Project NatureConnect Practitioners Cooperative Guide (PNC/PC) INSTRUCTIONS: Use a keyword in your finder to locate information that you seek, for example “Chicago” “art therapy” “CA” (state) Ambassador Practitioner Pending Ambassador Ambassador Practitioner Pending Pamela S. Hoke. Stuart, FL Email: pam@pamelahoke.com Phone: 772-919-2244 Skype: creativeage I am an environmental artist, brand designer, and writer. As I continue in completing my graduate studies with Project NatureConnect, write my book series titled "Natural Self Discovery," I am offering inspirational outdoor creative workshops for individuals and groups. I love that Nature provides me clean air to "inspire" me every moment. My greatest hope is that I am alive to see a majority of humans living and thinking in harmony with Nature. Keywords: nature artist design inspirational author Melanie L Wallace. Jeannette, PA Email: artissoalive@hotmail.com Phone: 724-757-7400 Information: Available soon. Tania M Hernandez. Truth or Consequences, NM Email: mayarufus@gmail.com Phone: 1-575-740-1739 SPA URL: www.firewaterlodge.com Skype: hermitgypsy I offer sensitive client centered Body Work Massage, graduated from Educating Hands School of Massage and I’m licensed by Florida State Board. I live in a hot springs town, all my clients get the Waters before and after treatment. I use Herbs Clays and Natural Healing techniques. Keywords: teaching, sensitive, journey, learning, intuitive knowing Dr. Shirley P. Archer. East Coast Email: archerteam777@live.com Website: www.shekinahwellness.org Ambassador Practitioner Pending Dr. Archer feels her call to the Universe is to share her experienced with Natural Medicine, and that health is a gift from God, but it's up to each individual to appreciate this gift and value it and to take care of theirs body with Nature and the Natural things that God has given us without the bondage. Dr. Archer is an Global Ambassador for the (ECHN) project, to help empower leaders in communities, churches, non-profit communities, and business owners, to empower these leaders the important in getting evolve in the Wellness of our Nation as a Whole. Keywords: Wellness Trainer, Coach, or Instructor Ambassador Ambassador Practitioner Pending Clark R Mumaw. Middlebury, Indiana Email : crmumaw@yahoo.com Working to introduce local churches to the availability of on-ground eco-psych classes. I've created a workbook with 36 chapters of Nature Activities for multiple age groups of churches. Keywords: reflective self-growth Jessika Smith-Chaudhry. Seattle, WA Email: jessikaschaudhry@gmail.com or yogamiashram@yahoo.com Website: http://ww.yogamiashram.com Glen Children's Center. I teach yoga and a nature-connecting mentorship to youth in the juvenile detention center. As a private yoga teacher and Reiki healer, I inspire moments that let Nature teach by allowing students to find their own path. This year, I have founded an independent arts agency that creates photo-journalistic projects about naturally attractive people and places. Contributor Practitioner Theresa M. Sweeney, Ph.D. Rochester, NY Email: keleka@frontiernet.net Phone: 585-385-9157 Website: http://www.ecoarttherapy.com Dr. Theresa Sweeney pioneered the field of Eco-Art therapy from over 20 years of research and personal experience. She teaches the discipline in an accredited online course and offers official certification. She is Dean of Applied Ecopsychology at Akamai University. Keywords: Art Therapy, Eco-Art, Rochester, addiction, expressive Practitioner Practitioner Janet Weisberg. Naples, Florida Email: janet_peaceprevail@me.com Orientation facilitator, trauma specialist, PNC guide trainer & event organizer. Love sensorily knowing I'm part of a perfectly orchestrated living system. Hoping we awaken from states of de/illusion, fulfilling our contract as conscious human animals living in perfect consort. J. Christina Brittain, Ph.D. Columbia River Gorge WA/ Portland OR Email: quinnmountain@gmail.com Website: www.naturemaking.com www.quinnmountain.com Founder of EcoPlace at Quinn Mountain, a private 40-acre wilderness retreat offering personal or small group retreats, meditation spaces, solos at night, vision quests, guided self-explorations, and B&B suites. I have discovered that to experience love, I need go no further than wild nature. Practitioner Pending Practitioner Lynnea A. Brinkerhoff, MSO. Milford, CT (New Haven) Email: lynneabrink@gmail.com Phone: 203-913-7398 Website: http://www.learn.edu/ecotherapy I am a Board Certified Coach and work with leaders who have plateaued in their lives and want to 're-purpose' themselves to focus more on the 'good of all' and a deeper sense of personal connection with life and with their senses. I also work with horses and have been bring Ecotherapeutic techniques into eldercare facilities. I have started the East Coast Ecotherapy Associates and I teach Alternatives in Long Term Care. Uzoegbu Stephen Chidiebere Email: eliefworkers@yahoo.com Phone: +2348039444894 Skype: stephenuc