Pravin Pillay (MBA, MFA)
Design Lead/Founder
Pravin started Emergent with the idea of applying his expertise and experience to deepen awareness and improve the vitality, adaptability and resilience of organizations and their leaders. Pravin was instrumental in establishing Doctors Without Borders in Canada. He has nearly 20 years of experience facilitating brainstorming, strategic and project planning, and team alignment sessions with small to large organizations across public, private and not-for-profit sectors. (Read More…)
Kim Haxton (HBOR, BA)
Design Partner
For 17 years Kim has been engaging leaders of all ages through art and nature. Kim’s most recent initiative took her to Haiti with an intervention team where she trained 275 front line workers in a 5 step emotional trauma model.
Kim brings to Emergent her expertise in program design, non-violent communication, conflict resolution, diversity and anti-oppression training and policy development. (Read More…)
Claudia Medina (MFA – Visual Culture)
Design Partner
Most recently, Claudia created a multi media installation that explored our relationship to the natural world which she will continue exploring and implementing with various communities throughout British Columbia.
Claudia brings to Emergent diverse and extensive experience in designing and implementing experiential media making programs for adults and youth in both formal educational contexts as well as for NGO and community groups. These programs encourage participants to creatively explore and realize their deep connection between internal self, our species as a whole and the biosphere. (Read More…)
Katia Madjidi, PhD (cand.)
Design Partner
Katia is passionate about helping individuals cultivate the personal and inner shifts that in turn enable them to transform their lives, their communities, and the world. She has spent the last 17 years facilitating educational, international development, and leadership programs in more than 30 countries and with several First Nations around the world. Her areas of expertise include transformative learning, Indigenous knowledge, experiential education, leadership development, and spirituality and global change.
She is currently completing her PhD thesis in Comparative, International and Development Education and the Dynamics of Global Change, through the Munk School of Global Affairs and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Her PhD research focuses on the Regenerative Design Institute, a nature awareness and permaculture-based organization, with whom she is collaborating to help evaluate their Ecology of Leadership program. She is also passionate about music, yoga, nature connection, building intentional communities, and spending time with her two little boys, ages 3 and 6.
Gregory Byrne (BA – Psychology, Communications)
Design Partner
Gregory’s studies, work, and personal action in the world all converge into the simple theme of evolving himself and all those he works with, into creating healthy relationships, both between ourselves and our surrounding ecosystems.
He works as a facilitator and as a project coordinator in areas relating to the environment, social justice and community development with a range of local agencies. Gregory’s engaged focus and clarity is complemented by eight years of formal studies, with degrees in psychology, communications theory and supplemental certificates in counseling and fine arts. He is currently engaged in a masters in counseling program though Yorkville University. Further complimentary international studies, and resulting contract work in Canada relate to several areas including health and wellness counseling, yoga, meditation and healing arts. (Read More…)
