My Background
My Practice
My medicine basket includes extensive work using my voice to share others’ stories, navigate others’ conflict, and to advocate for change on others’ behalf within our current justice and social systems. I now focus on supporting clients to express their personal stories through their own body and voice, and to explore how their voices interact with the systems that shape our shared contemporary world.
Expanding My Medicine Basket
I am currently growing my medicine basket through the following study: • Family and Systems Constellations [Systemic Family Constellations Training Institute] • Vocal Coaching [Barbara McAfee] • Community Song-Leading [Kate Valentine, Singing Mamas] • Continuum Movement [Kim Brodey] • Ancestral Connection [Perdita Finn] • Energy Healing [Denise Carpenter]
Current Basket
• Bachelor of Laws [University of New Brunswick] • Bachelor of Arts in Political Science [Carleton University] • Mediation and Conflict Resolution Studies [Jennifer Suzor, Hilary Linton, Conrad Grebel University College] • Circle Training [Centre for Courage and Renewal] • Restorative Justice Facilitation [Lanark County Community Justice] • Social Change and Collective Action [The Outer Work Project w/ Staci Haines, Nkem Ndefo, Karine Bell and Kai Cheng-Thom] • Gestalt Psychotherapy [Gestalt Institute of Toronto – Year One of Psychotherapy Training Program] • Certified Life Coach and 6-Phase Meditation Trainer [Mindvalley] • Certificate in Contemplative End-of-Life Care [Institute of Traditional Medicine] • Vocal Coaching [Val Leavitt, Mila Redwood] • Celtic Ancestral Practices [Weaving Remembrance] • Solo Nature Vigils [School of Lost Borders, Self-Guided] • Learning to Reconnect [various facilitators, inspired by Joanna Macy’s teachings] • Hospice Care [Hospice Palliative Care Ontario and Hospice Hub Perth] • 5Rhythms Dance [Peter Fodera, Ariel Karass, Layah-Jane, Lynne Adams and others] • Mythopoetic and Ritual Studies [Joshua Schrei, Natalie Rousseau]
Kind Words
New York
New York