Guest Faculty
Series
Three conversations.
One invitation: turn toward.
Being human is something we're all expected to know how to do—and do well. Yet for most of us, that's not the case. Certainly not the "doing it well" part.
We get caught up in feeling behind, not enough, and overly concerned about what others think. And when something uncomfortable arises—anxiety, shame, a feeling we can't quite name—the instinct is almost always the same: turn away. Distract. Manage it. Think our way around it. Fix it, or hide it.
But what if the very thing we've been trained to avoid is actually the doorway home?
These three conversations are an invitation to turn toward instead—toward the mind, the body, and the heart—each one showing you a different way back to yourself.
Dr. Amy Johnson and Dan Kelso will explore what opens when you turn toward direct experience instead of the mind's stories about who you are. Kendra Cover will explore what opens when you turn toward the body instead of leaving it. And Rohini Ross will explore what opens when you turn toward what you feel instead of resisting it.
Same question, three angles: mind, body, heart. Turning toward, rather than away, is the beginning of humaning well.
As part of the launch of The School for Humaning Well®, I'm hosting three free live conversations with our extraordinary guest faculty. Each brings a unique lens and lived wisdom to this work. These webinars offer a taste of the transformational work we'll dive into deeply inside The School.
You're welcome to join one, two, or all three—each has its own registration link below.
And if you can't join live, recordings will be sent to everyone who registers within 48 hours.
Guest Faculty Conversations
Webinar #1: Dr. Amy Johnson & Dan Kelso
Session Title:
Turning Toward Yourself: Identity, Direct Perception & What It Opens In Love
Date & Time:
Tuesday, October 13, 2026 from 1:00 – 2:15pm PT
Most of us are living from a story about who we are—a story built from thought, memory, and old conditioning. In this conversation, Amy and Dan will explore the difference between thinking and direct perception, and what becomes available when you turn toward direct experience instead of the mind's account of yourself. This is about your relationship with your own identity, and how that quietly shapes everything else—including all relationships. For those who are partnered, they'll also explore what this same turning toward opens between two people—including the difference between believing you love someone and actually being in love.
You'll discover:
The difference between thinking and direct perception—and why it matters
How your sense of identity gets built, and what becomes available when you see through it
What shifts in any relationship—romantic or otherwise—when you meet from direct experience instead of old stories
Plus, have your questions answered in our live Q&A
Recording available within 48 hours for all registrants.
About Amy & Dan:
Dr. Amy Johnson is a psychologist, coach, and author who has helped thousands of people find freedom from anxiety, habits, and self-doubt. She hosts the top-rated podcast Changeable and has trained over 70 coaches in her renowned Change Coach Training Program. Her work has been featured on The Steve Harvey Show, Oprah.com, The Wall Street Journal, and Self magazine.
Dan Kelso is the founder of Deep Self Investigation (DSI), a modern approach to self-inquiry that led to his own awakening in 2012 and has since guided others toward the direct recognition of who they truly are. He is the author of Deep Self Investigation: A Modern Guide to Awakening and has been featured on Buddha at the Gas Pump.
Together, Amy and Dan have begun exploring the intersection of identity and relationship—the difference between thinking and direct perception, and what that distinction opens up in how we see ourselves and connect with others.
Webinar #2: Kendra Cover
Session Title:
Turning Toward the Body: Aliveness, Safety & the Wisdom of Sensation
Date & Time:
Thursday, November 5, 2026 from 1:00 – 2:15pm PT
Most of us learned to leave our bodies to survive—overriding hunger, pleasure, exhaustion, and desire in favor of getting it right, staying safe, being good. In this conversation, Kendra will explore what happens when we turn toward the body instead of away from it—how sensation becomes a pathway back to safety, aliveness, and a truer sense of self. She'll share simple, embodied practices for meeting discomfort without abandoning yourself, and for building relationships—with others and with your own life—from connection rather than control.
You'll discover:
Why the body, not the mind, is where lasting safety actually gets built
Simple embodiment practices to access more aliveness and pleasure in daily life
How turning toward sensation—rather than managing or overriding it—changes your relationships
Plus, have your questions answered in our live Q&A
Recording available within 48 hours for all registrants.
