how humans work:
How Humans Work helps people with the challenges of being human by connecting people with their innate human capacity to be present and vital.
We have three core projects:
Alice and Jef: a social content project offering wisdom for youth coming-of-age in a rapidly changing world.
The How Humans Work Podcast with Jef Szi offering in-depth conversations that deepen our connection to all things human.
The Butterfly Project: in-person teaching stories for young people about change and becoming.
Relying on contemporary and old-school wisdom traditions, we offer podcasts, social and learning content, and retreats that support our community to be more informed and ready for life’s changing faces.
About Alice Treves:
About Jeffrey Szilagyi:
about jef:
In the sea of options out there, I’m glad you found my coaching practice. I imagine you’d like to know a little about me and where I’m coming from?
I’ve been in the healing arts world since 1992. Along the way, first as a bodyworker and then an acupuncturist, I found a natural aptitude for deep-listening and mirroring back the stories I heard my clients sharing. Relying in part on my own personal growth, as well as wisdom traditions and my passion for natural vitality and the teachings found in stress, these one to one sessions were deeply supportive for my clients. I found them powerful as well.
Without planning it, I became something of ‘life consultant,’ helping my clients navigate their stressful encounter and dilemmas.
Over the past few years, I began receiving and then studying Internal Family Systems. This model has shifted my life in many ways. I’ve become a more proficient learner and more capable in managing the different energies I’ve long carried with me.
I felt called to bring the IFS model into my work with clients, and deepen the coaching work I’ve been doing. The results have been remarkable. The model has legs to stabilize and heal the inner-family we all have.
I’m as excited now about the healing work I offer as I’ve ever been. Blending IFS, a value for vitality and being Stress Intelligent along with wisdom traditions like Chinese Medicine, is potent way to support and bless others in their humanity and journey toward healing. This work and supporting my clients is what I love.
Supporting my clients to connect with their Parts in transformative ways.
Turning my clients onto the value of personal vitality and the hidden wisdom in their stresses.
Offering ways to become more in tune with the things that make and keep us human.
