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Faculty For Cancer Retreats
Chris Adams, MD, Cancer Retreat facilitator, has practiced family medicine for 17 years and is an assistant clinical faculty member at the University of Washington Medical School. She is a devoted student and practitioner of natural and cross-cultural medicine, interactive guided imagery, and journeywork. She is an integral team member of One Sky Medicine, a nonprofit holistic healthcare organization dedicated to transforming the culture of medicine by providing integrative and collaborative medical services, education and research that respect the wisdom of the individual, nature, and the healing power of relationship.
Melode Brewer, RYT, CES, Cancer Retreat yoga facilitator, has been a dedicated yoga practitioner for years. She continues to expand her knowledge in the Viniyoga tradition, and brings these skills to movement classes she facilitates at Harmony Hill. She also offers private sessions and group workshops. Denise Carrico, BFA, teaches yoga for our Cancer Retreats and also facilitates Moving in Harmony Yoga workshops. She has taught yoga nationally and is a certified yoga instructor and member of the Integral Yoga Teachers Association. Denise is the yoga teacher for Cancer LifeLine in Seattle, and teaches publicly for all populations throughout the city. Her first instructional yoga CD was released in December 2002. She also has produced, with Cancer Lifeline, a CD entitled The Joy of Yoga: the Fine Art of Being, Of Breathing, of Healing, released in 2003. Joanna Cashman, RN, RYT, MFA, Cancer Retreat Facilitator, is a mental health nurse who also teaches therapeutic yoga and creative dance for our cancer retreats and Moving in Harmony Programs. She is a certified teacher of Radiant Health Yoga®, founder of Wild Grace Arts/Center for Yoga and Dance, and an adjunct faculty member of The Evergreen State College. Committed to promoting holistic health, she blends ancient and contemporary self care practices with humor and warmth to empower healing resources for the body, mind and spirit. Joanna produced a guided relaxation CD entitled "Lullaby for the Soul: A sacred Journey into Deep Relaxation" in 2007. For more information visit www.WildGraceArts.com Lu Farber, Cancer Retreat Facilitator, is a transition consultant focusing on relationship-centered care systems and interpersonal communications. Her area of emphasis is in end-of-life communications and accompaniment. Her experience spans healthcare, trust and investments, and nonprofit organizations where she has collaborated with and guided management and staff through progressive systemic changes. Lu is also a certified Spiritual Director providing spiritual accompaniment. Spiritual accompaniment is a process that supports growing into our best selves. It provides a safe space to explore, question, discover and deepen our values and beliefs. J Fields, MA, LMFT, Cancer Retreat facilitator, has studied Taiji and Qi Gong for years. He also provides mentoring for new Harmony Hill faculty. His private practice involves movement, meditation, passionate spirituality, expressive art, and poetry. J has journeyed through his own cancer treatment and is most grateful for the doors it opened. Karen Gorrin, MA, LMHC, Cancer Retreat facilitator, is a Seattle-area licensed psychotherapist. She specializes working with people living with cancer and other chronic and life-threatening illness, their caregivers, and people grieving the loss of a loved one. Karen’s holistic approach integrates expressive arts methods, cognitive-behavioral techniques, guided imagery and visualization, and spirituality. She facilitates support groups and healing retreats that acknowledge the wisdom and resilience in each of us. Karen also facilitates groups for corporate and nonprofit organizations. For more information, visit www.karengorrin.com Ronnie Hacken, M.A, LMFT, is a psychotherapist in private practice in Olympia and is a Cancer Retreat facilitator. For over 25 years Ronnie has been co-creating nurturing environments for people to heal, to nourish their innate resilience, to develop and strengthen their emotional resources to cope with life and find joy in being alive in the moment. Kathy Heffernan, MA, is a Cancer Retreat Facilitator. As a spiritual and grief counselor both in a Seattle hospital and through her own practice, she empowers clients to access their own healing wisdom. In both her individual and group work she integrates poetry, guided imagery, body-based focusing, ritual and the creative arts. Her work is informed by over seven years of practice as a hospital chaplain. A Reiki Master Teacher and Practitioner, she teaches this gentle healing art through the Tree of Life Reiki Training Institute which she created to help bring the