Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 09/04/2024.
Session Description:
Forrest Rivers, a certified meditation teacher, published author, and long-time college professor, shows how mindfulness can help us find greater meaning and ultimately greater purpose in our lives. Specifically, he shows how daily mindfulness practices like meditation can help us live with more fluidity, awaken our innate feelings of compassion, help us listen more deeply through spirited self-reflection, improve our self-discipline, grow our inner courage and help us feel more connected to life’s mysterious rhythms and patterns. By the end of this session, participants will learn the following:
Session Description:
These times that we find ourselves in are marked by feelings of great anxiety and uncertainty for our future. Signs abound that we have entered such a period of uncertainty. The Human-caused devastation of the natural world, the suffering endured during the most recent pandemic, political polarization as well as persistent racial conflict and injustice all indicate that humanity has strayed too far in the direction of fear and separation.
In 'Finding Inner Peace in Uncertain Times', Forrest Rivers, a a certified meditation teacher, published author, and long-time college professor, draws from the wisdom traditions of both East and West as well as from his decade of teaching mindfulness meditation practice to show how we are all fully capable of building a more peaceful world that reflects the highest aspirations of the human spirit. However, Forrest maintains that to realize this noble end goal of building a more peaceful outer world, we must first begin by building more peaceful inner worlds within ourselves. By the end of this session, participants will learn the following.
Forrest Rivers is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as The Mindfulness Evolution: Awakening to your Life’s True Purpose and Finding Inner Peace in Uncertain Times. The estimated speaking fee range to book Forrest Rivers for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Forrest Rivers generally travels from Asheville, NC, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Gelong Thubten, Dr. Kristen Lee, Pandit Dasa, Jon Kabat-Zinn and Jenn Lim. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Forrest Rivers for an upcoming live or virtual event.
This website is a resource for event professionals and strives to provide the most comprehensive catalog of thought leaders and industry experts to consider for speaking engagements. A listing or profile on this website does not imply an agency affiliation or endorsement by the talent.
All American Entertainment (AAE) exclusively represents the interests of talent buyers, and does not claim to be the agency or management for any speaker or artist on this site. AAE is a talent booking agency for paid events only. We do not handle requests for donation of time or media requests for interviews, and cannot provide celebrity contact information.
If you are the talent and wish to request a profile update or removal from our online directory, please submit a profile request form.