AHBI Staff Members

Kenneth (Ken) Edwin Sloan was born in 1946 in Decatur, Texas, USA. He has been Executive Director of AHBI since January of 2010, and has responsibility for day-to-day operations and projects at AHBI. He has been a member of AHBI since 1990 and served as Secretary of AHBI from 2004 through October of 2008, then as President until the end of 2009. Ken was certified for Holotropic Breathwork facilitation in 1997 and lives in Steinen, Germany, in the southwest corner of the Black Forest with his partner Petra, their two daughters, and Nemo the dog. Since 1998 Ken and Petra (who is also certified in Holotropic Breathwork) have given regular residential Holotropic Breathwork weekend workshops and sometimes longer retreats in their home which doubles as a Buddhist retreat center. Ken and Petra have been trained and certified by Albrecht Mahr (Institute for Systemic and Integrative Solutions in Wuerzburg, Germany) to lead systems constellations. They offer systemic constellation workshops in Germany and Switzerland focused on the relationship between people and nature as well as sometimes using systemic constellations as a support for integration after Holotropic Breathwork.

Alysson Troffer began her tenure as editor of The Inner Door in June 2007. She has a bachelor’s degree in psychobiology from Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania and a master’s degree in English from Northern Arizona University. She is certified in Integrative Breathwork (a technique similar to Holotropic Breathwork) and is seeking certification in Holotropic Breathwork through Grof Transpersonal Training. Alysson is also certified in Somatic Archaeology, which involves unearthing and healing the history in the body. As with both techniques of breathwork, Somatic Archaeology accesses non-ordinary states of consciousness for the purpose of healing. During her day job, Alysson is a technical editor at Oracle, where she edits software documentation. She lives with her husband, Tim, and their German Shepherd, Chili, in the foothills of the Colorado Rocky Mountains at the gloriously high altitude of 9,100 feet.

Brian Bauer has been participating in Holotropic Breathwork since 1997 and has completed several training modules. He is responsible for the AHBI Office including AHBI membership, renewals, payment processing and printing and shipping of the Inner Door journal. Since the new online community has become available Brian has been playing a key roll in keeping the community supported. Brian is a Reiki Master Teacher, mentored by John Harvey Gray, the longest-practicing Reiki Master in the West; and a meditation instructor in Transcendental Medtitation and Vipassana. He regularly assists in Holotropic Breathwork workshops in New England. He prefers red wines, men with mustaches, Macintosh computers, quirky independent movies and science fiction. He lives in Somerville, Mass.