About Grof® Legacy Training USA
Grof® Legacy Training USA is the United States branch of the international Grof® Legacy Training program established in 2020 by Stanislav and Brigitte Grof. Our mission is to offer transformative education and training in Grof® Breathwork, the form of holotropic breathwork now authorized by the Grofs, and in Grofian Psychedelic Assisted Therapy.
Grof® Legacy Training USA works in collaboration with the international community of educators and facilitators authorized by Stan and Brigitte Grof to carry the Grof lineage forward into the 21st Century. In the US, we are particularly interested in building connections with professionals in related fields and in supporting our participants in developing cultural awareness and group facilitation skills necessary to build a diverse community in a challenging world.
Please get to know our US sister organization, Grof® Legacy Project, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit which offers workshops and educational programs under the leadership of longtime Grof lineage carrier, Diane Haug.
Our Offerings
Meet Our Team
Our team consists of experienced facilitators, educators, and leaders who are passionate about the power of Grof® Breathwork and the broader Grof Legacy.
Jay Dufrechou
Director
After growing up in New Orleans, Jay attended Stanford University for an undergraduate degree in English with Emphasis in Creative Writing, followed by Law School at U.C. Berkeley. His legal career in California included big firm work in employment law and several years as a Deputy District Attorney in Santa Clara County. In 1999, Jay moved to Montana with his family and has worked in the Montana workers’ compensation system, often as a mediator. In the mid-90s, experiences of “spiritual emergence” changed Jay’s understanding of the cosmos and his place in the scheme of things. To follow and integrate these experiences, Jay enrolled in the doctoral program at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (ITP), now Sofia University, earning a doctoral degree in 2002. His dissertation involved experiences of grief, weeping, and other deep emotions in response to connection with nature, earning one of the 2002 Sidney Jourard Awards offered by the Humanistic Division of the American Psychological Association. From his dissertation emerged the book, Moving through Grief, Reconnecting with Nature (better titled, Grieving for Nature, Grieving for Self.) Since 2002, Jay has worked part-time in teaching capacities for various transpersonal-oriented institutions, including supervising dissertations. In the mid-90s, Jay first experienced holotropic breathwork, including powerful experiences that remain with him to this day. He found the work of Stanislav Grof as a means for integrating his experiences and framing his changing understanding of human psychology, our potential for transformation and evolution, and our heritage as beings grounded in community and connection to spirit. In the mid-2000s, Jay returned to breathwork, eventually certifying as a holotropic breathwork facilitator in 2015 through Grof Transpersonal Training. He has worked on breathwork facilitation teams in the United States, Canada, Europe, China and India. Although a tail-end baby-boomer, Jay did not experience psychedelics until his 50s, following much experience in navigating nonordinary states through breathwork and other ways of finding connection with spirit and internal intelligence. In the last several years, working with psychedelic medicines has been an integral part of his personal and professional path. Jay now works closely with Stan and Brigitte in developing international programs in facilitation of holotropic breathwork, known as Grof® Breathwork in our programs, and in Grofian Psychedelic Assisted Therapy. He is honored to act as Director for Grof Legacy Training USA, the branch of Grof Legacy Training in the United States. When not traveling for work in Grof programs, Jay divides his time between Helena, Montana, and Panama City Beach, Florida, where he lives with his partner Rob Sharp. Jay is the proud father of three children and “papa” to three grandchildren.
Marianne Murray
Senior Faculty
Marianne is an eclectic and experiential practitioner in the field of learning. Her academic studies include master’s degrees in transpersonal psychology and mindfulness-based psychotherapy and a doctoral degree in transformative learning and change in human systems. Integral to her work has been her training with Stanislav Grof – she completed the Grof Transpersonal Training in 2001, is a certified GROF® Breathwork facilitator, and has facilitated holotropic breathwork in the US, UK and Europe, Kenya, and India. She is certified also as a facilitator of Bert Hellinger’s systemic constellation work and completed her training as a massage therapist, both of which inform her practice as a facilitator. Marianne had the good fortune to study with Stan during the mid-1990s, both in breathwork training and as a student at CIIS. Living into Stan’s insights on the nature of consciousness and his cartography of consciousness catalyzed not only deep personal healing, but also radically informed her work with group facilitation in the field of personal learning and change. A faculty member at the Academy for the Love of Learning in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Marianne has been intimately involved with the development of their Leading by Being curriculum and helped to establish the Academy’s overall pedagogy. Topics that motivate her include: somatic awareness as an integral aspect of learning (and un-learning) as we explore unconscious, and semi-conscious, beliefs and biases. The role of facilitator presence in individual and group learning and healing. Now in her mid-70s she can’t help but ask, too, what is the conscious completion of a life’s journey? Marianne is senior faculty/teacher for the GROF® Legacy Training USA, serves on the Board of Directors for GROF® Legacy Project, and is a Mind and Life Fellow.
