Sandy Dias Andrade is the Founder–Director at the Just Being Center for Mindfulness and Presence. She has been a practicing psychotherapist for over twenty-five years and works with a Mindfulness and Presence-Oriented Psychotherapeutic approach, integrating somatic, attachment-based, and trauma-resolution perspectives. Her specialization is in developmental trauma in adults. She is also an internationally certified Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) teacher.

She is deeply interested in merging mainstream psychological processes with wisdom-based approaches, an integration that has shaped the vision and work of the Just Being Center and the professional trainings she has developed for mental health practitioners.

Harini is an Associate Therapist at Just Being and Head (Adjunct) of the Delhi chapter. Harini co-teaches and provides supervision within the Mindfulness-Based Counseling and Presence-Oriented Psychotherapy programs.

Over the past eight years, she has accompanied individuals and groups through grief, trauma, and parenting journeys to name a few. Apart from this, she also works in the field of strengthening educational leadership.

Her work is guided by a lived commitment to returning, again and again, to a sense of inner home—both for herself and in how she meets others.

During the Training, Fiona will cover Focusing Level 1 and 2. She teaches aspects of the Focusing methodology in the first year as well as Thinking at the Edge as a process to contemplative inquiry in formulating a phenomenological approach to research in the second year.

Fiona Parr is a Focusing-oriented therapist and Certifying Coordinator for The International Focusing Institute (TIFI). She teaches the 5 levels basic course, and professional trainings to Trainer level in the UK and online; and she offers individual Focusing sessions. Fiona has facilitated personal development in others and herself since 1978, and practised Focusing since 1991. Her spiritual life is most important to her, and Focusing supports her spiritual practice.

Bruce Stevenson teaches elements of Internal Family Systems (IFS) and the Inquiry process on the course.

Bruce Stevenson studied Anthropology and has trained in Integrative psychotherapy and Internal Family Systems (IFS) (2006). He has been practicing for over twenty years utilising IFS as well as other effective therapies and techniques. He has also trained with A.H. Almass in the Diamond Approach and was a Buddhist monk in Japan, England and USA for a number of years.

Patricia Meadows teaches somatic approaches in being trauma informed as well as working with the subtle body and attachment oriented work on the course. She is a holistic nurse/counselor, trauma therapist, educator, teacher and facilitator of inner work.

Patricia has over 30 years of experience in healthcare and mental health. Currently in her integrative practice of over 15 years, she facilitates a process-oriented approach to healing, transforming and living authentically. Within this integral and holistic context, she also works as a trauma therapist with individuals who have experienced diverse forms of trauma (pre-and perinatal, attachment, relational, developmental, medical/surgical, emotional, physical, sexual, spiritual). Her work is deeply informed by long-term spiritual practice in the Diamond Approach, spiritual inquiry and mediation. She is a teacher in the Diamond Approach. She completed six years of doctoral studies in East/West Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies.

Dr Mahesh Deokar will cover aspects of Buddhist Philosophy, Buddhist Psychology and Psychotherapy and is the head of the department of Pali at the University of Pune. He is a well-known scholar and has published a number of papers on Buddhist philosophy and has actively promoted the learning of Buddhist Psychology and Psychotherapy at the University. He takes a module on Buddhist philosophy and highlights the key principles of Buddhist philosophy that find relevance in the course

Amona teaches awareness through movement on the course and also assists Fiona Parr in the Focusing classes. Amona has been a Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner (Awareness Through Movement) since 1998. She is also a Focusing Trainer, ARUN Conscious Touch practitioner, and trained in Systemic Constellations.

John Prendergast has done pioneering work in bringing a non-dual approach to therapy, and he offers special sessions for our students of the Advanced Training Program in Mindfulness & Presence Oriented Psychotherapy. He is a spiritual teacher, author of ‘The Deep Heart - A Portal to Presence’ , psychotherapist, and retired adjunct professor of psychology. He was a professor of psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco for twenty-three years where he taught and supervised masters level counseling students. He has had a private psychotherapy practice since 1985. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Undivided: The Online Journal of Nonduality and Psychology.

Sujatha Nerurkar teaches movement through yin yoga on the course as well as pranayam and the subtle body consciousness.

She is a well-established teacher in many different schools of yoga and is passionate about bringing Patanjali’s yoga sutra’s to a larger audience. She is in the process of developing a short term course with Just Being on Mindfulness through movement and yoga, based on the philosophy of the yoga sutras.