Team - THE JOURNEY

MEET THE JOURNEY TEAM

The Journey Family…

The Journey runs events across the globe in multiple languages. Here are some of the people who make this possible. Our international presenters is not only trained as a Journey Practitioner, most of them have been with The Journey over many years. They co-host many of our entry-level retreats and support you during the events and in our community.

Gaby Burt

JOURNEY MD

Gaby Burt is a native Austrian and a businesswoman. She first experienced The Journey in 1996…

Claire Timmerman

Operations Director

Claire came to the Journey after an Ovarian cancer diagnosis in 1998.

Daniel Wagner

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

Daniel attended his first Journey Intensive back in 2016. A marketing expert and strategist, he’s supporting the vision of the founders to make the Journey tools accessible to the world.

Support Team

Nicky Williams

Suport Team

South African born Nicky first found the Journey in 2003 after hearing about the Journey book.

Sara Laksimi

Support Team

Sara discovered The Journey seeking a final solution to her life-long skin condition.

Arnold Timmerman

Presenter

EUROPE

Netherlands born Arnold Timmerman completed his Journey Practitioner Program in 2004.

Yollana Shore

Presenter

AUSTRALASIA

Yollana has been walking alongside The Journey as a practitioner, trainer, event coordinator and team member since she first discovered The Journey…

Sharon Sedgwick-Wilcock

Presenter

North America

Sharon first heard about The Journey while searching for an emotional healing tool for her pregnant clients.

Ibolya Domján

Presenter

Hungary

I’m Ibolya Domján, born and living in Hungary. I’m blessed with a childhood of growing up in an open-minded, big family.

Roxana Ionan Gabor-Iliescu

Presenter

Romania

She fell in love with The Journey Method while being a successful Romanian journalist searching for answers to the famous question – Who am I and What am I doing here?

Irit Lifshitz

Presenter

Israel

Born and raised in Israel, Computer engineer by education and formerly a High-Tec executive.

Bettina Hallifax

Presenter

GERMANY

Bettina was one of the first people from Germany to complete the Journey Practitioner Program.

Lydia Hoyland

Presenter

South Africa

Lydia was first introduced to The Journey by her mother who attended the live Journey Intensive with Brandon Bays in 2000.

Bohdana Nadas

Presenter

CZECH REPUBLIC

Bohdana, who was formerly an executive producer for Czech television, came across The Journey in 2010 and immediately fell in love with it.

Irene Kaljuste

Presenter

ESTONIA

Irene has been supporting and training people in Estonia in the field of body-mind wellness since 2007.

Patricia Cihodaru

Presenter

ROMANIA

Patricia Cihodaru combines her passion for ”The Journey” method with 20+ years of experience as a psychologist.

Elina Jaatinen

Presenter

Finland

Elina is a Journey Practitioner, coach, speaker and author, who’s worked in the field of holistic wellness since 2010.

Gaby Burt

Gaby Burt is a native Austrian and a businesswoman. She first experienced The Journey in 1996 and was deeply touched by the way the work transformed peoples’ lives in such a positive way. Gaby first joined the organization as a volunteer, and in 2000 was asked by Brandon Bays and Kevin Billett (Journey co-founder, CEO, and Brandon’s husband) to become a joint guardian and Director for the Journey.

Since then, Gaby has been instrumental in introducing The Journey method worldwide. It has now expanded across the globe, and is currently offered in 44 countries. The book, The Journey, has been translated into 21 languages and hundreds of thousands of people have and are benefitting from its teachings. Having worked alongside Brandon for more than 20 years, The Journey is part of Gaby’s everyday life. She’s deeply steeped in its teachings and it’s her natural and deep personal prayer to make Journey work available to every human being on mother earth. This prayer is still the major force in Gaby’s everyday life.

She’s deeply steeped in its teachings and it’s her natural and deep personal prayer to make Journey work available to every human being on mother earth”. This prayer is still the major force in Gaby’s everyday life.

Claire Timmerman

Claire came to the Journey after an Ovarian cancer diagnosis in 1998. Having experienced how life changing the Journey method is, she continued her training, and started working for the company in 2001. Claire is passionate about supporting people to have access to these life transformational tools.

Nicky Williams

South African born Nicky first found the Journey in 2003 after hearing about the Journey book. After her first intensive she was hooked on the teachings and was the first to become Accredited on her training year in 2004. Nicky has worked as part of the support team for several years and now and lives in Bridport in Dorset where she has her own Journey Practice as well. She loves supporting fellow seekers of truth and will often be at the end of the phone should you call.

