Team | Mentors
Cris Avila, LMFT
Mentor
Cris is an OIX Member and OI Mentor.
Cris is in an ongoing process of unfolding expression of her inner spirit. Cris sees her past as a journey of exploration and healing. At early age, she began to observe and wonder about this existence and about the meaning of life. As a young college adult, Cris discovered a sense of freedom in realizing that “truth” is not absolute, and that belief is a choice. Later, Cris shifted her search for happiness which, led her to the field of psychology. Cris has studied the works of Carl Jung, has practiced dreamwork, studied Existentialism, explored Buddhism, and studied Expressive Arts Therapy. Cris trained in Somatic Experiencing® under the teaching of Steve Hoskinson, and she followed the natural flow to Organic Intelligence®. Cris is currently learning Andean Wisdom and Zapotec Worldview to connect closer to her roots.
Cris has been working as a licensed psychotherapist for the past 8 years in the state of California. She practices relational-reflective-contemplative mindful rituals with the nature and with archetypal Andean world.
Languages: Spanish, English
Cris is in an ongoing process of unfolding expression of her inner spirit. Cris sees her past as a journey of exploration and healing. At early age, she began to observe and wonder about this existence and about the meaning of life. As a young college adult, Cris discovered a sense of freedom in realizing that “truth” is not absolute, and that belief is a choice. Later, Cris shifted her search for happiness which, led her to the field of psychology. Cris has studied the works of Carl Jung, has practiced dreamwork, studied Existentialism, explored Buddhism, and studied Expressive Arts Therapy. Cris trained in Somatic Experiencing® under the teaching of Steve Hoskinson, and she followed the natural flow to Organic Intelligence®. Cris is currently learning Andean Wisdom and Zapotec Worldview to connect closer to her roots.
Cris has been working as a licensed psychotherapist for the past 8 years in the state of California. She practices relational-reflective-contemplative mindful rituals with the nature and with archetypal Andean world.
Languages: Spanish, English
Life is love;
love is light;
light is life.
love is light;
light is life.
Jorge Luis Delgado
Cris Avila, LMFT
Mentor
Karen Bauman, MA, NMT, OIX
Mentor
Karen spent 10 years teaching academic reading, writing, and critical thinking for international students in American universities. But her true love was to find integrative approaches to facilitate the experience of feeling more fully alive. Since 2004, her training included various therapeutic bodywork modalities and mindfulness practices and then expanded to include Somatic Experiencing®, Touch Skills for Trauma Therapists, NeuroAffective Touch®, and now Organic Intelligence®.
Karen maintains a private practice in Orange County, California, working primarily with adults. She specializes in working with the dysregulated nervous system patterns underlying chronic pain and other syndromes. She collaborates extensively with mental health professionals, providing touch therapy for their clients with a history of early dysregulation.
Find a place inside where there’s joy
and the joy will burn out the pain.
and the joy will burn out the pain.
Joseph Campbell
Karen Bauman, MA, NMT, OIX
Mentor
Heather Berberet, PsyD
Mentor
Dr. Heather Berberet is a San Diego Psychologist specializing in couples therapy and a Mentor in the OI HEARTraining®. When not working with adults, couples and adolescents in her private practice, she is mothering her daughter, loving her wife, and watching Doctor Who (and Star Trek, and Star Wars, and anything sci-if/geeky, really). In addition, she can found in the morning and evening walking her three dogs, trying to see the world for what it really is and enjoying the view.
Let me tell you about scared. Your heart is beating so hard — I can feel it through your hands! There's so much blood and oxygen pumping through your brain, it's like rocket fuel. Right now, you could run faster and you could fight harder. You can jump higher than ever in your life. And you are so alert, it's like you can slow downtime. What's wrong with scared? Scared is a superpower — it's your superpower!
The Twelfth Doctor (as reported by Steven Moffat)
Heather Berberet, PsyD
Mentor
Michelle Borok, LM, CPM
Mentor
Michelle Borok, LM CPM is a mentor with the Berkeley HEARTraining®. She is a California Licensed Homebirth Midwife, and holds a B.A. in Social Welfare from U.C. Berkeley. She has studied Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, working with both adults and newborns. She is currently completing the San Francisco HEARTraining and the Organic Intelligence® OI Expert Master Class Program with Steve Hoskinson and Sean Feit Oakes.
