CO-DIRECTORS

Shawn Stevens is an enrolled member of the Stockbridge Munsee Band of Mohicans, whose ancestral homelands are the Berkshires, including the entire Hudson Valley. Shawn is a Mohican cultural educator, artist, musician, and ceremonial helper, who has been speaking and teaching in the Berkshires for the last twenty years. Apart from his beautiful artwork, which can be found in all 50 states and 14 countries, he is also a traditional storyteller, drummer, dancer, singer, flute player, as well as an ordained minister of the Universal Church of Light and a certified facilitator of White Bison’s Mending Broken Hearts.

Lev Natan is a proud husband and father, and lives with his family in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts. Since 2010, Lev has been catalyzing breakthroughs for changemakers, as a leadership coach, organizational consultant, men’s group facilitator, & sound healer.  He founded AVF in 2018 as the breakthrough project in his MA in Organizational Leadership.  Lev is also certified as an Integrative Sound and Music Practitioner and Empowerment Life Coach.  Lev was raised in the Jewish tradition; his ancestors come from Kiev & Odesa in the Ukraine; and he sustains his connection to the lineage of Kabbalah, Chasidut and Jewish mysticism. He also practices the indigenous ceremonial way of life; including sundance, vision quest, and sweat lodge.