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Mari
Hollander
Mari is the Education Manager and
programme co-ordinator for the college. She
has lived and worked within the Findhorn Foundation
community for over 30 years and served the
in various capacities in the areas of management,
education, and in promotion of environmental
harmlessness. She experiences this life as
one great learning adventure, is a lover of
beauty and devoted to the path of peace-making.
She is the mother of two grown children. |
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Dr.
Daniel Wahl
Daniel Christian Wahl was born and
schooled in Germany. He studied biological
sciences, and the history, sociology, and
philosophy of science at the University of
Edinburgh, and neuroscience, physiology, and
marine mammal behaviour at the University
of California, Santa Cruz. Daniel gained a
BSc. (Hons.) in Zoology from the University
of Edinburgh in 1996. In 2002, Daniel received
a Masters in Holistic Science (MSc.) with
distinction from Schumacher College (see www.schumachercollege.org)
and the Environmental Science Department of
the University of Plymouth. He continued to
work at Schumacher College as a volunteer
and course facilitator until early 2003. In
June 2006, Daniel received his PhD in Design
for Sustainability from the University of
Dundee. His supervisors were Prof. Seaton
Baxter, OBE, who set up the world’s
first masters in ecological design, and Prof.
John Todd, University of Vermont, who founded
the New Alchemy Institute in 1969 and is regarded
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Stacie
Whitney - BGS Anthropology, Religion
& Environmental Studies, MSc Environmental
Education, HHC Certification in Holistic Nutrition
& Health
Stacie is a facilitator, educator & writer
who has a passion for working with people
through life transitions. She met her husband
at Findhorn several years ago, and together,
they have traveled, studied, and worked extensively,
in the UK, US, Central America and Western
Europe. As part of her own transitional practice,
Stacie makes pilgrimages a part of her life,
her most recent being to Santiago de Compostela
in Northern Spain. To her role Stacie brings
her educational background in community and
group living, environmental and experiential
education, and experience organizing and producing
large events. She loves nature, music, ritual,
& creating and maintaining sacred space.
Stacie has a Master’s degree in Environmental
Education from Lesley University & the
Audubon Expedition Institute. She is also
a certified Holistic Health Counselor, and
has a particularly strong interest in the
overall well-being and health of the students. |
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Karin
Werner -Dipl.
SozPäd, Dipl. ATh
Initially holding a degree in Social Pedagogy
it led her into an ever deepening involvement
with the visual arts. She is a UK registered
Art Therapist with 12 years of experience
in both clinical and private practice, as
well as teaching art therapy students in Berlin,
Germany. Over 25 years of educational work
with groups in the Findhorn Foundation Community
and abroad has given her the foundation for
art making as a healing tool in group settings.
Believing in the artist in every person who
knows and holds their own creative power gives
her the passion and inspiration for her ongoing
work with the HEALING THROUGH ART training
courses and her own relationship with the
arts. http://creativehealth.org.uk
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Mary
Inglis - BA English
and Politics
Mary Inglis was born in Scotland, grew up
in Nigeria and Lesotho, and went to school
and university in South Africa, where she
worked as a journalist as well as training
in experiential educational approaches. For
the last 35 years she has lived at the Findhorn
Community, where she is a long-term faculty
member of the Findhorn Foundation. Mary is
managing director of InnerLinks UK, the organisation
which researches and develops Transformation
Game products, programmes and trainings. Her
areas of work and interest include training,
facilitation and supervision of individuals
and teams in various forms of the Transformation
Game, conflict resolution, leadership, team
building and community creation, and transformational
change processes. She also leads seminars
in creativity, creative writing, dreams, and
in approaching life as a mystery school. From
2002 – 20005, she was the lead faculty
for the Creative Writing module in the FCS. |
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Lisa Shaw
M.F.A. Grays School of Art, Aberdeen,
2007-2009 (to be completed September, 2009).
B.F.A. The Cooper Union for the Advancement
of Science and Art, New York City, 2000-2004.
Lisa Shaw is an artist, designer and educator.
She is the art director of the Ecovillage
Institute, an ecological design and engineering
firm based in Findhorn, Scotland. She has
worked on water restoration projects in India,
China, Bolivia, Russia and the UK as part
of the Ecovillage Institute team, educating
for the restoration and sustainable use of
water and soil. This work targets problems
of water scarcity, contamination and land
degradation. Lisa is involved in community
building and ecological art and is currently
researching issues of self-image in relationship
to the environment in Scotland. She creates
paintings on canvas, photographs, videos,
murals and dialogical interventions and has
taught art to adults and children. |
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Lesley Quilty, Dip Physical Theatre, Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre, Aracta CA; Dip Mythodrama Artist Presenter, Olivier Mythodrama Associates
Lesley Quilty is a theatre artist, arts consultant, facilitator, coach, mother and long-term Findhorn Community member. She has worked in professional theatre as a performer, director, teacher and producer, in North America and the UK, for over 20 years, although her performing and teaching now take place almost exclusively in non-theatrical settings. As a "Clown Consultant" she has designed and led programmes for many environmental, educational and social activist groups. She is an associate of CarbonSense and regular presenter at Resurgence Magazine and Schumacher College events. She is also employed as a "Clown Doctor", working with sick and dying children and their families in Scottish hospitals. Lesley is also a coach and lead presenter of cutting-edge leadership development programmes for Olivier Mythodrama Associates, working in both the corporate and public sectors, in the UK, Europe and Asia. |
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Andy
Bettis - 'O' level Geography
Andy provides back office support and
the front-line telephone, post and email interface
for the college team. His 30-year career in
temporary work has included time as a dance
teacher, musician, software engineer, stand-up
comedian, alpine guide and guitar tutor. He
is currently researching material for the
forthcoming autobiography 'It seemed like
a good idea at the time'. |
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Deborah
Jay-Lewin -Dip. Drama
and Movement in Therapy.
