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Weeks July 11 - July 25, 2010
Jennifer Lee, MA, PCC, CPCC
Certified Coach, Author, Artist, Expressive Arts Facilitator
Artizen Coaching®
Oakland, CA USA
web: http://www.artizencoaching.com and http://www.rightbrainbusinessplan.com
blog: http://www.lifunfoldsblog.com
1. What do you do?
I inspire people to awaken their inner muse and live life in full color. As a certified coach, author, artist, and musepreneur, I provide individual and group life/business coaching, expressive arts and intuitive painting facilitation, creative playshops and e-courses, and innovative products. My clients are professional women seeking more balance, meaning, and fulfillment and creative entrepreneurs launching and growing their business.
I'm the author of The Right-Brain Business Plan: A Creative, Visual Plan for Success (New World Library 2011) and the creator of the Unfolding Your Life Vision® portable vision board kit.
When I'm not coaching, writing, or leading groups, I'm either painting up a storm, reading in my hammock, practicing yoga, getting crafty, indulging in a mid-day nap, or hanging with my hubby and our adorable beagle-mix.
2. How have you prepared for your career?
By paying attention to what lights me up. By moving through fear. By taking risks. By making wrong turns and learning from them. By investing in my personal growth. By trusting my gut and following my heart.
I've always been creative. My favorite childhood pastimes included drawing and painting, so it's only natural that creativity infuses my work and life now.
In 2000, I hired my first first coach and thought it would be cool to do that for a living "someday." Well, three years later, I started my coach training and began building my practice all while holding down a demanding full-time job, managing organizational change and coaching executives. In 2006, after 10 years of climbing the corporate ladder and getting tired of living my dream on the side, I took the leap to pursue my passions full time and haven't looked back since.
I deeply value learning and personal growth, so I’ve received my coaching certification through the Coaches Training Institute and graduated from their prestigious leadership program, I’m a certified Ashtanga yoga instructor, and a certified Intuitive Painting and Expressive Arts Facilitator. I also hold a B.A. in Communication Studies from UCLA and an M.A. in Communication Management from USC.
3. Why are you called to this work?
The world needs more beauty, spaciousness, and authentic creative expression. When people are living in conscious collaboration with their inner muse, they shine more brightly and inspire others to do the same. Coaching, expressive arts, and creative entrepreneurship empower people to connect with and live from their intuitive wisdom. I'm beyond grateful to call this my life's work.
4. Do you work with individuals? Groups? Workshops? Conventions? Conferences?
Yes, all of the above.
5. Will you travel?
Yes, I will consider traveling.
6. Favorite color?
Sage green
7. If you were an instrument, which would you be?
A flute
8.What is your favorite style of dance to watch or do?
Any dance where people are fully expressing themselves. I also have a secret obsession with watching the show America's Best Dance Crew.
9. Favorite play or movie?
The Princess Bride. Makes me laugh every time.
10. Favorite song?
One of my favorite songs is Unwritten by Natasha Beddingfield. It's totally uplifting. I also am inspired by anything from India Arie.
11. Name one book that is inspiring to you.
Too hard to name just one so I'll narrow it down to a few:
- Nine Modern Day Muses and a Bodyguard by Jill Badonsky
- Juicy Pens Thirsty Paper by SARK
- A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink
Weeks June 27 - July 11, 2010
Anne Marie Bennett
SoulCollage® Facilitator and Trainer
web: www.kaleidosoul.com
1. What do you do?
I do all kinds of things! I play with the grandkids, mess around with watercolor and mixed media collage, sing in the shower, bake scones in the morning, read on the front porch.... Oh! You meant, what kind of "work" do I do?
I'm a SoulCollage® Facilitator and Facilitator Trainer. Mostly, my work consists of sharing the gift of SoulCollage® (as created by Seena Frost) as well as training others to do the same.
I lead half and full-day SoulCollage® workshops as well as weekend retreats in New England. And once or twice each year I lead a SoulCollage® Facilitator Training in Connecticut or Massachusetts.
