Leaders of Relating Arts

On this page you find a list of people who are seriously engaged in leading Relating Arts practices. You can read about people’s journeys into the world of relating practice in the bios.

All the people

Below you see the beginning of a hopefully ever growing list of Relating Arts leaders around the world. Everyone on this list has received some form of formal training in the practices they lead, althought the level of experience varies. If you want to be shown on this list you can find a guide on how to write a bio here.

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Andrew Venezia

Amsterdam/US based writer, teacher, coach and (psychedelic) Guide. My core obsession is the intersection of meditation and Relational Practices — ‘Awakened Interbeing’ — and bringing its joy, aliveness, and clarity into one’s daily life, and the world, inviting the blossoming of our best and truest selves in service of the Good.

Anežka Marie Sokol

I work for more thriving humans in a more thriving world by helping people develop relational & interpersonal skills. I work with leaders, teams and individuals. I have been in the game of process facilitation & education for 10+ years and am educated in chemical engineering, mindfulness & Circling.

Daniel Brooks

I'm a Stockholm-based facilitator working in trainings, group dynamics, and conflict management. I've been facilitating Authentic Relating games and circling for 15 years and trained at the Integral Center in Boulder, Colorado. I'm also a Zen practitioner, bringing contemplative practice into how I work with groups.

David Brundige

I’m an Amsterdam-based community researcher, coach, spiritual friend, and facilitator of togetherness spaces. I co-create fields of presence and realness that center togetherness in love. Since 2019, I lead circling and relational practices, and live in intentional communities since 2021.

Ellen Waenink

At the heart of what drives me is to support humanity to wake up to the importance of relationships and it's potential. I am a transformational coach, mentor, facilitator and consultant. I support clients on their path of unfolding into wholeness. My work blends relational intelligence, depth psychology, trauma-informed somatics, movement and spiritual inquiry, offering a holistic space for unfoldment.

Ernest Holm Svendsen

I’m a Danish facilitator, writer, and founder of The Art of Being Human. My work guides people from self-improvement to self-discovery — uncovering the innocence, beauty, and love that appear when we stop fixing ourselves and start meeting what’s here.

Jonathan Littauer

I am a Stavanger-based facilitator and coach. I am fascinated by the simple power of ‘being with’ - and how it impacts individual, relational, and collective levels of experience. I feel deeply drawn to the innate intelligence of life, and exploring ways to allow that intelligence to emerge, move, and guide us on our journeys.

Kirien Eyma

I am a third-culture kid; bridge builder between cultures, continents, genders, and lifeforms. I dream of a quieter and slower human society where “mindfulness” is a part of how we do everything and interact with everyone. I am extending the practices of mindful relating to include relationships with the more-than-human world.

Magdalena Tran

I'm trained by Circling Europe (currently Transformational Connection) leading spaces where we meet truth. My passion lies in revealing what’s real, the raw, unfiltered - using the body as a gateway. Through daily meditation and tantric practices since 2019, I've learned that every moment is truth trying to emerge and when we let it… love follows.

Mareike Christensen

I am a trained integral psychotherapist and offer conflict mediation and coaching and lead embodied and relational presencing workshops. In my workshops which I have led since 2020 people often feel both confronted and called by my truthfulness and deep attunement. I trust deeply in my experience and like to follow a sense of aliveness into the unknown.

Martje Witzel

I am a transformational coach, group leader and mystical artist based in Europe. For over two decades, I have worked with people in diverse contexts, weaving embodiment, soul work, ritual, trauma integration and the relational arts. I craft spaces where depth, honesty and connection can unfold, and where the wild, mysterious intelligence of life can move us toward wholeness.

Mateusz Jędrzejewski

I am a Copenhagen-based somatic therapist and group facilitator. My work focuses on presence-based inquiry and group process, touch, breathwork, and integration of developmental trauma. I am passionate about dancing, linking spirituality and contemporary psychology, expanded states of consciousness, and community-building.