Deborah Jay-Lewin has many years experience
of introducing dance into different environments,
opening up movement possibilities in new and
previously unexplored ways. Initially certified
as a Sesame Movement and Drama Therapist working
in Special Needs environments, she went on
to train as a Holistic Massage practitioner.
Having danced with Gabrielle Roth over the
past 19 years, she was accredited by the Moving
Centre, New York in 1994 to teach the Waves®
level of the work. In January 2007, she completed
the training to teach Heartbeat®, the
emotional maps of this dance practice.
Deborah teaches 5Rhythms in the Findhorn Community
in Scotland, which has been her primary home
since 1986. She is currently Lead Faculty
for the Findhorn Foundation College on the
module ‘Exploring Sustainable Living
though Creative Expression’. When not
teaching and parenting her two children in
Findhorn, she travels and teaches throughout
Europe and Asia.
She brings warmth and an open heart to her
teaching with a complete passion and dedication
to this and it's power to transform. |
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Gill
Emslie- Dip. PW
Gill has extensive experience as an international
trainer and facilitator, drawing on her training
in transpersonal psychology, as a consultant
to organisations and communities, and as a
psychotherapist, to deliver trainings in group
dynamics and conflict facilitation, social
design, personal development, staff training,
supervision, and developing the relationship
between individual purpose and its application
in the workplace and the world. Gill currently
works within the corporate and voluntary sectors
both in Europe and Latin America as well as
teaching in a variety of educational programmes. |
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Jonathan
Dawson - BA, MA, MPhil
Jonathan Dawson is the President of the Global
Ecovillage Network and has lived at the Findhorn
Foundation community for eight years. He is
co-author of a curriculum on sustainable community
development that has been endorsed by UNESCO
as part of the UN Decade of Education for
Sustainability www.gaiaeducation.org/
Jonathan has spent 20 years as a consultant,
author, educator and project manager in the
field of community economic development in
Africa and South Asia. He is the author of
three books on various aspects of development
and sustainability and is a prolific writer
of articles for academic journals and the
popular media. |
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Robin
Shohet is co-author of Supervision
in the Helping Professions (OU Press 3rd edition
2006) and editor of Passionate Supervision
(Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2008). He qualified
as a teacher in 1970 and now works freelance
as a trainer. He has a particular interest
in supporting those in the helping professions
to keep their passion for their work alive
through supervision, mentoring and coaching.
In 2006 he co-ordinated a pilot project on
introducing Appreciative Inquiry into Scottish
schools. |
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Joan
Wilmot is co founder of Centre for
Supervision and Team Development and has been
running supervision trainings and providing
team development for 35 years. She works as
supervisor and psychotherapist with individuals
and couples and has a a private practice in
a both London and Scotland.
Joan is a co founder and active member of
Findhorn Playback Theatre and co-author of
"The Boxing Clever Cookbook" (2002)
She has written about supervision in the CSTD
book "Supervision in the Helping Professions"
by Hawkins, P. Shohet R;
"Passionate Supervision" editted
by Shohet R. chapter 5 The Supervisory Relationship:
A life long calling; and, "Training and
Supervision for Counselling in Action"
: ed Dryden W. Thorne B. The Key Issue in
the Supervision of counsellors. |
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Melissa Godbeer B.MSc & M.MSc University of Metaphysics, California; PhD student, Department of Philosophy, University of Sedona.
Born in Zimbabwe and growing up during pre and post Apartheid South Africa, Melissa has first hand experience of widely diverse worldviews. Prior to living at Findhorn, Melissa was one of the initial leaders of the East Coast urban sustainable small farm movement, initiated through a not-for-profit pro-peace organisation, which she co-founded. Intrigued by the process of world views and how they define our capacity for a collective capable consciousness, Melissa's PhD research focuses on how our 'industrialised mind programmes' shape our cultural norms, ‘norms’ that lie at the root of present global crisis. Presently, serving as a sustainability liaison for a variety of Africa based charities, Melissa is inspired by the positive possibilities that are available to humanity through low-impact means. As an active minister and holistic councilor, Melissa advocates for 'Greening our Minds'. |
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Findhorn
Foundation College, St Leonard's Rd, Forres, Morayshire,
Scotland, IV36 2RD, Scotland |
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