Eugene Community Conversations Project in Eugene Oregon.

HEATHER TISCHBEIN of Vancouver, Washington, brings three decades of experience working with community and environmental groups (specializing in education and sustainable agriculture and forestry). She has served as both staff and board member of several nonprofit organizations. Most recently she has been board chair of the Cold Spring Conservancy, managing hundreds of thousands of dollars and a multi-stakeholder planning team. Heather has been a parent volunteer facilitator with the Battle Ground Public School District and is a mediator in training with Community Mediation Services of Vancouver-Clark County. She currently works as the Parish Administrator for Christ Church Episcopal Parish in Lake Oswego, OR. Heather also serves on the Advisory Panel of the Make Democracy Work project of the Ft. Vancouver Regional Library System and is working to create a retreat center based on Quaker testimonies.

JOHN ABBE of Eugene, Oregon, has been an informal process artist since the age of 20, when he fell into a true community for the first time, took some risks and was amazed at the resulting flowering of trust. In the 1990s he volunteered briefly at the Institute for the Arts of Democracy then joined the Center for Group Learning in Oakland, learning a little about T Groups, Tavistock, organization development & Process Work; and a lot about facilitation and group dynamics as the group watched and consciously engaged in its own process. For more than five years he has shared Nonviolent Communication (NVC) in the United States, Sri Lanka and India, and supported the NVC network, both informally and as a member of the NVC USA Project. As a computer geek he has played a significant role in organizing the RecentChangesCamp series of events, and recently joined Grass Commons as a software designer and cultural & technical support person. He is currently co-developing a wiki on process (using Grass Commons' Wagn software) and writing a book on the role of process arts in the culture shift from power-over to power-with ways of seeing, being and doing.