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.

Janet Farnsworth, M.A., L.S.W., is a licensed social worker and an experienced dance and movement teacher who has worked with individuals, families and groups. Formally trained in group facilitation and psychodrama, she also has extensive dance experience in New York and Boston, and with the Doug Wood Dance Ensemble in Chicago. Janet’s practice, Dancing to MySelf, is a model of open and non-evaluative dance which honors each individual’s instinctive response to music – simply moving in a way that feels right – as a means of connecting to one’s highest and deepest wisdom. She is dedicated to promoting dance and movement as pathways to healing and empowerment. Janet currently facilitates a variety of dance journeys for children, families, disabled seniors, and adults.

Melinda Franceschini, D.V.M., Ph.D., dipl. ABT, combines her training and experience in eastern healing arts, embodied and nature-based spirituality, psychic development, medicine and science with a deep connection to Spirit and love of the Earth. She has many years of experience teaching embodied energetic and spiritual practices in weekly classes, workshops and private sessions. In her private practice she works with people and animals, offering a variety of healing and spiritual development services. Her life path is focused on the integration of intuitive knowing and expanded consciousness with day-to-day life and the challenges of physical reality. She is passionate about helping others as they find their own way intuitively, supporting them in the process of opening to expanded states while being grounded joyfully in the body on the Earth. www.mysticstream.com

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.

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 in the Great Smoky Mountains 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.

Diana Griffith, Ph.D., is the former Associate Director of the Structural Biology Core Facility, head of a research lab and faculty member at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She is an expert in determining the three dimensional structure of a protein that stimulates bone growth and healing; and has also studied alternative systems that facilitate growth and healing, including Diamond Approach, Thanatology and Integrated Kabbalistic Healing.

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.

Jiahong Juda, Ph.D., works with high potential people to support them fully in accessing their own wisdom and knowledge and to navigate through complex situations. This work is based on a framework that has emerged from her multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary learning and experience. She lived the first half of her life in China and the second in the United States. Her professional background includes teacher, farmer, entrepreneur, executive, and astrophysicist. In 2000, she co-founded the organization WEST (Women Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology) to help women explore alternative career paths in these fields, and served as the chief executive for five years. Currently, through BurnBright Partners, she advises highly motivated and accomplished visionaries from a wide range of organizations and industries. She received her Ph.D. in physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Ellen Maiman, L.I.C.S.W., is a therapist who works with teens, adults and elders, and has a special interest in yoga for depression, spiritual development and mindfulness in everyday life.

Elisa Pearmain, L.M.H.C., is a therapist who works with adults and specializes in mindfulness, and leading groups on forgiveness and storytelling. She has been personally exploring the healing power of story and leading workshops for over twenty-five years.

Veronica Quarry M.S., M.S.P.T., is a physical therapist and holistic healer using CranioSacral Therapy, SomatoEmotional Release, Lymph Drainage, energy work, meditation and other self-healing and self-empowering skills. She is the author of twenty-seven papers published in medical journals as well as two case studies in Working Wonders: Changing Lives with Cranio Sacral Therapy. She is committed to her full awakening. Some highlights in her journey are annual retreats with her spiritual mentor that include multiple opportunities to swim in the open ocean and bays with wild, free-swimming dolphins and experience their healing energy.  She is grateful to all of her teachers and appreciates the tools they have offered in her own process of self-realization. She welcomes opportunities to share these tools with others seeking to be at one with their own true selves.

Jennie Sandberg, Ed.M., is an artist, mother, film school student, 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 a master’s from Harvard University and a certificate in Expressive Arts Facilitation from Salve Regina University. She is currently working on a documentary about the Women's Well.

Clarissa Sawyer, Ed.D., uses story-based methods and intuition to help individuals, groups, and communities access their wisdom. She is an organization development consultant in healthcare and an instructor at the Graduate School of Education at University of Massachusetts in Boston. She has a doctorate from Harvard University, where she concentrated in women’s leadership, organizational behavior, and reflective practice. This is complemented by her training in Reiki, flower essences, and intuition. She is currently studying Heart-Mind Integration, a process combining Western psychology with neo-shamanic practices.  

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. She has appeared on NBC’s The Today Show and the Hallmark channel, and her work has been featured in national and local print media, including “O” The Oprah Magazine, Self, Body+Soul, Woman’s Day, Fitness and The Boston Globe. Abby has been in the mental health field for thirty years and has been a consultant and clinical psychotherapy supervisor at training centers in the United States, England, the Netherlands and Russia.

Sandra Smith, M.Div., a certified Enneagram teacher and consultant in Asheville, North Carolina, offers this system as a tool for personal and spiritual growth, dissolving patterns that prevent authentic connection with self and other. She consults with organizations, presents at public workshops, facilitates type and study groups, and does individual spiritual directions using the Enneagram as a map on the journey to the deeper self.

Demaris Wehr, Ph.D., has taught religion, psychology, and women’s studies for many years in seminaries in the Boston area, notably at Harvard Divinity School, Episcopal Divinity School and Andover Newton Theological School. She has a private practice in psychotherapy on Martha’s Vineyard.

Stephanie Bennett Vogt, M.A., is New England's leading expert in the field of space clearing and the author of Your Spacious Self: Clear Your Clutter and Discover Who You Are. With nearly thirty-five years of teaching experience, Stephanie serves on the faculty of the New England School of Feng Shui and the Kripalu Center, and is the founder of SpaceClear, a consulting practice dedicated to bringing homes and their occupants back into balance. Stephanie writes, blogs, and speaks internationally on topics of tending the home, simplifying, mindfulness, and cultivating what she calls “spacious detachment.” To learn more about her book and her practice based in Massachusetts, visit her website at www.spaceclear.com.

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. Anne has a private practice in Concord and Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, where she works with individuals and couples. She has a deep interest in embodied spirituality and has studied authentic movement. She is currently writing poetry and is a grandmother of three.