AWAKENED METHOD

Hello Developmental-Sovereignty-Symposium Community, I am so honored to be joining this wonderful event. I am a Somatic Therapist, specializing in pre & perinatal birth psychology, family dynamics, and somatic experiential learning.

My story is filled with love in understanding relationships that honor our birthrights. I have been holding space for little ones & families for over 28yrs as a Waldorf teacher, midwife assistant, lactation consultant, birth/postpartum doula, biodynamic craniosacral therapist, neurosensory motor integration therapist, and spiritual developmental parent facilitator.

I also have a B.s. in alternative medicine, a focus in homeopathy, and Masters in Public Health through the lens of "holistic technocracy", crazy but gave insight into our public sick care system. My somatic experiential learning path reflects my curiosity about being fully human in physical form. This has led me to my Ph.D. work in pre & perinatal birth psychology exploring the phenomenological outcome of "how we birth is how we earth".

I have trained with many amazing souls along the way and look forward to growing and sharing all that I have embodied with the developmental sovereign community.

MULTIDIMENSIONAL SPIRITUAL HEALER

Anna Demouchet, CDFA® is a Multi-Dimensional Spiritual Healer specializing in healing relationships & families, uncoupling & co-parenting, trauma-sensitive somatic healing, and holistic wellbeing in all aspects of life.

Through her work with couples and families, she provides a sacred container for deep, transformational healing by providing a framework to understand and move through deep individual and relational patterns with love and grace. She uses Sacred Space Holding and Somatic Energy Healing in all aspects of her work, helping people move through life transitions, current and past trauma, and times of major growth by reconnecting them to their body’s innate wisdom and true nature.

She is also the founder of The Healing Hearth Retreat Space in Portland Oregon, a sacred healing space of remembrance and reconnection offering remote and in-person events. Here she offers custom personal and couples retreats, healing circles, and events. In all aspects of her work, she creates a sacred container for accelerated healing & embodiment, deep self-love & connection, empowerment, and transformation, supporting those who are ready to awaken and return to their true nature.

EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATOR

Lisa Bono began working with young children and families in 2000. After meeting Anthroposophy and discovering Waldorf Education in 2003, she along with her husband, received their M.S.Ed in Waldorf Education from Sunbridge College.

Lisa is the founding teacher of the New Amsterdam School, a Waldorf School in NYC, where she became the Director/Faculty Chair and taught Early Childhood, birth to seven for ten years. After supporting the growth of three Waldorf School initiatives through working with the young child, teachers and families in the greater NYC Metro area, Lisa and her husband moved to Kathmandu, Nepal.

Lisa is the co-founder of Sano Taraharu (“ Little Stars of Nepal”), an organization working in orphanages and children’s homes in Kathmandu.

Lisa is the main author for a year long Early Childhood Course through EducareDo: Laying a Foundation towards Inner Freedom in the Young Child.

Other current projects Lisa has contributed to include Abiding - Heart Education, and designing for Burning Heart Clothing. She is also a contributor to the work of Developing the Self - Developing the World.

Lisa and her family currently live in Portland Oregon.

MONA BHALLA, ND

Mona is a board certified Naturopathic Physician graduating from the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in 2003. She received her BBA in International Marketing (with a Spanish Minor) from Pace University in NY in 1993. Throughout her 20’s Mona spent several years living, traveling, studying and working overseas in Europe and Asia and through that developed a passion and understanding of people across multiple cultural and ethnic influences. She also learned during this time how illness is managed through food and natural remedies worldwide.

WILD MOTHER COLLECTIVE

Michelle Linden, is a mama advocate and co-founder of Wild Mother Collective. As a Waldorf early childhood educator, postpartum care provider, cook and folk herbalist it is her honor to support those on the motherhood path. With a background in teaching: from corporate trainings to yoga to preschool school teacher she believes teaching is about observation, curiosity. connection and listening.

Her continuing education includes child development, embodiment, ritualizing the mundane, holistic postpartum practices, and nourishing foods. She weaves these many pieces into her work and care for mothers, children and families.

Her journey from young mom, to single mom, seeker, and striver, to empty nester, has led her to walk alongside mothers in their discovery and holds a container to tend and nourish the body, helping each family uncover their unique, family rhythms. Whether it's through community events, postpartum care, mentoring, education or mama gatherings. We help mamas find joy, pleasure and power along the wild ride of motherhood.

WILD MOTHER COLLECTIVE

Emily Palmer is head over heals in love with this big, messy,wild thing called Life!

