About Beth Berila, Ph.D.
Coach, consultant, and educator supporting changemakers ready for deep & sustainable transformations.
Embodied Leadership, Coach, DEIBJ/SOcial Justice Consultant, & Inclusive Facilitator
I am committed to living joyfully and with integrity.
Coach, consultant, and educator supporting changemakers ready for deep & sustainable transformations.
As someone who is both marginalized and privileged, I understand the importance of healing from the harmful impacts of oppression while also accounting for and dismantling my complicity in privilege. I identify as a Queer cisgender white woman who is currently middle-class and able-bodied. I come from strong blue-collar roots, from Polish aunts who made pierogies in church basements and German roots in Iowa farmers. I live with my wife and two kitties in Minneapolis.
MY TRANSFORMATIONAL JOURNEY
I embarked on my own transformational journey many years ago, and it has been a rich, amazing, but often challenging path. Though your lived experience will be different from mine, my personal insights can help us learn how to navigate these parallel yet intersecting paths with grace, humor, and dedication.
ICF ACC-Accredited Coach
500-hour Yoga Teacher Training certification
Somatics, mindfulness, and yoga practitioner
Published author & speaker
Expertise + Background
I have the experience, knowledge, and expertise to support you in your journey toward living more fully and leading more equitably.
I’m a director and full professor at St. Cloud University, leading change through courses such as Feminist Leadership and Applied Feminisms. I’ve facilitated anti-racism and equity training and workshops and served as a consultant in transforming organizations toward anti-racism vision and practice. I provide group and individual coaching in embodied leadership and equity.
Full Professor, Ethnic, Gender, & Women’s Studies Department
Organization Development Consulting and Change Leadership certification, Georgetown University
Director, Gender & Women’s Studies Program
Things I love
What brings me joy
Supporting leaders to live the life they want to live
Beauty in nature and the world around me
Oceans – the beauty of light shining on the water
Spending time with my friends and kitties
The creativity and insight of other social justice leaders
More about beth
Writing & Speaking
Radiating Feminism: Resilience Practices to Transform Our Inner & Outer Lives (Routledge 2020) is designed to support change-makers to more skillfully navigate the complex journey of living their political values
Integrating Mindfulness into Anti-Oppression Pedagogy: Social Justice in Higher Education, was published by Routledge in 2016; 2nd edition in 2023.
Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis, with Melanie Klein and Chelsea Jackson Roberts, Ph.D. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016)
TedxStCloud speaker: Check out my talk, The Unexpected Bridge to Connection
My current projects merge somatics, mindfulness, social justice leadership, and transformational coaching to create a form of socially engaged embodied leadership.
Trainings and/or certifications
Somatics: Generative Somatics T1 & T2, Somatic Experiencing (Beginning & Intermediate levels), Power of Embodied Transformation (Coaches Rising), Strozzi somatic bodywork, and other courses.
Coaching: Deep Coaching Intensive (The Center for Transformational Coaching); Coacharya’s Coaching Foundation course (Ontology); Coacharya’s Group Coaching Training, Center for Holding Space Holding Space Foundation Program; Leadership Challenge Coach & Facilitator who can administer the 360 Assessment tool; Certificate in Organization Development Consulting and Change Leadership with Georgetown University
Yoga: Accessible Yoga Teacher Training, Adaptive Yoga Teacher Training I & II (Mind Body Solutions); Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Training (Firefly Yoga International); Restorative Yoga, 340-hour Yoga, and Ayurveda Specialist Training with Devanadi Yoga, 200-hour yoga teacher training with Kirk Yoga, Curvy Yoga training
Let’s Connect
Are you ready to create more equity and justice in your world?
What you do in the world isn’t just a job, it’s a part of you. You care about others and want to live with purpose. You’re working hard to unlearn all the limiting beliefs that society has taught you, and are ready to lead the change toward a fairer world.
Whether you are seeking personal coaching, coaching & consulting help as a leader on an organizational level, or want to promote awareness and understanding of social justice issues, I can help.
I use my deep expertise and years of experience combined with mindfulness and somatics to help with unlearning and healing from oppression in order to co-create individual and collective liberation.
