Alonzo Gelcer he/him

Facilitator - Nelson, BC

Alon began circling in 2015. With an eye toward developing a varied experience base, he made an effort to experience many different circling facilitators including Authentic Revolution, Circling Europe, Awkward Leadership circling, Adrian Engstrom Van Alten, and the Connection Institute. Determined to learn directly from his favourite facilitator, Alon flew to Austin to take the 2019 advanced facilitator training in Authentic Leadership with the founder of Authentic Revolution, Sara Ness. Alon assisted Garrett with the Nelson AR & Circling Immersion as well as a Withhold workshop which he co-designed.

Born to two psychologist parents and with a lifelong passion for personal growth, Alon began designing and facilitating personal growth and transformational groups 40 years ago. He has facilitated men's groups, women's groups, couples workshops, survivor groups, First Nations, corporate leaders, elder groups, teachers, leadership trainings for facilitators, youth and youth-at-risk populations. Alon has trained with Marshall Rosenberg (NVC), Peter Levine, Dick Schwartz, Esther Perel, Terry Real, Byron Katie, Gay and Kathleen Hendricks, The Connection Institue, Osho Sanyasans, A Course in Miracles, The Path of Love, Pachamama, The Mankind Project, the Forum, Hakomi, Naka-Ima, Gestalt, psychodrama, is a graduate of the 2 year counselling program at the Luminous Awareness Institute in California, a 2 year Behavioural Science & Psychology finishing degree at the Leadership Institue of Seattle through Bastyr University, a 3 month Process Work residential intensive with the Process Work Institute in Portland, a graduate of Baba Haridas' 200 hour yoga teacher training and a member of Harvard's Association of Spiritual Integrity.

In 2020, he opened his own counselling and coaching practice where he focuses on relational issues with men and couples counselling. He sees his professional devotion as “the creation of more love” and has a particular excitement for this fouth wave of feminism and it's beautiful impact on healthy relationships. He has a particular passion for working with issues of consent, sexual integrity, patriarchal awareness and social justice. He is a certified mind-body therapeutic Rebalancer and blends Buddhist psychology with Somatic Relational Therapy and Internal Family Systems work and is also certified as an entheogenic integration coach with the Being True to You program as well as a fully trained breathworker with both Clarity Breathwork and Breathwave and is the west coast Canadian National Representative for the International Breathwork Foundation.

He is inspired by constant learning, psycho-spiritual development, clowning, tantra, excellence in communication, emotional intelligence, equity, inclusion, team synergy, attachment theory, Brene Brown, Andrew Harvey, Marianne Williamson, Joe Dispenza, Stanislav Grof, his mother and father, Vipassana and Sufi poetry.

He is the creator and director of Reach Out in the Kootenays, a local platform that provides free counselling for people that wouldn't otherwise be able to afford it. For 3 years, he hosted his own radio podcast, Be The Change, which highlighted people and programs that created positive change.

Alon lives off-grid in a tiny house yurt at the top of Nelson BC and is never not learning. Alon believes that our answers, personal power and love, live within our selves and that our work is to clear away the cobwebs of conditioning to allow our true nature to blossom. He's a firm believer that one good question can bring a lifetime of insight.