AUTHENTIC RELATING TRAINING - Key Persons
Adriana is a therapist, educational adviser, and executive leadership coach empowering organisations and individuals to establish healthy life styles and nourishing relationships worldwide. Drawing from her scientific and transcendence studies, Adriana designs transformational courses focused on culture transformation and wellbeing self-awareness. Adriana is the creator of the WOMAN OF ME programe and leads and holds embodied journeys with women around the world. Adriana now brings authentic relating to most areas of her work including the heart of professional and corporate workspaces. With ART she finds her beautiful garden where to nourish, seed and reap love and reality. She is a mother, a kundalini yoga teacher, and loves finding the missing links of connection.
Based in Los Angeles, Ash (she/they) has trained in various movement, communication, and connection methods around the globe for 10+ years. Her formal education at UCLA, Authentic Relating Course Leader certification through ART International, coaching certification through The Relateful Co., and continued research in somatics and interpersonal development, inform her craft of rich experiences for embodied expression and full-spectrum intimacy.
Job Titles:
- Leader
- DIRECTOR of PRODUCT & CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT / SENIOR COURSE LEADER
- Leader of the ART of Being Human
Christopher is a course leader of The ART of Being Human, Levels 1 & 2, as well as the Authentic Leadership Program (ALP). He's spent 20 years in the software world as a leader in educational technology, most recently at Facebook. During that time, Christopher has also been doing extensive work supporting people struggling with alcoholism, substance abuse, and codependency. Since discovering and immersing himself in the practice of Authentic Relating, he's transitioned to coaching and working with ART to bring this transformative, humanizing practice to the world. He teaches Bikram yoga, and, most importantly, is from New Jersey.
Brooks considers himself a nerd at heart. Over the years, having originally been trained as a physicist, a soldier, and a zen monk, he now devotes his full nerdiness to the topic of human connection. In 2010 he discovered authentic relating and was immediately hooked on the vast potential of it, and has since made it an integral part of his personal and professional practice. He is engaged in community leadership with the Borderland, travels around the EU teaching authentic relating, lives in Copenhagen, and dislikes talking about himself in third person.
Job Titles:
- Director of Facilitation & Curriculum DEVELOPMENT / LEAD FACILITATOR
Dayna facilitates transformational experiences for groups and individuals through embodiment practices, therapeutic coaching, authentic relating and integrative healing arts. She has guided retreats, trainings and immersions for nearly two decades and has taught at renown festivals and conferences throughout the world. Her passion lies in supporting people to experience embodied connection - where healing occurs and wholeness is remembered, and is honored to serve ART as a course leader. Dayna is the Co-Founder and Director of Hanuman Academy, which offers soul-based yoga education. She is also the Creative Director for Hanuman Festival, and you can find her classes online through gaia.com and hanumanacademy.com.
Debbie supports the smooth running of operations and marketing activities behind the scenes at ART. From her own experience with authentic relating, she is passionate about creating a welcoming community environment where everyone is able to bring their whole self. Debbie is a proud geek with a background in Geophysics that combines her love of numbers and logic with the chaotic workings of the natural world. Following twelve years in the Corporate world, she now incorporates this balance of structure and flow in her role at ART, her work as an Embodied Business Coach and as a mum of two boys. She lives in the Scottish countryside where you can find her exploring the outdoors whenever possible! You can take a look here @debbieleeco
Jamie manages ART's operations, communications and administrative projects, focusing on the internal execution essential to the company's big vision. Prior to joining the team, Jamie supported various nonprofit organizations dedicated to empowering individuals, families and communities through mentoring, education and employment training for nearly a decade. Her professional impact has since merged with her own personal transformation, having spent the past five years supporting the very teachers and programs that paved her way to a more authentic life. With a keen eye for the details and a big heart for this work, Jamie is on fire behind the scenes in Bellingham, Washington.
Author of Conflict = Energy, The Transformative Practice of Authentic Relating, Jason is a modern renaissance man. Equal parts artist, philosopher, teacher, and media producer, he worked for Ken Wilber from 2003-2012 to create thousands of hours of educational media on the topics of transpersonal psychology, spirituality, productivity, and personal growth.
