About Me:

I am The Nature Coach and The Inner Oomph Coach...... I develop programs & teach people to fall in love with the earth.............. I connect individuals to Nature's creations and their own creative power, .... and I energize them to create their legacy of a beautiful, sustainable earth for future generations........... My programs lead people to become spiritually intimate with Nature, with their own great creativity, and with our Great Creator. Through exercises tailored to the group or the individual, my clients become energized to protect the earth for future generations. I help them strategize and I support them as they carry out their plans....................... Nature has been my energizing source since age 5, when my mother's death devastated my family's life, leaving my father with piles of debt and no resources for us, except his own great delight in nature....... Despite Dad's poverty and limitations, my father's gift to me was his deep & enduring love of our earth, and his every day showing me his close observations of the detailed beauty of nature, even of overlooked weeds...... My father led me to what he could not himself provide to me: a constant source of inspiration and strength..... My father's gift has been my life-long treasure....... I have turned my years of experience in education & art into a passion for saving the world.......... .....Our task is immense! Do you, perhaps, also feel this way? It can sometimes turn into overwhelm. .... NEVER GIVE UP!! ! ! ! ! ....Despair is deadly.... Dis-create despair and Create Hope and Optimism instead. (What have you got to lose?!!) ......I constantly re-fuel with fun, nature's bountiful beauty, friends, laughter, watercoloring, poetry, outdoor sculptures, music, reading, walking, writing, marketing, sales, meditation, prayer & fun. .............. We were not meant to live in gloom and doom.......... As a child, I was taught that we were meant to do good on earth and to be happy with God in heaven. We can CREATE Heaven on Earth because.... Nature is our earthly heaven.....Our job is to create heaven on earth, as often as we can remember to do, each day - the peace of heaven within ourselves, among our loved ones; and reach it out into the world.... Our spiritual task - our MORAL DUTY - is to do every single thing we can to create a world of sustenance, love and beauty for future generations.....We can no longer tyrannize future generations with our thoughtless actions and immoral practices, including overconsumption & allowing corporations and governments to encourage overconsumption.............................

Green Idea:

Falling in love with Nature fuels us to do things we could not otherwise imagine........... Seeing ourselves as Nature gives us Appreciation and Compassion for the creative abilities of others..... We do not need to love what THEY create ----- not at all! ------ but we can appreciate their power, decide not to waste our energy by buying into their creations...... Instead, we can & must grow into our own ability to create what we know is right for us to create....... Love for future generations is a never-ending source of energy to do everything we can to prosper them and the earth itself.......... When we understand our own part in creators, we also learn to how to dis-create what is not serving us well.... We must commit to learning how to appreciate our own and others' mistakes, and to focus on being deliberate creators, turning our intentions int creations (creating a world that is lit up love, perhaps)....... We can stop creating havoc and fear in our own personal lives.... and instead - imagine stepping into our greatness as creators of the present and the future.............. Imagine ENJOYING this process of re-creation of human civilization!

Interests:

nature coach, inner oomph; inner oomph coaching; climate change, intergenerational tyranny; sustainability; healing the earth; 350.org; coaching; creativity; sustain

Favourite Movies:

my dinner with andre; whale rider; avatar; an inconvenient truth; 1900;

Favourite Books:

anything by mary oliver; anything by wendell berry; anything by william blake; the book of creatio

Favourite Celebrities:

william louv; jon young; tom brown, jr.; dalai lama; oprah winfrey; michelle obama; barack obama; carolyn myss; julia cameron; harry pal