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Featured Plenary Speakers
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Selena Fox
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Selena Fox is a psychotherapist, teacher, writer, photographer, ritual performance artist, and priestess. She is founder and co-executive director of Circle Sanctuary, an international Nature Spirituality resource center headquartered on a 200 acre Nature preserve in southwestern Wisconsin, USA.
Selena received her M.S. in Counseling from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She graduated cum laude with a B.S. in psychology from the College of William and Mary in Virginia in 1971. She received additional training in psychology at Rutgers University, Parkway Hospital, and various conferences and training programs. She is a member of the American Psychological Association, American Counseling Association, Association for Transpersonal Psychology, and American Academy of Religion. She is a spiritual counselor in private practice. She also is a staff psychotherapist at Wellspring, a mental health outpatient clinic in Madison, Wisconsin.
Selena has been a Wiccan priestess and Pagan artist since 1973. Selena's approach to spirituality emphasizes Nature communion and blends together ancient and contemporary European and American folkways, Wiccan traditions, multicultural shamanism, and transpersonal psychology. She is one of America's best known Pagan elders, networkers, and civil liberties activists. She is founder of Circle Network, Lady Liberty League, and the Pagan Academic Network. Over the years, Selena and her work have been covered by various regional, national, and global media, including Time Magazine, Wall Street Journal, CNN's Larry King Live, NBC's Today Show, and various radio networks (NPR, BBC, ABC, CBC). She has spoken at a variety of international and multicultural conferences.
Selena's writings and photographs have been published in a variety of periodicals, anthologies, and other publications. She is author of Goddess Communion Rituals and Meditations and When Goddess is God. She also has created several music and guided meditation tapes. She is founder of the quarterly journal, Circle Network News, and sourcebook, Circle Guide to Pagan Groups. She was a consultant for Time-Life Books' Mysteries of the Unknown series.
Selena has traveled widely in connection with her work. She has presented workshops and facilitated community ritual experiences in many types of settings, including colleges and universities, festivals, churches, conferences, and healing centers. She lives with her husband, Dr. Dennis Carpenter, and nine cats... at Circle Sanctuary Nature Preserve. Her avocational pursuits include archaeology, genealogy, herbology, and ornithology.
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Drema Baker
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Co-Founder and Board Chairman of LISTEN Media, Inc. and Co-Founder, Publisher and Senior Editor of If ... Journal, Drema has practiced Wicca from the mid-1980s and was High Priestess of a private coven from 1991 through 2005. She was a founding organizer of the Mid-Atlantic Pagan Leadership Conference in 200 and the National Pagan Leadership Skills Conference in 2004, and worked as a member of that collaborative effort through 2005. Drema has organized events for over a decade. Currently, she holds membership in the Theophilus interfaith clergy group of Norfolk, Virginia, and serves on the organizing committee for the One Love Music and Arts Extravaganza, an interfaith peace event held annually in Virginia Beach. Drema offers training in Wicca, event organizing, small publication production, labyrinth construction and ceremony, and other subjects whenever called to do so. Drema’s spirituality is an ever-evolving experience. Since no specific label fits her practices and beliefs exactly, she calls herself a "Seeker." Drema and Bear, her best friend and husband of over 25 years, work and play together in Southeast Virginia.
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Christine Woodman
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In 2007 Christine was introduced to the growing Pagan movement while researching and documenting an interfaith resource for Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. She took the opportunity to visit the National Pagan Leadership Skills Conference and began discussing the juxtaposition of Pagans on the broad backdrop of national and international religious expression. In the context of academic research, Christine Woodman has presented papers at more than a half-dozen international conferences in the fields of sociology and the scientific study of religions.
Ms. Woodman is employed as a writing consultant for professionals in the fields of religious studies, sociology, anthropology and psychology. A dedicated academic herself, Ms. Woodman holds an undergraduate degree in Theology and a graduate degree in Religious Studies, and she is currently in the Sociology Ph.D. program at George Mason University. For her doctoral studies, Christine is studying the ways in which the sacralization of "family values" in American society may be creating a de facto national religion.
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