Chief Visionary & Founder
Katrina Michelle, PhD, LCSW is a spiritual seeker, holistic psychotherapist, and adjunct professor currently based in NYC. Informed by her doctoral research on "spiritual resistance" and her own transcendent experiences, she supports people in exploring, embracing, and integrating the multifaceted human experience through facilitating personal sessions, groups, and community events through The Curious Spirit.
Katrina serves as the executive director for The American Center for the Integration of Spiritually Transformative Experiences (ACISTE), an organization that reflects her desire to evolve mainstream systems so they acknowledge, honor, and include the spiritual component of human development. In alignment with this, Katrina is also the co-founder of Emergent Entertainment, a company on a mission to demystify awakening experiences through storytelling and art.
Katrina fully believes that a mainstream culture that reflects and supports this model will catalyze our collective highest potential. She is always seeking new adventures in growth and collaborators for creative programming.
You can reach Katrina at katrina@thecuriousspirit.org, or 917-509-3379.
Katrina serves as the executive director for The American Center for the Integration of Spiritually Transformative Experiences (ACISTE), an organization that reflects her desire to evolve mainstream systems so they acknowledge, honor, and include the spiritual component of human development. In alignment with this, Katrina is also the co-founder of Emergent Entertainment, a company on a mission to demystify awakening experiences through storytelling and art.
Katrina fully believes that a mainstream culture that reflects and supports this model will catalyze our collective highest potential. She is always seeking new adventures in growth and collaborators for creative programming.
You can reach Katrina at katrina@thecuriousspirit.org, or 917-509-3379.
Visionary Team
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Hayley Gardiner, MA is passionate about being a support for peers going through a spiritual emergence(y), during this beautiful and at times challenging process of transformation. Hayley received her Master’s Degree in Psychology and Spirituality at Columbia University. Previously, Hayley did research in Alzheimer’s Disease at the NYU Center for Cognitive Neurology. Hayley currently works in administration at the Center for Spirituality and Health at Mount Sinai Hospital.
You can reach Hayley at heg2133@tc.columbia.edu or 973-919-4792. |
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Misha Conaway, M.Ed., joined The Curious Spirit as a way to embrace and cultivate her inner strength. She has dedicated her life to connecting others with nature through her work in education, marketing, and graphic design. She constantly explores the idea of blending spirituality with science, believing that one cannot exist without the other as they are both driven by curiosity and discovering truths. She is the founder of HYHO Marketing & Design, whose mission is to collaborate with and support others in order to make the world a better place.
You can reach Misha at misha@HYHOmarketing.com or 929-777-4946. |
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TClare is an Artist, Educator, Spiritual Counselor or Anam Cara, certified Death Doula and Peer Support Specialist. He is a Reiki and Pranic Healing practitioner, Empath, as well as a Visionary. TClare has experiential history with The Dark Night of the Soul and The Hero’s Journey, having spent 30 years in California pursuing and studying Shamanic, Alternative Healing and Grief as a transformative tool. The Death and End of Life experience and his work in Hospice has been his personal springboard to his Spiritual Emergence awakening process and his artwork and writings a documentation and expression of this life altering experience. Today TClare focuses on Grief, Mental Health and Recovery. He is currently working in the Greater New York area as a Peer Support Specialist assisting others like himself, navigate mental health issues, grief and recovery. www.tclare.com
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Mary Cinadr, M.A, brings big picture thinking, spiritual curiosity and a heart-fueled entrepreneurial mind-set to The Curious Spirit (TCS). Bonded by a desire to name the nameless, create dialogue around the mystery of the Divine, and form lasting spiritual community, Mary helped to launch The Curious Spirt via Mary’s branding firm, Campfire Creative. With a deep love for the blank page, the unborn business and the rocky yet exciting roads of paradigm-shifting collectives, Mary joins the TCS team in welcoming and uniting seekers of all kinds, and believes that we are all, as Ram Dass said, “walking each other home." Mary is also the founder of Circle of Writers, where she helps people and groups uncover and share their personal stories, find their bravest voice, and explore their inner world through memoir.
You can reach Mary at mary@circleofwriters.com or 518-852-8501. |
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Lisa Drennan is passionate about blending personal growth, spiritual development, and music together in heart-centered, healing, and fun ways. She brings to TCS a passion for conscious connection, heart-centered vulnerability, and Unity Consciousness. A frequent musical contributor to The Curious Spirit's Women's Soul Circles, Lisa creates healing mantras to assist us in tuning our energy fields to our soul's highest vibrations. Each mantra is created as an inspirational reminder of just how powerful, miraculous, and lovable we all are. It is Lisa’s intention that we become as passionate about love as we have been trained to be about fear. As we do so there will be a tipping point in the collective consciousness of our world. And so it is! Follow Lisa's Mantras for the Soul on Facebook and Soundcloud!
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