Osalina Berman and Michael Cottrell are the co-founders of ABCpeace. Inaugerated 9/9/1999, the vision was to provide educational materials that facilitate personal and planetary healing and inspire real peace on Earth.

Osalina's training in vegetarian cooking, nutrition and herbology began in 1968. She became a licensed massage therapist in Maui, Hawaii in 1979 and earned a degree as Master Herbalist in 1981 from the Emerson College of Herbology. She served as a board member for the Maui Massage Therapy Association and as Vice President of the Hawaii Holistic Health Association. Through these organizations, she worked with Hawaii community college's, P.T.A.'s, and various senior citizen groups to promote holistic health.

During the 1980's and 90's she was very active in teaching and networking with other healers in the holistic health field and co-founded an alternative travel agency called Mystic Journeys. She networked numerous professional healers to provide transformational experiences for people vacationing in Hawaii. Osalina continues to increase her vast knowledge of herbology to the present day and is in the process of authoring a wide assortment of books. Osalina is a mother to two daughters and maintains a private consulting practice for the development and delivery of creative forms of holistic education.

Michael works with Osalina as technical advisor and editor. He has an extensive background in video and film production since 1985, and a throughout knowledge of the entire production process from script to screen. His objective is to contribute his knowledge and skills to projects that uplift and inspire peace in our homes, community and world. To sample his talents see: http://www.soundsgolden.com.