{"id":163,"date":"2023-08-31T20:42:14","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T20:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/confident-archimedes.77-68-95-128.plesk.page\/?page_id=163"},"modified":"2026-02-02T19:14:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T19:14:59","slug":"faculty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hartwell.me\/index.php\/faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\"\"ANNIE SPENCER,\u00a0 MA Oxon, PGCE London, Dip IDHP, is a ceremonialist and workshop leader.\u00a0 Annie has been running groups and trainings for 30 years and with a background in humanistic psychology and earth-based spiritual traditions, she is skilled at moving between spiritual teachings and the disciplines of psychology.\u00a0 She works here and in the US and writes regularly.

Annie has always been an innovator.\u00a0 In the 1980\u2019s and\u00a0 \u201890\u2019s she ran a series of two year trainings in humanistic psychology through Bath University and has a chapter on Self and Peer Assessment in Implausible Professions: Arguments for Pluralism and Autonomy in Psychotherapy and Counselling (1997).\u00a0 In the 1980\u2019s she co-founded Openings, a centre for psychotherapy and groupwork that today is an integral part of the Bath psychotherapy landscape.\u00a0 In the 1990\u2019s she was a founder member of the Independent Practitioners Network (IPN).\u00a0 From the 1980\u2019s to the present day, Annie has had a private psychotherapy practice and supervises both individual and groupwork practitioners.

In the early \u201880\u2019s a metis man found Annie in her homeland way in the far west of Cornwall.\u00a0 H introduced her to the teachings and practices of the First Peoples of North America.\u00a0 These teachings immediately resonated with her and their practice has been a part of her life ever since.\u00a0 She was apprenticed in a North American tradition in the \u201880s and has studied Mayan teachings from Guatemala for the past 11 years.\u00a0 Annie has undertaken ceremony at Macchu Picchu, sat sweatlodge in North America with elders from the Mi\u2019kmaq and Ho Chunk Nations and has worked with Lorraine Mafi Williams, the Native Australian elder. \u00a0

Annie does not forget the traditions of this land and hopes to enliven and strengthen them with the teachings she brings from other ancient ways.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A well loved storyteller, Annie brings alive the old myths of this land and enthralls us with tales from across the world as she creates magical spaces for change to happen.
In 1997 Annie was invited to visit Romania to work with adolescents about to leave their orphanage. There she learnt how transforming time spent in nature can be for disturbed and angry young men.\u00a0 Since then she has been developing her work with young people and has been co operating on a programme of initiation for young people in the States for the past nine years.\u00a0 Annie is deeply committed to working with young people in a way that reconnects them with the land and instils in them a sense of belonging; that kindles their imaginations and sense of hope; and inspires them to look beyond the life they know in a creative way.
Currently, Annie works with groups, runs vision quests and other rites of passage, and works with individuals, either creating individual ceremonies or helping clients heal by working with them on the land.\u00a0 Annie also takes adolescents out onto the land to find their home and remember who they are (www.circleofliferediscovery.com<\/a>).

As a teacher, Annie opens pathways for others \u2013 illuminating their life\u2019s journeys.\u00a0 Her primary interest is the renewal of ancient ceremonial forms for creating a path of beauty upon Grandmother Earth.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Christiana Harle (Chrissy)<\/h3>

\u200bChristiana is a shamanic healer, holds degrees as a Music Therapist, Breathwork Therapist, Beekeeper with a diploma in Women\u2019s Consciousness, as well as a shamanic drum-birther. She has been working in the field of shamanic healing for almost thirty years. Her path is woven with Land and Song, through Tuvan shamanic initiation with deepening paths into the Spirit of Song: the keener, the healer, the birther, the journey-er, the stinger. Christiana is passionate about supporting and guiding people to find their path, heal, remember and re-connect with Mother Earth and all Beings. Visit her website: www.solavoima.fi<\/a>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Ellie Little<\/h3>

Ellie has completed a 5-year apprenticeship with Annie. With humility Ellie seeks to create ceremonies of beauty that resonate in the heart. In times of broken lineage, we are all shoots on old roots. Where our indigenous connections have been cut we seek a way to bring our self into good relationship with the Earth. Ellie\u2019s passion is for creating healing ceremonies for the Earth and people and she is interested in crafts, storytelling and plant healing. Ellie spent 5 years learning at Bolads Kitchen, the school of Mart\u00edn Prechtel in New Mexico. This has deeply nourished Ellie's being and informs her love of story, ritual and nature. \u200bEllie is also a trained therapist offering bodywork and spiritual healing, reflexology, womb\/ abdominal therapy, flower essences and offers classes and workshops. Connect and reach out for treatments here: www.awenhealingarts.com<\/a>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Andrea Bolton<\/h3>

Andrea is a secondary school teacher with 10 years\u2019 experience of encouraging young people to create community between themselves and a different relationship with the Earth, be it by learning survival skills, to learning about sustainability, to sleeping out under the stars.\nAndrea was Annie\u2019s apprentice for 5 years and now aspires to moving into elderhood graciously, passionate about facilitating a more honouring way of giving back to Earth, our source, through ceremony.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Anne Lynn<\/h3>

