Continuing Education
Our
Faculty
Our faculty bring a wealth of
expertise on natural approaches to achieving health and well-being to
helping professionals and others interested in the learning about the
wisdom and healing power of Nature.
Sarah Edwards
LCSW
Paul Edwards
JD
Chris Faulconer
MDiv
Michael Cohen
EdD
Lynn
Andrews
Clyde Glandon
DMin
Dean Allen
PhD
Sarah
Anne Edwards,
LCSW
5769
Over the past
twenty-five years, Sarah Edwards has helped thousands
of people create new and more fulfilling natural lifestyles through seminars,
workshops, and private consultations, as well as through
her nationally
syndicated columns and TV and radio shows.
She currently
serves as the Director of the Pine Mountain Institute, an
educational organization providing an ecopsychologically-oriented
continuing education programs for helping professionals.
Sarah is the co-author with her husband Paul of fifteen books
including
The Practical Dreamer's Handbook,
Changing Directions without Losing Your Way and
Finding Your Perfect Work. This year the third edition of
her first novel,
Sitting with the Enemy, an ecopsychological drama
was published.
Sarah received her Masters in Social Work from the University of
Kansas in 1974. and completed her PhD in Ecopsychology from Akamai
University in 2006. In 2002 she was ordained as a minister and
founded the Pine Mountain Unitarian Fellowship that same year.
Additional clinical training includes:
-
Certification in Applied Ecopsychology from the International
University
of Professional Studies
- Ancient
Spiritual Healing Practices at the Lynn Andrews Center for
Sacred Arts and Training
-
Clinical
Member, International Transactional Analysis Association
-
Provisional
Teaching Member of the International Transactional Analysis
Association,
-
Certified
NeuroLinguistic Programming practitioner
-
State
Certified Biofeedback Training
-
Clinical
Hypnosis with Dr. Milton Erickson, M.D. at the Ericksonian
Hypnosis Institute
-
Licensed
Parent Effectiveness Training Instructor
- Secondary
Education License, State of Missouri
Before opening a
private practice in 1977, Sarah served as Clinical Director of the
Cathexis Institute in Glendale, Californian, an out-patient
treatment facility for severely disturbed individuals. Prior to
that, she was Director of Social Work Training at the Kansas Medical
Center Children?s Rehabilitation Unit and Parent Involvement and
Social Services Specialist for the Office of Child Development?s
Kansas City Regional Office.
She has taught
courses for continuing education credit for the California
Association for Marriage and Family Therapists and the Life Purpose
Institute in San Diego, California, where she is a faculty member.
She has also taught courses on practice and business development at
the University of California at Los Angeles and Santa Cruz.
Sarah and her
husband Paul founded the Pine Mountain Institute in 1999.
Paul Edwards,
J.D.
Over the past twenty-five years, Paul Edwards has helped thousands of people create new
and more fulfilling lifestyles through seminars, workshops, and online
consultations, as well as through his nationally syndicated columns and TV
and radio shows.
Dr. Edwards is the
co-author with his wife Sarah of seventeen books including Working
from Home, their first, and
Middle-Class Lifeboat,
their most recent.
He received his Juris
Doctor from the University of Missouri at Kansas City in 1965. Additional
training includes:
- Special Member,
International Transactional Analysis Association
-
Certified NeuroLinguistic
Programming Practitioner
- Clinical Hypnosis with Dr.
Milton Erickson, M.D. at the Ericksonian
Hypnosis Institute
- Program for Urban
Executives, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
In 1972, he was named
an Outstanding Young Man of Missouri.
Dr. Edwards served as
Administrative Director of the Cathexis Institute in Glendale,
Californian, an out-patient treatment facility for severely disturbed
individuals. Prior to that he was President of the Environmental Research
and Development Foundation, founded by the Menninger Foundation and served
as Coordinator of Intergovernmental Relations for Jackson County Missouri.
He operated his
own public affairs and training company, first in Missouri, then in
California, teaching communication and negotiating skills to public
officials and corporations such as Southern California Edison, Security
Pacific Bank and Hewlett Packard.
