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SparkTalks 2024, dynamic presentations that share the wisdom of Naropa University’s alumnx!
Jayson Gaddis and Ellen Boeder: Relationship As A Path: A Spoken Word Poem
Jayson Gaddis (MA Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, ‘05) is an artist, best selling author, podcaster, speaker, coach, CEO, founder, human behavior specialist and relationship expert. He is the creator of Interpersonal Intelligence® and Present Centered Relationship Coaching® and has trained hundreds of coaches in 14 countries. His book Getting to Zero: How to work Through Conflict In Your High Stakes Relationships is a Wall Street Journal best seller, Editors Choice for Best non-fiction, and Best Leadership and Business book in 2021 on Amazon. He’s been married to his amazing wife since 2007 and has two beautiful kids. They live in Boulder, Colorado.
Ellen Boeder, LPC (MA Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, ‘03) has been a licensed psychotherapist since graduating from Naropa’s TCP program in 2003. She is now a certified practitioner of PACT (Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy). Ellen also teaches and consults on attachment relationships, incorporating a range of interests from yoga and meditation to evolutionary sociobiology, and shares her learnings through writing on her Substack and teaching for the Relationship School, which was founded by her husband, Jayson. Ellen enjoys sharing her ongoing integration of her experience as a clinician with her lived relational experience as a woman, daughter, sister, wife, and mother.
Learn more about Naropa's MA in Clinical Mental Counseling degree programs here: https://www.naropa.edu/programs/graduate-academics/clinical-mental-health-counseling/
SparkTalks 2024, dynamic presentations that share the wisdom of Naropa University’s alumnx!
Jayson Gaddis and Ellen Boeder: Relationship As A Path: A Spoken Word Poem
Jayson Gaddis (MA Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, ‘05) is an artist, best selling author, podcaster, speaker, coach, CEO, founder, human behavior specialist and relationship expert. He is the creator of Interpersonal Intelligence® and Present Centered Relationship Coaching® and has trained hundreds of coaches in 14 countries. His book Getting to Zero: How to work Through Conflict In Your High Stakes Relationships is a Wall Street Journal best seller, Editors Choice for Best non-fiction, and Best Leadership and Business book in 2021 on Amazon. He’s been married to his amazing wife since 2007 and has two beautiful kids. They live in Boulder, Colorado.
Ellen Boeder, LPC (MA Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, ‘03) has been a licensed psychotherapist since graduating from Naropa’s TCP program in 2003. She is now a certified practitioner of PACT (Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy). Ellen also teaches and consults on attachment relationships, incorporating a range of interests from yoga and meditation to evolutionary sociobiology, and shares her learnings through writing on her Substack and teaching for the Relationship School, which was founded by her husband, Jayson. Ellen enjoys sharing her ongoing integration of her experience as a clinician with her lived relational experience as a woman, daughter, sister, wife, and mother.
Learn more about Naropa's MA in Clinical Mental Counseling degree programs here: https://www.naropa.edu/programs/graduate-academics/clinical-mental-health-counseling/