Also, my SoulCollage-focused website, www.KaleidoSoul.com, keeps me really busy. I hope y'all will stop by, and just get a feel for the art and practice that is SoulCollage®. You'll find lots of examples of SoulCollage® cards, content about the process, how to make cards, information about the four suits, how to interpret a card, how to do a card reading, and lots and lots of examples. We also have a free monthly newsletter, Soul Songs, that you can sign up for.
2. How have you prepared for your career?
My background and degree is in Elementary Education. But I've always been in the hands of the archetype of Creativity. I left teaching behind when I met my husband in 1991 and put my creative energies into helping him raise his young children.
Then in 2004 I found SoulCollage®, and it was "love at first card." I went to Oregon to take all kinds of art classes in an "Art and Soul" Retreat (they didn't have them on the east coast at that time). And one of the classes was a full day SoulCollage® workshop. I was immediately drawn to it because it seemed like a combination of two of my favorite things- collage and inner work.
I came back east and immediately began sharing the process with family and friends in our dining room. And I realized how much I enjoyed leading others through the card making and then the inner discoveries that come with it. So I went back to the west coast that fall and took the SoulCollage® Facilitator Training with Seena Frost.
Since then I've led many more workshops and weekend retreats, and have developed the website to contain a Membership component with a weekly newsletter and monthly tele-classes. Also, in 2007-2008 I was chosen by Seena to be one of several Facilitator Trainers around the world, and I studied with her directly during that time. She is a wise, warm, loving, down-to-earth, wonder-full woman! So far I've led 4 trainings in New England and people from all over the U.S. and Canada have attended.
3. Why are you called to this work?
I like the way you've worded this question.... it does feel like a "calling" and it has, since the day I found it! I feel called to it because I love the "inner surprises" that happen to me (sometimes on really deep levels) when I make a card intuitively and then let it speak to me. And I love the wholeness and sweet authenticity that SoulCollage® brings to my life. I also am thrilled to be able to facilitate that process of creativity and wholeness and authenticity for others. One of the many beauties of SoulCollage® is that it transcends race, culture, and religion. When I facilitate workshops and trainings I really feel like I am bringing a rare gift to the world.
4. Do you work with individuals? Groups? Workshops? Conventions? Conferences?
I have done some one on one coaching with people, but most of my SoulCollage® work is with small groups (2-20) in the format of workshops and weekend retreat settings. Another facilitator and I are in the process of putting together a SoulCollage® at Sea cruise adventure for 50 people that will be lots of fun too!
I will also be one of the facilitators for GNEAF's workshop at Kripalu Yoga Center in Massachusetts in February 2011.
5. Will you travel?
Oh yes, I love to travel! And I am happy to go anywhere to share the wonders of SoulCollage®,
6.Favorite color?
I really can't pick just one. I was always baffled when I was little and people would ask me that.
I was also baffled when someone would say "blue" if someone asked them what their favorite color was. "Which kind of blue?" I wanted to ask. "Do you mean the blue that is like the sky in the morning or the blue that is like the ocean after a rainstorm?" So there's my answer to that question!
7. What is your favorite style of dance to watch or do?
One of my favorite TV shows is "So You Think You Can Dance." I've really gotten an education watching that show! It's all fascinating to me. I just love any kind of dance that tells a story. There have been some incredible dance routines on that show that have touched me on a soul level, even led me to tears they were so beautiful.
8. Favorite play or movie?
One of my passions is, and always has been, musical theatre. I was fortunate to work for 10 years at the North Shore Music Theatre, a large regional theatre near my home in Beverly. I was in heaven those 10 years because I got to see the shows as many times as I wanted.
My favorite musical of all time is "Into the Woods" by Stephen Sondheim. On the surface it's this really creative story that combines several characters from familiar fairy tales (the witch, the baker and his wife, Cinderella, Rapunzel, Jack and the Beanstalk, the Giant, two handsome princes...etc). And the second act is all about what happens after "happily ever after." It's very very funny and very very sad, and I love movies and theatre pieces (and art!) that flow me deeply into my emotions.
9. Favorite song?
So , so many. But right now, to choose only one, it would have to be "Feeling Good," the version that Adam Lambert sings. I just feel like every cell in my body rises to attention and feels good whether it wants to or not, whenever I hear that song!
Oh, and Praises for the World, by Jennifer Berezen.
