OUR COACHING DOMAINS

Recovery
We work with clients to change unhealthy beliefs, interrupt destructive patterns of behavior, and develop new ways of coping so that they may create a healthier relationship with themselves, others, and substances.

Nourishment
Our coaches provide essential food education to encourage healthy food choices and inspire meal creativity. In doing so, clients cultivate a healthier lifelong relationship with food and themselves.

Family & Relationship
We work with individuals and families to develop the skills, tools, and resources necessary to improve interpersonal relationships, foster healthy interactions, and enable well-being for all involved.

Life Enrichment
Our personal development specialists help clients improve and enrich select aspects of their lives to foster good decision making, live with purpose, achieve specific goals, and make the improbable possible.

Professional Advancement
Our leadership and career coaches support clients in reaching new levels of professional success through essential trainings, skill-building, goal achievement, and career enrichment opportunities.

Spiritual Development
Our spiritual consultants use innovative, esoteric, and dynamic approaches to support clients in their spiritual growth. These services provide valuable guidance, insight, and opportunities for major shifts.

We all need rest. Yet, many modern lifeways operate at such a rapid pace that they do not give us time to recover. The mechanization of life also disconnects us from ourselves, others, and nature, which can lead to sickness of sorts. For this reason, the first stop on our journey centers upon grounding and relaxation so that you can re-establish and revitalize your connection to life. We do this through activities like:

Massage – Reiki – Sound Healing – Gardening – Horse Therapy – Hiking & Bouldering – Cacao Ceremonies – Yoga & Breathwork

We are all masterpieces in progress, and to realize your fullest potential requires constant and intentional change. So, no journey is complete without opportunities for introspection, self-discovery, and personal development. We create containers for you to deep dive into reflection, healing, and growth to enable even bigger shifts. We do this through our expansive selection of life-advancement activities such as:

Art therapy – Communications training – Transformational Therapy – Nourishment Education – Wellness coaching – Kambo Ceremonies – Plant Medicines – Grief & Gratitude – Worldview Shifts – Enhancing Creativity & Curiosity

Much of our activity in the “developed world” relies on the mind for productivity and creativity. Yet, our human genetics remember a time when we all used our hands to create. And by doing so it activates an “effort-driven reward circuit” in our brain and ensures we best care for ourselves and others. We will help you tap back into this memory through activities that ignite creativity and support the greater good:

Pottery Making – Traditional Meals – Harvest Food – Collect Firewood – Volunteer – Build Drums – Visit Schools

ABOUT

• 1-on-1, confidential sessions led by our communications and executive leadership specialists with over 50 years of corporate and university experience.

• Clients set individual goals and objectives to improve how they communicate, interact, and present themselves.

• Use of proven experiential learning methods such as: constant video, self-assessments, skills application, experiential simulations, and practical worksheets. ​

• ​​​Detailed ongoing facilitator feedback after every session with recommendations for follow-up to reinforce core teachings and achieve client’s specific goals.

A two-decade battle with harrowing addictions, PTSD, and other various illnesses led Wilson on an impassioned quest to discover what it meant to live and be well. Along the way, he earned a PHD in organization development and behavior, served as an Executive Director for a non-profit that provided mental health support services to veterans and their families, and taught university courses in communications, organization development, and public management. Equally as important as these achievements are the journeys he took to faraway lands where he studied with monks, Shamans, and alternative healers, while learning and researching all he could about different ways to heal, grow, and live (new lifeways!).

Recently, Wilson took all this colorful past experience and professional expertise to write two books, I Wanna Get High: Alternative Approaches to Overcoming Addiction & I Wanna Be Free: A Practical Guide for Cultivating Lasting Well-being, which serve as the foundation for all his work. Wilson believes in the fundamental importance of a holistic, multi-cultural approach that utilizes innovative and expansive solutions and prioritizes personalized consideration always. His work is grounded in helping clients cultivate healthy, balanced lives while staying true to themselves and working toward creating healthier families and organizations. When he isn’t exploring the world and celebrating life, Wilson practices classical guitar, wakeboards, and continues his search to find the world’s best French fries.

As a Natural Health & Wellness practitioner, Robin enjoys the process of supporting and educating her clients in their growth, balance, and happiness. She utilizes her “detective” skills to find blockages, uncover patterns, re-align with their health, pursue their purpose, and nourish their relationship with self, family and workplace.

