Message from David Lynch
I started Transcendental Meditation® in 1973 and have not missed a single meditation ever since. Twice a day, every day. It has given me effortless access to unlimited reserves of energy, creativity and happiness deep within. This level of life is sometimes called “pure consciousness”—it is a treasury. And this level of life is deep within us all.
But I had no idea how powerful and profound this technique could be until I saw firsthand how it was being practiced by young children in inner-city schools, veterans who suffer the living hell of post-traumatic stress disorder and women and girls who are victims of terrible violence.
TM is, in a word, life changing for the good.
In 2005, we started the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace to ensure that every child anywhere in the world who wanted to learn to meditate could do so. Now, the Foundation is actively teaching TM to adults and children in countries everywhere.
How are we able to do it? Because of the generosity of foundations and philanthropists and everyday people who want to ease the suffering of others—and who want to help create a better world.
If you don’t already meditate, take my advice: Start. It will be the best decision you ever make.
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Trustees
David Lynch
David Lynch, founder and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace, is an award-winning director, writer, and producer. His work includes Eraserhead, Elephant Man, Wild at Heart, Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, Lost Highway, Straight Story, Mulholland Drive, and INLANDEMPIRE.
Peter Warburton, PhD, MInstLM
Dr Warburton is Chairman of the David Lynch Foundation registered charity in the UK. He is also Chairman of the Maharishi Foundation group in the UK, comprising four registered charities and nine companies working in the areas of self-development and natural health care. Dr Warburton has his master’s degree from Cambridge University (physiology and sociology) and his PhD in political science. He is a Member of the UK Institute of Leadership and Management.
Over the past four decades, Dr Warburton has trained 3,000 teachers of Transcendental Meditation from all over the world, and has worked on the development of numerous publications and courses on Transcendental Meditation and its application in different areas of society. He has worked with leaders of government, education, and industry in many countries to implement Maharishi’s programmes.
John Hagelin, Ph.D.
Dr Hagelin is a leading scientist and public policy expert, chief advisor to the Congressional Prevention Coalition, and director of the Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy—a public policy think tank at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa. He directs the implementation of the Transcendental Meditation programme in government, schools, and hospitals nationwide. Dr Hagelin is Chairman of the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace in USA.
Nigel Barlow
Nigel Barlow is an Oxford-educated barrister. He is a keynote speaker and coach to many of the world’s leading companies, focusing on creativity, innovation, and leadership. He is also the author of Batteries Included – Creating Legendary Customer Service (Random House) and Rethink – How To Think Differently (Wiley). He has been a teacher of Transcendental Meditation for 35 years.
Norma Sullivan RMN, RGN, NDN
Norma Sullivan is a qualified nurse with experience working in many different areas of health care. She has been a teacher of Transcendental Meditation for 30 years, and is a strong supporter of Consciousness-Based Education in the UK, having worked closely with the Maharishi Free School in Lancashire – which has offered CBE for more than 20 years.
Deirdre Parsons, PGCE, PhD
Deirdre Parsons is Executive Director for the David Lynch Foundation UK. After studying design and art history, she has followed a career in education. For the last 25 years she has had extensive experience working as a lecturer, curriculum developer, promoter, and education advisor within the public and charity sectors. During the last two decades she has specialised in the development of education to improve health and well being, and has also trained as a teacher of Transcendental Meditation.
Bob Roth
Bob Roth is the Executive Director of the David Lynch Foundation in the USA where he has helped to direct the introduction of the TM programme to over 150,000 at-risk students in 130 public and charter schools in the United States, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa. He also serves as national director of the Center for Leadership Performance, where he oversees the introduction of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) programme in business, industry, and governmental organisations.
Board of Advisors
Russell Simmons
Mr. Simmons is Chair and CEO of Rush Communications. He was recently named one of the “Top 25 Most Influential People of the Past 25 Years” by USA Today for his groundbreaking entrepreneurial vision. From creating Def Jam Recordings in 1984 to the 2007 publication of his New York Times bestseller Do You!, his influence in music, fashion, finance, television, film and philanthropy is recognized globally. A devoted practitioner of the Transcendental Meditation technique and yoga, Russell also leads the nonprofit division of his empire, Rush Community Affairs, which is dedicated to empowering at-risk youth.
Gary P. Kaplan, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Kaplan is a neurologist and clinical associate professor of neurology at Hofstra University School of Medicine. Dr. Kaplan received the Albert H. Douglas Award from the Medical Society of the State of New York for outstanding achievements as a clinical teacher interested in promoting and improving the medical education of physicians.
