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Elizabeth Lesser is the co-founder and senior advisor of Omega Institute. She is the author of The Seeker's Guide and Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow. For 30 years she has studied and worked with leading figures in the field of healing-healing self and healing society. Since 2002, she and Eve Ensler have spearheaded Omega's and V-Day's Women and Power conferences-electrifying dialogues between women activists, artists, and those in leadership positions around the world.
Formerly a midwife and birth educator, she has taught workshops on emotional intelligence, meditation, women's issues, and death and dying. She has appeared on national radio and television, and lectured at college campuses, retreat centers, and conferences nationwide. Besides her ongoing work at Omega, she is the mother of three grown sons, and serves on the board of directors of the Woodstock Land Conservancy. Lesser attended Barnard College and San Francisco State University.
 Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
In this beautifully crafted blend of moving stories, humorous insights, practical guidance, and personal memoir, Elizabeth Lesser offers tools to help us make the choice we all face in times of challenge: Will we be broken down and defeated, or broken open and transformed? Lesser shares tales of ordinary people who have risen from the ashes of illness, divorce, loss of a job or a loved one - stronger and wiser.
 Elizabeth Lesser was recently interviewed by Oprah Winfrey on her Sirius XM Radio broadcast Oprah & Friends. Lesser discusses her career, Omega, and her celebrated book
The Seeker's Guide.
 Oprah Winfrey's Interview with Elizabeth Lesser (9min)
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