Leon Berg is a founding member of the Ojai Foundation. He is a Senior Way of Council Trainer and a Founding Advisory Board member for Center for Council – now Beyond Us & Them. 

Leon has been facilitating Council groups in the U.S. and abroad for over 25 years. In 2001, he went to Israel to seed the practice of Council among Israeli Jews and Arabs, co-founding the Israeli non-profit organization Ma’agal Hakshava (Listening Circles). Leon has returned to Israel many times since then to conduct Council trainings and lead a variety of coexistence programs. In 2008 Leon and his partner, Glori Zeltzer, a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, began to teach their council-based relationship workshop, Art of Intimate Conversation, to couples seeking to enrich and/or heal their relationships. They now teach the practices to couples in the US and abroad, and now over Zoom!

Leon is the co-founder, along with Lori Austein, of Circles of Resilience.

Check out Leon’s deep and informative TEDx talk on the Power of Listening.