• "For over two years now I've been a part of a group that meditates with Michael Shandler on a weekly basis. The awareness and clarity this inspires is increasingly carrying over to my daily life. 
  

• "As a graduate of the eight-month Radiant Mind course, I was curious about a three day Introduction to Radiant Mind, so I attended two of Michael Shandler's three-day workshops.  I was inspired and moved by the profound shifts that students experienced during these workshops.  Many expressed their change in perception and experience as life altering. The direct transmission of this teaching was made possible through Michael's skillful, sensitive, and respectful response to each participant.  This opened the group as a whole into greater and greater spaciousness.  As a result of these workshops, I have personally experienced a shift into a deep awareness of the simultaneous existence of both the unconditioned and conditioned in the moment-to-moment flow of my life."

• "... the workshop provided a wonderful space for investigating our true nature, and experiencing the healing power in that connection.  Your willingness to share openly withy the group, and the respect accorded to all who participated, was deeply appreciated.  With warm regards and best wishes."

• "The 3-day Introduction to Radiant Mind with Michael Shandler was a true taste of Radiant Mind.  Michael masterfully presented this work from his own authenticity.  He skillfully blended together various elements that opened up the direct experience of resting in pure awareness.  For me there was a real sense of timelessness, a felt sense of vast spaciousness, deep healing and truly natural contemplation."

• "The workshop promised 'nothing' and delivered... Together we rediscovered our peaceful and intimate nature, and rested in that space... Although we tried diligently and persistently to 'make sense' of our experience, we resisted the compulsion to make it solid and just noticed the machinations of our thoughts over and over... Michael skillfully guided us through unfamiliar territories.  He allayed our fears and helped us find our connections to all and everyone...
  

•  For me the timing of the worhop was perfect; I was just emerging from a personal crisis and I felt particularly open and vulnerable. The material was exciting and provocative.  It challenged us to examine entrenched beliefs that we were living by even though they were not always serving us.  As a veteran of decades of self-improvement programs and leader of workshops myself, I was very impressed with the depth and breadth of Michael's highly professional skill in piloting the workshop.   Whatever arose was addressed simply as the stuff of life in the moment. The matter of fact dealing with drama, combined with various exercises and periods of silence, created an environment where 'magical" transformation could and did occur."

Andrew Jordan, M.Sc., Art Therapist, Vancouver

• "Michael Shandler's breadth of knowledge and depth of wisdom will help you to find the path that is just right for you.  He will listen carefully as he seeks to grasp your essence; he will draw on his exceptionally strong intellect and on highly refined intuition.   I have benefited at both the deepest levels of my being as well as in more mundane areas such as career and relationships.  He has helped me to feel more unified, and to take action so that my whole life is focused in a more genuine way, bringing way more love to others as well as myself. "
  

Paul Roud, Ph.D., Psychologist

• "Michael Shandler has been most helpful as a coach. In one conversation he helped me develop confidence in two significant ways - providing me with strategic and practical advice for building the non-profit organization that I head and sharing spiritual insights that give me strength and courage to be hopeful and joyful as I meet the unfolding challenges of the work."
  
  Rabbi Rachel Cowan
  Executive Director, the Institute for Jewish Spirituality

• “Over many years, when I, or others, have had complex and thorny issues with no clear resolution, speaking with Michael inevitably results in a new way of seeing, or framing, or holding those issues - and often a path out of the dilemma that didn't exist before.”    
  

Alan Hurwitz,  Ed.D., Consultant

• " Michael brings his great intelligence, skill and experience, fully informed with the wisdom of the heart. His psychological insight and incredible powers of listening never fail to make me hear myself in a new way; and his training and long experience as a consultant have made otherwise difficult meetings into a real ground for discovery not only of what I need  to do next, but what the motivations of other players meant and ultimately what our organization as a whole was up against.  It is rare to find someone who combines such strong intuition, dedication to spiritual growth and trained professional skills in personal and organizational development."        
  

• “Michael Shandler has been a valuable resource and guide for me, in both career and personal affairs, by helping me to see clearly the issues at hand,  to come to an inner knowing of the best choice of action, and to have the confidence to move forward with that choice. He guides with wisdom, and he empowers through connection and clarity."
  

Joyce Duncan, M.D.

• "Michael Shandler is a highly skilled spiritual guide.  With compassion and discernment, he helps the people he guides to open, receive, and experience the Divine in the present moment as-it-is."