VALDO LALLEMAND

Valdo was shaken after the ending of a 25-year marriage and vowed it would only happen once (the divorce… not the 25 years!) and that he would decrease that probability for his friends.

He has the uncanny ability to know how to get couples out of funk, to know where the juice is and how to reclaim and distill it, to transform painful struggles into deeper love and appreciation.

He believes that love has to be liberated — without intentional worldly and divine intervention, couples are bound to trade freedom for security, to barter aliveness for comfort, to bargain the willingness to do whatever it takes for the ease of time-tested but mediocre solutions.

He also believes that most traditional couple counseling and therapy approaches lack effectiveness as they fail to get to the core, to the love and aliveness that brought the couple together, to the playfulness they experienced when they first fell in love, to the embers that scream “let’s stoke this fire!” when the only words that come are blame for our partner for not playing their part, to the stagnant love that yearns to be revived and liberated.

Playful, charismatic, insightful, Valdo leads Happy Couples with unshakable dedication and purpose. His embodied presence and wisdom compel you to become a better lover/wife/man/boyfriend (whatever applies).

… and it seems that single clients are finding the romance they are looking for…

All that with a delightful French accent!

THE FINE PRINT:

Valdo grew up in Paris, France and received his degree from one of France's premier engineering schools, l'Ecole Centrale. He moved to Seattle at 28 and has led multiple business passions in parallel:

• Corporate training and consulting in Leadership, Team development, Creativity and Innovation. Clients include Boeing, Children's Hospital, Cinnabon, Microsoft, the Pacific Science Center, REI, the University of Washington, and the YMCA.

• Designing and building ziplines, aerial adventure parks, tree houses and other play structures all over North America.

• Developing games for increased individual and team growth in highly complex matters such as innovation, organizational change and leadership maturity.

In parallel, Valdo has pursued personal development in multiple areas from relationships, to men’s work, to trauma healing, to leadership maturity, to presence and awareness, to intuition, to Nonviolent Communication.

His enthusiastic passion, visionary approach, collaborative spirit and irrepressible humor have infused his work in the field of adventure learning and transformation. It is with mature depth and relaxed presence that he is leading Happy Couples Play Together.