Project Partners
“If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
– African Proverb
We are proud to be working with these strategic partners on collaborative projects that demonstrate new ways to harness the life-enhancing power of music.
Our Partners
Lisa Rafel is a healer, speaker, playwright, and performer. She co-authored the book and CD set Safe in the Arms of Love with Gary Malkin and David Surrenda and is currently collaborating with Gary on this theatrical production.
David Surrenda Ph.D., co-authored the award-winning book and CD set Safe in the Arms of Love and is Executive Producer of Can You Hear Me Baby? David is a senior leadership consultant to Google, Microsoft, and other internationally respected firms. He was the co-founder and dean of the first accredited graduate-level School of Consciousness Studies in the U.S., at John F. Kennedy University.
Our Partners
Michael Stillwater is a musical artist, filmmaker, and educator inspiring people to unlock their voice and release their inner song. Created in collaboration with Michael’s wife, Doris Laesser Stillwater, Graceful Passages and Care for the Journey are among their innovative co-creations serving to ease stress and alleviate anxiety within healthcare and palliative care.
“After years of teaching and creating curriculum, I have never heard anything as skillfully done to address the professional’s experience at the bedside and need to attend to their own loss as Care for the Journey does.”
– Leading Healthcare Educator
and Visionary
Our Partners
We have bequeathed our entire archive of spoken wisdom to the non-profit organization, Circle of Wisdom, founded by producer Kit Thomas and co-directed by writer/producer Téana David. Circle of Wisdom is focused on disseminating pragmatic wisdom during these challenging times. Through our partnership with them, our comprehensive library of WisdomKeeper interviews will be edited, preserved, and made available as a free community resource for generations to come.
Kit Thomas is known for his impactful approach to storytelling and has received numerous awards, including an Oscar nomination for his film, Burning Down Tomorrow. He also has developed and co-produced the award-winning Earth Communication Office PSA campaign. As a music producer and sound supervisor, Kit was Chairman of a National Screening Committee for the Grammys for 25 years.
Téana David writes, produces, and directs projects that positively impact society. She served as the director of Deepak Chopra's NYC center, Deepak HomeBase, where she curated and produced a year-round lecture series featuring over three hundred prominent environmental, social justice, and spiritual leaders.
Our Partners
Neal Rogin has worked with Gary Malkin for over 20 years, co-creating media for the Pachamama Alliance’s Awakening the Dreamer Symposium. He is currently repurposing the transformational epigrams in his groundbreaking book, Delightenment, as spoken word and music tracks for the Transformance.global multi-sensory archive.
Our Partners
We are proud to have licensed our contemplative short WisdomFilms to Gaia TV – known as Islands of Inner Peace. Gaia TV is the world’s leading cable television platform for content about spiritual awakening and health and wellness. Gaia subscribers have access to the latest informational tools and resources for leading a fulfilling life and endorse WoW’s work as the finest contemplative media they offer on their platform.
Our Partners
GIFEW wants every woman to be able to live a fulfilled, authentic, and integrated life that fulfills her purpose and establishes her legacy. The company has partnered with us to create unique educational tools for whole system learning and has enlisted Gary as a leading mentor for their global programs.
Bea Benkova is an executive leadership coach and founder of the Global Institute for Extraordinary Women. She is partnering with WoW Wellness in the development of multi-sensory tools for leaders intent on creating a more heart-
centered, compassionate world.
Our Partners
Hope Fitzgerald is a dedicated seeker of truth, healing, and wisdom who serves as a spiritual evolutionary guide through her company, The Wave Energy Center for Conscious Evolution. She is co-creating our new Graceful Passages workshops,
integrating our globally acclaimed listening resource in a transformational context that cultivates serenity and gratitude for the preciousness of life.
Our Partners
Jeff Patnaude is an executive leadership business consultant with over 40 years of experience in cultivating humane, compassionate, and effective leaders and teams in multinational corporations. He is the creator of The Habits of Heroes: Twelve Practices for the Greater Good and is collaborating with us to develop multi-sensory leadership tools for leaders who are focused on the greater good.
“Wisdom of the World Wellness’ groundbreaking work represents an innovation in the field of accelerated catalysts for psychophysiological intelligence, providing new benchmarks in harnessing music, arts and media to cultivate emotional and spiritual coherence.”
Cheri L. Florance, Ph.D.
President, Brain Engineering Laboratories
Brain & Communication Researcher, National Institutes of Health
Our Partners
Jeff Vander Clute is a strategic intuitive and an internationally known advisor and consultant who is co-curating WoW Wellness compilations for transformation and healing.
