Team
Team
Facilitators
This team has spent thousands of hours facilitating Sleepawake together, plus decades of experience facilitating in other contexts. And yes, we're friends in real life.
Catherine Tweedie, PhD
Cofounder & lead facilitator; energetic teacher, lioness
Jeff Lieberman, MSx2
Cofounder & lead facilitator; emotional artist, physicist
Danjo Paluska
Problem solver, connector, holder of absolute wonder
Sarah Cruse
Musician, healer, and truth teller
Raven Konforty
Lead Facilitator & Curriculum Builder
Maverick Kuhn
Apprentice Facilitator, 2022 Alum
Full bio coming soon.
“Who didn’t have a dramatic impact? Everyone did or said something that changed my life.”
Operations staff
Terry Ford
Head chef
Ellie Czepiel
Executive Director, 2023 Alum
Full bio coming soon.
Zack Viera
Event Operations Manager, 2024 Alum
Advisory board
Amy Fox
Collective transformation. CEO of Mobius Executive Leadership, trauma-informed leadership pioneer.
Winslow Strong, PhD
Future of personal growth. Physicist, statistician, Consciousness Foundation chairman.
JoAnn Lovascio
Embodiment. Core Energetics practitioner, somatic psychotherapist, private practice for 25+ years.
Steven Kessler
Character structure. Licensed psychotherapist for 40+ years, bestselling author of The 5 Personality Patterns.
Darlene Tataryn, PhD (Emyo)
Wisdom tradition holder. Expressive therapist, ordained Zen priest, 50+ years meditation teacher.
Doug Tataryn
Wisdom tradition holder. Clinical psychologist, Bio-Emotive Framework creator, 47+ years meditation practitioner.
“I felt very held by the facilitators and their immense amount of past work, confidence in this process, and also resting in the open question with us.”
Sleepawake participant
Conversations with Jeff & Cat
Talks, interviews, and podcast conversations Jeff and Cat have shared over the years.
Come meet us
The best way to know us is to work with us.
Our retreats are where this team does its deepest work. Come find out what that feels like.
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