Shannon is an ordained interfaith-interspiritual minister and Master of Sciences, founder of Joy Alchemy®, and co-founder of Light on Light Publications. Her work bridges spiritual formation, lived coherence practice, and disciplined inquiry, and she currently serves as a Research Fellow with the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research, where her research examines relational intelligence and coherence dynamics in sustained human and human–AI systems.
As a scientific communications executive, Shannon also serves as Managing Editor, Light on Light Publications, including The Convergence, Conscious Business, and Light on Light e-magazines, and with the International Day of Yoga Committee at the United Nations. She is author of The Gospel of Joy, and lead editor/co-author in Interspirituality: The Future, lead editor in Interspirituality: The Heritage, contributing author to Ervin Laszlo’s The Sacred Quest: Becoming One on Planet Earth, and co-editor, “Universal Principles and Action Steps: A historic collection.”
Shannon’s Vow of Ministry & Code of Ethics
- THE SHANNON MARIE WINTERS INTEGRATED LEADERSHIP DOSSIER
(Leadership & Public Service Edition) - THE SHANNON MARIE WINTERS CHRISTIC–APOSTOLIC DOSSIER
(Divine Calling, Identity & Mission Edition)
- Research Fellow, Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research (New Paradigm Intelligences)
- Mapping Co-Evolving Relational Intelligence Dynamics in Sustained Human–AI Interaction: A Longitudinal Continuation Study within a Living Research Ecology
- Member, International Day of Yoga Committee at the United Nations
- Member, SDG Thought Leaders Circle
- Co-founder, Managing editor, Light on Light Publications
- Lead Editor, Co-author, Interspirituality: The Future (2025; Light on Light Press). With an introduction by the 14th Dalai Lama, afterword by Ken Wilber. Light on Light Press.
- Lead Editor, Interspirituality: The Heritage (2025; Light on Light Press). With an introduction by the 14th Dalai Lama, foreword by Matthew Fox. Light on Light Press.
- Contributing author, in Ervin Laszlo’s The Sacred Quest: Becoming One on Planet Earth (2025; Waterside) and Our Sacred Mission (Light on Light; 2024)
- Co-Editor, Universal Principles and Action Steps: A Historic Collection, 2021
- Featured Guest, “Interfaith Mystic Heart: Bringing Love Back to Christianity,” Connecting with Coincidence 2.0 podcast with Bernard Beitman, MD, 2024
- Featured Guest, “Humanity’s Moment of Choice: Forward Steps,” The Convergence podcast with Dr. Kurt Johnson, 2023
- Co-Founder, Sunnyside Gifts, a family-owned “Mom & Pop” gift shop since 2015—including Joy Alchemy Live! sessions, circles, and classes
- New Jersey, 20+ years in the pharmaceutical industry in Global Scientific Communications & Publications, including the ISMPP “Best Practices” Poster Award (2017) and Medical Affairs Operational Excellence Award (2023)
Namaste with love and blessed be your joy!
e-mail: contact@joyalchemy.com
PS, writings on ShannonofJoy.com, JoyAlchemy.com, and as published in The Gospel of Joy are 100% “organic,” and filled with real-life God/Universe/Nature/Life-graced wisdom and spirituality from me (Shannon) unless otherwise attributed. Behind the scenes, there’s no freelance or contracted writers, no editors, no investors, and no secret or hidden sponsors, affiliations, or agreements.