Michelle has a special interest in Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and weaves its principles into her beloved midwifery practice. She has taught many classes and original workshops, including Female Sexuality at U.C. Berkeley, and Legacies of Medical Racism and Transgender Competency for Healthcare Providers at Maternidad La Luz Midwifery School. She has been a mindfulness and insight meditation student for the last 12 years, studying and meditating with some of the most extraordinary Buddhist teachers of our time.
Michelle co-parents her amazing goddaughter and finds parenting and communing with nature to be her most devotional and resourcing practices.
My actions are my only true belongings.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Michelle Borok, LM, CPM
Mentor
Berkley Carnine
Mentor
Berkley has been a meditation and mindfulness practitioner, artist, educator, and social justice organizer for the past fifteen years. Berkley has been integrating these skills into her study and practice of nervous system regulation and trauma healing since 2015. Berkley believes that everyone deserves wellbeing, justice, and access to our full spectrum of human experience including connection, love, and joy.
Berkley practices nervous system support in the Organic Intelligence® tradition and is an OI Expert and Mentor.
Berkley practices nervous system support in the Organic Intelligence® tradition and is an OI Expert and Mentor.
Our visions begin with our desires.
Audre Lorde
Berkley Carnine
Mentor
Andrew Collins
Mentor
Intrigued for many years in his youth by the intersection of Buddhism and psychotherapy, Andrew trained in Core Process Psychotherapy — a Buddhist psychotherapy practice — at the Karuna Institute in Devon, England, in the 1990s.
Since then, alongside his private practice, he has played sax and percussion in funk bands, facilitated drum circles and samba bands in schools and the local community and currently plays in a New Orleans-style brass band. He lives with his wife and teenage daughters in the west of Ireland.
Andrew has a daily sitting practice which he regards as indispensable for both his personal well-being and his professional practice.
In his one-to-one and group work, Andrew draws upon a deep trust in the power of attuned presence, laughter and the embodied wisdom of the organism. There is an invitation for connection and coherence to arise as a precondition for the processing of discomfort and disregulation; a dance of attunement between persons and organisms.
Andrew feels deeply privileged and fortunate to be engaged in this work.
Since then, alongside his private practice, he has played sax and percussion in funk bands, facilitated drum circles and samba bands in schools and the local community and currently plays in a New Orleans-style brass band. He lives with his wife and teenage daughters in the west of Ireland.
Andrew has a daily sitting practice which he regards as indispensable for both his personal well-being and his professional practice.
In his one-to-one and group work, Andrew draws upon a deep trust in the power of attuned presence, laughter and the embodied wisdom of the organism. There is an invitation for connection and coherence to arise as a precondition for the processing of discomfort and disregulation; a dance of attunement between persons and organisms.
Andrew feels deeply privileged and fortunate to be engaged in this work.
We don't come into this world,
we come out of it...
we come out of it...
Alan Watts
Andrew Collins
Mentor
Robin Craig, LPC
Faculty
Robin Craig is OI Faculty and has studied with Founder Steve Hoskinson since 2006. She studied Neuroscience at the Vollum Institute for Advanced Biomedical Research in Portland, OR before moving to Arizona in 1996 where she became a Licensed Professional Counselor and reconnected with land and heart. Initially, this reconnection came during the time she spent on the Navajo reservation, for the first time experiencing how connection to place and community truly creates a foundation for the exploration of being a human on this planet.
The practice of meditation has changed how Robin views herself and others and allowed the changes she has experienced through OI to become trait changes, rather than passing state changes. Robin continues to study with teachers who emphasize the path to awakening that includes cultivating a joyful mind including Kittisaro, Leigh Brasington, Rev. angel Kyodo Williams, Thanissara, and Guy Armstrong. These teachers have opened the doors for the fullness of kindness and compassion in meditation, with clients, and in moment-to-moment living. Robin has found this to be the foundation from which true healing and awakening can arise.
