Faculty

Linda Bark, PhD, RN

Linda Bark PhD, RN, MCC (Master Certified Coach)

I want to change the world. I agree with others who think that coaching can help do it and in fact, that coaching is here now because a new model is needed to help us move in a new direction. Coaching is about partnering, about respecting, about deeply tuning into what is important. As we do that more often, things change. Hooray!!

Yes, you may notice that I am a pretty positive person and, quite honestly, I like being that way. But for me it seems pretty easy when I work with people day after day who are reaching their dreams and having fun doing it. Now this doesn't mean that there aren't hard days or that the sun is out all the time. However, it does give me a perspective both with my own life and those I serve, that much can be accomplished when attention, intention, intuition and purpose are harnessed to move toward better living.

I have 2 nursing degrees, a masters degree in Life Transition Counseling, a PhD in philosophy and religion, an Integral Health Studies Certificate and years of workshops in personal and organizational development.

I have pioneered new professional pathways by starting a nursing private practice in 1970 and by bringing holistic nursing to hospitals in the 80s. During the 90s I led medical tours to China for health professionals, lived in China to discover how to help Westerners create a context for Eastern healing, consulted to organizations nationwide to start up holistic healing centers, taught holistic coaching playshops and teleclasses to health care professionals all over the country.

My work takes many forms and I work in various fields. However one thing is constant: nothing makes me happier than to co-create learning experiences that empower people and help them live and maintain a sense of ease, fun and fulfillment.

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Dea Daniels, RN

Dea intuitively integrates her skills in traditional Western nursing, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Mystical Alchemy, Mayan Uterine massage, Wolf Clan Teachings, and Reiki. She offers Health Mentoring for individuall seeking Conscious health, including Amma Therapuetic Massage, nutritional counseling, spiritual healing, herbal allies, flower essences, homeopathics, relaxation tools, & inner journeys. Working from an integral stance, Dea understands that we each hold our own key to unlock our Hearts. She helps to shine a light on that key.

Dea is available for private healing sessions as well as classes and group work. She maintains her practice in NY and CA while continuing her spirtual exploration and celebration of live and love.

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Judith Gruber, LCSW, CCET

Judith has been studying the concept and implications of money in our lives for over 20 years. She is a Holistic Psychotherapist and Social Worker, Personal and Business Coach and Certified Core Energetics Therapist. Judith developed and founded Money and Self-Empowerment and facilitates groups, workshops, classes and lectures nationally.

She is on the faculty of NYU, Hofstra University and the Integral Coaching Institute. Judith is an Education and Training Provider with the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services and teaches and offers a distance learning course entitled, The Dynamics of Money in Treatment for Addictions. Additionally, she offers a distance learning course through the National Association of Social Workers - New York State Chapter entitled The Dynamics of Money in Treatment: Helping Your Clients Create Financial Health. Judith has also taught The Psychology of Money, Budgeting 101 and Learning to Take Risks, and has been featured on "Inner Journey" and "BCAT", cable TV shows.

Judith integrates her rich background of training and experience in clinical social work, Pathwork Studies, spirituality, leadership and banking into her work. She believes that the journey of the soul is a healing process that restores energy and consciousness to the individual, which promotes creativity, self-expression and personal integrity.

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Alison Levy, MA

Alison Rose Levy is an accomplished facilitator of Family Healing, a way to help clear longstanding family patterns. This work is derived from the Systemic Constellation work of Bert Hellinger. Beginning in 2001, Alison studied with Bert Hellinger in Germany, and she is one of the first graduates of his American training program. Alison offers this work in workshop settings, and has also pioneered its translation into the one-on-one health coaching format. Currently, she is developing a training program in Family Healing on the East Coast. She is also writing the first popular book on Systemic Work for American readers.

A student of the great mythologist, Joseph Campbell, for the last twenty years, Alison has pursued dual careers in integrative health and communications. Her work as a health journalist has afforded many opportunities to train in a wide range of healing modalities, including guided imagery, energy healing, Ayurveda, nutrition, loving relationships (with John Welwood), yoga, meditation, Gyrotonics, Non-Violent Communication, Emotional Freedom Technique, aromatherapy, autonomic response testing, Reiki, Thought Field Therapy, Biological Medicine, Applied Psychoneurobiology, Neuro-Integration, enzyme therapy, raw foods nutrition, relational psychology, Rubenfeld Synergy bodywork and many others all of which she draws upon in her practice as a health coach. She trained with Linda Bark in 2000-2001.