Sara Laksimi

Sara discovered The Journey seeking a final solution to her life-long skin condition (eczema), what she discovered was that and so much more! Not long after becoming a Journey Accredited Practitioner in 2005, Sara spent several years travelling between India and London. She now lives in North Somerset (UK) with her Indian husband, and is devoted to being of service supporting others to discover for themselves the joy and freedom that’s always available through The Journey.

Yollana Shore

Yollana has been walking alongside The Journey as a practitioner, trainer, event coordinator and team member since she first discovered The Journey when she was 20 years old. Now in her early 40s, Yollana recognises the gift of The Journey as an everpresent doorway into the ‘miracle field’ of grace and healing, to the infinite potential that we all hold inside.

For over 20 years, she has used The Journey to support herself, her clients and her loved ones whenever they have navigated life transitions, or faced physical, emotional or spiritual challenges. And it is her prayer that every household in Australasia, and indeed the world, should have access to the profound tools for healing and awakening that The Journey offers.

Through the Journey, Yollana discovered that part of her life's purpose is to “hold a space for healing and revelation”. As such, she brings a depth of grace and ease, insight and clarity to her role as presenter for The Journey in Australasia.

Alongside her work with The Journey, Yollana is a published author and podcast host. She founded Awakening Leadership to provide transformational coaching, training and facilitation to business leaders, entrepreneurs and executives who want to make a more meaningful impact in the world.

She lives close to the beautiful beaches and rainforests of Byron Bay, Australia, with her two children, partner, and extended family.

Bohdana Nadas

Bohdana, who was formerly an executive producer for Czech television, came across The Journey in 2010 and immediately fell in love with it. She was one of the first people from the Czech Republic to complete the Journey Practitioner Program in 2012, and became a co-organizer and promoter of Journey events in the Czech Republic in 2013. Deeply impressed with the power of Journeywork and its impact not only on her life, but on so many of her clients, The Journey has become part of her everyday life. In her regular one-to-one sessions with clients she regularly uses her knowledge, passion and experience with the Enneagram model. Bohdana is passionate about supporting people to clear from all kinds of blocks and live life to their full potential, to help them come home to themselves.

Irene Kaljuste

Irene has been supporting and training people in Estonia in the field of body-mind wellness since 2007. She trained in a number of different practices including Holistic Nutrition, Liberating Breathwork and Kundalini Yoga, she is mother for 9 and 20 years old sons. Her passion to be an ambassador for the Journey Method in Estonia was born out of her own transformation and healing from postpartum depression through the Journey.

The Journey came to Irene’s life 8 years ago, after the birth of her second child. Although sudden mood swings were a challenge for her in the past, postpartum depression was the pain that drove her to find new solutions to support herself. The Journey Method helped her to uncover the freedom that lies within all of us and open herself to undiscovered places in her and clean out the root causes of depression.

Today, Irene's passion and mission is to convey this message of freedom that she has received thanks to the simple tools the Journey provides. She is convinced that inner freedom and brilliance are freely available for everyone and she made it her life's mission to inspire and support others to experience it through Journey work.

If Freedom is possible for one, it is possible for all.

Patricia Cihodaru

Patricia Cihodaru combines her passion for ”The Journey” method with 20+ years of experience as a psychologist specialized on psychological counseling, cognitive-behavioural, experiential and transpersonal psychotherapy, emotional health of children and teenagers, as well as creativity trainer and emotional health and intelligence promoter.

Patricia is author of the book “Genius of emotions: A Guide to the hidden Intelligence of the Soul” (with a foreword written by Brandon Bays), as well as co-author and translator of several personal development books. She met the ”The Journey” in 2011, immediately felt at home and underwent the whole Accredited Journey Practitioner Programme. From that moment on, ”The
Journey” became part of every day of Patricia’s life, as she uses it both in her personal growth and in assisting her patients.

In 2013 she became co-organizer of the “Journey” events in Romania and since then offered numerous lectures, workshops and one-to-one sessions of ”The Journey” method, which she considers a therapeutic masterpiece and promotes through her entire professional activity (http://patriciacihodaru.blogspot.ro/, www.patriciacihodaru.ro).

Arnold Timmerman

Netherlands born (’71) Arnold Timmerman completed his Journey Practitioner Program in 2004. He then joined Brandon Bays fulltime to facilitate seminars and retreats around the world. In 2008 he was asked to start presenting Journey seminars and retreats in Europe, North America and Israel. He also started to co-create and present Visionary Leadership modules in Europe together with Brandon Bays’ husband Kevin Billett.

In 2011 Arnold took a break from The Journey to focus on getting his own books published, running his coaching & consulting business, and more importantly on enjoying his quality family-time with his wife and daughter and moving to their dream place in the mountains of southern Spain.

