Team | Mentors

Funda Battle is the Coordinator for HEARTraining^® Turkey and a HEARTraining Mentor.  She believes that OI is one of the most accessible and effective approaches for bringing people to true healing and is passionately working to bring Organic Intelligence^® to Istanbul.  She offers workshops throughout Turkey with the aim of helping others cultivate self-compassion and a deeper understanding of human physiological and psychological interconnectedness.

Eva Belanger is Founder and Executive Director of the 501(c)(3) Warriors Live On, Mentor in the OI HEARTraining^®, and a Decorated Captain of the US Air Force with over nine years of service and wartime deployment.

Eva has direct experience counseling troops for issues that include professional and educational development, deployments, death in the family, family dynamics, drug and alcohol abuse, physical abuse to spouses and children and life trauma.  She has also received extensive counseling on death and grief among military members.  Prior to starting Warriors Live On, Eva enrolled in an adventure-therapy program with now friend and advisor Bob Speck, which relocated her across the country.  It was in this program that she realized the depth of her trauma from Iraq and became aware that the therapies she had previously received were not healing her whole person.  Eva has since committed herself to developing an organization that would help other veterans and peers transform their lives to reach their full potential.

Eva is an LMFT with a private practice in San Diego, CA.

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.

Baylee Bolton is a Mentor at the OI HEARTraining^® and has been been in the health and wellness field for over 10 years. She is a Holist Health Practitioner, Certified Massage Therapist, and Yoga Instructor. Baylee has spent the last 3 years working in the somatic fields as an Organic Intelligence^® Practitioner and Somatic Experiencing^® Practitioner.

Baylee's primary form of work is Somatic Touch, combining OI and touch/massage work. She has a private practice and works part time along with a Naturopathic Doctor doing medical massage and OI Touch therapy. Baylee also volunteers with a San Diego based nonprofit group called Warriors Live On, where she works with veterans. She loves working with all age groups with a focus on working with children, stress and anxiety, and PTSD. Baylee has even been known to work on some of our four legged friends as well.

Marisol Colette, LCSW, SEP, OICC is Associate Faculty at Organic Intelligence^®. She holds a Bachelor’s of Social Work from Warren Wilson College and a Master’s of Social Work from Columbia University in the city of New York. Marisol meditates daily and has a regular yoga practice.

From 2007-2015, she worked at the VA Medical Center providing support to Veterans experiencing homelessness, PTSD, mental health and substance abuse issues, chronic pain, adjustments to medical diagnosis and more. In 2010 she began studying somatic therapy, including Organic Intelligence.

Marisol Colette is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), and an Organic Intelligence (OI) and Somatic Experiencing^® (SE™) Practitioner with a private practice Sol Reflection.  She offers professional and organizational trainings in the Asheville, North Carolina area.  Additionally, she teaches in the Social Work Department at Warren Wilson College.

Robin Craig is part of the OI teaching team as Associate Faculty. She has supported the advancement of OI through pre-screening and participating in the OIX video courses and providing website editing.

She has been exploring how to restore physiological, spiritual, and psychological resiliency through Organic Intelligence^®, Somatic Experiencing^®, and meditation.

She is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Arizona with an MA in Counseling Psychology and an MS in Biomedical Engineering as well as advanced studies in Neuroscience at the Vollum Institute for Advanced Biomedical Research in Portland, OR.

She is currently a meditation student of Upasaka Culadasa’s and has appreciated his emphasis on a path to awakening that includes cultivating a joyful mind. Living in the mountains and spending time in the ocean have helped Robin cultivate that moment-to-moment joy.

Sean Feit Oakes, PhD, is Associate Faculty at Organic Intelligence^® and co-teaches the San Francisco HEARTraining^® with Steve Hoskinson.  Sean received his PhD in Performance Studies from UC Davis, researching states of consciousness in Buddhist meditation and postmodern dance practices.

Sean teaches OI, Buddhism, and Haṭha Yoga with a focus on the integration of meditation, philosophy, and self-inquiry with trauma resolution and social justice.  He has studied in Zen, Tibetan, and Theravāda Buddhist lineages, trained as a monk in Burma, and was authorized to teach Insight Meditation by Jack Kornfield in 2010.

Sean Feit Oakes teaches at East Bay Meditation Center, Yoga Garden SF, Piedmont Yoga, Yoga Tree, and Spirit Rock Meditation Center, where he completed the Dedicated Practitioner, Mindfulness Yoga and Meditation, and Community Dharma Leader trainings.

