Who Makes up Our Global Family?

Ariann Thomas, JD, is the Administrative Director and President of the Foundation, and First Elder of the Path of the Sacred Feminine. Ariann has long been intrigued with universal laws, the perfect interest for a woman with a law degee, who is a former attorney, Assistant Attorney General, and certified mediator. Ariann brings valuable adminstrative expertise to New Dream, with her extensive experience as a board member for various non–profit organizations. She also brings expansive views with her study of science, history, and the nature of the Sacred Feminine.

Ariann carries the profound subtle energy of an elder, advisor and wisdom carrier. For the past 20 years she has studied and taught energy healing and crystal connection (medicine of the Cherokee). She is part Cherokee by heritage and is a ceremonialist, intuitive reader, Reiki practitioner and healer, specializing in Ancestral Lineage Clearing. Ariann's book, Healing Family Patterns; Ancestral Lineage Clearing for Personal Growth will be published soon. She lives in Sedona, AZ.
Read about her work at www.ancestrallineageclearing.com

Reverend Misa Hopkins is the Spiritual Director of the Foundation and Guardian of the Path of the Sacred Feminine. An ordained minister through the Holistic Resources Foundation, she has been offering ceremony for over 20 years. She has been a professional teacher and facilitator for over 30 years, with her first career being in Education and her second as a Business Communications Consultant to Fortune 500 companies, small businesses and non–profit organizations. She is known for her design and implemention of a highly innovative and effective, nationally recognized program for women in prison.

In her spiritual life, Reverend Misa is dedicated to awakening in the Divine Feminine and has a deep love for the gifts of the Divine Masculine. She apprenticed for several years with a Cherokee elder, studying ceremony and energy healing. She went on to develop an appreciation for the power of ritual in all spiritual traditions. Having studied within various spiritual traditions, she enjoys counseling individuals in their unique spiritual journeys.

A life long student of healing sacred sounds, Misa has taught sound healing techniques to hundreds of alternative healing practitioners and offers a Song Questing ceremony to individuals drawn to sound's mystical power. She is the best selling author of the book, "The Root of All Healing: 7 Steps to Healing Anything."
Learn more about her work at MisaHopkins.com

Mary McGuire, Executive Director, has an extensive background as a Development Officer, acquiring and managing multi-million dollar budgets for premier arts organizations. She brings her skills in these areas to help launch New Dream Foundation into its next phase of growth in global education about the Sacred Feminine.

She is a certified herbalist, flower and gem essence practitioner, and nutritional consultant. She especially loves to create flower and gem essence formulas to assist people in achieving their life goals, and experience greater wellness and vitality. (Reverend Misa loves her essences!) Mary is also the owner and formulator of FlowerWorks Botanicals aromatherapy products, and teaches classes on a range of natural health-related topics, such as Identifying and Living with Food Allergies, Supporting Your Child's Immune System, as well as Introductions to Gem and Flower Essences.

Mary is enjoying using her range of talents here at New Dream to create a healthy and happier world.

Judy Cole, MA, Treasurer, was introduced to NDF and SpiritQuest when she participated in ceremony with her daughter, Kelly. In NDF she found a new spiritual home. Judy brings inspiration and innovation to the Fund Raising comittee, is the Coodinator for SpiritQuest and is helping to develop a new curriculum for the Women's Path of the Sacred Feminine. She has been on the SpiritQuest Council, Camp Grandmother, and an active volunteer for NDF for several years.

In an earlier project, as Education Director for SCI Detroit Chapter, she created workshops for teachers and helped create and implement Sensory Safari, a worldwide program for blind and handicapped children. During her teaching career, she guided and inspired children, creating and implementing many new programs. She and her daughter have co-authored three books to be part of the Great Peacemakers Program.

Her spiritual journey led her to the healing practices. As a certified Usui Reiki Master/Teacher, she has helped many with their personal healing. She lives in Michigan with her husband, Gary. One of Judy's favorite places is their cabin in the woods of Northern Michigan, the perfect place to get in touch with nature and The Mother.

Janet Akers found her way to New Dream Foundation while searching for a community of like-minded individuals to help her explore her spiritual path. She previously served on the board of directors for the Craftsmen's Guild of Mississippi and the Vicksburg Art Association (Vicksburg, Mississippi). With the latter, she held every position except Secretary!

Janet is an artist and teacher, and enjoys combining the two activities to help others journey along their own spiritual paths. She has a great love of the outdoors and finds a deep connection to the earth when she is out hiking the trails around her home in Sedona, AZ. She is also an eternal student, constantly reading books and taking classes in order to broaden her horizons.

