Shift. Connect. Belong
Carol Swann
Carol Swann has been teaching voice, somatics (movement re-patterning & psychology), Alexander Technique, Authentic Movement, Contact and Performance Improvisation for 35 years in the United States, Latin America, Europe, Israel and Russia. She is Co-Founder and Director of Moving On Center School of Participatory Arts and Somatic Education which links somatics and the performing arts for social change (1994-2015).
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She has been the Assistant Director and primary faculty to Martha Eddy in the Dynamic Embodiment & Somatic Movement Therapy Training (DE-SMTT). She is a registered movement therapist/educator (RSMT, RSME through ISMETA) with a private practice in Somatic Psychology (blending Hakomi Method and Process Work) and the Alexander Technique.
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She is a group process and conflict facilitator and weaves her extensive studies and practices in Social Somatics, Body-Mind Centering and Laban/Bartenieff into all of her work. She has shared her dynamic, liberatory singing with groups of people internationally. Her work is influenced by her parents Bob and Marj Swann, Steve Paxton, Bonnie Cohen, Arnold Mindell, Ron Kurtz, John Cage, Meredith Monk, Balkan Singing, nature, and the history and practice of liberatory politics.
Ilene Serlin PhD
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Ilene A. Serlin, Ph.D, BC-DMT is a licensed psychologist and registered dance/movement therapist in practice in San Francisco and Marin county. She is the past president of the San Francisco Psychological Association, a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, past-president of the Division of Humanistic Psychology. Ilene Serlin is Associated Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, has taught at Saybrook University, Lesley University, UCLA, the NY Gestalt Institute and the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich. She is the editor of Whole Person Healthcare (2007, 3 vol., Praeger), over 100 chapters and articles on body, art and psychotherapy, and is on the editorial boards of PsycCritiques, the American Dance Therapy Journal, the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Arts & Health: An International Journal of Research, Policy and Practice, Journal of Applied Arts and Health, and The Humanistic Psychologist.
Michaela Rodeno
Michaela K. Rodeno, retired CEO and vintner, Haas MBA, marketer, entrepreneur, director Silicon Valley Bank 2001-2011. Rodeno has a rich history in Northern California as she has been prevalent presence in the valley. Having her on our team as a director of finances helps us ensure that we keep our operating costs at a minimum so that 80%+ of the money received goes towards our programs in benefit of the communities at risk kids.
Tresa Eyres is a business consultant with a career history of helping organizations improve their productivity and increase their reach. Her client list includes Fortune 500 companies in a wide variety of industries and non-profits.
She now donates the majority of her time to assisting U.S. and global non-profits in their missions to educate and level the playing field for women, minorities, children and youth, and the under-served in general.
Her work includes bringing teams together to agree, plan, act, and succeed; documenting business processes and developing custom learning programs to help organizations become more effective and/or scale; and capturing and creating the kind of stories about people and organizations that resonate with target audiences.
Tresa has an MA in education from Michigan State University. She is the co-author of business and career self-help books. She lives and works in San Francisco.