Yael Altaratz
Over 15 years, I’ve worked as an organizational consultant in Israel, training managers in communication skills, team building and customer care.  When I turned 40, I decided to go for a Buddhist way of life. I was lucky enough to find the FPMT and immediately started an in-depth study program at Nalanda Monastery, France. After 5 years and a 3-month retreat, I graduated and became a certified teacher. After graduation I stayed in Nalanda for five more years, doing the same program again, but this time as a teaching assistant, supporting the students with presentations, clarifying the teachings etc.
In the recent years, I have been teaching the Israeli FPMT Shantideva group. From October 2022 on, I’ll join the team of Human Spirit. 

Andrea Bocconi,
Lucca, Italy 1950-, Psychologist Psychotherapist, Author. Trained in Psychosuynthesis , has studied with Roberto Assagioli and Piero FerrucciSenior trainer of SIPT , Italian society of psychosynthesis therapist : Psykosyntes Akademin, Stokholm. Training educators, has worked in different countries, including India and Nicaragua. Cofounder and scientific coordinator of Verso Foundation, Italy

Iris Gavrieli Rahabi
M.A, Clinical Psychologist and Training Psychoanalyst in the Israel Psychoanalytic Society. Member in the Leading committee of Human Spirit – Psychoanalytic-Buddhist Training Program, Head of the Psychoanalytic domain and the chairperson of the Teaching committee. Teacher and supervisor in various Psychoanalytic training institutes and psychotherapy programs, Tel Aviv University, School of Medicine. Member of the Israel Association for Self Psychology and the Study of Subjectivity. Private practice in Tel Aviv.

Karina Goldberg
PhD, Clinical Psychologist, and a Training Psychoanalyst in the Tel Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. A member of the Israel association for Self Psychology and the Study of Subjectivity. A council member of the IAPSP. Deeply involved in the establishment of ‘Human Spirit’ the Psychoanalytic־Buddhist Training Program and currently serve as a member of its leading committee. Teaches Self Psychology within the Self Psychology community as well as at outer circles – Teacher at the School of Psychotherapy at the Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University and at the Tel Aviv Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. 

Raanan Kulka
M.A., training and supervising analyst for children, adolescents and adults, Israel Psychoanalytic Society and Israel Institute for Psychoanalysis (IPA). Chair, Human Spirit – Psychoanalytic-Buddhist Training Program, Lod Israel, a joint international project of: Israel Association for Self Psychology and the Study of Subjectivity – Lama Tzong Khapa Institute for the Study and Practice of Buddhism in the Tibetan Tradition, Pomaia, Italy. Teaching faculty member: Program of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University; Kulka is a member of the Council of The International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, committed to the cultivating and dissemination of Kohut`s psychoanalytic legacy and ethical vision. Kulka`s list of publications consists of dozens of book chapters and papers published in major psychoanalytical journals in Israel and abroad. Additional amount of more than 100 papers have been presented as lectures in conferences in Israel and abroad. Raanan is taking care of his patients and enjoy studying together with his supervisees and colleagues in Shoresh, Israel. Raanan is studying and practicing Buddhism. 

Menachem (Menny) Mautner
Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Law of Tel Aviv University. He obtained his J.S.D. from Yale Law School. He is the authors of 10 books, the editor of 6 books, and the author of over 110 articles published in Israel, the United States, Britain, Germany and Poland. An Italian version of his book “Law and the Culture of Israel” (Oxford University Press, 2012) was published in Milan in 2014 — “Dirito e Cultura in Israele”. His futuristic political novel “Yes, We Can”, published in Hebrew in 2019, appeared in Arabic in 2022.  

Talya Miller Pogrund

Clinical psychologist. Candidate of Human Spirit Psychoanalytic-Buddhist Training Program. Member of the Israel Association for Self Psychology and the Study of Subjectivity. Studies at Boston Institute for Psychotherapy, USA and studies in Self-Psychology at the Medical School, Tel-Aviv University. Private practice providing psychotherapy for children, adolescents, and adults in Kfar Ha’Oranim, Israel. 

Uri Movshovitz

Ph.D. Supervising Clinical Psychologist. Candidate of Human Spirit Psychoanalytic-Buddhist Training Program. Mental Consultant to top Israeli athletes, on behalf of the Olympic Committee. Worked as a Psychologist in post-hospitalize boarding school. Former Manager of the Psychology Department in the P.M.O. Practices Tai-chi. Private practice, Tel Aviv & Modiin.

Filippo Scianna

Lawyer. Master in family, civic and criminal mediation at the University of Padua. Role of team leader in an English multinational company operating in the insurance sector. Mindfulness instructor trained within the MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) program managed by AIM (Italian Mindfulness Association) Master Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Former director of the Lama Tzong Khapa Institute and current President of the Italian Buddhist Union.

Andrea Shalom Kornhauser
Clinical psychologist and a senior psychoanalytic candidate at the Israel Psychoanalytic Society.  Andrea is a faculty member at Human Spirit, Psychoanalytic-Buddhist training program in the city of Lod and is affiliated with the Israel Association for Self Psychology and the Study of Subjectivity. She resides with her family in Jerusalem and works in her private practice. 

Vincenzo Tallarico is a qualified psychologist, psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, psychosomatist and Sand Play therapist. Ordinary Member of the Italian Association for research in Analytical Psychology (A.I.P.A.) and the International Association of Analytical Psychology (I.A.A.P.). Teacher of the Specialization Course in psycho-physical and meditative relaxation techniques at Lama Tzong Khapa Institute, Pomaia (PI).
Founder member of the Italian Association in Psychosomatic research (AIRP) – seat: Livorno Civil Hospital. Professor of Dynamic Psychology at UNITRE (University of the third age) in Cecina.

Ven. Sonam Wangchuk         

I came to India in 1993 and since then I have studied Buddhism in sera je monastery (Tehor Khamtsen). Geshe Gedun Cheophel and Geshe Lobsang Delek are my teachers. I finished all five fields of Geluk main texts in 2010 and then I went to learn sakyapa, nyimapa, kagyupa, jonangpa, and Bon madhiyamika tradition. After all, I could write a book which I have called “Meditation of madiyamika and description of science”. That book was printed two times in India and three times printed in Tibet.  In 2013 Tibetan Religion department in exile requested me to write a book about Buddhism for the beginners of the Tibetan new generation and at the same time Tibetan university in Sarnath requested to be Guest lecturer in that university. So, I did take responsibility for both. I finished that writing in 2015 and it was printed by the Tibetan Government. After I got great time to show me to His Holiness I mean the first book, at times His Holiness told me you should write another book which should be based on lama Tsokhapa’ GuhysamajTantra. As His Holiness wishes I could finish last year and print India and in Tibet so successfully.