The Team
W. Timothy Gallwey
Timothy Gallwey (center) has produced a series of best-selling books, which set forth a new methodology for the development of personal and professional excellence in a variety of fields.
Born in San Francisco, Tim Gallwey attended Harvard University where he majored in English Literature and captained the tennis team. He served as an officer in the U.S. Navy and helped found a liberal arts college in northern Michigan.
In1974 Tim Gallwey authored a book called The Inner Game of Tennis which had a profound and surprising impact on many who were pursuing excellence in a variety of fields. The book suggested that we all tend to allow self-created fears and doubts to interfere with the expression of our own potential.
The book became a best seller and generated a demand for application not only to other sports, but to the worlds of business and music. A series of Inner Game books followed and Gallwey became widely recognized as the pioneer of sports psychology and executive coaching His long term corporate clients include, AT&T, IBM, Apple Computer, The Coca-Cola Company and Rolls Royce.
His most recent work, The Inner Game of Stress, written with two exceptional physicians, applied Inner Game thinking and methods to the most prevailing self-interference of modern times.
For the last thirty years, Gallwey has been introducing the Inner Game approach to corporations looking for better ways to manage change. He lives in Malibu, California. For more background on bestselling author Tim Gallwey please visit his website at www.innergame.com.
Edd Hanzelik, M.D.
Edd Hanzelik (left) has been seeking to practice medicine from the heart for over 30 years. He attended Columbia College where he received an award for the student who has done the most to enhance the reputation of the college. At Albert Einstein College of Medicine, he was president of the student body for two years. His training in internal medicine was at Boston’s Harvard Medical School affiliated Beth Israel Hospital. At the Department of Health, Education and Welfare’s Director of Family Planning Services for New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, Hanzelik was responsible for awarding millions of dollars in grants to stimulate statewide development of family planning facilities.
His awareness of the pain and suffering of his patients led him to a personal search for a deeper understanding about life. In 1972, this search took him to India, where he worked with John Horton to set up a clinic. The experience was life changing as he saw how the high standard of scientific medicine he learned had the potential to be significantly enhanced by working closely with practitioners of other schools of medicine.
In 1992 Edd joined with John Horton in an integrative practice of medicine in Westlake Village, California where they care for the whole person, emphasize prevention, and support the individual’s active participation in his/her own recovery. Hanzelik and Horton seek the safest remedies with an openness to complementary methods that tap into the remarkable healing capacities of the human body. Edd has published a series of articles in a local health magazine, and is on the attending staff of Los Robles Regional Medical Center and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Hanzelik continues to explore ways to help individuals recover from illness and preserve their health. Hanzelik and Horton have developed workshops that help patients prevent stress and have teamed with Tim Gallwey to write The Inner Game of Stress and develop corporate seminars featuring the techniques explained in the book.
John A. Horton, M.D.
John Horton (RIGHT) has been practicing preventative medicine for almost four decades. In the community of Westlake Village where he lives and has practiced since 1993, he and Edd Hanzelik are well known as the local international travel medicine specialists, but Dr. Horton understands that his role as a physician is broader than the traditional medicine he was taught in school.
As an undergraduate at Dartmouth and Columbia and in small African villages with the Flying Doctors, through his residency at Duke School of Medicine and his travels in Japan and India, John strived to understand “why human beings try so hard and suffer so much.” seeing it as a critical factor in one’s health.
Dr. Horton is quickly becoming known as a stress specialist since the publication of his book The Inner Game of Stress, based on decades of clinical experience and feedback from hundreds of patients he’s successfully helped using Inner Game Techniques. He practiced in New York and Maryland before coming to California to sit on the faculty at USC where he taught students how to take a medical history. In order to understand the context of a patient’s life, he says, a doctor must approach her with enough empathy, kindness, and nonjudgmental listening to elicit sharing.
Throughout his medical practice experience he has focused on the patient, and strongly believes that this approach is crucial to helping people be healthy. Dr. John Horton is an educator at heart, and his specialty is teaching about the intrinsic balance necessary for human health. Decades after his Dartmouth years, John Horton still wants to understand human beings. Now, though, he knows he can add a lot more of his own knowledge to the discussion. He has also served as Director of Hospice of the Canyon and as a member of the Board of Directors of Care Now Foundation, a non-profit providing primary care assistance in Africa. He continues lecturing on stress and disease in both general community seminars and trainings.
