Presenters 2020 Healing with Creativity Retreat

Cheryl Turner

Cheryl has been a school psychologist for over 30 years. She has been an artist for 15 years and has used art therapy for about 8 years. Cheryl has a Workbook in progress for teachers, to help  Build Resilience. plus a self Care Journal that is available on Amazon. Cheryl loves working in many modalities and finding provocative ways to release those things that hold us back. Personal growth is her passion!

Christina Miles

Christina Miles is native Californian and was basically raised at the beach. Since the day she played with finger paints, clay and other art mediums when she was a child, she has not stopped trying to find that perfect mix for her. She has always loved the outdoors and takes pictures everywhere she goes.

Today, she enjoys acrylic pouring, mixed media, watercolor and of course, photography and digital graphics. Many of her pieces are inspired from her own photos and her friend in NY.

Consie Sindet

Consie Sindet is a Creativity Coach and teacher. She believes that we should always be learning, growing, trying, failing and embracing the process. She's been teaching creativity in many forms for 13+ years and before online classes were even a thing, she taught in-person art classes to hundreds of women.

Consie finds that art journaling is the most freeing way to express herself. She wants us all to know that we can find freedom, playfulness, and joy by slapping down some paint, gluing magazine pages to a piece of paper, adding doodling & marks, finding a quote that screams...'THIS IS HOW I FEEL TODAY!"...and calling it good enough.

Debbie White

After a 30 year career in the corporate world, Debbie decided to enter the world of professional organizing and virtual assisting. She has always loved organizing both physical and digital items and also loves helping people. Professional Organizing and Virtual Assisting allows her to do both. 

Debbie lives near Cochrane, Alberta with her husband of 35 years. She has an amazing son who lives away from home now but comes to visit on a regular basis!

Deborah Epstein

Deborah Epstein, is the founder and CEO of Oasis Healing Arts.
She is a visionary artist, shamanic practitioner and Myofascial Release Therapist.
She received her art education from Rhode Island School of Design and studied art and healing facilitation at Salve Regina.

She is a Reiki Master, Studied Theta Healing, Craniosacral therapy, is an initiate in the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition of Cross Cultural Shamanism taught by don Oscar Miro Quesada and is a licensed massage therapist. She has studied and practices the art of Myofascial Release, founded by John F. Barnes.

Iris Fritschi-Cussens

Iris is a London-based mixed media artist who lives in the heart of Bloomsbury with her beautiful family (husband, 2 kids & 1 cat).

She is passionate about art journaling for self-expression and self-discovery. Iris's art practice is an extension of her wish to get to know herself better and through it find a deeper connection to others.

She likes to share online about how she lives her creative life. She loves using art and words to convey and understand her feelings as a human. In this she deliberately includes the experience of difficult or ‘taboo’ emotions and times when being creative is a struggle.

Kristin Fraser

Kristin Fraser is the founder of Inner Glow Getter, and is better known as the "Inner Glow Coach". With a background in holistic nutrition and the culinary arts she helps busy, driven females increase their energy and focus through simple meal preparation strategies and basic culinary training, so that they can create healthier meals the whole family will love with less stress and have more time to do all the other things the days can bring.

Larissa Russell

Larissa is an International Bestselling Author, Speaker, Artist, Educator, Creativity Coach and Healer. She is the Founder of Creative U, an online coaching and learning platform that helps women step into their authenticity with the help of creativity. Larissa is also the founder of Queer Voicez, a not-for-profit organization that shares LGBT+ stories to help the LGBT+ youth know that they are not alone.

Larissa is blessed to work with women who are ready to make change in their lives. As a master of change, through her own life adventures, Larissa has a unique perspective that helps women learn and feel comfortable with their boundaries, as well as what they really want from their lives.

Leanne Rae

Leanne Rae is a Spiritual Medium and Soul Coach who is passionate about helping those who are grieving the loss of a loved one to heal with messages from Spirit with amazing validation. Many have said their readings are life changing.

Leanne Rae is launching a new subscription this month which will help women who are feeling unappreciated, overwhelmed, lost, and exhausted to transform into excited, joyful, passionate and confident women who love themselves and their lives with the help of Spiritual practices and connecting to their higher self (soul).

