MEET THE TEAM
We are not your average leadership team.
The Kindrêd leadership team is made up of Theresa, Katie K and Katie O.
Together we lead:
Kindrêd retreats around the world
The Kindrêd Teacher Training program
Classes, programs and other events both online and in person
Our beautiful growing community of teachers and practitioners
We are also the dearest of friends, sisters-from-another-misters and chosen family. Often, we have 4-hour team meetings on Zoom and at the end, no one wants to leave. We just keep sighing and looking at each other. It really is the divine mystery that brought us together and we never forget that.
Between us, we have decades of teaching experience, creative roots and talents across many fields, and unusual skills that blend together and amplify each other. From the outside, it looks like magic and it feels like that to us, too.
Our vision is to make Kindrêd the most accessible form of meditation on the planet and create more joy than is known to be humanly possible.
We don’t believe you can separate the end from the means — our values of friendship, self-expression and growth are not just outcomes — they are guiding forces that shape every interaction, decision, and structure we create within Kindrêd. We hope you can feel that.
Theresa de Rox
Theresa de Rox is a joy activist, live-life-to-the-fullest enthusiast, and Head of Education of the Kindrêd leadership team, currently residing in Canada.
She has been an educator for more than 40 years, and her expertise lies in fostering deeper relationships with life: all of it, not just the good parts.
Her childlike joy is captivating and her warmth is contagious.
On a treasure hunt for unfolding aliveness, she is ever the adventurer. She can be found talking with flowers, hugging trees, or engaged in meaningful connections with her friends, family, and environment, including the other-than-humans.
Theresa has been known to dance on a few tabletops just because she can.
Katie Kolenberg
Katie is a transformation guide, photographer and Head of Experiences of the Kindrêd leadership team, living in Australia.
She has lived a wholeheartedly creative life since birth, and has spent the last decade studying creativity, business and the nervous system and how they interact and shape our lives.
She spends what could be considered an unreasonable amount of time fossicking for rocks, always chooses the floor over a chair, laughs and cries more easily than most people and loves slow mornings. Her laughter is so powerful it is known to make people cry, and even occasionally pee their pants.
This isn’t proven yet, but we’re pretty sure Katie has travelled the most kilometres around the world for Kindrêd out of anyone who’s ever done Kindrêd and she’s quite smug about it.
Katie O'Farrell
Katie is an artist, poet, and Head of Community of the Kindrêd leadership team, hailing from USA.
She has studied friendship for over 30 years and has turned that into her superpower across all the things she makes, leads, and shares. Her ability to speak from the heart will stir something ancient and tender inside you and her dance moves will remind you that our bodies were made for joy.
She lives for birdsong, flowers that grow in cracks, honest, and even hard, conversations, silver linings, and friendship, which she believes is the answer to possibly everything.
When no one is looking, she likes to lick rocks.