Meet the Team
Meet our international Journey Presenters team, all of whom have been immersed in Journey work for many years and have been personally selected by Brandon to present Journey seminars. The Journey and its tools are an integral part of all our team members.
Europe
Anna-Eva Lohe
Anna-Eva is one of the first Accredited Journey Practitioners in Scandinavia and for many years she has been passionately involved in spreading Journeywork throughout Scandinavia. She has been one of Brandon’s selected Senior Presenters for The Journey Intensives and advanced seminars for many years. She is a much loved trainer at all European events, Anna-Eva is known for her energy, clarity, playfulness and warmth. Unleashing the human spirit is the essence of her work. In addition to presenting Journey seminars, she supports Journey Practitioners in Northern Europe.
Bettina Hallifax
Bettina was one of the first people from Germany to complete the Journey Practitioner Programme. Deeply touched and impressed with how powerfully Journeywork impacted not only her life, but so many of her clients’, she felt compelled to spread awareness for this new paradigm for healing and awakening in all German speaking countries. She’s been working very closely with Brandon for many years and her experience in Journeywork deepens constantly. Bettina has lead seminars in Germany, Austria and Switzerland since 2005 and Brandon and all who know her love her openness, authenticity, love of truth, sensitivity and warmth.
In absolute exposure and full surrender, Bettina creates a cradle of support that makes it so easy for participants to open into their boundless potential and begin their own personal journeys.
Debs Burgess
Debs has a wealth of Journey experience being the first Journey Intensive Presenter to be chosen by Brandon to facilitate Journey events. She has been involved with Journeywork almost since its beginning, being a much loved and respected trainer since 1995 and one of the first Accredited Journey Practitioners to qualify in 1999.
Today, Debs is the only facilitator to present all modules from the full Journey Curriculum, including the No Ego Retreat and Journey Practitioner Program.
With a background in business, a PGDip. in psychotherapy and mother to four young sons, Debs communicates with clarity, authenticity, passion & humour.
Marja Koivisto (Finland)
Marja Koivisto is the first Finnish speaking Journey Practitioner. From the beginning her dream was to have the Journey Intensive training in Finnish to be able to give an access to all Finnish people to this beautiful and healing tool. Now that the dream finally comes true Brandon has chosen Marja as a presenter in Finland.
As a presenter Marja communicates with clarity, joy and warmth. She is an entrepreneur, author and communication skills presenter and trainer. Her background in business life, from where she moved in the beginning of 2000’s to work on the field of wellness, personal growth and self healing. Her passion is to help people to find their own endless capacity and resources as well their own freedom. Her family consists of a life partner and a daughter. Marja has a private practice in Helsinki and Espoo, where she also lives.
Simona Wenger
Italy
Ariane Schurmann
Ariane found her way to the Journey in 2005, following a deep call for freedom that had let her to numerous different paths in self growth, health, wellbeing and therapy, always searching for something better; a way to improve herself to finally be in peace. During her first Journey Intensive she felt immediately that the Journey was home for her and she came home inside herself. Out of gratitude for this immense gift a prayer arose – to bring the Journey to Italy. In the following years she opened a small publishing house to be able to translate and make Brandon’s work available in Italian and started to work as a Journey Practitioner. Since 2010 she works as a Journey Presenter, and her fire, love, passion and clarity are helping the delegates to come to wholeness.
Ariane lives in the sacred garden of Saint Francis in Tuscany, is author of several books, Health Counselor and Founder of AsvaNara, a method and philosophy that brings Horse People home to the horse and themselves in a natural way.
Through teaching the Journey Intensives and the Journey Woman Retreat in Italy her prayer is to set Italy free, especially piercing through all the lies, patterns and limitations which separate us from the truth of who we are.
Africa
Lydia Hoyland
Lydia was first introduced to The Journey by her mother who attended the live Journey Intensive with Brandon Bays in 2000. Her first experience of The Journey process work was so profound that it sent her on a journey of self-discovery, liberation and freedom. After having completed her Journey Accreditation in 2004 she accepted the position of Co-ordinator and Administrator for Journey Outreach South Africa becoming a Director of the Section(21) company in 2005. She has a deep passion for uplifting and liberating those less fortunate and those who would otherwise not have access to this kind of work. Her prayer was answered by the beautiful projects through Journey Outreach and she has had the immense blessing of working with children and adults in the rural communities of South Africa as well as in Namibia, Botswana and Kenya.
Lydia has a creative and innovative approach to life. She is compassionate and caring, with an extremely sensitive social conscience and consciousness. She is enthusiastic and immerses herself with her whole being in all the projects that she is involved in. She is idealistic by nature and has the capacity to inspire people who cross her path, be they employees, colleagues or Journey-clients. Since 2008 Lydia presents Journey seminars in South Africa and Africa.
USA
Skip Lackey (& Riley)
Skip has been a close personal friend of Brandon for over 20 years and is mentioned in her book "The Journey" as one of the 8 people who actively supported her during her healing journey.
He staffed the first Journey Accreditation program, is a Senior Journey Practitioner and the senior trainer for North America. For 25 years Skip worked as an actor, writer, director and producer for film, stage and television.
