Staff
Christopher Collins
Director
MSW, CMA
A lifelong learner and community organizer, Christopher is dedicated to building social structures that nurture creative potential and authentic connection.
His early professional work included co-founding a grassroots arts nonprofit and serving as a clinical social worker in public schools and hospitals. These experiences deepened his respect for the transformative power of creative mutual aid and exposed him to the systemic inequities that often undermine compassionate care.
In early 2020, Christopher relocated to Western Massachusetts, drawn by its vibrant culture of movement, ecological stewardship, and community-centered living. In the spring of 2023 he founded the Hidden Temple, a community center in Florence, MA devoted to embodied wisdom, relational healing, and creative expression. There, he facilitates group classes, workshops, and manages the day to day operation of the space.
In his private practice, Christopher integrates his training as a Clinical Social Worker, Certified Movement Analyst (Laban/Bartenieff) and Family Systems Constellations facilitator to support individuals and groups in accessing embodied intelligence, creative agency, and ancestral insight.
Christopher lives in nearby Leeds, MA with his wife Charlotte and their beloved animal companions, Cooper and Poushka.
Olivia Frank / Liv Liora
Operations Witch
Liv is thrilled to be holding the role of Operations Coordinator at the Hidden Temple. With a B.A. in Sociology and Inter-Group Relations, her early professional work focused on prison reform, restorative justice, and multicultural education. After the #MeToo movement she began focusing on somatic facilitation and cultural healing work, teaching consent workshops and serving as a lead organizer with Touch&Play (https://touchandplay.org/). That path led to Tantra and sacred sexuality work, where she helps people connect to their whole healthy selves. She builds cultures of embodied presence, relational repair, responsibility, and collective care. Joy, rest, laughter and pleasure are also central to her praxis. She holds her Jewish roots and lineage dear and reveres the process of ancestral connection and intergenerational healing. Fertile life is her compass; all things related to the living body (birth, death and all the thresholds between) are her places of work and attention. She looks forward to deepening the wild web of local artists and visionaries at the Hidden Temple and beyond.