Liliane Desjardins was born in Zagreb, Croatia and educated in Paris, France.
Liliane is a Certified Clinical Addiction Specialist. She is renowned for her highly successful and innovative work and the Desjardins Unified Model of Treatment of Addictions. She is the co-founder of Pavillon Gilles Desjardins in Val David, Quebec, Canada and Pavillon International a center for treatment of addictions in NC

Liliane has been involved in her own recovery process for 35 years. She is an international speaker, workshop leader and has appeared on numerous educational TV programs. Currently she lives in Austin TX and is the president of HP Productions, specializing in Imprint Workshops, retreats and interventions; thus continuing the life changing works to which she has dedicated her life.


IRENE WATSON,

author of award winning The Sitting Swing: Finding Wisdom to Know the Difference (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Loving Healing Press, 2009,) was born and raised in a tiny hamlet of Reno in the northern area of the province of Alberta in Canada. It was a farming community, mostly settled by immigrants from Russia, Ukraine and Poland during the early 1900s. She received her Master's Degree in Psychology, with honors, from Regis University, Denver. Irene and her husband, Robert, live in Austin, Texas.

She is also author/editor of The Story That Must be Told: True Tales of Transformation, and, Authors Access: 30 Success Secrets for Authors and Publishers and is in the process of co-authoring another book, Rewriting Life Scripts: Transformational Recovery for Families as well as having a chapter in an upcoming book Mastering the Art of Grandparenting.

Rewriting Life Scripts: Transformational Recovery for Families of Addicts