Information: Available soon. Practitioner Pending Tom Kelly. Denver, Colorado Email: tsk0604@aol.com or tk.california@yahoo.com I am completing business plan for the development of WindWalker Ranch (no relation to other named facilities), a natural location to include the following: Holistic addiction/treatment/recovery center, MS/disability housing Elder care center - step down living concept Immunology, substance abuse and aging research center. Center for education for topics relative to the improvement of the natural world, Research Gate think tank, environmental design Possible PCN Meeting location, nature therapy center including equine services, ecotherapies, etc. Keywords: Thankful, Visionary, Resourceful, Intelligent, Driven Practitioner Caroline McCooey. Peru Email: carolinemccooey@gmail.com Phone: 0051 997 878 313 Skype: caroline.mccooey Ecotherapy guides my work in conservation issues and civil society initiatives to prevent further deforestation; in promoting indigenous rights; eco-tourism, birding and as a nature guide. It brings greater depth to my crystal therapy for people receiving traditional Amazonian medicine at a rainforest retreat, and in the nature activities I organize for people in 12-step programs to enhance their recuperation and recovery process from addictions. Keywords: Amazonian traditional medicine and cosmovision, Crystal therapy, Birding and nature guide (flora and fauna of the Peruvian Amazon), Nature activities in the Peruvian rainforest to compliment 12-step recovery programs, Eco tourism Practitioner Alisa Battaglia – Schiff. Weston, Florida, Broward Email: Innerdiamond@bellsouth.net Website: http://www.integrallifewellness.com http://www.ecologyofthespirit.com Pending Spiritual Mid-Wifery: I offer a terrestrial based body-psychology that helps free the archival self from the "Physiology of Pattern Making." This energetic reconfiguration of harnessing generative force develops somatic wisdom through successive inner alignments (polarity integration) mirrored in Earth intelligence and Wisdom. http://www.ecologyofthespirit.com AND Wellness Educator: Connecting with Nature and Spiritual Nutrition Gardening; http://www.integrallifewellness.com Keywords: Empathic, Integrity, Reverent, Visionary, Beauty Practitioner Gerry Eitner. Warrenton, Virginia - an hour southwest of Washington DC Email: gerry7253@gmail.com Nonprofit organization website: www.communitiesofpeace.org Teaching website: http://www.gerryeitner.com As a spiritual coach for 30 years, I use the RWN work to assist people to open new inner frontiers, release destructive patterns, and to identify their natural attractions to design their highest contribution to others, in a community setting. Practitioner Jeanne Esguerra. Flagstaff, AZ, USA Email: jmesguerra@hotmail.com I am currently a licensed counselor in Arizona (United States) and a student in the Applied Ecopsychology doctoral program. I advocate for healing and whole-ing our lives through ecotherapy, ritual and ceremonies, language, and creative expression. Inspired by the natural world in and around us, the field of depth psychology and Soulcraft techniques, I look forward to working with others as a practitioner ambassador. In one month, I will begin supervised training through the School of Lost Borders for guiding others as they explore their own souls and callings within the container of the wilderness. Practitioner Pending Elaine D. Cohn, M.Ed., M.S., NCC. Portland, OR Email: mail@elainecohn.me My passion is to help people live full, healthy and balanced lives, learning to respect and value themselves, one another and nature. I specialize in counseling, wellness, yoga, program development, trustbuilding and successful relationships. I am a tree-hugger, river-hopper and sky-watcher. Stacey Mallory. NW Arkansas Email: staceymallory@hughes.net Website: http://www.connect2nature.org Practitioner My greatest hope in life is to share what I have learned through the Natural Systems Thinking Process (NSTP) and to continuing learning about the sensory disconnections we experience individually and globally because of our technological advancements. Keywords: Green computing, Green IT, technology and sustainability, eco-friendly computing, and ICT sustainability. Practitioner Practitioner Pending Natalie Forrest. Invermere, BC I specialize in connection with nature using the tools of yoga. My personal yoga practice was never fulfilling or complete until I added Nature Connect tools to bring me into connection with my immediate environment and Earth. My deepest love is knowing how to feel whole and content. Mary Livingston. Hawaii Email: pncml92@gmail.com My "regular" job is in Computer Networking/Systems Administration/Help Desk. I am working on something like a comic book intro to the courses, with the thought of adding "Recapture your Inner Youth" as a tagline. I can picture it being helpful in the transition foster care facility that I volunteer at; or maybe even the vets center for PTSD diagnosed veterans.