Teachers for 2012

Ecumenicon 2012
April 20-22, 2012 Thursday evening (registration). Class schedule being decided.

If you wish to be considered for teaching in future years email Rosanna@RosannaTufts.com for forwarding to the Trustees.

This list is alphabetic by Teaching Name.

PICTURE NAME BIOGRAPHY
geraldineamaral Geraldine Amaral Geraldine Amaral is the author of Tarot Celebrations: Honoring the Inner Voice, creator of “Tarot 1-2-3” instructional video and regular columnist for Pathways Magazine. She fell in love with the Tarot about 30 years and has been using it ever since. She utilizes Jungian/archetypal psychology and Divine Metaphysics in her work. She is a respected/gifted teacher and intuitive counselor. She focuses her work on how to use esoteric tools in pragmatic ways as well as for insights and personal transformation. Her classes provide a unique blend of spirituality, psychology, philosophy, humor, literature and personal empowerment methods. She is currently a seminary student in the United Metaphysical Churches and holds a BA in Psychology and an MA in English. Email: geraldine@thespiritualtarot.com and website www.thespiritualtarot.com.
Duane Bowers Duane Bowers Duane Bowers, LPC (White Crow) is a grief and trauma therapist, educator, and author in private practice. He teaches seminars nationally , internationally and regionally on dying, death and grief, and on trauma and traumatic loss. Duane’s specialty as a therapist is working with survivors of traumatic loss and suicide. His seminars focus on ‘complementary and alternative’ interventions and supports for clients. He is an energy worker, a Reiki Master, a Oneness Blessing Giver, and has taught healing techniques associated with death and dying to a variety of healing circles and spiritual/metaphysical groups including Darkover, Ecumenicon, and the Washington-Baltimore Pagan Clergy Association. In addition he has taught Grief Counseling for Alternative Clergy and The Body Mind and Spirit of Trauma as continuing education classes for Ecumenicon. Duane is the author of Guiding Your Family Through Loss and Grief and A Child is Missing: Providing Support for Families of Missing Children.
charleshat Charles Butler Neto Rev. Charles Butler Neto is an interfaith minister with Ecumenicon Fellowship. He was its founder along with three others in 1987. He is currently working as a Wiccan faith representative at the Federal Correction Institute in Cumberland, MD, and runs an Umbanda Verde home temple in Hyattsville, MD with his spouse Mambo Fancy P. Cline. He was born in Brazil, and was raised in the Pentecostal traditions. His presentation this year focuses on walking the middle way between the forest and the sea.
Anna-Sara Anna-Sara Fire Rev. Anna-Sara Fire is a hospital chaplain and teacher of Yoga. She received her M.Div. at Stockholm University, focused on Sami Studies, and an interfaith minister with Fellowship. For the past 4 years she has been a student of Shamanism under Rev. Dr. Crow Swimsaway and Bekki Shiningheart of the Church of Earth Healing. She currently leads classes in Vinyasa Yoga out of the Village of Radikal Healing. (Vinyasa Yoga) Vinyasa Yoga
Rik Portrait Rik Fire Rev. Rik Fire, LCSW is a counselor in private practice in Pennsylvania. He is an Interfaith Minister with Ecumenicon Fellowship with specific interests in Unitarian-Universalist, Gnostic, and Shamanic studies. He is employed as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker for a managed behavioral healthcare company. His eclectic private practice specializes in working with clients in areas related to spirituality, gender & sexuality & energy healing, as he is also a Reiki Master & shamanistic practitioner.
PanOrpheus PanOrpheus PanOrpheus is the High Priest of the Stone Circle Coven (www.stonecirclecoven.com) He has been active in the Pagan Community centered in the Greater Philadelphia area where he has been teaching and leading rituals and workshops. He has co-written and led a three ritual series called the Orpheus Rituals. Panorpheus sees himself in the role of Muse, rather than Mentor.
Cathy Roberts Cathy Roberts Cathy Roberts is an LCPC with a MS in Pastoral Counseling from Loyola University. She has 14 years of experience in counseling individuals, couples, and families. For the last 8 years she has been in private practice in Gaithersburg. She leads spiritual retreats, teaching lay pastoral caregiver basic relationship skills, and coaches a group of women on the principles of the Inner Marriage. Her wisdom teachers include a Presbyterian minister and Swamis in the Kriya Yoga tradition.
Patty Taylor Patricia Taylor Rev. Patricia Taylor (Childsight) is Sacristan (Minister of Sacred Environment) in Ecumenicon Fellowship. Her focus is on home and solitary worship, helping others to live a daily faith. She participates with her husband in a weekly role play at the Game Parlor in Chantilly, VA.
Ray Taylor Ray Taylor, Jr. Ray Taylor, Jr. is the High Priest of Crossroads, a congregation of Ecumenicon Fellowship in Northern Virginia which centers its studies through Role Playing Games in Northern Virginia. Through literary device and role play, people learn spirituality.
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Rosanna Tufts Rev. Rosanna, MMDA is the Chair of the 2012 Conference - Temperance: The Union of Opposites. She puts her unique stamp on this year’s conference to bring together strong teachers dealing with obsession vs. centering, addiction vs. release, conflict and resolution. Rosanna is a Minister of Music and the Dramatic Arts with Ecumenicon Fellowship and has been a part of Ecumenicon since its beginnings. Her ministerial service project was to cut an album “Follow Me to the Forest” which showed the breadth of both her spiritual calling and musical talents. She has been the co-director of Ecumenicon’s theater ministry, A Company of Strangers, for the past 14 years. She has been producing a radio program for the past year “The Tufts Get Going” in which she has interviewed musicians, artists, entrepeneurs, and business shapers making a difference. She holds a ToastMaster’s Competent Communicator certificate. She is a former Certified Compensation Professional in the Human Resources field with a specialty in conflict resolution.

