Michael (Mike) Jawer is a Washington, DC-based writer, speaker and researcher. His expertise is the nexus of personality development, body/mind, emotion, and spirituality. He is the author of 3 books: Sensitive Soul , Your Emotional Type , and The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion – the latter two coauthored with Marc Micozzi, MD, PhD. His ground-breaking work has appeared in a plethora of peer reviewed scientific and academic journals and publications and been the basis of many insights into high sensitivity, including how we respond to subtleties in our environments and what this means for our wellbeing.

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At the retreat Mike will be stimulating our intellectual and emotional curiosity to journey into personal experience and spirituality as he guides us through a fascinating new model of self awareness -  Sensitivity: Roots, Leaves, Branches, and Seeds.

Jessica Bockler is performance artist, transpersonal psychologist and co-founding director of the Alef Trust, a global leader in transformative education. Jessica  explores how embodied play, holistic wellbeing practices, and creative ritual can nurture individual and collective flourishing. Jessica leads Nurturing the Fields of Change, a global community of change facilitators who work on projects for social transformation and planetary thriving. She is an academic advisor for the Inner Development Goals initiative and a member of the Deep and Rapid Transformation Convergence group in the Evolutionary Leaders Circle, both of which aim to promote inner work and unitive perspectives to support the realisation of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. 

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At the retreat, Jessica will guide us in beautiful sessions of play and purpose, stimulating our deep sense of interconnectedness, and how we can each play our own purposeful roles in a new flourishing era of conscious awareness.

Paul is a parapsychologist and ecopsychologist dedicated to exploring the nature of consciousness. His work moves fluidly between research and lived experience, tracing how shifts in awareness can open us to subtle patterns of meaning and connection that reach beyond the individual. He sees consciousness not as something sealed within the self, but as part of a web of relationship — shaped through our encounters with others, with place, and with the larger patterns we move within. His academic work, including numerous publications and conference presentations, invites a deeper sensitivity to the quiet forces that shape both personal and collective experience. Paul offers reflections and practices that support a more attentive, imaginative engagement with the symbols, resonances, and inner movements that help us make meaning in a connected world. 

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At the retreat, Paul will share an interplay of the science and shamanism that reveals the profound intimate connections of our sensory world and the world itself by communing deeply with nature.

Kelly has been working with the body for 20 years on the international stage as performer, author and speaker 'Immodesty Blaize'. Off stage, her therapeutic work is underpinned by professional trainings including clinical EFT, Gabor Mate's Compassionate Inquiry approach, eating psychology, and embodied meditation. Kelly evolved her Body Compassion approach to help people in the realm of transforming and healing their relationship with their body; to live in it with less judgment, more trust, agency and confidence. For those with naturally thin boundaries of Self, understanding and appreciating their bodies - and emotions - as having implicit boundaries, invites a return to the body as a beautiful home.

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At the retreat, Kelly will lead an experiential workshop to explore and be present to what your body might be trying to say, using powerful approaches including EFT and embodied meditation. Together we’ll soften judgments and build deeper awareness of what we carry and embody, so we can respond, and harness that with compassion, choice, and clarity.

With roots in Curanderismo, her work is steeped in ancestral healing and rooted in the Earth—honouring the ways of her ancestors while offering modern souls a path of reconnection. Dulce has has travelled across the globe offering presence, practice, and perspective to those ready to remember who they are beneath the noise. From leading mass meditations around the world on a global peace tour, to guiding intimate rituals at private retreats, her work blends earth-based wisdom, metaphysical practice, and poetic presence to help others remember that life is not just happening to us, but through us—like a dream we are meant to consciously shape. Dulce is the founder of The Sacred Dream Collective, an online community of remembrance and connection. 

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At the retreat, Dulce brings gentle guidance for those ready to wake up within the dream, and walk the path of remembrance with grace, reverence, and awe—through deeper presence, radical self-remembrance, and the art of lucid living.

Visionary artist, folklorist and renaissance musician, Edward (Eddie) Foster guides fellow sensitive seekers on exploring the imaginal realm - and bridging their inner and outer worlds together in introspective and creative ways. Edward draws the world as beautifully as possible, for he sees it as beautiful and divine. His artwork is the art of the sublime. His unique visionary style of artwork is highly regarded throughout the world. He is acclaimed for his technical and soulful mastery of oil paint and pencil drawings. On the retreat, guests will be guided to experience that the act of drawing is one of self manifestation which supports your intuition, intellectual imagination, and personal insight.

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At the retreat, Eddie will share skills and techniques to build confidence and joy in making your own visionary art, supporting the development of self-awareness, intuition and the interplay of inner-world / outer-world realities. He will be on hand to guide throughout as an integration practice.