Deanne Mineau
Deanne Mineau
Deanne is a lover of home, hearth and community.
She is a mother of two, a mystic, teacher and student of life.
“In my work as a Tarot and Rune Stone reader I harness intuition, inspiration and synchronicity to bring a deepening of understanding to your life’s process. It’s an opportunity to have a guided journey into your awareness I see the Tarot and the Runes as “Tools of Awareness”.
I love the spirit and sound of the African djembe drum, lifting the voices and grounded by the percussive instruments. They are the call of our
ancestors, resonant with a deep connection with nature.
A lover of words, and of the flow of language, I work in both English and French, encouraging, writing, crafting stories of joy and loss, of self awareness and letting go.”
Carol Stewart
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Carol Stewart
Carol Stewart
After serving for over 20 years as a special educator for children with learning and psychological difficulties (with a brief detour into the world of a realtor), Carol moved to the Sunshine Coast. Here in this open and nourishing environment, she was able to explore other work options: teaching in adult employment programs, as the first coordinator of the Sunshine Coast Women’s Centre, coordinating a Learning Centre at Capilano College, designing and facilitating employment and personal growth programs, employment counseling.
The Sunshine Coast offers endless opportunities for volunteering; Carol’s organizing skills are exercised at the Gibsons Jazz Festival, the New Moon Festival, the Writers Festival, the Howe Sound Area Planning Commission and on a variety of committees and boards.
In 2000, Carol achieved her Master of Arts in Whole Systems Design at Antioch University. This body of study forms a background for her community development activities and informs her passion for Joanna Macy’s “Work That Connects”. This work demonstrates our interconnectedness in the web of life and our authority to take action on its behalf, moving the participants from a feeling of impotence and despair to finding the powers that are essential to the healing of our world. . Carol will be developing workshops to introduce Cascadia House to this way of participating in The Great Turning, the shift from the industrial growth society to a life-sustaining civilization.
Carol is providing administrative support for Cascadia Retreats and can be reached at carolstewart@cascadiaretreats.com.
Baljit Siekham
- Baljit Siekham
Baljit Siekham is the founder of Alchemy Organizing, Vancouver’s premier corporate, and home office organizing service.
In today’s competitive business world being successful is tough enough without carrying a lot of unnecessary baggage or taking unneeded steps.
Eliminating those things that aren’t contributing to the success of those we serve allows us to focus on things that do.
Similarly, a process that makes poor use of our employees’ time and has our customers complaining is a sure way to kill our business.
As a natural organizer she is constantly putting things in their place. As an office manager she became an expert at streamlining workflows and procedures.
Her attention to detail and design is a curse to her family members but it is a delight to her clients. She led projects that helped improve turnaround time from as much as 12 months to less than 60 days and reduced workloads and improved customer satisfaction by cutting processing time from 4 hours to less than 20 minutes.
She can help you organize your business. It isn’t alchemy. It is systematic analysis and elimination of the stuff that doesn’t contribute positively to your business or your life.
Alchemy Organizing, the art of organizing for success. http://www.alchemyorganizing.com
Skai Fowler
- Skai Fowler
Skai Fowler is a Vancouver based visual artist working in photography and painting. Her work exhibits nationally and internationally and is found in many international private collections. After working for many years as an arts administrator she now works as a scenic painter in the local theatre community, teaches digital photography and is an adjunct professor at UBC Theatre and Film Dept. Website skaiart.com
Marielle Geoffroy
- Marielle Geoffroy
Marielle Geoffroy is a visual artist and French teacher. She has been a teacher all her life, and she finds much happiness in facilitating people’s expression and inner connection through art, language and art therapy programs.
Marielle studied and trained in Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Art Therapy (M.A.) and French Immersion Teaching (B.Ed.) in Montreal and Vancouver. She also has more than 25 years of experience in meditation. Her personal practice now is the integration of body and mind through presence, and attention to earth and nature in us.
“In my work as a teacher or therapist, I love to assist people in their creative growth and to help them nurture their deep natural self.”
“My current explorations as an artist are focused on the links between verbal and non-verbal expression. I am presently drawing, painting and writing, and have become very intrigued by how the images emerging in each of these media inform each other in my work.” – Marielle Geoffroy
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