Team

Steve Hoskinson, MA, MAT, is Founder, CEO and Chief Compassion Officer (CCO) of Organic Intelligence^® and the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Organic Intelligence Outreach Institute. Steve developed the Human Empowerment And Resiliency Training (HEARTraining^®) based on Organic Intelligence, a positive psychology, fractal method known for its implicit exposure approach to trauma.

As a leader in the Somatic Psychology field, Steve has mentored and trained thousands of professionals in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East in the art of the compassionate treatment of trauma. Steve was Professional Training Faculty for the Somatic Experiencing^® Trauma Institute for 17 years and is currently Adjunct Faculty for JFK University’s Somatic Psychology program.

Steve is a founding member of the Northern California Society for Integrative Mental Health and the International Transformational Resilience Coalition and served on the Global Training and Education Council for the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute. For a complete bio visit the Steve Hoskinson page.

Tashia Burchett joined Steve at Hoskinson Consulting in March of 2008. Her organizational and customer service skills are key to giving all members and students an exceptional experience.

Tashia is also the proud mother of a smart, happy, and beautiful teenage daughter. They live in the house where Tashia’s mother was raised, on land that has seen four generations. Her passions are her family and friends, reading, her Chargers, and anything Celtic. Her dream is to visit Ireland, write a novel, and raise a happy daughter, not necessarily in that order. She also runs an independent charity in honor of two nephews she lost within 4 days of each other in 2009.  With her friends' generous donations, she collects stuffed animals and pajamas for kids in Children’s Hospital in San Diego and the Polinsky Center in San Diego.  Channeling her grief to good made has made a difference to many sick and scared children.

As she celebrates over 10 years with Steve and OI, Tashia is looking forward to being part of the organization for years to come, to see it from its infancy to helping the world be a better place.

Robin Craig is OI Associate Faculty and has studied with OI 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

Rob Gussenhoven joined the team to help define and develop the OI brand and he is responsible for all creative output. His compassionate leadership and management skills are a valuable asset to the team and his contributions extend to all levels of the organization.

Rob is an experienced leadership and brand development consultant with a global client portfolio. He was previously Board Chair and Interim Executive Director at the Somatic Experiencing^® Trauma Institute. Trained in trauma resolution, he is a long-term student of the Diamond Approach to Inner Realization, a path of self-realization and human maturity based on an original synthesis of modern psychology and spiritual nature.

Rob is dedicated to a life of service.

Born in Holland, he is happiest on a bicycle. He speaks four languages. As an explorer he climbed in Europe and Alaska and crossed the Greenland ice cap on skis. More recently his explorations include the mystery of True Nature.

Sam Stoker is Video Editor and Web Editor at Organic Intelligence^®, an independent documentary filmmaker, writer and new media designer located in Mexico City. He is a former firefighter, turned journalist, turned digital media artist. Sam likes to think, create and strive to live life with meaning and intention.

Raised in a working class community in California’s Central Valley, Sam developed an interest in social justice at a young age. In the time since, neither the concerns or the desires of his youth have left him, but rather have grown stronger and inspire most of his work. Sam's articles and photography have appeared in more than a dozen alternative newsweeklies and other publications including the Navajo Hopi-Observer, In These Times, Indian Country Today, the San Francisco Bay Guardian and the Tucson Weekly.

In recent years, Sam's interest has shifted toward documentary and new media. In 2013 he earned an MA in Social Documentation from the University of California, Santa Cruz and wrote, edited and produced his first film The Ghosts of March 21.  He is currently researching a new film project navigating the history of Mexican identity and class struggle.

In addition, what began as a necessity, has developed into a passion. In the past five years, Sam has significantly advanced his design skills and in late 2015 co-founded a design studio in Mexico City.