Session Facilitator
Catherine Bell loves to help leaders, relationships, teams, and organizations thrive! She believes our spirituality should be woven into everyday life. She is the CEO and Founder of the Awakened Company. Catherine helps organizations create healthy corporate cultures through executive coaching, team strategy sessions, team facilitation, speaking, and online webinars. She is an award-winning Profit 500 Founder, serial entrepreneur, and best-selling author. Catherine has an MBA from the Smith School of Business at Queen's University, a sociology degree from Western University, is certified in the Enneagram, and is a yoga instructor. She was a Jarislowsky Co-Fellow at the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary.
She teaches at Smith (Queen's School of Business). Catherine has recently co-founded a mindfulness app, Awakenly, which uses the Enneagram to ground people into presence and transform their realities. She also has two audio programs from Sounds True on the Enneagram and a book from Penguin/Random House in 2026 on the Enneagram and Creativity.
Session Facilitator
Charlotte Z. Rotterdam is a Buddhist teacher, contemplative educator, and writer. Raised in New York City, Charlotte's early fascination with life's big questions led her to study philosophy and religion, first at Swarthmore College, then at Harvard Divinity School where she received a Masters in Theological Studies. She is a senior teacher (Dorje Lopön) and lineage holder at Tara Mandala Buddhist Center, authorized by Lama Tsultrim Allione. She teaches internationally on meditation, compassion, and a variety of Vajrayana Buddhist practices.
Charlotte is faculty at Naropa University where she also directs the Center for the Advancement of Contemplative Education. She has published essays in Mandala, Lion's Roar, and Buddhadharma. Her book, Skymind: The Radical Path of Open Awareness (Shambhala 2026), co-written with her husband Pieter Oosthuizen, offers insights into applying non-dual wisdom in our modern lives. She and her husband live and work together on the sunny slopes of the Rocky Mountains near Boulder, Colorado.
Integration Facilitator
Shawna Guiltner is the Founder and CEO of Animage Inc. and NGC Product Solutions Ltd. — a woman whose true passion lies in the relational experience of being human. Through deep listening, shared responsibility, and energetic awareness, she guides transformations in how people live, lead, and relate with themselves, each other, and the animals they love. Rooted in the Enneagram and informed by teachers including Catherine R. Bell, Dr. Karen Parker and Russ Hudson, her work explores the inner landscape as the foundation for all outer connection — a thread that weaves naturally into the Buddha Families' inquiry into how we meet and work with the energies alive in ourselves and the world around us.