David B. Wolf
- Ph.D., L.C.S.W.
- Personal transformation facilitator
- Life skills coach
- Writer / researcher
davidwolf@satvatove.org

David developed the unique blend of methodologies, principles and skills that make Satvatove Institute a distinct, remarkable personal improvement community. He creates an atmosphere of trust and security for participants in his seminars, allowing them to explore meaningful issues. David's unwavering empathy and compassionate, astute perceptions provide a safe, supportive environment for students to challenge themselves to create significant breakthroughs. He sensitively enables people to take responsibility for their lives, discovering power to create a life that excites and inspires.

David Wolf holds a Ph.D. and a Master of Social Work Degree, as well as a B.Sc. in Psychology. He brings more than 25 years of experience in the social service and mental health professions to his presentations on empathic listening, personal transformation, and accountability.

For many years David counseled and healed child abuse survivors. Also, he has extensive experience training counselors and coaches and presenting life skills, leadership and personal development seminars around the world.

David has published a book, titled Krsna, Israel, and the Druze- An Interreligious Odyssey, about personal adventures in the Middle East, where he lived and managed a business for 8 years. Several top journals, such as Psychological Reports and Social Work, have published articles he wrote based on his psychological research.

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Marie-Hélène Glasheen
- Personal transformation facilitator
- Life skills coach
marieglasheen@satvatove.org

Marie-Hélène has worked with David in developing Satvatove Institute programs and seminars. Her special contribution is based on her 25 years of studying human nature and psychology. Marie-Hélène also brings her qualities of warmth, understanding, and non-judgmentalism. She is an intuitive healer and assists people in realizing the emotional, psychological, and physical reason for their lack of vitality and enthusiasm.

Years of counseling and life experiences blended with her intuitive nature guide clients to the heart of the matter. This enables them to come from a point of clarity about real issues and to be motivated to make needed changes for the life they desire. Marie-Hélène specializes in the mastery of awareness of limiting belief systems, which also encompasses the subconscious beliefs that sabotage you. The programs she works with have created positive, profound and permanent life changes for the participants.

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Annette Bonomo
- Life Skills Coach Intern
- Facilitator in Training

When  I took the Satvatove Foundational Course in February 2006, I was hoping to learn a few communication skills for my work as a teacher. After the first day I understood that there was much more for me to learn and discover, not just for my work, but for my entire life.  I stayed on to take the Advanced Course and was stunned by each  process.  I had almost given up hope that there is a way for me to connect with empathy, compassion, and deep care, and to bring that into the world. In the Satvatove programs I not only regained hope, I deeply connected with my helping skills and personal qualities and found a concrete way to develop them by supporting others in their personal growth. It is one of  the most rewarding  experiences  I have discovered in my life – to help others connect with their qualities, create their uniquely authentic life, and bring more warmth and care into this world.  

In September 2007 I completed the Satvatove Coaching Apprenticeship and entered the Coaching Internship Program.

 I live in Winterthur, Switzerland, where I’m developing my own coaching practice, and organising and facilitating workshops in transformative communication. I work part-time as a primary school teacher, applying the transformative communication skills in my work place, and experiencing many moving transformations with the children, parents and other teachers. My aim is to introduce the principles and skills of transformative communication into all  sectors of society, supporting people to create fulfilling lives with deeply rewarding relationships, and empowering them to realize the life of their dreams.

 

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Lionel Santucci
- Life Skills Coach Intern

Lionel lives in France in a peaceful forest atmosphere. He has been intensely involved with Satvatove since 2003, assisting David in many seminars and completing the Life Mastery Program and Coaching Apprenticeship Program.

His extensive travels in the occident and orient provide a rich experiential background for Lionel's capacity to understand and facilitate growth for a wide diversity of people. His warmth, empathy and simplicity inspire trust and move people towards profound self-exploration. Lionel brings intuition and sharp intelligence to his coaching, helping clients to expand their vision of themselves and connect with their inner truth.

Lionel has deep conviction about the power of the sacred space created with honest, personal sharing, and he has mastered the principles and techniques for facilitating people to create this space in their lives and relationships. Clients describe a clean, clear and inspiring energy they experience as a result of Lionel's sensitivity and interpersonal expertise.

Currently Lionel facilitates life skills workshops in France, in French, and coaches various business and spiritual groups. He is completing his Satvatove Coaching Internship Program, and also is involved with the Collective Intelligence and Systemic Constellation approaches to self-development.

Lionel vit en France dans une atmosphère paisible, en lisière d’une forêt berrichonne. Depuis cinq ans, il travaille intensément avec Satvatove, notamment en assistant David Wolf dans de nombreux séminaires tout autour du monde. Il a également participé à un "Life Mastery Program"  et a suivi avec succès la formation de coach "Coaching Apprenticeship Program".

Sa vie, riche en expériences au contact de multiples cultures - aussi bien occidentales qu'orientales - représente un atout de valeur dans sa capacité d'adaptation relationnelle.

Sa chaleur humaine, son empathie et sa simplicité inspirent la confiance et facilitent un profond travail de développement personnel. Ses compétences et son intuition aident les personnes à élargir leur vision, à se dépasser, et à se relier à leur vérité profonde.

