Executive Leadership in Union
Katherine combines her expertise in business operations, writing, design, and yoga to help others achieve unimaginable things.
She offers services based on a yogic wellness model that combines scientific method and artistic process. When we can find union in feeling and thinking in a way that nourishes the spirit, organizes the mind, and prioritizes health, wellness, and community, there is no limit to what we can do.
Skills & Portfolio
Program Implementation & Project Management
What does this mean. The definition of my particular program and project management. Communication and dialogue. Good practices, agile, etc. She’s managed a couple or a hundred projects in her day. She’s gotten some things done on time and within budget and above motherfucking quality every time 100% of the time.
Examples of Skill
Relationships
Flexibility
Time-Management
Using strategic visioning and business needs to design operations system. Designed an intranet system and organizational structure based on ecological adaptive management model and agile project management.
Examples of Skill
Intranet System
Organizational Structure
Strategic Facilitation
Prepare for and integrate the storm. Losing, failure, letting go, dying, getting sick. It is a part of every human being’s lifetime. Uncertainty, delay, miscommunication, misdirection, misalignment.
Stop chasing shiny objects and new tools/trends. Be steady in your seat, your service, and your value.
Systems Design & Strategic Planning
Relationship-Building & Conflict Resolution
Relationships are not an afterthought. Conflict Resolution is not a band-aid. They are integral to any effort’s success. Collaboration and strong communal ties are what set apart high achievers.
Any time a group gets together there will inevitably be conflict. Katherine approaches conflict directly and authentically, following proven healthy conflict models based on CBT, IFS, and other things like that. With always the goal to do no harm and seek reconciliation. Neutral observation, mutual trust and understanding. There is always a way forward.
Good management stems from healthy relationships, trust, and collaboration. I manage with expected self-accountability, guidance and coaching with understanding and empowerment, self-agency, and direct but empathetic confrontation to solve miscommunications or misunderstandings.
Healthy conflict, discussion, and argument help your efforts and skills grow and relationships to strengthen if you can weather the storm. It requires time, patience, and repeated iterations of discussing the problem at the hand, emotional processing, and open and hard honesty and truth-telling, as well as ownership and responsibility for actions. Intersectional cultural understanding, acknowledgement and dismantling of misconceptions and biases.
RYT-300 Yoga Teacher
Studied at James Island Yoga and Holy Cow Yoga Center with continuing education in traditional medicine, anatomy, breathwork, and martial arts. Skillfulness. Applied and practical yoga in action.
Primary Teachings
Ahimsa - decision-making foundation; what is the least amount of harm
Balance (Sthira and Sukkha)
Deep Listening
Adaptability: beginning with Inquisitive Response and practiced repetition in times of abundance that build good habits and patterns that allow for swift reactivity from embodied memorization under pressure and scarcity of time.
Witness Consciousness
Human-Centered Design & Narrative Communication
Create alignment through story and effective communication. Communicating across systems can sometimes get lost in translation. It doesn’t have to.
Katherine creates book art objects in the style of illuminated manuscripts. She writes stories, poetry, and essays with companion illustrations and maps.
Storytelling is our primary mode of communication in any language, even in data and other quantitative measures. Effective communication and teaching relies on engaging, reliable and accurate storytelling.
Accessible and digestible; simple and elegant; visual and multi-media, text.
Objective information/truth told from the heart for the human spirit.
She has learned the benefits and the limitations of both scientific method and artistic process, and she believes a healthy approach to operating combines method and process together in a way that achieves both structure and freedom through partner pacing and looking to time as a guide post.
Future Offerings
Wellness consultations that teach individuals how to take ownership over their lives to confidently walk a path of curiosity, inquiry, and presence.
Business consultations and programming to improve sustainable operations and working conditions.
Yoga and meditation classes and workshops.
About Seraphim
Breathe life into work again.
Seraphim started from the idea that there is a better way to approach productivity and work. To soar to our greatest heights starts with careful intention and meditative awareness. But it’s not enough to have good intentions. Real growth with quality results comes from good process and consistent practice. Ideas mean very little without applied practice and system implementation.
Structures and processes that start with understanding facilitate a trusting and free working environment that allows for intuitive and intelligent collaboration. We discourage rigid policies and promote adaptable processes built on quality standards.
We craft and design wellness plans and strategic plans just the same, where health comes first so creativity and productivity naturally follow from a place of stillness, ease, and tranquility. We promote work that is carried forward with patient consistency and fosters understanding relationships.
Patience
Discipline
Tranquility
Awareness
Joy
We craft and design wellness plans and strategic plans just the same, where health comes first so creativity and productivity naturally follow from a place of stillness, ease, and tranquility. We promote work that is carried forward with patient consistency.
Wellness Consultations
Strategic and Operations Planning
Yoga and Meditation Classes
Freedom, relief, the joy of hard work that produces quality results without the suffering and burnout of meaningless toil. Reduce redundancy; align and connect teams; clear noise. Do less, accomplish more.
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Katherine Bartter
FOUNDER & STRATEGIC PARTNER, RYT-200 Yoga Teacher
Katherine served as the People & Culture Leader for an ecological consulting firm for many years, using the principles of adaptive management, yoga, UX design, and human resources to build holistic system solutions. She decided to strike out on her own to combine her passions for writing, teaching, and a job well done to bring better working conditions to everyone no matter where they are.
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Ian Brennan
FINANCIAL & FUNNY DIRECTOR
Ian manages the company finances and the company jokes. In his off time, he loves yucking it up at the local improv comedy scene and knows not to take the dollar and cents too seriously. Through his years of experience working with accounting and brokerage firms along with his improvisational awareness, he is able to guide budgets and data analysis with perceptive unseriousness.
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Tashi Marshall
COMMUNITY INTEGRATOR, RYT-500 Yoga Teacher
Tashi’s been teaching forever. She also has her own community non-profit Rising Rhythm. She believes yoga is meant for the people and can heal the world.
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Alex Seaman
COMMUNITY INTEGRATOR, RYT-500 Yoga Teacher
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Kelly Jean Moore
COURSE ADVISOR, Certified Rolfer
Kelly-Jean brings her knowledge of the body and the mind to help us craft our unique wellness programs, classes, and workshops.
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Cooper Eppes
LEGAL COUNSEL
Cooper’s experience in workplace, civil, and entertainment law brings a unique blend of knowledge and experience to the team. Each business has its own laws and regulations that it must adhere to. Cooper supports any legal considerations or policy revision.
Fair & Transparent Pricing
We give back to community.
Behind everything that we do is a mission to support our local community and environment. We donate 1% of our profit to local environmental and social justice organizations.
You can feel a sense of pride when you purchase a package from Seraphim, knowing a portion of proceeds go towards cleaning up our home.
Yoga Is Us
Yoga Is Us is a holistic wellness ministry working to knit diverse communities together and offer free tools to communities, mothers, and children to self-regulate and excel in their endeavors.
Carolina Ocean Alliance
Carolina Ocean Alliance is a network sharing the common mission to conserve the ocean and sustainably use marine resources. They promote and enhance local solutions to fight climate change, biodiversity loss, environmental injustice, and pollution of our oceans and waterways.
Chs People’s Budget Coalition
The Charleston People's Budget Coalition is a group of local leaders and organizations advocating for more equitable city budgets in both Charleston and North Charleston, which truly reflect the needs of their communities.
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