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FACULTY for this trimester is listed in alphabetical order.

FACULTY PROPOSALS
Prospective facultiy members need to request a faculty application to be considered for a faculty position. Please email or write your request to the attention of Nancy Grace Marder at Infinity Foundation. The faculty application is the first step in the consideration process to become a faculty member.

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Jim Accetta is a personal life and relationship coach, certified trainer of Neurolinguistic Programming, and author. He is certified in Systemic Family Therapy, substance abuse counseling, coaching, and has a masters degree in leadership development.
www.midwestnlp.com

Deborah Arneson is a licensed clinical nutritionist. She is co-owner of Healing Quest Center where she practices. She is the author
of Fries, Lies & Thighs.
www.healingquestcenter.com

Michael Bernard Beckwith is an international speaker and teacher of meditation, affirmative prayer, and the Life Visioning Process
which he originated during the founding of Agape. He is the author of Spiritual Liberation: Consciously Fulfilling Your Life’s Purpose,
Life Visioning Audio Learning Course, Inspirations of the Heart, Forty Day Mind Fast-Soul Feast and A Manifesto of Peace. He appeared in the movie The Secret, and on Oprah and Larry King Live.
www.agape.com

Rickie Byars-Beckwith is a prolific composer, singer, performer, music director, and an intuitive channel of healing music. Rickie’s unique talents have brought her acclaim as a pioneer in spiritual music and have earned her an honorary doctorate of music and
numerous awards.
www.agapelive.com

Jordan Bendat-Appell was ordained by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. He is the full-time rabbi of Aitz Hayim. He has had a serious Zen meditation practice and teaches Jewish mindfulness practice. He is a student of a senior Mussar teacher and interned for the Institute for Jewish Spirituality.

Mira Binzen graduated with a degree in child psychology and received her teacher’s training certificate from Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Ashram in India. Mira is a yoga therapist and co-founder of Global Family Yoga, a teacher-training program focused on children and families.
www.globalfamilyyoga.org

Peter Bowes is the codirector of the Order of Christ/Sophia. The OCS has Centers of Light in 15 cities throughout the US. He has taught as a national speaker and lecturer for over 30 years. He is an author of The Word Within, Spiritual Astrology, and The Radical Path.
www.centersoflight.org

PamE Bown manages the kathara team, a group of international teachers for the Azurite Press. She has been teaching freedom teachings since 2003.
www.katharateam.com

Julie Murphy Casserly, CLU, ChFC, MBA, CFP, is president and owner of JMC Wealth Management, a financial advisor, and
author of The Emotion Behind Money: Building Wealth From the Inside Out. She has taught hundreds of courses and is considered a media expert in her field.
www.jmcwealth.com

Carol Cobb is a 25-year student of the ascended masters. She is an active ordained minister with Church Universal and Triumphant.
She travels nationally as a regional minister administering sacraments, counseling, and coaching.

Karen Daughtry, MA, is a certified Healing Touch practitioner and a Usui and Karuna Reiki® master teacher. She has a private energy
work practice and presents health topics for the elderly and disabled.

Earon Davis is an integrative bodyworker with degrees in public health, law, and integrative medicine. He has studied shamanic healing, Kabbalistic healing, and Reiki. He is the IFPNA Coordinator for Infinity Foundation.

Mary Jane Derex has over twenty years of interior design experience. She discovered that most products in the building industry outgas harmful chemicals into the air and specializes
in offering healthier options. Mary Jane has presented at Chicago’s Center for Green Technology and has been awarded for her work
in sustainable design.
www.mjderex.com

Mel Doerr has been a psychic his entire life. He assists police in criminal cases and missing persons. He received a papal lessing
from Pope John Paul II and a letter of appreciation from President Clinton. He has appeared on numerous local and national television shows and has done readings for many celebrities.
www.meldoerr.com

Jeanne Drew, owner and president of Drew Consulting, has been a practicing graphologist for more than 30 years. She is also an executive coach, human resource consultant, and certified mediator.
www.drewconsultingltd.com

Jonathan Ellerby has a PhD in comparative religion, is an ordained interfaith minister, and has worked as a counselor and healer for 15 years. He is the author of Return to the Sacred. He has studied with healers from more than 40 cultures. He is spiritual program director at Canyon Ranch.
www.jonathanellerby.com

Monica King-Ellerby is a certified kundalini yoga teacher, a certified nutritional herbalogist, and is an initiated Deeksha blessing giver. She has studied with indigenous healers and has worked in the holistic wellness field for more than 10 years.

Mateyo Empie has spent 40 years learning and practicing verything that she could find regarding personal growth, spiritual development, healing, and shamanism in the US, India, and Peru. For the last 15 years, she has focused on Peruvian shamanism, including living in the Peruvian Andes at 12,000 feet for months at a time.

