The Power of the Mind

The Festival of the Wise has been a work in progress for about 2.5 years. It started as a name of an event that popped into my head sitting in a coffee shop in Santa Monica with one of the other co-founders. We were discussing a number of different ideas and so we left the cafe with about 5 or 6 and decided to focus on a different one.

About a month later I mentioned the festival to one other person. He seized the idea, thought it was amazing, said he wanted in, pitched himself to us and we got our third partner.

For a year the 3 of us looked at the idea, developed it, built the concept out, selected the location, and worked towards a solid vision of the event. We still needed more help and so we visioned it. Out of the blue, we got our fourth person who has been instrumental in building our concept to a reality.

Sometimes when we look at how it's developed, it's clear to see that we haven't always known "How" it was going to happen. We just knew it was going to happen.

One irreplaceable source of strength in our development has been life coaching, which we received from Sophia Chao, here in Los Angeles. Constantly she reminds us to visualize our goal and not focus on the trials and tribulations we are crossing to get there.

We believe this type of Life Coaching is a crucial support system that pulls us out of the mundane and allows us to truly be involved in the dynamic creative process, which this festival is for us.

We're brining life coaching to our event in a number of ways. Both on our main stage and with our Lifestyle sessions.

You can find out more about our main stage speakers here:
http://www.festivalofthewise.com/features/mainspeakers.html

And more about our lifestyle sessions here:
http://www.festivalofthewise.com/conference/lifewise.html