He has taught
courses on practice and business development at the University of
California at Los Angeles and Santa Cruz and serves on the faculty of the
Life Purpose Institute.
In 1999, Dr. Edwards and his wife Sarah founded the Pine Mountain Institute to
provide seminars and workshops on life change and transition.
Rev.
Chris Faulconer, M.Div.
Chris
Faulconer is an ordained minister, a gifted healer, a dynamic teacher and
lecturer. She has originated a healing process,
"Journeying", which combines ancient shamanic wisdom and
empowerment and connects one to one's own inner resources.
Chris
has a private practice in Pine Mountain and Los Angeles, California. She
lectures across the United States and Canada.
She
spent twenty years as a consultant, designing computer systems for
aerospace before becoming a minister later in life.
She earned her Masters from the Healing Light Center Church
Seminary. In 1987, Chris was ordained as a minister of the Healing
Light Center Church in Glendale, California.
She
has taught courses for continuing education credit for the California
Board of Registered Nurses and the Healing Light Center Church Seminary
where she was a faculty member from 1987 to 1996.
Chris
has also taught CEU courses for the Tennessee Board of Registered Nurses
and Vanderbilt University in Nashville, and served as the State
Consciousness Raising Coordinator for California NOW in the 1970's.
She has designed programs and curriculum for all the above institutions.
 Michael
J. Cohen,
Ph.D.
For over forty years,
ecopsychologist Dr. Michael Cohen has
lived in and led groups of others into settings similar to the
"Survivor" TV series, except Cohen?s goal was not to compete
for a million dollars. His goal was to discover how we can live in
sustainable balance with our natural environment. Since
1959, he
has
camped and studied in eighty-four
different ecosystems for periods of three days to six months and lived
among many human communities including the Amish, indigenous people,
outdoorsmen and ecologists.
Cohen is the Director of the Institute of Applied Ecopsychology at
the International University of Professional Studies in Hawaii. There he oversees an undergraduate and graduate degree program based on
the Natural Systems Thinking Process he developed that restores people to
their natural state of integrity, physically, mentally and emotionally
through the healing power of Nature.
Dr. Cohen has authored numerous books including
Reconnecting
to Nature and The Web of Life Imperative He as served on the Adjunct Faculty of Portland State University
Graduate School of Extended Studies, is the Founder and Chair of
Integrated Ecology, World Peace University/Institute of Global Education
Portland, Oregon and is a Contributing Editor, Between the Species Journal
of the Albert Schweitzer Center, Berkeley, CA.
Professional Organizations:
- National Association for
Interpretation
-
Association For Experiential
Education
-
North American Association
for Environmental
Education
-
Coalition for Education in
the Out-of-Doors
-
Global Network of
Environmental Education
Centers
- lliance for Environmental
Education
Honors and Awards:
- Distinguished World Citizen Award from the University of Global
Education
-
Keynote speaker at the national conferences of the:
North American Association
of Environmental Education
-
NY State Outdoor Education
Association
Coalition for Education in
the Out-of-Doors
-
Award for Excellence in
Interpretation, National Association for
Interpretation
 Lynn
Andrews
Internationally
acclaimed author Lynn Andrews has written 20 books,
currently published in 12 languages. Her
books
include
Medicine Woman
(now in its 25th anniversary printing), Jaguar Woman,
Woman at the Edge of Two Worlds: The Spiritual Journey Through
Menopause and Dark
Sister: A Sorcerer's Love Story. She is also
the author of The Power Deck: The Cards of Wisdom, a series of
self-affirming meditation cards, and four workbooks, as well as over 20
meditation and teaching audio tapes. Andrews' newest works --
Writing Spirit is now available.
Andrews' ability to teach people and
show them how to live a life that is truly balanced, with one foot in the
physical and one in the spiritual is the foundation of this amazing new
work. To read the full text about Lynn Andrews in CityAz Magazine,
click
here.