Robin’s extensive and varied occupational background has enabled her to pull from multi-faceted experiences, with each shaping her life and coaching perspectives. She has worked with renowned natural healing doctors and wellness practitioners of many genres and specialties; chefs & restaurateurs; space flow & aesthetic designers; marketing, retail, corporate and small businesses.

Angela specializes in three areas of coaching: personal development coaching: (goal setting & accountability, empowerment, good decision-making, boundaries, spirituality & life purpose, and managing finances); career coaching: (office politics, career advancement, small business management, and public speaking) and relationship coaching: (family dynamics, conflict resolution, attracting an ideal mate, co-dependency, and effective communication).

Angela considers herself grateful that she has such diverse experience in the industries of finance, real estate, estate planning, corporate training and professional speaking, as well as retail, metaphysical, personal development, small group communication, and solo-preneurship. This dynamic background makes her a valuable coach for moving forward in life – with self, work, and others. Angela has a special skill set of making the impossible probable by creating perspective and clarity, and she delivers her coaching with compassion, understanding, and unending support.

Maria was born in Colombia and lived there for the first 26 years of her life. During this time, she became a management engineer and worked for 5 years doing marketing, trade marketing and brand management for big corporations. Feeling empty and lacking purpose she knew in her heart there had to be more to life than making fear-based decisions and not following her heart and soul.

After this realization, Maria went on a quest around the world seeking purpose and becoming a student of life. Through studying yoga, meditation, mindfulness, plant medicine, and a variety of eastern and ancient wisdom, she started to open up to life again, through studying yoga, meditation, mindfulness and a variety of eastern and ancient wisdom.

In Re-building her relationship with herself, she discovered her power to create a life of deep meaning through cultivating relationships with self, others, nature and by pursuing activities that support and nurture well being in body, energy, mind and spirit. Now, Maria wants to bring all this experience back to life by sharing it others along their journeys of transformation.

Nelson understands that his career in hospitality and philanthropy are not a contrast to a life of holistic wellness but represents the broader spectrum of the whole of who he is. From this reality, Nelson holds strong his belief that we are each made up of a myriad of constantly moving parts, requiring daily adjustments in their balancing to achieve the life worth living, in all its fullness, that each and every one of us deserves. For this reason and many more, he serves as our client success specialist, supporting clients to ensure the highest chances for lasting well-being and an optimal experience with IWA.

Originally from Chicago, IL, Nelson has spent decades traveling and immersing himself into cultures from around the globe. He now resides in San Marcos la Laguna, a Mayan village on the shores of Lake Atitlan in the western highlands of Guatemala – the place he calls home. Nelson is committed to the creation and maximization of “safe space” by curating adventures rooted in trust to encourage each client’s dedication to their individual journey, sanctioning the freedom to step into healing—from an authentic yet deeply vulnerable place. Advancing the team in identifying and developing the unique set of tools and skillsets each person will use to achieve the life they seek is the focus of Nelson’s work with Integrative Wellness Alliance.

Deborah utilizes yoga and wellness coaching techniques to assist her clients in developing and achieving work life balance. She specializes in teaching well-rounded, approachable yoga classes to meet students at their level, while providing areas for her clients to build their strength. In her wellness coaching practices, Deborah works with clients to assist them in overcoming the physical and emotional hurdles that can get in the way of their progress.

Deborah’s formal training and academic career make her uniquely poised to assist anyone who can’t seem to find enough time in the day. She strives to provide a space where her clients can work towards their goals of balance and strength through mindful movement and goal setting.

Liz has been teaching movement for over 25 years, most recently focusing on yoga, Pilates, functional movement and meditation. Informed by a myriad of movement modalities, Liz teaches with an overall understanding of biomechanics, anatomy and the nervous system. She prides herself on being able to connect to every student and teach any body and any level with an open mind and heart.

As an Ayurvedic Wellness Counselor, Liz understands how to help clients with digestive issues, hormone imbalances, sleep disorders and general confusion on where to start to feel your best. She is committed to bringing a modern approach to the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda to help her clients find balanced and sustainable routines for lasting wellness.

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Ra James is the creator of futureElders, an organization that assists in keeping global wisdom traditions alive and integrating them within the context of the modern world. He has traveled to over 50 countries learning from indigenous cultures, sitting in ceremonies, and implementing regenerative frameworks and biomimetic strategies with governments and organizations worldwide via his consulting company Pueo Regeneration. He is also a poet, children’s book author, musician, and guide for leaders who are looking to use wisdom as a catalyst for truly transformational change and reconnection to transcendent purpose. Ra is a member of the Sustainable Change Research Network, International Alliance for Localization (IAL), Doughnut Economics Research Lab, a certified YTT-200 hour Ashtanga Yoga teacher, Ayurvedic practitioner and an amateur treehouse builder.

