HAI Grads

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Kellie-Ann Smith
Robyn Mailman
Donna Spitzer Rengel

Donna is a Montessori educator and Lomi body/mind practitioner. She teaches how to communicate with love and in the discovery of the richness of intimate partnership. Donna is also a talented singer and performer with a successful career in music.   Video

Karen Kolenc

I’ve been involved with HAI since 2002 where I have finally found the community I feel aligned with & connected to.  I have experienced a deepening of all my relationships (family, friends, lover, clients) by utilising the tools I have learnt & continue to practice.

Eve

Eve Grzybowski is one of Australia’s best-known and beloved Yoga teachers.  She lives in country NSW and teaches in the Yoga Shed on her property.

Ed Love

Ed has spent over 25 years on the Internet, and has done most of the HAI workshops, mainly within Oz but also a few in the USA. He passionately adores the work, and is pleased he can do a little something via the mailing lists to support HAI.

Iain Sprod
Dr. Stan Dale - In Memoriam
 
December 20, 1929 - June 8, 2007
Stan Dale, DHS is the founder of the Human Awareness Institute, creator of the Love, Intimacy and Sexuality workshops, transactional analyst, sexologist, lecturer, author. Stan has taught at various universities and is on the faculty of the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality. Hear Stan interviewed
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Jason Weston

Jason is a deeply heartfelt workshop facilitator who loves to assist individuals and couples in creating for themselves the lives they really want by guiding them to see and express their own beauty, power and love. With 30 years of practicing HAI principles in his own life, he is passionate about "creating a world where everyone wins." Jason was trained at the Process Therapy Institute, and holds a degree in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley. Jason Weston is an internationally acclaimed fine art photographer. Podcast with Jason  |  Video

Peter
John

In my HAI workshops I experienced a supporting of my journey that I still value very much. I will not name the particular people who 'held my hand' at certain times during that journey, but I will say to them: "Thank you. Your kindness and consideration lives on."

Truly we are each at choice in every moment.

Maria Moy

I am so grateful to HAI, the Human Awareness Institute, for supporting me in my life journey.

Ally
Dr. Felicia Williams
Felicia is an insightful counselor, business consultant, and life-work coach. She has 20+ years experience helping people develop strong, supportive, lovingly effective relationships. Felicia guides individuals to find, build and live their unique lifework dream. She helps couples gain skills to fuel their love while resolving issues. As a consultant specialising in Organizational Change Management, Felicia consults with businesses to develop people-systems to match long-term strategic goals.   Articles by Felicia  | Hear Felicia  | Video-1  | Video-2
David
Anne Watts

Anne is an insightful, compassionate and sensitive counselor/facilitator. She leads workshops on four continents and travels extensively teaching adults to have more loving, fulfilling relationships. Anne has been leading Love, Intimacy & Sexuality Workshops for HAI since 1985. She also leads workshops on healing the inner child, financial intimacy & freedom, and the art of aging. She has a successful counseling practice in Petaluma, CA where she lives in a deeply loving relationship with her husband, Mark Kupke.  Articles by Anne  |  Hear Anne  |  Hear more  |  Video

Pal Fekete I first attended my HAI Level 1 workshop in February 2008. It was one of the most transformative experiences of my life. For 30 years my heart had been shut down in order to avoid the pain of abandonment. I was unable to give or receive love. In one weekend HAI opened my heart and I was able to receive love from others.
Barbara Musser

Meditation, visualization and yoga teacher, and spiritual healing practitioner, Barbara helps people to live fully and joyfully in the enormity and radiance of their unique magnificence. She also leads daylong workshops for tweens and teens and their parents, to talk about puberty, sexuality and reproduction, and have a rite of passage.   Articles by Barbara  |  Hear Barbara  |  Video

Peter Rengel

Peter is a gifted heart meditation teacher and counselor specialising in assisting individuals and couples to transcend psychology in order to awaken their Love and to live in harmony with Life's spiritual rhythm. He is the author of two books: Seeds of Light and Living Life in Love. With his wife, Donna, he co-leads a couples' class entitled “Becoming Better Friends and Lovers.” His greatest passion is in being a fun dad to his son, Kavi, and a loving husband to his wife, Donna. Articles by Peter  |  Hear Peter  |  Video-1  |  Video-2

Kim Page

I was on a treadmill of work, loneliness and isolation, had I not done something 'different' to what I had always done.  So I decided to take a step into the unknown and do something different ...  I attended a HAI workshop that was all about love and intimacy.

Neil Grainger

I participated in my first HAI "Love, Intimacy and Sexuality" workshop in October 2003 at Harbin Hot Springs while on a trip to the USA. There were many incredible feelings that came through me after the workshop that are still with me today.

Jude

Jude has worked in organisational change and personal change over the last 15+ years. She has worked as a consultant or full-time employee in both corporate and government environments, in the US, Europe and Australia. Jude has had experience at senior levels of management leading over 120 staff, as well as being the owner/director of a small business for several years.

Denise Cook

Denise Cook has been a Personal Growth Counsellor, a therapist, educator, consultant and workshop facilitator for nearly 30 years. She makes a difference in people’s lives by supporting them with relationship issues, Intimacy Issues, sexual healing, emotional release and communication skills. Denise also leads the acclaimed and transformational “Pathways to Intimacy” workshop for the Human Awareness Institute in Australia. She has a successful private practice in Crows Nest, Sydney Australia where she works with individuals and couples.

Peter Sandhill

Peter is passionate about assisting people of all ages and backgrounds to see their own inner power, potential and real beauty. Skilled counselor, educator and small business owner, Peter has a Masters degree in International Management and was a university educator in Japan & Australia. He has been involved in the Men's Movement in Australia and North America for most of his adult life. He loves being a father. Articles by Peter  |  Hear Peter

Irene Jehnich

I did my first HAI workshop in 1997, a year after I came to Australia (originally I’m from Germany), and for me it just felt like coming home – I connected and related to people in a deep and meaningful way, something that I had been missing here before, and in a way it became the turning point for me to making Australia my home.

Abe Moses
Ishka Massey

HAI - Human Awareness Institute has yet another meaning to me, it has given me Hope And Intimacy.  Having always felt like a misfit and outsider throughout my life and preferring the company of animals to humans because it felt safer, I remember leaving my first HAI workshop in 1995 and feeling loved for the first time.  It seemed whatever I did, thought or said, I was still loved and

Allen Stewart

I attended my first workshop in March 2001.  HAI gave me a life changing experience (and continues to do so) teaching me so much about myself, communication, and how to establish and develop a loving, intimate, and fulfilling primary relationship as well as quality relationships with family and friends.

Sarah Sandhill

A powerful workshop leader who helps people to develop a deep sense of self-love and real happiness in their life, Sarah has been leading HAI Workshops since 1994. She has also been a successful entrepreneur and small business owner and co-facilitates a women's workshop called Journey into Body and Soul. Sarah was trained at The Process Therapy Institute and at University of California (BSc). Hear Sarah

Miriam
Suzen

A recent HAI Grad I found Level 1 to be a wonderful surprise.  

My inner work journey spans a few decades so I never imagined a weekend workshop could teach me sooo much!

Things I've found which also support me are :

  • Time spent in Nature
  • Co-counseling
  • Ecstatic Dance
  • Presence
  • NVC
  • ConFest
  • Diamond Approach
Benn

My first experience of HAI was at an introduction evening in Tamarama in 2008. The experience was confronting, yet it also ‘pinched’ me into action to attend a full workshop. I remember walking into my first workshop and thinking “what the hell am I doing here, I have nothing in common with these people”. Two days past and I felt connected to everyone in the room, all 40 of them.