Bio
Diana’s Qualifications
HerStory: My Life Experience
Mission
To provide you with a transformational space and container in a wellness based context. I work holistically, helping others achieve their health, wellness, spiritual development and life goals. My aim is to be present and effective at providing services that help people grow and develop into healthy and content individuals. I feel called to assist people in effectively achieving their best health and wellbeing and to take the steps to attain their life goals.
Skills & Strengths
Group facilitation. Organizing materials and information. Writing Effectively. Empathy and Compassion for individuals in recovery and healing. Connecting with people through their interests and hobbies. Creating Healing Environments. Sharing extensive knowledge around wellness, holistic healing philosophies, healing/therapuetic modalities including: breathwork, sound healing, reiki, reflexology, aromatherapy, therapeutic journaling and therapeutic art practices. Creating healthy meals with a focus on nutritional medicine. An understanding of Mindfulness techniques and body centered stress reduction.
Goddard College, BA in Health Arts and Sciences, 2011.
“Goddard College’s Health Arts and Sciences Program offers interdisciplinary studies and transformative practices that advance personal and community health.
Goddard’s unique network of faculty advisors and learning partners will guide you to develop practitioner-scholar capacity in the growing field of integrative health and wellness. You will be supported to make a difference through systems-thinking and visionary practices that cultivate well-being through an ethic of care and practices of justice.
We believe the foundation of health lies in an individual’s relationship with all of life.
As a student, your work will encompass experiential learning, direct action, rich contemplation, rigorous scholarship, and/or creative projects, rooted in your unique passions, goals, and learning style.
The Health Arts and Sciences Program begins with students exploring aspects of biological, psychological, social, spiritual, and ecological health. Your integrative health studies conclude with a senior project. Senior studies engage diverse aspects of care and healing for the whole person within a social and ecological context.”
content above quoted from: www.goddard.edu
Education, Training & Experiences
Healing Arts and Spiritual Guidance Experiences & Training:
2002 - Polarity Realization Institute, Portland, Maine - RYSE, Massage and Polarity Practitioner Training. This school is now called Spa Tech. Westbrook, Maine. www.spatech.edu
2002 - Medical Intuitive, Applied Kinesiology Training.
2003 - Reiki Master Teacher Training in the Yucatan. Ceremony.
2004 - Center For Holistic Botanical Studies - Aromatherapy Training. Wakefield, Massachusetts.
2005 - Healing Touch Institute, Holistic Massage Therapy Training. Wakefield, Massachusetts.
2006 - Tantric Shamanic Institute. Yucatan Retreat. Ceremony. Breathwork. Healing Practices. Spiritual Pilgrimage.
2006 - New England Institute of Reflexology, Reflexology Program. www.nereflexologyandmassage.com
2007 - Spiritual Pilgrimage in Peru. Ceremony. www.alunajoy.com
2008 - Split this Rock: Poetry of Provocation and Witness, Washington D.C. www.splitthisrock.org
2008 - Gold Thread Apothecary Field to Farmacy Internship. Herbalism. Herbal Medicine Making. www.drinkgoldthread.com
2011 - Goddard College, BA in Health Arts and Sciences. goddard.edu
2012 & 2020 - Certified Life Coach Institute - Life Coach Certification Program. www.certifiedlifecoachinstitute.com
Community Facilitation and Coaching Related Continuing Education Training:
2022 - NILP Disability Awareness and Cultural Intelligence Training. 3 hours. March 1st.
2021 - Recovery Foundations Training - North East Recovery Learning Community. April 2021-June 2021. - 18 hours
2017 - Emergence and Spiritual Emergence Coach Training for Group Facilitators with the Integrative Mental Health University - Emma Bragdon, PHD, Summer - 19.5 hours imhu.org
2012 & 2020 - Professional Life Coach Training. Certificate Program in Coaching. Certified Life Coach Institute - 32 hours in 2012 and 32 hours in 2020. certifiedlifecoachinstitute.com
2012 - Professional Business Models and Marketing, Creating a business from A to Z. New Ventures Entrepreneurship Training - 6 Month Business Class, University of Maine. www.newventuresmaine.org
2012 - Restorative practices for use with students in school settings and in the context of group learning for children. Summer Institute in Restorative School Practices.
