Tom Pinkson
Tom Soloway Pinkson, Ph.D., is a psychologist, ceremonial retreat and vision-fast leader, sacred storyteller, and shaman. For 32 years he worked with terminally ill children at the Center for Attitudinal Healing in California, successfully integrating the wisdom teachings of the Huichol and other medicine teachers into the world of the practicing psychologist through his programs of Training the Hardiness Factor and A New Vision of Aging--Working Consciously with the Challenges and Opportunities of the Elder Years. The founder of WAKAN, a nonprofit organization committed to restoring the sacred in daily life, he lives in northern California.