Friends and Advisors To The Universal Family Conversations
The Universal Family is supported by an advisory circle of respected and experienced individuals. Each is an accomplished guide in their own right, with a body of work that runs alongside and complements the explorations offered here. Their presence reflects a shared interest in wholeness, emotional well-being, and the deeper questions of human experience.
Celine Cloutier
Canadian educator, counsellor, coach, and mediator. Co-founder and ambassador of Canadian Forest Tree Essences. Her background spans dance therapy, psychology, conflict resolution, Reiki, and over four decades of meditation. Through her Heart to Heart Dialogue approach, she explores the underlying causes of self-inflicted suffering and the freeing of the individual from duality — a focus that resonates closely with the spirit of this work.
celinecloutier.wixsite.com/consultation · essences.cacelinecloutier@hotmail.com
Ricardo Hidalgo
A pointer to what cannot be taught — only seen or experienced directly. Ricardo guides others past the imagined and toward the truth from which all experience arises, with particular care for cultural diversity, youth, depression, and anxiety. His clarity around lived experience and what lies beneath appearance offers a natural complement to The Universal Family's symbolic exploration of wholeness.
Sander Tideman
Sander is a researcher, author, entrepreneur and executive coach in sustainable leadership. He works with leaders to build flourishing organizations equipped to address the unprecedented challenges of today. His work seeks to integrate insights from Eastern philosophy and psychology with practices of management, finance, business and economics. He has worked for and consulted with leading organizations on three continents. A former international lawyer, senior banking executive and investment advisor, he now serves as executive director of the Garrison Institute International and is a founding director at Triple Value Leadership. He deepened his understanding of the East by studying Chinese philosophy, language and culture and Buddhist philosophy.
Philip Wade
Western Mystic. Philip helps people across the world inquire into and recognise the inner peace and infinite silence he describes as our true essence, sharing the message of Self-Realisation with compassion, clarity, and practicality. A former Chartered Civil Engineer and Operating Group Director, his grounded presence and accessible teaching sit closely alongside the contemplative dimension of this work.
Peter Challen
Canon Emeritus of Southwark Diocese, Sloan Fellow of London Business School, and a lifelong ecumenical chaplain whose ministry has spanned industry, the City of London, and global outreach. Author of several reflective works — most recently An Atlas of Incarnation, which gathers some fifty verbal images tending toward the universal family. His decades of bridging faith, work, and society offer rare depth to this advisory circle.
Joel Drazner
Editor for rupertspira.comand a sustainable happiness coach who has worked with individuals and groups across six countries. His experience reaches from performing artists and incarcerated women to teachers, veterans, and underserved students in Los Angeles. He also serves as curriculum director for the International Committee of Artists for Peace (ICAP). His blend of non-dual understanding and applied wellbeing work aligns naturally with The Universal Family.
Sydney Allrud
Sydney has an eclectic background and keeps a low profile. Now retired, she has studied Opera, taught dog obedience, worked in research, tutored English as a second language, acted and directed in theater, and coached people in emotional well-being. Always passionate about language, Non-Duality, and learning, she enjoys collaborating with entrepreneurs to refine their marketing materials and online presence. Her contact information is releasecoach@outlook.com
