Barbara Adler, M.A., works as a healer, facilitating wholeness on physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels.  She is a graduate of Lesley University (Counseling Psychology M.A.), the Barbara Brennan School of Healing (Energy Healing) and A Society of Souls (Integrated Kabbalistic Healing). Motherhood, qigong, creative expression, and experience in the business and non-profit worlds also inform her life and work.

Apara Elizabeth Borrowes, M.S., is a counselor, poet, and teacher who has led many women’s wisdom circles and ceremonies. She is drawn to helping women explore the interweaving of spirituality, psychology, nature, and healing, through integrating ancient and modern healing arts. Apara is known for her gentle and sure holding of the circle.

Cerridwen, M.A., brings to her work over thirty years of teaching and healing experience, expertise in a wide range of modalities, and deep caring and compassion for all seekers drawn from experience with her own life challenges. Her work emphasizes individual empowerment with elements from inner guidance, transpersonal hypnotherapy, contemporary shamanism, energy psychology, energy medicine, and neuro-linguistic programming. Cerridwen holds certifications in a number of healing modalities. www.aligningenergies.com

Anna Coffman is a hospice nurse and wilderness rites of passage guide. She has a particular interest in exploring the common ground between the two separate, but related, communities of hospice and nature-based Rites of Passage. Anna has had a close connection with nature since she was a little girl, and enjoys sharing with others her experience of nature as a place of healing, learning, growth and transformation. Anna has trained extensively with the School of Lost Borders and the Animas Valley Institute.

Judith Cooper, B.F.A., M.A., believes that creativity offers a portal into the magic and mystery of life. She is passionate about helping others connect to a deeply personal vision and manifest it in meaningful creative work. Retired from teaching art in public schools, her graduate studies have focused on shamanism, Jungian psychology, art in indigenous cultures, and art and healing. She is on the faculty at Lesley University and active in the Harvard Ceramics Program. Although trained as a painter, her joy in the creative process has led her to use many different materials. www.jcooperstudio.com

Max Dashu is a feminist historian of women. She founded the Suppressed Histories Archives in 1970, and her work has gained international notice. See her articles and video clips at suppressedhistories.net and art at maxdashu.net.

Janet Farnsworth, M.A., is a licensed social worker with experience with children, families and adults; she has been an individual and group therapist with women in trauma and assault centers. Formally trained in psychodrama, she also extensive dance experience nationally. She is dedicated to bringing the healing power of dance to women, and in particular to embracing personal movement as a guide to self-empowerment. A mother of two, she is also deeply committed to the beautiful, messy, seemingly impossible task of self-growth – and to leading a life guided by Spirit.

Wendy Garling, M.A., is a writer, editor, gardener and mother of three sons. Her life was shaped by journeys to India and Nepal in the 70’s and 80's where she had many adventures and met many remarkable spiritual beings. Since that time, she has studied and practiced Buddhism – in 2007 traveling to Tibet on pilgrimage. In teaching, her primary interest is the reemergence and power of the sacred feminine. She has a B.A. from Wellesley College, an M.A. in Sanskrit from U.C. Berkeley and continues to practice and learn, mostly within the Gelug tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.

Cary Gaunt is an ecologist of the soul. Early in life, she developed a loving connection with rural and wild landscapes and the water resources flowing through them. This perspective informs her life’s work as a wilderness soul guide and environmentalist. She blends expertise in natural history, environmental studies, Soulcraft, rites of passage, contemplative practice and voluntary simplicity to protect and restore the inner and outer ecology of people and places. She is committed to personal and planetary sustainability and in supporting others on their journey to wholeness. Cary also has extensive training with the School of Lost Borders and the Animas Valley Institute.

Laney Goodman, visionary, ceremonialist and drummer, leads drum circles called Drumming in the Four Directions to help us re-connect with each of the four directions/elements. Laney can help you find your own rhythm and voice...even if you have never played a drum or sung before. Laney’s roots are of the Eastern Door of the Cherokee Nation as well as German, Scots/Irish and English. She has studied with the late Grandmother Twyla Nitsch of the Seneca Wolf Clan, and with African/American Drum Masters Edwina Lee Tyler, Ubaka Hill and the late Baba Olatunji.  www.womenonair.com.

Edith Griffin is a certified reiki master with a longstanding interest in human spirituality, the natural world, and the healing power of cosmic love. She first became aware of her strong ability to channel healing energy in 1996, when she unexpectedly and spontaneously began to experience waves of energy passing through her hands during a women’s healing workshop. She is the owner of Karendyth Holistic Center in Westford. www.karendyth.com.

Carol Hohle speaks on eco-spirituality issues and facilitates spirituality groups and retreats. As Founder and Executive Director of Inspiration House (www.inspirationhouse.org) she is passionate about nurturing spiritual vitality for a just and sustainable planet. She is actively pursuing what it means to live a local and sustainable life, and is engaged in community-building projects with the objective of restoring love and generosity into the forefront of public life.

Katy Locke, M.Ed., is a multi-media artist, storyteller, spiritual feminist and visionary. For eight years Katy studied, taught and promoted Women’s Spirituality at the Women’s Well. During that time she also wrote, produced and performed her one woman show, The Day the Women Stopped the World, in a variety of settings. Katy is a Reiki Master and is skilled in shamanic journeying, Personal Clearing (a form of dowsing), and the ancient rites of the Munay-Ki. She recently trained with the Pachamama Alliance to facilitate the Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream symposium.

