"Developing
Leadership"
The organic nature of Flesh & Spirit Community
fosters one's personal growth which often translates into leadership
within our community. Brothers whose stories embody the work we
are doing together often emerge as facilitators of our gatherings.
Also men, women and multi-gendered folks whose abilities to create
safe and sacred space and to teach us their wisdom of body and spirit
are called upon to help staff Flesh & Spirit events.
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Dr.
Kirk Prine, CMT is a Body Story Expert, integrative bodyworker, Reiki Master,
former psychotherapist, primary facilitator of Flesh & Spirit Community and co-founder of The Missing Thread Mystery School for Entrpreneurs. He is also the author of "Erotic Body Prayer".
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Donny
Lobree is a Body Story Expert, a violinist, practitioner of Iyengar Yoga, bodyworker,
Reiki channel, student of alchemy and co-founder of The Missing Thread Mystery School for Entrpreneurs. As founder of Healing Notes,
a nongovernmental organization, he travels internationally to hospitals
and hospices sharing his music with patients as a sound healer.
In addition, Donny is a Midwife to the Dying and assists the terminally
ill with their "birthing" into death. His first children's
book, How the Waif Bunny Saved the Boy, is now out.
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Drake: Energy Healer & Gender Shaman
I have been studying shamanism and energy medicine for the past 7 years. I am also an attuned Reiki Master and a clairvoyant student at Intuitive Way. However, experience has been my best teacher, as I have lived as both female and male, and gay and straight in as a female and a male. I was born in a female body and transitioned to a male body 25 years ago. Offering this workshop is a beginning for me as I transition from a 34-year long corporate job. |
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Nick: Community Manager
Nick is a practicing counselor and healer in San Francisco, who is happy to support the F&S Community. He has studied shamanism, energy medicine and hypnotherapy and continues to use those skills in his work. www.holistictherapysf.com |
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Michael
Guimon, M.Ed, is a priest and has ministered as a chaplain
and guidance counselor in urban schools across the U.S. Michael is
on the Newcomers Committee and is a Community Building Night facilitator. |
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Don
Clark, Ph.D., is the author of the famous book "Loving
Someone Gay". For many years Don Clark has been a therapist,
mentor and elder to queer men venturing into freedom. www.donclarkphd.com |
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Richard Stromer is a personal mythologist with a Berkeley-based counseling and teaching practice called Soul Mentor. His training includes a doctorate in Mythological Studies with an emphasis in Archetypal Psychology and World Sacred Traditions. His work combines the perennial wisdom of many mythological and religious traditions with contemporary approaches evolved by modern depth psychologists. With a focus on facilitating and integrating both psychological development and spiritual evolution, Richard also extensively employs archetypal astrology as a tool for self-exploration. |
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John
Ballew (Guest Staff), is a licensed professional counselor
and a massage therapist in private practice in Atlanta. He has an
MS in Clinical Psychology and is a member of the Society for the Scientific
Study of Sexuality. He has facilitated workshops in gay spirituality
throughout North America, emphasizing the connection between body
and soul. His work embraces both Eastern spiritual practices and a
sex-positive Christian tradition. www.bodymindsoul.org |
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Hunter Flournoy is a teacher in the Toltec Eagle Knight
lineage of Don Miguel Ruiz, a shamanic healer in the lineage of Rebecca
Crystal, and a pastor for Amigos de Dios, a fellowship of Christian
mystics. He is also a psychotherapist. He integrates
his experience in creative writing, storytelling, the Lakota Sweat
Lodge and years of experience learning from indigenous spiritual elders,
healers and shamans into his work.
Part of the Staff of Ecstatic Gatekeepers 2009 |
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Barbara
J. Buckley, is
a counselor, spiritual teacher and healer.
A clinical social worker working with cancer patients, she has been honored to witness
growth, power and self love in all sorts of circumstances and bodily
situations. In connection since 2000 with MCCSF, she has deepened
her knowledge of her own divine nature, and discovered embodied
, queer spirituality. With her partner, Barb Hargrave, she is committed
to continuing the journey to the integration of sex and god (erotic
and divine, flesh and spirit) for herself, her relationships and
in community. Barbara is the Flesh & Spirit Women's Community Coordinator. |
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Rev.
Dan Newman PhD, DD, CT. is a holistic health consultant,
Native American practitioner, artist, safer sex educator and holistic
workshop facilitator. Dan has been assisting in Flesh & Spirit
work since it's inception in Cincinnati, Ohio. www.Ceucert.com
Part of the Staff of Ecstatic Gatekeepers 2009 |
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Ed
Wyre has been walking in beauty for more than a decade
first by facilitating GaySpirit Drum Circles and now as a Flesh
and Spirit Monthly Drum Circle facilitator.
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Rafael
Miguel Díaz, Ph.D. is the Director of the César
E. Chávez Institute, San Francisco
State University. Rafael has explored a monastic path and shared his
gifts with GMSR and Flesh & Spirit |
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Andrew
Ramer is the author of Two Flutes Playing, Elder
to Gay Spirit Visions in North Carolina and guest teacher to Flesh
& Spirit Community. |
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Steve
Marlowe is a healer, teaching Reiki master, and Peaceful
Warrior teacher. He has been planning and facilitating workshops
and retreats for queer men on spiritual paths since 1991 including
retreats for several Metropolitan Community Churches, Gay Men's
Spiritual Retreat, and the Flesh & Spirit Community.
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We are currently seeking new leadership in Australia. Anyone interested in seeding the work of Flesh & Spirit Community there please contact Nick |
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