Meet our directors and administration team. Please contact the appropriate person if you need assistance with any aspect of Compassionate Inquiry®.
Gabor is the creator of the Compassionate Inquiry approach to psychotherapy.
Contact Sat Dharam for inquiries about:
Kristen works on the following.
Contact Gurudayal for inquiries about:
Dr. Gabor Maté
Executive Director
Sat Dharam Kaur ND
Co-Executive Director, CEO, CI Facilitation Director
Kristen DeLorenzi
Director of Operations
Gurudayal Khalsa
Technical Director, Media Producer
Contact Ognjen for questions regarding:
Contact Bogdan for questions regarding:
Contact Gabriel for inquiries related to:
Contact Sahiba for inquiries about:
Contact Alina for:
Contact Karolina for questions regarding:
General Inquiries about:
Ognjen Vukotić
Technical Administrator
Bogdan Bâra
Marketing Director
Gabriel Olivella
Administrative Assistant
Sahiba / Dayana Rivera
Program Administrator
Alina Karlewicz
Billing Manager, Accounting
Karolina Sotomayor
Digital Content Coordinator
Jill Forsyth
Administrative Assistant
Internship and Volunteer Coordinator:
Ildiko Acs
Internship and Volunteer Coordinator
Contact Ildiko for questions regarding Internship and Volunteer Coordination:
- Oversees, organizes, and maintains the Internship and Volunteer program.
- Establishes safety measures for Interns and Volunteers to support the Compassionate Inquiry participants and Compassionate Inquiry Facilitators.
- Provides training and provides support to Interns and Volunteers.
- Acts as a liaison between Volunteers, Interns, Facilitators, and the Compassionate Inquiry Team.
Mentorship Coordinator:
Mary Lennon
Mentorship Coordinator
Contact Mary for questions regarding Mentorship Coordination:
- Oversees, organizes, and maintains both the Mentorship and the Mentoring-Internship program including the L1, L2, and L3 volunteer and pro-bono sessions.
- Provides training, and ongoing support, to Mentees and Mentors, ensuring they understand the program requirements.
- Acts as a liaison between Mentees, Mentoring-Interns, Mentors, Volunteer Participants, the Certification Team, and the Compassionate Inquiry Team.
Certification Coordinator:
Lara Longo
Certification Coordinator, CI Facilitator and Practitioner
Contact Lara for inquiries and requests about Certification and Recertification:
- Organizes and maintains effective records of certification and recertification submissions, database as well as the outcome of all applications of certification and recertification
- Act as a liaison between Compassionate Inquiry Mentors, Certification Reviewers, Program Administrator, Technical Director and Billing Manager to ensure the timely evaluation of submissions.
- Ensures that Certification Reviews and Evaluations are in accordance with the requirements established by Compassionate Inquiry
- Co-developed and facilitates the Certification Reviewer Training, supports the development of reviewing skills through mentorship and guidance.
Mentoring Support Program Coordinator:
Stephen Brown
Mentoring Support Program Coordinator
Contact Stephen for questions regarding Mentoring Support Program Coordination:
- Oversees, organizes and maintains both the Mentoring Support Program.
- Provides CI supervision, and ongoing support, to Private Mentors to increase their competency in CI Mentoring and to support their personal and professional goals.
- Builds and delivers monthly workshops to ensure consistency among Compassionate Inquiry Mentors and to maintain the level of excellence.
Email: ci.stephenbrown@gmail.com
Short Course Coordinator:
Jill Forsyth
Short Course Coordinator
General Inquiries about Compassionate Inquiry Short Course with facilitation for groups.
- Responds to inquiries about CI Facilitated Short Course/CI Circles Immersion*
- Coordinates Facilitated Short Course and CI Circles Immersion for organizations and groups*
- Organizes Facilitators and Interns in accordance to the organizations and group needs
- Coordinates conference bookings and travel arrangements for the delivery of these programs when they are offered in person
- Jill acts as a liaison between the CI and the various organizations receiving the Facilitated Short Course/CI Circles Immersion
Compassionate Inquiry® Circles:
Cristina Bara
Circles Coordinator
Contact Cristina for:
- General Inquiries about Compassionate Inquiry Circles
- Individual and group registration for Compassionate Inquiry Circles
- Compassionate Inquiry Leader/Intern applications
- Assignment of Interns to Circle Leaders
- Organizes Circle time slots and assigns participants
- Tracks all Circle programs and internship process
Compassionate Inquiry® Circles Stewards:
CI Outreach for Indigenous Communities
Trevor Berard
CI Outreach for Indigenous Communities
Contact Trevor for questions regarding:
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Promoting Compassionate Inquiry in Indigenous communities
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Liaison between the Indigenous communities and the Compassionate Inquiry Organization
Email: trevorberard97@gmail.com
Spanish Program:
To meet and contact our CI Spanish Team, please follow this link.
