UNBOUNDED & THE PEOPLE

This community exists because of the people inside it. Facilitators, creatives, volunteers, and contributors who found their way here and stayed.

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Nick Mcnaught
FOUNDER, FACILITATOR
Nick is a co-founder of Unbounded and the operational backbone behind its experiences. He brings structure, safety, and clarity to everything from small workshops to large-scale public events, leading from inside the experience rather than above it. His work with nervous system regulation began after losing a close friend to drowning. What started as a personal practice with cold exposure became a way to meet discomfort without resistance and stay present through challenge. Nick facilitates with a focus on safety, breath, and attention, helping people move through fight-or-flight rather than against it.
Approach
Uses breath, cold, and music to support nervous system regulation and grounded presence.
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Lisa
FOUNDER, FACILITATOR
Nick is a co-founder of Unbounded and the operational backbone behind its experiences. He brings structure, safety, and clarity to everything from small workshops to large-scale public events, leading from inside the experience rather than above it. His work with nervous system regulation began after losing a close friend to drowning. What started as a personal practice with cold exposure became a way to meet discomfort without resistance and stay present through challenge. Nick facilitates with a focus on safety, breath, and attention, helping people move through fight-or-flight rather than against it.
Approach
Uses breath, cold, and music to support nervous system regulation and grounded presence.
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Zach
FOUNDER, FACILITATOR
Nick is a co-founder of Unbounded and the operational backbone behind its experiences. He brings structure, safety, and clarity to everything from small workshops to large-scale public events, leading from inside the experience rather than above it. His work with nervous system regulation began after losing a close friend to drowning. What started as a personal practice with cold exposure became a way to meet discomfort without resistance and stay present through challenge. Nick facilitates with a focus on safety, breath, and attention, helping people move through fight-or-flight rather than against it.
Approach
Uses breath, cold, and music to support nervous system regulation and grounded presence.
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Ron Mcnaught
FOUNDER, FACILITATOR
Nick is a co-founder of Unbounded and the operational backbone behind its experiences. He brings structure, safety, and clarity to everything from small workshops to large-scale public events, leading from inside the experience rather than above it. His work with nervous system regulation began after losing a close friend to drowning. What started as a personal practice with cold exposure became a way to meet discomfort without resistance and stay present through challenge. Nick facilitates with a focus on safety, breath, and attention, helping people move through fight-or-flight rather than against it.
Approach
Uses breath, cold, and music to support nervous system regulation and grounded presence.

Nick

Nick

Lisa

Lisa

Zach

Zach

Ron

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Nick Mcnaught
FOUNDER, FACILITATOR
Nick is a co-founder of Unbounded and the operational backbone behind its experiences. He brings structure, safety, and clarity to everything from small workshops to large-scale public events, leading from inside the experience rather than above it. His work with nervous system regulation began after losing a close friend to drowning. What started as a personal practice with cold exposure became a way to meet discomfort without resistance and stay present through challenge. Nick facilitates with a focus on safety, breath, and attention, helping people move through fight-or-flight rather than against it.
Approach
Uses breath, cold, and music to support nervous system regulation and grounded presence.
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Lisa
FOUNDER, FACILITATOR
Lisa Kricfalusi Lisa is a co-founder of Unbounded and the intuitive heart behind its curriculum. She brings deep somatic awareness and scientific rigor to every practice, guiding participants to explore their internal landscapes while fostering a space of radical self-acceptance and connection.

Her path to regulation opened during a season of profound loss. After surviving a series of life-altering tragedies in just eight weeks, she turned to the cold to find her center and rediscover a foundation of lasting self-love.

Lisa facilitates with a blend of intuition and sports psychology, moving students from perceived limitation into embodied confidence through lived practice
Approach
Blends science and somatic intuition to help people develop a deeper relationship with themselves
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Zach
FOUNDER, FACILITATOR
Zach is a co-founder of Unbounded and the creative eye behind its cinematic identity. He captures the raw, human moments that define the practice, translating the visceral feeling of the elements into visual stories that inspire deep global connection.

