Our Team

François Xevier

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An experienced Etiopsychologie and Luxopuncture Practioner and recognosed Author from France with a background of innovative and positive leadership skills. Great event manager and a workshop organizer. Extra-ordinary communicator managed projects for parliamentarians. Has worked as a mediator for human resource development. Involved in research work to discover new skilled work force and competence.

Entrepreneurial professional and a leader with renovative vision to help people eradicate pain at emotional level. Passionate about evolution of human consciousness and development of psyche. Has got solid ten years of professional experience working with adults children and aged people. Have run music institute for therapeutic sound system for teen agers. Created the concept of courteous driving 3R – RIGHT RESPECT & REOLUTION on road. Available on Merrrci.com

A positive, highly energetic enthusiast with open mind and a self starter, headed marketing teams and independent profit centers with a an excellent record of effectiveness and profitability. Has great understanding of human psyche accumulated through professional trainings and self – development courses undertaken in different parts of the world.

Ashok Gangadean

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Having taught at Haverford for more than four decades, Ashok has been appointed The Emily Judson and John Marshall Gest Professor of Global Philosophy. He completed his Ph.D. in Philosophy at Brandeis University, and his early work focused on Logic (Science of Thought) and Ontology (Science of Being). Throughout his career Ashok has sought the primal, integral logic at the heart of human reason and also to elicit the deep dynamics of communication and dialogue between diverse worldviews. He has emerged as a pioneer of the new frontier of global reason, global ethics and global wisdom, seeking to clarify and excavate the common ground among widely diverse worlds, cultures, ideologies and disciplines. His courses range from Philosophy of Logic and Language, Global Ontology and Global Ethics to Hindu, Buddhist and Zen Thought in Global Context and Global Wisdom.

Active in diverse professional conferences around the globe, Ashok has published numerous essays and books seeking to demonstrate that human reason is global, holistic, integral, dialogic and intercultural in scope and power. His book Meditative Reason: Toward Universal Grammar attempts to open the way to global reason, and a companion volume, Between Worlds: The Emergence of Global Reason, explores the dialogical common ground between worlds and disciplines. Meditations of Global First Philosophy: Quest for the Missing Grammar of Logos seeks to clarify further the fundamental Logos or Universal Grammar underlying all cultures, religions, philosophies and ideologies. In his forthcoming book, Awakening the Global Mind, Ashok develops these themes for the general reader, and he discusses the central insights of this volume in a recently released a six-CD set. Ashok has also published extensively on the deepening of liberal arts education and is now preparing a volume on The Renovation of Liberal Arts Education.

Ashok has sought diverse ways to bring his findings on the fundamental Logos in human cultures, experience and life to the wider Academy and public. He is Founder-Director of the Global Dialogue Institute, which seeks to embody the powers of Deep Dialogue in all aspects of cultural life. He helped convene the World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality, which brings together eminent world leaders to cultivate global vision and wisdom for the new millennium. Ashok is also Co-Chair of the World Wisdom Council, which focuses on the transformative power of wisdom to address the crises facing humanity today. For five years, Ashok has hosted “Global Lens,” a television show in Greater Philadelphia that cultivates global literacy with the public. He has played a leading role in the development of the Margaret Gest Center since its launching in 1972 and has served as the Center’s Director for the past three years.

Dr. Ingo Benjamin Jahrsetz

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Integrative Psychotherapy, Systemic Family Therapy, Systemic Constellations, Psychodrama, Holotropic Breathwork ® Practitioner.
Supervision and seminars in Germany and abroad.
Training courses in Transpersonal Breathwork and Psychotherapy.
Psychotherapeutic practice in Freiburg/ Germany.
Initiator and honorary chairman of the Spiritual Emergence Network e.V. (SEN) Germany.
Founder and member leading team of the International Institute for Consciousness Exploration and Psychotherapy e.V. Freiburg/Germany.
President of EUROTAS – European Transpersonal Association