Dan Felix is an attorney in private practice and is Infinity Foundation’s legal counsel. He is also a Reiki master and tantra instructor.

Gary Goldman, MA, author of Empowering Students to Transform Schools and host for A Voice for America’s Youth Global Talk Radio
is a recognized leader in education reform and youth empowerment.

Andrew Harvey is an internationally renowned religious scholar, writer, and teacher, and the author of more than 30 books, ncluding the critically acclaimed The Way of Passion: A Celebration of Rumi. He is coauthor of the best-selling The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. He has taught at Oxford University, Cornell,
and other universities.
www.andrewharvey.net

Martha Hayden has studied and practiced body/mind medicine for over 20 years, including breathwork, bodywork, and space clearing. She is an ISIS therapist, the Clairvision method of Inner Sourcing. Martha has private and corporate clients.

John Holland is an internationally renowned psychic medium who has been lecturing, teaching, demonstrating, and reading for private clients for more than 18 years. He is the author of the bestseller Power of the Soul and other books. John hosts a weekly radio show on Hay House Radio, Spirit Connections. He has been on TV programs such as the A&E special Mediums—We See Dead People.
www.johnholland.com

Jasmin Jahal is a leading contemporary artist of Middle Eastern dance. She earned national awards in Best Modern Egyptian
Dancer and Instructor of the Year. She started belly dancing in 1978, traveling throughout the Middle East to learn the dance authentically.
www.jasminjahal.com

Byron Katie is the 2009 Infinity Foundation Spirit Award recipient. She has written four bestselling books: Loving What Is, I Need
Your Love—Is That True?, A Thousand Names for Joy, and Question Your Thinking, Change The World. Her newest book is, Who Would You Be Without Your Story?: Dialogues with Byron
Katie. Since 1986, she has brought The Work to hundreds of thousands of people across the world, at free public events, in prisons, hospitals, churches, corporations, universities, schools, at weekend workshops, and at her amazing nine-day School for The Work.
www. thework.com

Jonathan Knipping teaches classical hatha yoga, Meridian Touch™, effortless fiveelement yoga, and aikido. He is certified by the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres.
www.kiworkshop.com

Linda Kramer is a registered nurse, holds a bachelors degree in nursing, a masters degree in wellness promotion, and professional certifications as a menopause practitioner. She is a board certified holistic nurse and a holistic stress reduction instructor.
www.lindakramerwellness.com

Lawrence Lanoff studied with several master teachers. He currently devotes his time to writing, yoga, photography, and film.
He teaches groups and individuals the work from his book, A Course in Freedom. He is working on a revolutionary new theory of
consciousness.
www.acourseinfreedom.com

John Lee is the best-selling author of Growing Yourself Back Up and Courting A Women’s Soul, and ten other books. He is a worldrenowned teacher and lecturer. He’s been featured on Oprah Winfrey, 20/20, Barbara Walter’s The View, CNN, PBS, and NPR. He has worked with The Betty Ford Clinic and others. www.flyingboy.com

John Lionberger has taken people on wilderness trips of spiritual discovery for seven years. He holds a master of divinity degree, has
received extensive training from the National Outdoor Leadership School. He is the author of Renewal in the Wilderness: A Spiritual Guide to Connecting with God in the Natural World.
www.renewalinthewilderness.org

Mark Anthony Lord is an internationally recognized spiritual leader. He is founder and spiritual director of the Chicago Center for Spiritual Living. He is the author of The Seven Living Words. www.chicagocsl.org

Shirley Macklin has been conducting forgiveness workshops and classes at churches and private residences across the US for ten
years. She studied radical forgiveness under Colin Tipping, author of the book Radical Forgiveness, Making Room for the Miracle.

Nancy Grace Marder is a founder and the executive director of Infinity Foundation. She has master degrees in special education
and educational administration and supervision. Nancy completed a two year program in theology and practical spirituality and is an
ordained spiritual minister. She has taught meditation for more than 20 years.
www.infinityfoundation.org

Michelle L McClellan is a licensed clinical psychologist and published author. She is the creator of Writing the Soul; Journaling to Wholeness. Her company At the Heart of the Matter facilitates multiple self-enhancement opportunities.
www.writingthesoul.com

Sheila McNellis Asato, MA is founder of Monkey Bridge Arts.

Bob Hoss, MS, is author of Dream Language.

Jacquie Lewis, PhD teaches in the dream program at Saybrook
Graduate School.

Wendy Pannier, is the publisher of Dream Appreciation.

Robert Waggoner is the author of Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the
Inner Self
.
www.asdreams.org

Gerald Nevin is a guild certified Feldenkrais practitioner and member of the educational staff of the ISSE Chicago Feldenkrais Teacher and Practitioner Training. He has a private practice and teaches in the Chicago area.