10. Name one book that is inspiring to you.
Again, many, many, many! So I'm breaking the rules and am going to share 3:
1. SoulCollage, by Seena Frost
2. A Deep Breath of Life, by Alan Cohen
3. Radical Acceptance, by Tara Brach
Weeks June 13 - June 27, 2010
Lea Goode-Harris, Ph.D.
Labyrinth Design & Creative Consultant
web: www.leastudio.com
blog: http://lealabyrinth.typepad.com
1. What do you do?
I am a poet, a writer, mixed media artist, a creative consultant, and designer of labyrinths and sacred places. I strive through my art and creative consultations to assist people in finding beauty in their selves and surroundings, no matter where they are. I use labyrinths and my art as a bridge for the imagination and the heart, and as an inspiration for connection with self and the dance of being in relationship with others.
2. How have you prepared for your career?
All of my life experiences have prepared me for what I now do! And life, has given me a full range of those experiences! I returned to college for a traditional degree as a reentry student in mid life. I believed then that I was headed towards becoming a licensed psychologist. I encountered my first labyrinth in graduate school which changed forever the way I approach life and taught me my first real lesson of listening to the voice of my heart. I was the first Ph.D. graduate from the Institute of Imaginal Studies, now known as Meridian University. With the completion of my degree, I realized that being a psychologist did not fit with the way I wanted to work with people. I have been foraging a new way of working with people ever since.
3. Why are you called to this work?
It feeds my soul and imagination to work with people via the labyrinth and expressive arts. I love being present with others as they make their own discoveries and realizations of their individual and collective beauty. And I love the flexibility that comes with each encounter that is new and unknown.
4. Do you work with individuals? Groups? Workshops? Conventions? Conferences?
Yes, I work with individuals, groups, and provide workshops for small and large groups. I’ve been the keynote and featured speaker at numerous conventions and gatherings, corporate meetings, participated in labyrinth dedications, and have presented to children and young adults from lower grades up through college.
5. Will you travel?
Yes! I love to travel!
6. Favorite color?
Moss Green
7. If you were an instrument, which would you be?
On Mondays a flute (some Mondays a Peruvian flute), on Wednesdays a viola, on Fridays a cello, and on Sundays, I would be the human voice.
8. What is your favorite style of dance to watch or do?
My favorite dance and one of my spiritual practices is Soul Motion & Transformative Dance
9. Favorite play or movie?
Spirited Away
10. Favorite sculpture?
Bronze sculpture of Daphne at Santa Rosa City Hall by Ron Rogers
11. Favorite song?
If It Be Your Will by Leonard Cohen
12. Name one book that is inspiring to you.
The Speech of the Grail: A Journey Toward Speaking That Heals and Transforms by Linda Sussman
Weeks May 30 - June 13, 2010
Roxana Orellana
Expressive Arts Facilitator
San Salvador, El Salvador - Central America
1. What do you do?
My name is Roxana Orellana I live in El Salvador, Central America and for the past 10 years I have been working with women who are in great need of inner healing. I am the founder and director of a non profit organization that works to empower women who have suffered much in life. We help them through support groups, expressive art workshops, teachings, conferences, counseling and through the media.
For the past 8 years, I have been witnesing the great need for women to heal and cope with dificult situations in their lives, like neglect, fisical, emotional, sexual and verbal abuse. When I was introduced to the Expressive Arts I discovered an excellent tool to help them deal with the core issue of their dispair, a tool that has helped myself deal with my own issues in a deep introspective, exciting and less threatening way.
Right now I provide workshops for women helping them connect and heal themselves through the expressive arts using visual journaling, writing and using visualization tecniques.
I have also worked with children using more creative modalities like movement, music, visual journaling and images.
I was invited for a one day workshops in "Casa Azul", Guatemala, C.A., a well known Art Academy.
I Have also been invited to work together in training people that work in aiding disaster victims with the Mental Health Department of El Salvador.
2. How have you prepared for your career?
God has prepared me to help others through my own personal experience in dealing with painful issues. I have had my share of trauma in life and can have much empathy for women that are dealing with low self esteem, abuse, neglect and fear.
I studied Fine Arts, Bible Counseling, Masters in Educational Orientation for Families and I became an Educational Facilitator in the Expressive Arts.
