The special guest speaker for Parenting with Love and Wisdom is Diane Tillman. Diane encountered the Brahma Kumaris in India in 1981 while taking a year-long sabbatical from her job as a School Psychologist in California. Dedicated to the practice of raja yoga, Diane has been the coordinator of the Brahma Kumaris Meditation Center in Seal Beach since 1983. She enjoys integrating the knowledge of psychology and spirituality. She has lectured and facilitated seminars on personal development in 30 countries, and been involved with numerous international initiatives. Because of her background as an Licensed Educational Psychologist, in 1995 the BKs asked her to write a chapter on values activities for children for their publication “Living Values: A Guidebook”. When this morphed into an international values education initiative, she resigned from her job to write for the program. The primary author of the award-winning Living Values Education Series of five books, she has written ten additional educational resources for at-risk youth, a parenting guide, and updated the original series of books. Diane has traveled to all regions of the world to conduct training and LVE seminars at conferences and in refugee camps, for educators, street-children agencies and UNESCO.