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Thursday Sharing Group

Our sharing groups welcome everyone, not just near-death experiencers. They offer a safe space to openly discuss near-death experiences, spiritually transformative experiences, or simply engage in conversations on these topics (or simply enjoy listening). All are welcome!

Please join us for the next IANDS Sharing group!

Facilitator: TBD

IANDS Sharing Groups are open to everyone, not just near-death experiencers. They provide a safe space to share spiritually transformative experiences and explore related topics. Of course, you’re always welcome to simply listen. All are welcome!

IANDS hosts these groups using the simple and user-friendly Zoom video conferencing program. To participate, you must create an account with IANDS Sharing Groups Online. After registering, you’ll receive a confirmation email with a link to join. Alternatively, you can return to the reservation page on the event date and click the “Join Event” button, which becomes active 15 minutes before the scheduled start time.

Our sharing groups are free for everyone! IANDS relies on charitable contributions to support staffing and administration, and we sincerely appreciate your donations to help us continue providing a meaningful group experience.

Anyone with a genuine interest in near-death and related experiences is welcome. You’re invited to share, learn, or simply listen in one of our twelve monthly sharing groups. These are safe spaces where you can engage at your own comfort level. If you prefer, you may leave your camera off until you’re ready to turn it on, but we encourage you to enter your name in your video box, even if your camera remains off.

Each group is led by a trained facilitator who will review the IANDS Sharing Group guidelines. Facilitators ensure that everyone has an opportunity to share while maintaining a safe, neutral, and respectful space for all participants.

Please note that these groups are peer-to-peer sharing spaces and do not provide counseling. Sessions last approximately 90 minutes, and to preserve the group’s sense of safety, security, and privacy, access will close 15 minutes after the scheduled start time.

A Possibility – Lessons and Gifts from a Near-Death Experience

In this intimate and transformative talk, Jeanette shares the inner truths revealed through her Near-Death Experience — insights about resonance, identity, and the unique frequency each person carries. Rather than focusing on dramatic details, she invites listeners into a deeper recognition of their own power: that we are not victims of life, but creators within it. Through her story, attendees are reminded of their inherent inner authority and leave with a renewed sense of their own vibration, clarity, and possibility.

In this heartfelt and transformative talk, Jeanette shares the essence of her Near-Death Experience and the profound clarity it awakened within her. Rather than focusing on the dramatic details, she brings forward the deep inner truths she encountered — truths about resonance, identity, and the unique vibration every human carries.

Jeanette explores how her NDE revealed the possibility that we are not victims of life, but creators within it. She speaks about the moment she understood that we each hold a frequency that is ours alone, and that aligning with it can change everything — how we heal, how we choose, and how we show up in the world.

This talk invites attendees into a space of recognition and remembrance: that each person has their own medicine to offer, their own truth to live from, and their own way forward that begins within. Through her lived experience, Jeanette opens a doorway into what becomes possible when we stop seeing ourselves through fear or limitation, and instead reclaim the inner authority we are born with.

Attendees will leave with a deeper sense of resonance, a renewed awareness of their own unique vibration, and inspiration to step into the creator within — the part of us that knows we are not powerless, and never have been.

About Jeanette:
Jeanette Bergelin Hedström is an entrepreneur, speaker, retreat host, coach and near-death experiencer from Sweden. She is co-founder of IANDS Sweden and a facilitator for IANDS USA.
Her work focuses on authenticity, self-love, consciousness, and helping others integrate extraordinary experiences into everyday life. She runs Sju Sjöar, a creative healing retreat center on the Swedish west coast.

Jeanette’s websites:

https://www.healingdoll.com

www.sjusjoar.se

Jeanette on social media:

https://www.instagram.com/jeanettehbergelin/

https://www.instagram.com/healingdoll/

www.facebook.com/NettanH/

Jeanette’s book: https://a.co/d/41ucjFL

This event will be recorded and available to view on our Videos page 3-5 business days after the live event!

Sunday PM Sharing Group

Please join us for the next IANDS Sharing group!

Facilitator: Richard Knecht

Open Spirituality Group

This is a safe space for respectful open discussion of whatever Spirituality means to you. Open Spirituality has zero dogma or doctrine. It’s about a personal relationship with the Divine with zero requirements other than your intent to connect with like-minded people for stimulating conversation. Open Spirituality is a “non-religion.” It’s a place to share spiritual experiences and beliefs without a religious context. Religious contexts like churches, synagogues, mosques, and such are often the only place where people feel comfortable discussing spiritual concepts, but those places often feel artificially constrained once one has had an NDE or an STE. This group is for people who consider themselves spiritual but who may not be comfortable with traditional religions and religious beliefs and practices.

