Coaching / Facilitation Training & Experience

2009 – present

Ripe Paradigm Weekend Workshops

• Indulge! Let Go & Let Live
• Shadow, Expression & Harnessing Big Emotions
• Path, Power & Potential

The mission of these weekends is to inspire and empower women to cultivate authentic leadership and claim our power to transform our families and communities. This series of weekends is a collaboration between 20 women expert facilitators and myself.

2007 – present

Ongoing Women’s Life Mastery Circles

Mastery of Life . Money . Relationships: These women’s groups meet every other week. While the women in the group are encouraged to bring their skills as leaders, teacher and facilitators to the circles, I regularly lead group discussions, processes, meditations and group hypnosis sessions. Groups size ranges from 5-8 participants.

• Consistently feel your depth as a woman and be witnessed by other women. -  Use this year long circle to experience a profound claiming of your radiance and your life path.

• Effortlessly shift the focus of your attention so that you can actually relax and be more authentic as a woman – do less and get much, much more back.

• Wake up the vibrant parts of yourself. – Stay in touch with your many facets. People in your life will know and feel that you are fully expressed. You’ll be the warm, feminine woman who is in touch with your feelings and your power.

• Get what you want out of your relationships – more honesty, more depth, more fun, more sharing. With the tools you’ll experience in this circle you’ll inspire people to start wanting to lean in to you and want to connect. It’s this sharing and deepening of your feeling state that provides the juice in your life and relationships.

• Connect to your authentic self so you never again have to feel like you’ve lost yourself inside life and “to do list”

• Delve into the whole spectrum of feelings you have as a woman, and then be able to express it fully – cultivating a way of being with a that’s incredibly powerful and also sustainable.

2007 – present

Women Overflowing Circle – Ongoing

This women’s group meets at my home every wed eve. While the women in the group are encouraged to bring their skills as leaders, teacher and facilitators to the circles, I regularly lead group discussions, processes, meditations and group hypnosis sessions. Groups size ranges from 5-8 participants.

2003 – present

Women’s Art Therapy Workshops

• Traveling Alters
• Visions Boards / Treasure Maps
• Visionary Mask-Making

2000 – present

Trance Dance Journey Workshops

I Guide groups of 12-50 participants in Breathwork, blindfolded trance dance, guided meditation.

Blind Delirium (2006) with Jerry Candelaria and Swami

Trance Dance Journey Workshops with Parashakti & Wilbert Alex , New York, NY

1999 – present

Women’s Dance Circles / Dance Journey workshops.

dance and ritual dance / performance workshops and ongoing Women’s dance circles.

I started guiding Women’s Dance circles in NYC, eventually forming an all women’s ritual dance performance group. I continue to enjoy dancing with groups of 6-15 women in these circles in the Bay Area

Training:  Facilitation . Communication . Relationships

2009 – Bryan Franklin Coaching Program, 12 Month Coaching & Leadership Program
Bryan Franklin (415) 990 – 9891 http://www.california-leadership.com/bryanfranklin.php
The Coaching Program will provide you with all the skills and tools you need to be an extraordinary coach and a successful leader. The Program begins with the acquisition of hard and soft skills while facilitating personal growth. During the program you will be guided to find and disarm your personal triggers — those events, topics or people that break your concentration and momentum and are keeping you from having what you want.

2008 – Embodied Inner-Power, Advanced Practice Group
Scott Longwell, Director 510 . 836 . 2041 http://www.wholebodywisdom.com
Practicing WholeBody Wisdom over a period of months, participants gain the benefits experienced in long term coaching. By doing this as part of a committed group, participants will have the opportunity to come fully alive in Community. This is an opportunity to take your embodied inner-power to a new depth and truly integrate it in your life. Be open, powerful and fully embodied even in your most challenging situations / Show up in such a way that it is a joy for others to be with you / Offer Embodied Inner-Power Coaching to others / Own, embody and celebrate your full emotional range: from fear, sadness and anger — to joy, excitement and bliss  / Stay joyful, open and in your powerful center, as you receive feedback / Compellingly Speak your Truth  –  while staying in your body and connected to your heart and your sexuality

