Consulting and Speakers
Equality Diversity and Inclusion for Coastal Environments

NLW Cultural Practitioners and NLW Lead Mentors are offered via NLW Consulting Services.

NLW are Top Shelf Speakers, Educators and Wellness `Professionals. Our core crew of NLW Practitioners and mentors change lives. NLW Consulting is a fast way to the Flow State. Various subjects as EDI plans, spiritual, academic and plant-based medicinal ways.

Consultant List of speakers, presenters, trainers, story tellers, practitioners.

Marc Chavez, NLW Founder and Director. Chavez speaks on Environmental Subjects and particular the modern practice of Coastal Cultures across Turtle Island, Pacific and Caribbean. Chavez is also a motivational speaker that can bring audience from drop-out to drop-in. Chavez founded Native Like Water, InterTribal Youth and Young Native Scholars in 2000. He frequently travels in the Americans and island nations of the Pacific and Caribbean. Articles on Chavez can be found in The Surfers Journal, Surfer Magazine, NBC News, Travel and Leisure and many more.

Kaliko Kahoonei, Waterman-SUPsquatch Trainer, is a 3rd generation waterman from Hawaii. His uncles and grandfather were some of the early divers, fisherman and surfers of Hawaiis westside. Kaliko specializes in SUP surfing and longboard. Along with that, he is the operator and instructor for crafts such as SUPsquatch a 6 person (or more ) Paddleboard as well as tandem bodyboarding. With NLW, Kaliko is offering the first Supsquatch  training certification in the country, including the cultural educational significance of Indigenous surfing and restoration of cultural ways and environments..

Trisha "Mama T" Gonsalves, Associate Coordinator, Nutritional Wellness and Joy Cultivator. Mama T is a self-proclaimed and people rated - JOY Cultivator. Each day, is the best day ever. She is on repeat. She is a passionate advocate of using sustainable practices to grow food organically and use food as medicine. "Ancient ways in modern days" is her motto. Brought to Hawaii 25 years ago from San Diego on a singing tour, she quickly fell in love with the islands, the people, and the Aloha way of life. She feels very blessed to call Hawaii home. She teaches classes throughout the islands and hosted a cooking segment on morning television. 

Jerome Gross, Wellness: Mind, Body, Spirit, Yoga: Jerome has been in private practice as a Hypnotherapist since 1995 and has been teaching yoga for 20 years and with Intertribal Youth/ Native Like Water for over 20 years. As Founder / Director of the Effulgence Academy, Jerome teaches this specialized mind-body-wellness routine at fitness centers and holistic health centers as well as to individual clients. Mr. Gross developed programs for San Diego City School's Race and Human Relations and Health Integration Program. Students are presented with the tools and strategies to develop positive qualities and highest potential physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Jerome has studied and experienced native traditions, making it relative cultural needs and personal success. The specific tools and strategies taught in the mini lessons will culminate into a routine that Jerome developed for the San Diego Public Schools and in private practice as a spiritual counselor and therapist, called the Process of EFFULGENCE™

Dina Gilio-Whitaker, Surf Scholar: Of the Colville Confederated Tribes, Dina is a renown scholar and writer in American Indian Studies, teaching at California State University San Marcos, and is a consultant and educator in environmental justice policy planning. A scholar in the field of critical sports studies, Auntie Dina examines the intersections of indigeneity and the sport of surfing. As a public intellectual, Dina is the author of two books, “All the Real Indians Died Off” and 20 Other Myths About Native Americans, and her most recent As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock. Born and raised in Southern California, Dina is a life-long rider of waves. She first learned how to surf on Oahu’s North Shore where she lived in the early 1980’s and was one of the very few women of the time to regularly surf the famed Pipeline break. She brings her Indigenous identity and knowledge into harmony with surfing to teach about surfing as a place-based phenomenon that always takes place in Indigenous ancestral homelands.