We are a small but mighty gathering of thinkers, dreamers, and visionaries.
Our story began with some sweet moves on a Zoom dance floor.
Hi! We’re Caitlin and Krissie.
We met on a virtual dance floor during the pandemic.
Krissie, big extrovert and people-lover, was feeling lonely and so she invited her friends to join her for a daily dance gathering on zoom. Caitlin, wide-eyed, curious and sparkling, popped on that zoom one day.
We danced every weekday for almost two years, and during that time discovered:
We love creating experiences for people that spark aliveness, creativity and connection.
We’ve both yearned to bring leaders, creatives and change-makers together for years, knowing people-power and unexpected magic emerges in these spaces.
Oh, and we did a Master’s degree in Transformational Leadership and Coaching together, which combined theory and practice from Adlerian, developmental and humanistic psychology, Existentialism, educational methodologies, emotional intelligence research, and neuroscience in a multidisciplinary approach. We turned ourselves inside and out during that experience, and started following our dreams, rather than just thinking about them.
The Aliveness Collective is one of those dreams: the community both of us have always wanted.
We’re so freaking excited you’re here.
Our Values
Continuous growth + curiosity: We are committed to growing ourselves, speaking truth in the service of each others’ growth and looking for the truth / taking in feedback in the service of our individual growth. Here, we use conflict to grow.
Compassion: We are all in this together and life-ing is wild, wonderful, tricky business. We are trading in judgment for radical compassion for ourselves and others.
Mutuality: We are all experts and all novices. We all have something to give and something to learn. We learn with and from each other. When we collaborate and co-create, everyone benefits.
Inclusion: We foster a safe and welcoming environment where all voices are heard and valued.
Abundance: There are enough resources to go around. There is room for all of our gifts in this world and the world needs our gifts. We celebrate each others’ successes and honor each others’ ideas.
We take our work to the world to change the systems and create a kinder, more compassionate, and socially just world. We transform ourselves to transform the world.
Authenticity: We let ourselves be known. We take off our masks and share what’s real. We see authenticity as being true to who you are becoming.
Who are we?
Caitlin Nisos
Co-founder
Caitlin Nisos is a coach, facilitator, and energy activator. She helps ambitious leaders ignite their aliveness and live in radical alignment with clarity and courage through personalized support, immersive events, and intentional community.
A career project and operations leader across purpose-driven industries, Caitlin brings 20 years of experience and deep study in neuroscience, embodiment, ritual, and play to infuse life with engagement and joy—making growth something we actually enjoy walking through. She holds two master’s degrees—one in Transformational Leadership & Coaching and another in Social Development Practice, the sciences of changing our world and ourselves in community.
As a co-founder of The Aliveness Collective, Caitlin creates spaces where soulful change-makers reconnect with their inner fire and lead with truth, purpose, and joy. She believes activating aliveness—our realness and engagement—is key to a more peaceful, dignified, and kind world.
Website: whatdoesgoodlooklike.com
Instagram: @everythingisfruittome
Co-founder
Krissie McMenamin
Krissie McMenamin is a founder, coach, and rage doula who creates magical immersive experiences that spark people on a journey of self-discovery.
Right now, she is scaling The Aliveness Collective, where conscious, open-heart visionaries super-charge their lifeforce, and RAGEher–a movement for women to embody and express their anger (and maybe take down the patriarchy in the process).
Krissie has over a decade of deep training in leadership and social emotional intelligence with an MBA from Northwestern and an MA in Transformational Leadership and Coaching, a fully immersive program through which she turned herself inside out.
Website: askhuh.com
Instagram: @krissmac and @rage.her