Rana Haugen Core
Rana is a certified Mediator, Resonant Healing practitioner, and Council Facilitator. For the last several decades she has been infusing these modalities along with Nonviolent/Compassionate Communication as pivotal tools for conflict engagement and relational healing.
She offers practices and skills for listening and sharing when things are heightened. Her work focuses on supporting deeper understanding between families, spouses, partners, children at school, executives, management teams, cultural organizations, and creative communities.
Rana has dedicated much of her energy and passion to work within the nonprofit realm. She co-founded and is the Board Vice Chair for CTA Wellness, a nonprofit organization bringing therapeutic support to trauma survivors.
Rana has a long history in theater and deeply values art and creative expression and their power to heal and reflect the human experience.
She collaboratively ran Arts Expand, developing programs that combined creative arts and communication skills. This organization ran 12 sites throughout Los Angeles, including in free clinics and youth detention centers, and focused on houseless youth, formerly incarcerated people, and other underserved communities.
Sara Jean Young, MPA
Sara Jean works to resolve conflict and strengthen communities for the long-term.
She is a certified mediator and began her mediation journey with the Asian Pacific American Dispute Resolution Center in Los Angeles. She has a master’s degree in Spiritual Psychology where she studied theology and practiced deep listening and conflict resolution.
Sara Jean began her career at the Mental Health Association in Los Angeles in 2002 and has continued to care deeply about connecting people with the resources and human services that help them to thrive in their neighborhoods and communities.
She has a master’s degree in Public Administration where she focused on how city, state and federal governments operate, how to provide residents with public services and how to lead public service organizations.
Sara Jean is personally and professionally allied with people and organizations that are focused on systemic issues such as poverty, mental health, incarceration, racism and abuse and is dedicated to shifting social systems to support well-being.
One of her great joys is cooking soup with the incredible community at Soup For You!, a radical soup kitchen in Minneapolis. She is wild for scrappy little dogs and cozy reading corners. After spending her whole life in sunny California, she has fallen in love with walks along the Mississippi river in all the Minnesota seasons.