healing energy of Reiki into healthcare settings. She feels very grateful to journey with all those who come to Harmony Hill. Rae Hight, RN/BSN, MA, LMHC, a Holistic Health and Wellness Coach and Certified Journal Writing Facilitator, has been a health care professional since 1980. Rae's passion is holistic well-being (balancing of physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual wellness). She has incorporated journaling into her counseling and coaching work for close to 20 years. Her experiential workshops/classes invite self-exploration and enhance self-empowerment through writing, art work, guided imagery and stress management techniques. She often guides clients and class participants in the use of labyrinths (full size and/or finger) as a form of meditation. Sage Hopkins, Cancer Retreat yoga facilitator and Weekly Yoga facilitator, has worked as a massage therapist since 1996 and began teaching yoga in 2001. He spent 4 weeks at Sivananda ashram in California in and trained under Godfrey Devereux (originator of the Dynamic Yoga teaching method) for 7 weeks in Ibiza, Spain. Sage has been a yoga teacher for the YMCA and the Bremerton Parks & Recreation. Sage's focus in teaching is to create a safe environment for students to discover and awaken the body?s inherent healing capability and intelligence. Sage's Dynamic Yoga teaching method is fun, safe and enlivening! Karen Kirsch teaches movement for our Cancer Retreats. She is a certified Laban Bartenieff Movement Analyst, and a Registered Movement Therapist (ISMETA). She has also studied Authentic Movement, Body/Mind Centering, experiential anatomy and developmental movement. Karen has been working in the field of movement for over twenty years and her passion is to help others explore their bodies and their unique sense of self through movement, play and sensation. Her approach is playful, supportive, anatomically sound and enlivening. Karin Olsen, BA LMP, Cancer Retreat massage therapist, graduated from Seattle Massage School in 1995. Karin and her staff teach hand and foot massage classes at the cancer retreats, and also provide massage for other programs and group retreats. She is the owner and operator of Radiance Herbs & Massage in Olympia, and has been a member of the Washington State Massage Board since 2000. Cathy Rogers, ND, is a Cancer Retreat facilitator. Dr. Rogers, a naturopathic physician for 26 years and former dean at Bastyr University, combines psychotherapy, hydrotherapy, spiritual awareness, and food-based cleansing in healing programs at Chico Water Cure Spa, her tranquil retreat on Puget Sound near Silverdale. The intention of her work is to offer people access to sensory experiences of well being, no matter what their state of health, and to foster caring for themselves in a spirit of lovingkindness. She teaches naturopathic medical students to listen deeply to their patients and be present in a way that supports a person's inherent self-healing power. Margo Wade Walsh, PhD, is a Cancer Retreat facilitator. A health psychologist specializing in cancer care, Dr. Walsh provides psychotherapy consultations through her private practice in Gig Harbor, and at Hematology Oncology NW, a cancer clinic in Tacoma. She teaches psychological techniques that help people improve overall health, energy, immune functioning, and coping skills; reduce stress; and function more effectively at home and work. She helps patients regain peace of mind, hope, and sense of purpose, and rebuild self-esteem and healthy relationships. Lynne Walters, RN, LMP, Cancer Retreat facilitator, is a holistic nurse and massage therapist. She has worked in a variety of nursing fields, including 8 years in hospice nursing, and has had her own private practice in holistic massage therapy for 19 years. She has led many workshops and retreats and focuses on helping people become kinder to themselves. Her decades of nursing practice along with her personal journey with chronic pain have taught her that blessings and gifts can emerge alongside the challenges and difficulties of chronic and life-threatening illnesses. She is the author of KindTouch Massage, Self-Massage for Healing and Wellbeing, an experiential book/CD. Cobie Whitten PhD, Cancer Retreat Facilitator, has a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is a Psycho-Oncology Consultant for the Providence Regional Cancer System. She co-chairs the Survivorship, Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues Taskforce of Washington CARES About Cancer. Previously, Dr. Whitten worked for the Washington State Department of Health in the Washington Breast & Cervical Health Program and has taught at Saint Martin's University. Her passion is creating survivorship services for cancer patients and their families at all points along the cancer continuum.