Today, Robin is exploring how to restore physiological, spiritual, and psychological resiliency through the natural interweaving of Organic Intelligence® and meditation. Through her Meditation Teacher Training program and her time studying OI with Steve, Robin has been discovering the natural ways that OI’s understanding of going “beyond trauma” goes hand in hand with deep spiritual teachings and practice. Both teachings bring the understanding that joy is a part of the path to the deep spirituality and interconnection that is ours by nature.
Link to Robin's OI Blog Post
The practice of meditation has changed how Robin views herself and others and allowed the changes she has experienced through OI to become trait changes, rather than passing state changes. Robin continues to study with teachers who emphasize the path to awakening that includes cultivating a joyful mind including Kittisaro, Leigh Brasington, Rev. angel Kyodo Williams, Thanissara, and Guy Armstrong. These teachers have opened the doors for the fullness of kindness and compassion in meditation, with clients, and in moment-to-moment living. Robin has found this to be the foundation from which true healing and awakening can arise.
Today, Robin is exploring how to restore physiological, spiritual, and psychological resiliency through the natural interweaving of Organic Intelligence® and meditation. Through her Meditation Teacher Training program and her time studying OI with Steve, Robin has been discovering the natural ways that OI’s understanding of going “beyond trauma” goes hand in hand with deep spiritual teachings and practice. Both teachings bring the understanding that joy is a part of the path to the deep spirituality and interconnection that is ours by nature.
Link to Robin's OI Blog Post
Robin Craig, LPC
Faculty
Dana Duclo, EdS, MHS
Mentor
Dana Duclo, EdS, MHS, has completed the three year OI HEARTraining®, is a member of the OI Expert training and is an OI Mentor in Tucson, AZ.
Dana is the founder of Inner Rhythm Consulting, LLC, where she teaches Heart Rhythm Meditation® and Organic Intelligence® embodied approaches to trauma and stress resolution that help clients restore a sense of inner rhythm and connect to the innate wisdom, aliveness, and coherence within. Dana is passionate about helping people discover they can live vibrantly and easefully beyond the effects of stress and trauma, offering nervous system education and compassionate support to children, adolescents, and adults.
Dana holds an EdS degree in Educational Psychology and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology. She is a certified School Psychologist with over 20 years of experience in the education system as a psychologist, counselor, and educator. Dana is also a certified meditation teacher and faculty member at the Institute for Applied Meditation, where she has practiced and taught meditation for 12 years.
To obtain peace,
one must seek that rhythm
which is in the depth of our being.
one must seek that rhythm
which is in the depth of our being.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
Dana Duclo, EdS, MHS
Mentor
Rebekka Haas Çetin
Mentor
Rebekka Haas is a cinematographer, meditation and yoga teacher, HEARTraining Mentor and EOTC moderator for Organic Intelligence®. For Rebekka, the 2016 Istanbul HEARTraining marked an end to the search for a system to resonate with her experience within the world of healing as well as the beginning of a new professional direction, which would inform all aspects of her life.
Originally from Germany, with her professional background in film making and a creative and colorful life with travels and living in different countries, she settled in İstanbul, Turkey with her film director husband and three, now grown up children. Her mother, an artist and yoga teacher introduced her to spirituality, yoga and meditation at an early age.
She founded a yoga and meditation studio which was foremost an education facility that would, besides yoga trainings, also host courses and trainings in multiple modalities such as family constellation, Buddhist philosophy, Tantric studies, etc. She integrated these skills into her study and practice of nervous system regulation and trauma healing.
Rebekka practices nervous system support in the Organic Intelligence tradition in individual sessions and fascilitates resiliency and human empowerment groups.
Languages: English, German, Turkish, French.
Originally from Germany, with her professional background in film making and a creative and colorful life with travels and living in different countries, she settled in İstanbul, Turkey with her film director husband and three, now grown up children. Her mother, an artist and yoga teacher introduced her to spirituality, yoga and meditation at an early age.
She founded a yoga and meditation studio which was foremost an education facility that would, besides yoga trainings, also host courses and trainings in multiple modalities such as family constellation, Buddhist philosophy, Tantric studies, etc. She integrated these skills into her study and practice of nervous system regulation and trauma healing.
