Ami Chen Mills-Naim

Ami Chen Mills-Naim is a global speaker, coach, trainer, editor and author of State of Mind in the Classroom: Thought, Consciousness and the Essential Curriculum for Healthy Learning and The Spark Inside: A Special Book for Youth. She also wrote a book on student political activism on college campuses just after her graduation from Northwestern University in Communications, Film and Creative Writing in 1989.

With her late father, the social scientist Dr. Roger Mills (considered a pioneer of “Three Principles” work globally) she co-founded the non-profit Center for Sustainable Change, and served as its Executive Director and Education Director for a decade. In this role, she raised nearly one million dollars in funding for Principles-based/innate resiliency programs across the U.S. She has been an international speaker on innate wellness and resiliency, and a trainer of the “Three Principles” for 20 years, as well as a “trainer of trainers.”

Most recently, Ami has joined and been an active participant within the Positive Deep Adaptation professional online forum, initiated by University of Cumbria Professor Jem Bendell, after release of his global and viral paper on climate collapse, “Deep Adaptation.” She has been a lobbyist and volunteer for Citizens Climate Lobby, meeting with Jimmy Panetta and others in Washington DC, and helped co-found the Santa Cruz Chapter of Extinction Rebellion. She also serves on the International Regenerative Culture Working Group for Extinction Rebellion bringing the innate resiliency/Three Principles paradigm to this group.

Ami has worked with children, youth, families and communities for more than 25 years. Through relationships with major foundations, Ami developed large-scale community resiliency projects involving schools, community agencies, parent groups and private partnership. Through her writing, teaching and project leadership, Ami has made a significant global impact on spiritual consciousness, and has been instrumental in producing literature and video programs on applications of the Principles with youth, families and in communities across the USA. She is former Director of the National Community Resiliency Project, funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation–bringing the Principles of Mind, Consciousness and Thought to communities, groups and organizations in Charlotte, North Carolina, the Mississippi Delta, Des Moines, Iowa and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Read more about Ami and her work at http://www.amichen.com.