Location

Michelle currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts with her family after 20 years in Phoenix, Arizona. Born the eldest daughter in a large immigrant & multiethnic family network and raised in Long Beach, California, navigating difference, structural and interpersonal power differentials was ann unnamed but a common part of everyday life. With her personal and professional backgrounds she finds the framework Right Use Of Power™ offers us to apply to understanding power and it’s many complexities comforting and challenging and she looks forward to the inevitable shared learning and growth that comes in working with facilitators in training as they learn to adopt it’s ideas and teachings.

Michelle is a multi-faceted entrepreneur, student-educator, and advocate with an extensive professional background in the US residential real estate sector. In managerial roles, Michelle has created sales and professional development training programs, pdrafted and installed operational systems for both national and boutique brokerages and personally mentored and trained hundreds of agents. As an active REALTOR® & Associate Broker, she has been decorated by peer nominated, public survey and brokerage awards for sales production, industry impact and excellence in service and representation of the public. As a state-certified instructor, Michelle owns and operates an independent real estate school, known for its edgy and effective out-of-the-box continuing education.

As a Right Use Of Power™ Facilitator & Guild Member Michelle has developed curriculum for the Institute, facilitated trainings for it’s growing reach of people across the globe as well as carried facilitators in training through the pod period of their training journey.

Psychotherapist, Author, Podcast co-host and Teacher. My main focus is developmental trauma and addictions, which I explore through somatic work. I offer individual sessions, but my passion lies in group work, where I experience the full power of collective connection on healing. That is probably the reason why I love to also collaborate with other professionals through trainings and supervision. Sharing what I learn is an important dimension of my work.

My father is Portuguese and my mother is Italian. I’ve lived in both countries, and both weave deeply into my soul. Intercultural exchanges bring a richness to my life. I’m enlivened and defined by appreciating differences. My professional backgrounds is varied: film producer, university teacher, entrepreneur and finally, psychotherapist. It is in my psychotherapeutic work where I’ve found my place to contribute to a more awakened, loving, and humane world while I continue to grow as a human being.

I’m an Hakomi therapist (Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy). The Right Use of Power shed light on power dynamics in my practice, especially the importance of roles and accompanying responsibilities. It has had a huge influence on my self-perception and on my understanding of relationships, and given me tools to step into my power and take my place in the world. Being in positions of power as both a therapist and a teacher I have been able to incorporate my increased understanding around misuses of power into how I practice, and give recognition to these important and impactful issues.

Magi Cooper has been a dedicated advocate for domestic peace for over 30 years. She is a Certified Hakomi Therapist and Trainer. Hakomi is a mindfulness-centred, somatic psychotherapy. Magi is also a Right Use of Power Facilitator and Trainer, and Core Faculty Member. She is actively teaching in-person and online, consulting, speaking, writing and maintains a private counselling practice in Nanaimo, BC, Canada. Her work is born out of a proofed belief is the right of every family member to live in peace and safety.

Cedar is a consultant and teacher on ethics and ethical issues. She has been designing, developing, and teaching this approach since 1994. Cedar’s background includes 30 years as a psychotherapist and 25 years as a teacher.

She is the author of books and articles on ethics, counseling with elders, women and independence, and psychotherapy and spirituality. Cedar is also a Hakomi Experiential Psychology Trainer and a member of the Naropa University Adjunct Faculty.

She maintains a private psychotherapy and ethics consulting practice in Boulder/Denver and teaches both Right Use of Power™ and Hakomi nationally and internationally.

The Right Use of Power™ educational materials and exercises were developed by Cedar over a period of 20 years and dozens of trainings.

These teachings have been influenced by many sources in Cedar’s background. She is particularly grateful for her extensive experiences as an administrator, therapist, and trainer of the the Hakomi Method of Experiential Psychotherapy, chair of both the Hakomi Institute International Ethics Committee (HIEC) and the United States Association of Body Psychotherapy (USABP) Ethics Committee, ethics expert contributor to GoodTherapy.org, consultant to numerous organizations, and ceremonialist with the Earth Song Ceremonial Dance Community.

Learn more about Cedar’s additional contributions to the world on her website, www.CedarBarstow.com.

Professional Certified Coach (PCC, ICF-certified), Certified Business Coach Master® and Associate Right Use of Power Teacher/Facilitator.

I am an entrepreneur, the founder and CEO of Diversitas Oy (Ltd). This is the container for the synthesis of my passions; professional coaching and leadership development.

My business background is rooted in hospitality management, with fifteen years of experience in increasingly responsible leadership positions. Twelve years in the language service sector was an integral step in client-focused service and consulting. My most recent leadership positions have been within the professional training and coaching industry as a project director and CEO of a Finnish pioneering coaching company.

My mission is supporting the growth of leaders and executives, developing their leadership efficiency and level of self-awareness. I use a variety of thought provoking models and techniques, for instance working on presence. I appreciate how the Right Use of Power methodology has been instrumental for me personally and the missing piece of a puzzle in bringing leadership development topics together.

As a professional coach, I continue to focus on personal growth and development. The most recent modalities added to my coaching and training practices are from somatic psychology.
I am a HAKOMI Therapist (Mindfulness-Centered Somatic Psychotherapy) and Certified Trainer
of WholeBody Focusing.

I am an Associate Right Use of Power Teacher/Facilitator (2021) and also serve on the board of the Right Use of Power Institute.