Rebekka practices nervous system support in the Organic Intelligence tradition in individual sessions and fascilitates resiliency and human empowerment groups.
Languages: English, German, Turkish, French.
Rebekka Haas Çetin
Mentor
Kevin Lanoue, JD, CST, LMT
Mentor
Kevin Lanoue, JD, CST, LMT is an OI Expert and Mentor. Kevin has lived in Tucson, Arizona for forty years, and holds two degrees from the University of Arizona: a B.S. in Creative Writing, and a J.D. from the Rogers College of Law. He is an Associate Director at a renowned residential treatment center, providing support in addiction, trauma, mood, and pain.
Kevin integrates training in a variety of modalities, along with mindfulness and nature-based practices, to offer integrative support for mind, body, and spirit, beginning with the nervous system. Kevin practices Organic Intelligence® in both individual sessions and in group formats. He is a grateful devotee of the organizing music of nature, and enjoys hiking, swimming, and laughing.
Kevin integrates training in a variety of modalities, along with mindfulness and nature-based practices, to offer integrative support for mind, body, and spirit, beginning with the nervous system. Kevin practices Organic Intelligence® in both individual sessions and in group formats. He is a grateful devotee of the organizing music of nature, and enjoys hiking, swimming, and laughing.
We are all just walking each other home.
Ram Dass
Kevin Lanoue, JD, CST, LMT
Mentor
Maggie Locke, LMFT, CBT
Mentor
Maggie Locke is a Mentor at the OI HEARTraining®. She discovered somatic therapies in the mid-1990s during a course of personal treatment in Bioenergetic Analysis. The work affected her so profoundly that she transitioned from a successful 20-year career in journalism to study and practicing this approach.
After 10 years of working as a Psychotherapist with the severely mentally ill in a variety of settings she was introduced to Somatic Experiencing® during a workshop. Almost immediately she sensed significant change in her system and entered the SE™ training.
Another 10 years later, having established a private practice based on somatic approaches, Organic Intelligence invites further expansion into her relationship with herself, her work and the world.
Maggie is a mother, a grandmother and a dual citizen of the United States and Ireland. Her life — much of it lived abroad — has been an effort to bridge different cultures and eras to find her ground amidst breathtaking change. While the kind of community and connection she knew as a child in a rural Irish hinterland no longer exists, she has found a sense of connection and grounding within herself, through the deep experience of her own body.
Her work aims to open this capacity for others who navigate their own losses and longings, to help bring them home to themselves in the natural world of their own physiology.
After 10 years of working as a Psychotherapist with the severely mentally ill in a variety of settings she was introduced to Somatic Experiencing® during a workshop. Almost immediately she sensed significant change in her system and entered the SE™ training.
Another 10 years later, having established a private practice based on somatic approaches, Organic Intelligence invites further expansion into her relationship with herself, her work and the world.
Maggie is a mother, a grandmother and a dual citizen of the United States and Ireland. Her life — much of it lived abroad — has been an effort to bridge different cultures and eras to find her ground amidst breathtaking change. While the kind of community and connection she knew as a child in a rural Irish hinterland no longer exists, she has found a sense of connection and grounding within herself, through the deep experience of her own body.
Her work aims to open this capacity for others who navigate their own losses and longings, to help bring them home to themselves in the natural world of their own physiology.
Be grateful in the high times,
graceful in the low.
graceful in the low.
Maggie Locke, LMFT, CBT
Mentor
Ceci McDonnell, LISW
Mentor
Ceci McDonnell, LISW, MSSA, SEP, OIX is a Mentor at Organic Intelligence. She holds a Masters Degree in Social Work from Case Western University in Cleveland Ohio, where she teaches as an Adjunct Faculty member.
For the last thirty years she has worked in State Psychiatric Hospitals, Residential Treatment Centers for children age 4-13 and their families. She has offered in-home services and worked extensively with adolescents and women. She has had the privilege to facilitate Women’s Circles internationally exploring the Divine Feminine.
