INEI-RE LEADERSHIP TEAM

Kathy (Bandhu) Morter

Bandhu (Sanskrit for “friend” or “kin”) has unerringly been led to study with Elle since the first moment she heard her speak. What began as an inner prompting continues to unfold as a part in the greatest show on earth: learning to show up as Love, always.

Her enthusiasm for experiencing others’ true nature, and her gift for bringing harmony, fueled her 25-year career as a service-leader with the US Forest Service. She continues to bring her passion for inspiring respectful dialogue and practical altruism to many community ventures. She is an outspoken and engaged advocate for synergistic democracy.

Bandhu has served as president of INEI-RE’s board of directors since 2004.

Sor'a Garrett

Sor’a has been one of Elle’s students since 1995, after her creative visionary and highly purposeful nature guided her to step more firmly onto the path of Unity… even though she had no idea that was what she was doing at the time! After several years of allowing these teachings to stabilize and enrich her personal life, Sor’a became part of the INEI-RE leadership team. She has served as president and executive director, and is currently focusing her service toward creating inspirational products & books from these teachings.

Sor’a is a serial creator, accessing her visionary & integrative skills to inspire and ignite individual and collective potential. Her website: The Service Connection, a shared leadership and social giving program for women, offers an experience of unity-based leadership while creating solutions to real world issues.

Of her work within this community, Sor'a reflects, “Here, I’ve found what I didn’t even know I was looking for…acceptance of my true nature, an abiding Love that is beyond anything I’ve ever known, deep understanding of how important it is for each of us to show up in our fullness. I am so grateful to be serving as a catalyst for Elle’s teachings to reach others.”

Tsilla Brafman

"My own quest for spiritual awareness emanates from the biblical instruction I received as a child growing up in Israel. With no television around, the bible stories became our way of learning about the world. The characters, their conflicts, the way they related to others, their faith, their doubts—these all mirrored what I believed each one of us was feeling in different ways.

"Torah teachings inspired me to delve into modern law and I become an attorney. Upon arriving to the United States, over 20 years ago, I gladly accepted a teaching position at the local day school. Within a month, I realized that teaching was my calling in life and immediately started my MA in Education program, which I completed 18 months later. Judaism allowed me the opportunity to engage in spiritual work with my students. When a child’s soul is being recognized, when it is being nurtured, then the opportunity for personal growth is maximized."

Printer Bowler

"I’m here because Elle and Michael are among the few souls I absolutely trust as pure spiritual keepers of the Word and all that implies. For two decades I’ve seen Elle’s divine authority and absolute integrity awaken and guide innumerable souls with her transforming Love, each according to our ability and willingness to receive. Elle brings us to recognize that we are God consciousness, to know our own Selves and act as divine beings.

"A long career in wordsmithing now has me teaching journalism part-time (editing and publications design) at the University of Montana in Missoula. I’ve written several books, my favorite being 'The Cosmic Laws of Golf (and everything else)', a testament to the fact that we have discovered aliens on this planet and they are us. I also help others by editing and designing their works for publication.

"Communications is my passion. I am increasingly aware that its root is “communion,” finding unity in compassion (as opposed to throwing data darts at each other).  I feel a relentless compulsion to distill—info, ideas, plans, etc.—down to the nubbins. Get to the nut of things as quickly as possible and launch from there. I’m also on a global mission to eliminate words like consumer, problem and a legion of other clichés from common usage.  It’ll never happen, but the joy is in the campaign not the result. Just as Elle’s campaign to help all souls find freedom-in-love and worthy uses for it, the joy is in the journey. I wish everyone a bountiful Bon Voyage to all our now’s."

Peggy Magilen

"The greatest gift I am learning to offer is an emptying of myself, free to be aligned with Love and the Divine in others...to bring forth what is to be.  My particular background of being a teacher, and organizer of fairly large events, seems to lend itself well to coordinating the exacting moment, focus or details which open opportunities for the Divine to create here in our endeavors. 

"As a leadership team member, it is exciting to be within this Union of interaction, discovering what ways we can enlarge our vision and manifestations without altering the purity of our sacred connection, sourced in Oneness.

"I am truly grateful for the transformation Elle is bringing to my life."

Michael Friend

"All my life -- even at an early age -- I felt there was more to who we are. Elle is the first teacher I have ever known who could take me to a fuller understanding and a clearer, more centered realization of Source. "

 Michael has been a writer, filmmaker, journalist and teacher. He has a BS in Journalism and an MS in Education. In addition to serving on the leadership team as secretary/treasurer, he is also assistant director of INEI-RE.

"Through Elle I have come to a better understanding that support of this work and the growth of spirit in everyone is the answer I have been seeking."