Kelvin H. Chin
Executive Director & Founder
Overcoming the Fear of Death Foundation
“Turning Within” Meditation Foundation
and
KelvinChin.org
Kelvin founded these nonprofits in 2015 to focus his 50 years of experience in spiritual self-development, meditation, and corporate business towards helping people worldwide with insights, knowledge, and practical tools to live happier, more productive and enjoyable lives.
Through his nonprofit Overcoming the Fear of Death Foundation, he has dedicated his efforts to helping people improve their quality of life through an approach that is based on understanding death more clearly and aligning that understanding more accurately with each of our respective belief systems — whatever they may be. By doing so, each person reduces or eliminates their fear of death — to free up otherwise wasted energy that can be refocused to better use in one’s daily life.
He is the author of three bestselling books: “Overcoming the Fear of Death: Through Each of the 4 Main Belief Systems”, “Marcus Aurelius Updated: 21st Century Meditations On Living Life,” and “After the Afterlife: Memories of My Past Lives”. (To see Reader Reviews)
Kelvin is a frequently sought-after speaker at conferences, healthcare institutions, webinars and podcasts to increase understanding about death and dying in order to both help audiences overcome the fear of death and to understand better other people’s beliefs about death and dying.
In addition, Kelvin helps people develop a more balanced, productive and enjoyable life, mentally-physically-emotionally, by teaching people worldwide “Turning Within” Meditation via Skype, phone and in-person. To learn more about Turning Within.
He learned to meditate at age 19, and has been teaching “Turning Within” Meditation and coaching others in their self-growth for 50 years. He helps people understand their life challenges through their individual belief systems, and helps them find their own solutions. His past life memories reach back many centuries, and he accesses those memories in his teaching and his coaching in the same way all coaches draw on their own available experiences for perspective and effective analogies.
He also conducts in-house trainings nationwide on death and dying for organizations in the healthcare industry. To see Seminar data.
Kelvin speaks internationally, has spoken at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, and has been on TV in China. His interview in “Business Insider” magazine has had more than 25,000 views, and is a top Google search result for the words “fear of death.” This has led to international interest in his work with clients in more than 60 countries, including England, Ireland, Scotland, Norway, Iceland, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, Lithuania, Serbia, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Iran, United Arab Emirates, Mexico, Grenada, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Honduras, China, Korea, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Congo and South Africa.
His interview featured in the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine appears in the September/October 2016 issue. He was also interviewed in the CanvasRebel in October 2023.
Working with audiences on death and dying issues since the 1980’s, Kelvin has taught numerous CLE and CEU seminars for the legal and healthcare industries, and was a state-certified Long Term Care Ombudsman for the California Department of Aging. In the early 1990’s, he also co-founded the Center For Medical Ethics and Mediation, which offered trainings and seminars to healthcare institutions on how to more effectively prevent and resolve conflict in a facilitative and mediative manner.
Kelvin has lived and worked in 7 countries, and has lectured in 30 of the 50 states in the U.S. He has delivered more than 2,000 presentations worldwide. While at Dartmouth College, he studied at the Université de Strasbourg, France. He is a graduate of Dartmouth, Yale Graduate School and Boston College Law School.
Kelvin lives in Los Angeles, California, but travels and teaches worldwide on the phone, videoconference, and in-person.
My Teaching Philosophy
My students become “fisher(wo)men.” I teach them how to fish, how to feed themselves. Their mind, body, spirit. How to become self-sufficient.
I don’t persuade anyone to study with me. I’m here to help those who want to be helped. Some are desperate for help. Others may just need a refinement of their technique or approach.
My goal is to help create stronger minds in the world 🌎.
More balance. Creativity. Acceptance. Less dissonance. Less fear.
Starting with each individual student, I help them to help themselves. Through “turning within” and studying my approach towards living a life of inner contentment.
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THINGS TO UNDERSTAND
WHEN YOU READ MY POSTS, BOOKS, TAKE MY CLASSES
OR WATCH MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL
I’m a teacher. Not a guru. I don’t want “blind followers.”
I teach people how to think for themselves. Not what to believe. I teach self-sufficiency.
Not dependence.
No belief changes are ever necessary. I help everyone no matter what their beliefs are.
I don’t spout “absolute truths.” There’s no such thing.
I share ideas and perspectives about life and the afterlife.
I help students learn how to identify “cognitive dissonance,” which permeates many spiritual teachings worldwide.
How to discern and decide for themselves what makes sense and what doesn’t.
I sometimes may speak of relationships I’ve had with my spiritual teachers and mentors over the millennia. Not from a religious standpoint.
I am a teacher (not a preacher) to help my students develop their own stronger sense of connection and communication — inwardly and outwardly.
The Result
Students establish a stronger foundation on which to build a more stable and clear-minded present in this lifetime, which helps them create a more contented and fulfilling future…because now is the basis of the future — wherever they choose to live it.