About My Path

My Path

Barbara

“I suppose you could consider my training a classic path through the study of body-mind-spirit. It certainly wasn’t planned that way. I went where I was guided. Looking back, I think I can safely say I was never in charge.”

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The Path

• Trained as a nurse, counseling intern in addiction and substance abuse, and specialized in Surgery, Neurology and Psych and later Geriatrics and Pediatrics.
• Business Degree in Management
• Nine years experience as Director of a halfway house for people with mental and emotional challenges— many of whom had PTSD and were victims of violence and/or childhood and adulthood sexual abuse.
• Founder of the Job Club program for unemployed and underemployed
• Program creator, Seminar Leader, Workshop Facilitator
• Member of the local charter and founding group for Sister Cities International
• Grant Writer and Administrator for the Fox Cities Sister City Program that paired cities in Wisconsin with cities in Russia.
• Citizen Diplomat and Officer for 18 years for Russian-American Sister Cities Project ending in building Russin on-site social infrastructure for the START II Treaty Cooperative Threat Reduction Treaty for the Chemical Weapons De-commissioning Program.
• Complementary Care Training in: … Interspecies Communication, Shaman Student and Practitioner, Reiki II , Geo Tran, Psych-K, Feng Shui, Possibilities DNA, Aromatherapy, Tellington Touch, Animal Massage, Avatar and others.
• Interspecies Communication Specialist
• Published Artist, Writer and Poet
• Seminarian, Graduate and Ordination: Beloved community, Seminary of Spiritual Peacemaking, Oregon
• Formation Member Sancta Divina Community
• Voices Education Project- Writer and Contributing Editor
• Huffington Post Blogger
• Currently Staff, Coordinator for the Arts Sector, writer and editor for the Charter for Compassion International- with 400+ member cities around the world, more than 2,000 organizational partners, the membership representing alost 9 million people around the world.