Open Spirituality Sharing Group
4th Sundays at 1 pm ET/ 10 am PT

The Open Spirituality group is an open gathering space for those who are looking for a place to share personal spiritual perspectives without dogma or doctrine, where everyone respects differing beliefs and perspectives.

The conversation will include our usual open discussion of everything spiritual where nothing is off-limits.

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What does spirituality mean to you? How has your understanding of spirituality evolved? How has spirituality challenged you in this life? This monthly group is a safe space for respectful open discussion of whatever Spirituality means to you.

Open Spirituality has NO dogma or doctrine. It’s about having a personal relationship with the Divine with zero requirements other than your intent to connect with like-minded people for stimulating spiritual conversation.

Open Spirituality is a “non-religion.” It’s a place to share spiritual experiences and beliefs without a religious context. Religious contexts like churches, synagogues, mosques, and such are often the only place where people feel comfortable discussing spiritual concepts but those places often feel artificially constrained once one has had an NDE or an STE. This group is for people who consider themselves spiritual but who may not be comfortable with traditional religions and religious beliefs and practices.

“Open Spirituality” is perhaps best defined by these quotes:

- - “Kindness is my religion.” – Dalai Lama
  - “Religion is an external practice. Spirituality is a state of mind.”
  - “Religion is about beliefs. Spirituality is about being.”
  - “The best religion is the one that brings you closest to God.”
  - “Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing,
    there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” – Rumi

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If you want to convert the time of this meeting to your own time zone anywhere in the world, you can use this link:
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Let go of any preconceived ideas of spirituality! We explore the subject of spirituality from every conceivable perspective. This group combines open discussion with presentations and occasional guest interviews all centered around the broadest definitions of spirituality.

This group:

- - Respects and values all perspectives;
  - Is inclusive of all perspectives,
  - Welcomes all that seek to explore and investigate the mysteries of life;
  - Seeks to find the common ground that ties everything together;
  - Feels that science and spirituality are 2 sides of the same whole;
  - Sends love and understanding to all beings.

If you like subjects that are “out there” with a spiritual, philosophical, and/or theological perspective, this group is for you!

Religions generally come from an exclusive perspective that can be very limiting. Open spirituality is inclusive and it respects and values the vast diversity of perspectives we each represent.

This group is for you if ANY of the following statements resonate:

- - You feel constrained by societal boundaries/definitions of spirituality and/or religion;
  - You consider yourself ‘spiritual’ but not religious (SBNR);
  - you love your religious community, but feel there is more to spirituality;
  - You believe in the Oneness of all that is;
  - You believe in the equality of all beings;
  - You love the mystery of life/existence and you would like to explore it in more depth;
  - You love God/Source/Creator, but feel that those terms are too limiting;

The Open Spirituality group will explore and discuss the most inspiring spiritual aspects of all religious traditions, philosophies, theologies, cosmologies, and *experiences* like STEs, NDEs, OBEs, alien encounters, psychic phenomena, mediumship, the healing arts, and such.

Open Spirituality welcomes people from all faith traditions. It does not promote any particular belief or theology other than the belief that we are all spiritual beings.

Proponents are self-proclaimed and all are welcome and supported as long as they are open, inclusive, and supportive of the beliefs of others. Open Spirituality welcomes atheists and agnostics as well since the belief in the existence of a deity is a matter of personal opinion.

“Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of the opinions of others drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.” – Steve Jobs

Lastly, the following excerpt from Wikipedia seems appropriate:
“Spiritual but not religious” (SBNR), also known as “spiritual but not affiliated” (SBNA), or the “Nones” are some of the phrases used to self-identify a life stance of spirituality that does not regard organized religion as the sole or most valuable means of furthering spiritual growth.

For these groups, IANDS uses the Zoom video conferencing system. After registering for the event, it’s as simple as clicking the link provided in your email (prior to the event).

These sharing groups are free to everyone!

We are a non-profit. Donations provide the funding to support the technology that runs these groups. If you are able to make a donation, it would be greatly appreciated. We thank you in advance for your kind and generous donations.

