People

East/West is shaped by people whose work has emerged from different traditions but shares a commitment to serious inquiry, human encounter, and the search for meaning across difference. This page introduces the individuals and organizational roots behind the project.

Sacred Inclusion Network

The Sacred Inclusion Network's mission is to create and nurture community spiritually oriented people without a fixed home and give them tools to support the needs of a changing Earth. Through monthly events, sacred conversation,  and facilitated dialogue, the Network creates spaces where participants can move beyond reaction and performance toward greater depth, honesty, and connection.

The Tavistock Tradition

TheTavistock tradition brings together psychoanalytic insight and systems thinking to study how conscious and unconscious processes shape leadership, authority, boundaries, and role in human systems.tavinstitute.

Rather than focusing only on surface behavior or formal structures, Tavistock-informed work invites people to learn from experience: to notice what is happening “beneath the surface” in groups and organizations, and to understand how those dynamics are connected to the wider environment. Over many decades, this approach has informed group relations conferences, organizational consulting, and social change projects that inquire into how people live, work, and relate together.

In East/West, these approaches becomes one pole in a conversation with Eastern philosophical perspectives, providing a way to think about authority, boundary, and meaning while remaining open to being transformed by other ways of knowing.

Winnie Fei

Winnie Fei is the founder of Tavistock Institute China and introduced Tavistock-inspired work into China. Since 2017, she has been shaping an approach that brings together systems psychodynamics, experiential learning, and sustained inquiry into subjectivity within complex human systems.

Her work is not limited to applying established Tavistock ideas. It is also concerned with how that tradition can be recontextualized and transformed through engagement with Eastern philosophical thought, creating a distinctive field of practice that explores authority, boundary, and meaning within organizations and across cultural and civilizational contexts.

Her involvement in East/West reflects a central commitment: not simply to connect different worlds, but to hold the tension between them and create the conditions for new understanding to emerge. She brings structural leadership, intellectual depth, and lived practice to this evolving dialogue.

Angelo John Lewis

Angelo John Lewis is Director of the Sacred Inclusion Network, originator of the Dialogue Circle Method and Sacred Conversation methods, and author of Notes for a New Age. He is a facilitator, coach, and consultant whose work with individuals and groups emphasizes challenge, risk, discovery, and the building of meaningful community.

In East/West, he brings a lifelong commitment to dialogue across difference, a concern for the spiritual and cultural dimensions of human life, and a practice rooted in reflection, community, and the possibility of transformation through conversation.