Lisa McGrath

Lisa‌ ‌McGrath‌ ‌is‌ ‌a‌ ‌National‌ ‌Board‌ ‌Certified‌ ‌Teacher,‌ ‌Life‌ ‌Coach,‌ ‌International‌ ‌Bestselling‌ ‌Author‌ ‌and‌ ‌Speaker‌ ‌who‌ ‌offers‌ ‌inspirational,‌ ‌practical,‌ ‌and‌ ‌spiritual‌ ‌guidance.‌ ‌

She‌ ‌teaches‌ ‌women‌ ‌to‌ ‌find‌ ‌clarity,‌ ‌purpose,‌ ‌and‌ ‌direction‌ ‌with‌ ‌the‌ ‌intentional‌ ‌acts‌ ‌that‌ ‌help‌ ‌them‌ ‌achieve‌ ‌their‌ ‌goals‌ ‌and‌ ‌live‌ ‌their‌ ‌‌Intentional‌ ‌Life‌ ‌with‌ ‌her‌ ‌monthly‌ ‌online‌ ‌coaching‌ ‌program,‌ ‌‌A‌ ‌Pilgrimage‌ ‌to‌ ‌Self‌

Lisa‌ ‌also‌ ‌has‌ ‌an‌ ‌online‌ ‌mentoring‌ ‌program‌ ‌for‌ ‌teachers‌ ‌that‌ ‌focuses‌ ‌on‌ ‌effective‌ ‌teaching‌ ‌practices‌ ‌and‌ ‌protocols,‌ ‌communication‌ ‌and‌ ‌relationship‌ ‌building,‌ ‌and‌ ‌strategies‌ ‌for‌ ‌achieving‌ ‌a‌ ‌work/life‌ ‌balance‌‌.

Mandy Gefle

In addition to being a registered nurse, Mandy Gefle is a licensed holistic nutrition practitioner. She became passionate about nutrition and how food affects the body after using alternative medicine to overcome her own struggle with postpartum depression. Now she helps exhausted, overwhelmed moms find balance by incorporating healthier habits into their lifestyle. Mandy is mom of two high energy boys, an entrepreneur, and she loves to cook!

Nancy Mulligan

Nancy Mulligan is a renaissance woman passionate about helping successful people find significance in their career and life. She put herself through college working in outside sales and has been working in or owning businesses for over 30 years.

Over the last two decades she has helped hundreds of families and coached ordinary americans to become millionaires by teaching them to invest in real estate. Nancy surrounds herself with the best in high level masterminds. She has invested hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars into learning how to effectively coach others. She completely changed her approach to coaching her clients to find out their dreams and help them gain the insight needed to achieve them.

Her current passion is helping people create their dream lives and locate their dream places to live.

Rebecca Knaggs

Since Rebecca’s training in Austin TX, in 2008, she has facilitated intuitive painting and expressive arts classes and workshops in Austin and Colorado in the US and in Melbourne, Australia through wholeheART.

At wholeheART Studio, creative permission is vital to the painting process. Stemming from a deep belief that we are all innately creative, these experiential painting sessions give you permission to courageously dive into your creative process rather than focus on the end product. In a judgment-free space you will learn to tune into your intuition and act upon it using painting as a catalyst for self-awareness, full self-expression and creative freedom.

Sandra Griff

Sandra works with people in life transitions to help clear their energy clutter, mind, body, soul and home. She has lived the dark lonely place of being stuck, of feeling like life had died inside her. Lifting herself up from life’s challenges like empty nest, divorce and the death of a partner was difficult and sometimes unbearable until she discovered the power of her mind and energy. Now she teaches others how to refocus and use their energy to get Back to Life.

As an international speaker and Energy Movement Facilitator, Sandra spends her time immersed in energy and helping people revive their mental and emotional health. She is a teacher at heart.

Tiffany Sparrow

Tiffany M Sparrow is a Canadian musician, an accredited music therapist, a master of musicology, a yogi and a shamanic sound healer.  Using music as a tool for wellness is the thread that weaves the tapestry of all of her offerings together. With sunkissed tones and soulful lyrics, she performs and records original songs, devotional mantra-chants and curated covers.  Drawing on her experiences and research, Tiffany also teaches others about the uses of sound for wellness and self-realization.  She's currently releasing "Journey On" her new recording project of original songs, adding to her other world music mantra recordings online. Tiffany is the founder of the Hangups to Harmony program, a shamanic sound immersion to help women ditch body-image baggage and anxiety to reveal deep self-love and radiance. Her deepest wish is that all beings be happy and free from the roots of suffering.