About — Ser Entero

Welcome to
Ser Entero!

I am Monika L. Son Ph.D, Educator, Whole- Being Coach, Embodied Leadership Coach, Life Transitions Doula, Contemplative Practice Facilitator and Justice Centered Educator

I am a native New Yorker, daughter of Dominican immigrants, former college professor and a lover of trees, flowers and gardens. I have had many roles in my life and career, but those that have invited me to serve, support and share wisdom with others, have been the most cherished.

One of the greatest harms in my professional work, I have experienced and witnessed is the devaluing and exclusion of who and what is different. Although I deeply cared for the individuals that crossed my path throughout the years in my teaching and leadership, I experienced rejection, invisibility and othering. I also internalized that “othering” onto myself. With healing, practice and support from others who walked alongside me, I found the courage to choose wholeness.

Ser Entero is about choosing wholeness- to be whole ; to welcome our whole-beingness. The intention of Ser Entero is to primarily support women, women of color (BIWOC) who serve others, communities, organizations and institutions, are in roles/positions of leadership and/or transition, and who are committed to reclaiming their wholeness- the parts of themselves that have been unseen, rejected, invisible or dark. Ser Entero whole being coaching is for any being who is ready to deepen into their sense of agency, power and resource. I am particularly inspired by individuals, communities and organizations,who are choosing to uplift radical love, compassion, connection and healing to transform the spaces they impact.

Education and Training

✓ PhD in Developmental Psychology

✓Group / Relational Facilitator

✓ Embodied Leadership Coach

✓ Meditation facilitator

✓ Licensed Mental Health Counselor

✓ FORMER Professor and Administrator in Higher Education

✓ Chaplain

✓ Zen practitioner and student

Philosophy / Framework

Ser Entero means “to be whole” or “whole being” in Spanish. I center my work around the belief that we are already whole, with nothing to add and nothing to fix. While we may wish to improve, be better, or be more, we are already equipped with all we need.

The work is to sift through, uncover, reveal and reclaim more of what is already there. Part of our reclamation is also to accompany our grief ,anger and helplessness. To be whole is to befriend these strong emotions as well. We also reclaim wholeness by coming back into the body.

My role in this work is to accompany you on the journey, as a guide, facilitator, and doula on your path of emergence into more of who you want to be. This work is ultimately a lifelong journey for all of us; but I hope that with some support, you develop the capacity to continue forward with some practices that support your continued growth and development.

My work is also grounded in uplifting access and opportunity for those who live in the bodies and come from the communities that have experienced deep marginalization due to systems of power and oppression. I believe that a form of justice is also about resourcing those who have been/ and or continue to be at the margins, and build their capacity to be future leaders of change.

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My FAMILY

Jonathan and Nicolas are in high school. Jonathan has a boundless mind and free spirit, with vast interests including writing for his school paper. Nicolas has a heart of generosity, is a double athlete and honor student, and loves to annoy his younger brother. John, their dad and my husband, loves to cook, attend Nicolas’ sports games and laugh at Jonathan’s jokes. When he is not tending to us or his work, he coaches kids’ basketball.