Lynn Fuentes, CEO of Transformation Teaching, has been a lawyer, a mediator, a university professor and administrator, and an educational course designer. An experienced classroom and online instructor with a BA, MA, JD, and PhD, she has designed and taught courses in transpersonal psychology, writing, planning, chronic illness, and conflict management at Prescott College and DePaul University, where she also founded and directed the Chronic Illness Initiative, a program to help students with chronic illness obtain a degree. She has been a long-term caregiver for severely ill family members and a volunteer in illness related organizations.
Lynn has skill with several methods of personal growth including various forms of shadow work, personal inquiry, life planning, and meditation. A longtime student of integral philosophy, she has published integrally oriented essays and articles on conflict resolution and illness management and weaves integral ideas into her course design and teaching. Her books include It’s Not Too Late, After the Wrecking Ball: Ten Principles for Finding Peace Amidst Conflict, and Harry Harrison Wigglesworth the Sixteenth and The Freedom Strain. She is also an expert in adult stage development, and frequently presents on that subject in person and online.
Currently, her primary area of expertise and interest is The Koan of Illness course series, an integral approach to working with illness as a personal and spiritual growth path. She was part of the team that developed the first Hispanoamerican Integral Encounter in Bogotá in 2019. She and Jose facilitate the Integral Sedona Salon.
José was born and raised in Colombia, South America, and educated at the Universidad de Los Andes where he received an Industrial Engineering degree and did post-graduate work in Organizational Development. After rising to the position of HR director for Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador for Merck Co., he left the business to pursue spiritual development, serving in an ashram (spiritual community) for eight years, practicing meditation and community service. Later, he returned to the business world and spent fifteen years in Operations and IT Management, initially in the publishing Industry in Colombia and finally in the USA telecommunications industry, while continuing to study and practice meditation, personal development, and consciousness.
José teaches meditation and spiritual growth and is trained as a facilitator and coach of many growth techniques including The Now Technique, AONC, The Sedona Method, SQ21 Spiritual Intelligence, and the Course in Miracles which he offers in English and Spanish. He lives in Sedona AZ where he co-founded the Integral Sedona Salon.
