Facilitators

Wild Earth Intensive

Lead Facilitator
Bill Pfeiffer
Bill Pfeiffer is the founder and director of Sacred Earth Network (SEN). SEN has been implementing leading edge visions for almost 20 years. Bill has made Russia a "second home" having traveled there 34 times in the last 15 years--giving him a rare cross-cultural perspective. He has 20 years of experience in re-evaluation counseling and Vipassana meditation, and has undergone extensive training with Siberian shamans as well as with Joanna Macy and John Perkins. He has also spent much time in the US Southwest learning about Native medicine ways and the crucial importance of the petroglyphs and pictographs. Bill brings to all his work a dynamic mixture of open heartedness, sensitivity, and a fierce determination for a peaceful, sustainable future.
www.sacredearthnetwork.org

Guest Facilitators

Miriam Dror
M.A., LCMHC, Certified International Core Energetic Therapist. Miriam has practiced for over thirty-five years in both the U.S. and England. Her work is an integration of Human development, deep body psychotherapies, as well as teachings that come from Indigenous Peoples. Miriam has sought, through the positions she has held as well as the many trainings and workshops she has developed and facilitated, to promote an understanding of child rearing and models of education that support human development to its fullest potential in balance with the principles of nature. Her healing practices reflect a trust in the innate capacity of each of us to embrace our own healing journeys and to find purpose in our lives. She calls her work Human Development by Nature’s Design.

Cathy Pedevillano
Cathy is a shamanic healer and teacher who leads workshops and trainings in shamanism. She has traveled to the Southwest many times where she has led vision quests, healing journeys, indigenous people’s exchanges and works with native elders. Cathy is a skilled and compassionate facilitator who brings her love of the Earth and passion for healing and transformation into her work. She is also an environmental activist/educator and wildlife biologist. Cathy is committed to serving humanity and the planet through the revival of ancient shamanic practices and an Earth-honoring world view.
www.heartofshamanism.com

Mark Morey
Mark is a creative artist, visionary educator, cultural engineer, and consultant who designs regenerative holistic communities with timeless native principles. He founded or co-founded three transformational organizations in the last 15 years: Deep Wilds, Vermont Wilderness School, and the Institute for Natural Learning, sparking a nature and community awareness movement in the Northeast impacting 5,000 adults and children today. He has facilitated wilderness survival and spiritual passages for teens and adults since 1997, including over 40 week-long Art of Mentoring programs for adults, and 7 years of Sacred Fire rites of passage for teen boys. Mark feels inspired by the hero’s journey model and the oral history of his ancestors and native people around the world. Mark’s passion for environmental healing and consciousness has gained him wide recognition as a leader in earth centered learning.
http://www.ifnaturallearning.com/

Assistant Facilitators

Jay Fields
Jay Fields, M.A., R.Y.T. is an ambassador for embodied, down-to-earth spirituality. A certified yoga teacher for over ten years and a spiritual counselor in private practice in Portland, OR, her passion is supporting the deepening of our personal and collective relationship with Spirit and unveiling our essential selves so as to have the trust to live meaningfully in this world. Jay has trained as a vision quest guide and council facilitator with the School of Lost Borders, and holds an M.A. in Integral Transformative Education.

Courting the Living World
Katja Esser
Katja is a multi disciplinary artist who inspires through self-expression. She has run annual seasonal rituals since 1992 of which the summer solstice at America’s Stonehenge is most well known. Her extraordinary and elaborate masks and costumes bring forth beings from another world as well as her singing. Katja has facilitated drumming circles, workshops in sound, continuum based movement, and maskmaking. She studied with Emily Conrad, Malidoma Somé, ALisa Starkweather, Eric Bornstein and Saruah Benson. Katja comes with her deep concern and caring for our planet and its inhabitants.

Wild Plants Workshop

Russ Cohen
Russ Cohen, professional environmentalist and wild foods enthusiast, grew up in Weston, MA, where he spent much of his free time in the woods, cultivating a strong spiritual connection to nature. He is in his 33rd year of teaching courses about wild edibles and has led programs in a wide variety of settings, including for the Massachusetts Audubon Society, The Trustees of Reservations and the Appalachian Mountain Club. During the "off-season", Russ writes articles on foraging and gives slide presentations featuring many of his favorite edible wild plants and mushrooms found in New England. Russ' foraging book, Wild Plants I Have Known...and Eaten (see link below), came out in June of 2004.
http://users.rcn.com/eatwild/bio.htm

Walker Korby
Walker realized at an early age that his path was guiding him towards reconnecting people both young and old with the natural world. He has been lead staff for the "Art of Mentoring" workshops, led by Jon Young and the Wilderness Awareness School, since their inception in 1996. During the school year he has taught nature awareness classes at several local private and public schools, as well as the Greenfield Community College. In the summers has been a youth instructor for camps at Tom Brown's Tracker school, Vermont Wilderness School, Wilderness Awareness School and several other local organizations. He holds a Masters in Geography from Umass and currently works for The Trustees of Reservations managing several nature preserves in the North Quabbin.

Permaculture Workshop
Jono Neiger
Jono has a diverse background in ecology, conservation, restoration, land stewardship, permaculture, and landscape design. He works to help individuals, communities and organizations create ecological, productive, and beautiful environments. A conservation biologist and ecologist since 1990 and permaculture teacher and designer since 1996, Jono was the Land Steward and Permaculture Apprenticeship Program Director at the Lost Valley Educational Center, Oregon for 5 yrs. He is faculty at the Conway School of Landscape Design in Conway, MA and operates Regenerative Design, a permaculture design and planning firm in Leverett, Massachusetts.