3. Why are you called to this work?
I have a passion to help people heal their body, souls and spirits so they can be free and experiment that same freedom that I experience when I am in contact with myself
when I am expressing through the arts. I can feel the Spirit rushing through me when I am working with others and I know that during their sessions, they are being transformed by a higher power. I have the testimonies of many whom which I have worked with that this workshops have changed their lives.
4. Do you work with individuals? Groups? Workshops? Conventions? Conferences?
I work with individuals, workshops, and give conferences for women.
5. Will you travel?
Yes
6.Favorite color?
Purple, but I use Red in my art work because it reflects my passion for life.
7.If you were an instrument, which would you be?
A drum
8. What is your favorite style of dance to watch or do?
Modern Dance
9.Favorite play or movie?
I`m not sure I have one
10.Favorite sculpture?
David, of Michelangelo
11.Favorite song?
I don`t have a favorite song. I love the guitar and the piano though.
12.Name one book that is inspiring to you.
The Bible
Weeks May 16 - May 30, 2010
Heidi Spitzig
Transformational Life Coach
"My mission as a transformational life coach is to work with the Earth to liberate human essence through the recognition of the creative spirit."
Honeoye, NY USA
Website: www.wildcallofthesoul.com
1. What do you do?
Through one-on-one coaching and workshop facilitation, I support those who are looking to incorporate the natural rhythms of the Earth and the creative process as a guide to creating a purposeful and meaningful life.
2. How have you prepared for your career?
I received a Masters in Transpersonal Psychology through the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology where I specialized in Creativity and Innovation. I also obtained a certificate in transformational life coaching from the same institute.
3. Why are you called to this work?
The creative process has been my best friend on the road to self-discovery and realizing my own vision. With the natural world as my biggest inspiration, I discovered photography, painting, and movement. I became enraptured with each one, surrendering all expectations and giving myself over to the beauty of the present moment. The creative process became my road map to integrating my intuition with the sense of grounded-ness I felt within my being.I experienced a great longing for most of my life. I find that this longing is assuaged when my bare feet dig deep into collapsing walls of sand or I'm sitting atop a mountain and the vista before me pulls at the smallness in me or I press my body into the softness of the Earth and my heartbeat becomes matched with the Earth's eternal rhythm. These are moments of grand connection and recognition that I came from the same elements that surround me and will return to those elements. There are moments when I close my eyes and am pulled out of my body and into the landscape that holds me or into the sunlight that warms me or into the birdsong that fills my ears with joy. There is a sense of unity between the Earth and I. We have forged a great kinship and it is one that every human that walks this Earth is capable of doing. I believe that we have just forgotten how. I am always amazed and honored to guide others through this process.
4. Do you work with individuals? Groups? Workshops? Conventions? Conferences?
I work with individuals, groups, workshops, and conferences.
5.Will you travel? Yes!!!
6. Here's a few of Heidi's workshop:
- Earth Spirit Walk: A workshop in nature incorporating the shamanic journey with the expressive arts.
- Transforming the Past: Creating a sense of empowerment
- Strengths Collage: Liberation to move forward to what you want
- Defining Essence Through Mask-Making: Navigating perceptions of who you believe you are are versus who you were born to be
- Learning to Listen: Tuning in to the natural world for self-guidance
- Using Nature as a Mirror: A guide to your internal landscape
- Painting Your Way to Freedom: A workshop combining painting and movement
Weeks May 2 - May 16, 2010
Jen Kristel
Expressive Arts Therapist
Burlington, VT USA
Website: www.JourneyWorksVT.com/
1. What do you do?
It depends on the day! I am an expressive arts therapist in private practice. I use psychodrama, art, writing, movement, storytelling to support those in emotional pain to find a path back to their soul. I teach expressive therapies and art therapy at a local college. I am also an instructor with VSAVT, a national organization that supports people with disabilities through the arts. I also teach and perform Playback Theatre, a unique improvisational theatre form that takes personal stories from the audience and transforms them in seconds to wonderful pieces of theatre.We take stories of all kinds and with this work, I travel extensively working with groups and communities that have experienced trauma. Right now, I am working in India, Bangladesh, and Indonesia. I am consulting on a project using the arts for healing that is supporting those who were in the earthquake in Chile.
