COR STAFF

Britta Eskey

Britta co-founded Celebration of Being, later to become COR, in 1997. She has been working internationally with people from all walks of life for over 35 years, with a background in social work, family and couple’s therapy, Family Constellation Work, Gestalt therapy, dance and movement, spiritual direction, emotional release, and life coaching, and is a certified teacher of the Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT), developed at Stanford University. She has co-developed all of the workshops and trainings offered at COR, and facilitates COR’s leadership and advanced leadership training.

Britta is happily married to Lee Eskey and is the proud mother of two adult sons and grandmother to two grand-daughters. Britta loves to sing and to combine creative expression like dance, voice, and theater together with sacred chant, devotional practices, and deep inner spiritual work. She brings a laser-direct honesty combined with gentle compassion, wrapped in non-judgmental wisdom. Her greatest joy is to assist people in finding and living their purpose, potential, and aliveness.

Lee Eskey

Lee, along with his wife Britta, is the co-founder and co-director of COR, a trauma-informed personal growth and leadership company. He’s been a facilitator with The Mankind Project for more than 20 years. He is a certified facilitator of Family Constellations and a practitioner of Nonviolent Communication. Lee is a founding board member of the COR Community Foundation, COR’s nonprofit branch, which brings COR’s work to underprivileged and underserved communities.

Lee has worked as an actor for film, television, and stage across the United States. It is as an actor that Lee discovered the value of a somatic, or embodied, approach to emotional growth and healing. That approach is a founding principle which informs much of his work.

Lee is a co-creator and teacher of the Cultivate a Compassionate Heart course for CCARE at Stanford University and is an adjunct professor at John Paul the Great Catholic University, both in California. He’s also a certified teacher of the Compassion Cultivation Training for the Compassion Institute.

Shandra LaMotte

Shandra is a Lead Facilitator and Director of Training for COR and has been with COR 2012. She is also the Director of Programming for the COR Community Foundation and has been instrumental in bringing COR’s work to teenagers and schools. Shandra started her career as a middle school special ed teacher in Oakland and stepped into facilitation and coaching after first attending her COR Woman. She has combined her love of teaching with her passion for personal development, concentrating on COR facilitation, a thriving personal coaching practice as a teen empowerment coach, and the development of a new training programs for the COR Community Foundation to bring COR-style facilitation and programs to teenagers.

Courtney Love

Courtney Love is the Marketing Manager for COR and the Director of Band Into Real, a COR Colorado community. She joined the COR team in 2020, bringing twenty-plus years of sales and marketing experience, with a speciality in the conscious-wellness and personal-growth spaces.

A holistic life coach, yoga and meditation teacher, facilitator, and astrologer, Courtney has produced numerous transformational events including large-scale yoga festivals, online programs, and multi-day workshops. Her work with the Hanuman Festival, Hanuman Academy, YouAligned, and Radiant Resurgence Retreats, reflects her passion as a connector and her dedication to creating emotionally resonant, life-enhancing experiences.

Courtney lives in beautiful Boulder, Colorado. When she’s not working, you’ll find her climbing rocks, wandering mountain trails, reading with a cup of tea, or planning her next adventure. She brings humor, warmth, and wholehearted presence to all she does and encourages everyone to laugh hard and love deeply.

Cassie Lees

Cassie is the Client Care Manager at COR, where she serves as a steady and compassionate guide for participants and the broader COR community. With a background in the arts, client services, and traditional rites of passage, she supports individuals as they prepare for meaningful and transformative work. Her warmth and heartfelt commitment define her approach.

Outside of COR, Cassie is a ritualist, community herbalist, and earth tender. She finds joy in nature, creative expression, and her two siamese cats.

Ellen Ercolini

Ellen Ercolini is a business consultant, certified life coach, and COR LDT & ALFT alumni. She brings a mix of business acumen, strategic insights and emotional depth to her work as the COR Satellite Manager. She bridges the strategic and the intuitive. She loves supporting the COR Satellite Community to shine bright and create sustainable COR Communities.

Dana Letchworth

Dana Letchworth is a lead facilitator, coach and Satellite Director for COR. She has been actively engaged as a leader and facilitator with COR since 2016, spearheading the launch of COR Florida and building it from the ground up. Dana has taken every opportunity to become adept in her field through her own practice as well as extensive training in group dynamics, meditation and spiritual counseling. She specializes in empowerment and connecting to the essential goodness of oneself, and is a loving, kind leader that believes all things can heal in love. In addition to facilitating at COR workshops, she leads a monthly women’s group, community events, and continues to build COR Florida into a flourishing COR community.

Dana lives in Lake Mary with her husband Josh of 20 years, who is also active in the COR curriculum. She is a mother to three amazing children.

