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Our
Leadership Circle
The current
leadership team for St. Louis Mysteries is listed here in alphabetical
order. These are people who are participants in the Diana's Grove
Mystery School program and who have stepped into leadership to support
the work of the St. Louis Mysteries group. We believe that leadership
begins with responsibility and action. If you would like to volunteer
with us and help support our events, please contact
us. We are an inclusive group and are interested in working
with a broad and diverse community.
Julee
Higginbotham
Julee has been attending Diana's Grove events for many years. She
is an artist working in clay sculpture, jewelry, painting, and other
media. She currently teaches art classes at the Turner Art Center
in Maplewood.
Karen
C. (Saga)
Coming soon
Lucinda
Sohn
Lucinda is a singer, drummer, healer, and teacher. Lucinda recently
completed a Rites of Passage year in the Diana's Grove leadership
training program. A teacher in St. Louis since 1990, she is the
founder of Elements
of Wellness. Opening the massage therapy school has been her
long-term dream. The school's unique program uses Grove community-building
philosophies in the practice of teaching massage therapy and community
wellness classes. Lucinda is a Nationally Certified Massage Therapist,
an Usui and Karuna Reiki Master Teacher, and a voice therapist.
Paulita
Pranschke
Paulita blends her christian roots with earth-centered, mystical
practices encountered in Diana’s Grove Mystery School, Michael
Harner style shamanic journeywork, and west coast Authentic Movement.
Whether volunteering on political campaigns with MoveOn.org and
the Gateway Greens or facilitating St. Louis Mysteries events, she
seeks to “live in the world today as she wants it to be in
the future” (Alice Walker). Paulita works as a financial analyst,
is plotting to attend divinity school, and mamas 2 cats, 2 dogs,
and a small forest of houseplants.
Peg
N.
Coming soon
River
Higginbotham
A longtime member of the St. Louis Pagan community, River has been
actively teaching and speaking about Paganism for many years both
locally and nationally. He and his wife Joyce are the authors of
two
books on
Paganism, and also helped found the Council for Alternative
Spiritual Traditions (CAST), which hosted public Pagan events in
the
Midwest, including the region’s largest free festival, the
St. Louis
Pagan Picnic. In 2007 the St. Louis Pagan Picnic will be in
the usual
place, Tower Grove Park and will occur the weekend of July 14th
and
15th. (See you there!!! Please support the Picnic Team lead by El
Bee
and Charlynn.) This year River is stepping into a Rites of Passage
intensive leadership training at Diana's Grove. River frequently
helps
to steward the land of Diana's Grove by leading and volunteering
for
land improvement projects and facilities improvements for the Diana's
Grove Dog Rescue. He and Joyce just happen to have two wonderful
puppies (dogs really named Bree and Rex) that were adopted from
the
Diana's
Grove Dog Rescue at the St. Louis Pagan Picnic in 2005 -
support the Rescue!
Shauna
Aura
Shauna dreams of impossible projects and brings them into being;
creativity is her primary form of spiritual expression. She creates
events, experiences, and spaces that facilitate personal growth.
Formerly corporate consultant, Shauna freelances as a designer,
artist, writer, and marketing strategist. She has begun a Rites
of Passage leadership intensive year at Diana’s Grove. With
her design and leadership experience, she has produced theatrical
designs, themed parties, a masquerade ball, rituals, fundraisers,
and recently enjoyed hauling rocks to build an outdoor shrine to
Brigid.
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