Boaz B. Feldman, BBA, PgD, SEP, OICC is Associate Faculty at Organic Intelligence^®, teaching the Istanbul HEARTraining^® in Turkey.  He is a clinical psychologist, certified Mindfulness trainer from the Mindful Academy and a visiting professor at Trinity College Dublin.

Boaz is an engaged contemplative committed to make positive social, environmental and spiritual changes in the world.

Every year, Boaz Feldman spends at least 3 months in silence doing intensive Insight Meditation practice with various teachers, including Joseph Goldstein and Sayadaw U Tejaniya.  Boaz has worked as a trainer with bio-psychosocial capacity building methodologies in humanitarian emergencies including conflict-affected regions in Afghanistan and Myanmar.

Boaz Feldman is Founder and Chief Engagement Officer (CEO) of the Swiss Institute for Mindfulness Practice and Life Education (SIMPLE^®), a Geneva-based socially progressive organization.  He teaches Mindful Leadership at the Trinity College Dublin Executive MBA program, has founded the Corporate Mindfulness Training Series PRO-X: Performance and Resilience for Organisational eXcellence, and teaches Mindfulness to lawyers in collaboration with the Geneva Barrister.

Andrea is a Mentor in the OI HEARTraining^®.  She came from a diverse background, having worked in the film industry as a commercial production manager, a stint working as a 911 police dispatcher and 10 years as a self defense instructor when she found the work of trauma resolution in 2000.  While studying Somatic Experiencing^® (SE™) she got her certification as a massage therapist and opened her private practice.

After many years of coordinating and assisting SE and OI trainings Andrea continues to coordinate Somatic Practice bodywork classes for Kathy Kain and assist at the HEARTrainings to deepen her work.  She is a beginning instructor for Organic Intelligence and has also developed an online Boundary course, Boundaries and the Body.  This year she will launch her podcast, The Boundary Spectrum.

In 2004, Andrea found and married Kevin, whom she followed to the Central Valley of California so he could return to his love of farming on the family pistachio ranch.  They have 2 cats, Sadie and Mulan.

Gloria Gonzales is a Mentor at the OI HEARTraining^®.  The process of unfolding is like watching a horizon.  Imagine driving in a car on a long stretch of desert highway — open and expansive.  The mountains and sun rise before you, your view is broad, and the sense of receiving and observing nature is pleasant, perhaps even grand.

This is how an Organic Intelligence session feels.  Is it time to move beyond trauma, and let something greater unfold from within you?

Gloria is founder of Eight Elements West, an Institute for Somatic Education and Integrative Wellness.  Sessions incorporate integrative body-based modalities like visceral manipulation to integrate emotion, voice and touch.  Cransiosacral therapy addresses restrictions in cranial nerves, brain, and spine.  Gloria’s 35-year background also includes a degree in Kinesiology/Nutrition, hypnotherapy, reiki, and mindfulness-based somatic practices of Iyengar yoga/pranayama, and Nia (blends tai chi, tae kwon do, aikido, modern dance, Duncan, jazz, Alexander, Feldenkrais, yoga).  Sensation, emotion, and cognition woven together in OI support biological coherence, relieving physical and emotional symptoms.

Greta Hentsch-Cowles is Director and Founder of Hopemead, Mentor and Coordinator of the HEARTraining^® in Dallas, TX.  She has completed the Somatic Experiencing^® Training, studied with Pia Mellody and John Gottman, and is certified by Bessel van der Kolk in Trauma Stress Studies.

Greta specializes in working with families, individuals, and couples facing PTSD and trauma, childhood and adult abuse, betrayal trauma, medical trauma, chronic pain, developmental trauma, codependency, co-addiction, and compulsive behaviors. She also specializes in working with individuals who have sustained traumatic brain injuries (TBI).

Her treatment approaches are guided by her personal experiences and understanding of recovery as well as her theoretical and clinical training. As a result of her own personal growth in recovery, Greta is compassionate and understanding all the while capable of challenging and coaching her clients in their recovery.

Greta Hentsch-Cowles has published in the Journal for Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity (A Systemic Review of the Literature on the Role of the Partner of the Sex Addict, Treatment Models, and a Call for Research for Systems Theory Model in Treating the Partner), and has contributed to the Italian journal 65perricominciare.it on depression and self-worth. She has recently published a novel, Velda Bryson: Disruptor.

Bilingual, French and English.

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.

