Tania Fierro, MA
Co-Founder | tania@innerland.com

I co-founded the Innerland Institute, in 2003 with the strong passion and desire for honest deep communication, the kind of exchange that gives you inner freedom, joy and deep purpose. I’m the co-creator of the IBC (Inquiry-Based Coaching) method. A powerful self-awareness methodology that supports individuals and organizations to find clarity, empowerment, inner alignment, deep ease and understanding. I offer workshops, and trainings around the world.

• Olympic Athlete 1988, Seoul, Korea.

• BA in Philosophy.

• MA in Applied Philosophy.

• Philosophical Counsellor and a member of APPA - American Philosophical Practitioners Association in New York.

• Former Certified Facilitator and Director of The Institute for The Work

• Applied IFS Therapy program from the Adler Graduate School in Toronto.

• Mahamudra, Dzogchen, and Advaita Practioner.

Author: INQUIRY-BASED COACHING - The Power of Zerospace

Dr. Pedro Cortina
Co-Founder | pedro@innerland.com

I wake up every day exploring ways to support myself and others in reaching a persistent, reliable, and deeply fulfilling state of clarity, understanding, connection, alignment, ease, compassion and joy. At the Innerland Institute, we call this inner state Zerospace. We live every day, to expand it, share it, and support others in accessing and incorporating it into their lives.

• Doctor in Leadership (EdD) - WSC UCalgary

• Masters in Leadership - UBC, Canada

• BA in Philosophy and Economics - UIA

• Co-creator: Inquiry Based Coaching™

• Certified Philosophical Counsellor - APPA NYC

• Applied IFS Therapy Certificate
  Adler Graduate School

• Oxford Finance Program for Senior Executives

• Dzogchen, Mahamudra, and Advaita Practitioner

  Author: INQUIRY-BASED COACHING - The Power of Zerospace & CURFLEXION - Living the Infinite Space of Being

Markus Tauchmann
Europe
Info@tauchmann.ch

Markus started the first IBC™ Center in Zurich where several Coaches offer Inquiry and support each other. Markus holds a master's in psychology from the University of Dresden and economics at E.P.F. in Paris. Educated by Dr. Marshall Rosenberg trained in nonviolent communication (NVC) in organizations and universities. After his life-changing experience with Inquiry-Based Coaching™, he started to offer retreats and personal sessions in inquiry with tremendous success. He lives a balanced life where deeply slowing down and highly presence are supporting each other. Half of the time he spends time with his children and the other half he shares inquiries. Markus's mission is to share inquiry all over the world until there is at least one inquiry workshop every day in every area of the world. He is doing this by creating and supporting communities that offer and share Inquiry.

Robyn Irwin
Canada
Robyn.birdsong@gmail.com

Since her own initiatory journey through a major health crisis in 2003, Robyn has been deeply inspired by a vision of humanity living in full connection to its health, purpose, and interconnectivity with all of life in its various phases of evolution. She is an Authorized Continuum Movement Teacher, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist, and co-instructor in the Clearheart Bodywork professional training programs in Nelson BC. She is dedicated to living a life of continuous growth, deepening presence, and unfolding purpose while offering support to others along their journey of discovery and expressions of Health. Robyn’s clear, kind and loving presence, invites a deeper connection and trust in the capabilities of our bodies to resource, restore and vibrate in alignment with life’s intention for us.

Angel Jimenez
USA
angel@innerland.com

Angel is a successful entrepreneur in a variety of industries such as Finance, Construction, Consulting, Hospitality, Automotive, and Service. For the last 20 years, he has supported various initiatives with outstanding results. He believes that business owners have a much broader responsibility beyond financial and operational success. They are responsible also for the employee's personal and professional growth. This also includes the assurance that the operations contribute directly and indirectly to the community. Angel champions initiatives for the youth, college graduates, immigrants, and business leaders. He specializes in developing a team's or individual's ability to give and receive "positive and negative" feedback. His passion for Self-Inquiry practice and Curflexion began as a personal adventure that evolved into the sharing of Self-Inquiry tools with individuals and businesses.

Linda Garcidueñas
Mexico
lgarciwork@gmail.com

Linda has an Ontological Coach Certification. Seeking to perfect the model of the 11 skills of the International Coaching Federation (ICF), she achieved the Certification in Mastering Coaching Skills, with which she obtained the credential ACC (Associate Certified Coach) from the ICF. Her most recent adventure was to explore IBC more deeply, which is transforming her way of seeing the world. Guided by Tania Fierro and Pedro Cortina, she finished the Inquiry-Based Coaching Program at the Innerland Institute. Her experience as a Coach, enriched by the vision from different practices, has led her to the realization that true work occurs within us. She has participated in a study group on Compassionate Mindfulness, based on the philosophy of Tibetan Buddhism.