Il facilite maintenant en France les ateliers et séminaires de communication transformative « Outils de Vie » qu’il anime dans sa langue natale, le français.

Il croit en l’espace sacré créé par deux personnes qui partagent profondément leur vécu, et il maîtrise les clefs qui aident à créer cet espace.

Ses  clients se découvrent une énergie claire et inspirante suite à une session avec lui.

Il consacre aussi son temps à coacher et accompagner différents groupes que ce soit au sein d’entreprises commerciales ou d’institutions spirituelles. Il contribue à l'Intelligence Collective et aux Constellations Systémiques.

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Brajarani Bhatt
- Life Skills Coach Apprentice

I took an early version of the Satvatove Foundational Course in England during the summer of 1999. There I learnt about various helping skills like empathic listening and open-ended questions. Putting these skills into practice felt so good and comfortable, and reaped exciting results. Years later in October 2005, I attended the Satvatove Advanced Seminar, which profoundly impacted my personal and spiritual development. It became clear to me that this is how I would like to help myself and others. In 2006 I retook the Foundational Seminar, and I staffed the Foundational in October 2006.

In 2007 I graduated in Life Coaching with Oxford College, England. I wanted to help people through coaching in a deeply spiritual way, and thus later in 2007 I further pursued my coach training and enrolled in the Satvatove Coach Training Program. In February, 2008 I served on staff for the Foundational and Advanced Seminars in Switzerland, and this experience was personally fulfilling, and very enriching for my development as a coach. I have been endeavouring to share all the knowledge and realizations I received from Satvatove Institute with others. I coach, do mediation work and facilitate personal/spiritual development seminars and have received very encouraging feedback on the same.

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Annabelle Woolridge
- Life Skills Coach Apprentice

In the Summer of 2005 Annabelle embarked on an exciting journey that, though she wasn’t aware of it at the time, would change the course of her life and how she viewed herself and her part in the world. Annabelle participated in the 10-day Satvatove Foundational and Advanced Seminars. This had a profound affect on her and she soon realized that she wanted to share these essential life skills and principles with others.

Annabelle brings to coaching her natural intuition and healing abilities, as well as her background in sales, travelling and entrepreneurial endeavors. For Annabelle the Satvatove Coach Training Program is the perfect way to realize these vital skills and principles so that she may help and inspire others to explore their inner world and understand themselves to create the life they want. She is looking forward to completing the course and becoming a full-time coach. Currently she applies principles and techniques of Satvatove coaching in her volunteer service for the Samaritans in England.

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Xavier Thomas
- Life Skills Coach Apprentice

I’m Xavier Thomas. I’m 37 and live in south France. I have always been attracted to psychology and self-development, to know myself better, to see what's happening inside me. Also since childhood I’ve been attracted to spirituality, as I saw it as a way to get closer to my inner being. So, encouraged by a friend who had told me it was the best experience he ever had in his life, I naturally took the Satvatove Foundational Seminar in April 2004, in France, and I took the Foundational again along with the Advanced Course in July of the same year, same place. After those courses, I noticed a change in me, a change of direction in my life. Primarily it was an internal shift. For the first time in my life I was aware of my inner powers, my strengths, and I accepted my shortcomings. Externally the change quickly became apparent, above all, in my relations and communication with others, and with myself. As I wanted to continually enrich my communication skills and techniques, I took coaching sessions in 2005, and in 2006 I staffed the Foundational and Advanced Courses in Switzerland. In September 2007 I entered the Satvatove Coach Training Program, and in 2008 I again served on staff in the seminars in Switzerland. I’m eager to continue to enhance my coaching abilities, and to learn to facilitate seminars.

These techniques of transformative communication can be used practically at any time in any situation; they are not specifically meant for psychologists, counselors or coaches. Indeed, in my job as a bus driver I have many opportunities to use them with clients and especially with pupils of different ages.

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Claudia Kurz
- Life Skills Coach Apprentice

For many years Claudia has been involved with self-realization approaches, including family constellation, extensive reading and Shamanistic retreats. Nothing, though, has made such a grand impact on her life as her participation in the Satvatove Foundational and Advanced Transformational Seminars in 2005 in France. Inspired by this experience Claudia entered the Life Mastery Program (LMP) and retook the Foundational Seminar in England.

Her staffing experiences from 2006-2008 have also enhanced her growth and enthusiasm for serving others through the Satvatove approach to transformation. Claudia states that she most values "the many deep friendships I’ve found with Satvatove graduates over the years, the spiritual approach of Satvatove and of course the dedication of David and
Marie towards their clients."

Claudia entered the Satvatove Coach Training Program in 2007. She has a strong grasp of the Satvatove principles and methods, and is eager to increasingly apply them in her life and make a difference for others. Currently Claudia works with kindergarten and elementary school children and as a European language correspondent.

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David Aycrigg
- Life Skills Coach Apprentice

Hello. My name is David Aycrigg (and Atmananda to some).

I have been a practicing Life & Relationship Coach, based in New Zealand, since 2006, and have been a mentor, counselor and teacher in my own community for more than 20 years. I also have experience in market research, sales and property investment, but coaching is really me, and I enjoy it.

