2020 Transformational Intensive for Extraordinary Facilitators

Peter Petersen has been a certified Sheng Zhen Qigong teacher for nearly 20 years. Peter is also a personal wellness coach. He has been teaching Qigong and wellness in health clubs, hospitals, retirement villas, and several different spas & resorts in Mexico and the United States, including Rancho La Puerta, Mayacamas Ranch, and Present Moment Retreat.

His Qigong practice helps people to ground themselves into their “Now“, to increase their present moment awareness of their behaviors, and to find solutions to personal difficulties or problematic habits such as: eating, moving, negative thinking, and sleeping. The result of this toolbox of healthy information is that clients become their own health advocates, incorporating a sense of stability, peace, and well-being into their everyday lives.

Reid Mihalko, sex and relationship geek, helps adults and college students create more self-esteem, self-confidence and greater health in their relationships and sex lives using an inspiring mixture of humor, keen insight, and comprehensive, pleasure-focused sexual health information.

Reid frequently speaks at colleges and universities on healthy relationship skills, and regularly appears in the media sharing his views on shame-free sexuality. In 2018, Reid began a restorative justice-based accountability process, stepping down from teaching, to address sexual misconduct and harms from 2010 that had been courageously shared as a result of #MeToo. The formal, year-long process was shared publicly and can be found at TinyURL.com/reidaccountability.

Reid’s workshops and college lectures have been attended by over 50,000 people. He has appeared in media such as Netflix’ Chelsea Does… with Chelsea Handler, Oprah’s Our America With Lisa Ling on OWN, the Emmy award-winning talk show Montel, Dr. Phil’s The Doctors on CBS, Bravo’s Miss Advised, Fox News, in Newsweek, Seventeen, GQ, The Washington Post, and in thirteen countries and at least seven languages. Learn more at ReidAboutSex.com.

Shawn Roop has been a student and teacher of life wisdom since 1989. He is the founder of Tantra Quest, author of Pathway to Love: 28 days to self love and holds a Bachelors in Sociology, is a Master Practitioner of NLP, a Certified Tantric Therapist and a Certified Master Tantric Counselor. Featured in numerous media appearances on NBC, Fox, E!, The Travel Channel, USA and Playboy Radio, as well as other radio and print articles, Shawn is proud to share his work with the intention to support healthy embodiment, personal empowerment and spiritual growth. You can see his work at https://www.TantraQuest.com

Wilrieke Sophia has been on the path of self-discovery her entire life. She has a vision of a world in which every person is empowered and in charge of creating the intimacy they want.

Through her company Exploring Deeper Wilrieke hosts a wide range of workshops, retreats, festivals, and individual sessions centered around the theme of intimacy. She taps into her years of experience in tantra, conscious kink, leadership, healing, shamanism, (open) relationship design, entrepreneurship, and the life experience gained since starting life as an extremely shy and insecure child.

Wilrieke is the founder of Cuddle Workshops International, holding teacher trainings and master classes for practitioners and facilitators. Another pillar is bringing inspiring teachers to The Netherlands. Wilrieke has worked with inspiring names like Jamie Catto, Monique Darling, Reid Mihalko, Steve Pavlina, and Seani Love. Wilrieke is also a passionate writer, writing for her own blog as well as guest articles for e.g. Elephant Journal, and Rebel Society. She’s also a public speaker who climbed the stage of e.g. TEDx.

Besides all this, she’s a mother of three daughters and she holds an MSc degree in Forest and Nature Conservation. She strongly believes that we are all capable of creating a dream life in which we successfully share our magic with the world.

Cathy Vartuli is a PhD Engineer and Research Scientist turned Relationship and Sex Educator, a best selling author, and has taught and presented internationally on relationship skills, body image, trauma release, and sexuality. She mentors and consults with sex-positive marketers to help them reach more people in more powerful ways. She knows how painful it can be to have a message and skills to share, but be too shy or awkward to share, and loves helping people find their authentic voice so they can make a difference in the world. Knowing the work she and her partners did was valuable, but not reaching a larger audience, she used her research skills to understand how heart-centered and inspirational marketing could be used for subjects on intimacy and sexuality. She went from someone who wouldn’t show her photo on websites (for fear her weight would harm her partner’s reputations) to sharing her videos – over 4 million views on YouTube, her story and her weight with over 50,000 people, and getting standing ovations from stage. Cathy’s produced and marketed numerous live events in the sex-positive educator and marketing space, including Sex Geek Summer Camp 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017, Sex Geek Design Studio, Sex Geek Conservatory, Speakers Kit, Sex Geek Sponsorship 101, as well as webinars, summits, and launches. She’s presented marketing skills at Woodhull Sexual Freedom Summit, CatalystCon, Converge Con, AASECT, as well as Sex Geek Summer Camp each year, Conservatory, Speakers Kit, Sex Geek Sponsorship 101. Her focuses are on Affiliate Marketing, Content Marketing, Copy Writing and using Story, and Youtube. She helps sex educators leverage their shyness and awkwardness to relate to potential clients in authentic ways, and to inspire the growth and change they want to create. You can find out more about Cathy at www.TheIntimacyDojo.com.

Laurie Handlers is a Sex and Happiness Coach, author of Amazon #1 International Bestseller Sex & Happiness: The Tantric Laws of Intimacy. Through her company Butterfly Workshops, she offers sexual health and awareness courses for corporations and individuals throughout the world.

For over a decade, she’s hosted a weekly radio show “Sex and Happiness.” She has produced and starred in three independent award winning films. Also, she is a Lead Faculty member for ISTA. Her other major passion is Radical Life Extension.