Christina Jahn, MA, BA, BEd, IBC
christina.jahn@shaw.ca

Christina is a learning and development leader, and trainer, with a lifelong interest in exploring what it means to live fully. With over 20 years in human resources and education, Christina's passion and gift is facilitating individuals and organizations to tap into their full potential by accessing clarity and connection. She has experienced and seen the remarkable transformations that come from the process and practice of inquiry. She is now bringing inquiry programs and coaching into the business and arts worlds, where the inquiry programs serve to  overcome obstacles, and accelerate incredible results, with participants experiencing and accessing increased confidence, alignment, and joy. Beyond her inquiry coaching practice, Christina sings professionally, directs a professional vocal ensemble, and is a valued contributor for several arts organization boards.

Jacob Steele 
jacob@innerland.com

Jacob is passionate about the work of self-inquiry. He is a graduate of the two-year Innerland inquiry based training. He has been immersed in many traditions of healing and spirituality, ranging from Family Constellation Work to Asana Yoga. He lived as a Buddhist monk for one year under the guidance of Pema Chödrön, and has completed numerous meditation immersions, including a five-month silent retreat. Jacob holds a Fine Arts Degree from Emily Carr University. He currently works as the Events & Promotions Manager for Banyen Books & Sound, where he hosts events with many of the world’s leading authors. He lives in North Vancouver with his wife and two children.

Bev Maya 
bev@innerland.com

Back in university, Bev earned a reputation as a tenacious inquisitive driven to make sense of nature through scientific endeavours . This reputation has withstood the test of time. Bev’s unique background informs her deep investigative approach. Today, as a practicing Medical Herbalist and international speaker at medical conferences and colleges, Bev’s inquiring personality (encouraged by both parents being teachers) has lent itself to her style, as a generous and passionate speaker particularly adept at empowering her audience to deconstruct complex ideas into their simplest form and apply this learning in the context of their own medical practices. 

Delyse Sylvester 
delyse@innerland.com

Delyse has three decades of social innovation expertise, connecting thousands of social entrepreneurs with corporate leaders, thought leaders, and new media partners. With Ashoka Changemakers, she led over 60 co-branded global campaigns with partners such as National Geographic, Nike, GE, G-20, EBay, Google, and the Robert Wood Johnson, Rockefeller, and Gates Foundations.  With CUSO she focused on Aboriginal Cultural Rights in Canada and the South Pacific, and as Executive Director of Selkirk College Foundation, she led a team to establish the first B.C. Rural Innovation Chair.  She is currently a member of BC Partners for Social Impact secretariat and Executive in Residence at SFUs Beedie School for Business. 

Debbie Bridge
debbiebridge73@gmail.com

As a coach and facilitator, Debbie creates opportunities to share inquiry one-on-one and in groups. She is on the team of a parent-recovery group for addiction affected family members. She is also a graduate of the Woman Unveiled School of Mysteries Apprenticeship program which blends empowerment curriculum with the ancient traditions of ceremony and ritual. This allows participants to integrate learning on a deeply experiential level. Innerland and Women Unveiled have been so impactful to Debbie that she invites both inquiry and ceremonial customs to inform her practice. Inquiry Based Coaching™️ serves as a bridge to the expansiveness of our intuitive knowing.

Mary Sparks
mcsparkie15@yahoo.ca

Mary is a coach with an MA in Counselling Psychology based in North Vancouver. She has 20 years of experience supporting youth and families with issues such as anxiety, depression and trauma. Her work is deeply influenced by Inquiry-Based Coaching (IBC) which allows her to stay grounded and authentic and offer skills that she uses in her daily life. She embodies a belief that growth, healing, and living closer to our truest selves is the most important life’s work that we can do. It is her goal to bring IBC to others so that trauma and pain can be courageously held and transformed.

Katja Frick
k.fricky@yahoo.com

Katja is a medical doctor from Germany. She is specialized in anaesthesiology and intensive care medicine by the Swiss Medical Association and holds the European Diploma of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care by the European Society of Anaesthesiology. Currently she is working at the Institute of Intensive Care at the University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland. Part time she is offering courses and one-on-one sessions in Inquiry-Based Coaching. For her long-lasting healing does not only contain the physical level, but rather unfolds deep out of everyones own heart, leading to a balanced and responsible life of connection with oneself and the world around. She has found Inquiry-Based Coaching to be one the most effective tools to get to this inner place of truth, freedom, love and connection. Her vision is to expand this work into different parts of society, to support people to shape their personal and professional life from that inner place and to also become more and more creative about solutions for the problems, which we are all facing together as a global community.