Alison is also a much-published writer with 20+ years in creating communications for major media, focusing on nutrition, healthy lifestyle, yoga, and psychological and spiritual transformation in such publications as O Magazine, Organic Style, Reader's Digest, New Age Journal, Yoga Journal, Body and Soul, Spirituality & Health, Healing Lifestyles and Spas, Body, Mind, Spirit, and First for Women. Most recently, Alison helped Dr. David S. Ludwig, MD of Harvard's Children's Hospital Boston conceptualize and market a book on the childhood obesity epidemic, and how families can help their children maintain a healthy weight. She has also provided key marketing and editorial assistance to the authors of several upcoming books, including The Skin Type Solution and One Body, One Life. Alison wrote the New York Times bestseller, The No-Grain Diet with Dr. Joseph Mercola, (April 2003, Dutton), nominated for a Books for a Better Life Award, as well as The Coconut Diet (written with Dr. Mary Enig and Sally Fallon for Penguin Putnam).

Alison has served as Senior Health Editor of New Age Journal. Before that she was Executive Producer of Trinity Television, producing The Real Bottom Line, a weekly issues program on the Odyssey Channel, hosted by Jim Hartz. Formerly creating primetime magazine coverage for CBS News, Ms. Levy has developed primetime cultural specials for PBS and the Smithsonian Institution.

She has studied, interviewed and worked closely with countless experts including Dr. Leslie Baumann, Dr. Mark Hyman, Dr. Larry Dossey, Dr. Andrew Weil, Dr. James Gordon, Dr. Rudolph Ballentine, Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt, Belleruth Naparstek, Dr. Martin Rossman, Dr. Robert Svoboda, Dr. Dean Ornish, Dr. Joseph Mercola, Viktoras Kulvinskas, Brain Clement, Rodney Yee, John Friend, John Welwood, Ann-Louise Gittelman, Dr. Barry Bittman, Letha Hadady, Dr. Bernie Siegal, Suze Orman, and many others. She has created books, marketing vehicles, web-sites, primers, and how-to guides for non-profit clients such as www.drhyman.com, www.drbaumann.com, the Continuum Center for Health and Healing, Holistic.com, the Marion Foundation and the SYDA Foundation.

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Kathryn Moehling, RN, APN, LCPC, LMT - Health Coach

Kathryn Moehling has been in professional practice as a Registered Nurse for over 30 years. She has been a Counselor in private practice for 20 years, and has had a private practice in holistic health for the past 10 years. She also obtained her Advanced Practice license in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing. In addition, she has supervised staff in a community mental health center and has been responsible for inpatient and outpatient case management and program development, has been a Patient Education Coordinator for the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford, has been an Instructor and Assistant Professor with psychiatric nursing students, has worked in community development in community mental health, and has functioned as a Community Health Nurse with the Winnebago County Health Department. In her holistic practice, she is a Nationally Certified and Licensed MassageTherapist, a Therapeutic Touch and Healing Touch practitioner, an Herbalist, and a Health Coach. She also was the Assistant Administrator for the Rockford Extension Site of Northern Prairie School of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork, and has taught bodywork courses, Therapeutic Touch, Guided Imagery for body workers, herbal courses, and numerous other classes and workshops in both mental health and holistic health. She is currently a Health Coach and Massage Therapist with the SwedishAmerican Center for Complementary Medicine which is a part of a hospital health system. She also does Health Coaching, Massage Therapy, and Energy Work, in her private practice called The Energy Connection. In addition, she is taking courses toward a degree in Naturopathy with Clayton College. Her Health Coaching practice untilizes the Foundation Stones Assessment, Guided Imagery and other stress management techniques, and information about herbs and nutritional supplements--as part of the coaching process.

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Susan Spoelma, MBA, MSN, RN, CNAA