At the end of 2015, Arnold climbed back on board to travel and work around Europe as Brandon Bay’s leading co-presenter, to caretake the Journey seminars in The Netherlands and Belgium and to present advanced Journey modules in Europe. He also set up The Journey in Spain together with his wife Claire (The Journey’s International Operations Director).

Arnold’s spiritual and self-development path was ignited at the early age of 11. An active sports life, a master’s degree in Law, an extensive extracurricular resume, and a career in photography and lifestyle magazine publishing could not prevent the inevitable... Arnold just had to switch to a professional career in mind, body, health and transformation. That decision in 2002 has led him to support people and organizations through challenging times. He has also trained coaches, consultants and therapists to do the same.

You can contact Arnold through info@arnoldtimmerman.com. More information about his work can be found at www.arnoldtimmerman.com.

Sharon Sedgwick-Wilcock

Sharon first heard about The Journey while searching for an emotional healing tool for her pregnant clients. For more than 25 years as a doula, childbirth educator, and woman’s workshop leader, Sharon noticed unnecessary complications in many women who had everything it takes physically to have a healthy, joyful birth. She noticed emotional blocks, deep-seated fears, abuse and childhood trauma often caused these problems.

After her first Journey Intensive in the fall of 2003, Sharon began using The Journey processes with her clients, and immediately noticed a huge difference in their birthing experience and their lives. She’s among the first Certified Journey Practitioners in the US, having completed The Journey Practitioners training in 2004/05 in the UK with Brandon Bays. She’s also a Certified Visionary Leadership Coach.

Through her experiences as a businesswoman, childbirth professional, and in marketing and graphic design, Sharon has found that ordinary people can create extraordinary results and bring their greatest dreams to fruition if they can just get past the fear and limiting beliefs that hold them back. Finding and using tools to help people transform, excel, and reach their full potential, has always been one of her greatest joys.

Sharon creates a safe environment to facilitate people opening into who they really are in love, joy, freedom and self-empowerment. She especially enjoys leading women’s retreats/workshops and red tent sessions and is currently writing a book, ‘Graceful Pregnancy’.

Ibolya Domján

I'm Ibolya Domján, born and living in Hungary. I'm blessed with a childhood of growing up in an open-minded, big family. I turned toward self-awareness at the age of 20, during a personally challenging period - being a mother and getting a divorce at such a young age - which turned to become a highly blessed time of my life. As I understood themes and patterns which I ran into again and again, I took responsibility for my decisions and became a single mother.

I got a degree in Social Pedagogue and also in Graphology while I became a mother of a growing and growing family with my new partner.

During this time when I tried and used many methods and teachings to guide me through life, I happened to read The Journey book too. It was an immediate and final falling in love with it. I went to a seminar as soon as I could (in 2007) and it was everything it promised, everything my soul recognized while reading. I heard and understood that my heart's deepest prayer is to serve Grace as it asks me to. So I began to process with friends and relatives, but kept the desire to work with the Journey in my heart. I'm in love with the depths of this work, with the simple truth of presence, and passionately use the power of surrender and acceptance in our women's retreats and my everyday life as well.

The next decade was dedicated to my children - now I'm a mother of 6 - but as soon as I felt I had time to complete the Practitioner Program, I did so. So after 10 years of using the Journey in my personal life, I became a Practitioner in 2017 and since that time I'm working not just as a practitioner, but also on bringing The Journey back to Hungary. My prayer is to bring it to my country, so whoever needs this help, should know about it.

Roxana Ioana Gabor-Iliescu

She fell in love with The Journey Method while being a successful Romanian journalist searching for answers to the famous question - Who am I and What am I doing here?

Then she applied The Method into her life and everything arranged beautifully.

She married for the first time, resolved a rebel psoriasis and had her third baby even if doctors diagnosed her with infertility.

As a practitioner, she leaded hundreds of women from her community towards freedom from old patterns of sufferance. Her main domain is relationships and family.

“As a family therapist I am grateful to Journey Method every day as I have the most refined tool to put light on all lies we say to ourselves in relationships.”

Since 2020, Roxana co hosts for Romanians Journey Intensive Online and Conscious Abundance.

Irit Lifshitz

Born and raised in Israel, Computer engineer by education and formerly a High-Tec executive.

Irit met the Journey first in May 2010 and fell in love with it from the very first day. After offering her services as translator and events manager for Journey events, she was asked to become the promoter of Journey events and representative for The Journey in Israel. Soon after, she was asked by Brandon to present the Journey seminars in Israel, in Hebrew.