Donation

About the host, Daniel Endy:

Daniel has been on the spiritual path ever since he was a youngster. He was brought up in the Catholic religious tradition and attended Catholic schools. As with many people, Daniel was comfortable with spirituality but he had trouble with religious dogma and he sought deeper truths. As a teen, Daniel left Catholicism and became what he calls a “spiritual independent.” He searched and researched extensively finding “tidbits” of wisdom here and there at first. Over time he found his way to more and more spiritual teachings that resonated as truth for him. He believes that each person’s journey and “truth” is unique and that it evolves as each person does.

Daniel often thought of how he wanted an open community of people who were spiritual but non-dogmatic. He envisioned a group that would be welcoming and inclusive for all without limits. Open Spirituality is that dream manifested. All are welcome. All perspectives are respected. We don’t need to invalidate beliefs that we disagree with. We can all co-exist in peace.

Sunday AM Sharing Group

Please join us for the next IANDS Sharing group!

Facilitator: Catherine Chapey

IANDS Healthcare Professionals Group

The group will primarily focus on the near-death experience, and/or other related spiritually transformative experiences, and include those who are practicing professionally in the healthcare field – physicians, surgeons, nurses, counselors, therapists, child psychiatrists, psychologists, pediatricians, related support workers, caregivers, health and wellness coaches, and patients with chronic disease or cancer, but is open to all with an interest to learn and understand more deeply.

The IANDS Healthcare Professionals Group will focus on exploring near-death experiences, end-of-life journeys, and other related spiritually transformative experiences. While rooted in healthcare contexts, this group welcomes a broad spectrum of perspectives and experiences that touch the mystery, meaning, and transformation often encountered through illness, dying, and other profound thresholds of human experience.

This group welcomes professionals practicing in the healthcare and healing fields, including physicians, nurses, surgeons, therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, pediatricians, clergy, spiritual care providers, chaplains, pastoral counselors, personal support workers, and health and wellness practitioners. It also includes patients living with chronic illness, as well as caregivers and others with lived experience. That said, participation is not limited to professionals; all who are drawn to or have an interest in this subject matter are warmly invited to join.

Date & time: Monthly / last Friday of each month / 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EST

Facilitator: Dr. Keyaunoosh Kassauei

Group Description: The IANDS Healthcare Professionals Group is intended to bring together practitioners from across the spectrum of healthcare, local, national, and internationally, in the spirit of IANDS sharing groups. This monthly gathering offers a welcoming space for healthcare professionals and those with lived experience to explore near-death, end-of-life, and other spiritually transformative experiences. Sessions will serve both as a platform for personal and professional sharing and as an educational forum. Occasional guest speakers will introduce topics related to emotional and spiritual intelligence, while discussions will also emphasize the interconnection of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Each month will feature a themed topic, with relevant research articles, clinical insights, and perspectives from both science and spirit to support integrative understanding.

We commit to respecting all who attend this group, knowing each person holds their perspectives and beliefs. To ensure a respectful and supportive environment, all participants are asked to honor confidentiality and practice compassionate, nonjudgmental listening. This group is committed to fostering a safe space for authentic dialogue, reflections, and connection.

2025 Meeting Dates: January 31, February 28, March 28, April 25, May 30, June 27, July 25, August TBD, September 26, October 31, November 25, December TBD.

About the Facilitator:

Following Dr. Keyaunoosh Kassauei’s studies as an International Medical Graduate (IMG) and completing a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, her trajectory shifted gradually after her own Near Death Experience (2006) toward coaching in healthcare and leadership. Recognizing this movement as her calling, Dr. Kassauei established a 501C3 non-profit dedicated to serving the community, particularly in healthcare, education, and leadership.

As the founder of “My Conscious Coaching,”
a non-profit, and active fellow at the Institute of Coaching at Harvard/McLean Hospital—a research-focused coaching institute, she generously continues to support and mentor other professionals in the healthcare field.

Keyaunoosh has extended invitations to esteemed IANDS leaders, pioneers, distinguished healthcare leaders, coaching authorities, and worldwide speakers to feature on her podcast. The focus revolves around vital topics crucial to humanity’s progress and the evolution of consciousness in life and leadership. These podcast discussions encompass NDEs and various spiritual transformational experiences, aiming to equip coaches, healthcare professionals, educators, and leaders with essential insights and skills. Her goal is to enhance the quality of care and foster individual and organizational growth within the medical community as a unified whole.

