Our perspective is the most influential factor for our own thriving, and yet most of us feel like we have no control over it - it's a given or we categorize perspectives other than our own as wrong.

We are here to change that.

We envision a world where people are consciously exploring their own perspective - examining bias, navigating unconscious material, and crafting internal processes that support a healthy and robust perspective and thus experience of life. 

Doing this creates deeper peace and freedom within one's self, and enriches life, communities, families, and relationships across contexts. 

We've found that coaching with the focus on training perspective taking creates a unique kind of coach. Our coaches are able to work across contexts creatively and effectively to support their clients in solving problems and creating a life that they dream of. 

At the Yugen Institute, we pull from countless bodies of work. The Yugen staff trained and studied under many teachers, with multiple specialties, certifications, degrees, and embodied understandings. The general break down of the curriculum we pull from looks like….

Cat Gelinas is a Development Coach, Trauma-informed EFT Practitioner, and Relational Facilitator.

She has a passion for bringing people the tools to connect, emotional mastery and navigate the human experience.

She saw from a young age, much suffering in her family and those of her friends.  She has been impassioned about the human experience and what contributes to happiness and suffering.  She trained in many modalities over the years trying to understand this conundrum to help others.  

Since 2011, she's trained in inherited ancestral trauma,  trauma-informed EFT work, adult ego development, positive psychology, coaching, and shadow work including family systems therapy. 

She loves working with teens and teaching them Authentic Relating skills that she wished she'd had to help them navigate their social world with more ease and depthful connection.

Her mission is to support people in resolving emotional mastery, moving beyond self-imposed limitations, and developing consciousness capacities to create freedom and aliveness in their lives.  

In her free time, she loves hiking and being in nature with her dogs & family, yoga, and the hygge + wabi-sabi lifestyle. 

Shelby Robbins is a personal development coach in Boulder, Colorado. Her mission is to support the flourishing of all life and the deep potential of the human being. 

Shelby has trained in communication tools such as NVC, MI, and Integral Circling, adult ego-development, STAGES, cognitive psychology, depth psychology such as shadow integration and family systems therapy, awareness and embodiment techniques, personality maps, systems thinking, and more… Her philosophy is rooted in over a decade of her personal development and her journey through several major life-upheavals. She is a former self development training junky who has plenty of certifications to draw upon however, ultimately, it is her experience of both the empty and full aspects of life that support her and her clients towards deeper intimacy, integrity and choice. 

In her spare time, Shelby works in residential treatment with teenagers who suffer from a wide range of mental illnesses and trauma. Helping others discover how facing suffering honestly and directly can open doors to fulfillment, brings Shelby unspeakable joy.