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Marissa Afton
ZIP Facilitator
Prior to joining the North American office of Sentis, Marissa worked as a counseling psychologist in Longmont, Colorado. There, she provided psychological services to groups, adults, couples, and families, along with play therapy for children. Marissa’s work also included intakes of new clients, performing psychological assessments of existing clients, and training of new therapists. Coinciding with this, Marissa also worked as a guidance counselor for at-risk youth and assisted in providing equine therapy to teens at several ranches in Colorado.
Originally from New York City, Marissa's previous psychological experience includes working on a crisis and suicide hot-line, co-facilitating self-empowerment workshops, and initiating a women’s support group.
Marissa is a former teacher with experience working at international schools in India, Austria, the United Kingdom, and the United States. She brings her passion for travel and education, along with her experience providing cognitive-behavioral counseling, to her work as a facilitator of ZIP programs at Sentis.
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Melanie Flanders
Embedding Manager
Prior to joining Sentis, Melanie worked in higher education helping design and deliver leadership and organizational development programs to University faculty, administrators, employees and student groups. Melanie completed her undergraduate degree in Psychology in the U.S. at the University of Montana and both her Master’s and Doctoral degrees in School Psychology at the University of Missouri – Columbia. In 2004, Melanie worked as a Research Fellow of the Imagination Lab in Switzerland. Her work explored the application of Lego Serious Play to the development of practical wisdom. Melanie’s doctoral research focused on competency modeling in higher education. She has published several articles on consulting psychology and presented at a number of national conferences. Melanie serves on the Board of the Society of Consulting Psychology (Division 13 of the American Psychological Association) and will be co-chairing their annual conference in 2009. Melanie has spent time living abroad in both Costa Rica and Spain, studying the Spanish language and psychology. She has a passion for travel, cultural learning and being active outside.
Melanie has enjoyed facilitating ZIP as a process that empowers individuals to take control of their safety and wellbeing, often resulting in a cultural shift across the organization. In early 2009, Melanie moved to the Sentis Group Office as a Product Developer for our Embedding processes.
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Humberto Marín
ZIP Facilitator
Humberto comes to Sentis with a wide breath of experience. Working as a research consultant for the Ministry of the Interior in Santiago Chile, he has initiated and delivered multiple courses and seminars around the world that focus on Human Behavior before, during and after an emergency. He has experience in working with the Santiago Fire brigade and developed training programs for chemical, mining, highway and telecom companies located throughout South America and Europe. A series of past positions have allowed for a firm grasp on Human Behaviour with an emphasis on Risk Reduction, Emergency Responders and Training.
Humberto currently holds a Masters Degree in Mental Health from the Complutensian University of Madrid, Spain with an additional emphasis of Emergency Management and Risk Assessment. He is a certificated Instructor by the OFDA (USA) for Fire Fighter Brigades, currently working on his PhD in Social Psychology and resides in Santiago, Chile.
He has a passion for travel, immersing himself within the local people and their culture and currently serves as a volunteer fire fighter for the Santiago Fire Department. Humberto brings to Sentis a variety of experience with various work force cultures and people to assist in further enhancing the effectiveness of ZIP.
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David Musgrave
ZIP Facilitator
Before joining Sentis, David used his training as a Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapist in supervising and managing residential treatment facilities providing service to children, youth, and their families, who were experiencing psychological or psychiatric disorders. Additionally, he was able to make use of his industrial/organizational psychology training to assist his employer by developing innovative programming and a healthy organizational culture. David has several years of experience in working with individuals and groups in providing skills training, program development and marketing, management, team development, formal and informal psychometric assessment, recruitment and selection, and working alliance stakeholder development.
David began his Sentis journey in 2006, applying his knowledge of the brain, and his adult education and organizational development skills, within the context of workplace safety facilitation and organizational safety culture development. He has facilitated ZIP programs throughout Australia developing working alliances within the aluminium smelting, and commercial explosives industries. Within Canada and the United States he delivers ZIP programs within the open-cut and underground diamond, coal, copper, & iron ore mining industries, commercial construction, and to contractors providing services within these industries. In addition to his professional role, David also extends his knowledge and skills regarding the brain and human behavior to provide public service, offering pro bono public speaking engagements to various groups in an effort to facilitate personal safety internationally.
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Natalie Vifquain
ZIP Facilitator
Prior to joining Sentis in 2007, Natalie worked as a therapist and an intake coordinator for a private drug, alcohol, and psychiatric rehabilitation center in Arizona, USA. In these two positions, Natalie was responsible for conducting psychological assessments of potential clients, facilitating group and individual therapy sessions, and was instrumental in working with a team of clinicians to develop individualized treatment plans for patients. Natalie’s clinical background has given her a solid foundation in understanding human behavior and relationship dynamics, and she brings her knowledge and experience into the field of Safety Psychology.
Natalie graduated from the University of Arizona with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Spanish and continued on to receive her Master of Arts in Forensic Psychology from Prescott College two years later. She has studied and lived in Mexico, Spain, and Argentina and she has had the opportunity to travel to over 20 countries worldwide. Natalie’s passion for knowledge, people, traveling, and absorbing different cultures has provided her with many amazing experiences to draw from and encourages her to take on challenges that will support continuous learning. As a ZIP facilitator at Sentis, Natalie is thrilled to able to combine her passions and her life experience together to promote safety and wellbeing.
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