All Council Trainers in Ojai





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Chris Elder

Chris Elder is passionate about authentic communication as a path to deeper relationships, greater social understanding and a more peaceful world. She has been facilitating Council circles in various settings since 1995. Following 25 years as an award-winning educator in public and private schools, often incorporating Council practice, Chris is active in our Inmate Council Program and Social Justice Council Project initiatives. She Read more...

Doug Adrianson

A leader of numerous Ojai Foundation council training programs over the past decade, Doug Adrianson has facilitated weekly Council circles with students at five schools in Southern California, has guided rites-of-passage programs for hundreds of teenagers and adults, and served 11 years on the Ojai Foundation Board of Directors.  A lifelong writer and editor who loves the power of language, Read more...

Laura Whitney

Sharon Shay Sloan

Shay is an educator, wilderness rites of passage guide, council trainer and consultant. She was founding director of the Indigenous & Community Lands & Seas program for The WILD Foundation, and has had the honor of working with, alongside and/or for Indigenous Peoples from hundreds of nations. She is co-editor of Protecting Wild Nature on Native Lands and co-author of Read more...

Margaret Tarmy

Margaret Tarmy holds a master’s degree in Conflict Transformation from the SIT Graduate Institute and has been active in a variety of community-building initiatives, including facilitating a council circle for a cancer resource center in Ojai, CA, and working with a grassroots community project in Putney, VT.  She is passionate about the positive impact that dialogue and connection can have Read more...