Constance d'Angelis, Author, Keynote Speaker, Visionary:
 As a college student, Constance spent many Saturday nights collecting
research data in the basement of the biochemistry building
at the University of Toledo, from which she would graduate
cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in Life Sciences.
During these long hours, Constance often contemplated human
nature and wondered: What is human consciousness and how does
it affect behavior?
Years of single motherhood and a stint in the corporate world
working for a Fortune 500 company, followed by graduation from
the Stetson University College of Law with a Juris Doctor degree,
would seem to have placed Constance's quest for understanding
human consciousness and behavior temporarily on the back burner.
Her question did not go away, but it remained unanswered. Little
did she know, through the course of her work as co-counsel on
the highly publicized and controversial Terri Schiavo case, she
would soon be compelled to revive her search for understanding
with a renewed passion.
Constance's responsibility, during the first trial, was to establish
through evidence and testimony that Terri Schiavo was not conscious,
as defined by Florida Statutes. During the course of the trial,
Constance became more and more distraught over the fighting and
adversity that seduced the world into angrily taking sides. She
saw that the proceedings only served to exacerbate war within
the family, and to advance undisclosed, selfish agendas. The
distress that she experienced during this time, even though they "won" their
case, caused Constance to respond by closing her law practice,
leaving her law partner/husband, and eventually spending a substantial
amount of time in the mountains of Colorado. "The conflict
changed my life," she remarked in the foreword of her book, "The
Seven Laws of Peaceful Solutions."
Ultimately, after much study, inner struggle, and soul searching,
Constance had an epiphany: I am a conscious
being, she realized,
and as such, I am a transcendent being.
Peace and transcendence are my birthright. Moreover, each of
us has the ability to rise above the fray of human emotions and
past trauma, and to create our lives anew. We can choose peace.
With this realization, Constance set a path, the "soul's
path," to allow herself to fully experience her transcendent
nature, and to help others do the same. Workshops, which she
had formerly designed to focus on conflict and problem solving,
were transformed into gentle experiences of receiving wisdom
from our soul and choosing peaceful solutions.
The Seven Laws of Peaceful Solutions, the article and book, were
born out of this "soul" wisdom and are a shining example
of good coming from a negative situation. It is Constance's greatest
hope that all will be able to benefit from the struggles she's
witnessed to learn a new way to create peace out of any situation.
When she's not travelling to speak on transforming conflict,
consciousness, and personal growth matters, Constance writes
and creates programs in the warm sear air of Daytona Beach, Florida.
She is a co-founder of the Institute for Peaceful Solutions.
"Awareness of our innate
ability to go beyond our frail human needs and fears defines
whether we follow our truth, our soul's path, or stay asleep
at the wheel until we wither and die, never knowing ourselves
as free-flowing expressions of the creative force of this universe.
Transcendence is our freedom from the bonds of concern over
safety or security."
- Constance d’Angelis
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