Soren Gordhamer

Soren Gordhamer works with individuals and groups on ways to live with less stress and greater creativity, particularly in relationship to technology. He is the author of Wisdom 2.0: Ancient Secrets for the Creative and Constantly Connected (HarperOne, April 2009).

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 everywhere from juvenile halls in New York City to NGO’s in Rwanda and the Googleplex.

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. He later founded the New York City–based nonprofit The Lineage Project, which offers awareness-based practices to at-risk and incarcerated teens. The project won the Mayor’s Voluntary Action Award from former NYC mayor, Rudolph Giuliani. An active online user, he has also been involved in creating online tools for uplifting user-generated content, including through cofounding Zooleo.

Gordhamer is also the author of the meditation book for teens Just Say OM! and the book on mentorship Meetings with Mentors. He teaches programs internationally through the nonprofit Between Four Eyes, where he leads programs in Nigeria, Rwanda, and other conflict and post-conflict communities on the globe. He currently spends his time between the San Francisco Bay area and the mountains of northern New Mexico.

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Relationships/Life Coaching

Spirituality

Wisdom 2.0

Ancient Secrets for the Creative and Constantly Connected

Talking Points

Gordhamer is uniquely qualified to write this book as the award-winning founder of a stress-reduction program among arguably the most stressed-out segment of our population (incarcerated youth) in the most stress-filled city in the U.S. (New York City), combined with his experience as the CEO of a Web 2.0 internet company. He can speak about the wisdom of Eastern meditative practice to calm the frantic anxiety produced by our Western high-speed techno-culture.

Description

Aimed at the first generation to spend the bulk of their days in front of a computer screen, Soren Gordhamer’s Wisdom 2.0: Ancient Secrets for the Creative and Constantly Connected offers Eastern philosophy, modern language and sound guidance to the millions of people attempting to find the right balance with computers and cell phones. Fun, witty and in sync with contemporary life, Wisdom 2.0 provides effective, time-tested tools and approaches for reducing stress in a technology-saturated universe—and for nurturing creativity, online and off.

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