Bessel van der Kolk is a Boston-based Dutch-American psychiatrist, author, researcher and educator.

Casandra Brené Brown is an American academic and podcaster who is the Huffington Foundation's Brené Brown Endowed Chair at the University of Houston's Graduate College of Social Work and a visiting professor in management at the McCombs School of Business in the University of Texas at Austin..

James Nestor is an author and journalist who has written for Outside, Scientific American, Dwell, National Public Radio, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Men's Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, and others.

Melanie Lee Robbins is an American author, podcast host, and lawyer..

Mohammad Gawdat is an Egyptian author and former technology executive.

Zindel V. Segal (born 1956 in Lutsk, Ukraine) is a cognitive psychologist, specialist on depression, and one of the founders of Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT). A professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, he co-authored works including *The Mindful Way Through Depression* (with Mark Williams, John Teasdale, and Jon Kabat-Zinn) and *Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome*.