Our Partners
Transformances were co-created by Sarah McCrum and Gary Malkin to offer a new way to awaken consciousness through the extemporaneous delivery of spoken wisdom and improvised music. Transformances are designed to elicit states of being that are receptive, generative, and healing, especially in the context of online learning.
Sarah McCrum is an international business coach and consultant and best-selling author of the book Love Money, Money Loves You.
Our Partners
With PlanetEarthArt.org we are developing an initiatory experience and organization for visionary artists who are committed to creating works that inspire action on the critical issues of our time.
Michael Fried is the Executive Director of Planet Earth Arts. He has had an extensive career as a producer, director, writer, and theatre visionary, and was co-founder of the world-renowned Roundabout Theatre in New York City. Vinit Allen is the founder of the Sustainable World Coalition and co-founder of Planet Earth Arts. He is an environmental activist, philanthropist, and cultural
creative who stands for a more sustainable, thriving world.
Our Partners
Sarah Livia Brightwood is president and co-owner of Rancho La Puerta, a globally acclaimed destination spa/resort dedicated to health and wellness. Sarah has commissioned us to create the soundtrack to her short film, The Tree of Life, about her father Edmund Szekeley, a pioneering author and visionary of the Integrative Health movement. She has also invited us to curate the Rancho La Puerta Mindfulness Collection, a musical compilation designed to evoke heart-centered mindfulness, to be shared with their guests in late 2020.
“Wisdom of the World Wellness is unsurpassed in their capacity to use music as a healing art. Their musical resources are catalysts for transformation.”
Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University
Our Partners
Annette Ridenour, Co-Founder, is an acclaimed designer with over 30 years of experience in using the power of the arts to support healing within healthcare institutions worldwide. She has partnered with us to create Rejuvenation Stations™ where busy professional healthcare providers and corporate employees can reduce stress in record time.
David Corbin, Co-Founder, is a business coach and bestselling author, and the co-founder of Aesthetic Audio Systems, an innovator in using music in healthcare institutions to improve health, coherence, and performance. He is collaborating with us to provide Rejuvenation Stations™.
Our Partners
In 2008, Foster and Kimberly Gamble invited Gary Malkin to create the music for their groundbreaking documentary, Thrive: What on Earth Will it Take? Released in 2011, the film is among the most watched documentaries ever created, with over
80 million views in 27 languages. We are creating the soundtrack for the sequel, Thrive II: This Is What It Takes, which is slated for a Fall 2020 release.
Foster Gamble co-produced the provocative and ground-breaking documentary,
Thrive: What on Earth Will it Take? which unveiled the true reality of our
existence in the 21st century.
Kimberly Carter Gamble, co-producer of Thrive, brings a wealth of professional
experience as a former journalist, producer of large projects and events, and
lifelong activist for social justice.
Our Partners
Our TimeOut2Thrive mobile app gives front-line workers in healthcare and essential services evidence-based and real-time stress management tools. The app combines powerful stress-releasing experiences such as inspirational music, stunning nature videos, calming meditations, and chances to simply laugh and let off some steam.
Lisa May is an inspirational leader, innovator, and leadership coach. After 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry, Lisa is on a mission to unlock human potential through her company, Fulle. As a certified consultant for best-selling author Dr. Joe Dispenza, Lisa is deeply committed to creating positive change in the world.
Bruce Cryer co-founded the renowned HeartMath, LLC and served as its CEO for 11 years. He is a leadership coach, business consultant, public speaker, and author who created Renaissance Human, promoting the power of creativity for optimal performance.
Bruce and Lisa are collaborating with us on the TimeOut2Thrive app. Bruce and Gary present the keynote performance, What Makes Your Heart Sing: Awakening the Power of Inspiration.
Our Partners
Jean Watson, Ph.D., RN, is a groundbreaking and acclaimed author, nursing theorist, and speaker for new-paradigm nursing systems, who teaches and presents throughout the world. She is a featured visionary in our multi-sensory rejuvenation tools for healthcare providers through the Care for the Journey initiative. She is also collaborating with us to integrate the Caritas Principles into WoW Wellness’ alchemical wisdom format.
“Wisdom of the World Wellness has created a “super-stimulus” for evoking states of consciousness that expand the human capacity for compassion, generosity, altruism, forgiveness, and a host of other life-enhancing skill sets for spiritual development.”
Dr. Courtney Cowart, Th. D.
Author, An American Awakening