2011 - A Day of Counsel with Deena Metzger. Circle Council Practice and Group Facilitation Model Workshop - 8 hours deenametzger.net
2011 - Restorative Justice practices for Mentors of the court diversion program in Waldo and associated counties. Restorative Justice Project Mentor Training. Followed by a year of volunteering.
2010 - The Work that Reconnects. Taking Heart In Tough Times A Life Changing experience working with a personal and professional (s)hero and guide, Buddhist Philosopher and Systems Theorist, Joanna Macy. Group Facilitation in Deep Ecological Practices, Community Building, in consideration of the Future Generations and the Cultural and Ecological Shifts of The Great Turning. - 10 transformative days www.joannamacy.net
2009 - Peer Spirit Circle Practicum - Circle Practices for Community Building and Transformational Processes - 5 transformative Days with Christina Baldwin and Ann Linnea. www.peerspirit.com
2009 - Peer Facilitation - Western Mass Recovery Learning Community - 2 days Group Facilitation in a peer recovery and therapeutic counsel process. wildfloweralliance.org
2008 - Motivational Interviewing - Training in the processes and practices of Motivational Interviewing with Stephen Andrew of the Motivational Interviewing Network - 3 days of Training. www.hetimaine.org
2008 - Healing Through The Dark Emotions. The Wisdom of Grief, Fear, and Despair - 1.5 days - A Workshop based on the book, hosted by Author Miriam Greenspan at The Chaplaincy Institute of Maine. www.chimeofmaine.org
The Embody Lab
I have also been finding The Embody Lab programs to be very beneficial to furthering my education, resources and expanding my understanding of the Health Arts and Sciences. The programs are high quality and conscious as well as being very embodied in social justice practices and inclusion. Here are a few of the programs from their summits that I have attended:
A 75-Minute Experiential Session with The Embody Lab 3/10/24
Coaching Complexity: Working With Embodied Resistance In Somatic Coaching with Kai Cheng Thom
A 75-Minute Experiential Session with The Embody Lab 3/10/24
MindBody Coaching for Social Change with Dr. Rae Johnson
A 75-Minute Experiential Session with The Embody Lab 3/10/24
Embodied Transformation and Social Change with Staci K. Haines
A 75-Minute Experiential Session with The Embody Lab 3/10/24
Opening the Perceptional Field of Embodiment with Manuela Mischke-Reeds
https://www.theembodylab.com/schedule/mind-body-coaching-summit-march-2024
A 75-MINUTE EXPERIENTIAL SESSION with The Embody Lab 11/13/22
Healing Trauma: From Fragmentation to Embodiment with Dr. Albert Wong
A 75- Minute Experiential Session with The Embody Lab 11/13/22
(Drawing from the work Dr. Dan Seigel regarding the Window of Tolerance)
Cultural Landscapes of Secure Relationships through Indigenous Approaches to Therapy with Dr. Alayne Mikahere-Hall
A 75 Minute Experiential Session with The Embody Lab 11/13/22
https://www.theembodylab.com/schedule/1-day-summit-somatic-attachment-therapy
A Body Aware Approach to Cultivating Embodied Resilience with Erica Hornthal
A 75-MINUTE EXPERIENTIAL SESSION with The Embody Lab 9/24/22
Practice In Everyday Life: A Body Forward Inquiry with Sam Taitel
A 75 Minute Experiential Session with The Embody lab 9/24/22
The Psychology and Biology of Boundaries with Dr. Christine Caldwell
A 75 Minute Experiential Session with the Embody lab 9/24/22
From Reaction to Resource: Transforming Core Strategies with David Weinstock
A 75 Minute Experiential Session with the Embody lab 9/24/22
https://www.theembodylab.com/schedule/1-day-summit-embodied-boundaries-resilience
DISCLAIMER:
I AM NOT A DOCTOR, Definitely NOT A WITCH DOCTOR.
I AM NOT A THERAPIST. I AM A COACH.
I AM YOUR CHEERLEADER, AND PEER.
WE ARE IN SPIRIT TOGETHER.
WITH FREE WILL AND HARMONY AT THE CORE.
WE EVOLVE AND GROW TOGETHER. GROUNDED ON EARTH.
I OFFER ALL I CAN, TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY, TO BE OF SERVICE TO YOU.
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