Her Masters Program was steeped in Systems Theory, applied at both the Micro and Macro level and anchored as well in attachment and developmental theory. Practicing OI is returning home! After graduate school, she has immersed herself in archetypal psychology which deeply resonates with her maternal lineage of Irish storytellers and activists.
Her work as an OI Mentor integrates her strengths and passion, Systemic strategic analysis and interventions embedded in working with the inherent health and rhythm of developing nervous systems and supporting clients heartfelt connections, life purpose, and dreams!
Ceci is committed to the ongoing discovery and partnering within our community to integrate OI into all aspects of Social Justice. She currently works as a Mitigation Specialist on behalf of defendants charged with crimes were if found guilty the could receive the death penalty.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the hearts affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth – whether it existed before or not.
John Keats
Ceci McDonnell, LISW
Mentor
Mark Read-Smith, MA, LPCA, CR, OIX
Mentor
Mark Read-Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor Associate, Certified Rolfer™, and nervous system health coach in private practice at Coalesce in Asheville, North Carolina. As an Expressive Arts Therapist, Mark enjoys using creativity to facilitate an experience in session and with groups.
Mark has extensive training in the nervous system process, movement, structural integration, and group work. Mark has experience bringing the principles of Organic Intelligence into use at a residential substance abuse treatment center; working with individuals and groups. In addition to in-person and online sessions, Mark consults on several online nervous system class platforms.
Mark is grateful to be part of the mentoring team in the current San Diego HEARTraining®. Mark feels love and joy for all of those who are currently a part of the San Diego training; teachers, mentors, OI staff members, and students.
Mark has extensive training in the nervous system process, movement, structural integration, and group work. Mark has experience bringing the principles of Organic Intelligence into use at a residential substance abuse treatment center; working with individuals and groups. In addition to in-person and online sessions, Mark consults on several online nervous system class platforms.
Mark is grateful to be part of the mentoring team in the current San Diego HEARTraining®. Mark feels love and joy for all of those who are currently a part of the San Diego training; teachers, mentors, OI staff members, and students.
It may be the grief we finally allow ourselves to feel for the life we did not choose.
Francis Weller
Mark Read-Smith, MA, LPCA, CR, OIX
Mentor
Nathan Rehm, LCSW
Special Projects, Mentor
Nathan Rehm is a licensed clinical social worker, coach, OI Mentor, and handles Special Projects at Organic Intelligence® (OI). Nathan received his Master of Social Work degree from Arizona State University with honors and a study emphasis on traumatic stress. He was awarded the Partner in Excellence for his group and individual trauma therapy work. He has passionately served in the past as a public speaker, trainer, superviser, and trauma program coordinator. His extensive study of OI as an OI Expert member continues under its founder Steve Hoskinson.
Nathan joined the Organic Intelligence team as Outreach Manager out of passion for OI’s model and practice, as well as his desire to serve and expand the OI Community. As part of the Communications department, Nathan is responsible for assisting in content arrangement, program organization, and public engagement.
Nathan brings a wealth of experience and understanding in psychotherapy and the Organic Intelligence framework, culture, and application. These strengths combined with his natural love for community and skill in engaging and supporting individuals and groups are valuable assets to his clients and the OI team.
In addition to applying OI daily as a lifestyle, Nathan practices daily mindfulness using orientation as a sitting practice, active imagination, and spontaneous mantras. Nathan lives in Bend, Oregon with his partner where he enjoys cooking, hiking, and gathering with others (especially around campfires).
Nathan joined the Organic Intelligence team as Outreach Manager out of passion for OI’s model and practice, as well as his desire to serve and expand the OI Community. As part of the Communications department, Nathan is responsible for assisting in content arrangement, program organization, and public engagement.
Nathan brings a wealth of experience and understanding in psychotherapy and the Organic Intelligence framework, culture, and application. These strengths combined with his natural love for community and skill in engaging and supporting individuals and groups are valuable assets to his clients and the OI team.
In addition to applying OI daily as a lifestyle, Nathan practices daily mindfulness using orientation as a sitting practice, active imagination, and spontaneous mantras. Nathan lives in Bend, Oregon with his partner where he enjoys cooking, hiking, and gathering with others (especially around campfires).
