Guest Faculty

Steven Kessler has been studying people his whole life. He is the bestselling author of The 5 Personality Patterns, a simple, clear, true-to-life map of personality that gives you the key to understanding people and communicating with them effectively. 

As early as the 9th grade, he was attending the school plays, night after night, to learn about people's emotions. The through-line of his life has been the question, “What is real?” He began college by studying physics at MIT, but soon found that physics could never comprehend the human heart and spirit, so he transferred to acting school at Boston University, looking for something in our emotional life that was more real.

For almost 30 years, he's been a licensed psychotherapist, studying many different healing modalities and maps of personality, including the Enneagram (with Helen Palmer), NLP, energy work, Thought Field Therapy, and EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), becoming a certified EFT Expert & Trainer. For over 10 years, he has been a student of Lynda Caesara (like Ishita Sharma) where he has studied Character Structure, the direct perception of energy and shamanism in the lineage of Grandfather Two Bears and the Southern Seers tradition.

Since 1984, Steven has taught hundreds of groups in the US and internationally, helping men and women heal their wounds and grow into their full adult selves. More recently he has taught over 100 classes and workshops training other therapists in the use of EFT. From 2006 to 2010, Steven left his private practice for 2-3 months a year to work on US military bases, both in North America and overseas, helping the soldiers and their families heal the wounds of war. Whether teaching or working with clients, Steven weaves together many healing approaches and modalities to provide what is most needed in the moment

In The BODY CLASS, Steven will illuminate how to successfully engage and collaborate with others by honoring what different personalities need, and how they perceive and experience Life.