Online Programme Speakers

Dicken Bettinger, Ed.D., received his doctorate in counselling psychology and has worked during his career as a licensed clinical psychologist. Dicken’s entire career has focused on psychological well-being. In 1986 he met Sydney Banks, who shared a profound new understanding of the human mind called the Three Principles that unifies our connection to a deeper intelligence called wisdom and our psychological nature. While living in Vermont, Dicken co-founded one of the first Three Principles training, counselling, and education centres.

Later Dicken served as a senior staff at Pransky and Associates in La Conner, Washington for 16 years, where he developed and led corporate and university leadership trainings, team development, and executive coaching. In 2012 Dicken founded his private practice, 3 Principles Mentoring. He offers 4-day immersion retreats for individuals; practitioner development; and advanced training programs. He enjoys leading group seminars in the US and Europe. Dicken is the co-author of a book on the Three Principles called Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-being.

Dicken has been happily married for 52 years. He has two adult children and four adored grandchildren. He enjoys photography, hiking, canoeing, and exploring new places, especially in nature.

Catherine has been teaching 3 Principles Programs to a wide range of people in many different environments throughout the world for the past 25 years.

Catherine has implemented a Principle Based Resiliency Program in the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, and a Principles Program in Santa Clara County Corrections Facilities for both adults and juveniles, San Jose, California. She has conducted trainings in the UK, Spain, Belgium, Israel, Finland, Norway and Russia.

Persons wanting to advance their consulting/coaching careers also seek her out for her mentoring services. Many of the environments that Catherine has consulted in include: Fortune 500 Corporations, i.e.: Dow Chemical, BAE Defense Systems, Chlorox, and Boston Scientific. Medical Centers, State and County Government organizations, Adult and Juvenile Criminal Justice Systems (including San Quentin Prison), Law Enforcement, Educational Institutions (Elementary through College), Psychiatric Residential Facilities, and Addiction Treatment Programs, and Social Services Agencies.

Catherine’s passion and vision are to reignite the resiliency and wisdom in all persons in any environment through the understanding of the 3 Principles. She currently lives in San Jose, California.

Chip and Jan had the honor of being mentored by Sydney Banks from 1975 until 2009. From 1994 to 2004 they conducted retreats with him in Europe and North America. His guidance during these events about sharing in as deep and simple a manner as possible, guides their work to this day. Over the years, Chip and Jan have created and conducted extensive programs in corporate, not for profit, educational, community and correctional settings, including a state prison, county jails and residential drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers. They currently share their understanding though speaking engagements, retreats and webinars worldwide. From their base on Salt Spring Island, they offer one on one Skype sessions as well as retreats for individuals, couples, and groups. The books and recordings of Sydney Banks are fundamental to all their work, helping countless people find happiness and understanding after being touched by those original materials. Chip is President of the Three Principles Foundation, and in 2008, co-founded the Three Principles School on Salt Spring Island, dedicated to sharing the simplicity and purity of the Three Principles, “As discovered and taught by Sydney Banks”.

Dr Mark Howard is a Mentor and Coach who first brought the Three Principles into the mental health field. Mark is one of the original professionals who studied with Sydney Banks. Since 1982, Dr Howard has been teaching clients, families, business professionals, mental health practitioners and coaches about these principles. He has developed a trainer of trainer program in both the US and the UK. Dr Howard has now dedicated himself to mentor and coach anyone who would like to share the principles with impact and love.

Dr. George Pransky is one of the two professional founders of the understanding of The Principles of Mind, Thought and Consciousness. He has taught the Principles for over thirty years to individuals, couples, businesses and colleagues. Dr. Pransky is the author of The Relationship Handbook and over fifty audio recordings. During his career, he has served on the faculty of three graduate universities and continues to pioneer this understanding in new industries. Currently, he is a partner at Pransky and Associates and on the executive committee of the Three Principles Global Community.

Linda Pransky went to graduate school at The University of Washington in 1975. She specialized in psycho-social nursing, because she had an interest in learning how people change. She learned techniques and approaches to helping people, but nothing seemed long lasting and beneficial. When she met Sydney Banks in 1976 she saw a way for people to really change. Her vision became one of helping people seek real and long lasting change. Linda is currently on the executive committee of the Three Principles Global Community, recent faculty member for the One Thought Institute and Partner at Pransky and Associates.

Chana is originally from Israel and moved to the UK in 2001 when she married her husband Shaul. Together they are blessed with eight beautiful children and five grandchildren.

Chana has been working and sharing the Three Principles for close to a decade. Chana originally trained in family counselling before coming across the Three Principles in 2011. Seeing this approach as revolutionary, she turned her focus in this direction completely. She graduated from the One Thought Professional Institute in 2012 and was a faculty member from 2013 – 2019. Chana has been mentored by many of Sydney Banks’s students, including Dr George and Linda Pransky and Elsie Spittle.

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Currently, Chana is the Director of CR Practice. Since 2012, CR Practice has shared the Three Principles understanding with packages specifically designed for different sectors of the community including youth, students, educators, individuals, couples, parents and families.

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Chana has also developed and facilitated an eighteen-month Training Programme for the Rabbinic Training Academy in London and is the Wellbeing Director of Better World Charity. She is also the Director of the CR Practice Wellbeing Clinic where she mentors and develops new practitioners who are looking for a deeper understanding and more experience in sharing the Three Principles.

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Chana is a regular presenter at seminars around the world and speaks annually at the 3PUK conference in London.

Shaul grew up in Liverpool and still supports the best team in football. Shaul founded Aish UK in 1993 and Tikun in 2006. He is known for his dry wit and engaging talks. He enjoys most things in life, believes in a world of wisdom, spiritual growth, love of humanity and a commitment to building a better world. Being a Rabbi with plentiful experience as a spiritual mentor and counsellor of mental and emotional wellbeing, Shaul’s understanding of the human experience – coupled with his unique sense of humour – makes for a hub of wisdom and insight. Shaul and his lovely wife Chana reside with their 8 beautiful children in London, UK.

Judith A. Sedgeman, EdD has been dedicated to sharing the Principles of Mind, Consciousness and Thought professionally for more than 30 years. Dr. Sedgeman has worked with many other practitioners of the Three Principles throughout the United States and around the world, She has been a consultant, a University professor, an Institute Director, and a mentor to individuals and groups, always dedicated to awakening health and well-being across diverse populations. She is the author of a book about that journey, It All Started with a Bird, as well as co-producer of a Podcast called Psychology Has it Backwards. You can learn more about her at her website, three-principles.com.