OUR COACHES
our team is built for futures — and lived experiences of progress
Cherie Dikelsky, ACC, ECPC, is a trusted seeing partner for breakthrough change.
As founder and principal success coach at Hemispheres, her background includes decades of expertise in futures design. With a 20-year track record in human progress, Cherie's practice emerged by applying neuroscience in transformational contexts—including her own growth through brain injury. Today, her integrative tools help visionaries shape uncertainties into experiences of coherence, curiosity, clarity, and breakthrough.
Cherie's work as a coach and strategist is distinguished by her commitment to neuroplastic experience design. She has served on advisory boards for award-winning frameworks and led multimillion-dollar experience transformation programs for social and civic organizations, including the American Medical Association, American Hospital Association, and the US Federal Reserve System.
As an advocate for applied neuroscience as a path to social justice, Cherie sponsors educational programs on the art and science of transformation practice and serves on the Executive Board at the Global Association for Interpersonal Neurobiology Studies. She is a member of the Mindsight Institute’s community of practice and the International Coaching Federation (ACC), and is also an Erickson Certified Professional Coach (ECPC). She holds a BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Maia Bielak, LMT, RYT, SEP (cand) is a partner coach who provides trauma-informed support to individual and group clients in our coaching program. Her compassionate approach to healing inquiry helps our clients discover and expand their lived experiences of vitality and calm to promote repair and resilience.
Maia's background includes more than 20 years in interdisciplinary wellness, including trauma-informed somatic inquiry, polyvagal theory, and master-level practice in therapeutic arts. She has served as a practice leader for world-renowned mind-body programs—including training and leadership for ~100 practitioners at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health—and continues to serve as a trusted advisor to community organizations on the subject of wellness integrations.
Maia holds numerous certifications in mindbody integration, somatics, narrative medicine, meditation, and yoga. She holds certificates of advanced learning from Somatic Experiencing International and the Mindsight Institute, where she is an ongoing student of interpersonal neurobiology. Maia earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Ohio University.
In addition to her work as a wellness practitioner, Maia's practice as a Medicine Artist includes numerous privately sponsored and community-based projects, from large-scale art installations to children’s art and wellness education programs.
Belle Paniagua-Novak, RYT is an Apprentice to the practice and serves as Ambassador to the Fellowship.
Belle is a resilience practitioner with a lifelong devotion to the exploration of evidence-based tools for personal and collective evolution. With a BA in microbiology and a background in systems analysis, Belle's path has evolved naturally to a focus on the applied science of embodiment and the art of focused consciousness. Her approach has been shaped by hundreds of hours of practice in meditation and mindfulness traditions, visualization, somatics and neuroscience—resulting in a robust toolset for sustained, inquiry-driven engagement with evolutionary practices.
Belle’s systems mind is equally at home in analysis and in activism. She is the founder of The Living Coherence Project, a collective nurturing hope and evolution through the sharing of intentional evolutionary experiences. She is certified in several modalities that support transformation through practices of regulation and embodiment. In addition to being a certified yin yoga teacher, she is a trained facilitator of meditation, resilience inquiry and Heart Coherence (HeartMath Institute). Over the past decade her explorations have also included EFT/TFT, logotherapy, earthing science, plant-based medicine, and consciousness traditions from Tao Hands to quantum consciousness.
As Hemispheres’ first paid apprentice, Belle will study and curate the SHAPE framework and toolset, expanding their reach and scope of application. Within the Fellowship, she will serve as a community practitioner and Ambassador, strengthening the community and resources by facilitating discussions and socializing tools to ensure they exist in the spaces where they are needed most.