Natureza Gabriel Kram is a connection phenomenologist. He is the Founder and CEO of Applied Mindfulness, Inc. and Convener of the Restorative Practices Alliance, an ancestral neuro-technology cooperative and culture repair engine. He is co-founder of the Academy of Applied Social Medicine. He studied at Yale and Stanford Universities, but has been shaped more by sitting in teepees and circles than in classrooms. He has been blessed with many remarkable mentors in many cultures and lineages and disciplines. For 25 years he has been studying connection phenomenology across six primary disciplines, including neurophysiology, mindful awareness, social justice, cultural linguistics, deep nature awareness, and Indigenous Lifeways.