Dr. Rafael G. Locke

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Rafael Locke is Professor, founder and head of Ikon International Institute for Healing Arts and Sciences in Australia. Ikon Institute specialises in transpersonal psychology and its application to a wide range of professional fields. In addition, he is founder and head of the Spirit of the Earth Medicine Society and a Visiting Research Scholar at the Division of Perceptual Studies, Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Currently, at the University of Virginia, he is conducting research on the methodologies for establishing a first-person science of consciousness. After completing a PhD in anthropology and psychology at the University of Western Australia, He undertook post-doctoral research at Harvard and MIT. He is also trained in medical science, holistic medical practice, transpersonal psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Over the last 30 years, his research at Duke University and the University of Virginia in the US has involved a focus on the nature of human consciousness and the relationship between states of consciousness and exceptional human abilities. He has designed and implemented major research and intervention programs to do with indigenous Australians’ alcohol abuse problems and has consulted widely with government, non-government and Aboriginal organizations concerning health, human development, work and organizational design and development. He has established with colleagues an integrative health clinic with IPN, the largest independent medical practitioners’ corporation in Australia. Rafael has a specialised interest in shamanism and how research may demonstrate how it throws light on the nature of human consciousness, exceptional abilities, healing and the foundations of medicine and psychiatry. His research in this area has encompassed Aboriginal Australia, Southwest Africa, North, Central and South America and Southeast Asia. He has published widely and his books include:
-Visionary Practice: The Shamanic Foundations of Psychotherapy. 2011. Perth: Ikon Institute.
-Altered States of Consciousness and Psi. 2009. (with Edward F. Kelly), New York: Parapsychology Foundation.
-The Gift of Proteus. 1999. Chapel Hill, NC: SCI

Shamanism: Practice and Research
Dr. Locke has established an integrated training program in shamanic work which involves an Advanced Diploma in Shamanic Practice (2 years) as well as a Master Practitioner level undertaken in the Australian Central Desert. These programs are designed to provide an in-depth understanding of shamanism in world cultures and how we may integrate traditional knowledge into contemporary science and practice within health and human development. This program is fuelled by a core focus: the Australian Dreaming Project which seeks to place shamanic practice in the spirit and lives of people, place and human futures. It intersects with and founds Ikon’s transpersonal psychology. Shamanism is construed as the oldest form of transpersonal practice and is an extraordinarily rich base for transpersonal practice in the contemporary world aimed at individuals, communities and organizations.
In addition, several other programs are offered in this area:
-Vision Quests in the Central Desert
-Summer Schools
-Specialised training in the shamanic foundations of medicine and psychotherapy
-Currently, shamanism is part of the focus of the consciousness research program at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

Renu Fotedar

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Coaching is my passion! I approach every client with curiosity, enthusiasm and deep care because I know I can take them to the next level and bring profound change with the help of my coaching skills. I have chosen to focus on Sales and Marketing, Core Leadership Skills and Entrepreneur mind set. My workshops and coaching sessions are designed to help you understand sales in the broader perspective, and the psychology behind them. Once you open your horizons, you will know yourself, choose yourself, and give yourself in an appropriate manner as and when required in daily challenging situations. I use result oriented technologies and ontological dialogue methodology to help you explore and see through and beyond limiting beliefs and help you get on “fast track” to get the results you want. I excel in using ontological based coaching which brings transformation in people from the inside out. My unique coaching process gets you into deep insights, enhancing your personal power and expanding your ability to create what you want in major areas of life such as health and wellbeing, career and sustenance of harmonious relationships at personal and work environment.

My niche is supporting and coaching individuals, particularly in transition period. I help people find synergy in their life and get them play 100% in every aspect of life. If you are ready to roll up your sleeves and get to work on your life, overcome blocks, challenges and create a truly rewarding life experience, then click on Complimentary session with Renu and send me an email.

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