Notably, Keyaunoosh volunteers as a
certified facilitator and moderator for IANDS Groups & Events sharing groups. Additionally, she has contributed to and served the IANDS community as a Speaker/Panelist at the IANDS 2023 conference in Washington DC, and contributed her gifts in the Reiki program within the healing conversation and talk room.

Email Contact for Keyaunoosh: Coach@myconscious.org

Dr. Keyaunoosh Kassauei’s Website: http://www.myconscious.org

IANDS Supporter & ISGO Certified Facilitator/Moderator: https://isgo.iands.org/facilitators/

Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@myconsciouscoachinggroup/videos

IANDS NDE Radio interview with Lee Witting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2lNRiVu3IY&t=7s

Institute of Coaching: https://instituteofcoaching.org/about/kassauei-keyaunoosh

Dr. Keyaunoosh’s Washington DC (DMV) Local Group meets in person, 4PM – 5:30 PM EST (Last Friday of the month). The in-person location will be held at Inova Schar Cancer Institute, a state-of-the-art cancer center in the Washington, DC metro area. Quarterly, there will be a topic-based/educational meeting, either with a nominal fee or donation-based.

Inova Schar Cancer Institute – A Department of Inova Fairfax Hospital
Life with Cancer Suite, 2nd floor (across from the specialty gift shop) 8081 Innovation Park Drive, Fairfax, VA 22031

The closest Metro subway station is Dunn Loring-Merrifield on the orange line, approximately 2 miles from the building. The closest Metro bus stop is Blue 401 Gallows Rd & Willow Oaks Corp Dr., approximately 0.4 miles from the building.

We commit to respecting all who attend this group, knowing each person holds their perspectives and beliefs. This is a safe place of non-judgment. There is also no proselytizing.

These sharing groups are free to everyone! IANDS relies on charitable contributions to maintain staffing and administrative support. To continue to bring you a wonderful group experience, we thank you in advance for your kind donations.

Near-death Experience Spaces

New research! France Lerner shares: • NDEs are difficult to fully express through words alone, which creates limitations for research that relies only on narrative interview data.
• This talk introduces an alternative, hybrid method that combines chronological segmentation of the experience with participant-generated graphic reconstructions.
• The approach is designed to capture spatial, perceptual, and embodied aspects of NDEs and OBEs that may not emerge through verbal reports, offering researchers a complementary tool for future studies.

Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) are frequently described as ineffable, making them difficult to study through language-based research alone. This event presents an innovative multimodal methodology that goes beyond narrative testimonies by integrating chronological experience segmentation and participant-generated graphic reconstructions. These visual representations allow for the documentation of perceived spatial structures, embodied viewpoints, and motion trajectories that are not accessible through verbal accounts.
By examining how Out-of-Body Experiences (OBEs) and NDEs unfold over time, the study isolates the NDE core and clarifies its relationship to OBE phases whether distinct, overlapping, or sequentially dependent. The resulting visual data reveal consistent spatial invariants across participants, suggesting that NDE spaces may follow recognizable perceptual or cognitive organizing principles. Attendees will gain insight into an emerging research paradigm that expands the empirical accessibility of extraordinary experiences through structured visual and spatial documentation.

• NDEs are difficult to fully express through words alone, which creates limitations for research that relies only on narrative interview data.
• This talk introduces an alternative, hybrid method that combines chronological segmentation of the experience with participant-generated graphic reconstructions.
• The approach is designed to capture spatial, perceptual, and embodied aspects of NDEs and OBEs that may not emerge through verbal reports, offering researchers a complementary tool for future studies.

France Lerner, Ph.D., is an interdisciplinary artist-researcher and educator working at the intersection of visual art, altered-states research, and immersive technologies. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BIMSA), where she teaches courses in neuroaesthetics, embodiment, and generative/extended reality methodologies. Dr. Lerner holds a Ph.D. in Art and Science (summa cum laude) from the Royal Academy of Arts in Brussels in collaboration with the Coma Science Group in Liège, focusing on visual and spatial representations of Near-Death Experiences.
Her academic trajectory includes a multi-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Weizmann Institute of Science, where she conducted research in virtual reality and motor control within the Laboratory for Robotics and Virtual Reality.

She is a research affiliate of the ALIUS Network for the study of consciousness and non-ordinary experiences and has developed several pioneering research-creation methodologies combining experiential sequencing, participant-generated spatial reconstructions, and immersive visualization tools.