Chungliang Al Huang is Founder/President of Living Tao Foundation. He has been called "a master in the arts of living" and "a sage for the modern age." Huang's organic style of Tai Ji is immediately accessible to people of all ages and experience levels. His approach allows students to quickly experience the joys of Tai Ji energy flow along with the deeper sensations of stillness in motion. Huang uses a wide range of tools to inspire his students: brush calligraphy, music, poetry, mythic story telling, and more. Fundamental to his work are the Five Elements, Tao Te Ching, I Ching and other classics in Taoist, Zen Buddhist and Confucian studies. If you spend any time at all with Chungliang, you immediately understand why so many people around the world choose to study with him. His passion, charm, intelligence, tireless energy, and child-like enthusiasm are infectious. Melode Brewer, RYT, CES, has been a dedicated yoga practitioner for years. She continues to expand her knowledge in the Viniyoga tradition, and brings these skills to movement classes she facilitates at Harmony Hill. She also offers private sessions and group workshops. In addition to her yoga workshops that are part of Harmony Hill's "Moving in Harmony" workshops, Melode facilitates yoga for our cancer retreats. Denise Carrico, BFA, has taught yoga nationally and is a certified yoga instructor and member of the Integral Yoga Teachers Association. Denise is the yoga teacher for Cancer LifeLine in Seattle, and teaches publicly for all populations throughout the city. Her first instructional yoga CD was released in December 2002. She also has produced, with Cancer Lifeline, a CD entitled The Joy of Yoga: the Fine Art of Being, Of Breathing, of Healing, released in 2003. Joanna Cashman, RN, RYT, MFA, Cancer Retreat Facilitator, is a mental health nurse who also teaches therapeutic yoga and creative dance for our cancer retreats and Moving in Harmony Programs. She is a certified teacher of Radiant Health Yoga®, founder of Wild Grace Arts/Center for Yoga and Dance, and an adjunct faculty member of The Evergreen State College. Committed to promoting holistic health, she blends ancient and contemporary self care practices with humor and warmth to empower healing resources for the body, mind and spirit. Joanna produced a guided relaxation CD entitled "Lullaby for the Soul: A sacred Journey into Deep Relaxation" in 2007. For more information visit www.WildGraceArts.com Susan L. Harrington Ann Lovejoy is known as The Mother Theresa of organic gardening. As one of America's most well-known and widely respected gardening gurus, Ann has been featured on HGTV, National Public Radio and is a regular garden and food columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Bremerton Sun. Ann has written dozens of books on food and gardening, including Ann Lovejoy's Organic Garden Design School; Fresh from the Garden Cookbook; The Ann Lovejoy Handbook of Northwest Gardening: Natural-Sustainable-Organic; The Year in Bloom; and many more gardening classics. Her public volunteer gardening project (The Town in Bloom) turns neglected public spaces into thriving gardens entirely maintained by volunteers. This program recently won a national award and is the model for projects being developed in other communities. Ann is also on the Harmony Hill Board of Directors and donates many volunteer hours through teaching classes and providing consultation. Irene Mills, CPH, is a garden designer, consultant and speaker with many years of experience gardening in the Seattle-Tacoma area. She earned an A.A.S. degree in Landscape Horticulture and a Certificate in Landscape Management from South Seattle Community College, and is a Washington Certified Professional Horticulturist (CPH), as well as a WSU-Pierce County Master Gardener. She chairs the Arboretum Committee of the South Seattle Community College Foundation, is a past Board member of the Northwest Perennial Alliance, and writes the Q&A column for the NPA Perennial Post. She served as a judge for the Pacific Northwest Gardens competition sponsored by The Seattle Times and The Arboretum Foundation. The display gardens she designed for the Point Defiance Flower & Garden Show in 2007 and 2008 won silver medals, and her own garden was featured on the cover of the Fall 2008 issue of South Sound magazine. Irene's belief that gardens are for living in has grown and clarified by her own experience of living with cancer. Deanna Minich, PhD, CN, RYT, is a dynamic nutrition educator, yoga practitioner, and author of four books on nutrition and healing. An "out-of-the-box" nutritionist, Dr. Minich sees more to food than just calories and nutrients. Her passion is in guiding people beyond the physical needs of food into understanding how food choices and the experience of eating impact not only the body, but the emotions, thoughts, and subtle energy. She teaches that foods and eating provide creative ways that we can access deeper issues related to personal growth. Her approach is unique, as she uses a foundation of science, a sprinkle of spirituality, and a dash of practicality to help you create a meaningful relationship with meals. For more information visit www.foodandspirit.com.
