Affiliates

Apositiva Institute works together with colleagues and business partners to create excellent and fun experiences. When you attend our workshops you may meet some of them. Here they are!

Meet Marci, our colleague in creating and teaching Growing Coach Certification. She is a qualified, experienced coach, and she is dedicated to helping people clarify and achieve their goals. She created Professional Growth Services after over 20 years as a clinical psychologist because she was ready to change the way in which she helps others. You may meet her in Executive Coaching and Growing Coach Training. Cat and Marci have worked together to train people to experience themselves as coaches.

Allen Mathews is a classical guitarist living in Portland, Oregon. In addition to teaching classical guitar at Reed College, Allen also teaches guitar at Oregon Episcopal School in Portland, and headed the classical guitar department at Lewis and Clark College for three years. He also maintains a private teaching studio in Portland. Specializing in South American guitar music, Allen lived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for a prolonged period, where he performed and studied with many celebrated teachers, including Fabio Nin and Maria Lucia. While earning a BA in classical guitar performance in Colorado, he also extensively studied ethnic and orchestral percussion. In addition to lessons with great artists such as Sergio Assad, David Russell, William Kanengiser and others, Allen furthered his studies with classical guitarist Scott Kritzer for three years, and has undergone a year of musical coaching with concert pianist Mark Westcott. For the past four years he has had instruction in the Alexander Technique, focusing on the use of the self in musical performance. Allen has performed in 6 countries, and across the United States. Recently he was hosted as guest of the Central Oregon Symphony, performing on their chamber series. His current collaborations include a guitar and flute duo, and a guitar and percussion duo, which released its first album in the fall of 2010. We have a few of Allen’s CD’s available for purchase. For More Information Visit www.AllenMathews.com

Specialists in entertaining and mesmerizing the humans. Known for inspiration, crafty play, and exercise motivation, as well as asking questions with their eyes, such as, “How did you not do that?” (when we run out of catnip or kitty treats).

Our sweet midnight black kitty has gone on to the place in the clouds, but you may see her photos in our coursework and website. She will always be remembered as the “Great Listener.”