Teaching staff biographies and
credentials
Rev 1.2, April 28, 2008
PeakStates™ or Whole Hearted
Healing™ Teacher Biographies
Whole Hearted Healing™ Teacher
Biographies
Addiction Specialization Teacher
Biographies
Shamanic Teacher
Biographies
PeakStates™ Teacher Biographies
Jewels
Hayden
Scotland
Phone: 0792 609 8365
Email: 
Skype:
spiritdancers
Jewels teaches Whole-Hearted Healing, Basic PeakStates
therapies, and also does Basic PeakStates therapist
certification.
Tal Laks
Tel Aviv, Israel
Phone: 972-547256528
Email:
Tal teaches Basic and Advanced PeakStates therapies, and Whole-Hearted Healing. She is also a key member of the Institute research staff.
Grant McFetridge
Hornby Island, BC Canada
Phone: 250-413-3211
Grant primarily teaches Advanced PeakStates, and occasionally Basic PeakStates and Whole-Hearted Healing. "I received my MSEE from Stanford University and have an unfinished doctorate in psychology from the California Institute for Integral Studies. I used to design electronic products and lecture at the California State University at San Luis Obispo before moving to healing work full time. My areas of expertise are in modeling, problem solving, spiritual emergency, and regenerative healing."
Nemi Nath
Byron Bay, NSW, Australia
Phone: 612-66897455
Email:
Nemi teaches Basic PeakStates, Whole-Hearted Healing, and also does Basic PeakStates certification. She teaches internationally in Australia, Germany, Poland and other countries in Europe. Nemi is bilingual, speaking both English and German.
She is a member of NBAC, the committee that initiated and actualised Government Accreditation for Breathwork in Australia and a co-director of BTI, Breathwork Trainings International, a government Registered Training Organisation. In 2007 she retired from Breathconnection, her own international Breathwork Training School to devote herself fully to establish PeakStates training centres in Australia and Europe. She has 21 years experience in developing transformational techniques, authentic, dynamic relating skills and in training therapists. She has been a co-director of the International Breathwork Foundation and a member of the IBF's integrity committee.
Sara Zieborak
Poland
Mobile phone: 0048606884444
Email:
Sara teaches Basic PeakStates, Whole-Hearted Healing, and also does Basic PeakStates certification. She teaches internationally in Poland and Europe. Sara is bilingual, speaking both English and Polish.
She is a Personal Development Counsellor and a graduate of the Higher School of Transformational Psychology (Wyższej Szkoły Zawodowej Psychologii Transformacyjnej), Breathconnection in Australia, and Ewa Foley's Inspiration Seminars International. She is a certified Breath Integration Practitioner, Practitioner in Art of NLP "live", and The Australasian Institute of NLP. She was trained in IAP New Zealand by Colin Sisson, Dr Joy Manne Ph.D. Psychologue BPS, ISPS Canada, Richard Bolstad "Transforming Communication”, "Zen and Coaching” and Frank Farrelly "Provocative Therapy” and many others.
Basic Whole-Hearted Healing™ Teacher
Biographies
Dr.
Mary Pellicer, MD
Yakima, Washington, USA
Phone: 509-965-4502 (wk)
Dr. Pellicer has a lifelong interest in healing work.
Trained as a Family Practitioner, she worked for a number
of years in a community and migrant health clinic
practicing traditional allopathic medicine. She also has
experience in community work and has served as medical
director of a Healthy Community project for a large
hospital system. Currently she works as an evaluation
consultant for health and human services programs. Dr.
Pellicer is very interested in integrating knowledge and
techniques from our explorations on the frontiers of
healing back into the current cultural paradigm.
Addiction Specialization Teacher
Biographies
Matt
Fox
Springhill, Florida, USA
Phone: (352) 686-0982
Email:
Mr.
Fox has been in the field of addiction treatment for 5
years. He has a Master of Education in Community
Counselling from the University of North Texas, 1996. He is
a certified alchohol and drug counsellor in the State of
Massachuessets, USA. He's licensed as a professional
counsellor in Georgia, and certified as a thought field
therapist. Mr Fox works in the 12 step framework, and has
done a lot with native American and oriental philosophies.
Wes Gietz
Comox, British Columbia, Canada
Phone: (250) 339-3197
www.Windwalker.ca
Wes teaches classes in Native American traditional ways, EFT, and in Whole-Hearted Healing. Wes has studied and practiced natural skills and beliefs for over forty years, with pauses as required by the necessities of love and life. He has been taught by Tom Brown Jr. and Native teachers the skills of survival and living, awareness, and philosophy, the ceremonies of daily life, and the ceremonies and responsibilities of the sweat lodge. He honors them by using these ways and keeping them for the generations yet to be born, and has taught them in workshops and at gatherings since 1993. Wes also practices and teaches EFT, a technique for healing emotional disturbances, phobias, addictions and a variety of physical problems. In his professional life, he has master's degrees in biochemistry and public administration, and 15 years of consulting experience in training, strategic planning, and human resource management. He has taught Leadership, Communication Skills, Business Mathematics, and Human Resource Management at the University of Victoria and North Island College. He has very little hair on top and is omnivorous.
Revision History:
1.2 April 28, 2007. Added Jewels Hayden to the list of PeakStates teachers.
1.1 October 16, 2007. Updated the WHH and Peak States teacher biographies list.
1.0 November 10, 2006. Updated the techer list.