Justine Willis Toms, DHL, is an award-winning syndicated radio producer, author, and spiritual thought leader. Ms. Toms is recognized for her governance as cofounder, Executive Director, and host of New Dimensions Radio and Broadcasting Network. The series is distributed to public radio stations, is podcasted, and is available streaming throughout the United States and the world. It features interviews with the world’s most influential voices on covering a variety of topics such as creativity and the arts, health and healing, ecology and the environment, personal transformation, spirituality, indigenous wisdom, death and dying, science, community, social change, parapsychology, psychology, peace and nonviolence, women’s studies, men’s studies, mythology, intuition, and more.
These deep dialogues inspire listeners to awaken to their unique strengths and contributions in order to cultivate a positive, resilient, sustainable, and fulfilled life.
Ms. Toms was honored for her accomplishments by being inducted into the Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2011. In 2003, she, along with Michael Toms, was the recipient of the 2003 GoldenWorks Award from Religious Science International. New Dimensions and Justine and Michael Toms received an award from the Institute of Noetic Sciences in 1998 for outstanding vision and service in exploring the frontiers of consciousness.
Equipped with expertise and deep listening and interviewing skills, New Dimensions has amassed a collection of more than 8000 interviews in its broadcasting library since it was founded as a nonprofit, educational broadcasting organization in 1973. New Dimensions was established on the principle that only through a change in human consciousness can the world be truly transformed. The personal and the planetary are connected as we expand our awareness of mind, body, psyche, and spirit and bring that awareness actively into the world, so also will the world be changed. This is Ms. Toms’ guiding mission as she notes that she herself has been transformed by the work. She states each New Dimensions’ guest has contributed to her growth and deepening her understanding of who she is and how she can better do her part to contribute in a positive way to the well-being of her community in the world.
In 2007 New Dimensions was honored to be approached by Stanford University Libraries, Special Collections for permission to house the entire 8000 hours of New Dimensions’ archive in their state-of-the-art facility.
Besides the New Dimensions and the New Dimensions Café program series, Ms. Toms has also hosted “In Her Company: Deep Dialogues for Women of Wisdom” and produced award-winning program series, such as “Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature” and “Deep Ecology for the 21st-Century,” A Mythic Journey: Deep Dialogues with Joseph Campbell:
The Monticello Dialogues—Designing for the 21st Century: Conversations with anticipatory design architect and leader in sustainable development, William McDonough: Ideas That Matter: The Fetzer Dialogues: Birth Without Violence (leading doctors regarding birthing practices): America: A Prophecy: Roots of Healing: The New Medicine (cohosted by Andrew Weil, MD).
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LSD: A Generation Later: Special audio production (includes Timothy Leary, Ram Das, Allen Ginsburg, Ralph Metzner, John Lilly, Albert Hofmann, and many others.)
She is the author of Small Pleasures: Finding Grace in a Chaotic World and Co-author with Michael Toms of True Work: Doing What You Love and Loving What You Do. She also leads workshops and gives talks on: The 10 Life Principles of True Work—Four Keys to Thriving in Chaotic Times—Finding Your Passion and Purpose.
Justine is a founding convener of the Millionth Circle Initiative, an international volunteer organization of women who believe that nonhierarchical and circular design in meetings and organizations is the means through which the world can be repaired. She has been actively involved in circle work since 1980 and is a member of a mixed circle of men and women that has been meeting regularly since then. This circle has been witness to all the life cycles, including birth and death, and everything in between. Her women’s circle has been meeting regularly since 1982.
In June 2004, she was one of thirty wisdom leaders invited to participate in the Synthesis Dialogues with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamshala, India. She sings in the nonprofit chorus “Joyful Noise Gospel Singers.” She also serves on the Board of Directors of www.worldprayers.org, a website and online database that gathers prayers written by the spiritual visionaries of our planet, representing all life-affirming traditions. She serves on the board of Summer Tree Institute, “Making Environmental Education Irresistible”. www.summertree.org
Ms. Toms’ skill as a broadcaster was born of her academic journey, which began with a Bachelor of Education from Auburn University in 1967. She went on to teach elementary school in Sylacauga, Alabama. Moving to California in 1971 she met Michael Toms and together they cofounded New Dimensions Foundation, a nonprofit educational broadcasting organization in 1973. In 2009 was awarded an honorary Dr. of Humane Letters from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, now known as Sofia University.