To learn more about working with Dana, you can book a Discovery Call here or visit her website for more information.

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Janelle Hallman

Janelle Hallman is a coach and facilitator of personal growth work with individuals and groups. She is a certified 4 Gateways Coach – a process that evokes the soul wisdom of the Magician, Warrior, Lover, and Sovereign archetypes – and is currently a Facilitator in Training with COR. She has extensive experience in speaking, training, and developing and directing large and small workshops and retreats on a variety of topics. She has also served as adjunct and full-time faculty for several different universities offering course work for mental health professionals. Janelle resides in the lovely state of Colorado. 

Jessica Vignolle

Jessica is a COR Lead Facilitator with a Master’s in Spiritual Psychology. As a Transformational Mentor, she loves sharing the skills and tools she has collected over the past dozen years with others. She supports her clients in creating intimate and loving relationships that center around clear communication and authentic connection through exploring the recurring themes, patterns, and challenges they experience in their lives.

Jessica utilizes Somatic Inquiry, Gestalt, NLP, Inner Child Rescue, Parts Work, Person-Centered Approach, Psychosynthesis, Plant Medicines and many other approaches when working with clients.

Jessica loves adventure, travel, riding her bike, surfing, yoga, and raising her teenage son, Nainoa.

Schedule a free Discovery Session to discuss possible mentorship: jessicavignolle@gmail.com

Raymond Linafelter

Raymond Linafelter is a coach/ mentor and workshop facilitator. He is also the owner/ operator of Rancho Del Pacifico, an equine therapy and clinical care farm with locations in Gilbert and Chandler Arizona. Ray first came to COR in October of 2017. In addition to completing COR’s Leadership Development Training in 2018 he recently completed the Advanced Leadership Facilitation Training and is currently enrolled in the Facilitator in Training program. When Ray isn’t working with COR he is mentoring his own clients, creating and leading men’s work programs, exploring the dance between the masculine and feminine, making music and traveling. Ray’s mantra is to “Honor the dignity of all women.”. He is proud to be part of the COR leadership team and is committed to improving and spreading this work that has benefited him so greatly to the world.

Steven Kimmelman

Steven is a COR facilitator and event manager, a counselor and coach working primarily with men, and a teacher of intuitive development. In his work with individuals, he focuses on core principles of emotional awareness and growth, truth-telling, compassion, and responsible communication. Within his diverse skill set, Steven loves helping clients develop their own skills of Active Listening, Non-Violent Communication, and self awareness via Personality Sub-Parts Work. Involved in personal growth work for more than three decades, he is currently developing an online life school for men called The Masculine Mystery School. In everything Steven does, there is compassion, respect, truth, and humor at the heart of it.

Steven is the father of two grown daughters. He splits his time between Northern California and Maui where his beloved lives. He hopes to bring COR to the island. When not facilitating workshops, he enjoys asking store clerks real questions that remind them of their humanity.

Tabitha Nieto

Tabitha Nieto is a trauma-informed coach, certified hypnotherapist, facilitator, and NARM-trained practitioner who works with both men and women seeking greater emotional regulation, clarity, and self-trust. Of mixed heritage, Tabitha identifies as Latina and is proud of her Colombian roots. She is a strong advocate for diversity, connection, and belonging, and brings these values into every space she facilitates.

With 16 years in corporate America and over 15 years facilitating emotional and transformational work, Tabitha brings a rare blend of structure and depth to her practice. Her background as a corporate trainer allows her to work skillfully with high-functioning individuals who are outwardly capable yet internally overwhelmed, disconnected, or stuck in long-standing patterns.

Known by her clients for her directness, compassion, and steady presence, Tabitha helps clients identify and shift patterns such as people-pleasing, self-criticism, emotional shutdown, and overfunctioning, while building real emotional capacity and self-regulation using her Slow Care Framework.

In addition to her private practice, Tabitha serves as Co-Executive Director of COR Community Foundation, which offers transformational workshops for BIPOC women and women of culture, ensuring access to healing regardless of financial means. Whether facilitating groups or working one-on-one, Tabitha creates spaces where truth is spoken with care, and lasting change becomes possible.

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Jesika Wachter

Jesika is a guide, space-holder, and healer who believes deeply in the wisdom of the body and the power of safe, loving community. She weaves together women’s circles, bodywork, Reiki, meditation, and coaching to support deep reconnection and personal growth.

Having begun her own COR journey just four years ago, Jesika brings a lived, embodied understanding of the work, meeting others not from theory, but from experience. As the Director for the COR Florida Community, she is passionate about creating sacred, well-held experiences where participants can soften, feel supported, and remember who they truly are.

Jesika lives in St. Augustine, Florida, with her husband, two children, and her sweet dog, Jello.