Bud and Sheila Hollowell are the founding members and guiding force behind One World Insight.  Their work together is a warm blend of wisdom, honesty, humor and knowledge of religious insight and transformational growth.

In addition to leading their own seminars, Bud and Sheila co-facilitate the Project Mend chronic pain support group and appear often together has keynote speakers and workshop leaders for professional health care, social work, college campuses and universities and community charity agencies.

The Hollowells recently concluded a year-long schedule of in-service presentations on Compassion Fatigue, Stress, Burn-out and Spiritual Rejuvenation for AIDS caseworkers in Broward County, South Florida. They were also keynote speakers at last year’s East Coast Nurses Convention for Positive Healthcare. Their seminars, described by one participant as “more like going to a birthday party than a workshop” are both stimulating and profound. Their teaching philosophy is that people learn more laughing.

Bud earned a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California and played on the 1964 Olympic baseball Team. He became interested in hypnosis as a method to improve athletic performance while a player and coach for the Los Angeles Dodgers Baseball Organization. This interest in hypnosis, its mysteries and applications, led him into deeper studies on the mechanisms of the human mind and the workings of the human heart.

Bud had a private hypnotherapy practice for twenty-five years during the time he lived in Alaska and later while living in Hawaii. During this period he worked with over 6,000 people to explore deeper aspects of consciousness which many call past life memories.

Bud has published two books on human consciousness, the first of which, The Eternal Dance, landed him honorable mention as an Outstanding Philosopher of the Twentieth Century. In addition to his counseling, research, writing and ideas he was also awarded a Peace and Freedom Citation from the State of Alaska for his work in attaining political asylum for Chinese students following the Beijing Massacre at Tiananmen Square.

Today, Bud is a Professor and Area Chair of Philosophy and Comparative Religion at a Tampa University and a member of the Wellness Staff at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida. His newest book on Quantum Theology will be available this summer.

Sheila holds a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology and a Master's Degree in Organizational Management. She has served as Executive Director of various crisis centers and hospices in Alaska, Hawaii and Colorado and as the Project Manager in the building of behavioral health facilities for the Hawaii State Hospital System. 

In 1990, she was an Alaska Good Will Ambassador nominee to the United Nations World Health Organization.  She presented testimony on the design of health systems before the US Congress and lectured, authored and published on the subject of suicide intervention. In 1999 she became the Director of Community Relations for the Columbine High School massacre recovery in Littleton, Colorado. Sheila also facilitated the National Coalition for Suicide Prevention which developed the National Teen Suicide Prevention Strategy for the US Surgeon General.  In 2003 she was invited to the West Wing of the White House to meet with the Office of Faith-based Initiatives.

Today, in addition to consulting and community service such as being a Loaned Executive for the United Way of Central Florida, Sheila is the State Coordinator of Interfaith Florida, The Faith In Action Charities Network, a member of the University of South Florida Think Tank on Aging and Wellness and serves on the Advisory Board of the Area Agency on Aging.  For pleasure, she writes and publishes flash fiction about her life experiences, dabbles in gardening and home improvement and is raising her granddaughter, Shadow.