The Board of Directors of Integrative Spirituality the Organization that Birthed Universe Spirit Rochelle Alicia Strider Rochelle is a Life and Spirit Facilitator at Universe Spirit. She is a spiritual philosopher, educator, interfaith minister, performer and writer, along with her husband Errol Strider, founded STRIDER INNERTAINMENT. Through a theatrical modality of humor and insight they have been inspiring audiences with their unique and integrative approach to spiritual transformation for over thirty years. In addition to her work with STRIDER INNERTAINMENT, Rochelle has been on the board of directors of Creative Spirit Inc., Creative Recovery Inc., and Educare Inc. over a span of twenty-eight years. Each of these non-profit institutions produced workshops, seminars, performances pieces and continuous meetings for the purpose of educating and ministering to audiences and religious communities. As a spiritual philosopher, minister and writer she studies human behavior and reports how we as humans grow spiritually, noting the obstacles we create and the solutions we find to grow and become more mature and inclusive. She ministers to individuals and groups on her observations for the transformation and evolution of humanity. As an educator she has taught countless classes across the United States and Europe. She has taught acting for actors and acting as a metaphor for spiritual growth. She continues to teach the integration of mind body and spirit using acting tools to enlighten and inspire her students. Lawrence Wollersheim Lawrence Wollersheim is also the Executive Director of Integrative Spirituality organization which birthed the Universe Spirit movement. He brings an extensive 30-year background in day-to-day technology and business operations across profit and non-profit social advocacy sectors and to his work at IS. He is responsible as Executive Director for all operational aspects of Universe Spirit's facilitating facilitation/ministry, spiritual research, web operations, online Universe College and marketing. Since 1983 as a major part of his life’s omni-denominational spiritual passion, Lawrence has been continuously studying, experiencing and being committed to the forwarding the healthy and effective aspects of personal direct spiritual experience of Ultimate Reality found within the world’s great eastern and western spiritual and mystical traditions. In addition to his management and administrative duties, Lawrence also helps create online courses, teaches local courses and performs all of the ministerial functions of our organizations Life and Spirit facilitators. For 15 years Lawrence was the managing director of FACTNet, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization (www.factnet.org) that is the largest education advocate and resource on the Internet for information that helps victims of destructive cults and abusive religious tactics recover. Lawrence had the good fortune to be personally mentored over the years by Dr. Margaret Singer (Professor Emeritus UC Berkeley) for over 20 years on the psychology, tactics and recovery from the abuses of mind control and destructive cults. (Dr. Singer was the world’s leading and most publicly recognized authority on mind control, destructive religious practices and destructive cults before her recent passing.) Both before and during Lawrence's tenure as a director at Factnet Lawrence was involved in a series of lawsuits with the infamous Scientology cult over a 32 year period. The success of these 5 lawsuits against Scientology has helped to establish important new legal precedents on the value and independence of freedom of thought and informed consent in claimed religious settings. These important new legal precedents are now part of the first year constitutional law classes for many US law students. In addition to those legal precedents Lawrence helped to win the largest California SLAPP (Stragic Lawsuits Against Public Participation,) judgment to date against an organization (Scientology,) that was using excesses in litigation tactics to unfairly financially overwhelm, harass and intimidate an under-funded non-profit social advocacy organization (Factnet.) To date Lawrence has been the only individual to ever successfully sue the Scientology cult and collect all of the full judgments.  In addition to his role as a director at IS and his involvement with FACTNet, Lawrence was the founder and managing director of HealthKeeper Inc., a software company specializing in assisting dieters and diabetics for 20 years.    [ Back to Spiritual / Consciousness Experiences | Sections index ]