About Kendra:
Kendra Cover is an international facilitator and longtime graduate of Layla Martin's renowned VITA™ Coaching Certification Program. For over a decade, she has guided individuals and couples into deeper embodiment, aliveness, and authentic connection. Known for her warmth, presence, and intuitive wisdom, Kendra has a unique gift for creating spaces where people feel safe enough to release old patterns and experience true liberation.
Webinar #3: Rohini Ross
Session Title:
Turning Toward What Is: Presence, Conditioning, and the Freedom Already Here
Date & Time:
Tuesday, December 1, 2026 from 1:00 – 2:15pm PT
Most of us learned to manage our experience rather than meet it. We analyze what we feel, try to fix it, or push it away.
In this conversation, Rohini will explore what becomes possible when we turn toward what is actually here instead of resisting it. Presence, not effort, is what reveals the openness that was never lost. Drawing from her work with individuals and couples, she'll share how conditioning encourages resistance and innocently creates suffering, and how recognizing this frees us to meet life, and each other, with open hearts and greater ease.
You'll discover:
How conditioning impacts experience and innocently creates suffering
Why turning toward what is actually here, rather than managing it, is the doorway to freedom
The role of presence in healing, connection, and relationship
Plus, have your questions answered in our live Q&A
Recording available within 48 hours for all registrants.
About Rohini:
Rohini Ross is a transformative coach and author who works with individuals and with couples alongside her husband Angus. Her work points toward the wellbeing, presence, and aliveness that is already our nature. She co-hosts the podcast Awaken to Love and has worked with hundreds of clients who have discovered greater freedom within themselves and greater intimacy with their partners. Her approach is rooted in non-duality, supporting people in turning toward their experience, seeing through the conditioning that distorts reality, and awakening to their true nature.
FAQs
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No problem. Register anyway and you’ll receive the recording within 48 hours of the session.
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Yes. These conversations are completely free—a gift to you as we launch The School for Humaning Well.
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These conversations offer a taste of the deeper work we explore inside The School for Humaning Well®—but with the ongoing support, community, and personal guidance that creates lasting transformation.
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No preparation is required. Simply bring yourself, an open heart, any question you may have, and a willingness to explore what’s possible.
Want To Go Deeper?
The conversations you’ll experience here are part of the launch of The School for Humaning Well®—a six-month, intimate journey beginning January 2027. Inside the school, we dive into these topics with more depth, personal guidance, and a supportive community. School enrollment closes December 15th, 2026. Limited to just 14 participants.
About Amber
Amber Krzys is a coach and mentor who helps people human well—by living from their innate wholeness rather than fear, striving, or self-improvement. Her work supports a return to presence, trust, and inner sufficiency, where clarity, peace, and meaningful change naturally arise.
She is the founder of Fierce Loving, Inc. and the creator of The School for Humaning Well®, a six-month program devoted to integrating spiritual insight into real, lived experience. For nearly two decades, Amber has supported individuals, leaders, creatives, and coaches in unhooking from survival-based patterns, softening urgency, and learning to live and lead from truth rather than pressure.
Amber's approach is grounded, embodied, and relational. Rather than fixing or forcing change, her work invites deeper understanding of how the human experience works—allowing nervous systems to settle, inner wisdom to surface, and life to move with greater ease and integrity.
A former Broadway performer, Amber is also a sought-after speaker, retreat leader, and group facilitator, known for her warmth, clarity, and ability to translate deep spiritual principles into practical, lived application.
Amber holds an MA in Spiritual Psychology and has trained with teachers including Byron Katie, Rohini Ross, Robert Holden, and Drs. Ron and Mary Hulnick. She is also the founder of bodyheart, a body-acceptance movement that supported thousands of people in cultivating a more compassionate relationship with their bodies.
Amber is committed to pointing others toward the inner wisdom that is always already here—and to the recognition that ease, clarity, and joy are not destinations to reach, but the natural expression of who we truly are.
To begin, she invites you to receive The Secret to Humaning Well® Starter Guide—four essays and a guided practice for meeting what's arising in real time. It's the doorway into The Secret to Humaning Well Newsletter, a twice-monthly letter with personal reflections, resources and events—all devoted to living more free.
When not working, Amber enjoys a good cup of French press coffee, meditation, pilates, strength training, watching action movies and consciousness documentaries, making playlists, friend time, and snuggles with her boys. Amber is based in Los Angeles with her husband and their old-man rescue dog, Matzah.
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