Living as a core founder during the first winter of the pandemic, he documented the brand’s accidental birth in the frozen lake. He believes that authentic storytelling is the bridge between cognitive theory and the embodied experience.

Zach facilitates through the lens, noticing the small details and human breakthroughs that occur when people voluntarily face the gentle extreme.
Approach
Uses visual storytelling and cinematic journeys to make the science of wellness accessible and human
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Ron Mcnaught
FOUNDER, FACILITATOR
Ron is a co-founder of Unbounded and a key strategic architect of its brand presence. He ensures the movement's message of resilience reaches the world, balancing the technical demands of media relations with the core human values of the community

He was an original member of the pandemic-era incubator, living in the frozen highlands to help build the business from the ground up
. He believes that true purpose is found in the work, not the accolade

Ron focuses on the collective experience, encouraging participants to embrace discomfort as a tool for genuine, lasting, and monumental cellular change
Approach
Focuses on willpower and acceptance to help individuals face fears and find inner bliss

Nick

CO-FOUNDER

Lisa

CO-FOUNDER

Zach

CO-FOUNDER

Ron

CO-FOUNDER

MEET THE FACILITATORS

The people who hold the space. Guides shaped by lived experience, deep training, and the ability to meet people where they are.

TIZ MCNAMARA

BEN

DAN

SARA

Tiz McNamara

Breathwork, meditation, and practitioner trained in contrast therapy, Compassionate Inquiry, and trauma-informed somatic approaches.
Approach
Uses breath, cold, and music to support nervous system regulation and grounded presence.
Lived Experience
Believes real confidence comes from doing hard things with awareness.
ROLE IN THE COMMUNITY
Co creator and host across a multitude of Unbounded programming.

Ben Dussault

Unbounded Facilitator using water therapy to help people process deep emotional states and move forward with clarity.
Approach
Uses cold water to safely explore physical and emotional layers, helping individuals acknowledge fear, sadness, and access present joy.
Lived Experience
Believes pain and joy can coexist through heightened awareness.
ROLE IN THE COMMUNITY
Facilitator guiding practitioners through internal stages of the work.

Dan Jackson

Unbounded Facilitator focused on resilience and improving the body’s response to stress.
Approach
Uses cold exposure to micro-dose stress, helping individuals surrender to discomfort and build confidence in facing fear.
Lived Experience
Believes overcoming fear leads to lasting change and deeper states of bliss.
ROLE IN THE COMMUNITY
Facilitator fostering collective growth through shared discomfort.

Tiz McNamara

Breathwork, meditation, and CBT practitioner. Trained in contrast therapy, Compassionate Inquiry, somatic and trauma informed approaches. Cross trained across all Unbounded programs.
Approach
Uses breath, cold, and music to support nervous system regulation and grounded presence.
Lived Experience
Believes real confidence comes from doing hard things with awareness.
ROLE IN THE COMMUNITY
Co creator and host across a multitude of Unbounded programming.

MEET THE CREATORS

This work is captured by some incredible people inside the community.
Many arrived as guests. Many arrived as guests. They stayed because they felt part of it.

Kaitlin

RICHARD

CHRIS

Kaitlin Narciso

Kaitlin first discovered Unbounded while covering a pop-up for work, where her first cold plunge sparked a lasting connection to contrast therapy and the community around it.
Approach
My storytelling revolves around capturing moments, meaning and the feeling of coming back into regulation one plunge, sweat and breath at a time.
ROLE IN THE COMMUNITY
From guest to team member, I now supports Unbounded workshops and retreats across Canada and abroad.

Richard Nichol
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Outdoor photographer and contrast therapy practitioner who uses cold exposure and light to build resilience and creative focus. Captures raw moments of challenge and transformation while standing alongside the Unbounded community through every plunge.
Approach
Cold, cameras, and contrast. I spend my time outdoors chasing light and leaning into discomfort to capture powerful places and moments.
ROLE IN THE COMMUNITY
My role with Unbounded goes beyond photography I get to stand alongside an incredible community building something greater together.