Dianna Blom RN, BSN, CCMHP, has over thirty years of leadership experience serving in organizations across the health care continuum. She is known for her compassion and ability to create strong teams focusing on each person's unique gifts. She is a certified Cross Cultural Music in Healing Practitioner, Therapeutic Touch Practitioner and graduate of the Spirituality, Health and Medicine program at Bastyr University. She has experienced the power of sound and music in healing and is passionate about sharing the tools. Diana is a co-founder of VOICE for Healers in Healthcare and a certified nursing retreat facilitator. Linda Covert, RN, a founding member of VOICE for Healing in Healthcare and a Cancer Retreat facilitator, has been a pediatric nurse for 39 years. She has focused her practice around helping families through transitions which has included hospital, hospice and community care. Linda completed a year long certificate program through Bastyr University in "Spirituality in Health and Medicine" which has supported her involvement in many cross-cultural healthcare issues. She is a life long learner and founding member of Voice for Healing in Healthcare, dedicated to helping healthcare professionals renew passion and meaning in their work. Gretchen Schodde, ARNP-BC, MN, FNP, is the Founding and Executive Director of Harmony Hill Retreat Center. The mission of Harmony Hill is to improve the quality of life for those affected by cancer, providing support and resources that inspire renewal. Harmony Hill is also a retreat center for groups of all kinds, offering generous hospitality and excellent service in a spectacular natural setting. Gretchen is a founding member of VOICE for Healing in Healthcare and is a certified facilitator and nurse educator. She co-facilitates retreats to the sacred Isle of Iona, Scotland. Gretchen is a Family Nurse Practitioner, a former UW Assistant Professor, and one of the first Nurse Practitioners in the state of Washington, with a lifelong commitment to community health and wellness. Rosemary Spyhalsky, RN, OCN, HN-BC, is a founding member of VOICE for Healing in Healthcare and is a Holistic Oncology nurse practicing in Olympia, WA. She has been lifted and sustained by finding support as a founding member of VOICE for Healing in Healthcare with others who share a desire for healing in the nursing profession. She is committed to bringing body-mind-spirit care to oncology patients in her role as Nurse Coordinator of Providence Integrative Cancer Care, providing therapeutic yoga, acupuncture, oncology massage and naturopathy, and nutrition services to cancer patients in the setting of a conventional outpatient cancer treatment center in the South Puget Sound area. Kathlene Tellgren, RN, CEN, HN-BC, is a founding member of VOICE for Healing in Healthcare and is a certified facilitator and nurse educator. Kathlene has worked in a variety of health care settings and has over twenty years of nursing practice in trauma and emergency settings. She co-facilitates retreats to the sacred Isle of Iona, Scotland. Her decades of holistic nursing practice and personal journey offer a depth of wisdom and insight as she empowers nurses to discover and renew a sense of the heart and spirit of their work. She provides a safe presence for the gathering of nurses that honors the importance of the call to serve and offers an opportunity for caring of self and others. She models a way of appreciating what gives meaning to the lives of patients and at the same time reconnects nurses with the meaning of their work, of their healing and of their own wholeness. Leonie Wolff, RNC, LMT, a founding member of VOICE for Healing in Healthcare and facilitator for "Creating Nursing Community: Your Story as a Healing Path", has facilitated retreats for over 25 years and teaches from her heart with warmth, humor and passion. Leonie is owner of Embracing Wisdom LLC, a staff nurse in women's health, and an educator with 'The Chopra Center for Wellbeing.' She offers wellness programs, health education and consulting nationally. Tuesday instructor Kim Adams, Business/Wellness Session Facilitator (Igniting Growth Series) has worked in the field of human potential and personal transformation for over 30 years. In the early years of her career, Kim's focus was in healthcare, where she held a variety of service and management positions in hospital and long term care environments. Kim's current work, as the owner of Heart of the Matter consulting, is with human systems of many kinds, encompassing businesses, non-profits, educational and governmental organizations. Her great depth of experience in individual transformation combines synergistically with human system transformation to produce change that inspires individuals and groups to reach their own greatest potential. This expresses itself in the forms of reaching concrete, measurable goals, greater functionality and profitability and personal satisfaction and fulfillment. Jo Ann Fjellman, Business/Wellness Session Facilitator (Igniting Growth Series), recently started Leading Action. As a consultant committed to developing and facilitation programs that generate meaningful dialogue, Jo Ann is most interested in building learning environment that shift and expand individual and collective thinking. In addition to her own consulting, Jo Ann is a Strategic Partner, Program Designer and Senior Facilitator for GeoteamingT, an innovative experiential learning based programs designed to enhance technology and human interaction through team-work and collaboration and a Facilitator for 2130 Partner's Productive Interactions training, a leadership focused format for aligning commitment and creating productive conversations. Jo Ann background includes youth group-work, facilitation, training, public speaking, sales and marketing. She found her passion for change and improving individual lives while living, working and studying overseas in Belfast, N. Ireland during the "troubles". From this non-profit foundation of "Youth and Community Work" Jo Ann entered corporate America and successfully trained, sold and marketed products and services in the wine, publishing and technology