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. He’s facilitated personal growth work with a Mankind Project and with COR 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 the underprivileged, as well as to young people in middle and high school.
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 the work of COR.
Lee teaches Cultivating the Heart for CCARE at Stanford University and is an adjunct professor at John Paul the Great Catholic University, both in California.
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 a marketing consultant, yoga and meditation teacher, astrologer, and coach. She joins the COR marketing team with twenty-plus years of sales and marketing experience, where she excels at fusing business with spirituality and wellness, and serves as the community engagement manager.
Courtney is also the editorial manager for YouAligned, and has successfully produced numerous yoga festivals and online yoga workshops and online yoga programs for Hanuman Festival and Hanuman Academy. She is passionate about curating transformational programs and experiences for personal expansion and is a genuine connector and leader in her communities.
Courtney lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico where she can be found rock climbing, swimming, reading, and planning her next adventure. She encourages everyone to laugh hard and love deeply.
Kristen Davis
Kristen Davis was formally Director of Revenue at a security software company in San Francisco. Prior to her revenue career she worked for KPMG and Moss Adams on their tax teams focus was on non-profit, estate and partnership tax. She is currently starting a woodworking business with her husband; their specialty is live edge tables. Kristen is also a registered yoga teacher and enjoys helping people feel in their body. She loves riding motorcycles, hiking, doing anything near the water and watching her son on stage.
Aaron Steinberg
Aaron splits his time as an individual and couple’s coach, group facilitator, and team manager. He joined COR after completing his MA in Integral Psychology from JFK University and CPCC certification from the Coaches Training Institute. He is a small group facilitator for Noble Man and Radiant Woman workshops. In his personal coaching practice, he specializes in romantic relationships, working with both couples and individuals. He is passionate about communication tools and best practices, and he wrote a book on it called The Honesty Practice. He lives in the Bay Area in California with his wife and two young boys.
Bridgett Vadeboncoeur
Bridgett is a life coach, community leader, lead facilitator 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 while diving into her own healing journey and training as a facilitator. Bridgett enjoys the unique experience of leading a variety of gatherings in her yurt in the woods. Whether she is leading coed gatherings aimed to foster connection, teaching a yoga intensive or simply guiding an individual client in a mindfulness practice Bridgett is hungry to know the people she is with. A few adjectives used to commonly describe Bridgett are authentic, eager, and warm.
Bridgett is wife to Tyler, also a COR facilitator, and a mother to two beautiful girls. She is a dedicated Ashtanga practitioner, 500RYT, world traveler and surfer. She lives nestled in the woods in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL.
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.
Freida Neiman
As a COR Facilitator and Event Manager, Freida manages the logistics for all workshops and training programs, bringing her experience as a wedding planner and leadership development trainer to her work at COR. She is committed to bringing integrity, grace, and love for community to her work, and imbues all she does at COR with these values. Freida has been responsible for training, development, and management of hundreds of leaders, managers, and mentors, and has been participating in transformational work for over 20 years. She has been with COR since 2014.