Inner Bonding Facilitator Training Program - Staff

Grace Escaip

Director of Training & Lead Trainer

Grace is trained in Rogerian person-centered, humanistic and Gestalt psychotherapy, specializing in adults, couples, symptoms and adolescents, floral therapy, STEP guide, focusing, expressive rhythmic movement and therapeutic massage. When she discovered Inner Bonding, she felt an immediate connection with its principles and integration of spirituality. She began to immerse herself in the work of Inner Bonding, read books, took intensives and workshops, eventually assisting Margaret Paul at Intensives and becoming an Inner Bonding Facilitator. Grace has led Inner Bonding Workshops and Intensives, has served as an IBFTP trainer since 2019, and is the Associate Director of Expansion at Inner Bonding Educational Technologies, Inc. 

Victor Granville

Lead Trainer

Victor is a Certified Relationship Coach, Advanced Human Behaviour Consultant, Certified NLP Practitioner, and author of 3 books. Along with an academic background in Psychology, Victor has trained extensively in Nonviolent Communication. He discovered Inner Bonding in 2012 and experienced true transformation for himself and his clients through applying its cohesive and efficient 6 Step process and principles. Deeply inspired with Inner Bonding, he worked personally with Dr. Margaret Paul and has assisted her on numerous Intensives. Victor was the first Certified Inner Bonding Facilitator to graduate from the 16-month IBFTP and was also the first IB Facilitator in the UK. In addition to being an IBFTP Trainer, Victor leads Inner Bonding Weekend Workshops and offers private coaching. Victor’s passion, sensitivity, keen attunement and deep empathy help him do the work he so deeply loves - helping others evolve their being in love beyond the wounded patterns that many of us have learned and absorbed over time.

Sylvia Poareo

Trainer

Sylvia Poareo is a gentle Curandera/Consejera (healer/spiritual counselor) whose work is rooted in guiding each individual in their own liberation within collective healing. She has been transformed by and practiced Inner Bonding for nearly 30 years and feels immensely blessed to have the honor of sharing this powerful process with many. Sylvia has a deep understanding of generational trauma, navigating the system (family incarceration, foster care), racial and social justice. She earned a Master’s Degree in Social Welfare at UCLA, is a certified Transpersonal Counselor and Facilitator of TRE (Tension and Trauma Release Exercises) integrating mind, body and spirit. She is known for her ability to weave Inner Bonding with ancestral, somatic and earth connection processes to help us reclaim ourselves and remember the deep peace, wholeness and joy that is our birthright.

Karen Kral, MA, LPC

IBFTP Program Developer & Lead Trainer

Karen is a licensed psychotherapist in Colorado with a background in transpersonal psychotherapy, psychodrama and mindfulness, and has been a Certified Facilitator of Inner Bonding since 2004.  She developed the IBFTP with the assistance of Dr. Margaret Paul, and is a fun, dynamic, compassionate trainer who provides an interactive learning environment. Karen will join parts of the face-to-face training modules to work with the training program group using Inner Bonding in Action, a modality she developed which combines Inner Bonding with Psychodrama, Gestalt Therapy and Playback Theatre

Stel Fine, MA

Senior Director of Training

Stel is a Certified Inner Bonding Facilitator with a Master's Degree in Spiritual Psychology. Her life purpose is to help people learn how to stop causing themselves needless suffering and restriction - freeing them up to become loving, whole and fulfilled. She is a dynamic and compassionate trainer who is devoted to supporting the IBFTP participants. She is also the Director of Expansion at Inner Bonding Educational Technologies, Inc.

If you have questions about the IBFTP, please contact Stel directly at ibftp@innerbonding.com.

Michael Barmak, MSW, LCSW, ORDM

Lead Trainer

Michael is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in New Jersey and an ordained minister through The Association for the Integration of the Whole Person.  Michael began practicing Inner Bonding in 1994, was certified as an Inner Bonding Facilitator in 2001, and was a trainer during the inaugural Inner Bonding Facilitator Training Program in 2017-18 and a Co-Lead Trainer in the following program.  Michael is also a certified Imago Relationship Therapist and was profiled as a couples therapy expert on the acclaimed PBS-TV series Real Moms, Real Stories, Real Savvy.  Michael has co-led the East Coast Inner Bonding Intensive and assisted Dr. Margaret Paul at her numerous trainings.  Michael is in private practice in New Jersey.  In Michael’s teaching, he embraces his three favorite ‘Ls’:  learning, laughter and love.