Gabriel Gonsalves is a love coach, seminar leader, consultant and the host of the Love Town Podcast, and My Beloved Community.
As a host, he has interviewed such notable South African personalities as Dr. Eve, Soli Philander, Colin Vivian Jones, Theo Malherbe, among many others. The Love Town Podcast is Gabriel’s online space for creating conversations about love, relationships and sexuality, and it reaches listeners around the world through Cape Town based The Taxi Radio.
As a love coach, Gabriel coaches men and women all over the world to connect with their hearts and navigate the challenging world of love, relationships and sexuality. As a group facilitator and consultant with an academic background in New Thought/Ancient Wisdom Spirituality, Gabriel facilitates workshops on ‘Integral Meditation Practices’, ‘Manifesting Love’, ‘Releasing a Person’, ‘Dating Spiritually’ and ‘Reconciling Spirituality with Sexuality’.
In 2008 Gabriel founded My Beloved Community, (formerly known as Agape) a spiritual community based in Cape Town where he teaches meditation, life visioning, and several other integral spiritual practices for modern day living. Every month he hosts and facilitates the Cape Town Full Moon Meditations with special local musical guests.
Balancing out the coaching and teaching sides are Gabriel’s filmmaking and artistic endeavors. Gabriel has written, performed and produced several television and film projects including “I Love Lucas” and “Father’s Eyes”. While living inVenezuela he performed in front of the camera as an actor in several soap operas for RCTV. While living in Los Angeles he worked at Sony Pictures and helped launch several award winning films distributed by Sony Pictures Classics. Gabriel is currently developing a documentary feature film entitled ‘The Ubuntu Spirit: Africa’s Gift to the World”. As a writer, has recently completed his first book ‘A Gift from God: Embracing Your Divine Right to be Gay’ which will be published in 2012.
Gabriel has had the privilege of studying with Michael Bernard Beckwith, Marianne Williamson, Ken Wilber, Dr. Phil McGraw, Kathryn Alice, Dr. Tom Sannar, Dr. David Hawkins, James Twyman, Brenda Davies, Greg Braden, Sobonfu Some, David Allen, Stephen Covey, Dr. Masaru Emoto, Paul Scheele, Brad Yates, Loral Langemeier, Gerd Pontow, Charlie Morley, Brian Johnson, and many other amazing people along the way.
Gabriel’s work has been featured in Odyssey Magazine, The Pink Tongue, The Chronicle, as well as several online websites such as eZine Articles, andSelfGrowth.com.
Gabriel is sigle and lives in Cape Town, South Africa with his dog Ubuntu. He visits the United States and Venezuela as often as possible.