David Thomas Nicol, PhD is director and co-founder of the Gaiafield Project, an action research center founded at the California Institute of Integral Studies that advances the study and practice of subtle activism. His book, Subtle Activism: The Inner Dimension of Social and Planetary Transformation, is the first comprehensive treatment of the topic.

David is co-founder of BeThePeace, one of the world’s largest global meditation events, that takes place durning International Day of Peace (September 21).

He teaches subtle activism in the Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness program at the California Institute of Integral Studies and at The Shift Network. A former environmental lawyer from Australia, he now lives in Berkeley with his wife, Kate, and dogs, Jackson and Peaches.