I am highly skilled with decades of experience in helping others. My goals are to help individuals, couples, and families who suffer from the damaging effects of behavioral addictions such as sex, porn and or chronic infidelity and betrayal.

These compulsive behaviors are very damaging and do interfere with living a healthy, happy and productive life which includes being able to enjoy healthy relational intimacy. I specialize in the treatment and recovery from these sexually compulsive behaviors, including pornography, infidelity and betrayal.

Everyday I work with couples, individuals and groups, that are suffering from damaged or broken relationships, or who are stumbling their way through the disclosure and healing process of infidelity, or other intimacy-related issues, including boundary setting, co-dependency, feelings of inadequacy, guilt, shame or feelings of not being enough.

I look forward to helping you personally with your issues and assisting you in creating the life you deserve and want to be living. I look forward to helping you begin your journey of self-discovery and healing with me.

Michael is a heart-centered personal mentor who believes the core wisdom and guidence we need in life comes from within our own being. He asserts that through creating a deeper intimate connection with ourselves and the world around us, we are able to harness our personal power to heal and create any reality we desire. Michael brings a soup of authenticity, inspiration, spirituality, purpose and dance moves to all his life endeavors. He helps his clients move from their mind to their heart, so they may connect with the wisdom of their body and soul.

After many years of burnout and personal sacrifice in high-pressure corporate sales environments, Michael decided to take the biggest leap of his life in 2020, leaving everything to pursue his dream of traveling the world. He spent two years traveling through 5 continents, learning from indigenous healers, falling in love with nature, and facing his shadows head on. It was through his journey of faith and fear of the unknown, Michael realized he could help others find their true path in life.

Shane is an awarded sales executive, American singer, songwriter, and life coach. Through excelling in media and sales, running a music record label, and helping professionals with marketing, contracts, and coaching, Shane helps clients tap into their potential with motivation, focus, and positivity. His positive influence is evident even after one session with a client, as they report feeling uplifted, focused on the future, and felt like they were understood.

From a young age, Shane switched roles to family caretaker after the loss of his mother. He realized vital truths we often forget: There is a reason behind everything that happens to us in life, there are no coincidences, and our experiences make us who we are. His goal is to help others actualize their individual talents and boost their motivation through the power of garnering positive energy, focusing on their potential, and achieving goals through mindful action. He believes everyone should be true to their individuality and “Fuel the fire that is within your soul.”

Eric’s coaching journey began in 2018 as a GALLUP certified strengths coach and consultant. After successful roles in healthcare technology sales and consulting, he was recruited by Gallup as part of their “taking back healthcare” initiative in the employee engagement and strengths coaching space. Prior to this, Eric pursued an MBA in Conflict Management to deepen his understanding of working and thriving with others, as well as to expand his ability to better help people navigate interpersonal dynamics. While finding success, Eric yearned to find a role he was passionate about. Working to solve organizational challenges was stimulating but he soon found that working with people to be much more fulfilling.

Eric came upon his true north when speaking to a team member of a manager that he was coaching during his time at Gallup. After asking how the last few weeks had been since coaching their manager, they paused and uttered: “I didn’t cry in my car during lunch today.” That was his revelatory point. He found by raising the state of an individual, he could raise the state of the whole. It was contagious and that was his “more.” Through coaching and shared experiences with others, he aims to create a space of rewarded vulnerability. In this space people can articulate and aspire to create their authentic, best version of self, both personally and professionally.

Continuing to coach and consult for individuals and organizations has been an extremely fulfilling endeavor for Eric; he has worked with a wide-range of clients ranging from Fortune 100 companies to start-ups. He also is eager to use his expertise to help families identify and leverage their strengths to encourage positive interpersonal relationships and a healthier overall system. When not coaching or consulting, Eric pursues a healthy and balanced lifestyle, finding joy in exercise, yoga, and nature. He loves to travel the world and currently splits time between the United States and Lake Atitlan, Guatemala.

Ed is an experienced leadership consultant and the creator of our Engage Communications program – an interpersonal and executive communications training that has been met with great success since its inception in 1978. He also, however, tragically lost his son Nicholas at age 19 to a drug overdose. Having navigated the world of addictions firsthand and grieved the loss of his only child, Ed has a powerful message, vital wisdom, and serves as an invaluable resource for us all.