Sandy Wiggins

I started my adult life in a monastery. I went in the front door and out the back. Then I went to university to study Physics and Philosophy, and then, through a series of what I now consider synchronicities, ended up in the business world. After two-decades as a development and construction executive, I had an epiphany regarding the destructive impacts of that industry and pivoted to large scale systems change. I poured energy into advancing public policy, building market-based strategies, advocating for regulatory changes, writing op-eds, educating, public speaking, and protesting… all focused on addressing the mounting poly-crisis in which we, the human family, find ourselves embroiled.

Along the way, I slowly came to the realization that none of it was going to work… that the only path to truly addressing these issues was inward. For the world to change we have to evolve. We must undergo a fundamental shift in consciousness. I also had the privilege of holding front-row seats to large-scale movements where I observed that the motive force driving those movements was an inner transformation taking place in thousands of people. Like me, their participation often sparked a new sense of meaning, a deepening connection to each other and the rest of life and launched them on an inward journey.

It is the inward journey that catalyzes outward change. It is the inward journey that is the answer to the crises of our time. It is the inward journey that is also what existence is all about… what evolution is all about… what life is all about.

Today, I facilitate breathwork with individuals and groups around the globe, and, with a group of wonderful collaborators, design and facilitate experiential workshops, communities of practice, and retreats focused on personal transformation, healing, and the evolution of consciousness.

I trained in Integrative Breathwork with Jessica Dibb at Inspiration Consciousness School, and I trained in Grof (holotropic) Breathwork with Stan Grof and Neil Hanon at Grof® Psychedelic and Breathwork Training Academy (the Canadian arm of Grof® Legacy Training). I have studied, practiced, and taught meditation for over 45 years, including Vipassana, Transcendental Meditation and TM Siddhis, Zen, and Kriya Yoga. I also studied Archetypal Patterns at the Assisi Institute and trained with the Enneagram Institute.

I also support Future Tide Partners, a nonprofit effort focused on equipping individuals and institutions to shift consciousness, culture and capital toward an inclusive and flourishing future. And I am a collaborator and educator with The Choosing Earth Project, whose mission is to catalyze personal and societal awakening to the critical challenges to humanity’s future and to foster a relational consciousness grounded in our connection with a Living Universe.

In the past, I also served as Sr. Advisor to RSF Social Finance where I focused on field-building activity in emergent systems and founded the Local Economy Foundation Circle, a community of practice to support leaders of philanthropies working to transition their endowments to mission-aligned investments. I also launched a Conscious Finance initiative, which focused on the power of inner transformation as the means to alter the way that money works in the world. I served for a decade as Chair of BALLE (now Common Future), and I was the Chair of the U.S. Green Building Council, Founding Chair of Green Business Certification Institute, and Founding Chair of the Philadelphia-based Green Building United.