About The Elmfield Institute
Our mission is to invite, support, and create opportunities for individual, business and community wellness.
Our vision is to Illuminate the path to wellbeing.
Leadership

Jane Shaw

Elizabeth Martin
Leading Through
Thought And Feeling.
Our members represent highly-trained international leaders, from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines, who have spent their careers weaving intention and strategy through thoughtfulness, compassion and a commitment to embracing intuition to generate ideas, communicate powerfully and create lasting change.
Through our varied knowledge, consciously-driven life experience and proven record of impact, we support individuals, businesses and communities by embracing shifts that lead to seeing beyond the ordinary and illuminating a path to wellbeing.
Our Team

Lisa A. Pounders

Molly Sturges

Roberto Aponte

Anjali Jain

Weston Konishi

Evan Vahouny

Hilarea Amthauer

Alicia Goroski

Risa Hayes

Kate Rindy

Elizabeth Wills

Holly Phipps

Lisa Faulkner-Byrne

Gareth Toner

Mary Beth Reser

Tonia Fish

Laurence Shorter

Rosie Burrows

Jane Shaw

Elizabeth Martin
Wellean Wisdom
Using the symbol of the well, we at The Elmfield Institute, have coined the term Wellean Wisdom to describe an innate wisdom that we all carry and although it may be hidden, we can find our way back to that wisdom.
We believe each of us holds a deep knowing of self and collective healing. Embedded in this wisdom is the idea that there are multiple definitions of and approaches to what it means to be well. Thus, there are many streams or paths to the well, each stream presenting a different choice on a different day.
This shared knowledge of seven streams of Wellean Wisdom, provides a guidepost for sharing, growing and ultimately, getting closer to the well. Wellbeing. The Source. Whether it is through our approach to courses for individuals, consulting with businesses, our work in communities, training health care workers, or working closely with those recovering from trauma, we find that fundamentally, sharing in the experience of this wisdom helps to create a safe and powerful window into the deep understanding working to move us forward together.
The Seven Streams of Wellean Wisdom form The Elmfield Institute’s foundational principles and guiding ethos. It is a methodology based upon qualities from diverse fields including depth psychology, trauma-informed neurobiology, empathic presence, business leadership and creative practices.
The Seven Streams of Wellean Wisdom

Listening
Establish a witnessing embodied presence that facilitates active attentiveness towards self and others (human and non-human alike).

Relating
Form reciprocal streams of connection through awareness, compassion, and empathy to engage and tend the field of personal and collective interactions.

Adapting
Foster resilience by strengthening the capacity to consistently differentiate, normalize, and recover from difficult experiences.

Empowering
Equip oneself and others with the aptitude to make choices and realize intentions.

Immersing
Engage deeply with inner and outer resources to dynamically harness creativity and enable new ways of being and expressing; provoke emergence.

Flowing
Align with the movement that comes from accommodating impermanence, change, and transformation.

Tending
Return to Source by consciously nurturing, pooling and embodying the seven Wellean™ streams of wisdom.
A return to source
The Elmfield Institute is a diverse group of intuitive and compassionate business leaders and educators who share the common goal of affecting change and policy by encouraging and facilitating collective experiences and deeper understanding toward a greater purpose.

Individuals

Businesses

Communities
Our hub
Many of our in-person activities and immersive experiences take place at the Elmfield Courtyard. Located on the grounds of the historic Elmfield Estate, Gilford, Co. Down, Northern Ireland, it is a series of 18th century courtyards that have been renovated as high tech beautifully designed conference facilities. These buildings and adjacent outdoor spaces are set in 100 acres of stunning landscaped parkland and gardens. The Elmfield Courtyard provides for dynamic, state-of-the-art group facilitating and learning opportunities within a beautiful, tranquil setting.