About Me: Education
I have completed the International Coach Federation (ICF) Certified Co-Active Coaching training and certification program at the Coaches Training Institute, and am a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (For more information on Co-Active Coaching and the Coaches Training Institute, see www.thecoaches.com.)
My formal education also includes a BA in political science from Hampshire College, and an MA in Regional Planning from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Hampshire nurtured my curiosity and my commitment to living my values, and honed my ability to identify questions, do research, and integrate the information coming to me. My interest in regional planning grew out of my passion for how community works, and how community and the built environment interact and influence one another. My work at the University of Massachusetts focused on housing, growth management and environmental issues and laid the groundwork for much of the nonprofit work I have done.
I am a student of voice dialogue, a facilitation process, with roots in Jungian psychology and an alignment with Buddhist meditation that supports people in becoming more conscious of the inner parts of oneself that are ‘running the show’ and helps practitioners become less identified with any one inner part and more able to make everyday life choices from a wider range of perspectives. Voice dialogue informs my coaching work, though I do not yet do voice dialogue facilitations as part of that work. (For information on voice dialogue, please contact J’aime ona Pangaia at the Voice Dialogue Center NW, 503-788-8060 or see her website at www.VoiceDialogueWork.com.)
I continue to take writing workshops and trainings of various kinds as I find things that will nurture my own creative process and my work.
