Feroshia Knight, MA, CPC is an internationally known coach, consultant, facilitator, and trainer, with a focus in marketing/customer relations, communications, business development and leadership development. She is also the founder of Baraka Institute and Agent 47 Marketing and Communications. Feroshia’s graduate work focused on transformational learning, systems theory and change management. She is also a certified NLP coach, NLP Practitioner and Certified Project Manager through Portland State University.

For over 21 years, Feroshia has been helping individuals and businesses develop their human potential and business savvy. Feroshia uses coaching as a tool for positive change - improving conversations in the workplace, moving toward environments of creativity and inspiring employee-driven results. She has worked with organizations to develop highly innovative learning communities in which leaders and their teams can excel at effective communication, strategic planning, decision-making, conflict management, productivity, accountability and team effectiveness.

As an instructor at Baraka Institute, Feroshia’s vibrant energy and enthusiasm for the subject material is contagious. She encourages learning through multiple perspectives and appreciative feedback, creating a powerful learning environment in which students thrive. Feroshia is respected for her ability to see through the hidden layers of human complexity, allowing individuals to manifest authentically and safely.

Feroshia’s favorite motto is: “Live and love out loud in all that you do.” She is currently working on a series of educational films designed to stimulate curiosity and action, targeting those ready to take action toward reaping the numerous rewards life has to offer. She believes that the natural world is one of the most powerful teaching tools available for learning about ourselves and how we interact in the larger community.

Feroshia’s leisure time in often spent in the great outdoors - hiking or biking or off in some distant land learning about other cultures. Though an avid traveler, Feroshia is native to Portland, OR and believes there is no place like home.

Feroshia is very active in the coaching and organizational development community. She currently serves as the President for the Oregon chapter of the International Coaches Federation, NW Coaches and also serves as the Chair of the Organizational Development Network of Oregon.

Dawn Farr , MBA, CPC, has over 15 years of experience working in the fields of leadership and organization development as a consultant, trainer and change agent.  Areas of expertise include leadership and team development, change management, systems thinking, assessment, process improvement, and strategic planning.  One of Dawn’s formative experiences was serving as Peace Corps volunteer in Chile where she worked as a business consultant and trainer with a broad array of clients from rural farm cooperatives to universities to multi-national corporations.

Dawn’s coach approach involves working with her clients to tap into their inner knowing and unconscious to identify and leverage strengths and personal passion, and to mitigate sabotaging behaviors and beliefs so that her clients experience more impactful lives.  Dawn is particularly drawn to clients who work as organizational change agents and leaders as her background and experiences often enrich these exchanges.  

Dawn received her MBA from Portland State University where she also earned a dual bachelor degree in marketing and finance.  Dawn is also a graduate of the Leadership Institute of Seattle’s Leading with Integrity Program and the Baraka Institute’s Whole Person Design Coaching Program.  Dawn continues to study, under the guidance of Ron Kurtz, and integrate aspects of Hakomi, a body centered technique for enhanced self-awareness, into her coaching practice.

Tina Roe, CPC, has over 15 years of experience in the training and development field.  As a Baraka Instructor, she uses her expertise to inspire engaging classroom dialog as she guides students to step into their own potential as insightful coaches.

Tina’s teaching style is both methodical and passionate.  With Tina’s assistance, Baraka students graduate with a solid grasp of coaching concepts and the ability to apply them in real world situations.  She provides a refreshing blend of intelligence, warmth, humor, and commitment to her student’s development, allowing them to gain confidence in their own unique coaching styles.

Tina earned her B.A. in Rhetoric and Communication at the University of Oregon in 1992, and also has minors in Peace Studies and Women’s Studies.  With her expertise in human communication, she has served as a professional training and development specialist in several industries, including health and fitness, computer learning centers, banking, and business skills training.  She coaches employees to achieve dramatic improvement in their performance as well as job satisfaction.

