Author Biography: Soren Gordhamer

Soren Gordhamer

Soren is the author of the forthcoming e-living: 2.0 Wisdom for the Creative and Constantly Connected. (Harper One, 2009). He is also co-founder of Zooleo, an Interactive Audience Engagement Platform that brings forth the primary interests, concerns, and wisdom of groups.

As a Project Director for Richard Gere's public charity, Healing the Divide, he organized the Healing through Great Difficulty conference, which brought His Holiness the Dalai Lama into discussion with formerly incarcerated teens and adults.

He is the founder of the Lineage Project, which offers awareness-based practices, such as meditationand yoga, to at-risk and incarcerated teens in New York City. The project won the Mayor's Voluntary Action Award from former NYC mayor Rudolph Guiliani.

Aloing with Meetings with Mentors, Soren is the author of the meditation book for teens, Just Say OM! (Adams Media, 2001) which Jon Kabat-Zinn called, "This is a great book, so down-to-earth, so real, so wise. Soren makes meditation coming alive. In fact, he makes living come alive."

Soren has been featured in GQ Magazine, Newsweek magazine and has written for Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Ascent Magazine, Inquiring Mind, and Mandala Magazine.