My education and training

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On my beloved mentors, teachers and lineages, from this side of the veil and the other, that inform my work–
• Francis Weller, alchemy, archetypal psychology, community grief-tending
• Malidoma and Sobonfu Somé, Dagara teachings and grief-ritual practices
• Jane Burns, Tom Cowan, shamanic practices of my Irish blood ancestors
• Sharon Blackie, Tonja Reichly, Celtic rituals and myths, the old stories of my blood ancestors
• Mary McLaughlin, Irish keening practices and funerary rituals
• Joanna Macy, deep ecology, global despair and empowerment work
• Robin Wall Kimmerer, western ecology, sacred reciprocity and indigenous land etiquette
• Linda Thai, individual, collective, and cultural traumatization, somatic therapies
• Martín Prechtel, myths and teachings of the Tzutujil Maya, indigenous grief practices
• Daniel Foor, ritual foundations and ancestral-lineage healing
• Andrea Dyer, Nicolai Bachman, various forms of Yoga, Yoga Sutras, Pranayama
• Sally Atkins, Howard McKinney, Melinda Ashley Meyer, expressive arts and play practices
• Tara Brach, Western psychology and Eastern spiritual practices
• James Hillman, Clarissa Pinkola-Estes, soul-making, archetypal psychology, and myth

Other teachers, writers, thinkers, and creatives who deeply inspire my work in the world–
Resmaa Menakem, Báyò Akómoláfé, David White, Sophie Strand, Paolo Knill, Shaun McNiff, James Hollis, Michelle Cassandra Johnson, and Terry Tempest Williams.

Formal Education–
• Master of Fine Arts, University of Oregon (2003)
• Bachelor of Fine Arts, Southampton College (1998)

Expressive Arts–
• Expressive Arts Therapy Graduate Certificate, Mental Health Counseling Program, Appalachian State University (2021)
• Expressive Arts in Transition and Community Ritual: Moving Toward Belonging After Trauma and Displacement, European Graduate School (2022)

Grief-tending work–
• Grief-Ritual Facilitation training, with Francis Weller (2019)
• Course in Keening, Irish Ritual of Lament, with Mary McLaughlin (2021)
• The Work That Reconnects, with Joanna Macy (2012)

Additional trauma and healing work–
• Somatic Embodiment and Regulation Strategies, with Linda Thai (2023)
• Safe and Sound Protocol, with Steven Porges (2018)
• Usui Reiki Levels 1 and 2 (2007)

Ritual work–
• Sacred Ritual Arts in the Celtic tradition, with Tonja Reichley (2021)
• Foundations of Ritual; Practical Animism; Creativity and the Sacred; Practices for Grieving and Heartache, with Daniel Foor (2020–2022)

Movement–
• RYT 200 Yoga certification (2012-2013)
• Study of Yang Hsu system of T’ai Chi Ch’uan, Shaolin Temple discipline, with Sifu Fan Ping Tao (2010-2012)

Earth-based–
• Sustainable Design Certificate, Yestermorrow Design/Build School (2016)
• Permaculture Design Certification (2014)

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