Background & Credentials

I have spent 40 years in the field of education and over 20 years as a Dream Consultant/Holistic Health Educator. My qualifications include:

Masters Degree in Health Education, UW Madison

Course work at the Jungian Institute in Switzerland

Registered nurse at UW Hospitals in Rehabilitation/Biofeedback

Certified Level Two Reiki Practitioner

Certified Level One Healing Touch Practitioner

Completed Training as a Parish Nurse

Certification from the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis

Certification from the American Imagery Institute

High School English/Creative Writing Teacher in Cedar Rapids, IA & Madison, WI

Attended Dream Education Seminars with:

Sample of Teaching Experiences in the Community: Dreams & Holistic Health

Sample of Teaching Experiences - Weekend Retreats

Speaking Engagements Such As:

Viewing Synchronicities & Unusual Experiences as Waking Dreams, Healing Touch International Conference in Tucson, AZ
“Dreams that Span the Years” East Madison Coalition on Aging
“Creating your own Sacred Space” Women's Health Conference in Stoughton, WI
“Healing Powers of Dreams” Red Cross Headquarters in Madison
“Images of the Divine Feminine Archetype” American Imagery Institute Conference in Minneapolis, MN
“Exploring your Dreams” Jaycees of Central Madison
“Theater of the Dreams” Workshop at the Women & Spirituality Conference in Mankato, MN

News Media:

Interviewed on Evening News on Channel 9, WISC TV, Madison, WI‐(CBS Affiliate) about my course on Top Ten Themes of Dreams
Presented a two hour dream class on Cable TV
"Reliving the Dreams” an article in Sunday's Wisconsin State Journal Newspaper about my classes & dream groups
Article about my current class at Meriter Hospital & my work as a dream consultant in Madison Capital Times Newspaper
Featured guest on Saturday morning radio talk show WTDY 1670 AM
Featured guest on Late Night Music/Call in Radio Show WIBA AM

Publications on Dreams and Holistic Health

Awakening to the Song of Your Self: Revelations by Day and Dreams by Night. 1st ed, June, 2011. 2nd ed, November, 2011. Windmill Beach Press.
“The Healing Power of Dreams,” Wisconsin Women's Education Network on Addiction, Recovery and Prevention (Online Magazine), June, 2005.
“Drawing out the Dream” online Zine edited by Marilyn Wedburg, October 2004.
“Body Prayer” and “Bringing your Awareness into your Body,” Grace Magazine: A Companion for Women on their Spiritual Journeys, Mar/Apr, 2000.
“Captured in the Current: Recurring Dreams,” Grace, July/Aug, 1999.
“Meditation on Joy,” Grace, May/June, 1999.
“Chrysalis Sanctum,” “Sacred Space in Community,” Grace, Mar/Apr, 1999.
“Bringing into Being: Birthing Creativity ” Grace, Jan/Feb, 1999.
”How to Keep a Dream Memoir,” Grace, Nov/Dec, 1998.
“Drawing from the Well Within,” and “Suggestions for Personal Dreamwork,” Grace, Sept/Oct, 1998.
“Women Spirit in Worship,” Grace, July/Aug, 1998. Reprinted from “Feminist Voices” Summer, 1993.
The script to the slide show entitled “Indian Effigy Mounds,” commissioned in August, 1989 by the Dane County Board.
Commencement address to the graduating class of Madison Area Technical College in June, 1975.

Published Poetry

“The Sanctuary,” Leafprint: Newsletter of Outdoor Ministries, Winter, 1988.
“Rolling Thunder,” Monona Community Herald, November 18, 1987.
“At Least You Still Have your Mind,” Rehabilitation Nursing Journal, 1983.
To Charlene ‐ Her Spirit and Her Life,” Childbirth and Parent Education Association Newsletter, June/July, 1982.