For 4 years before Co-Founding ART International, Jason Studied with all of the major leaders in the circling and authentic relating. This allowed him to synthesize the curriculum into a concise guide and publish Conflict = Energy in 2020. He was the first person to start a podcast for the global AR community and spread The Art of Being Human course to Bali and Europe. Obsessed with how humans can live and relate optimally, he's facilitated groups and taught authentic relating and circling since 2012, and has led courses in over 20 cities around the world.
Jason is also passionate about translating deep wisdom principles and personal growth methods for mainstream audiences. His latest work on Polarity Guidance for managers and leaders, brings the Authentic Relating teachings and practices into companies.
Job Titles:
- Sales & Marketing Manager
Jocelyn cares deeply about making Authentic Relating visible and accessible to people who, like herself, really value human connection. She believes between every touch point from people, to groups, to organizations, to businesses, and the planet, we're all trying to make contact with each other. What is meaningful to Jocelyn in this role is ensuring that we keep putting people's connection needs first and that when we make this the focus, everything else falls into place. In the everyday, Jocelyn can be found in Copenhagen enjoying the ‘hygge' life while dreaming of Vancouver, Canada where she's from. While she loves putting her creative, strategic, and analytical mind to work - she considers herself an embodied mystic at heart and has a hard time being concise in describing herself fully.
Kate Middleton is a Somatic Therapist and Authentic Relating Facilitator on a mission to help humans feel alive and at home in their bodies, relationships and the world. As a former World Champion Freediver she blends Nature-based adventures with deep relational work to create environments where connection and healing can happen.
Kate leads groups and individuals into the depths of their bodies and their truth and helps them walk it into the world. When she is not in session you can find her running, climbing and reading poetry in the Eastern Sierras of California.
Hi, I'm Kate, a fellow human on the path of being real and in relationship. I value depth, authenticity, intimacy and adventure. I believe that our wisdom lies within our cells, tissues, organs and systems and that if we want to understand our minds, we can turn to our bodies. Most of all, I believe that we are whole and complete, and that there are practices and tools that support our remembering. My path and passion is supporting people like you to feel at home in your body, authentic in your relationships and alive in the world.
It brings Margo a lot of joy to connect with awareness and intuition, embodying what she's learnt about communication and intimacy. She was a teacher and educational researcher for many years and continues to enjoy finding clear ways to share the revelation of authentic relating to those ready for it. Margo also spends time as a medicine guide and researcher into psychedelics for healing. She is a partner, mother to a teen daughter, friend and nature lover, living a slow and alive life near the forest just outside of London.
Naomi, a New Zealand native is passionate about sharing transformative, empowering events and experiences that awaken people to their true essence and create deeper fulfillment in love, Intimacy, relationships and life. After discovering the depth and profoundness of authentic relating and its capacity to create deep connection with others, she was hooked. As an International Tantra Teacher, Relationship and Intimacy Coach she loves sharing the authentic relating practices in her work as a way to create greater love, consciousness and connection in the world. Find out more about her here: naomipremadevi.com
Job Titles:
- CHIEF RELATIONAL OFFICER / Program Manager for Facilitator Training / Course Leader
Natasha is an instrumental part of the European leadership team, co-leading the Level 4 program and being the lead mentor at Level 3 trainings. They have been on a path of Authentic Relating for over 20 years by integrating honesty practices, dance, tantra, shamanism, improvisation, and more. Their main passions are intimacy, communication, vulnerability, gender balancing, and love. As a person of mixed heritage and raised in multiple cultures, Natasha is focused on representation, accessibility and inclusivity in the self-development world. Based in beautiful Copenhagen. Read more here at https://www.jellyfishheart.com
Pauline has always been deeply curious about how humans communicate with each other, especially through tough conversations. She sees conflict as an ally and a potent mirror, providing infinite opportunity for growth and connection. This curiosity has led her to become a mediator and ultimately brought her to Authentic Relating. She now guides organizations and individuals through times of transformation, dedicated to facilitate meaningful and lasting change. Pauline lives, loves and dances in Berlin, Germany.
