Truth and Love

Amanda is the most insightful person I’ve ever known. They see people and situations incredibly well. They were able to help me find out what was really happening with me, and really figure myself out and how to navigate a very challenging situation. In dealing with a couple, Amanda is able to go underneath the conflict and help the two people understand one another and have compassion for the other and their perspective and then find a peaceful ground between the two people. Amanda is both gentle and bold.

Amanda creates interactions and prompts that help participants dive deep or share in new ways. Amanda’s facilitation is clear, egalitarian, transformative and comforting. Amanda’s guidance is firm, gentle and nourishing too. I have participated in Amanda’s facilitations for 5+ years in person and by zoom for group topics ranging from community building to relationships to personal coaching, and Amanda comes through.

For the past year, I’ve been a regular participant in several of Amanda’s online groups. Their gifts for honest communication and deep listening foster an environment where group members can develop similar skills and are freed to speak clearly and directly from the heart. This atmosphere of interbeing is an unexpected pleasure. Twenty years of one-on-one therapy (while wonderful) did not help me access the healing I’ve found via Amanda’s groups.

I have had the opportunity to work with Amanda in both a private and group context. They’re a gifted facilitator with a mastery that comes with years of experience. Amanda speaks from a place of extensive knowledge and experience with a sense of humbleness, openness and relatability that is reassuring. They embody the confidence, and power that comes with a leadership role without a trace of hierarchical superiority. In a group setting, Amanda embodies a sense of strength and self assurance that holds the group together, it is easy to trust you’re in good hands. They set clear expectations that are inviting, and easy to follow. Their intentional use of language and amazing ability to be concise with direction leaves little room for misunderstandings or confusion. Amanda seems to have an intuitive ability to listen into what’s needed moment to moment; whether it be to offer support, or reflection, change direction, Amanada is a generous and trustworthy guide. More than anything, Amanda is a really lovely person and a pleasure to get to be with.

Being in an event or circle hosted by Amanda is to be, first of all, in a safe space. It’s also to be surrounded by joy and tranquility. Amanda’s honesty and transparency are always guaranteed, and they come in a tender and caring manner, unraveling their knowledge and skills in what it seems to me non-violent communication. Amanda’s generosity is not premeditated, it is a part of them that one just senses pouring from Amanda. I have had some miraculous experiences in meetings hosted by Amanda and have learned so much just by the mere observation of their interactions and relationship with others. Thank you.