Collective Well-Being and Compassionate Culture Building Through Inner Development

Welcome to Centered in Peace

SONAL KAVIA, BEd, MEd, CYA-RYT

Sonal’s vision sees steadiness, joy, and, holistic well-being for all at the center of our systems.

As the Founder of Centered in Peace Consulting, Sonal Kavia has dedicated the last decade to growing collaborative relationships and cultivating conversations that matter. Engaged in teaching and learning since 1996, Sonal roots her leadership coaching and educational consulting in awareness based experiences which foster deep relational presence.

Sonal engages with leaders in school systems, healthcare, and private sectors to create a platform for shift and change in how each of us shows up in the world and orients towards peace, in both our personal lives and as part of a collective.

Sonal’s heart is fullest when fostering personal & professional development through ‘inner knowing and outer radiance’. She is particularly interested in the inner landscapes of humanity and our connected rootedness in place. As an embodiment practitioner she feels awe and gratitude for the sacredness of life:

Breath ~ Spirit ~ Heart ~ Body ~ Mind

Wind ~ Fire ~ Water ~ Earth ~ Sky

All at once.

The following are some of the organizations with which she has led personal and organizational development through programs, workshops, retreats, and speaking engagements:

  • Saskatchewan Teachers Federation

  • Saskatoon Public School Division

  • Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools

  • Northern Lights School Division

  • Saskatchewan Rivers School Division

  • University of Saskatchewan - College of Education

  • University of Saskatchewan - Student Wellness Centre

  • Saskatoon Tribal Council

  • Affinity Credit Union Leadership Team

  • Federation of Saskatchewan Indigenous Nations (FSIN)

  • Discover Saskatoon

  • Tackling Trauma Conference

  • Saskatchewan Leadership in Healthcare

  • School and Community Wellness: Making Investments in Child Health Conference

  • Saskatchewan Early Childhood Conference

EDUCATIONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP

Sonal’s education and leadership studies include her own development and training with Margaret Wheatley, Demers Group, Presence-Based Coaching, and the Presencing Institute. She believes each of us stand in a circle and offer our presence as our gift, in a non-hierarchical, and relational manner. Sonal offers personal and professional leadership coaching which is rooted in embodied presence.

The following have been integrated into her work and learning journeys with communities and organizations:

  • bridging well-being into systems - mindful relational presence for change making

  • generative inquiry and appreciative inquiry

  • exploration of voice and storytelling

  • identity making through play, joy, beauty, wonder

  • kind and compassionate culture-building

  • expressive and experiential learning and development

MINDFULNESS AND AWARENESS BASED EDUCATION

Her award winning research thesis, Mindfulness as Practice: Shifts in Teacher Awareness and Identity, explores teacher relational presence and identity, contemplative education, and compassionate school culture. Sonal is experienced in facilitating personal professional development of educators. Her training in presence-based coaching draws from the fields of mindfulness, somatics, developmental psychology, complexity theory, and interpersonal neurobiology. Sonal is a certified facilitator of trauma-sensitive mindfulness meditation and yoga, and offers private and group embodiment sessions.

With deep respect Sonal practices remembering and acknowledging that she is an uninvited immigrant settler who benefits from living, working, and learning on the traditional and ancestral Nêhiyawak (Plains Cree), Nahkawininiwak (Saulteaux), Nakota (Assiniboine), Dakota and Lakota (Sioux),Niitsitapi/Siksikaitapi (Blackfoot) and Denesuline (Dene/Chipwyan) Peoples territories and the ancestral lands of the Metis Nation.