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Healing Quest is the culmination of the dream-vision of its founder, Brigitte Fortin, and the result of several years of reflection and education about the environment and matters of human spirit. By helping people make spiritual connections with nature, we can heal and be healed. There is now little doubt that we have passed the tipping point in terms of environmental degradation and that serious changes are imminent. In order to make deep and lasting transformations, we must learn to value nature as much as we value ourselves. When we re-learn that the earth holds spiritual, emotional and intellectual treasures beyond the physical resources that we have become accustomed to using without restraint, we will be better able to take care of ourselves, each other and this lovely planet. |
Biography
1984-1988: Lived and worked in an intentional community in College Park, Maryland.
1988: B.A. Sociology-Peace Studies, University of Maryland, College Park. The Peace Studies curriculum was composed of every class the college offered on war - economics, history, government, sociology and women's studies.
1988-1993: Peace and Justice activist, Washington, D.C.
1993-present: Systems Analyst, Washington, D.C.
2007-present: Student of Tsalagi-Cherokee Medicine Woman, Jasmine Hisha, Baltimore, Maryland
2008-present: Student of Cheyenne-Crow Medicine Man, Hyemeyohsts Storm in Georgia, California and Pennsylvania
2008: Student of Dalai Lama for "The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path of Enlightenment" by Tsong-Kha-Pa in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
2009: M.S. Environmental Studies, Writing and Communications, Green Mountain College, Poultney, Vermont.
Thesis: Why a spiritual approach to changing environmental behaviors works.
Praise & Shout-outs
We all get help on our paths and I have had some of the world's best teachers and friends.
Family - My mother, father and brother, who along with joys and challenges, taught me that few things are more important than a good education.
The extended Fortin family who teach me "joie de vivre" as only the Québécois can.
Teachers - Sister Boniface, Mrs. Thornton, Mr. Durney, Dr. Teresa Canjar, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Sojourner Truth, James Baldwin, Wilma Mankiller, Edward Said, Thomas Merton, Thich Nhat Hanh, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Jasmine Hisha, Wolf and Swan Storm.
Friends - Great in number and spirit, there are many who help me in good times and bad, and who celebrate with me as I become the woman I was born to be.