2008 – Radical Honesty
Brad Blanton, Ph.D., Facilitator 1-800-EL-TRUTH, http://radicalhonesty.com/
In this workshop, you will learn how honesty leads to greater intimacy and discover how to speak and listen honestly. You will have the opportunity to free yourself from the assumptions, illusions, beliefs and expectations that cause stress and suffering. You will experience the freedom that comes from telling the truth and have techniques that give you a great starting place to practice in your life. You will witness and/or participate in hot seat work, gain an understanding and appreciation for the “experienced experience” versus the non-experienced experience, and practice all these techniques in experiential exercises.

2007 – Inspiring Masculine Presence, Unleashing Feminine Fire
Scott Longwell, Director 510 . 836 . 2041 http://www.wholebodywisdom.com
All men & women naturally possess both Masculine & Feminine qualities — different people have different mixes of each. This workshop helps us find what our intrinsic individual mix is — and experience the strength and freedom inherent in acting from that authentic place. People are most powerful, effective and free when they can animate both their masculine and feminine aspects from a place of love and openness.

2006 – The Max: Stretching the Limits of Your Self-Expression
Paula Shaw, Facilitator 831 . 667 . 3000 Esalen Institute http://www.esalen.org/
An outrageous voyage through your own humanity…turn yourself inside out and explore the extent of your self-expressive power. It employs a variety of acting, communication, and observation methods designed to expand your limits “to the max” and move you into a new arena of personal creativity and self-expression.

2005 – Giving Good No
Scott Longwell, Director 510 . 836 . 2041 http://www.wholebodywisdom.com
Speak your full truth powerfully, even in the most challenging situations. Stay open, loving and connected when communicating your limits and requests.

2005 – The Arete Experience
Arete Center for Excellence, San Francisco, CA 415 . 513 . 5076 http://www.aretecenter.com
In the same way that a mirror allows you to see a blind spot, this community experience shines light on areas in your life that may be just out of your view. You will be shown how to recognize the ways of interacting with people which are authentic to your values, and to recognize the same in others.

2005 – Getting to Grace, Introduction to NLP
Jason McClain, Presenter 415 . 424 . 8995 I.D.E.A. http://evolutionaryawareness.com

2002  – Level II  Professional Rebirthing Facilitation Course, 50 hours
Theresa Pack, Director 707 . 485 . 8197 Mendocino School for Holistic Massage, Redwood Valley, CA http://www.holisticmassage.net
Breathwork, counseling skills and the study of Coping Patterns, Personal Negatives, Mind/Body Healing Potentials. Gained insight into the unconscious patterns and issues that influence personal relationships, fears, goals, motivations, reoccurring patterns of tension, and general life obstacles. Rebirthing allows us to communicate with the psyche and inner child to deal with issues most traditional psychotherapy cannot address.

2001 – Level I  Professional Rebirthing Facilitation Course, 50 hours
Theresa Pack, Director 707 . 485 . 8197 Mendocino School for Holistic Massage, Redwood Valley, CA http://www.holisticmassage.net
Counseling, breathwork facilitation and in depth look at Pre- and Perinatal Psychology, Pre-Natal and Birth Trauma. Gained insight into the unconscious patterns and issues that influence personal relationships, fears, goals, motivations, reoccurring patterns of tension, and general life obstacles. Rebirthing allows us to communicate with the psyche and inner child to deal with issues most traditional psychotherapy cannot address.  Current perspectives on pre- and perinatal psychology presented as well as tools for holistic counseling.

2001 – Kripalu School Of Yoga, Professional Yoga Instructor Training
Melanie Armstrong, Director 413 . 448 . 3152 Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, Lenox, MA http://www.kripalu.org/

1999 – Meditation Intensive Series
Integral Yoga Center, New York, NY http://www.integralyogany.org
A study of basic meditation techniques.