Mitchell J. Rabin, M.A., L.AC, founder & CEO of A Better World Foundation and A Better World Media & Promotions is a life-coach, international speaker, writer and a visionary, social impact entrepreneur.
Psychology, acupuncture, stress management consultant
By professional training, Mitchell is a holistic eco-psychotherapist, coach, stress management consultant and acupuncturist who has been in practice in NYC since the early 1980’s and with an international clientele.
In addition to relationship counseling, he uses a sophisticated, energy-balancing, frequency generator/biofeedback technology.
Mitchell has facilitated groups in Stress Reduction, conflict resolution and communication nationally & internationally. He has taught Qi-Gong, Meditation & Stress Management/Biofeedback at retreats across the U.S., the Caribbean and Mexico. He currently facilitates Heaven on Earth sessions in NYC.
Media
He hosts the popular podcast and NYC Community TV show, A Better World with Mitchell J. Rabin. He has been on the air on community TV in NYC since 1993.
He has co-hosted shows on Pacifica Radio’s NYC’s WBAI FM, and L.A.’s WKPFK. He also hosted two programs on Gary Null’s Progressive Radio Network (PRN): A Better World & Progressive Film Hour. A Better World is currently on Youtube, Spotify and numerous other platforms.
For Mitchell, personal and planetary healing is the basis of the non-profit, A Better World. Coaching, Conscious Media and Social Enterprise are its drivers and that a Global transformation to preserve & evolve the health and well-being of our species and planet.
Mitchell’s work is about identifying & implementing creative solutions to people’s and planet’s greatest challenges and communicating them in practical and useful ways.
Mitchell has been a student and teacher of Qi-Gong, Buddhist Psychology, Energy Medicine and wisdom traditions East and West, bringing these to bear in his work with personal and business clients.
In A Better World Podcast, Mitchell holds dialogues with thought leaders on a range of subjects from green-tech to healing from parapsychology to progressive economics and politics. Consciousness, neuro-psychology, UAP, quantum physics, regenerative practices, holistic health, food-as-medicine, community-building & social impact business are ABW’s primary topics.
A Better World’s Youtube channel has approximately 1,000 interviews so far. Mitchell has interviewed environmental & wellness activists, Presidential candidates and one of the first men to walk on the moon.
Mitchell has been an expert speaker in several documentaries on PBS as well as in several award-winning documentary feature films on healing and consciousness.
Social impact enterprise: health/wellness & environment
Mitchell helps to build companies that are committed to personal & planetary wellness, zero-waste, building a renewable energy-based economy, Ocean Restoration and reversing Global Warming. He has been advising eco-minded investors to identify what may be high-impact and profitable projects. He is currently working with the CEOs of the following companies:
A renewable energy-based, mobile micro-grid/micro-utility company in CA. which designed a new-paradigm renewable, energy unit to move people & companies to be off-grid & energy-independent.
An air pollution reduction/energy-efficiency technology for vehicles that reduces toxic emissions, thus reducing asthma and respiratory illness. This project begins in Mexico City, one of the world’s most polluted cities, and is set to branch out all over Mexico and beyond.
A lawn seed co. that sequesters carbon 10x more than ordinary grass and needs almost no maintenance or water to thrive.
A start-up micro-greens co. that encapsulates the greens at the stage of their greatest nutritional and therapeutic value.
Cocobear, a co. that has a patented, freezing process of young, Thai coconuts that preserves their nutritional value. It is currently in Whole Foods and many other outlets across the world.
A waste-to-energy company that takes fat, oil & grease (FOG) and converts these into usable energy as a clean bio-diesel.
A solar developer A Better World has partnered with to bring photon-rich, solar energy to school districts & commercial interests who want to save money & have access to being independent from the grid.
A start-up co. in windy Montana providing renewable energy and water to data centers, crypto-miners & any other intensive energy consumption companies so that localities are not disrupted & plans to provide free energy to local indigenous tribes.
A medical software company that provides an app. not found in the field that is designed to save lives by reducing iatrogenic injuries and deaths.
Development of a Wellness & Anti-Aging Center and eco-friendly real estate development in Costa Rica.
Ocean restoration, cleaning up acidification thus restoring fish, sea grass, coral reefs, oxygen & vitality in these dead zones.
An organic food co. that buys seconds from farmers, then dries & purees them, providing the world with high quality, nutrient-dense fruits & vegetables in crystalline powder form, enriching farmers and consumers.
A co. that markets non-alcoholic, hemp-infused wine, CBD sachets, liposomal vitamins & trans-dermal ibogaine for PTSD among vets.
A co. that produces a unique combination of high-quality fish oil with Greek olive oil to re-balance the Omega 3 to 6 ratio not found anywhere else, essential for heart & brain health, and for healthy longevity.
Mitchell first ventured into social impact, values-based business as a teenager, producing benefit rock and jazz concerts in Westport, CT. the town in which he grew up.
His last concert was for a Presidential candidate whose platform was world peace. This and the previous concerts were so successful that when he went into the field of psychology, he stayed active as a social-impact entrepreneur, especially in promoting wellness & green tech, products and services designed to make positive impacts on health and environment.
He learned the principle then as a teenager that one can do well by doing good, and his work has been guided by this. He is a systems/holistic thinker.
Relationships and communications, whether in business or at home, are core and focus of Mitchell’s work as coach, media host & entrepreneur.
In all of A Better World’s endeavors, it promotes the guiding Green Party’s theme of People & Planet before Profit--that real prosperity has multiple bottom lines and comes from heart-driven, eco-friendly service.
Institute of Global Education, ECOSOC NGO
Mitchell is President & CEO of the (ECOSOC) NGO, the Institute of Global Education, which oversaw the building of schools in India and Nepal.
Currently, it is in the process of building an online presence for Global Education largely around regenerative agriculture, which in itself resolves Food and Water Security, peace, and building local economies.
Board positions
Mitchell is on the Board of Directors of FIONS (Friends of the Institute of Noetic Sciences), CarePoint, a medical diagnostic co. and the Source of Synergy Foundation.
Mitchell is on the Advisory Boards of Ethical Markets, All-Faiths Seminary & World Water Rescue Foundation.
Mitchell was invited to be a member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle in 2018, co-founded by several luminaries including and Social Artist Jean Houston, author Neal Donald Walsch and many others.
In 2009, Mitchell was knighted into The Sovereign Order of the Orthodox Knights Hospitaller, St. John of Jerusalem, an Order, which does charitable work for children in poverty-ridden and war-torn countries.
Mitchell has published articles in numerous health magazines and has contributed chapters for a few books. One is Heart at Work, with two chapters on compassionate capitalism and bringing heart into business. One is a chapter of a spiritual odyssey he had in India, and another on social entrepreneurship.
He was invited to write for the Huffington Post by Arianna Huffington which he did for many years. He is completing books on relationships, love, solutions for creating a better world, and the art of the interview.
Mitchell was invited to write for Meer in 2020.
Mitchell has a B.A. from Bard College, New York, M.A. with major in literature, from Antioch/New England Graduate School in NH in Counseling Psychology, Certified in Neuro-linguistic Programming & Ericksonian Hypnotherapy, and is a Diplomate in Traditional Chinese Acupuncture from the Tri-State Institute, NYC.