Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.

~ Stanislaw J. Lec

Next Step Together

NST Active Core Circle

Here are some of the people currently working on NST:

[incomplete list]

Tim Anderson
Tim has a Masters of Divinity degree, has been a minister, Executive Director of New Hampshire Peace Action, therapist and retreat and conference leader. He loves working with groups. He's trained in systemic family therapy and leads quite large to small groups of many kinds: dream, sociocratic, men's, grief, empowerment, activist. He 's a visionary who puts his spare time into organizing a mass movement to nonviolently and democratically take over the world. Fast.
Robyn Thoren
Robyn earned a B.A. in Psychology from Macalester College in 2001, studied counseling at Antioch University Seattle in 2004-2005 and earned a Certificate in Somatic Sexology / Sexological Bodywork from the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco, CA in 2007.  Her work draws on the wisdom of Re-evaluation Counseling and the philosophy of Landmark Education.  She served her community as a Women's Advocate at Chrysalis Center for Women and The Sexual Violence Center, both in Minneapolis.  Robyn has recently completed the Shamanic Priestess Process and has been ordained as a priestess in the Madonna Ministries.
Gay Wiseman
Gay's work and interests combine a technical proclivity with creative expression. After years as a professional photographer/business owner, she moved into teaching, and now works as Computer Teacher at a K-8 school. She has taught photography, filmmaking, and creative computing. She maintains several websites. She has lived in a simple cabin in the Sierras for 30 years, raising four kids in an unmodern lifestyle. Gay has an M.S. in Educational Technology, a B.A. in Mass Communications/Film, and she continues to study and practice computer science and art.

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

~Diane Ackerman