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HONORED TEACHERS IN MEMORIAM

PICTURE BIOGRAPHY
Thomas Hufford BALU

Thomas Eddie Hufford, known to the Pagan community as Balu, was the High Priest of WesTran Alpha Coven. He conducted the Cleansing Sacred Space portion of the opening ritual for Ecumenicon in several previous years, and was Ecumenicon’s webmaster for more than 5 years. Balu crossed to the Summerland from complications of colon cancer on Sunday evening, November 29, 2009.
alexei Alexei

ALEXEI KONDRATIEV was a Celtic scholar, teacher, priest, and an amazing friend. There was no area of Celtic scholarship in which he was not a master, ranging from images of the various Goddess traditions from both Eastern and Western Europe, to the many ways in which Celtic Spirituality endured through the transitions into Christianity as well as Wicca and other Celtic forms. He passed in the fall of 2010.
Black Lotus(photo by Eric Robbins) Black Lotus

Len Rosenberg was a Hindu Scholar and a devotee of Ganesh. He co-lead Mnemosyne Coven in New York City for many years with his partner of many years, Alexei Kondratiev. He passed from a heart attack in the fall of 2010. Len had extensive knowledge of all the classic mythologies, eventually becoming deeply involved with the Goddesses and Gods of Hinduism. When he shared the sacred stories, it was never in a dry, strictly academic manner. He brought them alive for us, made them accessible, always with a sparkle of humor. Ganesha, Kali, Sarasvati, Tara (Obituary from WildHunt)
Midian Midian

MIDIAN (aka Kevin Drewery) was the founder of our Sacristan (Sacred Environment) Ministry. The five-year program was the basis for the ordination of Patty Taylor as a Sacristan. He will be missed by Ecumenicon Fellowship and at least four different UU congregations.
Tami Cox Tami Cox Tami Cox died at the age of 47 on Thursday Jan. 28, 2010 after suffering a stroke. Tami was a Two Spirited (Lesbian) American Indian warrior woman. For 4 years, she was the on site EMT staff for our conference. She was always proud of our Native American tradition and would talk for hours on the subject. She also studied other traditions like Wicca.
David Honigsberg Rabbi David Honigsberg David Honigsberg died suddenly of a heart attack on March 27, 2007. He was a scholar, musician, a guitarist, a writer, a game reviewer, a graduate student, a Kabbalah expert and teacher. He taught at Ecumenicon, Sacred Space, Esotericon, and many other spiritual conventions.
Blessing Bird Blessing Bird Rev. Amy Paul died of complications of cancer on October 3, at 4:00 am in her sleep in a hospital in Baltimore. She was an Elder of the Good Medicine Society, founder of a powwow in Havre de Grace, MD, and a teacher at several area conferences, including Ecumenicon Interfaith Conference and Darkover Science Fiction Convention. She was a scholar, a librarian, and a quiet teacher.

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