Woman Wisdom® Women's and Girls Empowerment, Circle Leader Directory

Queensland, Australia		Elizabeth Loetscher I was born in California to Australian parents and trace my mothers family back through eight generations of Australians to Ireland and before that France. I have grown up knowing my mothers line and the stories of the pioneering women who have gone before me. Through my twenties, I followed an intuitive path of the Goddess. I travelled, studied counselling, worked with migrants, the elderly, children and children with disabilities. I set up and ran a computer school, then taught computers to isolated and remote, rural women. I also wrote and ran a series of self esteem and empowerment courses. Now married and the mother of three, I walk the 'Spiritual Path of Motherhood.' Through my counseling practice and Women's Rites of Passage, I help midwife women into the depths of their inner being. I continually honour my bleeding time in art, ritual and deep trance. Email Elizabeth.

Queensland, Australia

Elizabeth Loetscher

Elizabeth Loetscher
I was born in California to Australian parents and trace my mothers family back through eight generations of Australians to Ireland and before that France. I have grown up knowing my mothers line and the stories of the pioneering women who have gone before me. Through my twenties, I followed an intuitive path of the Goddess. I travelled, studied counselling, worked with migrants, the elderly, children and children with disabilities. I set up and ran a computer school, then taught computers to isolated and remote, rural women. I also wrote and ran a series of self esteem and empowerment courses. Now married and the mother of three, I walk the 'Spiritual Path of Motherhood.' Through my counseling practice and Women's Rites of Passage, I help midwife women into the depths of their inner being. I continually honour my bleeding time in art, ritual and deep trance. Email Elizabeth.

British Columbia, Canada		Gabriela Eikeland, DN, FS, Cert.Irid., MASC (Ad.Couns.) Gabriela is a Counsellor, Holistic Health Practitioner and Educator residing in British Columbia, Canada with her husband and children. As founder of Womyn's Path Of Healing School and Circle she teaches various courses and facilitates workshops and gatherings focusing on the Healing Arts and Goddess Spirituality. Gabriela passionately advocates her belief that Womyn need a safe space in which they can heal, reclaim and nurture their feminine divine and inner wisdom. Gabriela offers the Women’s Rites of Passage course. Website: www.sistersinfreyasmoon.com Email Gabriela.
Ontario, Canada		Little Eagle Woman Cindilee My medicine name is Little Eagle Woman, Daughter of Seven Grandfathers. I sit on the Rainbow Medicine Blanket Council of Clan Mothers representing the North direction. My clan is Wolf and my ancestry is Anishinaabe and European. I am a wife and mother of 5 children. Since 1997, I have studied various holistic modalities and am certified in indigenous health care. I work as a coordinator at a Native Centre in Toronto sharing Aboriginal Awareness. I am dedicated to re-awaken women's medicines through re-claiming, re-membering and understanding our roles and responsibilities of self, within our family and through our community. Each month, women join together in various healing and teaching circles honoring and cleansing through Moon Ceremonies and Healing Lodges which I lead. I travel extensively and learn from the Elders which continues to enrich my walk each day. Little Eagle Woman offers the Women's Rites of Passage program. " Women our FIRST MEDICINE is the womb!"- Little Eagle Woman Website: www.thesacredplacewithin-journeybegins.com Email Little Eagle Woman

British Columbia, Canada

Gabriela Eikeland

Gabriela Eikeland, DN, FS, Cert.Irid., MASC (Ad.Couns.)
Gabriela is a Counsellor, Holistic Health Practitioner and Educator residing in British Columbia, Canada with her husband and children. As founder of Womyn's Path Of Healing School and Circle she teaches various courses and facilitates workshops and gatherings focusing on the Healing Arts and Goddess Spirituality. Gabriela passionately advocates her belief that Womyn need a safe space in which they can heal, reclaim and nurture their feminine divine and inner wisdom. Gabriela offers the Women’s Rites of Passage course.
Website: www.sistersinfreyasmoon.com
Email Gabriela.

Ontario, Canada

Little Eagle Woman

Little Eagle Woman Cindilee
My medicine name is Little Eagle Woman, Daughter of Seven Grandfathers. I sit on the Rainbow Medicine Blanket Council of Clan Mothers representing the North direction. My clan is Wolf and my ancestry is Anishinaabe and European. I am a wife and mother of 5 children. Since 1997, I have studied various holistic modalities and am certified in indigenous health care. I work as a coordinator at a Native Centre in Toronto sharing Aboriginal Awareness. I am dedicated to re-awaken women's medicines through re-claiming, re-membering and understanding our roles and responsibilities of self, within our family and through our community. Each month, women join together in various healing and teaching circles honoring and cleansing through Moon Ceremonies and Healing Lodges which I lead. I travel extensively and learn from the Elders which continues to enrich my walk each day. Little Eagle Woman offers the Women's Rites of Passage program.

" Women our FIRST MEDICINE is the womb!"- Little Eagle Woman Website: www.thesacredplacewithin-journeybegins.com
Email Little Eagle Woman

United States Montgomery Co. PA, Boston, MA, Washington, DC		Diane Vella, MA Diane has been a Woman Wisdom® teacher since the beginning of the teacher program. In addition, she is a professional workshop leader for women and has taught at the college level. Teaching Woman Wisdom® represents the culmination of her life long interest and personal curiosity about feminine psychology and history. She has spent 25 years studying the effects of contemporary culture on women and girls. She is a certified Love and Logic Parenting Trainer and works in the Montgomery County, PA school system. Diane is a feminist therapist and mother of two adult daughters. Email Diane.

