Welcome to your expansive space for living and learning.
We are an International Learning Center devoted to teaching the power of conscious relationships and holistic transformation.
The Institute is led with love by Katie and Gay Hendricks, paradigm-shifting pioneers in the conscious loving and body intelligence fields. The Institute offers trainings, courses, coaching, seminars, tools, and resources to enrich your life and liberate your essence.
Everyone has their own genius.
We support you sharing yours widely and freely.
We are passionate about creating a global community of conscious and purposeful humans. We have seen firsthand that by fostering your own awakening, you help awaken a better world.
Our mission is to cultivate that greater world by touching individual lives — starting with yours.
We envision a world where…
- We all live in harmony of mind, body, and spirit
- We live in expanding waves of creativity and integrity
- Our relationships honor the essence of ourselves and others
- We root our community and society in our organic spiritual natures
Discover the core truths at the heart of our teachings and trainings.
Life is full of big, complicated questions. Many of us are on a lifelong search for answers. Yet, some of the most impactful secrets are hiding in plain sight — ready and waiting for you to uncover.
Here you’ll find the simple tenets that guide all of our work. They may seem self-evident or even easy, but as lesson number 4 says, “Let things be easy.” You'll be surprised by how these simple observations invite profound shifts.
These 12 principles are the foundation of your awakening — we’ll build on them together!
We’ll have your back as you leap toward a life where you:
Inspire others and serve the world through living your calling
We’ll have your back as you leap toward a life where you:
Achieve abundance and success doing the things you love
We’ll have your back as you leap toward a life where you:
Expand into the full breadth of your potential
We’ll have your back as you leap toward a life where you:
Inspire others and serve the world through living your calling
Meet Katie & Gay Hendricks
Get to know the minds, hearts, and souls behind The Hendricks Institute.
We teach what we’ve learned from each other. Since our eyes locked across a crowded room (yes, that’s really how we met!) more than 40 years ago, we’ve been on a journey of constant curiosity and growing together in partnership.
Our relationship is a living laboratory for conscious loving. We’ve personally tested every lesson you’ll find in our work. We’ve imparted these lessons in many ways — by writing more than 40 books, training thousands of coaches, mentoring thousands of students, hosting seminars across the globe, and even appearing on Oprah.
Through it all, we’ve been committed to our conscious love and to helping others expand their capacity for love, creativity, intimacy, and joy.
Gay Hendricks
President
The Hendricks Institute
Katie Hendricks
Chief Creative Officer, Director of Training
The Hendricks Institute
About Gay Hendricks, President, The Hendricks Institute
For more than 40 years, Gay Hendricks has served as one of the leading contributors to the fields of relationship transformation and body-mind therapies. Along with his wife, Dr. Kathlyn Hendricks, Gay is the author of numerous bestsellers, including Conscious Loving, At The Speed Of Life, The Big Leap, Five Wishes, and the recently released Your Big Leap Year.
Dr. Hendricks received his Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Stanford in 1974. After a 21-year career as a professor at the University of Colorado, he founded The Hendricks Institute. He later co-founded its charitable organization, Foundation for Conscious Living. He is also the founder of a virtual learning center for transformation and a publishing company, and the co-founder of a conscious entertainment company.
Throughout his career, Dr. Hendricks has coached more than 800 executives, including the top management at such firms as Dell Computer, Hewlett Packard, Motorola, and KLM. His book, The Corporate Mystic, is used widely to train management in combining business skills with personal development tools.
Gay is also a mystery novelist, with a series of five books featuring the Tibetan-Buddhist private detective, Tenzing Norbu. In recent years, he has co-created a popular podcast called The Big Leap with Gay Hendricks and Mike Koenigs. He has appeared on more than 500 radio and television shows, including OPRAH, CNN, CNBC, 48 HOURS, and others.
About Katie Hendricks, Chief Creative Officer, Director of Training, The Hendricks Institute
Kathlyn Hendricks is an evolutionary catalyst, contextual disruptor, and freelance mentor who has been pioneering the fields of body intelligence and conscious loving for 50 years. Kathlyn earned a Ph.D. in Transpersonal Psychology and was a Board Certified-Dance/Movement Therapist of the American Dance Therapy Association from 1975 to 2024.
Kathlyn is the co-author of 12 books, including the best-selling Conscious Loving, At The Speed of Life, The Conscious Heart, and Conscious Loving Ever After: How to Create Thriving Relationships at Midlife and Beyond.
Kathlyn is passionate about the power of embodied integrity and full-spectrum presence. Her work explores the how of consciousness and the structures and practices that transform fear into presence, relational authenticity, and resonant collaboration.
She specializes in translating concepts such as commitment into directly felt experiences that lead to new choices and creative engagement. Her unique coaching and leadership programs have cultivated hundreds of body intelligence and relationship coaches in the U.S. and Europe. She developed and led the unique Leadership and Transformation Training for 30 years. She directs the organization of the Big Leap Online Programs, videos designed to support people in coming home to presence, restoring resourcefulness, and creating caring communities. She records a weekly podcast, be.play.love, with her colleague Sophie Chiche.
Kathlyn describes her purpose and genius this way: “I feel through to the heart with laser love and evoke essence through deep play.”
Our Relationship Wows
We’re sharing the most important skills, practices, and revelations that have made our marriage thrive. Click on a Relationship Wow to read the full story.
