Soren Gordhamer

Soren Gordhamer works with individuals and groups on ways to live with less stress and more effectiveness in our technology-rich lives. He has been featured in various media, including GQ Magazine and Newsweek.com, and has taught classes on stress reduction to such diverse populations as youth in New York City juvenile halls, trauma workers in Rwanda, and to staff at Google. A former project director for Richard Gere's public charity, Healing the Divide, he organized the "Healing through Great Difficulty Conference" with His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

As project director for Richard Gere's public charity, Healing the Divide, he organized The Healing through Great Difficulty conference with his Holiness, the Dalai Lama.

He has been featured in various media, including GQ Magazine and Newsweek.com, and has taught mindfulness programs in a wide variety of settings, including to youth in New York City juvenile halls, to trauma workers in Rwanda, teachers in Nigeria, and to staff at US technology companies.

He spent a year walking through parts of the United States, India, Pakistan, and Japan as a part of the Global Walk for a Livable World, a three-and-a-half year trek across the world to support peace and ecological issues.

He later founded the New York City-based non-profit, The Lineage Project, which offers awareness-based practices to at-risk and incarcerated teens. The project won the Mayors Voluntary Action Award for its innovative work with youth.

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