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About Wisdom Within
At Wisdom Within, we curate transformative meditation experiences through workshops, retreats, and individual sessions designed to help you reconnect with your inner wisdom, facilitate personal growth, and explore psychospiritual and consciousness realms. Our holistic, "whole person" approach integrates a diverse range of tools and modalities including:
Parts Work/IFS: Connect with and build stronger relationships with all aspects of yourself, moving towards a more integrated sense of wholeness.
Breathwork & Breathing Techniques: Harness the power of breath for healing and awareness.
HeartMath Techniques: Foster heart-brain coherence for emotional regulation.
Immunity to Change Work: Identify subconscious beliefs and assumptions that impede your growth and development.
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP): Shift limiting perspectives and behavior patterns into more empowering and effective ones.
Reiki and Energy Work: Balance and heal your energetic body.
Trauma Release Exercises (TRE): Release deep-seated tension and trauma.
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT/Tapping): Alleviate emotional distress.
Mindful Use of Plant Medicines: Plant medicine allies, such as cannabis and cacao, help to deepen your psychospiritual journey.
Psychedelic Integration Work: Assimilate and apply insights from your psychedelic or other mind-expanding experiences.
Our core mission extends beyond individual transformation; we aim to foster a sense of community, connection, and belonging. We specialize in curating intimate, small-group experiences that leverage the power of collective awakening and shared insights.
Whether you're seeking to transform your relationship with yourself or others, Wisdom Within provides a supportive and nurturing space for your journey. While most in-person work is conducted in the San Francisco Bay Area, many sessions can also be facilitated virtually.
Most Wisdom Within sessions are conducted in the San Francisco Bay Area, however, some can also be facilitated virtually.
About Jennifer
Throughout my life and career, I’ve been drawn to supporting others through the process of profound personal growth and transformation. My passion is connecting people: to each other in community, and to their own inner wisdom by fully embracing and integrating all aspects of themselves.
I’ve been a seeker, both intellectually and spiritually, my entire life but wouldn’t have called it that early on. My life journey took me from growing up in the Midwest, to living in New York City to pursue theatre, then to Northern California to get my MBA and go into the business world. While this was a fulfilling life on many levels, I felt a persistent restlessness that I was meant to do something different, something more, something I couldn’t even identify, much less know how to pursue.
For the past 25+ years, I’ve been an executive coach and have treasured my role as a consultant, confidant and thought-partner for senior executives. However, in that role I often felt constrained that the focus of engagements was almost exclusively on how clients showed up at work. While that’s important, I was more interested in how they showed up in life – in their whole life. I’ve always been fascinated by psychology and understanding what makes some people notably more fulfilled and resilient than others in both their personal and professional lives, and in their relationships as well.
In 2014, I became certified in the Institute of HeartMath’s mindfulness-based tools, integrating heart-mind coherence and meditation into my executive coaching practice. The following year, I added Immunity to Change tools to help clients uncover and address internal blockages to achieving their desired goals in both their professional and personal lives.
Over time, I added more and more of these “whole person” tools to my toolkit, including things like Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP); Internal Family Systems (IFS) and other “parts work”; Reiki energy work; transformational breathwork; death doula training; and the sacred use of entheogenic medicines and plant allies.
While I still do executive coaching and team development work, the majority of my time these days is spent working with individuals and small groups in the realms of consciousness exploration and inner transformation. It’s a path that’s profoundly fulfilling and that I’m deeply grateful to be on.
“There is a world beyond ours, a world that is far away, nearby and invisible.”– Maria Sabina
Training & Credentials
Below are a sampling of trainings and certifications, all of which serve to inform my work with clients in a variety of modalities.
