Caitriona Reed and Michele Benzamin-Miki are co-founders of Five Changes and Manzanita Village. Coaching, mentoring and training evolutionary leaders, teachers, entrepreneurs, visionaries and spiritual seekers
They have trained and mentored evolutionary leaders, visionaries, entrepreneurs, and spiritual seekers for three decades.
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blends contemporary brain-science with ancient mind-tools for deep personal, energetic, mindset change.
The depth of their wisdom, and their perspective as artist and poet, makes them uniquely suited to support and mentor smart, creative, visionaries who march to the beat of their own drum
Cait has worked with award-winning entrepreneurs, environmental activists, artists, poets, and visionaries .. including a White House staff member.
Michele has worked with conscious entrepreneurs, front line activists, gifted artists and visionaries of all kinds who are passionate about their work and have a strong desire to create positive impact in their communities and in the world.
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Caitriona and Michele
Caitriona Reed and Michele Benzamin-Miki are co-founders of Five Changes as well as co-creators and stewards of the land at Manzanita Village Retreat
They have trained and mentored creatives, evolutionary leaders, visionaries, entrepreneurs, and spiritual seekers for three decades.
The range of their experience, and their lifelong commitment to learning and change, now blends contemporary brain-science with ancient mind-tools for deep personal, energetic, mindset change.
The depth of their wisdom, and their perspective as artist and poet, makes them uniquely suited to support and mentor smart, creative visionaries who march to the beat of their own drum.
Caitriona Reed
Interview in Tricycle Magazine 2019
Caitriona has worked with activists, artists, business leaders, iconic names in the entertainment industry, and visionaries .. including a former White House staff member (in the Obama administration). Her listing in Wikipedia names her as, “An American Zen Teacher in the lineage of Thich Nhat Hanh who has dedicated her life to integrating authentic spiritual training with engagement in the ‘real’ world.”
She has led retreats and workshops internationally for three decades and has guided thousands of individuals to embody rapid change for long-lasting real-world results. Her background includes monastic training in south Asia, Europe, and the US, thirty years as a teacher and student of Zen, as well as twenty-five years practicing and teaching hypnosis and NLP.
Originally from England, Caitrìona is a woman of transgendered experience – meaning that she was born and grew up as a male. She notes, “I finally learned that we owe it to ourselves, and to everyone, to become fully and authentically visible. If we are to step into our role as an evolutionary leader and co-create the world that we are longing for, we must first become aligned with the truth of our own inherently indigenous Soul-Being.”
Michele Benzamin-Miki
The World We Long For —Michele and Caitriona. C Within Magazine 2019
Michele is a performance artist and visual artist, whose work is exhibited internationally.
She integrates her art into her healing and personal transformation work, and has inspired and changed the lives of thousands of her students and clients by helping them utilize the power of their imagination. She has worked with conscious entrepreneurs, front line activists, gifted artists and visionaries of all kinds who are passionate about their work and have a strong desire to create positive impact in their communities and in the world.
She is one the world’s highest ranking women in the martial arts of Aikido and Iaido Sword, and teaches both in the US and Japan. She has facilitated non-violence and diversity trainings, meditation, mindfulness, and creativity; for organizations, schools, within the prison system, and on reservations; for three decades. She has left a legacy of continued programs and education in those places.
She has led transformational workshops, retreats, and trainings for
over three decades internationally, and has a background in monastic training. She has taught and practiced hypnosis and NLP for twenty-five years.
As someone of mixed Japanese and European heritage, she passionately believes that we can come into our beauty and power by thinking outside all the boxes that we have been squeezed into; and that authentic self-expression means crossing all the imaginary borders, to integrate every aspect of your life.