Janice Setser
Janice Setser, has been engaged in shadow and soul work for 12 years, including most recently a yearlong intensive with Animas Valley Institute. She is passionate about supporting others to awaken the inner teacher. For the past five years she has served as the Executive Director at Quail Springs Permaculture. www.quailsprings.org
Yamin Chehin
Yamin Chehin, MTCM is a Council trainer, facilitator, and doctor of Oriental Medicine, with intimate experience of nature-based and shamanic practices that inform her work with clients and groups, and help to integrate the healing potential implicit in our stories and our bodies. She facilitates councils in English and Spanish (her native language) for women, teen-age girls, and youth-at-risk, as well as with non-profits and community organizations. She and her husband co-lead monthly couple’s circles and practice Council at home with each other and their family. Find out more at healingcycles.net.
Stacy Zumbroegel
Stacy Zumbroegel, MA, is a practicing counselor and meditation teacher who lives in Santa Barbara, California. She has been practicing Buddhism for over twenty-five years. Her love of the Dharma and Asian culture has her traveling throughout India, Nepal, and Myanmar, where she lived with her family for seven years. As a counselor and mentor, Stacy has experience working with youth and adults in many different settings. She taught counseling training workshops in Yangon and mentored executives in bringing wisdom to their businesses. She currently teaches locally and has a private practice.
Sofia Rose Smith
Sofia Rose Smith is a writer, facilitator, teacher and Council trainer. She is rooted in a lineage that centers healing as a form of justice. Sofia is committed to ending systems of oppression that do all of us harm, as well as being a steward of practices that support us in feeling more at home in our bodies and connected to one another. Council found Sofia while she was a service provider at an internationally renowned LGBT organization, working with queer and trans youth of color. Council became a practice that was supportive for Sofia as a service provider, and impactful for her clients and staff. Close to a decade later, Sofia carries this methodology with her wherever she goes, and is excited to be among the group of trainers bringing this to communities on the frontlines of change. For more on her current projects, visit sofiarosesmith.com
Pacifica Graduate Institute - Council Program, Somatic Psych Council Convener
Women’s Wilderness Veteran Retreats
One Village Project - GYPS, Emerging Visionaries, Regen Rising
Antioch University - past seminar courses People & Place: A Reciprocity, Environmental Revolution: A Love Story, Decolonizing Mental Health, Reclaiming the Indigenous Soul, Wholeness & Soul-Making,
Tara Mandala, Esalen Institute, The Ojai Foundation, Quail Springs Permaculture,
Insight LA
Emergent Resilience
Beyond Boundaries
School of Lost Borders
Waldorf Schools
Rene Henery
Fidel Rodriquez
Darrell Bob