Chris Psutka

I am a self-taught videographer, driven by a deep curiosity for people, stories, and meaningfulexperiences.
Approach
Seeing the world through a lens shapes how I tell stories capturing emotion, detail and genuine human connection through immersive visual narratives.
ROLE IN THE COMMUNITY
I’m passionate about documenting contrast therapy and the moments when people embrace challenge and emerge stronger.

Meet the Community

This work is captured by some incredible people inside the community.
Many arrived as guests. Many arrived as guests. They stayed because they felt part of it.

Community that breathes, connects, and embraces resilience together
Hundreds of Torontonians Will Dive Into an Frigid Lake
Wild energy at
Toronto Sauna Festival

How THIS community took shape

Unbounded formed like a living system. One person practicing, another nearby, rhythms slowly overlapping. What moved between them wasn’t instruction but presence. People absorbed the practice by staying close, returning, and letting it shape them over time. As more bodies entered, the organism grew. Roles weren’t assigned; they emerged. Unbounded continues to move because people keep choosing to step in together.

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S.K.
“It challenges me, energizes me, and reconnects me with who I am. Every time I leave, I make a new friend. I’ll keep coming back.”
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L.P.
“Coming from a warm country, community means everything to me.
I didn’t expect cold water to feel so warm. Unbounded gave me the people I was missing.”
Woman in a black swimsuit and furry hat joyfully splashing water at a cold beach event with a crowd in swimwear behind her.
Smiling man wearing sunglasses on his head and a colorful rainbow shirt standing outdoors with trees in the background.
A.M.
“The cold gives me space to let my body and my fears come out. In the tub, I can finally think about nothing. When I warm up again, it’s incredible. It lets me fully be myself.”
Person in blue tank top lying face down on a massage table receiving shoulder massage from a person with geometric tattoos on their arm.
Woman with braided hair wearing a dark blue bikini top standing outdoors with trees and a clear sky in the background.
J.R.
“Sunrise Social felt like a reset.
The breathwork, movement, stretching, and yoga helped me reconnect with my body in a way I wasn’t expecting.”
Man wearing a wide-brimmed hat and patterned shirt playing a blue acoustic guitar and singing into a microphone outdoors.
Three women in pink sports bras and navy leggings performing a fitness exercise on an outdoor stage under a bridge.
Shirtless young man with dreadlocks and a tattoo on his right arm sitting outdoors with trees in the background.
S.K.
“It challenges me, energizes me, and reconnects me with who I am. Every time I leave, I make a new friend. I’ll keep coming back.”
Group of people holding hands inside a small outdoor pool with a woman smiling on the edge.
Shirtless young man with dreadlocks and a tattoo on his right arm sitting outdoors with trees in the background.
L.P.
“Coming from a warm country, community means everything to me.
I didn’t expect cold water to feel so warm. Unbounded gave me the people I was missing.”
Woman in a black swimsuit and furry hat joyfully splashing water at a cold beach event with a crowd in swimwear behind her.
Smiling man wearing sunglasses on his head and a colorful rainbow shirt standing outdoors with trees in the background.
A.M.
“The cold gives me space to let my body and my fears come out. In the tub, I can finally think about nothing. When I warm up again, it’s incredible. It lets me fully be myself.”
Person in blue tank top lying face down on a massage table receiving shoulder massage from a person with geometric tattoos on their arm.
Woman with braided hair wearing a dark blue bikini top standing outdoors with trees and a clear sky in the background.
J.R.
“Sunrise Social felt like a reset.
The breathwork, movement, stretching, and yoga helped me reconnect with my body in a way I wasn’t expecting.”
Man wearing a wide-brimmed hat and patterned shirt playing a blue acoustic guitar and singing into a microphone outdoors.

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