Who We Are

In 2007 Radical Aliveness began collaborating with the courageous women of Together Beyond Words, an organization that empowers and train Israelis and Palestinians in skills that promote a culture of peace.. For 17 years the organizations worked together holding meetings in Israel and the US for Israeli Jews, and Palestinians from within Israel and the West Bank.

The Radical Aliveness Peace Building program is the natural outgrowth and next step of this work. It promotes peace building, dialogue, and the healing needed to support powerful leaders who can bring this work out to the world.

Radical Aliveness

For the past 22 years the Radical Aliveness Institute has been working with and training passionate, curious, somatic healers and leaders. Radical Aliveness is a way of working with human beings, groups, and organizations that is based on a foundation of principles. It works with all levels of the human experience – the body, emotions, expression, movement, sensations, thoughts, beliefs, spirit, culture, and systems.

The goal is to support human beings to know and accept themselves fully so that they can navigate from the here and now with choice rather than history, empowered to fully bring their gifts to life by remaining present and aware.

  • Ann Bradney

    Ann Bradney founded and directed the Radical Aliveness Institute, a 4-year professional program based in Los Angeles. In the 1990s she studied under Core Energetics pioneer John Pierrakos, and served on the faculty at the Core Energetics Institute in New York until 2002. She has directed the Radical Aliveness Institute for 15 years, co-directed the International Radical Aliveness Practitioner Program in Nairobi, Kenya, for 6 years, and now leads the Radical Aliveness Peace Leadership Program for Jews and Palestinians in Israel and Palestine.

    Ann developed the original concepts and practices of Radical Aliveness over the past 20 years. Her innovative approach to working with individuals and groups expands beyond the realm of psychology and personal issues to address community healing and systemic issues with the vision of creating a more just world.

  • Sylvia Marjeyeh

    An Arab Israeli Palestinian from Jafa of Nazareth, Sylvia is a social worker and group facilitator by profession. She has a Master’s Degree in Policy and Public Administration from the University of Haifa – Executive MPA. She worked with Together Beyond Words in 2002 and has since led many groups of Jews and Palestinians.

    During the last 20 years, she has held a number of management positions in the areas of social care, leadership development and team building with a variety of audiences: children, adults, the elderly, and people with special needs. Her expertise is in teaching skills that develop the emotional and mental abilities to provide a safe space for multiculturalism, and the ability to hold complexity, conflict, chaos and uncertainty in ways that promote healing.

  • Dror Zohar

    Dror is a student of life living in Adama Ecovillage in north Israel. He is a generalist with diverse background in facilitation and teaching, design and development.

    Dror’s fields of interest include personal development, meditation, therapy, yoga, dance, peace and activism, ecology, decentralized governance and ecovillage building. He is the founder of ICIF - the International Israeli Contact Improvisation Festival, and of Cacao Tivy - a health food trading company.

    Dror has been working with Ann Bradney in Radical Aliveness since 2018, adding to his existing base of NVC, Sociocracy, and other therapeutic and communication modalities.