Coherence Council

Elders, cultural stewards, and ceremonial holders.

Coherence Council is not advisory—it is foundational.
The spiritual and cultural center from which Coherence Lab exists.
Through ceremony, protocol, and ancestral wisdom, they hold the conditions for coherence. All other work flows in service to and alignment with this living root.

These elders form the spiritual and cultural root system of Coherence Lab. Their ongoing presence, wisdom, and prayer shape the pulse of our work and guide the field.

  • Kumu Hula Puna Kalama Dawson

    Board and Council Chair, Director of Indigenous Programming

  • Mamo Lorenzo Izquierdo Arroyo

    Arhuaco Elder, Mamo Spiritual Priest | Colombia

  • Pacha K’anchay

    Colombian Elder, Global Coordinator for ONIC - Yanakuna | Sierra Nevada del Cocuy, Colombia

Council Stewards

This extended circle supports and strengthens the field held by our elders—bringing cultural memory, ecological wisdom, and intergenerational insight into coherence practice. Their voices and presence nourish the living, breathing prayer of the Council.

  • Kumu Sabra Kauka

    Kumu, Island School,  Coordinator of Hawaiian Studies on Kauai for the Department of Education, Founder of Na Pali Coast Ohana

  • Ilarion Kuuyux Merculieff

    Unangan (Aleut) Elder, Alaska, Founder and President of Global Center for Indigenous Leadership and Lifeways

  • Casey Camp-Horinek

    Elder and the Environmental Ambassador for the Southern Ponca Tribe, Founding Chairwomen, Movement Rights

  • Dr. Anita Sanchez

    Nahua (Aztec), Toltec, & Mexican American, CEO & Founder of Sanchez Tennis & Associates, LLC

  • Elder Iya Tahirah

    MARKETING DIRECTOR

  • Doug Goodfeather

    Lakota Wisdom Keeper, Founder of Lakota Way Healing Center

  • Bill William Jones

    Pacheedaht Elder, Forest Defender

  • Catherine Murupaenga-Ikenn

    Ngāti Kurī & Te Rarawa Māori, Aotearoa (New Zealand)

  • Grandmothers Eila

    Reverend Eila Paul, Maori Elder

  • Grandmother Floy de Mayo

    Curandera Espiritu, founding member of the the Confederation of Indigenous Elders of the America and The Path

  • Dr. Megan Poe

    Visionary, future being, psychiatrist-artist-poet-Mother; Creator of NYU class on Love

  • Osprey Orielle Lake

    Founder & Executive Director, Women's Earth & Climate Action Network

  • Dr. Suzanne Simard

    Professor, Author of Finding the Mother Tree; Mother Tree Network 

  • Prishani Satyapal

    Founding CEO, Sustainability Truthing, Industry Transition Design, Consulting & Implementation

  • Jeff Conant

    Director of International Forests Program, Friends of the Earth, Economics, Industry Transition

  • Randy Hayes

    Executive Director, Foundation Earth

  • Herb Hammond

    Forest Ecologist and Forester,  Founder Silva Ecosystem Consultants & Silva Forest Foundation, Nature-directed planning, Author

  • Elan Gentry

    Native Hawaiian creative advisor who activates social permaculture

  • Sarah Drew

    Author of GAIA CODEX, Activist, Earth Mystic

  • Katie Todd

    Artist, innovator, Founder, Katie Todd Healing

  • Gabriel Legacy

    Founder ShipiboKauai.com, Medicine Carrier & Apprentice Shipibo-Konibo Tribe

  • Mellissa Seaman

    Intuitive business strategist, Founder, Channel Your Genius

  • Robin June Hood

    Network Weaver, Global Change Activist

  • Yael Zeligman

    Alternative Educator, Facilitator, Leader, Wisdom Weavers of the World 

Stewardship & Operations Circle

Tending the roots. Holding the long view.
This circle tends to the relationships, responsibilities, and rhythms that sustain our shared work—stewarding finance, land, partnerships, and programs with coherence and care. Together, we safeguard the continuity and integrity of this living field for generations to come.

  • Prajna Marcus Horn

    Co-Founder & Executive Director, Coherence Lab, Co-Founder & Steward, Kaiāulu

    Tending the relational pulse across ceremony, science, and systems change

  • Patricia Ellsberg

    Board Member, Coherence Lab, Co-Founder, Kaiāulu

    Social change activist and elder steward

  • Jared Angaza

    Chief Strategist, Kaiāulu, Founder/CEO of Passage Collective 

    Weaving brand, identity, and cultural strategy

  • Greg Horn

    Co-Founder, Kaiāulu, Board Member, Coherence Lab

    Grounding vision into sustainable form

  • Shannon Biggs

    Board Member, Coherence Lab, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Movement Rights

    Stewarding Rights of Indigenous Peoples & Rights of Nature

  • Olivia Frazao

    Facilitator & Translator, Kaiāulu

    Bridging ceremony, language, and healing practice

Resonant Research Council

Scientists and knowledge keepers walking in partnership with our elders.

Guided by the Coherence Council, this circle is engaged in epistemic transformation: reclaiming research as a relational, ceremonial act.

This is not research about—it is remembering with.

  • Monica Gagliano, PhD

    Kaiāulu, Chief Scientist, Researcher in ecology, bioacoustics, and Indigenous knowledge, author, selected by Biohabitats as one of the 24 most Inspiring Women of Ecology

  • Karen O’Brien, PhD

    Co-founder, cCHANGE, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oslo, co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (2007) for her work on the IPCC reports

  • David Wrathall, PhD

    Associate Professor of Natural Hazards, Oregon State University College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Environmental Peacebuilding Association® (EnPAx™) award, 2022

  • Christian Ace Stettler

    Professor, podcaster, father, and founder of Revolutionary Social Work

  • Matthew Green

    Environmental journalist, author, student of the principles of integrating individual, inter-generational and collective trauma healing. Tarot reader.

  • Susan L. Prescott, MD, PhD

    Pediatrician, immunologist, artist, award-winning author, Director of the Center for Planetary Consciousness and Global Flourishing at the Nova Institute for Health

  • Kehinde Balogun

    Self-Transcendence and Indigenous psychology Researcher

  • Hannah Gosnell, PhD

    Professor of Geography, Water, Environmental Sciences, Natural Resources Program, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Scholar, Nova Institute for Health, 

Founding Constellation

Luminaries and wayfinders who helped seed Coherence Lab. We honor those whose vision and support nourished Coherence Lab's emergence.

  • Rene Henery

    PhD, California Science Director for Trout Unlimited

  • Cynthia Lazaroff

    Founder, Women Transforming Nuclear Legacy

  • Hilary Giovale

    Mother, writer, facilitator, and community organizer

  • Lynne Twist

    Co-founder of Pachamama Alliance and founder of the Soul of Money Institute

  • Jason Jay

    Director of the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative

  • Nina Simons

    Co-founder and Chief Relationship Officer at Bioneers

  • Kenny Ausubel

    CEO and Co-Founder of Bioneers

  • Mark Dubois

    Co-founder of Friends of the River and the International Rivers Network

  • Duane Elgin

    Author, Visionary and Citizen-Voice Activist

  • Sky Bear Bubnis

    Founder, Executive Director of Nā Keiki ō Halele'a Foundation

  • Ashley Cline

    Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature, Development Coordinator, US

  • Drai Turner

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  • Michael De Fauw

    Founder and CEO of Conscious Web Design

In Memoriam

With reverence, we also remember the luminous presence of these visionary guides.

Joanna Macy | Barbara Marx Hubbard | Daniel Ellsberg

Their lives and love remain forever in of our field.