As a life coach, Tina believes in the client’s own internal power and ability to create positive and meaningful transformations in their lives.  She is naturally intuitive, and dances with clients to keep them on track towards reaching their goals.  Tina listens deeply for the meaning beyond what is directly being said, asking powerful questions to help clients gain life-changing insights and achievements.

At Baraka, Kim works closely with instructors, students and clients to help deepen and solidify their understanding of the coaching process, assisting them in their pursuit of professional excellence. Well known for her inquisitive nature, Kim encourages students to explore and maximize their potential. She is well loved for her playful and sympathetic nature.

As a life coach, Kim helps people set sound goals, achieve meaningful milestones and make positive life transformations. She firmly believes in the power of the coaching experience and helps clients explore their own tremendous strengths and resources - inner tools they can draw on to excel personally and professionally.

When not at Baraka, Kim leads explorations into the wilds of the Amazon, rescues horses and writes for two local newspapers

As a teacher, coach, and consultant, she thrives on helping children and adults access their curiosity and authentic self - expression as unique and intrinsically gifted people who hold within unlimited potential for contributing to their lives and to others. In coaching, her passion for rich and respectful communication, deep listening, and safe and supportive authentic connection by means of radical acceptance fuel her personal and work relationships with a profound sense of satisfaction and purpose. One of her natural strengths lies in her ability to tune into the deeper layers of beliefs and habits of thought that stand in a clients’ way. Through gentle yet active mirroring and questioning she helps her clients move beyond limiting illusions and into the excitement of personal potential and meaningful change.

Although Michelle is well known for her penetrating depth, her values for fun and playful lightness are central to her life and work. It brings her immense satisfaction to help bring laughter and levity to the processes of learning and discovery. It is not uncommon to hear her share her favorite credos of “Oh, lighten up!” and “you get what you give and give what you get” when co creating positive learning experiences with her students and colleagues.

She also currently teaches psychology, communications, and unconditional parenting classes, and is growing her own business, SpiralLife Coaching and Consulting, and collaborating on a handful of other business projects that include group coaching and transformative learning. Her expertise is in working with belief systems and self talk, with entrepreneurs and “intra-preneurs”, and in what she dubs “REALational” coaching. Her writing endeavors soon to be published include a coaching eNewsletter named Keep Feeling Fascination.com., a coaching blog entitled A Musing Coaching.com, as well as eBooks that promote the industry of coaching by personal stories similar to the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. She is an active member of Northwest Coaching Alliance and a member of its Outreach Leadership Team.

Michelle’s creative side is professionally expressed thru SpiralLife as an interior and exterior color consultant, and personally via gardening, carpentry, and making recycled art. Besides for being the best coach she can possibly be, her personal mission is to bring coaching life skills, emotional intelligence, and resiliency tools into the curriculum of public schools so that it is taught and emphasized as strongly as the three “R”s.

Michelle was raised internationally, which groomed her as a natural change agent, and she has literally circumvented the globe via her love of travel and inbred appreciation for cultural psychology. She is extremely happy to be rooted in Portland, Oregon, as it is a home that aligns with her values of sustainability, community, and freedom to be an informed, intelligent individual who is celebrated for being happily “left of center”.

Caitlin Williams, MFA, CPC, is a Certified Life Coach who serves as Baraka Institute's communications assistant highlighting the whereabouts of our graduates through our monthly newsletters. Caitlin works primarily in the field of Mindfulness-based eating practices with other "Diet Survivors." A "Diet Survivor" herself, Caitlin has taken the "Am I Hungry?" Mindfulness-based eating awareness workshop and is familiar with numerous other Intuitive Eating models, and believes permanent freedom from restrictive eating comes by tapping into our body's innate wisdom and developing awareness of hunger and satiety cues. Caitlin is a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF) and is currently active as the secretary on the Leadership Team for the NW Coaches Association. Caitlin is a published writer with a creative background that includes theater performance and playwriting, dance, and fine arts, has taught Montessori preschool, and also spent several years in the corporate world. In her spare time, Caitlin enjoys long walks, cooking, blogging, socializing and dreaming of giving her spoiled only tabby a canine or feline brother or sister!