Directory - Ways of Council

Maria Teresa Mendes

Way of Council is part of my life path and social education contexts are my field of work. I’m a portuguese social entrepreneur connected worldwide and a recognised facilitator in Way of Council, since 2021. In 2017 I completed training in Way of Council with Rob Dreaming, who was my mentor, and in 2025 I took the first steps to Read more...

Jamy Myatt

Jamy Myatt is a Council trainer through the Ojai Foundation tradition and has worked at Crossroads school leading council for the last 25 years. In that time, she worked with students in grades 6-12 with council as the foundation of the curriculum, led scores of senior rites of passage trips and been the chair of the middle school Life Skills Read more...

Jeremiah Burrow

Jeremiah Burrow is a devoted father, teacher, and designer of education programs whose introduction to the Way of Council came during a life-changing wilderness rites of passage trip in 2012. Since then, he has been part of hundreds of councils both as a participant and facilitator across multiple settings from classrooms to religious centers around Vermont. In his role as Read more...

Isabel Zabou

A primeira vez que me sentei em círculo Way of Council, tive uma sensação no meu corpo e um reconhecimento no meu coração de que este é o caminho para o qual fui chamada. Autenticidade, falar e ouvir a partir do Coração, prestar atenção aos outros e dos outros, praticar uma mente sem julgamento e sem interromper e ouvir profundamente Read more...

Ann Phillips Seide, MD

Ann Phillips Seide is a practicing internal medicine physician at Los Robles Hospital in Thousand Oaks, California, with a specialty Integrative Medicine. She has co-led council training workshops in Auschwitz, Rwanda, Santa Fe, Ojai, Chicago, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Salinas Valley State Prison, and Greyston Foundation, in Yonkers, NY. Ann has facilitated council circles at Zen Peacemaker Bearing Witness Retreats in Poland and Bosnia, as Read more...

Linda Elias

(c) Gregor Buchhaus Linda Elias (Vienna/Bavaria) *1978, is a social worker, systemic coach and mother (*2010), living in a community-house at the heart of Vienna. Her first contact with Council was during a vision quest in 2004. Picking up the Council-thread 2009, she became a passionate member of the ECN and the regional network ÖSDCN in Bavaria/Austria. She was mentored Read more...

Yamin Chehin

Yamin Chehin (she/her) is a Council trainer, facilitator, and doctor of Chinese Medicine, with intimate experience of nature-based practices that inform her work with clients and groups, and help to integrate the healing potential implicit in our stories and our bodies. She facilitates councils in English and Spanish (her native language) for women, teen-age girls, and youth-at-risk, as well as with Read more...

Cândida Rato

There`s a whisper calling me to offer the practice of circles, through ceremonies and presence, to connect with nature, people`s hearts and honor the power of being together and listening. I bring council ways as a continuous practice of the core principles in my relationships. As in council as in life. I am an apprentice and practitioner of Way(s) of Read more...

Eva Dittingerová

Eva Dittingerová is a lecturer and facilitator with an interest in education through art and nature, working in the field of formal and nonformal education. Drama led her to a psychosomatically oriented approach to dramatic culture and creation, and an interest in stories and their potential led her to the Way of Council. As an external teacher, she trains teachers Read more...

Wilhelm Zwirner

Even though his interest in deep listening and open-hearted communication reaches further back, Wilhelm sits in circles practicing The Way of Council since 2010 – in open circles, co-housing initiatives, men’s circles and very much in Couples-Council practice with his partner Sarah. With their mentors Galit & Shay Hanien Sarah and Wilhelm are on the Couple-Council-Facilitator path. Since 2016 Wilhelm Read more...