Workshop leaders
Galia Tyano Ronen
Galia is a licensed clinical psychologist, practicing for over thirty years. She maintains a private practice in Israel, specializing in mind-body-spirit psychotherapy. Galia is also a certified focusing-oriented therapist, a mindfulness and a certified self-compassion teacher in the Mindful Self-Compassion program.
She is the program developer and former director of the Self-Compassion in Psychotherapy Certificate Program (SCIP) at the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion. She has pioneered mindful self-compassion in Israel. She created a bilingual MSC course for Arabs and Jews titled "Planting Seeds of Compassion". She is a trauma-sensitive practitioner (advanced TSM with David Treleavan) and a certified Mindfulness teacher by Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield, MMTCP, and a mindfulness teacher mentor. An organisational consultant based on group analysis. Galia co-edited and wrote in the book “Grounding Psychotherapy in Self-Compassion”.
She is an artist who draws her inspiration from the diversity of connections. With her local community, she creates cultural festivals based on the generosity, togetherness, free will, spirit, and talent of citizens living in her town. She tries to give the place, in which she lives, a sense of a united, loving community, including all people near and far, using earth-honoring traditions
Sophie Legendre
Sophie is a certified ICF coach with a background in engineering and extensive leadership experience in both the public and private sectors, in Canada and internationally. Fluent in French, English, and Spanish, she supports startups and leaders as they navigate rapid growth, complexity, and transformation.
Her coaching is grounded in systemic thinking and designed to foster the inner shifts that enable lasting outer change. She integrates frameworks like Theory U and the Inner Development Goals (IDG), contributing to this global movement as an IDG Ambassador. Combining a systemic lens with a compassionate approach,
Sophie creates meaningful and transformative experiences where clarity, connection, and new possibilities emerge. She helps clients strengthen their leadership from the inside out. Her work is rooted in a deep belief: that meaningful, systemic change begins within—and grows in relationship with others.
Heidi Andersen
Self proclaimed Compassion Activist, Heidi is a pioneering mindfulness educator and , trained under Jon Kabat-Zinn and one of the first to introduce Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) to Sweden in 2006, teaching more than 4,000 people since. With backgrounds as Art Psychotherapist, Coach, and Yoga & Meditation Teacher, she integrates Buddhism, contemplative neuroscience, positive psychology, and compassion-based practices to support sustainable leadership and inner transformation.
Author of Mindfulness för Föräldrar (Bonnier), keynote speaker, and facilitator of resilience and compassion programs, she brings two decades of experience in guiding individuals and organizations toward authentic presence, courage, and systemic change. Through her Shero Leaders and Organic Feminine initiatives, she empowers women to transform perfectionism, people-pleasing, and self-doubt into clarity, resilience, and purposeful leadership.
She has trained extensively in mindfulness-based approaches, compassion cultivation, and leadership development, bringing this expertise into work that bridges the Inner Development Goals (IDGs) with embodied, trauma-sensitive practices—cultivating emotional resilience, relational trust, and compassionate action as essential foundations for sustainable change. Over the past decade, she has engaged in co-created community through Ekskäret Klustret.
Passionate about tending to Mother Earth—growing veggies, composting, and caring for bees and chickens—she is a mother of three daughters and two bonus daughters, and makes her home with her family outside Stockholm.
