Dec 2, 2020
Today’s guest is a very special
woman, Amina Knowlan, the founder and director of The
Matrix Leadership Institute. For 30 years, Amina has been
immersed in the world of group leadership, group dynamics,
functional interconnection, and creating pathways for people to
connect with each other. I had the privilege of
attending several of her trainings 15 years ago and they
significantly imprinted who I am both personally and
professionally.
More than ever, we need to create
sustainable, authentic, open-hearted, vulnerable connections with
each other and Amina shares her wisdom about this important
subject. She talks about her personal ways of navigating
these times as well as what we, as a collective, can do to bridge
this extreme gap that we are experiencing in midst of the
isolation.
Amina’s warm heart, bright light,
and generous spirit are refreshing during this time of darkness and
I know that our conversation is of tremendous value for the
whole.
ABOUT OUR GUEST: AMINA KNOWLAN
Amina
Knowlan, MS co-founded Matrix Leadership Institute in 1990 and is
currently its Director. She has been facilitating groups and
trainings in cities throughout the U.S. and Europe for 30+ years.
Amina also works as a consultant, trainer, facilitator and coach
for corporate executive teams, businesses, health care
organizations, schools, communities and non-profits. She is the
lead trainer in MLI’s publicly offered trainings in leadership and
personal/professional development. She considers herself a social
artist who incorporates system’s approaches; multi-cultural and
diversity training; somatic, psychological and intuitive awareness;
as well as dance, movement, voice and practices of mindfulness into
her work. She currently works internationally in Sydney, Australia,
Singapore and the UK. Amina also partners with Coaching Institute
in St. Petersburg, Russia. She is currently in the final stage of
editing a book on Matrix Leadership. She also leads retreats for
women entitled Fully Embodied Woman: Remembering the Sacred
Feminine.
Amina's formal background includes an MS in Counseling and Teaching Psychology at the University of Missouri and training from the National Training Laboratories for the Behavioral Sciences. Earlier in her career, she was the director of the Groups and Outreach Programs in Interpersonal and Group Communication at the University of Missouri Counseling Center. She was a trainer for the Hakomi Institute for Body-Centered Psychotherapy for twelve years, and a co-owner and psychotherpaist at Wellspring, Partners in Health (a holistic community medical clinic) for 15 years.
Amina has two adult children and lives in the beautiful mountain foothills of Boulder, Colorado. She enjoys salsa dancing, swimming, gardening, singing and hiking with her dog.