A Collaboration

of clinicians, educators, and thought leaders

OUR TEAM

Oscar Medina

What makes us different?

Lived Experience

Axis Mundi is a collective of clinicians, educators, and thought leaders offering a unique and diverse range of lived experiences. We teach and facilitate the theories and practices which have transformed our lives as a source of resilience and healing. 

Interdisciplinary Approach

Our team draws from a range of knowledge including psychology, science, sociology, and contemplative practices. We have integrated decades of expertise in these various fields of knowledge to design innovative programs for the clients we serve. 

Embodiment of Practices

Combining this experience and knowledge, we offer what most professional development courses do not: a deep embodiment of the practices we explore and teach.

OUR TEAM

Micah Anderson, LMFT

HE/HIS/HIM

Micah Anderson is an empathic Licensed Marriage Family Therapist (#132754) with over 10 years experience in leading retreats and trainings on mindfulness, trauma resilience, and emotional literacy.

Aside from being a founder of Axis Mundi, he is currently the Clinical Director for the Mind Body Awareness Project, an Oakland, CA.-based non-profit that provides mindfulness and emotional literacy groups to underserved populations and those that serve them.

Micah lives in the Bay Area of California with his wife and two children, and has a M.A. in Psychology/Counseling from Sofia University in Palo Alto.

Pam Dunn

SHE/HER/HERS

For almost 20 years, Pam Dunn has been a leader and teacher trainer for Challenge
Day, one of the best known organizations in North America teaching empathy,
compassion and other core social and emotional skills to students. She has worked with
well over 150,000 youth in middle schools and high schools across the U.S., Canada,
Japan, and the Netherlands in schools, businesses and as part of the highly regarded
documentary series Over De Streep (Cross the Line).
Pam worked with the Mindful Schools Training team, participating in the Year-Long
trainings offering support to teachers and other youth workers interested in providing
mindfulness curriculum for students. Without question, Pam continues to identify herself as a learner of this practice which often provides a different way of thinking of a subject.

Pam has also provided and facilitated workshops as well as developed curriculum as a
lead trainer for the nationally recognized Be Present, Inc. (BPI) supporting individuals of
all ages, genders and cultures to understand and develop leadership in their own lives
as well as in their families and communities.

Vinny Ferraro

HE/HIS/HIM

Vinny Ferraro is a nationally recognized leader in designing and implementing mindfulness interventions. He’s been the Training Director for Mindful Schools, Challenge Day and the Mind Body Awareness Project. His experience includes decades of direct services to incarcerated people. He’s been empowered in the Buddhist Insight tradition, and he’s been the Guiding Teacher of the Big Heart City Sangha in SF since 2004.

His open-hearted teachings have touched hella people.

Vinny lives in the Santa Cruz mountains with his wife and child,and doesn’t like talking about himself in the 3rd person.

Salina Mae

SHE/HER/ELLA

Salina is thrilled to bring her skilled group facilitation and mindfulness-based expertise to the corporate environment. Her attuned intuition, whimsical imagination, and passion for collective liberation creates group experiences that support transformation. Salina instills trust through the creation of safer spaces, building more effective team communication. Having personal experience with professional burnout, Salina pivoted her career in service to developing sustainable wellness programs within institutions and organizations.

Salina is most passionate about supporting BIPOC staff, creating new models of care in the workplace, and ensuring BIPOC leadership is at the forefront of change. She is encouraged by companies committing to social justice, diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Born and raised in the East Bay, Salina continues to call the Bay Area home.

Oscar Paul Medina

HE/HIS/HIM

Oscar Paul Medina’s lineage is from Mexico, and East Los Angeles. He was raised in the Mojave Desert, spent many formative years in the Bay Area, and now resides in Baja/California.

Since 2014, he has supported underserved populations, leading and designing mindfulness-based trauma healing programs in the education, justice, and mental health sectors. He is the founder of social innovation projects through his work as a Dalai Lama Fellow and his current role as a Robert Wood Johnson Culture of Health Leadership Fellow.

Over the last 15 years Oscar has dedicated his life to personal and systems transformation with a focus on meditation, trauma-informed psychology, and leadership development through an equity lens. His vision as a social entrepreneur, transformative guide and advisor is to partner with leaders who elevate BIPOC and Latinx communities towards building a more whole, just, and thriving world.

Jennie Powe Runde, LMFT

SHE/HER/HERS

As a trained expressive arts therapist, I help individuals tune in to 3 levels of lived experience- mental, physical and emotional- in order to find new resources, ideas, and experiences to understand what’s working and transform what isn’t. In my practice, I work with people who are unpacking racial, ethnic, and cultural identity, as well as folks who are considering their identity at the intersection of sexuality, gender, class, spirituality, and dis/ability status. In addition to expressive arts, my background and training includes Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and Mindfulness Based approaches. I am also influenced by Buddhism and Buddhist psychology in my work. I use an integrative approach- which includes an understanding that ‘mental’ health is about more than our minds, but how we are able to show up in our bodies, our environment, and our relationships.

“Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.”

– Bell Hooks