Our Core Vision
Beyond Paradigm Inc will establish a new foundation for understanding and wellbeing through the innovative use of meditation and education principles. Its principal objective is to authentically engage with the community to awaken the abilities to manage human crisis evidenced in mental and physical afflictions (human suffering). Beyond Paradigm will actively establish workshops, presentations and meetings to identify and cure instances when the impact of history and lived experience result in illness in the individual and disharmony in the family and community. Why we create, how we create and what we create is related to our sense of self, so we examine the creative principle and how it is being influenced by events dealing with truth, politics and society.
Beyond Paradigm Inc will work aggressively over the next five years to demonstrate how changes in our perception and health leads to a more harmonious state completed by the compassionate understanding of self and otherness. The organization will introduce practical measures and methodologies for isolating tendencies that are driven by attachments to inherited paradigms; going beyond this state and allowing for new and beneficial possibilities to circulate in the human consciousness.
OUR TEAM
Michael Burrell
Executive Director
Michael's work focuses on helping individuals and communities recover their health, vitality, and purpose. He has spent decades in the study and practice of Martial Arts, Medical Qigong, Eastern and Western philosophy, and Internal Alchemy. Over the years he has developed the CHIme Technique, a verbal and movement method that supports the integration of body and mind as a continuous and ever-changing whole. Michael has also pioneered an educational approach that helps people let go and move beyond current-state discomfort, through the conscious interaction with experience.
Michael previously worked as an advisor and consultant to businesses and individuals. He has spent many years in the corporate world helping professionals make business decisions regarding the technology, resources and processes they needed to be successful. He has guided business leaders in making decisions that matches up with their companies' purpose and mission.
Michael holds degrees in Philosophy, English Literature and Religion and continues to research how Western thinking and Eastern philosophy can inform a more beneficial understanding of health and the nature of mind, how and why we create. Michael believes that education is necessary for the betterment of human activities, and that it must be aligned with simplicity, foresight, and compassion.
Lama Phurbu Tashi Rinpoche
Spiritual Teacher
Lama Phurbu Tashi Rinpoche is the founder and spiritual teacher of the Gampopa Center in Annapolis, Maryland, US and Yayasan Gampopa Indonesia with two sites, Mani House in Jakarta and in Medan.
At age thirteen, Rinpoche was recognized by Bo Gangkar Monastery in Tibet as the reincarnation of Tsatsa Khenpo Thubten, a Buddhist scholar and teacher. For ten years Rinpoche studied in Rumtek Monastery College in Sikkim, India and afterwards completed the traditional three years retreat under the guidance of Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche at Bokar Monastery in Mirik, India. Upon completion of the retreat, Bokar Rinpoche appointed Lama Phurbu Tashi Rinpoche as Drupon, or retreat leader.
Lama Phurbu Tashi Rinpoche’s book on vegetarianism, The Lamp of Scriptures and Reasoning, was praised and recommended by both HH the 14th Dalai Lama and HH the 17th Karmapa. Rinpoche is also the author of Ancient Wisdom for Modern Society, Mind and Meditation, Illuminating the Path of Meditation and The Nature of Mind. Rinpoche has translated several texts from Tibetan into English.
Throughout the years Rinpoche has traveled extensively to teach in the US, Indonesia, India, Nepal, France and Switzerland. Lama Phurbu Tashi Rinpoche is the first initiator of 100 Million Recitations of Om Mani Peme Hung (Compassion Buddha) Program in Indonesia, which has attracted hundreds of people and was repeated over the course of three years so far.
Rinpoche currently spends his time teaching in Jakarta, Medan and other parts of Indonesia. Rinpoche visits the West, Annapolis MD and New York, upon requests for teachings.
Dr Choeying Phuntsok
Tibetan Medical Doctor - Health Consultant
Dr. Choeying Phuntsok was born in eastern Tibet in 1960 where he began classical Tibetan medical studies at Derge Tibetan Medical School in 1976. He subsequently joined the Tibetan community in exile in India and continued his training at the Tibetan Medical and Astrological Institute (also known as Men-Tsee-Khang) in Dharamsala, India in 1981 and completed the studies in 1987. During this time, he studied under Dr. Lobsong Choepel, a senior teacher in Tibet and Dr. Tenzin Choedrak, one of the most eminent masters of the Tibetan medical tradition and the Senior Personal Physician to His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Having served on the medical faculty of the Men-Tsee-Khang for the past decade, most recently as Deputy Director of Pharmacy, Dr. Phuntsok is currently one of the senior traditional Tibetan physicians in the West.
After arriving in America, Dr. Phuntsok was appointed a senior associate at the Institute of East West Medicine and became a member of the Meridian Medical Group where he bases his practice. He is also currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Tibetan Medical Association. He is an expert in botanical pharmacology and has worked on plans to cultivate Tibetan medicinal herbs in the United States Dr. Phuntsok has given many specialty talks and workshops in Tibetan Medicine both in the US and in Mexico and Europe. He frequently lectures at the Tibet House and The Open Center in New York in an effort to educate the public on the history, theory and practice of Traditional Tibetan Medicine. In 1998, and again in 2003, Dr. Phuntsok served as panelist and workshop presenter at the 1st and 2nd International Congresses of Tibetan Medicine. In 2006, Dr Phuntsok was a panelist at a pivotal conference on Aging that engaged scientists from around the world. Since 2012 he has served as a Board Member of Men-Tsee-Khang initiative work in the US.
Dr. Phuntsok applies traditional methods of diagnosis such as pulse reading, urinalysis & interrogation. He emphasizes treatment of illnesses through correcting dietary & behavioral regimens, as he believes it has huge implications in bringing balance to the disturbed state of mind & body. This disturbed state of mind and body if not corrected holistically shall bring imbalance to hormonal growth, immune system and mental state that goes on to afflict three cardinal humors of our body and thus we all suffer. Dr. Phuntsok is an experienced traditional Tibetan physician who puts into practice all his experience with a clear motivation of alleviating suffering of afflicted body, mind and soul.
Dr. Phuntsok is dedicated to bringing Tibetan medicine to all those in need and has successfully treated many patients with illnesses thought to be refractory by Western physicians.
Isabella Scapini Burrell
Mental Health Consultant
Isabella Scapini-Burrell, LCSW, LCSW-C, is a psychotherapist in private practice in NYC and in Maryland, with thirty years of experience in the mental health field, in hospitals, clinics and in private practice, as a clinical social worker and dance movement therapist, working with individuals, couples and groups. Isabella’s work has focused on studying the child, the couple and family relationships, and researching how problems arise in any of these systems.
She has had the privilege of working with different populations, people suffering from severe mental illness and substance abuse, from childhood trauma, children with developmental disabilities, such as autism, relationship issues, communication problems in couples and in families, psychological or physical illness in the family, depression and mood disorders, parenting, affairs and life crises, such as loss of a loved one or of social support.
Isabella holds a Master in Social Work and a Master of Science in Dance/Movement Therapy and has postgraduate training in individual, couple and family psychotherapy from the Psychotherapy Study Center, NYC, NY, and the International Psychotherapy Institute, Bethesda, MD.