Robert Ohotto is author of Transforming Fate into Destiny. He is a renowned teacher with 15 years of experience as a professional
intuitive and astrologer. His diverse background of study includes mythology, Jungian psychology, and Eastern philosophy. He has
taught regularly with Caroline Myss.
www.ohotto.com

Gary Renard is bestselling author of The Disappearance of the Universe and Your Immortal Reality and Your Immortal Reality. His new release is Love Has Forgotten No One. He lectures internationally combining a disarming sense of humor with radical metaphysical information.
www.garyrenard.com

Kathleen Rude is a shamanic practitioner, ceremonial leader, environmentalist, musician, and dancer. Trained in various North
American indigenous traditions and guided by Earth spirits, Kathleen has served the sweat lodge for over 10 years. She is a shamanic practitioner specializing in soul retrieval. She is
a pipe carrier and has supported vision quests for many years.
Richard Rudis has studied Eastern philosophy and Buddhism for 30 years. He teaches Dharma/vibrational healing workshops
with Buddhist sacred sound instruments. He is considered the most knowledgeable US leader in this esoteric field.
www.buddhistartifacts.com

Leslie Skopick is a certified ornamental horticulturist/floral designer. She teaches and provides color therapy systems and techniques for alternative healing. She is a master practitioner with the International Wheel of Color and has a private practice working with color, biofeedback scanning, landscaping, and
gardening.
www.colorwithin.com

Penelope Smith is a pioneer in the field of interspecies communication and author of Animal Talk and When Animals Speak. She has been featured in many articles, books,
radio and TV in the US and abroad. She is the world’s leading teacher of basic and advanced interspecies telepathic communication and has helped launch the careers of many professional animal communicators.
www.animaltalk.net

Christine Sonnen is a certified spiritual response therapy consultant, Reconnective Healing™, DNA practitioner and teacher, and a Commanding Wealth Practitioner. She has a private practice. www.christinesonnen.com

Billie Topa Tate is the founder of Mystical Sciences Institute. She is a Reiki master teacher and licensed therapeutic massage therapist with national certification. She has received pranic and advanced pranic healer training. She produced CDs including The Loving Kindness Meditation and The Breathing Meditation.
www.msi-healing.com

Karen Taylor & Melissa Black Ford are founders of TaylorBlack Options and have over 20 years combined experience teaching
the Option Method.
www.optionmethodnetwork.com

Kay Thomas studied sumi-e, Japanese ink painting with Motoi Oi and Evalyn Aaron, and Chinese painting. Kay has also studied watercolor, oil, crafts, portrait painting, silk screen printing, and marbling. She has extensive experience teaching Japanese ink painting.

Atala Dorothy Toy, URM, AM, PP, is founder of the Institute for the Study of Interdimensional Cooperation and president of Crystal Life Technology. Toy is also a personal and subtle land clearing consultant.
www.crystal-life.com

Carina Vallejos and Stephanie Szuts are wellness activities coordinators for Organic School Project (OSP) a non-profit in
Chicago for youth to develop healthy lifestyles. www.organicschoolproject.org

Rick and Connie Vrenios have been teaching energetic and physical healing modalities together since 1985. Connie, trained
by Dennis Hill, one of the most advanced CST therapists by Upledger in IL. Both are trained in craniosacral therapy by Ed Kaleolani Spencer.
www.reikicouncil.com

Darren Weissman graduated from The National College of Chiropractic. He has extensive post graduate studies in various forms of natural and holistic healing. He developed the LifeLine Technique. He is author of The Power of Infinite Love and Gratitude.
www.infiniteloveandgratitude.com

Howard Weissman is a licensed clinical psychologist and a board certified expert in traumatic stress. He has taught as adjunct
faculty at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology. Howard founded The Chicago Stress Relief Center and has a private practice.
www.stressreliefcenter.com

Julie Wilson is a licensed chiropractic and is a certified clinical nutritionist. She teaches nutrition courses and pathology courses at the Chicago College of Healing Arts. Sam Wong trains with Master Sikung Lowe and is a lama qi gong instructor. He has taught qi gong for the past nine years in the Chicago area.
www.samwong-qigong.com

Cheryl Good Zavagno is a certified advanced energy healer by the Inner Focus School for Soul Directed Advanced Energy Healing.
She specializes in sound healing, essential oils, and has a private practice.
www.theecstasyofbeingalive.com

Paul Zavagno, MEd, is a educator who worked as a teacher and administrator. He teaches meditation classes and sees private
clients. He is a staff member, is becoming a certified facilitator of Byron Katie’s The Work, and is director of educators of The Work.
www.isnessismybusiness.org