Brent Morton is a Mentor at the HEARTraining^®, a Buddhist meditation teacher, bodyworker, and a somatic provider using the Organic Intelligence^® approach.  Brent lives in Seattle where he teaches group meditation classes and provides one on one Organic Intelligence sessions.

His practice and training includes completion of a 4-year Buddhist meditation teacher training through Jack Kornfield and Spirit Rock Meditation Center; completion of the 3-year advanced training in Somatic Experiencing; continued mentorship with Steve Hoskinson and the Organic Intelligence approach to trauma healing; completion of a 750-hour massage training and licensure as a massage practitioner; completion of 3 yoga teacher trainings and 8 years of teaching yoga asan in a studio environment; 2 years of study of Craniosacral therapy through the Milne Institute; over 10 years of practice and study of Buddhist meditation, including over 50 silent meditation retreats and practice in Thailand, Burma, and India.

People typically come to see Brent for a somatic approach when they are feeling sad, anxious, overwhelmed, angry, confused; when they have recurring symptoms that confuse other providers (easily "triggered", digestive issues, panic attacks, auto-immune issues); because they are having problems with their close relationships or have issues with boundaries; because there is a specific issue they are coping with; because their identity is somehow in flux; because they are seeking growth and increased wellness; or simply because they feel something is "missing" and desire deeper meaning in their lives.

On a more personal note, Brent enjoys saunas and cold plunges, long philosophical conversations, beaches, nature, coffee, chocolate, music, sailing, good books, and unplanned international adventures.

Mark Read-Smith is the Coordinator for the HEARTraining^® in Asheville, NC and an OI Mentor.  He lives in Asheville with his wife and three boys and feels fortunate to call the mountains of Western North Carolina home.

Mark works out of a private practice in downtown Asheville and via Skype with clients who live out of the area. Mark’s work draws upon experiences in social work, Rolf Movement Integration, Rolfing^® Structural Integration, yoga, pilates, continuum movement, Somatic Experiencing^®, and Organic Intelligence^®.  Mark is currently pursuing a graduate degree from Appalachian State University in Clinical Mental Health Counseling.

Mark feels his gifts as a bodyworker are better understood and greatly enhanced by the Organic Intelligence protocol.  Personally, Mark feels like Organic Intelligence provides an avenue for meaning-making and enjoys creating art through the OI lens.

Rebecca Renfrow, Mentor and Coordinator of the Tucson HEARTraining^®, is a resilience counselor and group facilitator using Organic Intelligence^®, Somatic Experiencing^® and the Creative Community model.

A long time social justice activist, Rebecca came to healing arts as a way to support individuals and communities to build resilience and resolve trauma to shape and sustain movements toward equity, dignity, and vitality for all peoples. With a professional background in theater, circus arts, and arts education, Rebecca especially delights in using play and creativity as tools for transformation.

Newly relocated to the Seattle area from the Sonoran desert, Rebecca cultivates embodied mindfulness while orienting to the movement of water, the shape of trees, and other elements in nature.  Lately, she particularly enjoys catching glimpses of wild rabbits and sea mammals.

Charlie Ruce, LMFT is a licensed marriage and family therapist, practicing at The Soul Care House, a thriving group practice in San Diego, CA.  Charlie also serves as the Clinical Director of The Soul Care House, managing and training the staff team of therapists to most effectively create transformation and wholeness in the lives and relationships of their clients.

Charlie has recently begun using the OI principles to coach executives on how to create "flow" within their personal lives, leadership style, and organization or business.

Charlie is also a student of the Wisdom and Perennial teachings within the Christian tradition.  He has seen a Spiritual Director for the last 7 years and he and his wife Heather attend an annual week long retreat focusing on centering prayer and other wisdom practices.

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 is teaching 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.

Amie Summers is a Mentor at the OI HEARTraining^®.  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.

Diana Wood is a Mentor at the OI HEARTraining^® and a Somatic Psychotherapist with 35 years in the healing arts field.  She began with structural bodywork, progressed to clinical social work and after retiring from a county agency, returned to her roots in somatics (SE™ & OI) and Jungian theory and practice through Kalffian SandPlay.

Diana's focus is on creating a safe and supportive therapeutic container for clients to explore, encounter and learn to have compassion for the wounded parts/states residing within their soma and psyche so that they may fully engage their lives with wholehearted embodied joy and commitment to self compassion.  On this journey, wherever we are, we will be contributing to the transformation of our world that we so earnestly seek.  We are embodied beings of Light within an alive manifested world, we only need to dare to embrace it.