industries. With a Fine Arts Degree from U of O, a certificate in Youth & Community Work from Ulster University, a Training Specialist certificate from UW Extensions and graduate certificates from Pacific Integral in Generation Transformational Change and Kore Leadership in Women's Integral Leadership, Jo Ann is a life-long student who loves to explore new ways of thinking and being the sustain people and our planet. Candi Foon, MS, Business/Wellness Session Facilitator (Igniting Growth Series) has over 25 years corporate experience in retail management, sales, and administration; and entrepreneurial teaching experience in business, fitness, health and wellness. She holds an MS in Management from Seattle Antioch University, and over 1250 hours professional training and certificates of completion in health, fitness and wellness. She is a health and wellness coach, and founding consultant of Integral Wellness Services — offering design, development, delivery, and support of compassion-based wellness approaches. She assists in the alignment of human relationships and business processes to optimize effectiveness, efficiency, productivity, leadership capacity, quality of life, lifestyle practices, and wellbeing of individuals, organizations and communities. She is a certified yoga teacher, Watsu and Reiki practitioner, with a spiritual practice of over 30 years. She offers private sessions and group workshops drawing from a variety of disciplines to enhance health and wellbeing from a whole-person (physical, emotional, cognitive and spiritual) whole-system view. She provides a gentle, caring, supportive, safe environment with special attention to individual needs. As a partner of the Sunyata Group, she is an experienced convener, host, and facilitator. Her current objective is to live, work, and play in the inquiry: "What becomes possible, and can be done more efficiently and effectively together — than can be accomplished separately to manifest optimal health, wellness and productivity in individuals, organizations and communities?" For more information visit www.sunyatagroup.ws. Deanna Minich, PhD, CN, RYT, is a dynamic nutrition educator, yoga practitioner, and author of four books on nutrition and healing. An "out-of-the-box" nutritionist, Dr. Minich sees more to food than just calories and nutrients. Her passion is in guiding people beyond the physical needs of food into understanding how food choices and the experience of eating impact not only the body, but the emotions, thoughts, and subtle energy. She teaches that foods and eating provide creative ways that we can access deeper issues related to personal growth. Her approach is unique, as she uses a foundation of science, a sprinkle of spirituality, and a dash of practicality to help you create a meaningful relationship with meals. For more information visit www.foodandspirit.com. Michele Raven, a Living in Harmony facilitator and Facilities Coordinator at Harmony Hill, brings over twenty years of experience in garden hardscape and woodworking. Implementing projects using "available" materials such as salvaged, wildcrafted, and found items is her specialty. A gifted designer, Michele created and installed the Harmony Hill garden fences and gates using lumber milled on site. Michele and several of her creative projects were featured on a recent HGTV program filmed at the Hill. Hands on demonstration, interjected with humor and insight that comes with experience and the hard won knowledge of the self-taught, awaits the "wood" be participant. Elizabeth Speck, Business/Wellness Session Facilitator (Igniting Growth Series) has over 25 years of experience as a leader, manager and teacher, in companies undergoing rapid and significant change. She has an MBA from the University of Chicago, and has held different management positions, primarily in the health care industry. Ms. Speck is the owner and principal of Elizabeth Speck Consulting and is an associate consultant with Pacific Integral. The focus of her practice is working with companies to create powerful, effective work teams that are energized by their work together, committed to accomplishing shared goals, and equipped to stay in action in the face of ongoing challenges. Ms. Speck has worked with teams on challenges such as developing and implementing strategic plans, creating new business, establishing key market partnerships, implementing new software systems, improving staff involvement in customer satisfaction, creating training programs, and improving interdepartmental communication and relationships. The result of her work is that teams accomplish the identified goals, and team members and leaders learn new skills and build relationships that enhance their future work. Jolene Black, MS, Development Director, brings over eight years of non-profit development experience to Harmony Hill. Jolene has had a diverse development background having previously worked for a number of college foundations and a large community nonprofit before joining Harmony Hill in 2007. Eric Blegen, BA, is Deputy Director. Eric brings over 15 years of financial and personnel management experience, both in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. With degrees in Political Science and German, Eric comes to the Hill with a wide variety of life experiences. Kelsey Martin-Keating, BA, Guest Services Coordinator, comes to Harmony Hill with seven years of non-profit and personnel management experience. Kelsey has an extensive background in non-profit administration, staff and volunteer management, and customer service. She also runs a small organic farm on her property. Gretchen Schodde, ARNP, MN, is the founder and Executive Director of Harmony Hill. Gretchen is a family nurse practitioner, a former UW Assistant Professor, and one of the first nurse practitioners in the State of Washington, with a lifelong commitment to community health and wellness. Cindy Shank is Program Manager. Cindy brings over 13 years of retreat center experience with a background in banking and law. Cindy’s background and retreat experience ensures that our programs runs smoothly and are in demand.
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