Mark’s interview with Oprah aired on OWN TV in the Super Soul Sunday Series, November 27, 2011, (web link)

  Mark’s new book of spiritual inquiry, Seven Thousand Ways to Listen, will be published in Fall 2012, in hardcover and as an audio book, by Simon & Schuster.

 Mark on SIRIUS XM Radio!
Mark recently sat down for an interview with Oprah Winfrey at Harpo Studios in Chicago for Oprah’s Soul Series on SIRIUS XM Radio. Listen to Mark in conversation with Oprah. In this clip, Oprah and Mark talk about how to become centered.

 In January 2011, The Book of Awakening reached #1 on the New York Times Bestseller List while entering its 24th printing and is being translated into twenty languages.

 Mark is publishing a new book of stories, As Far As the Heart Can See (HCI Books, September 2011) which he also recorded as an audio book for Simon & Schuster (4 CDs, September 2011)

 During 2010, Mark recorded The Book of Awakening (14CDs) and Finding Inner Courage (7CDs) as audio books for Simon & Schuster

 Mark is also recording a Sound True learning course called Staying Awake: The Ordinary Art which will appear in February 2012.

  Mark has been included in the Living Spiritual Teachers Project offered by Spirituality and Practice (web link)

In 2012, Mark Will appear at:

  MARCH 14: New Jersey Medical School, Humanism Day, Keynote, Healthcare Foundation Center for Humanism and Medicine, Newark, NJ, (web link), contact 973-972-5041, normentm@umdnj.edu

  APRIL 13-15: Staying Awake: The Ordinary Art, a year-long journey, four weekends: April 13-15, 2012, July 13-15, 2012, Nov 9-11, 2012, April 12-14, 2013, Kalamazoo. Limit 24. For more info and to register, see Three Intentions (web link)

  APRIL 21: As Far As the Heart Can See: Staying Close to What is Sacred, Day-long Workshop, Insight Event, Washington, DC, (web link),
contact kim@insighteventsusa.com or call (210)316-1818

 MAY 11-13: The Book of Awakening, Weekend Retreat, The Sophia Institute, Charleston, SC (web link), contact 843-720-8528

 MAY 25-27: Staying Awake: The Ordinary Art, Weekend Retreat, Hollyhock Retreat Center, Cortes Island, British Columbia (web link), contact Clare Day (clare@hollyhock.ca)

  AUG 22-26: Sounds True Conference, Estes Park, CO, Keynote and Three    Workshops (web link)

 SEPT 21-23: Royal Roads University, Victoria, British Columbia, Weekend Retreat, Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: The Work of Reverence (web link), contact Hilary Leighton (Hilary.Leighton@RoyalRoads.ca)

 OCT 12-13: Making Sense of Our Experience, Weekend Retreat, Transformations Center, Kalamazoo, MI (web link), contact Christine Parks (cparks@csjoseph.org)

• OCT 26-28: Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY, Weekend Retreat, Seven Thousand Ways to Listen, register at (web link)

In 2011, Mark Will appear at:

  MAY 23: Aging Services for Michigan Annual Conference, Grand Rapids, MI, The Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, Keynote, The Power of Wisdom, and Workshop, The Exquisite Risk, register at (web link)

  JUNE 3-5: Royal Roads University, Victoria, British Columbia, Weekend Retreat, Staying Close to What is Sacred: Stories within Stories, the Wisdom of Our Lives, register at (web link)

 SEPT 29: Publication Reading and Reception for As Far As the Heart Can See, Primitive Gallery, 7PM, 130 N Jefferson St Chicago, IL 60661, 312-575-960
(web link) ,

  SEPT 30: One Day Workshop, As Far As the Heart Can See: Staying Close to What is Sacred, 1900 W. Fulton St. Chicago, IL 60612, 312-243-6743
(web link)

  OCT 21-23: Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY, Weekend Retreat, The Exquisite Risk, register at (web link)

 NOV 3-5: Trauma and Addiction Disorders Conference, Keynote and Workshop, Delray Beach, FL (web link)

 NOV 9: Publication Reading for As Far As the Heart Can See, Kalamazoo College, Stetson Chapel, 7PM (web link), contact Jim Van Sweden (James.VanSweden@kzoo.edu, 269-337-7291

  DEC 2-3: Fountain Street Church, Grand Rapids MI, As Far As the Heart Can See: The Practice of Being Human, Friday evening Reading and Conversation and Saturday Retreat (web link), contact Mark Walstrom, markwalstrom@yahoo.com (markwalstrom@yahoo.com)

In 2010, Mark appeard at:

  MARCH 26-28: Weekend Retreat, Creative Conversations, The Governor Calvert, an Historic Inn of Annapolis, MD. For more information: e-mail: info@creativeconversations.org or call: 443-223-5341 (web link)

 SEPT 24-26: The Promise of the Inner World, Weekend Retreat, The Sophia Institute, Charleston, SC, 843-720-8528 (web link )