All Teachers

Monica Murarka

Monica Murarka (she/her/hers) is a senior business leader with 25 years experience advising thousands of B2B and B2C companies and executives across Consumer, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Technology, Financial Services and Manufacturing industries on strategy, operations, talent and organizational topics while working at two global consultancies: Towers Perrin and McKinsey & Company. Simultaneously, she has spent the …

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Viveka Chen

Viveka Chen (she|they) has worked for social, racial, gender, economic, environmental and healing justice for over 25 years, across a spectrum of movements, cultures, communities, and sectors. Viveka is a certified somatic coach and a teacher with Strozzi Institute, as well as a leadership coach and trainer, organizational development consultant, and facilitator. Viveka co-founded a …

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Chad Jones

Chad Jones is a father as well as a facilitator, coach, consultant molded from decades as an uncle and youngest child. He spends his days digging into sand and soil, borrowing too many books from the library, baking flatbreads and loaves, asking more 5WH questions, and sleeping in the dark. True to Taurus stereotypes, Chad …

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Tyler Grillo – Executive Coordinator

Tyler Grillo is a somatic coach, bodyworker, and teacher in training at Strozzi Institute. He started practicing somatics in 2015 when he began working at Strozzi Institute (first as Course Manager, then Program Manager, and currently as Executive Coordinator), completing his somatic coach certification in 2018.  Tyler also served as Director of Programs and Operations …

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Denise Farai Williams

Denise Farai Williams is an embodied antiracist facilitator & cultural organizer, educator, creative activist, performing artist and somatic coach.  Farai is the founder & lead embodied antiracist facilitator, and somatic ‘smȝ’coach for Dynamizing Equity™.  With a deep curiosity in nervous system-responsive self care, she  invites participants to create more mental, physical, spiritual, internal space while …

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