TRAINING & STUDIES

Song Therapy/Lament work

• Certificate in Song Therapy Training with the Song Therapy Network, Somerset, UK. Virtual training, 2020. Ongoing.

• Mentorship since November 2019 with Tuomas Rounakari, lament teacher and long term student of, and co-teacher with, Pirkko Fihlman, also known as the Grand Mother of Lament Singing in Finland.

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Internal Family Systems (IFS)

• Multiple courses with the Internal Family Systems Institute including Foundations of the IFS Model, IFS Treatment for Freedom from Trauma, Early Adversity, IFS & Anxiety, Depression, and Shame, and Healing Cultural Trauma with Internal Family Systems 2019-2020.

Hospice Training

• In-home hospice volunteer training with the Hospice of SLO County in San Luis Obispo, CA, 2019.

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Nonviolence Studies​

• Certificate Program in Nonviolence Studies with the Metta Center for Nonviolence in Petaluma, CA, 2018

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Focusing and Inner Relationship Focusing

• Facilitator Level One and Two Focusing Training with Eugene Gendlin and Ann Weiser Cornell of The International Focusing Institute, 2014.

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Restorative Circles

• Restorative Circles Process Training with Cat Gilliam and John Cunningham in Portland, OR, 2014

• Restorative Circles Process Training with Christine King in Santa Cruz, CA, 2013.

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Workshop Facilitation/The Work That Reconnects

• The Facilitator Development Program with Chris Johnstone and Jenny Mackewn in Bath, UK, in 2010. This 10 month training covered a wide range of earth-centered group facilitation processes, including Joanna Macy's The Work That Reconnects. 

• Residential Training in The Work That Reconnects with core teacher Joanna Macy at the Mercy Center. Burlinghame, CA, 2013

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Emotional Freedom Techniques

• International Accredited EFT Practitioner Trainings Level 1, Level 2, and Advanced Level 3 and Integrated Energy Techniques with EFT Masters Emma Roberts and Sue Beer of The EFT Center, London, UK, 2011.

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Matrix Re-Imprinting

• Matrix Reimprinting Practitioner Training with the founder of Matrix Reimprinting and EFT Master Karl Dawson. Brighton, UK, 2011.

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Nonviolent Communication (NVC)

• Intensive International Intensive Training (IIT), a nine-day residential training with The Center for Nonviolent Communication with Marshall Rosenberg, the founder of NVC, and other CNVC Certified Trainers. Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2011. ​

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Cognitive Hypnotherapy

• ​Two-year Diploma training in Cognitive Hypnotherapy with the Quest Institute, covering a range of modalities including Ericksonian Hypnosis, Time Line Therapy, Gestalt techniques, and others. London, UK, 2009 - 2011.​

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Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)​ + Life Coaching

• ​Master Practitioner training in NLP and Life Coaching with the Quest Institute, 2009 - 2011.​

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Dharma Practitioner Programme (CDDP)

• Dharma Practitioners’ Programme, a two-year advanced course in Buddhist philosophy and practice offered by Bodhi College which provided an integrated approach to the study and practice of the Dharma, taught by Insight (Vipassana) meditation teachers including John Peacock, Stephen Stephen Batchelor, Christina Feldman, and Akincano M. Weber at Gaia House, Newton Abbott, UK. 2009 - 2011.​

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Awakening the Dreamer

• Awakening the Dreamer Symposium Facilitator & Leadership Training with the Pachamama Alliance, York, UK, 2010​​.