His passion for diving into the core of human emotion has taken him down many paths. He is Certified in NLP (Neuro Linguistics programming) NAC (Neuro Associative Conditioning) and has studiednumerous healing modalities. He and his wife Kristine, travel all over the US and Canada passionately sharing the Journey Workshop events.
Kristine Lackey
Since childhood, Kristine has been called a "seeker with an opinion". She always felt different as if she were merely witnessing life happen around her...always wanting to be a participant but never really knowing how. She would constantly study and challenge authority with the desire that someone would finally give her the "missing link".
She has studied with a multitude of teachers, researched an endless amount of self-help modalities and traveled in order to discover the "secret" to living. She found herself with a Masters Degree in Psychology from Pepperdine University and was ready to step onto the PhD track when she was introduced to The Journey.
Shortly there after she woke up to a very simple reality... the key was right there inside of her the entire time and the only thing preventing her from seeing it was HER! And most importantly, she realized that she was powerful beyond belief and there had never been anything missing in the first place.
Ginny Caroselli
Ginny Caroselli has been involved in the holistic world for over 20 years and has co-founded five holistic centers in New Jersey . She graduated with a degree in Family/Child Studies/Social Work and Psychology. Ginny’s been a social worker in nursing homes, juvenile detention and psychiatric facilities. She is a Certified Natural Health Practitioner, trained in nutrition, iridology, microscopy, body scanning, aromatherapy, psychology and kinesiology. She has also been affiliated with a major airline for over 26 years. Ginny’s husband Joe, is a very talented musician and they are proud parents of three terrific daughters, Gina, Christy and Tiffany, (two in college and one in high school).
Ginny joins the Journey North American training team with great humility, honor and delight. She brings sincerity, warmth, a pure heart, and a commitment to ignite many more "consciousness flames" around the world via Journey sessions and workshops.
Bob Levy
Bob, through his own profound personal healing experience, found the Journey several years ago and since then has been passionately committed to offering and sharing its healing and liberating power to all those seeking freedom in their own lives.
Bob lives in a quaint historical town in south-west Michigan in an old historic 1880 Queen Anne style Victorian home he, his wife Claire and their tiger cat Shanti (who adopted them) restored to pristine condition over the past seven years with their own hands and paws. His interests include world travel, having lived in Africa, India, Nepal, China and Tibet, meditation, reading spiritually oriented books, and sharing Journey work at every opportunity. He studied and practiced for many years as a Tibetan monk.
As Accredited Journey Practitioner, Personal Life Coach and Spiritual Mentor, Bob helps his clients quickly and profoundly access their own higher consciousness, to remove the blocks and limitations that prevent living truly healthy, vibrant, abundant and joyful lives. From successful international entrepreneur, to monastic life in Asia, and India, Bob has experienced a vast array of life and living. Trained and certified in many healing modalities, both he and his wife Claire have travelled throughout Canada and the US as Trainers for the Journey, serving Truth, Clarity and Freedom, the passion that drives their lives.
Annette Nolan
Annette, in the truest, deepest part of her being, is an explorer, always looking to uncover the deeper Truth. She began taking personal growth and development courses which opened her to see herself and others in a whole new light. Annette experienced first hand, the depth of healing that occurs when able to gently and lovingly find a way back to Source. After an extraordinary experience in 2002, Annette's path became clearer when she was introduced to Brandon Bay's book, "The Journey". Passionate to learn more about this remarkable tool to deepen her relationship with herself, and to share it with others, Annette became one of the first certified Journey Practitioners in Canada, having taken her training with Brandon in the US and the UK. She is now also a Certified Visionary Leadership Coach.
In her search for the source of Freedom and Peace, Annette has studied, and continues to study many different modalities. This enables her to look at issues from different points and access the most appropriate course for resolution, for herself as well as in her practice.
Currently, as well as being a Journey Practitioner, Annette owns a wellness center in King City, Ontario. Her business, named 'It's All About You' was created to reflect Annette's passion for helping people. It offers a peaceful environment and safe refuge while at the same time exposing you to the most basic truths. Here, you can experience healing at the cellular level while enveloped in love and truth. Annette has a background in the corporate world, having worked for Coca Cola, Hewlett Packard and Enbridge Gas among others. She is a doting Grandmother, an exceptional wife and a loving friend.
Marie-Sylvie Roy
Marie-Sylvie is a clinical psychologist working in private practice for the past 20 years. She was trained in different modalities of healing from traditional medical healing to eastern approaches. She was introduced to the Journey several years ago and it literally transformed her practice and her life. She became an accredited practitioner as well as a certified Visionary Leadership coach. Totally committed to healing and freedom, she shares with enthusiasm and passion the profoundly transformational and healing power of the journey tools. She found in the Journey a way to access profound transformation and witnessed healing happening from the physical, emotional and spiritual realm. Finally, she found a tool that grasps and uses the unlimited potential that exists in all of us, a tool that is vast enough wide enough to include all possible human experience and restore meaning and dignity even in the most “damaged one”. Her commitment is simply to spread the word about the fact that there is a way, there is a tool, there is a path for healing that request simply that you want to take it.