A few of my mentors, past and present

  • Zohara Mapes (my daughter)

  • George Leonard (black belt in aikido, author of Education and Ecstasy)

  • John Holt (founder of the Growing Without Schooling movement)

  • Tom and Carol French-Corbett and Sebastian (founders of the New School)

  • A.S. Neill and Maria Montessori (who both died long before they became my mentors)

  • Evalyn Dundas (sandplay mentor)

  • Jeremy Taylor (dreamtime)

  • Joan Gibbons (Jungian psychotherapy)

  • Gabrielle Roth (body, mind, spirit dance)

  • Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela (the biology of love and autopoetic theory)

  • Bela Banathy (systems thinking and social change)

  • Chris, Aran, Danny, Melia, Kyle and Jim from Journey

  • and the wild dolphins of Hawaii who let me swim with them.



=Claudia=





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