Colleen Reid
Senior Faculty
Colleen Reid is a certified Grof® Breathwork Facilitator, Spiritual Emergence Coach®, and Integration Coach, and serves as one of three senior faculty members of Grof® Legacy Training USA. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from Dartmouth College and a Master of Environmental Studies from Yale University. Before turning her full attention to work with consciousness and transformation, Colleen spent many years in environmental conservation through fieldwork, research, nonprofit leadership, and consulting. From 1997 to 2002, she also competed internationally in skeleton at the World Cup and Olympic levels. Colleen’s life was profoundly transformed in February 2014 by a spontaneous spiritual awakening and period of deep spiritual emergence. The experience permanently changed her understanding of consciousness, self, and the sacred, and ultimately redirected the course of her life. During this period, she discovered Holotropic® Breathwork and credits the work not with causing, but with catalyzing, her awakening. In 2014, Colleen began intensive training in the Grof lineage and was certified in Holotropic Breathwork and Transpersonal Psychology through Grof Transpersonal Training® in 2015. Her additional studies include certification in Spiritual Emergence Coaching® through IMHU and a year-long program in global mysticism with Andrew Harvey and Mirabai Starr. She later founded BodhiBreath®, offering teaching, spiritual emergence coaching, psychedelic integration, and breathwork workshops. Today, Colleen’s work with Grof® Legacy Training USA is the central focus of her professional life, where she teaches, facilitates, and mentors new generations of practitioners. She brings to this work both extensive training and lived experience with expanded states of consciousness. Her deepest passion is creating safe, grounded spaces in which people can access the innate healing intelligence of the psyche and discover the transformative potential of their own inner process.
Gianna Sutley
Program Manager
Gianna graduated from DePaul University with dual Bachelor’s degrees in Public Relations and Advertising, and Relational Communication. Her background is rich with experience in marketing, branding, and business strategy, particularly within the health and wellness sector, and is known for her entrepreneurial spirit and ability to navigate complex challenges with innovative, data-backed solutions. Most recently, Gianna worked as a Senior Manager of Innovation at Green Thumb Industries, a leading national cannabis company. There, she spearheaded the refinement of consumer packaged goods portfolios and developed multi-year innovation pipelines that propelled the company’s growth. Her strategic oversight led to significant achievements, including a Silver Clio for the successful media campaign for incredibles Snoozzzeberry edibles. Now, as a Program Manager at Grof Legacy Training USA, Gianna is the right-hand partner to Jay Dufrechou, the Director of Grof Legacy Training USA. In this role, she oversees a diverse array of projects and strategic initiatives, ensuring they remain on course and are aligned with the organization's overarching goals. The transition from a successful career in the corporate sector to her current role at Grof Legacy Training represents a profound shift in Gianna’s professional journey. This change was driven by a deep-seated desire to align her work with her personal values and to engage in a field that resonates with her passions for alternative healing. Discovering the work of Stan Grof and the broader fields of depth psychology and psychedelic medicine was transformative for Gianna, leading her to embrace a more holistic perspective on life and personal growth. Her move to Grof Legacy Training is not just a career shift but a realignment with her calling to bridge spiritual traditions and modern psychological practices, fostering a more integrated approach to healing and personal development. Gianna is currently pursuing certification as a Grof Breathwork Facilitator and Grofian Psychedelics Facilitator through Grof Legacy Training USA. She is also a Certified Psychosynthesis Life Coach and a 200-hour Certified Yoga Teacher Outside of her professional life, Gianna enjoys living in Denver where she embraces the outdoors with her Catahoula Leopard Dog, D'Artagnan. She finds joy in hiking, backcountry camping, exploring new restaurants, attending live music, and immersing herself in the latest thriller or sci-fi novel.