Jim Mathewson is an Advisory Trustee. As a former strategist and turn around expert for businesses, Jim has taken a company public and increased revenues from $2 million to $50 million in ten years. As a former CEO, CPA, and Systems Engineer, Jim brings valuable perspective regarding the Foundation's business and operations performance, in addition to his wise perceptions about spiritual evolution in the world today. He has been a creator, trainer and leader of training programs in personal growth and development for the Insititute of Noetic Sciences, as well as leading cross–cultural workshops in the US, Europe, Russia, Asia and Australia. Jim has been devoted to the emergence of the Divine Feminine for many years.
Find information about the work he does at www.tanagerfoundation.org

Ixchel Tucker is Vice-President and Web Developer for New Dream and a free-lance web designer who brings an intuitive and spiritual focus into her work. She lives and works at a spiritual retreat center in Tepoztlan, Mexico for half of the year, then returns to the US for the other half of the year. She shares insights she has learned from ancient practices and lifestyles in Mexico, inspiring new ways of living and being for people in the US. She leads workshops, ceremonies and spiritual journeys to sacred sites in Mexico.

She has been involved with New Dream Foundation since 2004, when she was invited to SpiritQuest to support a quester as a "right–hand." She has since completed her own quest and is currently an apprentice in the Spiritual Leadership Program.
For more about her work, visit: www.webdesignbyixchel.com

Jeffrey Paul Burger, Media and Marketing Consultant, brings to the New Dream Foundation his long–time vision of world peace through global spiritual community in areas such as the organization's visioning, marketing and media technology. He is responsible for having created the original incarnation of the New Dream on–line forums as a virtual way for community members around the globe to interact.

Jeffrey has provided marketing consulting and multimedia production services to Fortune 500 companies, and is the author of three books and over 500 articles in media productions. He is also a talented artist and musician/composer.
Learn more about Jeffrey and his world at www.JeffBurger.com

Kim Wight, Communications Coodinator and Keeper of the Path of the Sacred Feminine, has experienced a variety of professional incarnations in her life (EMT, Emergency Medical Dispatcher, Training Coordinator, Supervisor, Manager and Retreat Coordinator to name a few).  What she felt most inspired by in all of these positions was the opportunity to connect in a deep, personal and powerful way with those she came in contact with. This holds true in her work with New Dream Foundation as well. She responds to the emails that are sent to Helping Hands, sends out NDF’s daily Tweets, started the Facebook page for Awakening through the Sacred Feminine and handles other operational duties.

Kim’s spiritual journey led her to the Path of the Sacred Feminine several years ago. She has found that the principles offered in the path support her in all areas of her life and help her to hold the sacredness of all things. She offers intuitive readings, is a ceremonialist, Reiki Master and Spiritual Coach. Kim is delighted to be a part of New Dream Foundation and hopes her participation fosters growth and inspiration.

Dion GeBorde, Internet Marketing Consultant, is the owner of Prosperity with Purpose, dedicated to assisting heart-centered entrepreneurs in achieving their goals through strategic Internet marketing, and turning challenges into stepping stones for success. With 25 years in performance-based sales and marketing, he has a passion for accountability and creativity. His background in psychology contributes to his ability to help business owners communicate effectively with their clients. Dion is passionate about supporting personal and professional growth within himself and with others.
Learn more at: www.ProsperitywithPurpose.com

Laurel Stuart, Editor and Proofreader. With over 20 years of editing and proofreading, Laurel is helping with our website and newsletter. She is part Cherokee and has participated in meditation groups, healing circles and classes.

After her medical training, Laurel worked in a variety of medical settings including doctors' offices, chiropractic offices, convalescent homes and hospitals. Later, she became a graphic artist and is a pen & ink illustrator.

Being most comfortable in natural surroundings — trees, flowers, crescent moons and the Sacred Feminine are celebrated in most of her drawings. Raising her son and daughter, who are also artists, is Laurel’s most treasured accomplishment. Her life purpose includes promoting world peace and healing.

Cindy Mills, MS, Water Ceremony Apprenticeship Coordinator, a Keeper and Elder in the Path of the Sacred Feminine, Instructor for the Secret Art of Ceremony. An experienced ceremonialist, mystic, teacher, and healer, Cindy simply calls her involvement with Foundation her calling. With her background in Vocational Rehabilitation and Social Work, along with her avid passion for history, religion and cultures, she brings many gifts and insights to the Foundation members who receive her services.

Susan Gold, Keeper in the Path of the Sacred Feminine, is a vision holder of higher consciousness, committed to her own evolution and to assisting others along the path in further expressing and embodying their own divine natures. She spent over twenty years working in southern California with Warren Gold, revered spiritual teacher, master herbalist and shamanic healer. Susan's training encompasses a wide variety of natural healing and subtle energy therapies.

