Australian Mark Elder has worked as a magazine designer, a photojournalist, an award-winning film maker and a musician. His travels have taken him such diverse places as war zones in Afghanistan to Everest Basecamp in Nepal and Yakuza bars in Japan. He has studied mindfulness at a Vipassana (ten days of silence) retreat as well as releasing the Kundalini in India ("oh, wow!").
But it was his work as a telephone crisis volunteer - and trainer - that inspired this book. The... more