Saskia Bartscht
bartschtsaskia@gmail.com

IBC™️ has given me back my life and my laughter and liveliness and a tool that I can use every day. The freedom that has resulted is boundless. To live my life according to my truth and authenticity. I have learned to act and act from my love. The love I carry within me flows endlessly and guides me unceasingly to moment to moment. It feels like I am making quantum leaps in one sequence into the other.
IBC™️ has shown me how I can take responsibility for myself and for my own life, empowers me to act accordingly and not to be guided by negative coping strategies or behavioral patterns. With over 20 years of experience as a certified HF nurse, passion, talent and strength enable me to reach my full potential by accessing my clarity and connection. I have experienced and seen remarkable changes resulting from the process and practice of inquiry. I bring with me many personal and professional life experiences of overcoming obstacles and achieving incredible results, feeling more confident, joyful and connected in life. I have discovered my true passion for coaching.

Beatriz Amorin
beatriz@innerland.com

Beatriz is the Director at CEPHEI (Human Potential Center and Emotional Intelligence). She is a consultant, international trainer and instructor in Mindfulness. She currently works as an academic collaborator in the EEL (European School of Leaders) and the UNED. She is a professional Co-active and certified by the AICM (International Association of coaching and mentoring professionals) and by the UNED, and Coach Facilitator by Innerland North Vancouver. She works as a trainer, consultant, lecturer, organizer and coach. Her students and clients consider her as an objective, analytical, proactive and a generator of alternatives.

Romy Luginbühl-Matter
romy.luginbuehl@bluewin.ch

Romy’s passion is to interact, communicate and connect with people. During a seminar with Tania and Markus she had a life-changing experience and she knew IBC™ is the key to living out of love and ending the suffering mindset. Through self-exploration, she changed from being someone thinking of herself as not being right into someone she became her best friend.

For her, IBC™ is a powerful tool to illuminate difficult relationships, stressful situations, or thoughts. This opens a
different, often new perspective and brings one closer to oneself. Inner arguments become quieter and relaxation becomes palpable. The feeling of allowing is a reminder of how nice it is just to be. This is called Zerospace.

She looks forward to facilitating you with IBC™ in recognizing hindering beliefs and turning them into opportunities.

Vahidin Omanovic
vahidin@innerland.com

Vahidin is a peacebuilder and he runs an NGO Center for peacebuilding in Bosnia. For years he believed that revenge would relieve him of his anger and heal the scars he carried from the Bosnian War, which was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. However, from 1997-2002, Vahidin experienced a personal transformation while participating in interethnic dialogue and trauma healing sessions sponsored by an American organization; he found that reconciliation was the only way forward for his community and country: Since then his job is to help people to find peace with themselves, to work for social justice and to restore harmony between humans and nature.

Ram Anand
fly.from.within@gmail.com

Ram is fascinated by life and it’s possibilities. When he was a teenager he noticed that he acted from a place of fear, so began to wonder if there was another possibility to have an open, free life.  With this pursuit in his heart, Ram has aided a number of communities including schools, universities, addicts, sports players and more to find and create more open, free lives. As a leader of a small international team, he both designed and fostered the first-of-its-kind “Inquiry ” program for a K-12 school in San José del Cabo. The curriculum takes a community approach involving parents, students, staff and teachers, already with notable success.He also works with sports teams and individuals to overcome the doubtful mind and be let down by emotions to an intense alertness, focusing on there true power. Prior to this, Ram envisioned and instituted a program for an addiction rehab house in Mexico.  

Dr. Zabelia Bravo
zabeliabravo@hotmail.com

Zabelia studied Medicine at the UNAM Faculty of Medicine. Later she specialized in Pediatrics and at the end of her subspecialty in Pediatric Neurology, which she has practiced for 35 years. Zabelia has always been in search of how to serve children and families suffering from Neurological, Psychiatric, Psychological and Social disorders. She is certified in Biofeedback, which complemented the Biotechnological branch in her daily work. Zabelia became convinced through the study of human development that thoughts themselves originate in suffering and further became a coach. She is open to share IBC™ with whoever is looking for clarity and understanding.