Considered a
preeminent teacher in the field of personal development, Lynn Andrews is a
21st Century shaman whose words reflect her path, a path of heart. For
twelve years, women and men from all over the world have gathered with
Lynn for her annual Joshua
Tree four-day retreat. In 1994,
The
Lynn Andrews Center for Sacred Arts and Training (Mystery School) was
created. This program is a unique mystery school designed to integrate the
sacred into every aspect of life. The curriculum offers a four-year
professional certification program. Bachelor's, Masters, and Doctorate
Degrees are available.
Andrews' work
explores the ancient teachings taught by the Sisterhood of the Shields
which embrace the study of global shamanic cosmologies and sacred art
technologies. It is her intention that through this work we understand how
all that is sacred in life weaves together within our world. Throughout
time, shamans have practiced the art of choreographing energy in a
nonlinear field. Shamanic knowledge and practice is at the very heart of
creation. As 21st Century shamans we learn to create a sacred circle in
which we transform our ordinary life into a life of power.
Clyde C. Glandon,
D.Min.
LPC Oklahoma # 1597
Fellow, American Association of Pastoral Counselors
e-mail
ccetulsa@aol.com
Positions
Director,
Center for
Counseling and Education in Tulsa
OK, Staff Psychotherapist, Center
for Counseling and Education, Tulsa OK
Associate Rector, Trinity Episcopal Church, Tulsa OK
Rector, St. Paul?s Episcopal Church, Williamsville
NY
Associate Rector, St. James Episcopal Church, Batavia
NY
Assistant Canon, St. Paul?s Cathedral, Buffalo NY
Education
D.Min. Phillips Theological Seminary
School of Spiritual Directors, Pecos Benedictine
Monastery
M.Div. Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge,
Massachusetts
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BA, History and Philosophy, University of Kansas
Professional
LPC Supervisor Qualification, State of Oklahoma
LPC Certification, State of Oklahoma
Fellow, American Association of Pastoral Counselors
Member, American Association of Pastoral Counselors
Publications
?Pastoral
Counseling as a Practice of Psychodynamic Spirituality? Journal of
Pastoral Care, Winter, 1999.
Dean
G. Allen, Ph.D.
Dr. Allen has a Ph.D.
in clinical psychology from Utah State University (1982) where he did his
doctoral dissertation on ?Autonomic Nervous System Control as a Function
of Imagery, using biofeedback while teaching a university class on the
Psychology of Consciousness for three years beginning in 1977.
Dr.
Allen then went into private practice doing Wellness and Stress Management
training using biofeedback and focused on corporate executives and
personnel, at a resort and conference location in Florida until 1987. As
he worked he came to change his perception of
human functioning and health and in conjunction, synthesizing a new way for scientifically
observing and understanding human problems from an electrical point of
view that relates to how our life-force energy flow is programmed by
uncleared trauma memory. Allen has found that such trauma memories of each organ?s specific purpose, plan
and function can be correlated physically, emotionally and mentally with
life-force energy flow measurements between organ/gland energy systems.
Working full-time with this system for the last fifteen
years with
thousands of clients, Dr. Allen has found scientifically predictably connections
between electrical energy flow measured by infrared with specific
dysfunctional decision/action and behavior patterns resulting from
specific types of uncleared traumas and their memory patterns. Learning to
track these memory patterns consciously, in the moment, he finds is the key to
effectively changing clients dysfunctional decision patterns.
Dr.
Allen currently does workshops and private sessions with this BodyTalker
system for providing personal clarity, while living between Los Angles and
Idaho. He is currently working on a book entitled, ?Consciousness: The
Only Elegant Solution? and teaches his system for diagnosis and treating
trauma to physical and mental health professionals with Dr. C. Norman
Shealy, M.D., Ph.D., at the Holos Institutes of Health in Fair Grove,
Missouri.
*Our courses meet the
qualifications for continuing education credit for MFCCs and/or
LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral
Sciences. Provider #2309 and for RN?s: Provider approved by the
California Board of Registered Nurses for 6 contact hours, Provider
#13577
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