Anne lives in Donegal on a three quarter acre plot of land with her partner & with many wild plants & birds! \nPreviously Anne lived in Sussex where she held Community and Women\u2019s Fires every month for sixteen years, worked for Neals Yard Remedies & had a Plant Spirit Healing practice.\nShe has two wonderful sons.\n \nShe is passionate about the importance of remembering our kinship with the Natural World & rekindling that connection.\nAnne has been fortunate to have had some inspiring teachers over the years including Patrick Holford, Christopher Hedley, Annie, Spencer & Eliot Cowan.\nAfter training with Eliot Cowan in Plant Spirit Medicine, Anne was called through a series of dreams to pilgrimage with Eliot to Sacred Sites in Mexico for over 8 years and was initiated as a healer within the Wixarica tradition in 2017.\nShe currently works as a Plant Spirit Healer & her heart calls her to give back to Spirit and the Land for all the blessings she has received.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Lana Lanaia<\/a><\/h3>

Lana Lanaia\n\nLana has a deep love for these holy Isles of Albion, and has journeyed over many years to sacred sites, living in wild places, questing and communing with the land, sea & sky. She is passionate about exploring ways that we may rekindle our relationship with Nature, remembering that we are all children of Mother Earth.\u00a0\n\nLana has been studying and working with earth wisdom traditions and sound healing for 25 years. In her 20's, Lana lived in north and south America for a few years, where she spent time with indigenous communities. She has been learning from the Kogi of the Heart of the World since 2012, and is also blessed to learn from Annie. Lana is a musician and retreat facilitator, and leads courses and pilgrimages to connect our hearts with with the heart of our land. <\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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John Scaife MA Cantab<\/h3>

John was lucky enough to stumble upon on the nascent mytho-poetic men\u2019s movement 30 years ago, learning from Robert Bly, Michael Meade, Malidoma Some, Robert Moore, James Hillman and Martin Prechtel. He went on to study extensively with Pretchtel and Some, developing his own deep sense of ritual and the sacred, which he has sought to weave with traditions here, tapping into his skills as story teller, writer and life coach. He is now exploring how to create \u2018life stage marking\u2019 events.\nA sportsman and lover of the outdoors, as often as possible in his native Northumberland, he is also very aware, from over 35 years in banking and business of the need to ground these learnings in the practicalities of the day to day world we live in.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Christianna Hythe-Cronin<\/h3>

\u200bChristianne is a Healer, Teacher and Ceremonialist. As a young girl, Christianne always had a Spirit guide and friend. Her formal training started in 1998 at \u201cShamanka\u201d shamanic training for women. Christianne was apprenticed to Annie and continues to enjoy Annie\u2019s teachings and their strong friendship. \nShe has also worked with many other gifted and inspiring Shamans from North America, Peru, the Amazon Rainforest and these lands.\nChristianne\u2019s training has empowered her to work locally in Kent for Mind as an art therapist, undertake four years training in Counselling skills, working with counsellors and staff at a counselling charity service. She is a qualified Kinesiologist and Aromatherapist and currently teaches Yoga and Meditation. She always looks to incorporate her Shamanic gifts into all her practice.\nHer love of this work and her deep connections with Spirit continue to make her heart sing.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Michelle Easton (Shelly)<\/h3>

Michelle was apprenticed to a Canadian First Nation storyteller throughout her 20\u2019s. She travelled with him and supported in sweat lodge, dances and pipe ceremonies. \nLater, she spent 5 years as an apprentice to Annie. This focused on creating ceremony on these lands and has formed the basis of her sacred activism.\nThese experiences gave her a different way of looking at the world, deepening her love of the land. They also inspired her to take action, so she returned to university in her late 20's to study Countryside Management. \nWeaving together her spiritual background and her scientific study, Michelle has become a devoted environmental activist and campaigner. She has promoted sustainable agriculture, spent a year on an anti-fracking protest camp in Yorkshire and is currently working for Somerset Wildlife Trust.\nHer connection with spirit and love of the land is at the heart of everything she does, no matter how subtly.\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Cathy Shea<\/h3>

Cathy Shea has run workshops and trainings for over two decades. Cathy discovered Native American teachings in the mid 90s and these brought spirituality into the centre of her life. Being Irish by descent, she has long had a love for our Celtic Heritage and the two traditions have consistently fed one another on her journey. Cathy holds a deep love for our Mother the Earth and all that she provides.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Roger Duncan<\/h3>

Roger Duncan, MSc, trained as a biologist, Waldorf educator, wilderness rites of passage guide and a Systemic Family Psychotherapist. He was one of the pioneer tutors of the Ruskin Mill Education Trust working for ten years as the woodland manager and setting up the wilderness experience and transition programs. He is former Deputy Principal and Head of Education and Therapy at Ruskin Mill College and currently works as a Family Therapist for Oxford Health Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Annie Spencer ANNIE SPENCER,\u00a0 MA Oxon, PGCE London, Dip IDHP, is a ceremonialist and workshop leader.\u00a0 Annie has been running groups and trainings for 30 years and with a background in humanistic psychology and earth-based spiritual traditions, she is skilled at moving between spiritual teachings and the disciplines of psychology.\u00a0 She works here and in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-163","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartwell.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartwell.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartwell.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartwell.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartwell.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/hartwell.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78078,"href":"https:\/\/hartwell.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163\/revisions\/78078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartwell.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}