Aryeh Shell

Coach & Facilitator


 
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Aryeh Shell is a professional facilitator, instructional designer and coach with more than 15 years of experience in experiential education, leadership and organizational development, team-building, strategic planning and transformative facilitation.

Aryeh has designed and implemented dozens of dynamic training programs and several bodies of curriculum in creativity, leadership development, collaboration, collective liberation, systems thinking, food sovereignty and climate justice. She works as an independent consultant and is currently the lead trainer for UC Irvine's Community Resilience program and UC Berkeley's Student Leadership Program at the Public Service Center. She most recently served as the Education and Training Director of the Creative Action Institute (CAI). With CAI, she has worked with over 300 organizations across 15 countries to design, lead and support hundreds of trainings and staff retreats that have impacted the lives of people globally around issues of gender equity and climate justice. She also worked as the Cultural Activism Director of Somos Mayfair, an immigrant rights organization in east San Jose, CA and co-directed an award winning theater troupe with immigrant women.

Aryeh brings two decades of somatic practice, cultural activism and mindfulness training, incorporating a variety of holistic and creative methods into her work as a facilitator. She also speaks fluent Spanish and holds two Masters Degrees in Education and International Relations.