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.