Our Team
Meet the organisers of the SENSE Retreat, Jules De Vitto and Kirsty Allan. Both are highly sensitive people and dedicated to empowering sensitives to step into leadership, for a more progressive world. The pair bring their complimentary skills and insights into curating, refining and delivering through all aspects of the event.

Curator and Facilitator
Kirsty Allan
Kirsty is a psychologist and consciousness researcher focussed on the innate natural ‘magic’ of highly sensitive people; blending cutting-edge science with esoteric wisdom.
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She is a certified coach to highly sensitive people and has published a self-help book (IF) on transforming anxiety into creative will. Kirsty is the founding member of The IF Crowd - a group for aspirational people wishing to leverage their intuitive, psychic and creative talents.
Kirsty actively researches psi phenomena and has presented at various academic conferences. She is a PhD candidate and a graduate of five UK universities. She teaches psychology to undergraduate and postgraduate students and researches with both children and adults exploring their psychic experiences. Her research projects also explore altered states of consciousness and restricted environmental sensory techniques (R.E.S.T), creativity and wellbeing.

Curator and Facilitator
Jules De Vitto
Jules De Vitto has a BSc in Psychology, MA in Education and MSc in Transpersonal Psychology, Consciousness and Spirituality and is an accredited transpersonal coach, trainer and experienced educator. She is the founder of the Highly Sensitive Human Academy - a central hub that offers courses, coaching, articles and a podcast for Highly Sensitive People. She is a leading expert in the field of high sensitivity and helps those who identify with the traits of to navigate emotional overwhelm, step into their authentic power and align with their true purpose in life.
She is a published author and wrote one of a series of books on Resilience, Navigating Loss in a time of Crisis. Her research has also been published in the Transpersonal Coaching Psychology Journal and Journal of Consciousness, Spirituality, and Transpersonal Psychology. As an expert in the field of high sensitivity, her writing has been featured in SAND and Highly Sensitive Refuge and she has been invited to speak on the Sensitive SEO Podcast, Quiet and Strong Podcast and the Healthy Sensitive Podcast.

Kirsty Allan
Curator & Facilitator

Jules De Vitto
Curator & Facilitator
The Wider Team

Retreat Facilitator
Karen Miller
Emotional Resilience Coach, Retreat Facilitator and Host, Nutritionist, Health Creation Mentor, Women's Circles - My youngest child (Murdoc) is a beautiful highly sensitive person, she is my biggest teacher and spending the last 21 years with supporting her navigate a world that told her there was something wrong with her. I watched her sink into depression and come out the other side as she connected to her true nature and her unique expression of life. In service to whatever is needed to help this retreat open up a space for people to connect, belong, thrive and bring about a much needed change to this world.

Retreat Facilitator
Sylvia Hunt
Sylvia Hunt is a mind-body therapist and personal development coach. She is a certified mindfulness teacher and a Mindfulness Based Clinical Hypno-psychotherapist and, an advanced Pilates instructor. With a strong background in the arts as a writer, performer and maker of puppetry, Sylvia will guide you on inner-world exploration through stories, characters and adventures to focus your direction and drive, by connecting both on an imaginative and sensory level.
Expert Speakers

Speaker
Michael Jawer
Michael Jawer is a Washington, DC-based writer, speaker and researcher. His expertise is the nexus of personality development, body/mind, emotion, and spirituality. His website is MichaelJawer.com. He is the author of 3 books: Sensitive Soul (Park Street Press, 2021), Your Emotional Type (Healing Arts Press, 2011), and The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion (Park Street Press, 2009) – the latter two coauthored with Marc Micozzi, MD, PhD. His work has appeared in Scientific American, the Boston Globe Ideas section, Baltimore Sun, Aeon, Nautilus, Spirituality & Health, Greater Good, Frontiers in Psychology-Consciousness Research, Journal of Interpersonal Neurobiology Studies, Science & Consciousness Review, Journal of Scientific Exploration, Advances in Mind-Body Medicine, Explore, Edge Science, and The Psychologist (British Psychological Society).
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