Dr. Lerner has presented her work internationally across art, neuroscience, and consciousness-studies contexts and is the author of multiple peer-reviewed publications and research-based exhibitions addressing visual field structure, embodiment, and spatial organization in NDEs and OBEs. Her current work explores hybrid scientific-artistic protocols that integrate VR-based visualization with graphic reconstruction methods to expand empirical access to non-ordinary human experience.

https://www.francelerner.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/france-lerner-52939a66

Lorene’s Forgotten and Remembered Childhood NDE

NDEs are widely understood to be deeply transformative for the experiencer. But, what if years pass before the episode is recognized for what it was? Lorene Stanwick tells of her realization as an adult that she once had died at a tender age at the hands of her older sister. What might the belated remembrance of such an experience bring?

Lorene Stanwick had a near death experience (NDE) at the age of five when her older sister strangled her – but she did not remember it until decades later. Deeply committed to her spiritual practice, she had a period of profound spiritually transformative experiences (STEs) in recent years – including recovery of the memory of her NDE. As she learned more about the ‘gifts’ of NDEs, she began to understand that what once made her a ‘victim’ had indeed become a gift, helping her to understand many experiences from throughout her life and giving her the strength, faith and clarity to continue on the path she has been guided to walk. On Wednesday, January 14 at 7:00 pm Central Time, Lorene will join us live via Zoom from her home in Kitchener, Ontario, to share her story of a childhood NDE and its profound aftermath.

Lorene Stanwick’s life, learning, and work weave together art, education, mental health, personal growth and advocacy. After a fearful childhood that included ongoing sibling abuse, followed by years of struggling with addiction, mental health and suicidal ideation, she was finally able to connect her struggles with that abuse, and she received the clear message that she was to be a voice in raising awareness, including being ‘guided’ to write a play about it. Her play, Broken Branches, had a 2-week run in Toronto in 2019.

With an academic background in Drama, Education, and a Master’s degree in Counselling Psychology, she has been a college disabilities counsellor, a drama teacher, a performer both onstage and in mental health education, and has worked with groups of artists to create original plays based on their lived experience of mental health and addiction.
As mentioned above, Lorene is a survivor of sibling abuse. Her awakening to the impact of that experience inspired her not only to write and produce her play, but also to launch SiblingAbuse.ca, a forum for learning, sharing stories, and building community. She is currently working with the research team that will soon be sharing the results of Canada’s first national study on sibling conflict, aggression and abuse.

https://www.siblingabuse.ca

From Hollywood to Heaven

For more than forty years, Trent Jon Miller lived in the high-intensity world of Hollywood as an actor, body-double, and stuntman—until an unexpected near-death experience shattered the ego-driven life he thought he wanted and opened him to a realm of Light, angelic presence, and a profoundly transformative life review. Shown future dreams and events and given spiritual lessons to bring back to Earth, Trent emerged forever changed. In this powerful talk, he shares the wisdom, clarity, and purpose awakened through his NDE, offering insight into what truly matters and how each of us can align more deeply with love, authenticity, and the soul’s calling.

For more than forty years, Trent Jon Miller lived a life that many dream of—working in TV and film as an actor, body double, and stuntman. Behind the scenes of Hollywood glamour, however, he found himself living an increasingly empty, ego-driven life. All of that changed in an instant when an unexpected near-death experience lifted him out of everything he thought he knew and into an encounter that reshaped his soul.

In this extraordinary talk, Trent shares the profound journey that took him from a life built on image and achievement to one centered on purpose, humility, and service. His NDE included a powerful life review, encounters with Light and angelic presence, and the revelation of future dreams and events—all delivered with clarity, compassion, and unmistakable love.

Now, years later, Trent brings forward the lessons he was shown in Heaven and how they guide his life today. With candor and heart, he offers insights into:

✨ The contrast between ego-driven success and soul-led living
✨ What a life review reveals about what truly matters
✨ The healing presence of Light and angelic guidance
✨ How future visions and spiritual instruction shaped his path
✨ The transformative power of choosing love, humility, and service on Earth

Join us for an unforgettable event that bridges Hollywood and Heaven, human striving and spiritual awakening. Trent’s story is a reminder that no matter how far we drift from our authentic selves, the Divine is always ready to meet us with compassion, clarity, and a way home.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11497752/

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100060100632605

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A Possibility – Lessons and Gifts from a Near-Death Experience

Open Spirituality Group

IANDS Healthcare Professionals Group

Near-death Experience Spaces

Lorene’s Forgotten and Remembered Childhood NDE

From Hollywood to Heaven

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