2. How have you prepared for your career?
I have always loved the arts. I credit my grandparents for bringing me to many performances and talks that encouraged me to think of ways to include the arts in my life. I was very drawn to drama therapy and have focused in this arena for many years. However I love the tactual aspects of visual arts, and the movement that flows throughout all the arts. I am an artist as well. I am a printmaker and have shown my work in local and New England based galleries for the last 10 years.
3. Why are you called to this work?
I have long wanted to work with people- to support and bear witness. Becoming a therapist came from my own healing work that I needed to do in High School. As I healed, I became aware of what it meant to support and guide. So early on, I knew I wanted to be a therapist. I have worked with many populations over the years.part of the work I teach, I also do for myself. One aspect of this is to step into the shoes of those I work with. I try to feel where they are in their process.. I find that I heal pieces of myself in the process.I have great faith in people being able to heal. I trust that we all have knowledge that as a therapist, I support them in seeing it for themselves.
4. Do you work with individuals? Groups? Workshops? Conventions? Conferences?
Yes to all. I work with individuals and groups, offer classes and workshops. I have presented mainly about my overseas work and how it integrates with my own daily life.
5. Will you travel?
Yes, minimally, I ask that my expenses be paid-
6. Favorite color? Purple and teal.
7. If you were an instrument, which would you be? Hammering dulcimer.
8. Favorite play or movie? I don't really have favorites, but many of the Pixar movies have been wonderful.
9. Favorite song? I love celtic music
12.Name one book that is inspiring to you. Faith by Sharon Saltzberg
Weeks April 18 - May 2, 2010
Janet Bernson
Expressive Arts Facilitator
Sherman Oaks, CA USA
Website: www.TheHealingArtist.com
Energetic Expressive Arts for Health and Evolution
1. What do you do?
I live my life every moment through my interdisciplinary expressive arts, my words, my inner, inter and outer actions. I bring my love to individuals and audiences around the world through my live presentations, tv and my books on our immense power to creatively change our lives by intentionally using our art, our words and most importantly our love. My work includes all of the arts: visual arts, writing & storytelling, dancing & movement, meditation, singing & sound, plus conscious language, conscious body language & energy medicine and social & environmental responsibility. I consider myself an infectious joy-filled human collage.
2. How have you prepared for your career?
Expressive arts began early in my life, from dancing, singing, playing guitar, sculpture, poetry and story-telling in my youth to song-writing and fashion design in my twenties. I began studying homeopathy in 1973 as a layperson, devouring books and lectures. Then I had my glorious children who, as I exposed them to art, they opened up my world even further! My marriage to their father began to dissolve in the mid 1980's and I travelled to Germany for my farrier supply business! It was there I met my spiritual teacher who told me to go to my art to transform my life. I returned to the States and began teaching self expression workshops to individuals; many with aids, cancer and other debilitating dis-eases. I did no advertising; it was as if the cosmos had sent out a press release! By 1990 I expanded my work to schools and institutions. In 1994 I attended the first IEATA Conference. I was overjoyed to discover other people who had also broken the mold! Over the years I have studied with many wonderful people to name but a few: Aristhaia Cash, Carolyn Myss, Jane Goldberg, Donna Eden, Master Choa Kok Sui, Gregg Braden, Bruce Lipton, Robert Tennyson Stevens and am a facilitator of Conscious Language. I am currently enjoying the challenge of preparing my latest book, "My Hero's Journey".
3. Why are you called to this work?
I always knew I would be required to use my love for creativity to live in my world. Neither I nor my art can exist in a vacuum - I must express my love and my art. It is my imperative which gives me great joy to share with all who ask.
4. Do you work with individuals? Groups? Workshops? Conventions? Conferences?
I work with individuals and have regular Wild Women Wednesday groups which meet in my Sherman Oaks studio. Additionally I travel to shelters, businesses and schools for extended group programs and single workshops. I often present interactive keynote talks and facilitate programs at conferences.
5. Will you travel?
I present my programs and talks internationally. Give me a plane ticket, a comfy hotel room, vegetarian food and greet me with a smile and I'll be there!
