Inner Tracking: How to Feel More Connected to Your Inner Wisdom

Kari is a pioneer facilitator with expertise in the longevity industry and building communities online. She is a master host with a knack of creating deep connections both live and virtually, with nearly 30 years experience as a driven social entrepreneur in creative strategy, facilitating and training, and private consulting to bring out the best in thought leaders.

Kari has worked with hundreds of experts around the world and produced two global summits on the topics of innovation in aging and caregiving. Her online programs at MEA have served thousands of adults around the world.

Kari served as a weekly contributor to the Huffington Post and has appeared on local TV, Dateline NBC, PBS “This Emotional Life,” and contributed to the Amazon #1 bestselling anthology, “Embracing Your Authentic Self.” She is curious about everything and committed to lifelong learning.

Lee likes to say that he’s as ordinary as dirt but as complex as soil. He found his way to teaching Inner Tracking in the same way he finds most things: by following an inner thread he couldn’t ignore.

At 22, Lee moved into a yoga ashram – not because it was the sensible path, but because he’d heard someone talk about developing your internal guru, and something in him said pay attention. That inner knowing has been his compass ever since: it’s what led him to become a whitewater raft guide when he’d barely been on a river. It’s what told him – fifteen minutes into a phone call with a stranger – that MEA would be his next chapter.

A lifelong tracker, on the land and within, Lee has spent decades reading the subtle signals that most people walk past without noticing: the displaced leaf, the flattened grass, the print in the dirt indicating the direction a creature was headed and why.
Over time, he realized the same capacity applies inward. Each of us has our own internal navigation system. There are tracks we leave – internal signals that can point our way toward the path our deepest selves want us to take, even when we consciously may not recognize it, or understand why.

Since he started leading MEA participants through the Inner Tracking experience, Lee has watched the lights come on, again and again, as they begin to recognize their own individual tracking system.

Melanie Smith, MACP, LMFT, CST holds a master’s degree in integral counseling psychology and is a licensed psychotherapist, and ordained interfaith minister. She is also an award-winning photographer, former instructor at the Colorado Institute of Art, and certified sound healer. With her background in art, gallery curation, and her toolkit of evidence-based practices for vibrant mental and spiritual health, Melanie weaves her passion for creativity with the art and science of healing.

With over 30 years of experience, she founded 12Tigers Psychotherapy & Counseling to support individuals and couples on their healing journey. She is also the founder of Expert Relationship LLC and the author of From Despair to Repair, a couples’ communication skills course.

As a spiritual companion and guide, Melanie joins with her clients in tapping into their own deep knowingness that their lives are divinely inspired, and that freedom and inspiration are simply waiting to be revealed and manifested. Her focus is on exploring awareness of the innermost self – the soul if you will – right alongside the experience of awe for the Divine Mystery underlying all of creation.

Melanie is known for her warm heart, intuition, and ability to “go deep.” She revels in nature, silliness, and thoroughly enjoys life’s simple pleasures with her partner, Lee Johnson.