Joy is the co-founder of the Educating the Heart and Mind Center, dedicated to cultivating common human values and interdependence through Social, Emotional, and Ethical (SEE) Learning in Indonesia. As an educator, counselor, and coach, she supports the well-being of children, parents, and teachers, especially those facing diverse learning or emotional challenges. Joy integrates mindfulness, compassion-based approaches, and somatic practices to create safe, inclusive spaces for growth. She also leads educator training programs and community-based initiatives in both South Korea and Indonesia. With a warm and practical approach, Joy is committed to fostering resilient, compassionate communities that flourish through inner strength and shared humanity.

Gabor Detari is a software engineer with 20 years of experience, having worked with leading companies such as Toyota, Bank of America, Nokia, GM, and Apple. He holds a master’s degree in Computer Science and has spent the past decade in technical leadership roles. He is passionate about education, mental health, and designing systems and architectures that positively impact the well-being of humanity. Gabor is currently enrolled at Emory University CBCT® (Cognitively-Based Compassion Training) to support his commitment to fostering well being for humanity.

Chelsea was born in Haiti and raised in New York, where she earned a Bachelor’s in science and a Master’s in special education. She spent ten years in education, teaching grades 7–12 in New York public and charter schools before moving to the Middle East as head of the English department. A trained yoga teacher (RYT-500), Chelsea has a deep passion for yoga and the Dharma. She is currently enrolled in the Nalanda Diploma Master’s Course with Tibet House in India and Emory University CBCT (Cognitvely-Based Compassion Training) furthering her studies and personal practice. Chelsea dedicates her time to ensuring that values of awareness, compassion, and engagement flourishes in Indonesia and beyond. Her work bridges education, mindfulness, and social-emotional learning to help create a more compassionate and happy world. Chelsea is a certified L1 SEE learning facilitator. 

Ina was Born in Tabanan, Bali, she is a single mother with a background in psychology, meditation, and healing. She has managed holistic clinics, run a retreat center, and now works as a freelance therapist and life coach. Passionate about social work, she has been a behavioral therapist, special needs teacher, and arts and crafts instructor for Balinese children. Through Solemen Foundation, she has supported underprivileged children across Bali. Currently, she teaches English at a local learning center. She is a lead facilitator for the SEE learning Indonesia initiative and the first certified Balinese SEE learning facilitator. For her, SEE is about change—challenging societal views on women, education, and compassion in Bali. She hopes it empowers children and women to think and live differently for a better future. Ina is a certified L1 SEE learning facilitator. 

Akia is from Miami, Florida, United States. As a child she used her creativity to plant seeds of beauty around herself while being raised in an underprivileged community. Her creativity and her childhood led her to being a multidisciplinary designer and wellness facilitator with a background in creative direction, fashion, and product development, graduating from the Fashion Institute of Technology and working in the fashion industry in New York City for International companies like Macy’s Inc. Her childhood environment also led her to having a deep curiosity and appreciation for culture, healing, wellness, and travel, which led her to countries like Indonesia, India, Mexico, several countries in Africa to study wellness through a holistic lens. Today, she bridges her experiences and skills in design, travel, and well-being into creating physical products, digital tools, and immersive experiences that support emotional resilience, mental clarity, and everyday healing. Akia is currently enrolled at Emory University CBCT®️ (Cognitively-Based Compassion Training) to support her vision of using education as medicine for healing the heart and mind. Through her own dedicated practice, she has developed a strong conviction that these teachings are the medicine that can truly heal the heart and mind. “How different would my life have been if I had SEE Learning as a child?” is the qeustion that makes this work so meaningful to Akia.

Dr. Kristina Mah is an artist, movement practitioner, transdisciplinary researcher and educator. Her work explores how to more deeply understand somatic attunement and embodied ways of knowing, develop ways of supporting empathy and compassion through design, and explore how empathy emerges through resonance or play in diverse environments and communities. She is interested in the integration of ancient wisdom, contemplative, somatic or movement-based knowledge-making into research and practice. Her creative practice questions notions of self and transformation, by exploring relationalities between the time, space and bodies.

I am an educator who teaches English in secondary level in the bilingual school and I am deeply committed to supporting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly Quality Education and Climate Action. I regularly participate in volunteer initiatives aimed at increasing access to quality education and preserving the environment. In addition to teaching and volunteering, I did linguistic research and became co-authored for a few books.

Hi, I’m Sezka. I began my professional path as a consultant, supporting corporations with strategy and operations. Teaching and sharing knowledge always lit something up in me. Being around children and their endless curiosity brings me so much joy. I deeply resonate with SEE Learning as it offers the kind of wisdom and mindfulness that I wish had been taught to all of us growing up, especially in this fast-paced world. It brings us back to what truly matters. I’m grateful to be part of bringing this curriculum to Indonesia.