Helping Hands, Guiding Hearts

Because true education is interactive, we provide a mentor to be your guide, to provide the support and encouragement necessary for you to acquire and create knowledge. Your mentor will ask you to submit a short biography, up to three pages, to help get to know you and your writing style. As you study, your mentor will comment on your written responses to the study-guide questions that follow each course. And your mentor will make telephone appointments, as you see fit, to help you apply what you learn to increase self-awareness – to improve and empower your life.

Because the program is self-study, it is self-paced. There are no timetables for completion. You proceed according to the time available to you and according to your level of comfort.

Our mentors include:

Andrew Flaxman, founder and director of Classic Insights, B.A., Princeton (cum laude); M.A., Business, Rutgers; author of Learning from History, (Gifted Education Press of Virginia, 1990), “The Open I" (Humanities Education, University of Minnesota, 1991), “The Extra Senses in Our Perception” (Thresholds Quarterly, May 1999), “The Bhagavad Gita and Self Education” (Thresholds Quarterly, Winter 2000-2001), and “The Open I” (revised, Chrysalis Reader, 2001).

Angela Henry Sorenson is a Licensed Professional Counselor, trained hypnotherapist, intimacy coach, ordained minister, author, and workshop facilitator for couples, women, and teens. She has worked in the field of counseling for over 18 years and has trained in numerous healing arts. Angela’s healing abilities far surpass most counselors because of her training in energy work, shamanic soul retrieval, core emotional healing through early childhood and past life regression, as well as her background of study in mystery school spiritual practices. As a facilitator, she knows how to, connect with her audience and to get them to feel and understand where they are experiencing blockages in their lives. She is then able to move them through deep spiritual processes that enable them to surrender old agreements and to refill with Love.

Annie J. Gray, Ph.D. in Educational Psychology/Research with a specialization in Collaborative Learning (University of TN); M.A. in English Literature (TN State U); facilitator of workshops in higher ed on the art/practice of collaborative learning, action research, and the internationalization of the college classroom.; full-time community college English professor and part-time adjunct assistant professor of Ed. Psych; licensed massage therapist; chair of education & outreach efforts for the Knoxville Opera; long time student of spiritual science and, more recently, of Sufism; member the Sufi Order’s 2011-2012 Suluk Academy class; mother of three, stepmother of one, grandmother of two.

Christine Gullacher, B.A. holds a University of Calgary Bachelor of Arts degree as a Psychology Major/Philosophy Minor and has taken professional life coach training with The Coaches Training Institute. She has done post graduate work in the areas of Counseling Psychology, Consciousness & Persons in Philosophy and Facilitating Adult Learning in Continuing Education. Christine is a Professional Life Coach, Mentor and Facilitator whose passion is to journey with you as far ‘down the rabbit hole’ of self awareness you want to go and inspire you to intentionally create your life on purpose. Christine has 26 year old twin boys that she loves to share adventures with.

Cynthia Sterling is the Publisher and CEO SterlingHouse Publisher, Inc.  She has taught at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Slippery Rock University, University of Pittsburgh, and Community College of Allegheny County, among others.  She toured with the Learning Annex in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego.  Cynthia attended the University of Pittsburgh, earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy from AIHT and is working on her Ph.D. in Comparative Religions at the University of Sedona. Her work in hospitals and her work as a physician assistant have fueled her interest in the mind-body connection.

Ellen Carmen Riedel, journalist, editor and researcher of science, health, philosophy and psychology topics; author of two books and two plays, Bachelor of Eurythmy and Anthroposophy at the Alanus-University of Arts in Bonn; long time student of the evolution of the human consciousness and potential; facilitator and trainer in arts and creativity who loves to inspire and encourage.

Joan Belle Nemeth, Student of the art of living in communion with All That Is, she is an impassioned teacher of what she has learned.  Having most recently worked in the healing arts of massage therapy, breathwork, and Reiki energy facilitation, she is a writer, poet, artist, singer, and philosopher.  What greater purpose in life but to pose life-changing questions and find answers?  She shares and inspires so that others can find their own opened illumination and passion for living and learning.  She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music Education and vocal performance.

Joanie Winberg, CEO, National Association of Divorce for Women and Children; founder, Single Again! Now What? e-course mentoring and educational programs that empower single parents to regain confidence, build self-esteem, and create a foundation for enhancing the quality of life for themselves and their children; Certified Human Behavior Consultant, author, speaker, corporate trainer and business/personal mentor specializing in divorce.

Judith Joyce, owner of Journey Beyond Belief, has a B.S. in Education from Texas Tech University, and is a Certified Conscious Relationship and Body-Mind Vibrance Coach through the Hendricks Institute, Access Consciousness Bars Energetic Bodywork Practitioner, Certified Past Life Regression Counselor, Ordained Interfaith Minister, Labyrinth Creator, Educator and founding member of the International Labyrinth Society, author, speaker and writer.  It’s my honor and delight to bring an intuitive, integrated body/mind/spirit approach to private sessions and classes, supporting clients in expanding their awareness, accessing their gifts, talents and joy of being to enhance the vibrance in their lives, relationships and businesses.

Liz Hanzi, Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC); Owner, Living Life Complete, a coaching and training practice offering wellness & life balance coaching; B.A., Philosophy, Agnes Scott College; AMI Certified Montessori Director; Certified fitness instructor and yoga teacher.

Paul Margulies, B.A., Dartmouth College, with honors in philosophy; retired copy writer responsible for Volkswagen, Avis, and Alka Seltzer campaigns; author of children's books; lecturer and writer on the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner more than 30 years.

Svetlana Correa, Law degree, University of Belgrade, Serbia; Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Cincinnati; teacher, Philosophy counselor, and a long time student of Rudolf Steiner. Loves literature, music, art, and Eurythmy. Adores assisting those passionate about improving themselves and, thus, also ennobling the world.