Our concept of the heart has been reduced in recent centuries and for most of us now signifies little more than a blood-pumping organ and holder of our emotions. Our ancient ancestors had a broader perspective of the heart and in this presentation, Liz will review this more expansive heart, revealing truths that have long been forgotten. Combining ancient wisdom with cutting-edge science, Liz will describe how her research has led her to view the heart as our ‘Master Connector’, showing how it connects us in three primary ways - within ourselves, to the people, animals and plants around us, and to Spirit. We are living in challenging times and Liz will discuss how when we understand the true meaning and wisdom of the heart, we will have access to deep individual and planetary healing and will finally understand what it means to live a truly ‘heartful’ life.

In this session, Louise will share her personal journey with her own heart. In 1990, at the age of eighteen, Louise was hospitalised for three months with viral myocarditis. Experiencing numerous cardiac arrests, Louise was left with a pacemaker and taking heavy doses of medication. Over the years, Louise experienced many complications, including debilitating arrythmias. Slowly, Louise lost faith in her own heart’s ability to keep her alive and descended into severe depression. In one of her lowest moments, Louise’s heart reached out and spoke to her. This extra-ordinary experience led Louise on a two-decade journey to make sense of what had happened. She revisited her own understanding of what the heart is, through deep inner reflection and a journey into postgraduate study. Louise will speak about how her heart woke her from a deep slumber and became her greatest friend and wisest teacher, opening her to a deeper, more expanded experience of life. Louise’s message - from her heart - is one that stresses the importance of opening ourselves to the possibility of building a personal relationship with our hearts, drawing out the implications of the heart’s way of knowing for personal, collective, and global transformation.

Deep awakening is an experience of enormous love, profound oneness, heightened sensibility to beauty, delight in the body, insight in the soul and the powerful inspiration to bring benevolence into the world. In his presentation Tim will share a new evolutionary understanding of awakening, what it is, why it is life-changing, and how you can experience it for yourself. Based on his latest project ‘Why Your Life Really Matters’, he will offer a practical solution to the stress and anxiety prevalent in our world today. Drawing on modern science and ancient wisdom he will argue that a transformation has been quietly happening to human beings in recent history. We are evolving from separate individuals to awakened unividuals, where a ‘unividual’ is ‘an individual who is coming to experience unity with the universe’.  

Peter will describe the ground-breaking scientific discoveries he and his research team have made about the heart and its ability to communicate energetically, both locally and at a distance, within loving and bonded relationships. Peter will show examples of the research results and demonstrate heart-to-heart connection in real time using an innovative app that he has developed. He will also discuss the profound implications of these discoveries for our understanding of psychology, relationships and the nature of consciousness. This new and exciting science confirms what many of us know intuitively - that we are invisibly connected to the people around us through our hearts and that it is by embracing this truth that we will discover personal peace and happiness and help build a more compassionate and caring world.