William R. Stixrud, Ph.D.
Dr. Stixrud is a clinical neuropsychologist and director of William Stixrud and Associates in Silver Spring, Maryland, a group practice specializing in the neuropsychological assessment of children, adolescents and adults with learning, attentional/executive and/or emotional disorders. Dr. Stixrud is also a member of the clinical supervisory faculty of the Children’s National Medical Center and holds an appointment in the Department of Psychiatry at George Washington University School of Medicine.
Frank Staggers, Jr., M.D.
Dr. Staggers is a practitioner of addiction medicine and general medicine and the senior drug detoxification specialist at the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic’s Drug Rehabilitation Program. He is also the former director of the alcohol, drug and methadone programs at the West Oakland Health Center. Dr. Staggers has been an investigator on multiple federal research grants, including research on the effects of the Transcendental Meditation® program on cardiovascular disease.
César Molina, M.D., F.A.C.C.P.
Dr. Molina is an interventional cardiologist in the Palo Alto area. He is a graduate of the Yale University School of Medicine and completed his fellowship in the Department of Cardiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Molina also serves as a medical consultant on the health benefits of the Transcendental Meditation program for adults and children.
George H. Rutherford, Ph.D.
Dr. Rutherford was the principal and chief operating officer of the Fletcher-Johnson Educational Center in Washington, D.C., for 30 years. He is currently principal of the Ideal Academy Public Charter School in the District. Dr. Rutherford introduced the Transcendental Meditation technique to hundreds of students and faculty at Fletcher-Johnson in 1994.
Carmen N’Namdi
Ms. N’Namdi is co-founder and principal of the Nataki Talibah Schoolhouse of Detroit; chair of the Board of the National Charter School Institute; and member of the Board of the Michigan Association of Public School Academies. Nataki is an award-winning middle school where 120 teachers and students practice the Transcendental Meditation technique together twice a day.
Ralph Wolff
Mr. Wolff is the executive director of the Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), which accredits nearly 150 colleges and universities in California and throughout the Western region. He is a strong proponent of the use of the Transcendental Meditation program for students.
Ashley Deans, Ph.D.
Dr. Deans is a quantum physicist and lifelong educator who has served for 15 years as the director of the award-winning Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment in Fairfield, Iowa. Maharishi School is affiliated with Ideal Girls School and Maharishi University of Management—model Consciousness-Based educational institutions in the world.
Linda Handy, Ph.D.
Dr. Handy is the principal of the Waldorf School in Silver Spring, Maryland, and the former academic director of the Chelsea School, a private school in Silver Spring, which specializes in children with language-based learning disabilities, and where research was conducted on the effects of the TM program on attention deficit–hyperactivity disorders (ADHD).
Sarina Grosswald, Ed.D.
Dr. Grosswald is an expert in cognitive learning; president of SJ Grosswald & Associates, a consulting firm in medical education in Alexandria, Virginia; and director of continuing medical education for the American Medical Women’s Association. She is also project director for the research study on the Transcendental Meditation program at the Chelsea School.
Our Mission
We are dedicated to helping people of all ages from all walks of life in the UK and worldwide overcome stress, suffering, and hardship, and unfold the full potential of life. As the UK branch of the David Lynch Foundation UK (DLF UK), we use stress-reducing programmes that are scientifically proven to promote creativity, happiness, success, and peace. Our methodologies transform lives from within to create a more harmonious and peaceful world, especially focusing on groups who need it most, such as stressed teachers and students, the homeless, prisoners, and the many thousands of war veterans suffering from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Our approach
Stress in society is rising to epidemic levels. Many children and adults, particularly those who are disadvantaged and therefore at greater risk, are suffering from chronic stress and stress-related disorders—fuelling violence, crime, and ill health, and compromising the effectiveness of education, health care, rehabilitation, and vocational programmes.
We believe that for lasting transformation to take place on the outside then change must begin within. To achieve this profound change we employ programmes that help to unfold the full potential of the individual, at the same time as reducing stress, promoting creativity and energy, increasing academic performance, and improving health and happiness. Healthy, creative, peaceful individuals are the basis of a healthy, creative, peaceful world.
We focus in particular on bringing this approach to education to overcome the epidemic of stress in the classroom for both students and teachers, but we also wish to reach all at-risk groups and the wider society. The effectiveness of the programmes that we use, which includes Transcendental Meditation as founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, has been established in hundreds of published scientific studies.
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