Championing Change Makers
Formative studies, affiliations and trainings have included:
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Capital Institute, Introduction to Regenerative Economics and Finance for a Regenerative Economy, investigating how John Fullerton's 8 Principles of Regenerative Vitality can to be applied to economies, investments and finance. Participant in AI & Ethics and Regenerative Tech Working Groups in Capital Institute community.
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Social Venture Circle/American Sustainable Business Network community comprised of innovative business leaders and social entrepreneurs. ​
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National Institute for Digital Health and Wellness (NIDHW). Executive Advisory Panel for Dr. Nicholas Kardaras, PhD's nonprofit offering digital health education, resources, prevention services, treatment and training to schools, individuals, therapists and organizations. Presented "100+ Tech Life Balance Tips" at the Digital Wellness Institute's inaugural summit, emphasizing the essential need to slow down, to proactively work with stress, and to take steps to promote health and wellness to counter the increasing tech dominance in our lives.
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Hellinger Constellation Training. Participated in Hellinger Family & Organizational Constellation year-long training with leading German facilitators. Facilitated this extraordinary approach to uncovering and resolving hidden family and organizational dynamics throughout the U.S. over a decade, and continue to use its principles and approaches to healing and resolution in consulting.
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Building Biology Institute (USA). Advisory Board Member of leading U.S. green building and green living educational organization training architects, engineers, builders, physicians, environmental consultants and other health practitioners in green building best practices.
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Wireless Technologies. Intensive study over 15 years in the biological and health effects of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) as a leading activist working closely with EMF-informed scientists, physicians, researchers and environmental consultants. Extended EMF expertise into digital health, tech addiction, tech-life balance and algorithm bias. Awarded the American Academy of Environmental Medicine's most prestigious Jonathan Forman Award for outstanding contribution in the field of environmental medicine.
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Kinder Institute of Life Planning. Completed The 7-Stages of Money Maturity Training® led by mindfulness teacher George Kinder, founder of the fee-only financial planning industry and author of A Golden Civilization and The Map of Mindfulness.
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Satyana Institute, Gender Equity and Reconciliation International Program. Participated in gender equity and reconciliation experiential immersion inspired by Archbishop Desmond Tutu's Truth and Reconciliation work, now taught in 18 countries. Intensely examined dysfunctional gender bias and conditioning long-impacting men and women globally, learning a potent, and now globally renowned, path to resolution and healing.
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Hoffman Quadrinity Process. Experienced the leading-edge Hoffman Quadrinity Process. Subsequently consulted for the Hoffman Institute and raised funding for university research on this potent program of personal transformation, liberating people from cultural and family conditioning while expanding a person's connection with Spirit.
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Robbins Research International. Completed courses led by Tony Robbins and subscribe to his Inner Circle platform for ongoing learning.
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Power as Knowing Participation in Change. Collaborated closely with the late Dr. Elizabeth Barrett regarding her unique model of power, combining her 'Power as Knowing Participation in Change' assessment tool used in research settings with mental imagery exercises as a means of working at one's edges towards greater inner freedom and self-mastery.
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American Institute for Mental Imagery. Coursework with renowned psychiatrist, Gerald Epstein, MD. Co-produced The Natural Laws of Self-Healing: Harnessing Your Inner Imaging Power to Restore Health and Reach Spirit audio series with Dr. Epstein, published by Nightingale-Conant. Have taught mental imagery for people with health or life challenges for twenty-five years.
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Falling Awake Intensive. Completed program led by award-winning author, Dave Ellis, coach to national and international nonprofit leaders, social entrepreneurs, philanthropists and coaches.
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Center for Purposeful Leadership. Attended the Art of Convening Program with Craig and Patricia Neal reimagining the nature of leadership as authentic, heart-based and purposeful.
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Dietrich Klinghardt, M.D., PhD. Eight years attending training with renowned Integrative physician Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt, in Seattle, learning Autonomic Response Testing (ART), Psychokinesiology, Hellinger Family Constellations, Emotional Freedom Technique, dental factors in health, and learning Dr. Klinghardt's unique method of prioritizing natural treatment approaches within his '5 Levels of Healing' framework.
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Water Communication Science. Learned how frontier water communications science presents an entirely new paradigm for understanding human and planetary health. Actively working with researchers in this area for the application of scientific discoveries in regenerative agriculture, more.
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Subtle Energies. Studied subtle energy and various means to work with it with the late Russian physicist, Yury Kronn, PhD, of Energy Tools International; and with Linda Lancaster, ND of Light Harmonics Institute; Dietrich Klinghardt, MD, PhD of the Klinghardt Institute and Tom Tam, LAc at the Tam Healing Center. Am a long-time meditator. Have studied painting, singing, movement, breathing and writing for health; Reiki, Homeopathy, Tai Chi, Tong Ren, Ayurveda, radiesthesia and sound, color and light therapies.
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Eastern and Western Spiritual Traditions. Experienced many programs involving different spiritual traditions over thirty years, including, for example, with Professor Robert Thurman, PhD/Tibet House; Kirtans with Krishna Das; Joan Halifax/Upaya Zen Center; Ram Dass; Joe Loizzo, MD/Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science; George Kinder/silent meditation retreats; Gerald Epstein, MD, a scholar of western traditions; programs of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS); participated in Grace Cathedral Spirituality & Business group; Visited religious venues in New York City at a young age for briefings on the world's religions through a United Nations-affiliated program; and was invited to attend a private meeting with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and western medical doctors at Beth Israel Hospital in New York City.
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Other Mindfulness Approaches. Studied Professor Dr. Herbert Benson's 'relaxation response' and other mind-body approaches at the Harvard Mind Body Medical Institute, supporting stress resilience and self-care for people facing serious and chronic illness, including yoga, tai chi, meditation, breathing, whole body relaxation, cognitive skills and positive psychology; Completed Dr. James Gordon's Cancer Guides Training at the Center for Mind Body Medicine in Washington, D.C. learning supportive approaches to serving people with cancer; Trained in the universal principles of Attitudinal Healing to support patients facing chronic illness at the Center for Attitudinal Healing in Sausalito, CA.
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Plant-Based Nutrition. Immersed in Dr. Joel Fuhrman's 30-day Eat to Live Retreat learning the science behind plant-based nutrition, while gaining further insights into problems with chemical-based agriculture, food quality and ways to effectively support health with nutrient-dense and whole foods. Earlier nutrition training included study with Annemarie Colbin, PhD, author of Food and Healing, at the Natural Gourmet Institute in NY; with Gabriel Cousens, MD at the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in AZ; at Hippocrates Health Institute in FL; and at the Optimum Health Institute in CA and TX.
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U.S. Health Freedom Congress. Long-time member of the U.S. Health Freedom Congress, a consortium of leading U.S. activists focused on different topics (health, food, environment, technology, etc.) who gather annually, building solidarity and providing updates on their fields of advocacy as relates to health freedom. Honored as a Wisdom Speaker, and delivered an acclaimed keynote in 2018, “The Inner Dimension of Activism".
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Adventure & Outdoor Travel. Participant in Women's Quest Adventure Travel programs led by former World Champion, Colleen Cannon, emphasizing reconnection with Nature. Two-time graduate of Outward Bound. Significant International Travel, including immersive experiences in 25 foreign countries.