BOARD OF DIRECTORS

In Prashant’s Words:

My background includes working in leadership and board directorship positions at cutting edge trauma healing, social change, and reform-leading organizations. Earlier stages of professional expression included Fortune 500 C-Level Strategy Consulting and Leadership Team Development in various agencies across the UN.

I have advanced degrees in Law, Business (valedictorian), and Regenerative Economics, in addition to extensive professional training. I am formally initiated in three Wisdom Lineages (Amazon, Himalayas, W. Africa) and have dove deep in many others.

My work blends living systems science, contemplative practice, global wisdom traditions, trauma healing, and culture shift. Drawing on a deep research and practice base, the work I do is multi-modal, grows how groups think/talk/act together, and supports the co-creation of more aware, coherent, effective, and regenerative systems.

Life experience includes: travel to ~60 countries (having lived in five countries across four continents); miraculously surviving a potentially lethal, high-speed car accident without a scratch; and running a marathon and climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, to fundraise for cancer research. I am also known for liking a good zero-sugar, vegan sweet treat at the end of lunch, dinner, or breakfast.

Prashant's Mission: Arriving newly to the SEI Board, I seek to understand the current system and context first. I believe the most radical thing I can do is support our beloved mission to take the next step it is ripe to take, and then the next…I also bring curiosities and hypotheses about: (1) how the organization and board might become even more effective; (2) how SEI might partner with others; and (3) draw on its community wisdom, all in service of executing our mission in precise and more expansive way.

 I am driven by a deep compassion for and curiosity in people. This includes a sincere desire to help individuals grow and find deeper ease in their expression of life. As a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, individual and group case consult provider, I have been in private practice since 2008. I have also assisted in SE trainings in New York (with Dr. Peter Levine), Hong Kong, Nepal, Belgium, Greece, Kenya and South Africa. I facilitate workshops in person and online locally and internationally. Additionally, I served as a committee member on the Global Culture Committee – Somatic Experiencing International from January 2022 before becoming a board member mid 2023.

From an organisational perspective, I am skilled as a result orientated business leader and entrepreneur with proven success in an array of executive leadership and business development arenas. In 1982 I founded an industrial supply company in Johannesburg, South Africa. I continue to be a shareholder and board member serving in an advisory capacity.
A strategic dealmaker, adept negotiator and astute business person, I have extensive knowledge and experience in directing both internal & external resources and operations with a compassionate focus on the development and support of human capital.

I am an avid wild water swimmer, a devoted grandmother and a passionate dancer with a fully engaged sense of adventure and a lust for life. I bring all of my extensive life experience and fine -tuned skills to every project I take on.

Karin's mission: To harness my lifetime of experience with people, systems and business in support of SEI - challenging aspects of the organisation ripe for meaningful and effective change, by discovering and catalysing renewed focus and direction when and where needed.

Sergio Ocampo, BEng., MA, LMFT, SEP, is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice in Los Angeles, CA. He has served as an SE Assistant since 2017.

Prior to his involvement and completion of Somatic Experiencing training, Sergio worked and studied internationally for nearly 10 years. He received a scholarship to study and restore Renaissance art in Florence, Italy, and later moved into employment opportunities in the petroleum and automation industries, enabling him to travel and work in other parts of Europe as well as Africa. Sergio is fluent in Italian, Dutch, Spanish and English. Upon returning to America, Sergio joined the financial services industry in roles as a stockbroker and financial advisor. Later, he created his own business enterprise specializing in media and electronics for the sports and film industries.