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each other we become free. That is the very heart of Camelot.
Not these stones, timbers, towers, palaces. Burn them all and Camelot
lives on.
Because it lives in us; it's a belief we hold in our hearts.
-- King Arthur speaking to Lancelot in movie
First Knight
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Leaders on our Team
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Executive
Director Jeanne
Marie Sutherland
founded CO.MUNITY Project in collaboration with Boys
To Men Mentoring Network. She is a PhD student in Social
Justice and Creative Leadership with a Masters in Creative Arts
Therapy / Special Education. Her objectives to support her mission
of "peace from the inside out" include teaching teachers
/ youth leaders & developing curricula games, books, activities
etc. in nonviolent compassionate communication, conflict transformation
and power sharing decision making. These objectives serve her
goals to address social violence, bullying, racism, exclusion
etc. in schools, youth organizations and the community and society.
Jeanne Marie also has fun working with children creating magic,
myth and mystery in M3PLAY
in homeschool, afterschool & camps. She is passionate about
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Director
of Program Design Stephanie
Foy has been developing, designing and facilitating healing
and empowerment groups for several years. Through CranioSacral
Therapy, visualization techniques, and a deep connection to
nature and shamanism, she began working with her mind/body/spirit
to create and realize her own optimal health. Through her
healing practice, Stephanie sought a powerful visual and physical
tool to embody the belief that obstacles can be overcome with
focus and intention. She adopted firewalking as her powerful
ally. Her mission: To create and sustain empowerment programs
utilizing firewalking as sacred rite of passage. To
facilitate the change of limiting beliefs to empower and extend
respect, reverance and compassion.
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Director
of Program Development with a focus on Girls Initiate
Passage & Mentorship. Britta
Reida, BA in Psychology, has 15 years experience with children:
home care & schooling; schools, camps, and youth organizations.
Steering Committee member, Cape Cod: Circles for Change
where Britta co-created and facilitated: girls' circles focusing
on girls' self-awareness and self-love, healthy body image,
confidence, and strength, using expressive arts. She also
co-facilitated intergenerational women's circles, a mother /
daughter bonding event, and various social justice workshops.
Britta's mission is to collaborate with other women to create
and facilitate empowerment programs for New England girls, through
which girls develop a strong sense of self, strengthen their
connections with other girls, and use their collective power
to create social change.
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Steering
Committe Member David Cordes is the Director of
BoysToMen
Canada. He has been a leader in Men's work with the ManKind
Project since 2000 and founded BoysToMen Canada in 2006. Presently
his focus is on new center development and leadership training
for emerging BoysToMen Centers throughout the eastern United
States, Canada and in South Aftrica. David's mission: I create
sacred space where beauty can grow and flourish. |
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Steering
Committee Member Crispin Boulter has been an inherent
part of CO.MUNITY Project since its beginnings in 2006. He is
a Boys
To Men mentor with the first Journeyman group which was
created after the August 2008 Rites of Passage Weekend. He has
been learning and practicing skills to mentor kids in earth-based
knowledge beginning with a year apprenticeship at Vermont Wilderness
School in 2005. He is a dedicated student of cultural design
on a timely quest to help rediscover, adapt and implement the
common threads found in all healthy native cultures throughout
the world and throughout time. He draws on a crafty set of back
woods skills, as well as from experience with sacred plant medicine,
participation in men’s groups, a love of sauna/ sweat
lodge, martial arts, peacemaking principals and a desire to
be of service in the community. He is inspired to work with
others to create both healthy and empowering edge/awareness
experiences and a meaningful, contemporary, ceremonial and ritualistic
life for each other and for the next generations to come. |
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Steering
Committe Member Darlene
Jenson has 15 years experience directing camps and after-school
programs. As a parent of a child with disabilities she brings
the desire to help all children discover their unique abilities
and talents. Darlene worked for many years at the Farm &
Wilderness Day Camp as assistant-director. Fourteen years
of parenting has taught her how to adapt situations to make
sure that all children are able to participate. She co-created
the Theatre
Adventure Program. "(TAP) is a theatre arts class for
children, youth, and adults with disabilities and welcomes a
smaller number of their typically developing peers." The
success of this program has confirmed her ideas about creating
an environment where each child can find their unique "voice"
and have a chance to highlight their individual abilities. |
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