Virtue is its own reward
Cicero
Nathan Rehm, LCSW
Special Projects, Mentor
Rebecca Renfrow, MS, LMHC, OIX
Mentor
Rebecca Renfrow (she/her or they/them) comes from the woods in Kentucky (Chickasaw, Cherokee, and Osage territory) and lives now among the green and growing urban nature of the Coast Salish lands in the Pacific Northwest of the US. With a background in circus arts, creative group facilitation, and ongoing aspiration toward collective liberation work, she brings joyful orientation to movement and expansive possibility to her work.
Rebecca is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in the state of Washington and is a Mentor in the Organic Intelligence® HEARTraining®. In her Seattle-based practice, Rebecca uses Organic Intelligence and the Somatic Resilience and Regulation model to support artists, activists, educators, professional helpers, and others working to emerge from cycles of suffering.
Rebecca comes to therapeutic work with a healing justice lens. Her hope is to support individuals and communities to build resilience and capacity to shape and sustain movements toward equity, dignity, and wellness for all peoples.
Rebecca cultivates embodied mindfulness in relationship with the brilliance of the natural world. She loves to breathe with trees, watch water move, and is astonished by the apparent patience of moss.
Rebecca is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in the state of Washington and is a Mentor in the Organic Intelligence® HEARTraining®. In her Seattle-based practice, Rebecca uses Organic Intelligence and the Somatic Resilience and Regulation model to support artists, activists, educators, professional helpers, and others working to emerge from cycles of suffering.
Rebecca comes to therapeutic work with a healing justice lens. Her hope is to support individuals and communities to build resilience and capacity to shape and sustain movements toward equity, dignity, and wellness for all peoples.
Rebecca cultivates embodied mindfulness in relationship with the brilliance of the natural world. She loves to breathe with trees, watch water move, and is astonished by the apparent patience of moss.
Love and justice are not two.
Without inner change
there can be no outer change.
Without collective change,
no change matters.
Without inner change
there can be no outer change.
Without collective change,
no change matters.
Rev. angel Kyodo williams
Rebecca Renfrow, MS, LMHC, OIX
Mentor
Tiffany Sankary, GCFP, OIX
Mentor
Tiffany Sankary is an artist who integrates Organic Intelligence® with the Feldenkrais Method®, Authentic Movement and creative process. She loves how direct connection to the here and now supports the unfolding of bigger life vision/ purpose.
In addition being a continuity Assistant Trainer for the Boston Feldenkrais Training Program, and maintaining a private practice, Tiffany teaches and organizes classes and workshops in Boston, MA and online. She’s the creator of Movement & Creativity Library, an online resource/community with 150+ Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® lessons and guided practices to support nervous system regulation and awaken creativity.
Tiffany is the editor and illustrator of Feldenkrais Illustrated: The Art of Learning, a visual guide to the philosophy and writings of Moshe Feldenkrais. Her drawings have been published in Tikkun magazine, Turning Wheel, and the Feldenkrais Journal.
Tiffany is a mentor in the San Diego OI HEARTraining®.
In addition being a continuity Assistant Trainer for the Boston Feldenkrais Training Program, and maintaining a private practice, Tiffany teaches and organizes classes and workshops in Boston, MA and online. She’s the creator of Movement & Creativity Library, an online resource/community with 150+ Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® lessons and guided practices to support nervous system regulation and awaken creativity.
Tiffany is the editor and illustrator of Feldenkrais Illustrated: The Art of Learning, a visual guide to the philosophy and writings of Moshe Feldenkrais. Her drawings have been published in Tikkun magazine, Turning Wheel, and the Feldenkrais Journal.
Tiffany is a mentor in the San Diego OI HEARTraining®.
The capacity for delight
is the gift of paying attention.
is the gift of paying attention.
Julia Cameron
Tiffany Sankary, GCFP, OIX
Mentor
Martin Schlozer, OIX
Training Coordinator, Mentor
Martin Schlozer is a Mentor and Coordinator of the Basel HEARTraining®. Martin is a Physical Therapist and a Feldenkrais Teacher (IFF). He has a long experience with and broad theoretical background in many areas related to movement, pain management, learning, mindfulness, neurophysiology, and personal growth and manages a private practice in Arlesheim, Basel, Switzerland.