Adriana Rodriguez
adri.thankyou@gmail.com

Adriana met inquiry in 2012 during a weekend workshop with Tania Fierro. She calls it the best, all-time-game-changing gift she has given to herself, due to experiencing a delightful bodily sensation of weightlessness, and such mental clarity and freedom after questioning assumptions and beliefs around relationships and life. Adriana holds a bachelor’s degree in Institutional Administration from Universidad Panamericana´s ESDAI, is an Coach, dancer, Zumba® instructor, Philosophy for Children and English teacher, essential oils lover, Access Bars® practitioner, amateur in Astrology, and lifelong learner. She has devoted more than 10 years to the educational realm working mostly with teenagers and adults. She brings to her IBC™ practice the tools she has learned along the way. Adriana offers IBC™ sessions and workshops at Riviera Maya, Mexico.

Rafael Gutiérrez
rafael@innerland.com

Rafael is a certified ontological-transformational Coach. His training gives him the opportunity to understand the many possibilities that human beings have to transform their lives. He is currently a Partner, founder, and coach of "THE TRUE" a Transformational-Coaching Company of human development with two years of existence and with more than 1000 clients that have experienced transformation based on inquiry. Conferences and workshops with companies and government agencies are part of their work using IBC™ as the main tool for solving problems. Passionate about the IBC™ method, he has turned into an ambassador of this wonderful and powerful tool. Rafael is grateful for life and Innerland. He is a human being in peace, free, connected, present, and with a clear mind.

Margarita Castillo
margaritacastillolaviada@gmail.com

Margarita is passionate about learning, growing, sharing knowledge, and helping others in their process. She is a Chemistry Pharmacobiologist specializing in Fertility. An entrepreneur with a master's degree in Human Resources Administration led her to discover coaching as a wonderful process to enhance the abilities of her clients through facilitation to transform obstacles into opportunities and improve productivity in work teams. She is a certified coach of Martha Beck, Susan Hyatt, John Maxwell, and IBC, of ​​Innerland, a methodology that helped her grow and overcome obstacles in her personal life and that today she proudly promotes. Her life mission is to help women develop their abilities to the fullest, support them in their development through personal coaching, as well as encouraging women entrepreneurs to improve the productivity of their companies.

Adriana Hamabata
ahamabata@gmail.com

I have a bachelor’s degree in information technologies. For me observing, analyzing, and understanding is basic. I have been doing this for a long time. But in my life, something was missing to connect my mind with my heart. And this is where I found IBC and with each inquiry I made, I felt and experimented a great transformation. I have been able to free myself from many limitations, to be able to understand them, to go to the origin, and really be able to transcend them. IBC has been the door and the path for my awakening and towards a reality of infinite possibilities. In Zerospace I know everything is possible, I can be me without fear and accept myself as I am. This is the path I choose to walk, and with every step, I am certain I am going to the truth. Now I like to help people to go deeper inside using IBC.

leana Ponce Montemayor
ile.ponce.montemayor@gmail.com

Ileana is the spokesperson for the Spanish-speaking IBC™ community. She has been involved different professional fields such as arts, balancing techniques, sports, communications and business leadership. She specializes on educational platforms and programs that can bring change and purpose to individuals and organizations through holistic and human development tools. Ileana has developed her own coaching style based on movement, inquiry and mindfulness known as “Holistic Life Coaching". She is a lover of philanthropy and teamwork, I sees herself as a game changer. Her purpose it to build emotional self-sustaining communities and reach as many organizations through mindfulness, yoga and inquiry coaching individuals to fulfil their life’s purpose through happiness.  

Mayte Boullosa
mayte@innerland.com

Mayte is a practicing philosopher from Universidad Iberoamericana and a coach. Every time Mayte steps in front of a broken glass, she will have a tremendous urge to do something to repair it, to bring it to its original state, to understand and reconstruct it. In the same way, she appreciates her own transformational process deeply. If a stressful thought appears, she knows that the best possible option is through inquiry. She offers IBC as a bridge that will take you back to yourself, to your true home and will make you experience the clarity and humility necessary to love your life.

