Teachers & Staff

Kim Scanlon, Compass Records recording artist, is a singer and writer who lives in Seattle, Washington. She has recorded and performed extensively with several west coast bands and players including: We Three, Ranch Romance, Nina Gerber & Cary Black, Laurie Lewis, Ed Johnson, and Linda Waterfall. She writes poetry and essays and often combines music and writing in performance. For twenty years she has taught writing, singing and performance skills to adults.

Doug von Koss - www.dougvonkoss.com - is a long time married father of two, grandfather of five, and uncle to hundreds. A gifted artist, teacher and performer who presents chanting workshops, study trips, poetry performances, rituals and other festive surprises throughout North America and Europe. He is a carrier of artistic medicine and a multi-cultural bridge builder. Robert Moore, co-author of King, Warrior, Magician and Lover, calls Doug "a great Earthshaman who is helping us begin singing a post tribal Earth Community into existence."

Francis Weller is a psychotherapist, workshop leader and community builder. He has been actively involved in creating community based on traditional knowledge. His focus is on recovering a connection with our ancestral roots and on translating the essential wisdom of indigenous traditions into our modern culture. He is the founder and director of WisdomBridge, which offers workshops, trainings and consultations on the recovery of the indigenous soul. He is also on the faculty of the Sophia Center of Holy Names University in Oakland, CA. He has two Master's degrees and is currently completing a book entitled Unforgotten Wisdom: Reclaiming Our Indigenous Soul.

Sashana Kane Proctor helped develop the initiation process for women in Sonoma Co.  She is a poetess and an artist, mother and grandmother.  A student of the sacredness of being, she is a mentor to those seeking their own inner wisdom, and a woman who bridges the world of the Ancestors and this world.  She has facilitated group process and depth work for women for over sixteen years and is busy exploring the life transition of becoming older, hopefully with some sort of awkward grace.

Robert Hynes is a gifted visual artist currently working in painting and photography. He has studied jewelry design in San Francisco and is also an electrician, woodworker, husband, and father. He is working with Francis and the Men of Spirit to create a meaningful initiation process for men. Bob has a deep appreciation for ritual and the healing that sacred space can bring. He is committed to reclaiming sacred creativity and providing a space for our souls to play.

John Meserve is a man of nature who works in private practice studying trees, and previously taught in the School of Environmental Design at the University of California at Berkeley. As part of Men of Spirit and the Buffalo Clan, he dances with beauty, and carries the medicine of fear into his teaching, welcoming all that we fear as a gift and invitation to look more deeply into ourselves. He is a passionate father, has been a soccer coach, referee, school board member, and active volunteer in his local community.

Patrick Mullin is a husband and father of two daughters. He is a musician, a soccer coach, a house builder and designer. He has been involved with men's groups since the late 1980's and was initiated in the first Men of Spirit initiation in 1999. Being initiated was a turning point in his life that allowed him to embrace his life for what it truly is, giving him the understanding that he has medicine for this world and that world has medicine for him. He has been teaching with Men of Spirit for eight years.

Larry Robinson has been a psychotherapist and workshop facilitator for more than twenty years. He has also worked as a consultant to many major corporations. He has led numerous men's groups and has been a mentor to the Redwood Men's Center from its inception. He lectures and writes on the emerging field of Ecopsychology. He is a member of the Sebastopol City Council. He facilitates the Love in This World and the Other men's workshop for WisdomBridge.

Richard Naegle has been a psychotherapist in the Jungian tradition and a leader in the Guild for Psychological Studies for thirty years. He has led workshops for the past twenty-five years in the United States, Australia and England blending psychology, religion and mythology. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Imaginal Studies and at John F. Kennedy University in Orinda where he teaches gender studies and mythology. He facilitates the Love in This World and the Other men's workshop for WisdomBridge.