About Cheryl De Ciantis

     Garuda, 2011

Cheryl has devoted her professional career to creating a safe vessel for personal and professional development through fostering sensitive awareness of self and other, of values, and of cultural context. A working artist, she has brought multiple hands-on modalities, such as drawing, story, and dream-work, to the realization of the unique creative potential of individuals, teams and organizations. She loves coaching people to be their creative selves.

As a Senior Faculty member of the Center for Creative Leadership, Director of its Brussels campus, and, more recently, co-founder of Kairios group, she has co-designed and delivered award-winning creative leadership development programs, in the U.S., Canada, and Europe.

Cheryl attained her Master’s and Ph.D. in Mythological Studies and Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute, which houses the Joseph Campbell Library and archive. She studies myths found in cultures worldwide that celebrate the mysteries of physical embodiment and the human desire to live a good life, create, and come to peaceful terms with the ultimate mystery, death.

Her interest in the study of Tibetan Bowl Sound Sessions is a natural outgrowth of this work. A student of Diáne Mandle and Richard Rudis, Cheryl has completed the Introductory and Advanced Level I Course in Tibetan Bowl Sound Sessions and is working towards certification.

Cheryl is the co-author of the Values PerspectivesTM Survey and theory, is certified in multiple psychological assessments, and is a certified instructor of Drawing on the Right Side of the BrainTM, as well as the Stanford Business School Creativity in Business program.

She is pictured here as her avatar in Second Life, where she participates in group development and teaches creativity workshops. In real life, Cheryl lives near Tucson, at the foot of the Catalina Mountains in the Sonoran Desert of southern Arizona, with her husband, artist Kenton Hyatt.

If you want to know more, here is my LinkedIn profile.