Booking It To A New World: How Literature Can Renew our Spirits as individuals and as a planet

HP Alliance Creator, Co-founder, and Executive Director Andrew Slack will introduce two of his most influential teachers, Peter Gould and Maury Stein who will speak to the deepest values in Harry Potter, literature, and breaking free of the Muggle Mindset and into the magic of creative living. This three part presentation featuring both Andrew and two of the teachers that inspired him to create the HP Alliance will be nothing short of mind blowing and transformative for any one in attendance.

Acclaimed novelist, theatre director, playwright, Shakespearean, and professional clown Peter Gould will talk about his award winning novel Write Naked and it's quest to spark a movement where young people's creativity and the meditative state of writing can inspire ideas for planetary change as we build community and share in our artistic creations.

What makes this three part presentation most special is Maury Stein. A Cutting Edge and Legendary professor of Sociology for over 45 years, Maury was the Head of the Brandeis Sociology Department at the height of the Vietnam War in the late Sixties. Maury was not only one of the closest friends to Morrie Schwartz of the best-selling book Tuesdays With Morrie it can also be said that he started the Morrie phenomenon. Maury will be discussing the power of the story to influence our own stories and the collective story of the human race as well as leading an accessible and amazing meditation alongside two generations of his students, Peter and Andrew.