CREDENTIALS: TRAININGS, STUDIES, & INITIATIONS

These trainings & studies reflect decades of dedicated practice across contemplative, somatic, and transpersonal domains. They represent the lived foundation from which Ontodelic Inquiry has organically emerged.

  • Ontodelic Inquiry: Co-Developer, 2021-Present
    An original integrative somatic, developmental, and transpersonal methodology, structured so that more nervous-system learning consolidates within a single session. Developed in continuous clinical practice and taught through 1:1 mentorships and annual facilitator trainings.

  • Chaos & Conflict in Group Systems — Advanced Training with Mukara Meredith, Certified Hakomi Trainer, 2025
    The group as a living system; conflict at outer, inner and secret levels, and the facilitator's capacity to stay resourced and skillful inside collective activation.

  • Somatic & Experiential Couples Therapy — Rob Fisher, LMFT
    Hakomi Institute faculty; author of Experiential Psychotherapy with Couples: A Guide for the Creative Pragmatist. Ongoing study and application of his Mindfulness-Centered Couples Therapy approach. Occasional Mentorship w/ Rob through Case Consultation & Peer Supervision

  • Reichian Character Structure — Extensive Independent Study & Personal Work
    Comprehensive study across the Reichian and post-Reichian literature on character patterns and somatic defense — Reich, Lowen, Pierrakos, Johnson, Kessler. Personal work with Steven Kessler, author of The 5 Personality Patterns.

  • The Six Core Patterns — Co-Development of an Extended Character-Structure Framework, Co-, 2021–Present

    An extension of the Reichian character-structure lineage into a more comprehensive six-pattern model & video series. Applied continuously in clinical practice and taught in annual Ontodelic Inquiry facilitator trainings. Developed out of the Reichian lineage (Reich, Lowen, Johnson, Kessler).

  • Somatic Psychotherapy & Facilitation Training, Rainbow Bridges, Year-Long Immersive Program, 2021
    An integrative body-mind curriculum drawing on Eastern and Western psychology, eco-psychology, somatics, mythopoetics and shamanic practice.

  • Internal Family Systems (IFS), Derek P. Scott, RSW (IFS Certified), 2021
    Parts work with managers, firefighters and exiles; unblending, Self-energy, and the unburdening process.

  • TRE® (Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises) — Early Training with Founder David Berceli, PhD, c. 2012
    Neurogenic tremor and the completion of stress-cycle discharge.

  • Transformational Breath — Training with Founder Judith Kravitz, 2012
    Conscious connected breathing; breath-pattern analysis, body mapping, and the use of sound and movement to open restricted respiratory patterns. Eleven subsequent years facilitating group and one-on-one sessions.

  • Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) — Specialized Training for Pain & Trauma with Steven Munn, 2009
    Meridian-point protocols applied to chronic pain and traumatic memory, including work with high-activation material.

  • Sharmada Advanced Framework: Core Wounds, Consciousness & Energy Systems — Ongoing Study with Patrick Connor, 2016–Present
    Psyche metaphysics, depth psychology, and somatic and subtle dynamics. Deep Architectures of core wounding and how it expresses in the context of the field of awareness and energy systems.

  • The Diamond Approach — Study and Online Training, 2022–2023
    A.H. Almaas's Ridhwan teaching: essence and its aspects, the theory of holes, and the meeting of our layers of Self through inquiry into immediate experience.

  • Independent Study, Early Trainings & Applied Practice — Where Somatics Meets Affective Neuroscience, Memory Reconsolidation, Prediction Error, and new perspectives on Trauma, ongoing

    Sustained study across the field, with continuous applied practice in session: the role of prediction error in nervous system learning and how it underlies titration & pendulation; core affective circuits and neurochemistry; interruption and completion of defensive responses.

  • Excavating Consciousness — Extended and Residential Inquiry Intensives with Mooji
    Self-inquiry in the Advaita lineage of Papaji and Ramana Maharshi. Five-week program in India, 2019; ten-day residential in Portugal, 2018.

  • Solo Eight-Month Intensive — 1,800+ Hours of Daily Sadhana, Ananda Ashram, 2016
    Eight continuous months of self-directed practice in primarily self-inquiry meditation and devotional practice.

  • Workshop Development & Facilitation: Belief Re-Writing Methodology, 2014-2015
    An original group workshop format for locating and transforming core limiting beliefs. A very early form of the somatic re-patterning work.

  • Nondual Inquiry — Study with Francis Lucille & Rupert Spira, 2011-2012
    The direct path in the spirit of Jean Klein and Atmananda Krishna Menon — inquiry into the nature of awareness and the examination of the separate self.

  • Vibrational Transformation & Shaktipat — Multi-Year Study with Panache Desai, 2010–2012
    Energetic transmission and attunement; group intensives alongside sustained personal work.

  • Insight Meditation, Dependent Origination & Emptiness — Extensive Study and Practice in Rob Burbea's Dharma

    Ways of looking, the fabrication of self and world, and the graduated practice of emptiness.

  • Direct Inquiry & Nondual Philosophy — Private Sessions with Greg Goode, 2009

    The direct path, Western philosophical approaches to nonduality, and emptiness teachings.

  • Classical Yoga & Vedanta — Multi-Year Retreat Study with Sri Svami Purna
    Sustained retreat practice with a revered Himalayan Yogi, holder of the title Vidya Vacaspati, "Lord of Learning," training in ancient Vedic knowledge, founder of the Adhyatmik Foundation.

  • Direct Unity Experience — Spontaneous Awakening and Prolonged Non-Ordinary States, 2005
    Light being visitations, core commitment of my psyche towards service to all, samadhis and states of divine love. Connecticut and Virginia City, Montana.