Leslie Roberts has grown from roots in wild nature and the healing arts, harvesting fruits from practices as diverse as Bioenergetics, Gestalt Therapy, Hospice, plus wilderness retreats for Fortune 500 companies and spiritual communities. She studied with Steven Foster and Meredith Little at the School of Lost Borders, and trained with Gigi Coyle to offer Nature of Council both in California and in Findhorn, Scotland. She is a Senior Council Trainer with The Ojai Foundation for over 20 years, where she initiated the Path of Service programs, in addition to extended in-service trainings to support artists, teachers, care-givers and social workers, such as Deepening the Medicine, Tracing the Arc, and Nurturing the Call to Service. She is mother to 2 daughters, 18 and 23, and has a life-long practice of swimming meditation, to fuel her soul. “I strive to live in Council, to engage the natural world and our own inner wilderness, returning again and again to the songline that connects us all.”