Irit takes care of the Journey with every fibre of her being and dedicates time to flourish the community of Journey grads and Journey practitioners, as well as spearhead the word and message of the Journey to new circles. She offers many specialised and local events as well as taking care of international Journey events.

Her deepest prayer is that the Journey reaches all levels of society everywhere and that all people will have access to this wisdom and experience the freedom, love and light that is our own essence.

“There is nothing more spiritual than being Here and Now, and the Journey brings you directly to that place”.

Bettina Hallifax

Bettina was one of the first people from Germany to complete the Journey Practitioner Program. Deeply touched and impressed with how powerfully Journeywork impacted not only her life, but so many of her clients’, she felt compelled to spread awareness for this new paradigm for healing and awakening in all German speaking countries. She’s worked very closely with Brandon for many years and her experience in Journeywork deepens constantly. Bettina has led seminars in Germany, Austria and Switzerland since 2005. Brandon and all who know her love her openness, authenticity, love of truth, sensitivity and warmth.

In absolute exposure and full surrender, Bettina creates a cradle of support that makes it easy for participants to open into their boundless potential and begin their own personal journeys.

Lydia Hoyland

Lydia was first introduced to The Journey by her mother who attended the live Journey Intensive with Brandon Bays in 2000. Her first experience of The Journey process work was so profound that it sent her on a journey of self-discovery, liberation and freedom. After completing her Journey Accreditation in 2004, she accepted the position of coordinator and administrator for Journey Outreach South Africa. In 2005, she became a Director of the Section (21) company.

She has a deep passion for working with those less fortunate who would otherwise not have access to this kind of work, and seeing them become uplifted and liberated. Her prayer to help such people was answered by the beautiful projects through Journey Outreach. Lydia has since had the immense blessing of working with children and adults in the rural communities of South Africa as well as in Namibia, Botswana and Kenya.

Lydia has a creative and innovative approach to life and is compassionate and caring, with an extremely sensitive social conscience and consciousness. She’s enthusiastic and immerses herself totally in all the projects she’s involved with. Idealistic by nature, Lydia has the capacity to inspire all people who cross her path, be they employees, colleagues or Journey clients. Since 2008, Lydia has been presenting Journey seminars in South Africa and Africa.

Elina Jaatinen

Elina is a Journey Practitioner, coach, speaker and author, who’s worked in the field of holistic wellness since 2010. In all work that she does, be it with with individuals or groups , she summons from the deep personal journey that she’s been on for many years, continuous professional training and a wide experience in personal development and wellbeing.

She’s fascinated with the limitless human potential, the body as a healing machine and the changes that are possible through inner work. The Journey has been the most profound healing and transformation tool in her personal life and with humility she still keeps being in awe at each and every seminar and each and every Journey process with a client about the depth of the experience in Truth that is The Journey.

Having suffered from depression at two stages in her life and only with dealing with the roots of the depression, has she been able to bring her attention and later let go of the patterns that have been driving the depression. She remains in deep gratitude for such a profound change, opening, healing and growing that has been possible through working with the Journey tools.

Her deepest wish is for this work to find it’s way to everyone who wishes to start living life fully, because that’s what the Journey can enable, and she knows from personal experience!

She works with individuals as well as groups and leads The Journey in Finland. Her first book in Finnish Omassa voimassa (Basam Books 2019) came out in the fall of 2019.

For more information (in Finnish) please visit www.elinajaatinen.com

The Journey Family…

Gaby Burt

JOURNEY MD

Claire Timmerman

Operations Director

Daniel Wagner

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

Support Team

Nicky Williams

Suport Team

Sara Laksimi

Support Team

Presenters

Arnold Timmerman

Presenter

EUROPE

Yollana Shore

Presenter

AUSTRALASIA

Sharon Sedgwick-Wilcock

Presenter

North America

Ibolya Domján

Presenter

Hungary

Roxana Ionan Gabor-Iliescu

Presenter

Romania

Irit Lifshitz

Presenter

Israel

Bettina Hallifax

Presenter

GERMANY

Lydia Hoyland

Presenter

South Africa

Bohdana Nadas

Presenter

CZECH REPUBLIC

Irene Kaljuste

Presenter

ESTONIA

Patricia Cihodaru

Presenter

ROMANIA

Elina Jaatinen

Presenter

Finland

Gaby Burt

Claire Timmerman

Nicky Williams

Sara Laksimi

Yollana Shore

Bohdana Nadas

Irene Kaljuste

Patricia Cihodaru

Arnold Timmerman

Sharon Sedgwick-Wilcock

Ibolya Domján

Roxana Ioana Gabor-Iliescu

Irit Lifshitz

Bettina Hallifax

Lydia Hoyland

Elina Jaatinen