Colin A. Ross, M.D. completed medical school at the University of Alberta and his psychiatry training at the University of Manitoba in Canada. He is a Past President of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, and is the author of over 225 papers and 32 books. He has spoken widely throughout North America and Europe, and in China, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand. He has been a keynote speaker at many different conferences, and has reviewed for over 30 different professional journals.

Dr. Ross is the Director of hospital-based Trauma Programs in Denton, Texas, Torrance, California and Grand Rapids, Michigan. He provides cognitive therapy groups at all three locations, in person in Texas and by video-conference in Michigan and California. He has been running a hospital Trauma Program in the Dallas area since moving to Texas in 1991.

John Briere, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychiatry at the USC Keck School of Medicine, and Center Director of the USC Adolescent Trauma Training Center of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. A past president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, he is recipient of the Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Science of Trauma Psychology from the American Psychological Association, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Treatment and Training in the Attachment of Children and the William N. Friedrich Lecturer: Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Child Psychology from the Mayo Clinic. He is author or co-author of over 140 articles, chapters, and encyclopedia entries, 18 books (published or in progress), and 11 trauma-related psychological tests. In 2015, Dr. Briere was the trauma consultant for the film Room, working with actor Brie Larson and director Lenny Abrahamson. His latest book is Treating risky and compulsive behavior in trauma survivors.

For more than 25 years, Dr. Flowers has been one of the most familiar and respected names in the area of pain recovery, chronic pain and addiction. A leader in the field, his history in assessments and treatment of chronic pain and co-occurring addiction has led to an exceptionally distinguished career.

Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. was a couple’s therapist with more than 40 years’ experience as an educator, clinical trainer and lecturer whose work has appeared on Oprah 17 times. Harville and Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D. are partners in life and work. They believe that how we interact with each other, in all contexts – family, workplace, schools etc. – is the key to our emotional, physical and economic well-being and to the well-being of our children and society. Together, they are committed to the transformation of relationships and to the evolution of a relational culture.

They are the co-creators of Imago Relationship Theory & Therapy, which has spread globally through Imago Relationships International, and now renamed Imago Relationships Worldwide, an organization that has trained over 2,500 therapists in over 53 countries. They are also co-creators, with other relational therapists, scientists, and business professionals, of Relationships First® a non-profit organization that contributes to the creation of a relational culture through the distribution of new insights from the relational sciences, and through Safe Conversations® – a city-wide experiment in Dallas, Texas.

Harville and Helen continue to work with Imago and make it available in workshops, training programs, lectures, seminars and books. They are the authors of three New York Times best sellers (Getting The Love You Want; Keeping The Love You Find; and Giving The Love That Heals), Making Marriage Simple, and six other books. Their The Space Between was released in 2017. Their latest release updated and revised anniversary edition of Getting the Love You Want, which was released in January 2019. They are working on a new professional text on Imago theory and therapy.

Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. and Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D., partners in life and work, are the co-creators of Imago Relationship Theory & Therapy and Imago Relationships International which has trained over 2500 therapists in 59 countries. Taking therapy from the clinic to the culture, they created Safe Conversations® a global social movement now in 18 countries.

They are also authors of three New York Times best sellers (Getting The Love You Want; Keeping The Love You Find; and Giving The Love That Heals), Making Marriage Simple, and six other books. Helen is sole author of Faith and Feminism and And the Spirit Moved Them.

Harville is a couple’s therapist educator, clinical trainer and lecturer whose work has been on Oprah 18 times. In addition to Helen’s partnership with her husband in the co- creation of Imago, she has been installed in the Women’s Hall of Fame and the Smithsonian Institute for her leadership in the global women’s movement.

Helen and Harville have been married for over 30 years, have six children, seven grandchildren and reside in Dallas, Texas.