Michael Blas

I am based most often in Austin, TX. Right before he died, my grandfather said to me, “Don’t ever retire.” I was participating in relating practices in my off-time and decided to make that my career. I love connection and I love how I’m changed by listening to people without trying to change them. Some people realize that we can ...

Natasha Figueroa

I am a facilitator of Authentic Relating, as well as a coach, mentor, and space-holder, developing my practice for over 20 years by integrating honesty practices, dance, tantra, shamanism, improvisation, and more. My main passions are intimacy, communication, vulnerability, gender balancing, and love. As a person of mixed heritage and raised in multiple cultures, I am focused on representation, accessibility ...

Navi Camilla Säregård

Based in Gothenburg, Sweden, and work with body based learning and somatic coaching. I do this with clients one on one, as well as smaller and bigger groups. My practices stretch from trauma aware more therapeutic sessions that are focused on creating more freedom, choice and flow in everyday life, to explorative group unfolding with relational practices, to ecstatic dance ...

Pete Jordan

In 2015, I nervously and reluctantly attended my first Radical Honesty workshop, which blew my mind. From there, I eagerly took part in dozens more workshops and transformed my life for the better by committing to live honestly, by expressing my resentments and appreciations in the moment and by asking for what I want.

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Peter Munthe-Kaas

I am a Stockholm based researcher, body therapist, coach and workshop facilitator. I am interested in practices that support me and others in relating and listening better and believe that the ability to relate to myself, others, society and nature is key to living a happy life in service of what is good in the world.

Pieter Lichtert

I facilitate circles since 2019 and trained intensively with Transformational Connection Europe (formerly known as Circling Europe). I’m also a coach, trainer and partner since 2009 in Van Kelst & Co, bringing Transformational Connection to business and leadership programs.

Ronja Lofstad

I discovered Circling in 2014 and it has been an active part of my life since. I have facilitated circling evenings, weekends, retreats and courses for years and I am a senior leader for Transformational Connection (formerly Circling Europe). I am deeply inspired by nature and silence and spend a lot of time outdoors, listening to forests and mountains.

Rósanna Seigi Róbertsdóttir

I’m a Stockholm-based journalist, workshop facilitator and Integral Zen monk. For the past seven years, I’ve practiced meditation intensively – an eager student of our boundless nature. I’m also passionate about learning and sharing skills that build robust, vital relationships – the kind that invite us to gracefully, pleasurably embody our uniqueness.

Rouven Schneider

I'm a cultural-anthropologist, couples therapist, grief tender and sexological bodyworker based in Leipzig, Germany. Having successfully accompanied far over 1.000 couples I apply and teach my own trauma-informed somatic based approach. I facilitate group spaces and guide other guides through sharing my knowledge and paradigms.

Stephanie Ginter

I discovered Transformational Connection in 2023 and completed the SAS training in 2024. Since then, I’ve been exploring my own way of holding space and wish to bring the practice more into Germany and Berlin.

Stephanie Hall

I’m an Oxford-based circling leader and NARM practitioner-in-training. I’m interested in what it is to truly be healthy, and believe that circling, when practiced well, helps us move towards wholeness and wellbeing.

Tova Ekenberg

Hi, I’m Tova. Actress and theatre maker, a Circling facilitator, and I offer one-to-one sessions. With roots in the performing arts, I bring my training as an actress and dancer into transformative spaces to support personal and collective growth. I’m based in Uddebo, a small community outside of Gothenburg.

Tuulia Syvänen

Tuulia Syvänen is the certified Radical Honesty trainer who has led the most RH workshops in Europe. She also does 1:1 and couples coaching. For two decades, she held leadership positions at international, non-profit organizations that are concerned with social and environmental justice issues.

Viktoria Karlsson

I am a diversity loving ecologist, entrepreneur, coach, relateful session facilitator. Situated in a small town in Sweden called Sala. Interested in how we relate and communicate human social needs, being a social dependent species.