Martin has worked with the Feldenkrais Method® in personal sessions through touch (Functional Integration®) and with groups (Awareness through Movement®), while deepening his understanding through NLP, Ericksonian hypnosis, focusing, Somatic Experiencing®, and Organic Intelligence.
Through the 3-year Embodied Life Mentorship Program with Russell Delman, a combination of Feldenkrais, Focusing, Meditation and Nonviolent Communication, he deepened his experience in Mindfulness and Compassion.
Through Aikido he found SEITAI Noguchi, a Japanese Method to support the body’s inherent energies and impulses for self-healing. He teaches SEITAI Groups in his DOJO and supports his teacher Unsho Sensei to bring more awareness to this work in Europe.
Martin’s hobbies are aquarelle painting and hiking.
Committed to the OI work, Martin mentors students in the Istanbul HEARTraining in Turkey and promotes and coordinates the first HEARTraining in Switzerland, which will take place in his new SHINGENKI DOJO in Arlesheim, close to Basel.
Martin has worked with the Feldenkrais Method® in personal sessions through touch (Functional Integration®) and with groups (Awareness through Movement®), while deepening his understanding through NLP, Ericksonian hypnosis, focusing, Somatic Experiencing®, and Organic Intelligence.
Through the 3-year Embodied Life Mentorship Program with Russell Delman, a combination of Feldenkrais, Focusing, Meditation and Nonviolent Communication, he deepened his experience in Mindfulness and Compassion.
Through Aikido he found SEITAI Noguchi, a Japanese Method to support the body’s inherent energies and impulses for self-healing. He teaches SEITAI Groups in his DOJO and supports his teacher Unsho Sensei to bring more awareness to this work in Europe.
Martin’s hobbies are aquarelle painting and hiking.
Committed to the OI work, Martin mentors students in the Istanbul HEARTraining in Turkey and promotes and coordinates the first HEARTraining in Switzerland, which will take place in his new SHINGENKI DOJO in Arlesheim, close to Basel.
Linear thinking means:
Connections are cut and parts are created.
Systemic thinking means:
Parts get clarified and connections are created.
Connections are cut and parts are created.
Systemic thinking means:
Parts get clarified and connections are created.
Heinz von Foerster, Cybernetics Co-Founder
Martin Schlozer, OIX
Training Coordinator, Mentor
Ann (Andi) Scott Dumas, MSW, LICSW
Mentor
I grew up outside of Washington D.C., in a home suffused with theology, politics and music. I came to Minnesota to go to Carleton College, and majored in religious studies. I lived in Jerusalem, conducting independent research on feminism within traditional Judaism, travelled extensively, and spent most of a year in a monastic yogic setting in India.
My early work was in community mental health, with organizations focused on women, children, and LGBT issues. For seven years I provided phone counseling to over 7,000 people through an employee assistance program, consulting on issues ranging from substance abuse to parenting to workplace dynamics.
Since 1993 I've worked in private practice with individual adults and couples, using tools from Buddhism, somatic therapy, systems thinking, and non-violent communication. It is deeply fulfilling to me to support people to make the changes they long for.
When I'm not working, I enjoy singing and dancing, hiking and biking, relaxing and adventuring with family and friends. My practice of yoga and meditation have been central to my sense of purpose and wellbeing for over thirty years. I seek to bring together self-awareness and compassion with working toward lasting individual, social and systemic change.
My early work was in community mental health, with organizations focused on women, children, and LGBT issues. For seven years I provided phone counseling to over 7,000 people through an employee assistance program, consulting on issues ranging from substance abuse to parenting to workplace dynamics.
Since 1993 I've worked in private practice with individual adults and couples, using tools from Buddhism, somatic therapy, systems thinking, and non-violent communication. It is deeply fulfilling to me to support people to make the changes they long for.
When I'm not working, I enjoy singing and dancing, hiking and biking, relaxing and adventuring with family and friends. My practice of yoga and meditation have been central to my sense of purpose and wellbeing for over thirty years. I seek to bring together self-awareness and compassion with working toward lasting individual, social and systemic change.
