Homepage - Ben Shomer - Maverick Mentor, Speaker and Author.

Nice to meet you.
This is me, up close.

Welcome. Sit with me and feel at home.

People rarely arrive here by accident.

Usually, something has already begun moving within.
A question. A tension. A longing.
A quiet knowing that life is asking for something more true.

You may not see the full picture yet. But something in you already does.

There’s often hesitation at this point.

That’s natural.

There’s nothing you need to push through.
Nothing you need to explain away.

We simply begin from where you are.
At your pace.

What I’m not says a lot about me..

I’m not tucked into a suit and tie, playing a role or a façade.
I don’t keep distance.
I don’t deal in dry theories or borrowed knowledge.
And I don’t hide behind titles or polished signs of success.
Me, in brief.
Me, in brief.

A non-conformist, free spirit.

A mentor, author and speaker.

Biologist, and a genuine computer freak.

Lover of life, people, and the environment.

A loving partner to Efrat, my goddess.

A father of five. Three mine, two hers... all mine.

A playful child at heart, yet also a curious, serious researcher.

I live the silence within.
And celebrate with loud House/Progressive Trance music on the outside.

I'm driven by fire and creation. A man of wood, steel, soil and plants, technology and code.

One who knows quite a bit, but with a mindset of knowing nothing.

My Life's Purpose

To provide, educate, assist, and inspire a life based on love worldwide.

my real credentials

My experience.

Over the years, I’ve walked through many fields - academic, industrial, and personal.

I’ve learned a great deal along the way.
But more importantly, I’ve lived it.

What I bring doesn’t come from certificates on a wall.
It comes from experience — tested, refined, and real.

Every wrinkle tells a story...

My real qualifications don’t come from outside sources.
They come from life itself.

Each line on my face holds a lesson -
earned through personal experience, challenge, and growth.

Those lessons are what I bring with me.
And what I can offer you.

Me with my parents

Beautiful Early Childhood.

I was fortunate to be born into a loving home, with wonderful parents.

My father, an engineer, gave me a technical mindset and a strong can-do attitude -
a fearless approach to trying new things, and a curiosity that questions everything.

My mother brought warmth, affection, and a sense of emotional depth.
Her love, her presence, and even her unique hugs left a lasting imprint on me. She inspired compassion and empathy.

As the first child in my extended family, I was showered with attention and care during those early years.

Looking back, those experiences shaped me deeply -
laying a foundation that has stayed with me ever since.

...Then Came Challenges.

My childhood had its challenges.

I was the smallest and weakest among my friends, and I experienced my share of rejection, insecurity, and frustration.

To make things more complicated, my mother had taught me not to fight back, but to come to her if I was hurt.
So I entered first grade feeling like a complete pushover.

That first year was marked by bullying and misery - until my parents stepped in and enrolled me in Judo classes.

Through Judo, something began to change.
I started building confidence. Learning to stand my ground.

And then, one day, it happened.

I found the courage to say “NO”,
and stood up to my bully.

Something shifted in me that day — and never went back.

Me with a childhood friend
Shortest and weakest at school with the "amazing" teacher.

Overcoming Trauma.

At the age of 10, my teacher took our class on a field trip to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem.

The exhibits I saw shook me to my core.
I returned home deeply traumatized.

No one around me seemed to notice.
So I had to face it on my own.

Over the next few years, I worked hard to heal myself.

This experience didn’t just teach me about trauma and its effects.
It gave me a personal, lived understanding of it.

Over the past two decades, I’ve helped many people work through deep trauma and severe PTSD.

Life and Death.

When I turned 18, I was drafted into the army and became an airborne paratrooper.

It didn’t take long before I found myself in life-threatening combat situations — face to face with death.

I lost count of how many times I nearly lost my life.

I served in the army for 15 years, including time on the frontlines during war.
Those years completely changed how I see life.