United States
Montgomery Co. PA,
Boston, MA, Washington, DC

Diane Vella

Diane Vella, MA
Diane has been a Woman Wisdom® teacher since the beginning of the teacher program. In addition, she is a professional workshop leader for women and has taught at the college level. Teaching Woman Wisdom® represents the culmination of her life long interest and personal curiosity about feminine psychology and history. She has spent 25 years studying the effects of contemporary culture on women and girls. She is a certified Love and Logic Parenting Trainer and works in the Montgomery County, PA school system. Diane is a feminist therapist and mother of two adult daughters. Email Diane.

Delaware Co., PA Cape May, NJ		Renée Welde, MS, LPC Renee is a National Certified Counselor, Licensed Professional Counselor, Educator, Shamanic Counselor and Career Coach. A Psychosynthesis instructor, and a Who's Who Among America's Teachers, Renée leads workshops and groups on Spiritual Psychology, Life Purpose and Potential, and Career Development. Hand picked as one of the first teachers of Woman Wisdom®, Renée teaches in Bucks County with Connie Keener. As well, she teaches Adult Education courses at Delaware County Community College and has a private practice in Wayne, PA. An avid hiker, biker, tennis player and world traveler, Renée is a woman of enormous magnetism and enthusiasm for life. She lives with her husband and two children in Devon, PA. Email Renée.

Delaware Co., PA
Cape May, NJ

Renee Welde

Renée Welde, MS, LPC
Renee is a National Certified Counselor, Licensed Professional Counselor, Educator, Shamanic Counselor and Career Coach. A Psychosynthesis instructor, and a Who's Who Among America's Teachers, Renée leads workshops and groups on Spiritual Psychology, Life Purpose and Potential, and Career Development. Hand picked as one of the first teachers of Woman Wisdom®, Renée teaches in Bucks County with Connie Keener. As well, she teaches Adult Education courses at Delaware County Community College and has a private practice in Wayne, PA.

An avid hiker, biker, tennis player and world traveler, Renée is a woman of enormous magnetism and enthusiasm for life. She lives with her husband and two children in Devon, PA. Email Renée.

Bucks Co. PA		Connie Keener, RN Connie is a nurse with over 30 years experience in women's health and holistic nursing. She specializes in childbirth education, therapeutic touch, reiki, shiatsu, cranio-sacral therapy, chakra balancing and upper body repetitive strained disorders. She is co-creator of CSFT, cerebrospinal fluid technique, and is a trained mediator. Connie graduated from the very first Woman Wisdom® training and was hand picked to be part of the first Woman Wisdom® teaching team along with Renee Welde. She is also a graduate of the advanced Woman Wisdom® program. The mother of two adult sons and the proud grandmother of Gabriella, Connie teaches Woman Wisdom® in Bucks County, PA. Call Connie at: 215-230-5354.

Bucks Co. PA

Connie Keener

Connie Keener, RN
Connie is a nurse with over 30 years experience in women's health and holistic nursing. She specializes in childbirth education, therapeutic touch, reiki, shiatsu, cranio-sacral therapy, chakra balancing and upper body repetitive strained disorders. She is co-creator of CSFT, cerebrospinal fluid technique, and is a trained mediator.

Connie graduated from the very first Woman Wisdom® training and was hand picked to be part of the first Woman Wisdom® teaching team along with Renee Welde. She is also a graduate of the advanced Woman Wisdom® program. The mother of two adult sons and the proud grandmother of Gabriella, Connie teaches Woman Wisdom® in Bucks County, PA. Call Connie at: 215-230-5354.

Chester Co., PA East River, MD		Virginia McKinnie, MA, Virginia, a Women’s Rites of Passage teacher, is also a writing mentor and creativity coach. Her poems have appeared in journals and magazines, including Sage Woman, Mad Poets Review, The Pegasus Review, Watermarks, and Lucidity, and have received national awards and honors. Virginia has an MA in Literature from the University of Warwick, England. She is a graduate of the three-year program in Psychosynthesis, a spiritual psychology training, a graduate of Woman Wisdom® Training Levels One and Two and has also had experience in Jungian dream analysis, and has received in-depth training in psychological and somatic chakra therapy with Anodea Judith, Ph.D. Virginia offers a week day Women’s Rites of Passage program in the Chester County, PA area. Virginia lives in Valley Forge, Pa with her husband and two sons. Email Virginia.
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Chester Co., PA
East River, MD

Virginia McKinnie

Virginia McKinnie, MA,
Virginia, a Women’s Rites of Passage teacher, is also a writing mentor and creativity coach. Her poems have appeared in journals and magazines, including Sage Woman, Mad Poets Review, The Pegasus Review, Watermarks, and Lucidity, and have received national awards and honors.

Virginia has an MA in Literature from the University of Warwick, England. She is a graduate of the three-year program in Psychosynthesis, a spiritual psychology training, a graduate of Woman Wisdom® Training Levels One and Two and has also had experience in Jungian dream analysis, and has received in-depth training in psychological and somatic chakra therapy with Anodea Judith, Ph.D. Virginia offers a week day Women’s Rites of Passage program in the Chester County, PA area. Virginia lives in Valley Forge, Pa with her husband and two sons. Email Virginia.

Circle Leader Program Women's Rites of Passage