Atom Terpening is a collaborative independent systems analysis consultant, conscious business coach/advisor, writer/poet, restorative circle, and sociocratic circle facilitator. He has 25+ years’ of left-brain experience in technology ‘management’ up to the CIO level, Agile Development Technology; product/program development; and organizational process modeling. Atom has 15+ years of right-brain and heart coherence work in collaborative social architecture/team building, awareness practices, vision/wisdom circle processes, sacred site tours, intentional group field resonance, and energy work. He has written, spoken, and taught courses in Mindfulness, Heartfulness, Sociocracy, Conscious Evolution, and Conscious Leadership. 

Atom’s non-profit/conscious work includes IT Director/Advisor/Coach for an intentional community and retreat conference center, Sunrise Ranch; Video Production and conscious content course creation for Humanity’s Team Conscious Business efforts; as well as a two-year co-creation with Barbara Marx Hubbard Conscious Evolution intensives and on-line communities. He has been an IT advisor for the Alliance for Unitive Justice, The Training Institute Leader for a Sociocracy training organization, Governance Alive, and many start-up ‘businesses for good’. Atom received his Bachelor of Science from William James College and performed Master of Systems work at the University of Denver, and was trained in Heartmath, Shamata/Vipassana meditation instruction, energy Attunement Practices, as well as Unitive Principles, Sociocratic Circle Facilitation, and Restorative Circle Reflective Listening techniques. He is a graduate of Humanity’s Team Conscious Business Change Agent training and a member of the Conscious Leadership group.