Dispute Resolution:
The Office of Integrity and Equality is available to anyone who is aggrieved by anything that happens or anything that is done or said in the context of Compassionate Inquiry. The Office of Integrity and Equality promotes an ethical community culture based on our shared values of integrity, accountability, transparency and respect, and based on the Compassionate Inquiry Code of Ethics, which can be found here.
We invite you to submit any complaint, grievance, or dispute that you may have in the context of Compassionate Inquiry to us, after you have first spoken to the person directly about the issue using the Compassionate Inquiry Communication Guidelines, and after you have practiced Compassionate Inquiry with yourself using self-inquiry, or worked it through with a Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner or your therapist. Please submit your complaint, grievance or dispute here. Once you have done so, please email Siri Dharma at ci.siridharma@gmail.com.
Members of the Dispute resolution team:
Sheila Ann Tyacke (Siri Dharma)
CI Facilitator and Practitioner
Sheila grew up with a great sense of justice and, because of that, went on to study law and become an attorney. She studied three of her degrees in South Africa and the fourth at Stanford University, where she studied subjects such as Racism in American Law and Feminist Legal Theory. She practiced law in both the corporate environment and in human rights. As a human rights lawyer in the years preceding the first free elections in South Africa, she represented the ANC and various civic associations in challenges against the repressive national and local governments of the days. She also represented victims of brutal state violence. She grew her skills in corporate law in order to start mentoring and teaching those skills to young lawyers, which she still does today. Sheila has studied and taught Non-Violent Communication and is a certified mediator with CEDR (the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution), an international organization specializing in conflict management, mediation, and alternative dispute resolution.
Email: ci.siridharma@gmail.com
Vimalasara (Valerie Mason-John)
CI Facilitator and Practitioner
Dr. Valerie (Vimalasara) Mason-John M.A (hon.doc) is the award-winning author of 9 books. She worked as an international correspondent covering Aboriginal deaths in custody and Land Rights in Australia. After retiring from journalism she trained in the field of anger management and conflict resolution, going on to work as a senior trainer for one of the leading organizations in the UK, LEAP Confronting Conflicts, whose clients included the police, social services, the educational system, prisons, gangs, and youth offending teams. In 2007 she moved to Canada, and retrained in the field of Restorative Justice RJ, working for Alberta Conflict Transformation ACTS, and developed a Train the Trainer program for youth to deliver the RJ circle. She has trained teachers throughout Canada in RJ approaches for education. She works as a public speaker in the field of Conflict Transformation, and Mindfulness Approaches for addiction. She is an ordained Buddhist and is Chair of Vancouver Buddhist Centre.
Assistant Facilitation Director:
Luke Sniewski
Assistant Facilitation Director
Luke's responsibilities include:
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Responses to and supports facilitators and professional training participants working with the facilitation director.
Compassionate Inquiry® Founding Facilitators:
Meet the Founding Facilitators of the Compassionate Inquiry Professional Training Program. Under the leadership, stewardship and direction of Sat Dharam, the Founding Facilitators collaborated in the development and delivery of the Compassionate Inquiry course. With Sat Dharam and Gabor, the Founding Facilitators launched the program and trained the next generation of facilitators and practitioners who now use Compassionate Inquiry as a therapeutic modality. We are grateful for their dedication and meaningful contributions.
Click here to see the Founding Facilitators for the Compassionate Inquiry Professional Online Training.
All Compassionate Inquiry® Facilitators:
Click here to see all online facilitators for the Compassionate Inquiry Professional Online Training.
Private Mentors:
Click here to see all private mentors for those working on developing their skills in the Compassionate Inquiry Professional Online Training or Mentorship Program.
Certified Practitioners:
Click here to see a list of certified practitioners available to work with you one-on-one using Compassionate Inquiry.