Breath is Prayer/Gwen Payne: Certified Transformational Breathwork Practitioner - https://inspiredsedona.com/
California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS): “Holotropic Breathwork” 2-day in-person workshop with Stan & Brigitte Grof - https://www.ciis.edu/
Transformational Breathwork
Medicinal Mindfulness: Level 3 credentialled Cannabis-Assisted Psychedelic Therapist (CAPT) and Guide; Psilocybin Mushroom Support Specialty - https://medicinalmindfulness.org/
Psychedelic Coaching Institute: Practitioner Certification Program - https://psychedeliccoaching.institute/
Highly Optimized: Certified Cannabis Coach and Cannabis Education - https://www.highlyoptimized.me/
Embark: Psychedelic Facilitation training - https://embarkapproach.com/open-access/
The Guiding Presence: “Fundamentals of Psychedelic Psychotherapy” and “Holding Space in Psychedelic and Expanded States of Awareness” - https://theguidingpresence.com/
Life Architect: “Safe Practices for Working with Plant Teachers” with Geke Dijkstra; “IFS and Psychedelics” with Robert Falconer, numerous other - https://lifearchitect.com/
Polaris Insight Center: Module 1 Ketamine/KAP training; Ketamine Experiential; Diamonds from Heaven retreat with Chris Bache - https://www.polarisinsight.com/
MAPS: Psychedelic Fundamentals and numerous other training classes -https://maps.org/
Zendo: Peer Support Training - https://zendoproject.org/
Third Wave: Microdosing Training - https://thethirdwave.co/
Psychedelics Today: “Psychedelics and the Shadow;” “Spiritual Emergence or Psychosis?” “Imagination as Revelation” “8 Common Psychedelic Mistakes” and other -https://psychedelicstoday.com/
Fluence: Poetry, Symbols & Story in Psychedelic Therapy with Julia King Olivier and Jayne Gumpel, and other - https://www.fluencetraining.com/
Synthesis: “Guiding the Unbound Mind: What Every Practitioner Must Know About Working with Psychedelics”, “The Fundamentals of Psychedelics”, and other - https://www.synthesisretreat.com/
Elizabeth Sabet & Katrina Michelle: Psychedelic Psycho-Spiritual Safety & Ethics Training, and other - https://psychospiritualsafety.com/
Ben Malcolm/The Spirit Pharmacist: “Breakthrough Psychedelics: MDMA, Psilocybin, Ketamine;” “Drug Interaction and Clinical Approach;” “Psychedelic Screening Essentials” and other courses - https://www.spiritpharmacist.com/
California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS): “Integrating Psychedelic Experiences Workshop” with Julie Megler and Mary Mcdermott, “The Future of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy” with Rick Doblin; and other trainings and workshops - https://www.ciis.edu/
Conscious Cannabis & Entheogenic Medicine Facilitation
IFS/Parts Work, NLP, & Immunity to Change
IFS Institute: Level One trained IFS Practitioner and IFS Circle Training - https://ifs-institute.com/
Inner Team Dialogue/Paul Wyman: Parts work training (based on Voice Dialogue work of Hal & Sidra Stone) - https://www.innerteamdialogue.com/
Immunity to Change/Bob Kegan & Lisa Lahey: Certified Immunity to Change Coach and Facilitator - https://mindsatwork.com/
NLP: Certified NLP Practitioner and Coach through Ecstatic Collective/Dena Justice - https://www.ecstaticcollective.com/psychedelicnlp
NLP: Master NLP Practitioner Training with Sue Knight - https://sueknight.com/
Resilience, Mindfulness, Somatic & Trauma Work
Institute of HeartMath: Certified HeartMath Trainer & Coach/The Resilience Advantage
https://www.heartmath.org/TRE: TRE Module I Immersion Training (Trauma Release Exercises) with David Berceli - https://traumaprevention.com/
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)/Tapping: in-person Professional Training Workshop with Dawson Church - https://eftuniverse.com/
Reiki: First & Second Degree Usui/Holy Fire III Reiki training with Colleen Benelli - https://reikilifestyle.com/
California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS): “The Body Keeps the Score” two-day in-person workshop with Bessell van der Kolk - https://www.ciis.edu/
TM: Transcendental Meditation with the San Francisco Transcendental Meditation Center - https://www.tm.org/
Enneagram
Narrative Enneagram: Level 1 and Level 2, and The Embodied Enneagram - https://www.narrativeenneagram.org/
Enneagram Academy: Masterclass with Beatrice Chestnut and Uranio Paes - https://learn.cpenneagram.com/home
End-of-Life
INELDA: End-of-Life Doula (aka Death Doula) training through the International End-of-Life Doula Association - https://inelda.org/
MBA & BA
MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business - https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/
BA in Theatre from University of Missouri Kansas City/KC Repertory Theatre - https://www.umkc.edu/
For training and credentialing related to my corporate work, please see my corporate website - https://www.winnperformance.com/