The Connection Institute

Peter Will Benjamin, is a professional coach, trainer and facilitator. He is also an intimacy junkie, community builder and the founder of The Connection Institute -- an organization that teaches emotional and relational intelligence.

Through coaching, classes, and workshops, Peter's clients learn to be more resilient, deepen their relationship with themselves, and develop their authentic communication skills. Outside of work, Peter enjoys contact improv, partner dancing and cooking delicious food.

On a mission to bring people closer, Fei Wyatt has dedicated her life and work to learning and teaching about connection. Authenticity, vulnerability, non-judgment, and ownership are some of Fei’s core values that she brings to this practice. Her primary work as a cuddle therapist and intimacy coach has been deeply enriched by circling (and vice versa). Fei brings her appetite for relational exploration to her work with individuals, groups & professionals, helping them deepen their relationship with themselves and others. You’ll find her facilitating connection everywhere she goes, but most particularly in Los Angeles, CA where she is based.

Mark Boughton has been studying communication skills and the psychology of relationships and interpersonal dynamics for over a decade. By the time he was twenty two, he had worked, traveled or volunteered on every continent of the globe, and had discovered a deep passion for understanding people. He stumbled upon Circling eight years ago, immediately fell in love with the practice, and has been facilitating and teaching relational practice ever since. He also works doing coaching and counseling with couples and individuals looking to create more deep and intimate romantic relationships.

Sophie is an enthusiast, project catalyst and vision doula, and purveyor of experiences. She studied Theatre Arts, at the University of Oregon, specifically immersive and site-specific work that breaks with audience expectations, and trained in group facilitation under Dr. Hazel-Grace Yates, Sara Ness, and Jason Digges.

Meditation, exquisitely supportive relationships, Authentic Relating, and Circling practices have expanded her capacity to hold more complexity, and her desire is to usher in more of this richness, joy, and honesty in relationship with self and others.