The International Association of Coaches, Therapists & Mentors (IACTM) was founded in 2009 by Jana Allmrodt and Jevon Dängeli. They also co-founded the LIVE Foundation in 2016.

Jana Allmrodt

Connecting with people in their ‘language’ and really ‘hearing’ them has always been a great strength of Jana’s. In her profession as a physiotherapist and coach she has helped many individuals overcome their personal challenges, however for a long time she has also had her sights set on being of service in a way that would benefit society more than merely working with individuals.

Jana’s passion to explore what defines people from different cultures drove her to become fluent in 5 languages and to travel extensively. While living in South Africa (2005-2009), together with Jevon Dängeli, they identified how community leaders and social workers in the informal settlements could benefit from the communication and change-work skills that they specialised in teaching in their NLP and coaching courses. This inspired them to sponsor these people on their courses, which became the inception of the LIVE Foundation.

Jevon Dängeli

Jevon completed the MSc in Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology at Alef Trust. He is also a certified NLP trainer, transpersonal coach, hypnotherapy practitioner, open awareness facilitator and jumi (judo mind) teacher, having provided professional training in these areas since 2004.

At Alef Trust, Jevon is the Transpersonal Coaching Psychology course leader and he is a personal tutor for students on the MSc programme. As a project mentor in Alef Trust’s Conscious Community Initiative (CCI) and facilitator/coach on the CCI’s Nurturing the Fields of Change programme, his core intention is to support the CCI’s aim – to build a community of change-makers who nurture individual and systemic transformation around the world.

He is a co-founder of the LIVE Foundation, a non-profit whose mission is to create opportunities for positive change by providing free education and empowering resources to those who contribute their time and energy to humanitarian aid or environmental sustainability. He also established the Open Awareness for Change Initiative, which provides groups with a practical system whereby they can harness their collective consciousness and combined creativity with the aim to address health or safety concerns, social problems, or environmental issues in their community or globally.

Research interests

Jevon’s academic and research interests involve exploring the phenomenology of applied open awareness (OA), particularly how OA can promote healing and eco-logical (win-win-win) resourcefulness – individually and collectively. Investigating the characteristics of OA was the focus of his MSc research project. The transpersonal coaching model that he uses and teaches includes applied OA at its core – serving as a practical means for transpersonal practitioners to hold a compassionate and potentially transformative space for clients. 

Current PhD research

Jevon is exploring how transpersonal coaching can be of value for posttraumatic growth. Posttraumatic growth (PTG) is described as a transformation following trauma, when the individual allows the lessons from the experience to be integrated (Tedeschi & Calhoun, 1996). Integration that promotes growth and transformation is a hallmark of transpersonal coaching. The research questions include:

• Which factors and frameworks are helpful in promoting and sustaining PTG?
• How can transpersonal coaching integrate these factors and frameworks into its methodology?
• Does this PTG-informed transpersonal coaching methodology promote the achievement and sustainability of posttraumatic growth?

An expected outcome of this project is the development of a transpersonal coaching methodology to safely support clients who are suffering from trauma in a manner that fosters the potential of PTG. Through this research Jevon hopes to make trauma care more widely accessible to people who might otherwise not receive adequate care in the wake of trauma.