You can’t stop the waves,
But you can learn to surf.
But you can learn to surf.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Ann (Andi) Scott Dumas, MSW, LICSW
Mentor
Charles Stacey
Mentor
Charles Stacey received his MA in Family Therapy from the University of Houston/Clear Lake. The Satir Model and Milton Erickson’s work formed the basis of his practice. While doing a general practice he found his focus was on trauma and that continues to so today. He was introduced to Bruce Perry and his work with attachment trauma and the brain while doing home-based family therapy.
Next stop, was the Navajo Nation where one of his tasks was to integrate traditional healing and western methods. This brought Charles’s childhood among the tribes of Oklahoma and his earlier career as a filmmaker to the fore. Much of the work documented cultural retention and spiritual practices.
He added EMDR to his toolbox and then Somatic Experiencing® with Steve Hoskinson and a seamless shift to Organic Intelligence® in 2017. In his private practice, he used Supportive Touch extensively. In addition to his therapy work, Charles is a singer/songwriter performing with his wife and a group of talented friends.
Next stop, was the Navajo Nation where one of his tasks was to integrate traditional healing and western methods. This brought Charles’s childhood among the tribes of Oklahoma and his earlier career as a filmmaker to the fore. Much of the work documented cultural retention and spiritual practices.
He added EMDR to his toolbox and then Somatic Experiencing® with Steve Hoskinson and a seamless shift to Organic Intelligence® in 2017. In his private practice, he used Supportive Touch extensively. In addition to his therapy work, Charles is a singer/songwriter performing with his wife and a group of talented friends.
As a therapist, I am a companion.
I try to help people tune into their own wisdom.
Any day my appreciation exceeds my expectations is a good day.
I try to help people tune into their own wisdom.
Any day my appreciation exceeds my expectations is a good day.
Virginia Satir, Ray Wiley Hubbard (Texas Singer/Songwriter”)
Charles Stacey
Mentor
Amie Summers, LGSW
Faculty
Amie Summers is Faculty at Organic Intelligence®. Among her firmly held beliefs is that we all possess an innate impulse for healing — within each of us we have exactly what we need to get there. The intention of the work she engages in with children and adolescents is to help them reconnect with this inner strength and knowing.
This belief, coupled with the teachings of Organic Intelligence, has meant bearing witness to awe-inspiring transformations in children and their families. Helpful tools along the way include lots of play, sensory awareness, dialogue and narrative-creation, and mindfulness.
Her two greatest teachers are her children, two boys under the age of five. They’ve taught her more about herself than she could ever hope to teach them — not to mention they’re experts in living playfully, with ease, and in the moment! Growing a personal practice of mindfulness meditation, one of Organic Intelligence’s guiding principles, has meant engaging with herself, other humans, and the world-at-large in a deeper and more meaningful way.
As a psychotherapist Amie has maintained a private practice since 2013 and specializes in working with children, teens, and young adults struggling with significant life events and transitions. She is a Licensed Graduate Social Worker in the state of Minnesota. Amie holds post-graduate certifications of Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner and OI Expert level in Organic Intelligence.
This belief, coupled with the teachings of Organic Intelligence, has meant bearing witness to awe-inspiring transformations in children and their families. Helpful tools along the way include lots of play, sensory awareness, dialogue and narrative-creation, and mindfulness.
Her two greatest teachers are her children, two boys under the age of five. They’ve taught her more about herself than she could ever hope to teach them — not to mention they’re experts in living playfully, with ease, and in the moment! Growing a personal practice of mindfulness meditation, one of Organic Intelligence’s guiding principles, has meant engaging with herself, other humans, and the world-at-large in a deeper and more meaningful way.
As a psychotherapist Amie has maintained a private practice since 2013 and specializes in working with children, teens, and young adults struggling with significant life events and transitions. She is a Licensed Graduate Social Worker in the state of Minnesota. Amie holds post-graduate certifications of Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner and OI Expert level in Organic Intelligence.
Nature does not hurry,
yet everything is accomplished.
yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu
Amie Summers, LGSW
Faculty
