Dr. Yvonne Kason MD, MEd, CCFP, FCFP, is the President and Co-Founder of Spiritual Awakenings International. She is also the Past-President of IANDS (2019-2020), the International Association for Near-Death Studies. She is the Co-Leader and Co-Founder of Toronto Awakenings Sharing Group, and is a member of ACISTE, the American Center for the Integration of Spiritually Transformative Experiences.
Dr. Kason is a family physician and transpersonal psychotherapist [retired], previously on faculty at the University of Toronto. She is an internationally renowned medical expert on Near-Death Experiences and other Spiritually Transformative Experiences. Dr. Kason is the person who first coined the phrase “Spiritually Transformative Experiences” in 1994, in her book, A Farther Shore.
Yvonne Kason has five published books, her most recent, Touched by the Light: Exploring Spiritually Transformative Experiences, (2019). Dr. Kason has extensive media and public speaking experience worldwide, and has been a keynote speaker at many conferences internationally. She has been an invited guest on many TV talk shows, podcasts, and radio shows including in 2020 The Dr. Oz Show and Coast to Coast .
Yvonne Kason lives in Toronto, Canada, and enjoys spending her winters snowbirding in Encinitas, California. Dr. Yvonne Kason has been honored for her groundbreaking STE work as an Honoree on the Spiritual Awakenings International “Circle of Honor”.