Hadrien Coumans

I work with what many can’t see—the ancestral wounds and cultural forces that influence how individuals, institutions and Nations function and heal.

Hadrien Coumans supports individuals addressing the complex wounds of personal and collective histories. 

His experience spans twenty-five years and he serves as:

•Advisor for Peace and Wellbeing: Appointed by Joe Baker, Lenape Elder.

•Kara Baqsy: in Kazakh tradition, under the auspices of Arman Nurmukhanbetov.

•Deputy Director & co-founder of Lenape Center. www.lenape.center

•Associate Faculty Department of Population and Family Health, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, Irving Medical Center.

Selected lectures or speaking engagements:

The Auschwitz Institute, Brooklyn Public Library, Cardozo Law School Benjamin B. Ferencz Human Rights & Atrocity Prevention Clinic, Google, Governments of Australia and Canada, Human Rights Watch, the United Nations, U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Related Studies:

United States Institute of Peace:

Conflict Analysis Certification.

Mediating Violent Conflict Certification.

Land Property & Conflict Certification.

Minnesota Peacebuilding Leadership Institute: Training for Trauma Awareness and Resilience Certification.

Ongoing study within Great Steppe traditions.

Student of Lenape Elders, 1991 to present.

Student of the late Lakota Holy Man Chief Phil CrazyBull, 1993 to 2006.

Hadrien is a traditionally  adopted member of the Lenape, WhiteTurkey-Fugate family