Work and Volunteer Experience

Work and volunteer experience

• Volunteer group facilitator at Front Street Inc., where I work with people experiencing symptoms of schizophrenia.
• Facilitated groups at the Alzheimer’s Association
• Have over ten years of grassroots hospice experience in the Bay Area.
• Founded Anicca House, a grassroots hospice outreach program in Santa Cruz in 2005 (Anicca House was closed in 2007 so that I could return to school).
• Led many meditation classes throughout the Bay Area including the Santa Cruz Dharma Punx group over the last ten years.
• Completed a yearlong Buddhist chaplaincy-training program at Sati Center for Buddhist Studies.
• Worked at Zen Hospice Project for three years as a seminar coordinator and hospice care volunteer.
• Spent two years as a meditation teacher and substance abuse adviser for the Insight Prison Project.

Over the years, I have had the pleasure of working alongside people like Rachel Naomi Remen M.D., Frank Ostaseski, Norman Fischer, Jack Kornfield, Byron Katie, Michael Meade, Rabbi Alan Lew, Charles Garfield, Ph.D., Ram Dass, Luis J. Rodriguez, Sylvia Boorstein and Bob Stahl. From these experiences, I have learned ways to integrate many forms of spirituality and different approaches to therapeutic counseling.