Some of my education and training background is as follows:

• One and a half years Liberal Arts at Tufts University, Boston, Mass. (1968 – 70)

• Bachelors degree in Social Practice (Community development, Counseling and Social work), from UNITEC in Auckland, new Zealand (2001 – 2004);

• Six years of  training and experiece with Landmark Education Inc, as a group leader, coach, presenter, facilitator and introduction leader (1999 – 2005);

• Regular training, practice and teaching of ancient sanskrit mantra meditation since 1970;

• Training with the Satavtove Institute since 2004, through to the present, and recently graduated from the excellent and demanding Satvatove Coaching Apprenticeship Program

My involvement with the Satvatove programs and community has been exciting and inspiring from the very start. The personal development aspect has taken me a quantum leap forward in my own intra-personal, inter-personal and spiritual growth (with no ceiling in sight).

The academic – the theory and knowledge building – aspect, combined with the practical skill-building training, empowers me to be wise and flexible in supporting clients to discover paradigm-busting insights.

Because of the increased self-acceptance and confidence I have found in this association, I was able to risk stepping out and stepping up to start my Life Coaching practice. Now I am able to serve others, usually with dramatic results, and to be well compensated, financially, for doing it.

David and Marie, Satvatove’s co-founders, and senior-most trainers and coaches, have been the most important influences in my progress. They are profoundly committed, and imminently qualified, to support and serve others. I cannot express enough my gratitude and appreciation for them.

Here are testimonials from several clients:

"As soon as you meet David, you sense his keen interest in people. He has a sincere desire to help others with life challenges, and his deep perceptiveness allows penetration to the hidden core of an issue. He has significantly assisted me by his insightfulness."
                                                                                              
B. R. Katikati, New Zealand  2006

"This man really hears me! Do you know what that does for me? I think it must be the most valuable gift in the world, to be really heard, understood and accepted. What it does for me is it allows me to understand and accept myself, which is the true bedrock foundation for any substantial achievement, or deep satisfaction in life. Then, when the foundation is solid, he reminds me of my power, my infinite potential. And then I soar!"           

B.A.    Katikati, N.Z.  2006

"Atmananda's highly effective communication & counseling skills, along with his fun, dynamic personality, provide positively wonderful transformations in life - he comes highly recommended.                                                                                 
C.R.   Auckland, N.Z.  2006

"David is 'three-in-one' for me. He is like a psychologist and a psychiatrist for me (both of which are very expensive), and he is my life coach. In fact, he is 'four-in-one', because he is also a spiritual guide!"                                                                                   

J.L. Tauranga, N. Z.   2006

“Thank you for the time you spent with me this last weekend. It made a huge difference; and my mood and mind are remarkably calm with all the changes, and I feel content for the first time in a long time.”                                                                                         
R.N.   Tauranga, N. Z.   2008

“I have recently completed 12 weeks of  Life Coaching with David Aycrigg, and I highly recommend this opportunity.

I found David to be extremely passionate about his work, and a very compassionate person, making the following 12 week journey very pleasurable and worthwhile. Initially I was aware that I was 'getting in my own way', lacking self confidence - belief in myself - and plagued with doubt.

By the end of the 12 weeks, I was very aware of feeling a great deal more confident; I have a lot more clarity, more energy, more assertiveness, and a feeling of exuberance I have not felt for many years – since my children were born actually and that is 37 and 35 years ago respectively.  I have finally 'found myself' in a sense.

I explained my feelings to someone recently that when I pull up at the traffic lights and they turn red, and if there is a good rhythmic tune on the radio, I want to get out and dance in the street!!!!!!!!!!  

I know this may sound a little over the top; however, compared to where I was 12 months ago and how I feel now, it’s amazing. While I have been doing other self improvement, and  personal development things over the last 12 months, David's Life Coaching has been invaluable, and has played a major part in my personal improvement, and I highly recommend him.    

S.M. Tauranga, N.Z. 2007

“I started having coaching with David more than two years ago, in April of 2007. He has been a lifesaver for me, literally! Before him, I don’t know if there was anyone I really trusted (including myself). And I trust him because he believes in me: he never gives up on me.

Amazingly, that’s made it easier for me to believe in myself. My self-confidence has blossomed. I feel more relaxed around other people. And I’m less afraid of situations that used to terrify me.

He encourages me; but also challenges me to break out of the old crusty moulds. He has helped me to see how, inadvertently, I sometimes sabotage myself, and make things so complicated and difficult.

I never would have imagined that the coaching would make such a difference! When I compare how I was before, to how I am now, I see (and feel like) a very different person. In fact, I cannot even express how much I appreciate, and am benefiting from, David’s empathy and support.

And it’s not about him telling me what to do: it’s about me having the encouragement and backing to re-discover and experience my own innate spiritual qualities and strengths (even vulnerability). And to develop habits that have me living those brilliant qualities more and more. I cannot recommend David highly enough. His profound, caring, yet assertive, result-oriented assistance has been life-changing.”                                              

F.B.   Auckland, N.Z.   2009