Tara McAvoy, M.A., is a student of indigenous healing and a psychotherapist. She has worked with children and families for the past ten years in a variety of roles, including therapist, teacher, and childcare provider. She has a passion for creating sacred space for children and the adults in their lives.

Viktoria Munroe, C.P.C.C., is owner of Opening Doors Coaching located in Concord in the same building as the Well. She is a life coach with over fifteen years of experience facilitating various groups. As a mother of teenagers she shares in the journey of launching, empty nesting while staying committed to her value of FUN.   

Margaret (Meg) Newhouse, Ph.D., is the Principal of Passion and Purpose LifeCrafting for the Third Age. She has worked in the area of purpose-guided, mid-life transitions for fifteen years – coaching, writing and consulting and designing workshops. She co-authored Life Planning for the Third Age and founded the Life Planning Network. Meg and Roberta Taylor were trained and are affiliated with the Purpose Project™, a joint project of the University of Minnesota Center for Spirituality and Healing and the Inventure Group.

Marytha Paffrath, Libana’s principal percussionist, is an innovative teacher, singer, composer and writer who believes deeply in bringing the simplicity of rhythm and song to the complexity of the world. Concert schedule and more at www.libana.com.

Susan Robbins is Libana’s founder and Artistic Director. Her deep compassion, love of laughter, and heartfelt belief in the healing power of music bring a clarity and brilliance to her performance and thirty years of teaching. Together Susan and Marytha bring lively, humor-filled, grounded guidance to workshops coast to coast.

Stephanie Rutt, M.A., is an ordained interfaith minister serving at the Tree of Life Interfaith Fellowship (TOLInterfaithFellowship.org). She is the author of An Ordinary Life Transformed: Lessons for Everyone from the Bhagavad Gita and has been facilitating study groups on the textfor the past ten years. She also created the Pastoral Mentoring Program, centered spiritual practice using mantra meditation. Stephanie worked as a mental health counselor in the 1990s and taught for many years in the behavioral sciences for the University of New Hampshire at Manchester.  

Jennie Sandberg, Ed.M., is an artist, mother, registered yoga teacher, energy healer, Nia dancer, and hula hooper. Art, movement and meditation helped her through a divorce and other life challenges. Jennie received an Ed.M from Harvard and expressive art training from Salve Regina University. She is the owner of Divine Child Holistic Arts in West Concord.

Abby Seixas, L.M.H.C., M.Ed., is an author, speaker and psychotherapist in private practice. Since 1994, her popular “Touching the Deep River”™ groups have helped countless women reclaim their life-balance and bring more sanity and soul back into daily life (see www.deepriverwithin.com). She has appeared on national television, and her work has been featured in a wide variety of print media. Abby has been in the mental health field for more than twenty-five years and has been a consultant and clinical psychotherapy supervisor at training centers in the U.S. and Europe.

Roberta Taylor, Pathmaking for Life, is a Life Transition Coach, Consultant and Speaker. Her midlife transition led to coaching after many years as a psychotherapist. She brings to her work a passion for learning and growth, the wisdom and experience of her own journey, and the belief that realizing who we were meant to be comes with the desire and courage to step into our full potential.

Stephanie Bennett Vogt, M.A., is a gifted teacher with over thirty years of experience. She has been featured on WCVB-TV's Chronicle, the Hallmark Channel, and in The Boston Globe, and is the founder of SpaceClear, which specializes in bringing homes and their occupants back into balance. Her passion for creating beautiful spaces that support, nourish, and inspire provides the backdrop to her award-winning book Your Spacious Self: Clear Your Clutter and Discover Who You Are. To learn more, visit her website at www.spaceclear.com.

Demaris Wehr, Ph.D., taught for many years at the Episcopal Divinity School and Andover Newton Theological. Since the early 1990's she has maintained a private psychotherapy practice. She did conflict transformation work in Bosnia with the Karuna Center and is currently writing a book about this. In the past year, she has become aware of a new phenomenon entering the culture: women over sixty who are healthy and feel “young.” How do we proceed from here? Do we reinvent ourselves? Or do we continue doing what we've always done? Demaris, over sixty herself, has been exploring this issue in workshops and learning with and from older women in her practice. She is the author of Jung and Feminism: Liberating Archetypes.

Ann Yelin, M.A.T., is an artist, designer, mother, teacher and gardener, who has worked in the field of design for the last twenty-five years. She has been part of women’s circles all of her adult life; at the Women’s Well she has been a participant, holder of circles and council member.  She is a long time student of emotional healing and intuitive arts. Creating community through circles is a long held priority for her.

Anne Yeomans, M.A., is a psychotherapist and group facilitator. One of the founders of the Women’s Well, she facilitated its nine-month program for six years. She is currently training women in sacred circle work and has a private practice in Concord and Shelburne Falls, MA. She has a deep interest in embodied spirituality and studied authentic movement. She has been active in the peace movement, has taught classes on non-violence and conflict resolution, and was one of the founders of the Concord peace vigil.