She counts her lucky stars to live surrounded by beauty and loved ones, fine tuning her craft. For the last 20 years, Emily has supported, nurtured and educated young children and their families as a Waldorf Educator.

She is the creator of Fernwood Farm School; a magical little preschool where adults and children alike are encouraged to play in the mud, frolick with the chickens, and revel in the abundance of Mother Nature.

She weaves a deep love, appreciation and understanding of childhood, relationships, nature, play, wonder, and the power of a good story.

She is a single mother of a young teen who fills her heart with delight, while challenging her to continually evolve. She is a creator of children’s tales, artist, teacher, and dreamer who loves to traverse inner and outer landscapes whenever she can.

EMBODIED BRILLIANCE

Alison Elsberry is the creator of Embodied Brilliance and Brilliant & Barefoot.

Her brilliance is in helping babies and children feel at home in their body, so they feel safe and free to be themselves and share their greatest gifts.

As a former pediatric occupational therapist and as a craniosacral therapist and student of pre and perinatal psychology, she was inspired to create a New Earth way for our future Light-leaders to flourish.

Alison is often lovingly referred to as a baby/child Soul whisperer, helping to bridge the gap of communication and consciousness between awakened parents and this next generation of beautiful and brilliant Souls.

With Mother Mary by her side, she offers a beautiful way to nurture the Sacred relationship between children and their families. All so they stay connected to the Source of who they are and thrive as beautiful, healthy Divine humans.

SELF-ORGANIZED LEARNING

Bruce completed his Doctor of Chiropractic from Palmer College and practiced in Iowa and South Carolina. He is also a Spineologist and Verterbrologist.

He homebirthed eight of their ten children and homeschooled nine of them in a self-organized learning environment.

From 1982-1985 he taught at Santa Fe Community School, an alternative school based on Summerhill.

He created “The Learning Network” and is the author of “Learning is Everywhere and Everywhen”, a homeschooling tome as well as “The Whiches of North Springfield”, true short stories of home education.

His ethos is: “We believe a child knows what they want to learn, and how to learn it, from the git-go/birth, and in lifelong learning. As teachers we should be guides, not dictators.”

SELF-ORGANIZED LEARNING

Shea has been homeschooled until the age 16. Thereafter, he went on to graduate from University of Oregon with a bachelors degree in Business in 2015.

He has a passion in entrepreneurship.

In 2020, during the beginning of the pandemic in Orlando, Florida, he started an electric scooter rental business to use them for recreational activities and delivering food for DoorDash in the Orlando area.

He helped a couple stay off the streets and avoid homelessness by giving them a pair of scooters to use.

Currently he is working on building the biggest brand in Pickle-ball.

He believes we are all architects of our own future and that we don’t need a ladder through the corporate world to achieve it.

SUBTLE DYNAMIX

Optimizing performance and promoting self-esteem through play and movement, Tess McGinley works with children and adults of all ages, using movement to help individuals develop their potential in areas such as academic performance and social interaction, and enhance self-confidence through meeting physical challenges. She is a movement analyst and coach, guiding her students to find the path to their best selves.

One of the key principles in Tess’ work is that the human body is interconnected with thought and intention through space -- inside and outside the body. Whether a student is a toddler, teenager, or senior, small changes in their perception of their personal space impact physical movement and ability.

Tess has worked in Montessori and Waldorf schools, taught camps in outdoor education, archery, and circus for over 25 years. For the last 18 years, her focus has been on healthy movement for children and adults, in groups or as private clients.

PARKROSE PERMACULTURE

Angela has been teaching permaculture and sustainable living workshops at her home for years, and now offers short informative videos to help teach those concepts and basic gardening strategies to gardeners everywhere. Angela Baker unschools her four children and permaculture informs her educational philosophy.

“Unschooling is a whole life learning opportunity. It is observing and interacting in everything you do much like permaculture. All experiences in life are an opportunity to integrate what you are seeing and absorbing with who you are as a person and your view of the world and integrating those bits of knowledge with each other to form a wholistic, fully interconnected view of the world, understanding of systems around you of subject matter that you normally would learn about in a segregated way in mainstream education. It ties the way you learn things into real rooted experiences in your life. We know that when our interests are followed, we retain the information better.”

Parkrose Permaculture is a family-run farmette on 1/4 acre in Portland, OR. We specialize in perennial food crops, unusual fruit, beekeeping, duck and chicken-keeping, and permaculture design.