People
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Katie Talbott, MA, LMHCA (Present Sense Founder)
Mindfulness meditation, art making, and community all helped Katie wake up to herself and her life work. She started Present Sense because she felt called to create a community to support these practices. She loves watching people become their whole living, growing, changing selves, full of wonder at their complexity and awe at their potential. She has taught mindfulness meditation in prison and in the community and is dedicated to creating places for people to practice mindfulness together. She recently finished her Masters in Counseling at the Leadership Institute of Seattle and is in private practice as a counselor at Fremont Healing Arts.----------------------------------------------------------206.335.5677 kt.talbott@gmail.com katietalbott.com
FACILITATOR: Mindfulness Practice Groups and Retreats -
Valerie Piacenti
Valerie Piacenti is a certified Cross Cultural Music in Healing Practitioner and founder of Pacific Sound and Voice, having completed a two-year course of study in Therapeutic Applications of Cross-Cultural Sound and Music with Pat Moffitt Cook, Ph.D. and Director of Open Ear Center on Bainbridge Island. Valerie has been involved in extensive personal transformation, spiritual work and meditation for over thirty years, the past six of them in sacred sound. Valerie offers sound programs, chant and mantra meditation, prescriptive music, vocal coaching and workshops for individuals and groups at Present-Sense and other venues.----------------------------------------------------------206.931-3771 valerie@pacificsoundandvoice.com
pacificsoundandvoice.com
FACILITATOR: Sound Healing Circles -
Carol Jakus, MA, MSW, LICSW
Carol has had extensive training to teach MBSR through the University of Massachusetts, Center for Mindfulness. She has offered MBSR to the general public, professional organizations and in clinical settings for nearly 15 years. Carol has also practiced as a contemplative psychotherapist for over 25 years in the Seattle area, and is faculty at LIOS and Bastyr University. She is an experienced yoga instructor and meditator with over 30 years of practice.
----------------------------------------------------------206.755.9313 cjakus@mindfullivingnw.com
FACILITATOR: Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction -
Kate Gavigan
Kate is passionate about The Artist's Way having personally experienced the benefits of the materials. Kate worked as a social services trainer for 10 years when she found herself drawn to the material in The Artist's Way which helped her uncover a passion for theatre. She credits her mid-life career change (now working at her two dream jobs teaching Artist's Way classes and working as a PR Manager at a local theater) to having worked through the The Artist's Way materials.
----------------------------------------------------------seattleartistswaycenter@gmail.com
seattleartistswaycenter.com
FACILITATOR: Artist's Way, Improv -
Zoe Wright-Bell
Zoe Wright-Bell has worked in the Northwest for the past ten years as an improviser, director, actor and writer. She has served as a teaching artist at venues including the Seattle Children’s Theatre, Studio East, Summit K-12 and Shoreline High School. As a member of Playback Theatre NW, she has worked with an ensemble to recreate audience stories through the art of improvised movement, music, dialogue, and imagery. In her workshops, Zoe draws on her passion for exploring the relationship between mindfulness practice and the art of improvisational theatre. She particularly enjoys the opportunity to give brand new, beginning improv students a fun, enlightening improv experience
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FACILITATOR: Mindful Improvisation Workshop for Beginners -
Vila Loukas
Vila Loukas is a Personal Growth Consultant & Coach, specializing in Self-Empowerment for greater quality of life. Her work emphasizes the connection to individual Life Purpose for her clients resulting in greater joy & fulfillment in day-to-day living. Vila is Certified as a Healer & Guide with the Modern Mystery School International—an organization dedicated to bringing advanced spiritual training from the Ancient Mystery Schools forward into modern life. She also teaches within the Universal Kabbalah system--an incredible tool for attaining Self-Mastery. She believes that each person carries the Divine Spark of greatness within and has developed the Breakthrough Connection as a place for those who are ready to connect to & cultivate that essence. Vila is dedicated to helping people find out who they truly are & learning to live that Truth!-------------------------------------------------------------------vila@hohcenteroflight.net
www.theBreakthroughConnection.com
FACILITATOR: Archetype Workshops; Universal Kabbalah -
Gail Baker, MA
Gail believes that our deepest, most meaningful connections happen when we express ourselves in the language of creative process. She has trained at the University of Washington in graphic arts, and earned an M.A. at the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology, Creative Expression. She has taught art for 29 years. In the last 10 years, her focus has changed from technique to process (awareness of sensation, intuition, memory, and imagination.) As she learns more about ADHD, learning styles, multiple intelligences, meditation, and brain function, she is convinced that the arts offer a powerful tool for transformation of the individual and society.----------------------------------------------------------gailbakerartmaker@gmail.com gailbakerartmaker.com
FACILITATOR: Process Painting, Visual Journaling