Weeks April 4 - April 18, 2010
Dianne Monroe
Expressive Arts Facilitator
San Antonio, TX USA
web:http://diannemonroe.com/
1. What do you do?
I am an Expressive Arts Facilitator, writer and photographer.
Much of my work is about facilitating reconnection (with our inner selves, with others, and with the natural world) and guiding people to discover, explore and deepen their understanding of their unique gifts and how they live them in this world. Through workshops, classes and consulting I offer my own blend of Expressive Arts and Eco-Psychology – using arts, creativity and nature to offer tools and pathways for healing, connection, a deeper understanding of self and as a guide in one's journey through life.
2. How have you prepared for your career?
My life experiences have prepared me for what I do!
An early love of art and deep connection with others led to my work as a writer and photographer, and many years as an Arts Educator working with both children and adults.
Through my work as a writer and photographer I personally experienced the power of art and nature to touch hearts, change lives and express the intimate mysteries of the human spirit. As an Arts Educator, I felt great joy in my ability to offer this experience as a gift to others.
My personal journey to better understand this profound power led me to study Expressive Art, through the program led by Barbara Ganim at Salve-Regina University. During my studies, I discovered Eco-Psychology and began to develop my own way of blending these two fields (Expressive Arts and Eco-Psychology). Since that time I have deepened my conversation with the natural world, pursued further learning, and continued to evolve my work and what I offer to others.
3. Why are you called to this work?
Again, life called me to do this work.
It was through my own artistic journey and life journey that I experienced again and again the profound power of art – to touch, heal, change. My many years as an Arts Educator showed me that this power lies within everyone.
For me, art and creativity are as natural and intrinsic to humanity as breathing – and can open us to new ways of experiencing, knowing and being in relationship with ourselves, others and our world. We are all artists and the most important artwork we are creating is our lives, our unique selves, and how we live our gifts in this world.
I am called to this work because I want to share the joy of this discovery with others.
4. Do you work with individuals? Groups? Workshops? Conventions? Conferences?
I work with both groups and individuals. I offer workshops, classes and consulting. I have presented and brought workshops to conferences and also trained therapists, counselors, teachers and others in ways to integrate the arts into their work. I offer consulting on Expressive Arts and nature activities with youth. I can also work by phone.
5. Will you travel?
Yes, I enjoy traveling.
Weeks March 21 - April 7, 2010
Linda Kennedy
Expressive Arts Facilitator
web: www.artzillacreate.com
1.What do you do?
I faciltate expressive/intuitive painting workshops which include body work and meditation along with the painting process.
2.How have you prepared for your career?
I have studied art and done creative work all my life. I do have a bachelor degree in teaching and I am currently working with Chris Zydel in her expressive arts teacher training program. I have taught numerous classes in handbuilt pottery and collage.
3.Why are you called to this work?
I have always felt that doing things creative is akin to breathing, a necessity of life, and I KNOW that everyone is creative. Getting back to that child-like creativity is so wonderfully freeing and transfoming. I want to share this with everyone.
4.Do you work with individuals? Groups? Workshops? Conventions? Conferences?
I prefer working with groups as there is a certain energy that is wonderful about it, but would work with individuals as well. I am up for workshops, conventions or conferences and would travel if expenses were paid or shared.
Weeks March 7 - March 21, 2010
John Weiss, RSMT
Movement Coach and Registered Somatic Movement Therapist
web: www.movingtoawareness.com
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1. What do you do?
I offer classes, workshops and individual sessions in the movement-based expressive arts. I really focus on resource building with the clients. My hope is for them to increase their movement awareness and authenticity. I do this through different exercises and activities like body part mythology. That is a wonderful to enter into the body by allowing the different parts to have their individual time in the spotlight. We look at the myths and metaphors held within as a way to see how they relate to our individual and collective stories. I also use drawing and writing to look at these stories from different points of view.
Recently, I begin to take an interest in bringing my focus to men's work. I am currently offering a class for men only in Authentic Movement. A great way for men to enter into the expressive arts because the movement is done with eyes closed, no judgment, just following the impulses.
