Dr. Cheryl De Ciantis is an artist, mythologist, and executive and life coach. She uses Tibetan singing bowls and other ancient implements to produce a state of meditative relaxation, peace, and fruitful receptivity in recipients of sacred sound modalities, which bring us into alignment with our deepest Purpose. As does all sincere individual and spiritual development, coming into alignment with Purpose leads back to a single seed (in Sanskrit, bija) that gives rise to everything that we perceive, discern and choose to put into action in life. That seed is the unique gift each of us brings to the world, which is
our most fundamental contribution to all that is. Being in alignment with that story is being in alignment with our unique place and purpose in the cosmos.
Cheryl’s special contributions to the ancient practice of vibrational alignment are creating safe space; the art of asking the gentle, penetrating questions that help a recipient of the sacred sound work to formulate powerful intention; and discerning the unique metaphors and deep myths that reside in the wellsprings of each of our lives, reflecting them back to the recipient so that she or he can move more fully into alignment with her or his deepest Self.
Cheryl has spent her career in creative arts and the design, coaching and training of experiential adult development. As a Senior Faculty member of the Center for Creative Leadership, an international not-for-profit leadership research and training institution, Director of the Center’s Brussels, Belgium campus and more recently, co-founder of Kairios, her own consulting company, she has co-designed and delivered award-winning creative leadership development programs for dozens of organizations in the U.S., Canada, and Europe, and provided business and life coaching to hundreds of individuals. She is a published author and co-creator of the Values Perspectives online survey.
Cheryl is a Level III Advanced student of Tibetan Bowl Sound Healing with her teachers, Diáne Mandle and Karma Sonam Dorje. She earned her B.A. at UCLA in Art History and a Ph.D. in Mythological Studies and Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, which houses the Joseph Campbell Library and archive. Cheryl studies myths found in cultures worldwide that celebrate the mysteries of physical embodiment and the human desire to live a good life, create, and come to peaceful terms with the ultimate mystery, death.
Cheryl lives near Tucson, at the foot of the Catalina Mountains in the Sonoran Desert of southern Arizona, with her husband and creative partner, artist Kenton Hyatt.