Dr. Arezky Hernández
arezky@innerland.com

Arezky was born in Havana, Cuba, and emigrated to México in 2004. He has also lived in other 3 different countries. He received a Ph.D. degree in Quantum Physics in 2004 and since then he has worked as a professor and researcher in different universities around the world. He has also made intense studies and practices of zen Buddhism for more than 6 years on the Buddhist Society for Compassionate Wisdom. He has made studies and has got certifications in Ontology Coaching from Ontology Training Institute in México and Inquiry-Based Coaching. Arezky has created "Agricultura Del Ser", a personal project to help people find peace and happiness using the Direct Path (Advaita), meditation practices, and self-inquiry.​ He also owns a podcast entitled "Conversaciones De Luz". You can find more of his work at https://arezkyhernandez.com

Eduardo Cárdenas
eduardo@innerland.com

With the idea of supporting the existence of equality and justice in society, I studied Law. Professionally, life led me to work in public administration. And while that professional life was happening, I felt a void in my personal life. I reconnect with myself, thanks to the fact that I understood that my thoughts provoked negative emotions, as well as stories that I made of situations that had not even happened. This I learned and recognized by studying how to inquire about my thoughts. As the years passed and after studying Yoga, Meditation, and Coaching, I decided to start sharing it with people and help them to accept themselves and to unblock those thoughts or limiting beliefs. This led me to create YoguiPanda, a platform to share through workshops, and courses. It also informs and publicize various holistic tools through interviews called: Sharing the Bamboo.

Angie Rodriguez
zzemillas@gmail.com

Angie loves the depths of Life in every matter and loves to coexist with Nature and Animals. She met Tania Fierro at a weekend retreat in Playa del Carmen and got to experience IBC for herself and those around her, that moment she knew it was a treasure for deeply connecting with Love and decided to experience the adventure. For Angie IBC became a definite path that can offer infinite possibilities to her. With IBC she discovered how guided and protected she has always been throughout her entire life. Now she can see it much clearer and feels deeply loved by Life. By using IBC she has experienced extended periods of calmness in her body and in her entire being, not just as a thought. This calmness has touched all her relationships allowing a more loving connection overall. Angie studied Hotel Management and has two Hotels in Riviera Maya Mexico. Hotel la Semilla and Villa la Semilla, she created and decorated with her husband.

Ana Lourdes Zamora
analourdez@yahoo.com

Passionate about finding inner peace, she immerses herself in search of different methodologies finding in IBC incredible benefits of the work of introspection connected with deep love; finding and achieving understanding, acceptance, and respect for herself. IBC changed her way of perceiving the circumstances of the past and present, from a space where she conceives that guilt and judgment have no place, thus, she continues to open her mind to a universe of challenges that she makes space for, integrates, and moves towards opportunities for harmony. A certified coach, she helps clients to live the experience of inner work. Convinced that the opportunities to support and create a more integrated world are infinite, she is currently working on her dream of creating a space where healing methodologies are combined and integrated with painting, music, design, and physical activities. She holds a Private Pilot's license, a Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, and a Master's degree in Business Administration; professionally she has achieved business growth of up to 25% through the development of creative sales and marketing campaigns and is versatile in English and French.

Dr. Lara Patriquin 
lara@innerland.com

Lara is a physician, speaker and mindfulness teacher in New Mexico. Her personal quest for well being is informed by her medical studies on the brain and on the nature of thought. She lectures extensively in the medical and business communities about the value of clear and reliable practices that optimize key functions of the mind. Through mindfulness practices, Lara's clients are able to access a creative, kinder and more inspired version of themselves. Dr. Patriquin completed her residency at Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA before moving on to a Clinical Instructor at Harvard Medical School. Her research experience and publications focus on MRI imaging for which she received the Roentgen Research Prize from the Radiological Society of North America.

Dr. Ian Paul
ian@innerland.com

Ian received his undergraduate degree from the George Washington University and his medical degree from McGill University Faculty of Medicine in Montreal, Canada. He completed an internal medicine internship year at Brown University, an emergency medicine residency at the Boston Medical Center, a pathology residency at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA, and a one-year fellowship in forensic pathology at the NM Office of the Medical Investigator in Albuquerque, NM.Ian is board certified in Emergency Medicine by the American Board of Emergency Medicine and in Forensic & Anatomic Pathology by the American Board of Pathology. 

Anne Wennerstrand, MS
awenner@optonline.net

Anne is a life-long meditator and dancer who now practices as a licensed psychotherapist and coach in New York. Her work is deeply informed by mindfulness, inquiry and embodiment practices. She has over 20 years of experience working collaboratively with adolescents and adults struggling with issues related to body image and eating problems, anxiety and depression. She is thrilled to be integrating Inquiry-Based Coaching (IBC) into her practice. Anne is on the Board of Directors of The Women’s Therapy Centre Institute in New York City and faculty/co-director of clinical training there. Her writing has been published in many professional journals, magazines, and books including the Encyclopedia of Mind-Body Disciplines. She is currently coordinator of The Spokesperson Program for Innerland (North America).