2. How have you prepared for your career?
I have always been transformed when I danced and/or moved with an awareness of my body and it's needs and desires. That was taken to another level when I went to the Tamalpa Institute in Kentfield, California (Bay Area). That is where I learned more about the transformational healing properties of the expressive arts. I knew this is what I wanted to offer as my life's work. I have been a sponge ever since taking in everything I can about movement, healing and the arts.
3. Why are you called to this work?
I am called because we are movers. We can't avoid it. So, why not bring more awareness and insight into what we are doing and see how it can move us in the direction of our dreams and desires! I am so excited about this work. I drives me in the direction that I would like to assist the world to move towards ~ a more enlightened and compassionate collective energy.
4. Do you work with individuals? Groups? Workshops? Conventions? Conferences?
As I stated in #1, I work with groups and individuals from the general public and I am looking at starting to offer my work to companies and corporations in the future.
5. Will you travel?
Yes, I will travel, but currently I offer my work only in the Vancouver, BC metro area.
6. Favorite color?
Navy blue
7. If you were an instrument, which would you be?
I would be a piano ~ deep and mysterious at times, but also fun and playful at other times.
8. What is your favorite style of dance to watch or do?
I love dance and movement as you probably inferred. I love to do the 5 Rhythms work. I can just be and don't have to teach. I also love to just put on some music and allow my body to respond to it. Being as authentic with it as possible.
9. Favorite play or movie?
Wow, there are so many to choose from. I like so many genres that I would probably pick a couple. I loved Brokeback Mountain, Torch Song Trilogy and any of the wonderful animation movies made recently.
10. Favorite sculpture?
I don't have one, but I love many.
11. Favorite song?
Almost anything by Sarah McLachlan, Sinead O'Connor or U2
12. Name one book that is inspiring to you
The Hidden Spirituality of Men- Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine by Matthew Fox.
Weeks February 21 - March 7, 2010
Lea Goode-Harris, Ph.D.
Labyrinth Design & Creative Consultant
web: www.leastudio.com
blog: http://lealabyrinth.typepad.com
1. What do you do?
I am a poet, a writer, mixed media artist, a creative consultant, and designer of labyrinths and sacred places. I strive through my art and creative consultations to assist people in finding beauty in their selves and surroundings, no matter where they are. I use labyrinths and my art as a bridge for the imagination and the heart, and as an inspiration for connection with self and the dance of being in relationship with others.
2. How have you prepared for your career?
All of my life experiences have prepared me for what I now do! And life, has given me a full range of those experiences! I returned to college for a traditional degree as a reentry student in mid life. I believed then that I was headed towards becoming a licensed psychologist. I encountered my first labyrinth in graduate school which changed forever the way I approach life and taught me my first real lesson of listening to the voice of my heart. I was the first Ph.D. graduate from the Institute of Imaginal Studies, now known as Meridian University. With the completion of my degree, I realized that being a psychologist did not fit with the way I wanted to work with people. I have been foraging a new way of working with people ever since.
3. Why are you called to this work?
It feeds my soul and imagination to work with people via the labyrinth and expressive arts. I love being present with others as they make their own discoveries and realizations of their individual and collective beauty. And I love the flexibility that comes with each encounter that is new and unknown.
4. Do you work with individuals? Groups? Workshops? Conventions? Conferences?
Yes, I work with individuals, groups, and provide workshops for small and large groups. I’ve been the keynote and featured speaker at numerous conventions and gatherings, corporate meetings, participated in labyrinth dedications, and have presented to children and young adults from lower grades up through college.
5. Will you travel?
Yes! I love to travel!
6. Favorite color?
Moss Green
7. If you were an instrument, which would you be?
On Mondays a flute (some Mondays a Peruvian flute), on Wednesdays a viola, on Fridays a cello, and on Sundays, I would be the human voice.
8. What is your favorite style of dance to watch or do?
My favorite dance and one of my spiritual practices is Soul Motion & Transformative Dance
9. Favorite play or movie?
Spirited Away
10. Favorite sculpture?
Bronze sculpture of Daphne at Santa Rosa City Hall by Ron Rogers
11. Favorite song?
If It Be Your Will by Leonard Cohen
12. Name one book that is inspiring to you.
The Speech of the Grail: A Journey Toward Speaking That Heals and Transforms by Linda Sussman
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