She is a Usui Reiki Master and an ordained minister with the Shieloh Foundation, a non–denominational church dedicated to the Discovery of Divinity Within. Susan is also a Keeper of the Women's Full Moon Water Ceremony and continues her study and practice of sacred ceremony under the guidance of Rev. Misa, supporting a global spiritual family and a women's way to enlightenment.

Susan is also the facilitator of Two Moons Tea, a vital herbal health resource comprised of ancient healing formulas developed by indigenous medicine men and women of North and South America. You can find more at her website: Two Moons Tea—A Legacy of Herbal Health, www.twomoonstea.com.

Kelly Cole, Keeper in the Path of the Sacred Feminine, lives in Sedona, AZ where she teaches music to children and adults. She has worked with Reverend Misa for several years, creating one of our first women's circles in this tradition in over 100 years. She completed a SongQuest with Reverend Misa and has been our Camp Mother at SpiritQuest.

She has a profound ability to hold sacred space for women and has a dedicated circle of women in Sedona that she meets with monthly.

Silas Richardson, MS, SpiritQuest Security, enjoys living in Pinedale, Wyoming, which sits betweeen two mountain ranges, the Wind River and Wyoming Ranges. He has been involved with Spirit Quest for many years. The first years he just attended and got his feet wet. The experience opened his eyes to the world and how it operates and he met a lot of great people. The next 3 years he quested. The questing helped him to get connected to the Mother. To be out there with all the elements opened his heart to the Universe and how it actually works. For most of his time at Quest he has either been our Security or questing. He is also an apprentice in the Spiritual Leadership Apprenticeship Program.

Cheryl McDaniel, Breakthrough to the Ultimate You Radio Program. During Cheryl's sixteen year nursing career, she has been blessed to gain experience in healthcare education, administrative nursing and research. As host of Breakthrough, she remained focused on bringing timely information and guests that helped our members in developing greater health, wealth and passion. Programs are archived and available at Blog Talk. Breakthrough Radio

Marci Mongelli, MA, Volunteer Acknowledgment, lives in southeastern Massachusetts with her husband and two children. She has spent much of the past 20+ years teaching in schools in Kentucky and Massachusetts, including a 3–year experience on Cuttyhunk Island (MA) as teacher and principal of the island's one–room school. Other experiences include teaching English to Asian teens in a homestay program on Martha's Vineyard, tutoring students with special needs, and teaching part–time for Dean College in Southeastern Massachusetts. She is also an artist, specializing in pen–and–ink. Following her own recent spiritual search, Marci found the opportunity to work with New Dream Foundation to be a good match of her interests and skills.

John Brown, SpiritQuest Council, is a former activist and Conscientious Objector during the Vietnam War. He has worked as a massage therapist, combined with hypnotherapy and personal and professional coaching. He currently works as a truck driver while developing an organization called Rooms For Peace. Rooms For Peace sees a world where unrealized human resources come to light and then get dedicated to peace, justice, human rights, and healthy environments. This vision comes to life by connecting travelers with lodging, money and like–hearted people with guest rooms, so that affiliated Peace Charities receive this liberated money. Their website is: www.roomsforpeace.org.

Morgine Jurdan, Heartsong of the Mother, Proofreading.She loves writing, spending time in nature, communicating with animals and Nature, coaching, photography, playing with water coloring and colored pencils, learning to play a Native American flute, being creative and finding new ways to inspire more human connection with Nature once again. She feels many people are suffering from Nature Depravation and in learning how to re–connect, they will discover answers arising as if by magic, instead of having to seek them out. Living the questions becomes a magical adventure, instead of an effortful struggle. She lives near the base of Mt. St. Helens, the famous volcano in Washington State. Her current livelihood is communicating with animals and nature. You can read more about what she does at: www.CommunicationsWithLove.com.

Snow Thorner, Consultant, is a recruiter and trainer for BioPro's cell phone Safety Team. She resides in Ashland, Oregon and has been a personal friend and co–creater with Ariann and Misa on many business and spiritual projects since 1993. Snow's natural business sense, coaching, writing and marketing talents are all available to the foundation. Her lifelong connection to indigenous cultures led Snow to spend a year traveling, living and coaching in Afrika. She has participated in nine life–affirming SpiritQuests with this fabulous community. Knowing her soul mission to "be a living bridge between people of all spiritual paths, races and cultures," the New Dream Foundation fits perfectly into Snow's life. For more info about BioPro, visit her website at: www.mybiopro.com/SafeCellPhonenow.