I didn’t realize it at the time, but those experiences taught me some of the deepest lessons I carry with me today.

I learned to fully appreciate life and seize each moment.
To live here and now.
To understand the “why” behind my choices.
And to recognize the patterns that shape our lives.

These lessons and memories are etched into me.
They are part of what I bring into the work I do with people.

During airborne paratroopers advanced training.
Three-dimensional protein structure imaging. Part of Bioinformatics expertise areas.

Scientific, Practical Career.

My academic journey began with horticulture studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

During that time, I fell in love with computers and programming.
Being self-taught, I developed a broad set of computing skills.

Over the following years, I completed my Ph.D. in Reproductive Immunology and Molecular Biology at the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.

Throughout this period, I continued to deepen my computing knowledge and integrate it into my research.
As I was completing my Ph.D., a new field was emerging — Bioinformatics.
It was a natural fit for me.

I went on to work at the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge, UK, and later held multiple roles in the biotech industry across the USA and Israel, alongside a teaching position at Bar-Ilan University.

My early professional years shaped in me a scientific, investigative, and highly practical approach to life.

Even as my path expanded into broader, more spiritual perspectives, I’ve always remained grounded.

I don’t take things at face value.
I question, explore, and go deep.
I look for what lies beneath the surface.

Early transformative Midlife Crisis.

At 37, as my career was advancing, my personal life was in a trench.

I was stuck in a toxic relationship that felt like a jailhouse.
I had very little understanding of personal responsibility, conscious choice, or true integrity.

I lived day by day — lonely, frustrated, and unhappy.

I spent long hours riding single tracks with my best friend, my mountain bike, “Edna,” trying to escape my dull reality.

One day, I went into the company’s library looking for a scientific publication.
Somehow, my hand stopped on a book in front of me.
I opened it — and it described my life so precisely, I couldn’t stop reading.

I stood there in the aisle for two hours. Then took it home.

That same day, I fell ill and spent three days doing nothing but reading.

I wasn’t the same person anymore.
That book changed my life.

I stepped into a deep and courageous journey of personal development, transformation, and a complete shift in how I saw everything.

The book was The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey.

To this day, Stephen remains one of my greatest mentors.

Edna, my mountain bike, was a comfort in my solitude.
With Veeresh Denny Yuson-Sánchez, International, leading mentor from Humaniversity, School for Masters, Netherlands.

A New Purpose...

Back in 2002, my world fell apart.
The biotech company I worked for collapsed, just as I was going through a rough divorce.

I chose to start fresh.
I left everything behind and moved into an empty apartment — no job, no belongings, no money.

And yet, I felt freer and happier than ever.

I slept on a yoga mat.
Cooked on a small camping stove.
Used a cardboard box as a dining table.

It was during this time that I met Efrat — my soulmate.

Soon after, we went to our first festival together.
What I experienced there was unlike anything I had ever known.

Until that moment, I didn’t even know the word “spirituality.”
It felt like stepping into sunlight and open sky after living in a dark cell for 40 years.

Something in me opened.

I found my freedom.
And with it, a sense of purpose that had always been there — without me knowing it.

From that moment on, I was on a quest to explore this new, uncharted world.

I studied everything I could get my hands on — ancient and modern approaches alike.

I learned and practiced energy work, touch therapy, meditation, coaching, emotional release techniques, and more.

As I began working with people, something became clear.

Helping others brought a level of fulfillment I had never experienced before.

I had finally found my true purpose in life.

My work as a scientist had always felt important.
But this was different.

The impact I was having on people’s lives through mentoring went far deeper.

I came to see that my greatest contribution was not in research,
but in the relationships I was building
and the lives I was helping to change.

From that moment on, I knew.

This is what I’m here to do.

And I haven’t looked back since.

I bring with me the experience, knowledge, and depth I’ve gained along the way - and I share it with those I work with

Teaching position at SGLA - Sustainable Global Leadership Academy.
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