Karima Valentina Hočevar, Founder of Mudita Institute,  is a graduate of the School of Economics and Business at the University of Ljubljana with a major in Human Resources Management. She is a certified therapist for various approaches: Craniosacral Resonance™, the NeuroAffective Relational Model™, Somatic Experiencing™, Integral Somatic Psychology™ and Learning Love™. She is also a dance yoga teacher.

In the field of Craniosacral Resonance™ she has been (co-)leading trainings and seminars in Slovenia and abroad since 2011. In the NeuroAffective Relational Model™ she has been part of a team of teachers and supervisor for trainings in many European countries since 2015. 

Karima is also Co-founder and has been Procurator of Center Hočevar since 2017. 

Metka Kuhar, Professor of Social Psychology, works as a teacher and researcher at the University of Ljubljana and therapeutically at her private practice Metta. 

She is certified in Somatic Experiencing™, NeuroAffective Relational Model™ and Craniosacral Resonance™, and assists in Somatic Experiencing™ and Craniosacral Resonance™ trainings. Her current academic focus is psychological trauma and interpersonal communication (a bibliography can be found here.)