Meet Our Team

Jade Sirisompan

Managing Director

Jade has an MSC in psychology and has been working in the mental health sector for the past two years. Jade also has extensive experience in the Muay Thai and fitness industry as a professional fighter and champion, personal trainer, gym manager and fight promoter. Jade was born and raised in England until the age of 14, then moved to Thailand.

Under the guidance of Jade’s father, Muay Thai legend Chinawut Sirisompan, famously known as Grandmaster Woody, she found a passion for the Martial Arts industry, management, teaching, promotions, and more.

M2Sentient is a space where sensory therapy and mental wellness meet. Using the 5 Senses to Promote Mental Wellness. Touch, Sight, Hearing, Smell and Taste.

Sentience refers to the capacity to experience sensations and feelings, to be conscious, and to perceive and respond to stimuli in the environment. It is often used to describe the property of being able to experience sensations such as pleasure, pain, and emotions.

Claudia Maschke

Sensory Therapy Assistant

Claudia has her Hons in Psychology at the University of Cape Town after having completed a short-course in Mental Health, Mindfulness and Self-Care. Claudia was born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa to German-South African parents and speaks both fluent German and English.

Claudia has experience in both the fashion, retail and social media fi eld, having been the head of Social Media for M2bio Sciences before stepping into her role as Sensory Therapy Assistant to Jade.

Having been raised in such a cosmopolitan city surrounded by oceans, mountains and forests has allowed her to appreciate the power of connecting with nature in harmonising and balancing the mind. Today Claudia is inspired by her passion for holistic health, wellness and people-centered care to promote sensory therapy and mental wellness.

Goal

M2Sentient's goal is to educate and promote mental wellness through the senses.

  • Sight

    Approximately 80% of all the information we perceive comes through our sense of sight. The human eye can distinguish about 10 million different colors.

  • Hearing

    The average range of human hearing is between 20 Hz and 20,000 Hz. However, as we age, our ability to hear higher frequencies diminishes. Roughly 15% of adults aged 20 to 69 have high-frequency hearing loss due to exposure to loud noises.

  • Touch

    The skin is the largest organ of the human body and contains millions of sensory receptors. It is estimated that the human hand alone has about 17,000 touch receptors. Additionally, our sense of touch can discriminate between different textures with great sensitivity, down to differences of a few micrometers.

  • Smell

    The human nose can distinguish between thousands of different odors. Women generally have a better sense of smell compared to men. It is estimated that women have, on average, 50% more olfactory cells, which are responsible for detecting smells.

  • Taste

    There are five primary tastes: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami (savory). However, recent research suggests the existence of additional tastes, such as fat and metallic. Contrary to popular belief, different regions of the tongue are not exclusively responsible for detecting specific tastes.