The Advocates

Our Advocatare some of our greatest resources in this network!

They are making a difference in the world, and they lend their superpowers and expertise with everyone who joins the network.

Are you looking for a Mentor,
or do you want to become an Advocate and Mentor yourself?

Do you have a change-making offering that you could bring to
Living The Potential Network?

We can help!

Monica Cochran

Monica Cochran is a neurodiversity-affirming and trauma-informed educator and play therapist with a deep passion for nurturing the love of learning. She works with children, parents, home educators, micro-schools, and innovative learning communities to co-create environments where every learner can feel safe, seen, and supported. She has extensive experience helping learners of all ages rediscover the joy of learning in ways that work for them.

Based in southeastern Michigan and working virtually worldwide, Monica brings a compassionate, strength-based approach to promote lifelong learning. She has a special place in her heart for learners who think and process differently—the outside-the-box learners who often struggle to fit into traditional educational systems. Monica empowers these learners to recognize their unique strengths, grow their confidence, and thrive in today’s rapidly changing world.

She is also a lifelong learner herself—always seeking new ways to connect hearts and minds. Monica believes in the transformative power of curiosity, co-regulation, and creativity in the learning process.

“The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.”
— Sir Ken Robinson

Amanda Johnson

Amanda Johnson alchemizes twenty-five years of transformative experiences through story literacy, writing, and narrative medicine to fulfill her mission through The Story Oracle and Saved By Story: to equip individuals to use humanity’s most innate tools to transmute the pain of their backstory into a more magically-ever-after for themselves, their loved ones, and those they serve.

Known today as The Story Oracle, Amanda partners with organizations and individual helping professionals, creatives, coaches, CEOs, educators, and parents who want to learn how to use Story, Writing, and Community to open portals of (re)connection and belonging, (re)build resilience and trust, and (re)claim and leverage latent superpowers in themselves and their families, workplaces, and communities. With her partners at Saved By Story, she midwifes paradigm-shifting brands, content, and more whole thought leaders and storytellers into the world.

Amanda is also a speaker, author, and guide. When she’s not leading story-saving retreats or facilitating community co-creations, she’s at home tending the land and writing poetry under a magnolia tree.

www.SavedByStory.house – Writing, Publishing, and Story-saving for Individuals.
www.The-Story-Oracle.com – Speaking & Facilitating Story Literacy and Story-saving for Communities and Organizations.

Elaine Decker

Elaine Decker’s core offering: Release Your Trickster!
She invites you to rediscover the joy, mischief, and wisdom of your inner Trickster—because sometimes, the most serious thing we can do is laugh.

Elaine earned a PhD in Education from the University of British Columbia, with a focus on the interpretive and comic dimensions of being human. Her 50-year professional journey includes teaching at every level—elementary through post-secondary—and leadership in teacher education and community organizations.

Now retired from formal academia, Elaine devotes her energy to being a full-time Trickster and laughter activist. She draws from a lifetime of observing how humor, imagination, and disruption can be tools for transformation.

The Trickster archetype—a staple in mythology, science fiction, and real life—is the fool, the clown, the innovator, the one who questions the rules and reinvents the game. Through her course, Elaine helps participants tap into that archetype as a guide for resilience, creativity, and leadership in uncertain times.

Elaine invites you to strengthen your ability to celebrate life’s gifts and challenges (both individually and collectively) and to help co-create a more compassionate, playful, and loving world.