Barbara Adler, M.A., works as a healer, facilitating wholeness on physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels. She is a graduate of Lesley University (Counseling Psychology M.A.), the Barbara Brennan School of Healing (Energy Healing) and A Society of Souls (Integrated Kabbalistic Healing). Motherhood, qigong, creative expression, and experience in the business and non-profit worlds also inform her life and work.

Janet Farnsworth, M.A., LSW, is a licensed social worker and an experienced dance and movement teacher who has worked with individuals, families and groups.  Formally trained in group facilitation and psychodrama, she also has extensive dance experience in New York and Boston, and with the Doug Wood Dance Ensemble in Chicago. Janet’s practice, Dancing to MySelf, is a model of open and non-evaluative dance which honors each individual’s instinctive response to music – simply moving in a way that feels right – as a means of connecting to one’s highest and deepest wisdom.  She is dedicated to promoting the use of dance and movement as pathways to healing and empowerment.  Janet currently facilitates a variety of dance journeys for children, families, disabled seniors, and adults.

Melinda Franceschini DVM, PhD, Dipl.ABT combines her training and experience in eastern healing arts, embodied and nature-based spirituality, acutonics sound healing, astrology, psychic development, science, and medicine with a deep connection to Spirit and love of the Earth. She has over eight years of experience teaching energetic and spiritual practices in weekly classes, workshops, and private sessions. In her private practice she works with people and animals, offering a variety of healing and spiritual development services. Her life path is focused on the integration of intuition and expanded consciousness with day-to-day life. She is passionate about helping others as they find their own way intuitively, supporting them in the process of healing, opening and expanding consciousness while being joyfully grounded in the body.

Wendy Garling has been a Tibetan Buddhist practitioner since the 1980s and has taught Buddhist thought and practice in the Boston area for over 10 years. At the Women's Well she integrates traditional teachings with women’s spirituality, and additionally has developed a curriculum centered on the sacred feminine in ancient Eastern religious traditions, mostly early and Himalayan Buddhism. She has a B.A. from Wellesley College and an M.A. in Sanskrit language and literature from the University of California, Berkeley. Contact Wendy at 978-369-7826 or wendy.garling@yahoo.com.

Laney Goodman, visionary, ceremonialist and drummer, leads drum circles called Drumming in the Four Directions to help us re-connect with each of the four directions/elements. Laney can help you find your own rhythm and voice...even if you have never played a drum or sung before. Laney’s roots are of the Eastern Door of the Cherokee Nation in the Great Smoky Mountains as well as German, Scots/Irish and English. She has studied with the late Grandmother Twyla Nitsch of the Seneca Wolf Clan, and with African/American Drum Masters Edwina Lee Tyler, Ubaka Hill and the late Baba Olatunji.  www.womenonair.com.

Edith Griffin is a certified Reiki master with a longstanding interest in human spirituality, the natural world, and the healing power of cosmic love. She first became aware of her strong ability to channel healing energy in 1996, when she unexpectedly and spontaneously began to experience waves of energy passing through her hands during a women’s healing workshop. She is the owner of a holistic center in Westford westfordtherapycenter.com.

Diana Griffith, Ph.D., is the former Associate Director of the Structural Biology Core Facility, head of a research lab and faculty member at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She is an expert in determining the three-dimensional structure of a protein that stimulates bone growth and healing, and has also studied spiritual systems that facilitate growth and healing, including Diamond Approach www.ridhwan.org, Thanatology, and Integrated Kabbalistic Healing www.kabbalah.org.

Anita P. Hoffer, Ph.D., Ed.D., worked at Harvard Medical School for over twenty-five years, where she served as an Associate Professor and Director of Research in Urology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. She subsequently worked in the bio-pharmaceutical industry on women's health projects and as a consultant to hospitals and biomedical companies engaged in clinical trials and technology transfer. Anita is a sexuality educator, lecturer and researcher who leads workshops that address older women's sexual concerns and sexual literacy; she teaches health care providers about the special needs of this population; she educates lay audiences on female sexuality and aging; and she does sexual coaching. Her degrees are in reproductive biology, sexology, and sexuality education. Her work is based on her belief that healthy sexuality is a life force and an important component of every human being's personality and well-being through the life cycle. She is a Planned Parenthood volunteer and a member of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists, the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, the Society for Sex Therapy and Research and the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals; she is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Consortium on Sexuality and Aging at Widener University.

Janet Kessenich, M.M. is an energy healer, spiritual/psychological intuitive, teacher, seminar leader, writer and musician. She began her business practice, Spiral Energies (www.spiralenergies.com) in 1998. Her healing work is informed by her certification and training in the LuMarian, Reiki, Acutonics, and Pranic methods of healing. Along with her work with clients, Janet speaks and writes about the spirituality found in everyday life. She is completing a book called “Music Lessons for the Spirit,” an account of the spiritual lessons she learned as a practicing musician.

Renuka O’Connell (“Renu”) has been a practicing artist for 35 years and a meditation instructor for 20 years. She trained from 2005 to 2009 with Kate Ransohoff, focusing on the education and practice of an artist making authentic art. She has facilitated and coached workshops at Turtle Studios in Watertown, at her home studio in Acton, and at Artspace Maynard where she has a peaceful, light-filled studio. While knowing that artmaking of any kind is hard wired into the human species, Renu carefully and lovingly creates an environment that allows for unobtrusive questioning of oneself in order to address one’s own needs and wishes. She enjoys sharing her experience on developing practices, for any lifestyle, that foster satisfaction and pleasure.

Anne Yeomans, MA, LMHC, has been involved in the Women's Well since it began in 1994 as part of The Interface Foundation. She is one of its founders and helped design and facilitate its nine-month program in Women's Spirituality. She has been a psychotherapist and group facilitator for over 40 years, and currently has an office in Shelburne Falls, MA; she also works with people from out of town using Skype. The roots of her psychotherapy practice are in Psychosynthesis and Spiritual Psychology. She has also trained in authentic movement and is very interested in embodied spirituality. Anne is a grandmother and a gardener, and is now writing poetry.