Ranjit has 30 years experience of personal development; as a large group facilitator, trainer of facilitators and creator of unique experiential workshops. He is also a rock-climbing instructor, a professional actor, and leader of Circling and Authentic Relating group experiences. "I sometimes get the sense that we are already deeply connected and that this work helps us to rediscover…this."
Ryel Kestano is one of ART's Co-founders, and served as its CEO. He also served as a Senior Course Leader and was the primary developer of ART's courses and programs. Ryel also co-founded ART's sister nonprofit organization, Realness Project, dedicated to bringing authentic relating to prison inmates. He is also the author of Authentic Relating: A Guide to Rich, Meaningful, Nourishing Relationships, and is a master coach working with individuals, couples, and small groups.
Ryel has delivered over a thousand workshops and sessions in over 40 locations around the world during his ten years at the forefront of the authentic relating community, and regularly presents at conferences and festivals, and on podcasts.
Prior to ART, Ryel was the Training Operations Manager and a Certified Facilitator at the Integral Center in Boulder, Colorado, a leading institution in authentic communication and community development training. His entrepreneurial endeavors include co-founding Virtuance, the world's largest real estate photography company, the People's Farm, a farm-to-consumer distribution network, and Pink Mammoth, a prominent creative arts collective based in San Francisco. He lives in the Colorado mountains, has four very authentic children, and is an avid skier, rock climber, sailor, and long-distance hiker.
Job Titles:
- Course Leader ( French Language )
Sat Prem has been facilitating learning experiences for 30 years. She is a course leader and coach in Relational Intelligence, expert in somatic communication and LABAN-BARTENIEFF human movement analysis.
A true mystic, passionate about human potential, resilience, regeneration and creation, she enjoys supporting emerging leaders and awakened organizations who aspire to develop their skills towards more relational authenticity and conscious leadership in the service of sustainable development.
She is also a teacher of meditation and Kundalini Yoga, and has devoted 4 years to a Non-Duality contemplative retreat.
Sheri believes that the meaning of life is to find our gift, and our purpose is to give it away. After years of eagerly searching for her elusive "purpose", it took a radical life shift that dismantled her foundation to discover who she is and why she's here. Incorporating ART's 5 practices into her life, brought her back home to herself. Sheri stands for radical self-expression and has long identified her values as integrity, camaraderie, creativity, and authenticity. She is a trained Conflict Resolution Mediator and volunteers with Realness Project in Colorado to bring Authentic Relating Leadership practices to inmates in prison. In her spare time, she amplifies the voices of other spiritual leaders and changemakers through her brand, Pink Noise. She recently moved back to Victoria, BC where she grew up, and speaks as a New Thought Minister at Victoria Truth Centre.
Job Titles:
- COURSE LEADER
- Leadership Mentor and Connection Expert
Stephanie Dickinson is a feminine leadership mentor and connection expert on a mission to massively upgrade the relationship skills of millions worldwide. Her superpower is helping people increase their emotional intelligence, create rewarding relationships and find freedom and fulfilment in connection. When she isn't shifting the mundane to magic with her work, you can find her dancing Bachata or on a waterfall adventure in Bali. She shares her work worldwide, in coaching programs, authentic relating trainings, festivals, retreats and men's and women's circles.
Sydney is passionate about the magic & healing that is possible when humans form circles of presence. Over the last decade, she has been curating spaces for self-discovery and mindfulness through teaching slacklining, acro yoga, Earth connection, and practicing healing arts. All this had led Sydney to Authentic Relating where she has been diving deep and facilitating for the past 3 years. As a lifelong naturalist, Sydney believes that Authentic Relating is a way for humanity to remember togetherness within our own species and ultimately the whole web of life. She is currently creating content to bridge the worlds of AR with nature connection in hopes of evolving a culture rooted in regenerative healing practices for our present world & generations to come.
Vix is a certified somatic coach and authentic relating facilitator. Her work is grounded in nervous system resourcing and regulation to help people connect to the medicine of their rhythms and cycles. She is committed to helping people to embody their innate wisdom and power, reconnecting them with their natural flow, intelligence and creativity.
A former military officer, she is now an advocate for using the principles of embodiment, cyclical living and authentic relating to help rebel perfectionists manage their energy and emotions to bravely build more sustainable and authentic ways of being.
She's also a recovering perfectionist.