Your hosts
A shared mission
The success of the projects doing the most good, and the people carrying them. Dr. Kathrine Harrison leads Attunements Foundations; Kayla and Vaughn convene the community it was built for.
Your hosts
The success of the projects doing the most good, and the people carrying them. Dr. Kathrine Harrison leads Attunements Foundations; Kayla and Vaughn convene the community it was built for.
Practitioner · Foundations
I don’t fix. I don’t force. I create the conditions for change.
She trained first as a chiropractor — a Doctor of Chiropractic, five years of anatomy and structure before any of the rest of it. That order matters. She came to energetic work from the body, not the other way round, which is why nothing she does asks you to believe anything.
Thirty years on, she works as a Multidimensional Activator and is the founder of Embodied Alchemy and creator of The Recalibration Field™. She practises on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, with visionaries and practitioners across clinical, creative and leadership rooms alike.
Kathrine is a contributing author to the international collections Words That Change The World and Stories That Touch The Heart, and has been a guest on podcasts internationally, including a live Frequency Flow Activation on Hello Brains with April Mahoney.
What she draws from
Kathrine weaves from all four, according to what a system is ready for — which is why no two sessions arrive the same way.
What it is like to receive one
In my presence, what is not true dissolves, and the real you rises.Dr. Kathrine Harrison
The experience is often described less as the arrival of something new and more as a settling, or a return to something that was already there. The word that comes back most often is familiar.
Nothing is being installed in you. The Attunement creates and holds a coherent field, and your system meets it in its own way — recognising what is true, what no longer fits, and what greater coherence feels like from the inside.
Who convenes it
Most of our work happens in the rooms where regenerative finance, climate, web3, systems change and collective impact overlap — and most of it comes down to one habit: find what is actually slowing a community down, then build the specific thing that moves it rather than the general thing already on the shelf.
Attunements is the clearest example of that habit we have. It is also the smallest, which is deliberate. Below is each of us separately, because we came at this from genuinely different directions and both of those directions are load-bearing.
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Kayla Rose Bergen
Writer, researcher and systems thinker. Founder of The Overflow Effect™, a body of work on what becomes possible when a person, a family, an organisation or a society is filled so completely that it overflows — and what spills over reaches everyone around it as surplus rather than sacrifice.
The same conditions turn out to hold at every scale. Depletion compounds. So does overflow. Kayla is currently writing her book RESOURCED, which traces the Overflow Effect through one life rather than through a framework.
Attunements is that thesis at its smallest altitude: fill the person, and the rest follows.
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Vaughn Bergen
Patron, cultural steward and fourth generation of ACA Galleries, a New York family-run art institution that has championed artists the establishment overlooked for over 90 years. Vaughn’s work treats art as a messenger of the soul — a way to move a culture rather than decorate it.
Vaughn is also a second-generation hand reader, taught by his mother Dorian Bergen and her own teacher Ellen Goldberg, who together wrote The Art and Science of Hand Reading. Reading rather than fortune-telling, often alongside a tea ceremony.
The same question sits underneath both: what conditions does a person need in order to make the thing only they can make.
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Why we build this way
Three things have to hold at the same time.
The people solving the greatest challenges have to be aligned in themselves — clear, resourced, not running on empty. They need a community moving in the same direction. And they need people around them who have already done it, who can be called at the moment it matters.
Energetic alignment, community support and true, bespoke mentorship. Held together, they change what a person can carry. Held apart, none of them holds for long.
What this is one step toward
Attunements is a deliberate first step in a much larger vision and unfolding.
What we are building toward is not just energetic coherence, but land itself — artist residencies, maker spaces and living communities built around one design principle: the healthiest possible conditions for human flourishing. Attunements is the first pillar. The residencies and incubators are the ones that follow, held through the Bergen Family Foundation as it comes online.
You cannot convene that room, or build that land, out of depleted people. So the first step is the one that looks smallest: bring a group of leaders into coherence, and keep them there long enough for it to be the normal condition rather than a good week. From there, creators and innovators are supported into a residency or maker space to build from a clear, aligned channel — and carried, through patronage and later through the fund, well past the program itself. Everything else we are building assumes this first step.
The communities we are part of
The community side is already running. Some of these were in the first cohort; others are simply part of the same field.
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What membership carries
Connect with what the rest of the field is doing. A summit coming up. A raise opportunity. A pilot looking for its first partner. Work that deserves more attention than it is currently getting. We pass it on, because being seen by this particular room is invaluable.
We and the communities we are a part of promote one another to those who align most deeply with our shared mission. Not a newsletter. A working channel between aligned networks and organizations. What starts as an inner exploration has the power to manifest our shared vision as the field grows.
An invitation
Foundations is the way in — twelve Attunements with Dr. Kathrine Harrison, fifteen minutes at a time, self-paced. Begin with the individual experience of the fields.
Join us — start with Foundations →