Spencer Honeyman
Founder + CEO
Spencer is the founder of Enliven Academy and Climate Wisdom Fellowship , a leadership coach, a graduate of Pomona College’s interdisciplinary Environmental Analysis program, and a Certified Integral Facilitator.
Spencer was trained by several master teachers with an emphasis on somatic, experiential transformation, including, among others, Thomas Hubl & Diane Musho Hamilton Roshi. He has over 20 years of practice in Hatha yoga (Shadow Yoga/Scott Blossom) and 15 years in Buddhist meditation (Mahamudra with Daniel P. Brown & Dustin DiPerna) and adult developmental theories.
Outside of work, Spencer can be found making music with friends, hiking the California wildlands with his family, or building something with his hands in the studio.
Affiliate Guides
sonj basha
Facilitator
sonj is a facilitator, consultant and speaker who supports in-person organizational retreats and off-sites with Enliven. They have a wide breadth of experience in navigating conversations of difference and justice with a joyful and clear spirit.
Dashielle Vawter
Wilderness Guide
Dashielle is a coach, singer/songwriter, minister, wilderness quest and mountain guide. She supports Enliven as a guide for wilderness-based retreats and offerings.
Dashielle grew up running around in the woods of the California Sierra Nevada, the deserts of Anza Borrego, and on the beaches/in the oceans of San Diego. Her parents, brother, sister-in-law, nephew, aunt and cousin still live there. She is as much constituted in relationship to these places and people as by her professional and educational pursuits.
Dashielle holds a Bachelors in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of California, Berkeley and is currently pursuing a masters in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. She has also studied organizational culture at Saybrook University and trained as a facilitator with Community at Work. She is passionate about and continues to study organizational systems and personal and cultural change processes.
She has also trained as an outdoor educator with the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) and a Wilderness EMT with NOLS Wilderness Medicine Institute.
She has worked with hundreds of adults and youth on over 150 backcountry trips. She is particularly passionate about culturally appropriate rites of passage in wilderness contexts and has been honored to be a part of dozens such initiations for both adults and high school students over the last 12+ years.
Dashielle trained for two years with the Center for Sacred Studies as a ceremonialist and believes that ceremony can be a powerful technology for cultural change and seeding new forms of relationality with each other and the more than human world. She loves to officiate weddings for friends and colleagues.
Advisors
Diane Hamilton
Advisor
