FACULTY
Elizabeth Sabet ~ Lubbock, Texas
Transformational & Spiritual Integration Coach, ITTC Founder
Since 1996, Elizabeth has worked to educate people of all ages and backgrounds about the principles of holism in the fields of early childhood education, parenting, integrated health, community relations, team building, and spiritual development.
Elizabeth’s training career began when she worked as an Administrative Law Dispute Resolution Officer for the State of Texas, creating training programs used in 25 field offices across the state. She later created early childhood education training programs for childcare employees and parents. Her training manuals were used by the State of Texas Department of Childcare licensing to train other childcare facilities.
She has presented papers on spiritual integration coaching and spiritually supportive communities at national and international conferences.
Elizabeth is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of HOPE, Holistic Options for People Everywhere, in Lubbock, Texas. A non-profit organization dedicated to creating community dialogue about the inclusion of holistic practices and principles, and to providing community activities, support, and education for individuals with spiritual emergence experiences or anyone ready to explore life beyond the boundaries of their enculturated life experiences. HOPE has trained over 140 mental health professionals on the issues and ethics of spiritually transformative experiences in Lubbock, Texas, and provided hundreds of free events to the local community.
She also served as Board President for the American Center for the Integration of Spiritually Transformative Experiences (ACISTE.org). She became the trainer for their Peer Support Group Facilitator training and trained over 30 facilitators from around the world.
She is a long-term meditation practitioner and has been a meditation instructor and facilitator at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock, Texas, and has taught children to meditate for over 25 years.
Erika Nimry ~ Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Embodied Movement Mentor & Somatic Coach
Erika is relatable and has life and academic experience that create a unique and culturally sensitive lens through which she sees the world. She is a Historian with a specialization in Religion and Nationalism in Europe and the Near East which contributes to her ability to hold safe space for various backgrounds as well as bring deep knowledge of the history of the patriarchy and our colonial conditioning into her work.
She is also a certified educator and has taught English language and literature in University projects and language learning centers in Saudi Arabia, International schools in Abu Dhabi, and American public schools contributing to the curriculum and adding to her skills of distilling and delivering information in easy to learn formats, suiting various learning styles.
Erika leads 200-hour instructor training, and international retreats, runs a high-level online group mentorship program and has worked with women from various countries including The United States, Australia, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Trinidad, South Africa, and Colombia.
She specializes in helping women redefine their feminine experience and gain the courage to give themselves permission to show up to who and where they are more fully in every aspect of their lives.
Erika is also an ITTC graduate and mentee of the school’s founder, Elizabeth Sabet.
Websites
www.thisisthemovement.co
Dr. Rosie Kuhn ~ Orcas Island, Washington
Transformational Coach, Author, Trainer
Rosie began her career over 30 years ago as a clinical therapist for addiction recovery programs in Nova Scotia, Canada. In 1999 she founded The Paradigm Shifts Coaching Group, and in 2001, she created the Transformational Coaching Training Program in Silicon Valley, which she facilitated for over a decade.
Her unique model of coaching builds upon her understanding of the domains of awareness of our humanity; the foundations of which are systems theory, transpersonal psychology, and years of immersion in the field of addictions. Her expansive breadth of knowledge and experience bridges quantum physics to cosmic consciousness.
Dr. Kuhn is brilliant in her capacity to champion transformation within organizations. She has her finger on the pulse of the current global paradigm shift, which gives her an extraordinary fluidity with cognitive, emotional, and spiritual acumen.
Rosie has successfully coached and trained professionals in banking, sales, recruiting, HR, health, education, and non-profit organizations, for clients such as Gap Inc., SanDisk, Flextronics, Sun Microsystems, and Nike Israel.
Engaging and charming, Rosie is a popular speaker, facilitator, and blogger. She captivates audiences, often moving them to both laughter and tears. She has appeared at the podium, on television and on radio, at the San Francisco New Living Expo, Santa Clara University, and the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology.
Website
Website
Dr. Nicole Gruel ~ Australia
Transpersonal Coach, Author, Speaker, Trainer
Dr. Nicole Gruel is an Author, Doctor of Spiritual Health, and Cheerleader for Agents of Awesome, who descends from a long line of samurai on her grandma’s side. 700 years or so. The women in her family are fierce in spirit and deeply passionate about making the most of any life situation.
Dr. Nicole Gruel has a Ph.D. in Integral and Transpersonal Psychology. She’s a past Board Member of IANDS (International Association for Near-Death Studies), Co-Founder of IANDS Sharing Groups Online, Mentor for Life Coaches at ACISTE (American Centre for the Integration of Spiritually Transformative Experiences), an Advisory Board Member for Spiritual Awakenings International (SAI), and co-facilitates the Sydney chapter of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS).
Nicole is a Gifts Compass™ Advisor and Training Facilitator, past NSW/ACT President of the Australian Association of Psychological Type (AusAPT), certified Counsellor, and certified Life Coach with Strategic Intervention and ACISTE. She has also trained in various healing, movement, and energy psychology modalities.
Dr. Gruel inspires people to harness their spiritual and transformative experiences for life prosperity and joyful livelihood. Her books have been featured in leading wellbeing magazines and she’s been published in peer-reviewed academic journals.
She has had some pretty wild experiences that led her to this point. A near-death experience as a teenager, the early loss of several family members, years of backpacking around the world, meandering through countless spiritual paths, and a quest to understand why we’re really here. Eventually, she came to realize the greatest challenge and most interesting part of the whole journey is how to ground and fully embody this human life. Right here. Right now. Right in the messiness and craziness of this hectic world.
In Memorium
IN MEMORIUM
Carolyn Marsalis
As well as a dear friend, Carolyn Marsalis, was instrumental in supporting improvements to the ITTC curriculum. She is loved and missed by many.
Carolyn had worked in the counseling, training, and coaching fields for almost 30 years. She held a master’s degree in education, counseling, human development, and a certification in holistic health coaching. Carolyn was a Master Coach. Additionally, she was a SoulCollage® facilitator, a WRAP® facilitator, an international speaker, and an author.
In recent years, Carolyn had facilitated programs designed to assist people in recovery from mental distress/illness as they return to full participation in their lives. She developed a coaching program utilizing a blend of dietary modification, coaching sessions, movement, and art to personalize coaching programs for her clients.
The coaching Carolyn provided was grounded in simplicity, spirituality, and clarity, allowing for focused aspiration and creativity in all endeavors. Her coaching clientele has included teachers, parents, students, ministers, attorneys, healthcare practitioners, university professors, and senior-level managers in various stages of career and life transition at Kraft, Pillsbury, Chili’s, Google, Starbuck’s, and YellowBook. Additionally, she has assisted numerous individuals in growing their businesses, from being the personal provider of services to a small businesses with employees.
As a graduating student of ITTC, Carolyn was so happy to assist students in their extraordinary coaching education process.