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

Jason Cohen
Jason Cohen discovered the flow of energy between his fingers and hands at the age of 13. The practice of cultivating this energy and applying it with will and faith has led him on a life long journey of experimentation, music, dance, magic and prayer. The producer of 12 Forestdance gatherings, in five states in the US and now in Massachusetts and Costa Rica, he has devoted his life to bringing people together in safe eclectic sacred spaces that are designed for the balancing of deep listening and profound human expression. As a co-founder of the heARTbeat Collective: Healing and Expressive ARTists for Balance, Ecology, Awareness, and Transformation, based in Jamaica Plain, MA, Jason hosts events that help people reclaim inspiration while honoring personal connection to the earth and to life. He is the composer, keyboardist and singer for his band Incus. whose unique and dynamic World Tribal Medicine Rock music has been performed all over the US and in Costa Rica.
www.heartbeatcollective.org

Contemplative Vision Quest

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.

Chris Crotty, M.A.
Chris is an ecopsychologist, educator, and mentor within institutional settings and private practice. Active in rites of passage work, he trained as a Vision Quest guide and Council facilitator with the School of Lost Borders, and has been devoted to the practice of meditation for the past ten years, studying in the Shambhala and Vipassana traditions. Chris has shared his blend of contemplative practice and earth-based teachings with public and private schools, colleges, non-profits, and Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. Chris holds an M.A. in Ecopsychology and Sustainable Leadership with a concentration in Buddhist Studies.


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.


Forest Meditation

Chris Crotty, M.A.
See above