Duncan Cryle is co-executive director of Clear Sky Retreat Center in Canada, student of founding teachers Qapel and Catherine Pawsarat Sensei, and founder of consciousorganizations.com

He blends years of co-creating Clear Sky’s integral and awakening community with an international career as an executive with major technology companies. He was a co-creator of IBM’s mindfulness community, and led a successful global mindfulness program at SS&C Technologies.

His mindfulness and organizational development work is based on 30+ years of personal practice, and 20 years co-developing Clear Sk as a “living lab” for integral and awareness-based approaches to team learning, communication, organization development, and personal transformation.

He holds a Ph.D in philosophy and publishes in the academic field of workplace spirituality.

He is passionate about the potential of heart-based leadership and practices to transform work cultures to a healthier way of working together for positive impact.

Lisa Feder is a cultural anthropologist and educator specialising in personal transformation and cross-cultural community building. As the founder of Manding Grooves, a France-based organisation, she creates immersive workshops where participants engage with West African jeli (griot) music—dancing, singing, and playing the balafon—as a gateway to deeper self-awareness, transformation, and intercultural connection. Through retreats in West Africa, France, and the United States, she guides individuals and communities toward realizing their fullest potential by integrating movement, music, and mindfulness.

Lisa is also a dharma-based life coach, working with an international community to support personal and spiritual evolution. Her approach is rooted in Integral Spirituality, drawing from Buddha-dharma, the Western Mysteries (Tarot), West African traditions, and other wisdom paths.

Lisa had over 20 years of experience in musical cross-cultural learning, movement, and mindfulness. Her work is deeply informed by her dedicated dharma practice and karma yoga training under the tutelage of Qapel and Catherine Pawasarat, dharma and integral evolution trainers, and the Planet Dharma team. This includes mentorship under Duncan Cryle and Karen McAllister, (both, IEC presenters). She has participated in numerous solo and group retreats at Clear Sky Meditation Centre, bringing depth and contemplative insight into her work as a guide and teacher.

Maya Lewandowsky, visionary artistic director of La Caravan Dance Theatre, is a multi-disciplinary performer. Her “Free Your Natural Voice” method, a unique blend of dance, voice, and meditation, unlocks profound creative expression. With decades of experience, she’s garnered acclaim for groundbreaking, multidisciplinary works. A pioneer and master of the performing arts, Maya’s work inspires and shapes the field. Trained in ballet, opera, and diverse arts forms, she’s worked globally with esteemed teachers. Her performances, transcending styles and infused with deep emotion, have graced stages across continents. Inspired by meditation masters Doug Duncan(Qapel) and Catherine Pawasarat (Sensei), she integrates artistic and spiritual pursuits—a holistic approach fostering creative expression and profound self-discovery. A leader and innovator, Maya empowers artists and audiences to achieve their creative potential and become a work of art.

Karen McAllister is a co-founding member and leader at Clear Sky Retreat Center, where she has lived year-round in a residential spiritual community since 2004. Trained by Clear Sky’s co-founders and spiritual teachers, Qapel and Catherine Sensei, she not only studies the map of integral theory but actively walks the territory, embodying its principles in daily practice.

Rooted in this lived experience, Karen, her teachers, and their community move together as a collective—helping both themselves and newer members move beyond an overemphasis on the “I” quadrant—developing the “we,” “its,” and “it” quadrants through collective practice, service, and financial maturity. As the community’s money coach and founder of The Mindful Money Coach, Karen works on both growing up—supporting vertical development into mature adulthood—and cleaning up, helping individuals integrate their financial shadow so they can resource their path rather than bypass it.

This work extends beyond Clear Sky to the wider international community through Qapel and Catherine Sensei’s Planet Dharma, where Karen supports seekers in bridging the gap between spiritual aspiration and financial engagement—making money a tool for awakening and meaningful impact.

For those ready to deepen their spiritual and financial maturity—sustaining both inner and outer evolution—she offers a lived pathway to wholeness.

U.S.-born Catherine Pawasarat practiced the ayahuasca sacrament in the 1990s, while working as a photojournalist specializing in environmental and human rights. For 20 years she lived in Kyoto, where she met Buddhist teacher Achariya Qapel in 1998. She trained daily with him in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that’s rare in the modern West.

In 2004 Qapel and Cata co-founded the Clear Sky Retreat Center in British Columbia, Canada. There Cata has co-cultivated an innovative, generative organization with conscious community. Together Qapel and Cata have also taught virtually through Planet Dharma. Clear Sky and Planet Dharma have evolved as living labs supporting community movement through Integral stage development together, including experiments with group guru.

An expert in traditional Japanese culture, Cata advocates for the spiritually transformative and generative nature of Kyoto’s ancient Shinto Gion Festival. She also teaches about the unique roles of Women in Buddhism.