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Mentor
Links The pursuit of the theme; "Complete Presence in
the Moment has led me to some incredible teachers. It was in acting
classes, studying the Meisner Technique
in the 1990's, that I started to realize that many of the skills that I
did NOT have as a medic; like consistently being fully present, and
knowing how to begin, utilize and then break off connection with other
human beings, were actually tied in to muscles that could be
strengthened through acting and improvisation games. Through Jose Angel Santana's (now pHd.) classes in Santa Barbara, I first started to understand how important these concepts and approaches are to healthcare professionals. In 1998 I attended my first Network for a New Culture Summer Camp. It was an experiment in Intimacy and Community, and I had no idea of how it would move my life into a completely different direction. It was there that I got to
spend about a week with Joseph
Chilton Pearce, Bruce Lipton
and Patch Adams (pre-movie).
What I learned from that experience as a whole helped
me to synthesize the answer to what had become my life's question: "How
can Healers learn to keep their hearts open and do their work when most
everything in the healing professions is geared towards the
reinforcement
of maintaining a distance between them and the people they work with?" I spent five years assimilating what I learned in those two weeks (Okay, I'm slow!). Summer Camp led me to Lost Valley Educational Center,
in
Oregon, where
I lived and worked for five years. While there, I became steeped
in assisting with their monthly workshop, Naka-Ima, progressing to be one of
the first in their Kipuka (Mastery) program. I went on to have
extensive experience in "The Practice" and "The Expansion" two courses
offered by Jamie Campbell and Deborah Riverbend (the originators of
Naka-Ima) who took Naka-Ima's concepts and supercharged them to act as
agents of healing. The HeART of the
Healer, which is essentially the synthesis of my lifetime in the
healing arts,
owes its development to that fertile time in my life and these highly
potent influences. That workshop then became my teacher. I committed to put myself through the same crap I put my students through: to stretch myself in the art of self-expression, which has lead me to my extensive writings in the healing arts, music and photography.
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