{"id":28,"date":"2025-06-25T21:15:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T21:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo-ps.com\/christinespinder\/?page_id=28"},"modified":"2025-07-23T23:49:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T23:49:49","slug":"my-teachers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/demo-ps.com\/christinespinder\/my-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"My Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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My constant curiosity keeps me learning and finding spaces of discovery to encounter, explore,<\/strong>\u00a0question, unlearn, play, connect, risk, make conscious, reflect and adapt as our world constantly evolves.
I\u2019ve been fortunate to encounter incredible teachers with each turn of my career.<\/strong>\u00a0 Below is my education in social & organizational transformation, and in embodiment and somatics, with links to some writers, thinkers and development collectives I love. Personal mentors have included Namgis Elder Ruth Alfred, Kwakwakwala Chief and global artist Walacx Kayam Beau Dick, theologian Dr. Donald Greystone, and Open Space Technology co-creator Anne Stadler.
Current Studie<\/strong>s include continued embodiment learning with the\u00a0School for BodyMind Centering<\/strong>, and with the\u00a0Hellinger Institute on Facilitating Family Systems Constellations<\/strong>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Systems and Jungian Psychology in Leadership and Human Systems Change
Saybrook University, California<\/p>

Saybrook University, California is known for visionary graduate programs branching from the Esalen Institute. My MA in Systems and Jungian Psychology for Leadership and Human Systems Change included Somatic Experiencing, full ICF Executive Coaching, Family Systems Constellations and Process Work.<\/p>

My action-research thesis, \u201cBuilding the Bridge in Indigenous-Ally Collaboration Practices\u201d focused on ways of being for Allies in cross-cultural collaboration based in Indigenous ways of knowing and relationship-based development, connecting Indigenous peacebuilding protocols with reconciliation partnerships, and establishing the Restoring Collective, which continues today.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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\u201cChristine builds relationship containers of transformation, innovation, deep truth and witnessing.<\/strong>
She helps groups reveal what\u2019s emerging in their underlying systems, and all the joy of them.\u201d<\/p>

Dr. Mark Jones, Sunyata Leadership Institute, Goddard College<\/em><\/cite><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Somatic Experiencing & Embodied Intelligence<\/strong>\u00a0I have trained for 20 years in Embodiment and Somatics,<\/strong>\u00a0and they are essential tools to my liberatory practices.<\/p>

The School for Body Mind Centering:<\/strong>\u00a0World-leading school founded by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, creating practices and process in Somatic Experiencing, embodied anatomy, healing trauma and transformative consciousness. Since 2006.<\/p>

Indigenous Focusing Oriented Therapy<\/strong>\u00a0and Indigenous Tools for Living brings Indigenous wisdom to Somatic Experiencing, healing trauma that\u2019s held in the body through personal and collective ritual.<\/p>

Mariah Moser, www.returningtograce:<\/strong>\u00a0 Mariah\u2019s ground-breaking curriculum in Relational Somatics, Trauma and Psychotherapy is award-winning and internationally recognised, integrating the latest brain & physiology of trauma research with embodied practices for collective release and healing.<\/p>

Dance Troupe Practice<\/strong>\u00a0Movement Research & Improvisation Group<\/strong>\u00a0embodiment & movement practices for group dynamics, collective meaning making and community engagement in public spaces, with artists Luciana Freire D\u2019Anunciacao and Zoe Kreye.<\/p>

Yoga Teaching Certification,\u00a0<\/strong>Yandara Yoga Institute; Ongoing meditation and embodiment courses for social change with Mary Praffard Yoga Mendocino; Yoqi Qi Gong; Improvisation and Collective with Stephen Hill; Embodied collective agencyk workshops with Judith Marcuse, Brian Holden, and Ruby Rowat.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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George Lakey\u2019s Training for Change<\/strong>\u00a0Institute, Facilitation in Social Transformation, invitational trainings.<\/p>

Conflict Resolution<\/strong>\u00a0& Mediation Program<\/strong>, the Justice Institute of BC<\/p>

Community Economic Development<\/strong>\u00a0Certificate, Simon Fraser University<\/p>

NonProfit Management Certificate,<\/strong>\u00a0Simon Fraser University.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The Restoring Collective,<\/strong>\u00a0Co-Founder and Co-Director since 2013<\/p>

Uplifting Indigenous Families Association,<\/strong>\u00a0Board member<\/p>

Pandora Park Community Garden<\/strong>, Board member<\/p>

Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week,<\/strong>\u00a0All My Relations Entertainment, Board member<\/p>

Coastal Jazz Society & Vancouver International Jazz Festival,<\/strong>\u00a0MC<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Coastal Jazz Society & Vancouver International Jazz Festival,<\/strong>\u00a0MC<\/p>

Sunyata Leadership Institute,<\/strong>\u00a0member and trainer<\/p>

Dance Troupe Practice,<\/strong>\u00a0public art engagement projects<\/p>

Potluck Farm to Table Food Coop,<\/strong>\u00a0Founding Board member<\/p>

Status of Women Council Yukon,<\/strong>\u00a0Board member<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Thinkers, Practice Innovators, and Early Certifications<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Jeff Vander Clute<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 visionary coach on intuitive leadership & consciousness, internationally recognised and a beloved collaborator.<\/p>

Lee Maracle \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Oratories: Memory Speaks<\/em>\u00a0guides non-Indigenous people into cultural practices of self-determination as nested and accountable to the fully sentient world. My daily companion.<\/p>

adrienne maree brown<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Pleasure Activism<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Emergent Strategy<\/em>, guides for liberatory practices in today\u2019s social justice and collective transformation.<\/p>

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 essential reading. anything she writes or sings.<\/p>

Robin Wall Kimmerer<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants<\/em>. the bliss and science of world interconnectedness.<\/p>

David Abram<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology<\/em>, reconnecting our sensory consciousness with the reciprocal, communicating world.<\/p>

Marion Woodman<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 a forerunner of guiding innovators into embodied collective consciousness.<\/p>

bell hooks<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 clear words on racism, feminism, activism and engagement.<\/p>

Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice<\/strong>\u00a0at the University of British Columbia \u2013 opening the field of art, activism and academic rigour, with public events.<\/div><\/div>
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The Eastside Institute NY, Art and Community Development:\u00a0<\/strong>global art and theatre program as collective practices for belonging, evolutionary relationship, and improvisation, building social dynamics that transform cultures of violence, 2007-08.<\/p>

Community Economic Development<\/strong>\u00a0certificate at Simon Fraser University, 2001-03.<\/p>

Justice Institute of BC Conflict Resolution & Mediation Program<\/strong>, 1996-98.<\/p>

Bachelor of Arts, Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Communication,<\/strong>\u00a0Rhetoric and Creative Writing, University of British Columbia, 1990<\/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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