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	2008 Women's Well Faculty
	Barbara Adler, M.A., practices as a healer, facilitating wholeness on physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels. She is a graduate of Lesley University (Counseling Psychology M.A.), the Barbara Brennan School of Healing (Energy Healing) and A Society of Souls (Integrated Kabbalistic Healing), and is a certified Qigong instructor (Energy Arts). Motherhood, creative expression especially through pottery and cooking, and experience in the business and non-profit worlds also inform her life and work. Apara Borrowes, M.S., is a counselor, poet, and teacher whose work as a leader in the Boston area holistic healing community has brought mind-body healing arts to women for many years. A founder of Women's Lodge, a women's spirituality community in the Boston area, Apara has led many women’s wisdom circles and ceremonies. She is drawn to helping women explore the interweaving of spirituality, psychology, nature, and healing, through integrating ancient and modern healing arts. Apara is known for her gentle and sure holding of the circle. Gail Byrnes, M.Ac., Lic. Ac., is a licensed acupuncturist, Acutonics™ sound healer and teacher, and Plant Spirit Medicine practitioner. She has a full-time healing practice with offices in Arlington and Hamilton. She has been on a shamanic path for thirteen years. She is a co-facilitator of the Women's Mystery School and is passionate about fostering spiritual community. Thirty-eight years ago Max Dashu founded the Suppressed Histories Archives to research women from an international perspective. She has built a collection of over 14,000 slides and created a series of 100 presentations on global women's history, archaeology, shamanic arts and Goddess veneration. Titles include Goddess Cosmologies; Mother-Right and Gender Justice; Woman Shaman; and scores of in-depth regional surveys of women's history. Max is a founding mother of the Women’s Spirituality resurgence, and an artist whose paintings re-envision bold and spirited women (www.maxdashu.net). Catherine Dunne, M.A., is an Irish counseling psychologist and gestalt psychotherapist. She has been a therapist, teacher and group facilitator for over fifteen years. Heather Ensworth, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, astrologer and shamanic practitioner. She has worked in sacred circles with women for twenty years and is a co-facilitator of the Women’s Mystery School. She is committed to exploring and teaching ancient wisdom and healing practices for our own healing and for the healing of the Earth. Janet Farnsworth, M.A., is a licensed social worker with ten years of experience with children, families and adults. Formally trained in psychodrama and group therapy, she also has extensive dance experience in New York, Chicago and Boston. She is dedicated to bringing the healing power of dance to women, and in particular to embracing personal movement as a guide to self-empowerment. A mother of two children, she is also deeply committed to the beautiful, messy, seemingly impossible task of self-growth – and to leading a life guided by Spirit. Wendy Garling, M.A., is a writer, editor, gardener and mother of three sons. Since the 70’s, her life has been shaped by journeys to the East, particularly India, Nepal and Tibet, where she’s had many adventures and has been drawn deeply into the Buddhist path. Her particular interest is rediscovering the voice of the sacred feminine in Tibetan Buddhism. She has a master’s degree in Sanskrit from the University of California at Berkeley and has been a practitioner in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition for quite a long while. Laney Goodman, visionary, ceremonialist and drummer, leads ceremonial drum circles called Drumming in the Four Directions or Elemental Drumming, to re-connect with each element of the four directions: air, fire, water and earth. Laney can help you find your own rhythm and voice during these circles...even if you have never played a drum or sung before. Laney’s roots are of the Eastern Door of the Cherokee Nation from the Great Smoky Mountains as well as German, Scots/Irish and English. She has studied with Grandmother Twyla Nitsch of the Seneca Wolf Clan, and studied drumming with African/American Drum Masters Edwina Lee Tyler, Ubaka Hill and the Late Baba Olatunji. Laney has performed at the Glastonbury Goddess Conference in England. For more info see womenonair. Edith Griffin is a certified reiki master with a longstanding interest in human spirituality, the natural world, and the healing power of cosmic love. Before becoming a reiki practitioner, she was a free-lance editor for about twenty years. She first became aware of her strong ability to channel healing energy in 1996, when she unexpectedly and spontaneously began to experience waves of energy passing through her hands during a women’s healing workshop. She is the owner of Karendyth Holistic Center in Westford, MA. Michele Laura’s work is encapsulated in her website’s title – joyfulmovement.org. She is the creator of Concord’s popular Dance Fusion program from forty years of experience in a wide variety of dance. She is a Certified Yoga Teacher, an avid African drummer and a former second degree Black Belt Instructor in Isshinryu Karate. A former CPA, she maintains a small Life Management Consulting client base. In all of her work, she incorporates her wide range of both internal and external movement and focus experience, with emphasis on core awareness and proper alignment. Ann McGinty, R.N., has been a nurse for many years, with a particular focus in complementary and alternative health practices. She has studied and practiced a form of Authentic Movement called Contemplative Dance for the last four years. The simplicity and depth of this practice has moved her to share it with others. Deepika Nath, Ph.D., is the founder and principal of Indica Consulting and is a trusted advisor and coach to senior executives who are seeking to define an authentic and effective leadership style. Her experience spans fifteen years of strategy and organizational consulting, with leading consulting firms such as the Boston Consulting Group and Accenture’s healthcare practice. She holds a masters in Organizational Development and a doctorate in Management. Mod O’Donnell, M.A., is an Irish archaeologist, healer and storyteller. She has been involved in organizing and facilitating groups traveling to Ireland to visit sacred sites since 1996. Abby Seixas, L.M.H.C., M.Ed., is a psychotherapist in private practice and author of Finding the Deep River Within: A Woman's Guide to Recovering Balance and Meaning in Everyday Life. For the last twelve years, her work has focused on helping women learn and practice the art of slowing down through public talks, retreats, workshops, and her popular Deep River™ groups. She has appeared on NBC’s The Today Show and the Hallmark channel, and her work has been featured in national and local print media, including “O” The Oprah Magazine, Self, Body + Soul, Woman’s Day and The Boston Globe. She is the mother of two grown children and lives with her husband outside of Boston. Carolyn Sprague’s background training is in both science and energy healing. Her current passion is to blend the awareness that comes of practicing polarity therapy with the understandings that come from her mind and heart working together. Pam Swing, Ph.D., is a photographer and writer who lives in Concord. Her photographs have appeared in solo and group shows in the Boston area and beyond. She has led creativity workshops for children in schools and has facilitated creativity circles for women in many settings, including Greenfire Retreat House, Tenants Harbor, Maine, where she is on the board and staff. Stephanie Bennett Vogt, M.A., is New England's leading expert in the field of space clearing. She quit a successful twenty-year teaching career in 1996 and devoted a decade to the study of clutter and its effects on people. She is certified by both Karen Kingston and Eric Dowsett, and is the founder of SpaceClear, a private practice dedicated to bringing homes and their occupants back into balance. Stephanie's new book Your Spacious Self, on which this workshop is based, offers a fresh approach to clearing that is radical in its message and elegant in its simplicity. Anne Yeomans, M.A., is one of the founders of the Women's Well and was a facilitator of its nine-month program in Women’s Spirituality from 1994 to 2000. She has been a psychotherapist and group facilitator for many years, and currently has a private practice in Shelburne Falls and Concord. She has a deep interest in embodied spirituality, and has trained in authentic movement. She has been active in the peace movement, has taught classes on non-violence and conflict resolution, and was one of the founders of the Concord peace vigil. She was a co-author of The Women's Declaration of Peace written in Western Massachusetts after 9/11. She now lives in Colrain, Massachusetts.