A journey through science, ceremony, and the boundless landscape of the human mind — in service of the quiet wisdom that lives within each of us.
I was born in Romania, before the Iron Curtain fell. Fortunately, my parents had the courage to find their way West when I was young. I came to Canada at 6.
Through the risks my parents took and my own diverse and wild journey, I have learned that so much of our collective experience is fraught with upset, divisiveness, and misunderstanding. And yet, there is so much precious beauty, commonality, kindness, and a creative spark from which divides can be mended, hurts can be healed, and positive futures can become reality.
Science has been a thread throughout my life. In grade 6, I won my school, area, and regional science fair with a project on the Seebeck Effect. I went on to study Microbiology and Immunology at McGill University. I have been following the Singularity for the last 15 years.
I co-founded the Futurism Working Group at NEXUS, a community of ultra-high net worth individuals and social entrepreneurs who come together to find solutions on the world stage. I facilitated events, moderated panels, and supported leading experts on emerging exponential technologies. I was on the IEEE’s AI Ethics Panel and participated in conferences on AI Governance.
I started off as an atheist science nerd. If I could not see it, measure it, replicate it, it was not real. I have ended up a proponent of generative fields of consciousness that give us coaches, therapists, and practitioners a boundless playground to connect with and draw the magic and mystery out from our clients’ worlds.
Although I love science, I realized early in my University days that my gifts lie with people. I embarked on a decades-long pursuit of learning — through research in psychology, trainings in therapy and coaching, and experiential studies with indigenous wisdom traditions — developing what I now call Deep Intelligence.
My journey started with an interest in psychology, but quickly landed me living in a warehouse with 50 people, no walls or privacy, researching what happens when people intentionally experiment with social norms and conditioning.
In this setting, my body and nervous system were experiencing far more intensity than I believed possible. The magic of limbic resonance — the way we regulate our bodies to feel what others around us are feeling — became a fundamental truth of mammalian life that I was now an expert in. The 5 years spent there taught me about who people are in so many situations: how they cope with stress, secrets, fears, desire, betrayal, and the rest. It was all on display.
“My hope is that you enjoy your explorations here into your own humanity, the nature of your own mind, create beautiful real-world outcomes for yourself, and are able to protect, prepare, and steward your consciousness into the incredible Age of AI.”
After standard coaching training with the Coaches Training Institute, I kept looking for more. It was not touching the depths of work that I knew was possible.
Everything changed in 2010 when I was introduced to the work of Stephen Gilligan, one of Milton Erickson’s closest students. His next-generation Generative Trance work was exactly what I had been looking for. I already knew about limbic resonance from my training in relationships and sexuality. This was limbic resonance on steroids — applied to healing, spiritual growth, and personal development. I had found a powerful way into Deep Intelligence.
My curiosity and explorations had taken me into the realm of spirituality. It was no longer possible to deny that there is a core, ineffable experience that all spiritual traditions ultimately point at. Like spokes on a wheel, no matter which you follow, you end up at the same center.
I sat in the open, alone, on a mountain for 4 days with no food or water in the Lakota tradition on a Vision Quest with a Taino tribe that invited me in. Everything fell away from my constructed ego identity on the mountain. It is the only true rite of passage I have ever experienced. And it led to the same center of the wheel.
After 15+ years of concurrent studies in somatic practices, Generative Trance, and the shamanic world, I came to know their similarities. They facilitate ways of dropping into the deep fields of the unconscious mind, experiencing personal healing and spiritual transcendence, and expanding our awareness into the wider fields of collective consciousness.
They allow us to connect under the roots of where our patterns are born, in a way where we move from our ego-minds back to the substrate of consciousness itself. From there, we can skillfully create wonderful new realities for ourselves, personally and collectively.
With the advent of ChatGPT and the all-of-a-sudden mass adoption and awareness of AI, the issue became central again. And the big realization came — a way to use my well-honed natural gifts to support the cause I had been concerned with for a long time. And voilà — the Center for Deep Intelligence.
I had spinal surgery when I was 12 and thought it was the coolest thing ever. Doctors rock my world. I have yet to meet someone who can beat me at a “longest scar” contest. I am bionic.
When I did research on stress hormones, part of my job was stressing women out. That is where I learned to put away my “nice girl” act and realized that our identities are fluid.
I am blind in one eye, so I cannot see 3D. Tackling stairs is comical.
I am writing a book on Deep Intelligence.
I am a total science geek and an optimist, so I have hope that we will find a way through humanity’s current growth spurt.
I dance a mean tango.
I used to be a lifeguard. I am afraid of deep water.
I used to love literature. Then, since social media, I could not finish a book for 20 years. Now — I have my attention back and love the literary journeys I get to take part in again. So I know that if yours has also dwindled, you can get it back.
The pandemic lockdowns brought me a beautiful gift — the discovery that I am an artist. I have sprinkled my art throughout the Center.
I truly believe that people are incredible and I am constantly amazed by their courage, strength, and beauty. I feel truly blessed to get to devote my days to empowering them and watching them shine. I am a lucky woman.
Whether you are a leader seeking transformation, a practitioner deepening your craft, or simply curious about what lives beneath the noise — I would love to hear from you.