Marcella Del Signore is an architect, urbanist, educator, scholar, and the principal of X-Topia, a design-research practice that explores the intersection of architecture and urbanism with technology and the public, social & cultural realm. She is a Professor and Director of the Master of Science in Architecture, Urban and Regional Design at The New York Institute of Technology’s School of Architecture and Design. She is the co-author of “Urban Machines: Public Space in a Digital Culture”, and “Acadia 2018 Recalibration: On Imprecision and Infidelity: Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture” She has organised and curated architectural exhibitions on behalf of NYIT in the Venice Biennale for several years running. Marcella lives between Rio and New York with her husband and two children, is a yogini and avid runner. With her independent design practice X-topia, Marcella is also an internationally recognised prize-winning installation artist. In her younger years, she was trained within the Odin Theatre in Orvieto, gaining years of experience in highly physical, silent performance. Marcella has a strong and deep understanding of the relationship between presence, creative process and performance. Soulhouse is proud to have her as an integral part of our team. Marcella and Soulhouse founder Sabrina Siobhan co-created and co-teach the unique Soulhouse workshop for conscious design and creative process - Creative Presence, and the performance installation - Ever Present.

Master of Architecture from Sapienza University, Rome

Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design, Columbia University

Languages: English, Italian, Portuguese

Tina, born in Denmark, is fondly known as our Peaceful Samurai Yogini. We are proud to present Tina as a Soulhouse Teacher who brings a treasure trove of life experience to share with our students. Tina, married to Esben, is mother to 3 lovely boys with their home base in Denmark. Tina lost her daughter Athene at birth and learned the hard and challenging way to surf the wave of and with grief. In her journey of healing, she drew upon her knowledge of yoga, body awareness and spirituality to work with and transform profound grief. After a life of being quiet, Tina became a woman unafraid to speak her truth and stand her ground. Tina's professional career spans over 28 years in accounting, consulting and management. She started working straight out of business school and climbed the career ladder rapidly at KPMG and Ernst and Young, now at Icoterra, becoming a manager and leader from a young age. Tina has always had a passionate thirst for knowledge, the unknown, people travelling and on a quest for “who and why am I”. Tina has taken courses in psychology, mathematics, astrology, healing, energy reading and is a hatha yoga teacher. Tina’s motto is to learn and pass it on, so we all can grow and become the best version of ourselves. You can find Tina teaching Yoga for Presence live and online, her unique combination of Yoga and The Soulhouse Method for Presence. 

Vestegnens Business School 
Copenhagen Business School, Merkonom,Economics with Law
Languages: Danish, English

Meet our Soulhouse partner, who shares with our students her incredible journey.   Lesley never grew up wanting to box.  In her early 20’s she went to a local boxing gym as a way to keep fit and found she had a natural talent and tolerance to punching and getting punched!  At the same time she earned a first class degree in marketing, her job within the music industry at that time involved lots of networking and late nights, a struggle took place but boxing won and she took a risk, a leap of faith. From having never boxed before, within five years Lesley became an ABA champion, won a Gold medal in the EU championships (the first time a female boxer had achieved this on first entry) and represented England and Team GB on several occasions. In addition, she competed in the BBC’s Last Woman Standing series, created, and featured in a documentary on female boxing in her paternal hometown Ghana, and featured in various campaigns and TV shows including Adidas, Channel 4 and Lucozade Sport.  After attending the first ever female GB Olympic selection camp the universe had other plans for Lesley and 2012 Olympics was not to be. As motherhood arrived she set up The Boxing Boutique to offer authentic boxing training programs and made an Olympic sport out of having babies (3 daughters in 5 ½ years!). Through her journey of being trained and training others she identified a connection to boxing and life, and how valuable a tool boxing was to coping with daily struggles and challenges. Boxing became about feeling good holistically instead of just fitness driven results.  "It's not the destination but the journey that defines you".
Recently Lesley founded "Fight Forward"an incredible initiative set up to mentor and empower women who are victims of domestic abuse.  
Lesley partners with Soulhouse to develop a totally unique core mentor program that combines our Presence Training with her experience breaking limits and succeeding beyond all odds as a national champion athlete.

lesley@theboxingboutique.com
www.theboxingboutique.com

She was a translator for 15 years for various French publishers, translating varied authors from Clive Cussler and Patricia Wentworth to Mother Teresa. 

In 2015, wishing for more human connection in her professional life, she turned to teaching French, French as a second language and English, in international schools.

She started teaching creative writing workshops in 2014 in London and since then, hasn’t stop marvelling at the power of creativity, and how it can transform people’s lives.

She now teaches creative writing and literature in prison (and outside prison!) in the South of France. 

She has been singing in a choir since childhood and did amateur drama for some time, hence her interest for the power of words and that of the human voice.

She is now also specializing in bibliotherapy, alongside French writer Regine Detambel, because she believes books, and creative writing can heal and it’s something she has witnessed in prison.

She speaks French, English, German, some Italian (and studied latin but has rarely the opportunity to use it !)

To more about Delphine please visit her site: https://www.delphinerivet.com