Editor’s note: Charla Wistos served as a Wings intern over the past year after taking multiple Wings seminars. She is a retired high school teacher, licensed marriage and family therapist, and mother. In January 2014, I met an amazing woman online. I “liked” her photo in Ashland’s
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Pat Zimmer served as a Wings intern in 2017-2018. Retired since 2016, Pat was a communications specialist for Bonneville Power Administration. She has two grown daughters and lives in Portland with her husband of 30 years, where she sings, writes, reads, runs, and volunteers at organizations close
Read more →Editor’s note: Mel Knapp is a Wings leadership intern, appreciator of all things outdoors, and environmental collaboration and conflict resolution project manager and trainer. Over the years, I have participated in PES, CrossOver, and LifeWorks, served as an assist team member for both PES and CrossOver seminars,
Read more →Editor’s note: Aimee Bloom is a Wings intern this year and recently launched Inspired Spaces, an organizing and de-cluttering business. She’s also a special education preschool teacher. What was the motivation behind being an intern with LifeWorks this year? There are two main reasons behind my participation
Read more →Editor’s note: Ildie Overbay is a psychotherapist and counselor who has taken several Wings seminars and is now offering her time and talents to support others in their journeys. My motivation to take PES in the fall of 2014 was seeing stunningly increased vitality and joy in
Read more →Editor’s note: Bonnie Brunt is dean of arts at Spokane Falls Community College. She recently attended our Women with Wings Leadership Seminar and is now focusing on bringing Wings seminars to the faculty and students at her college. My first experience with Wings was in 1985, when I
Read more →Editor’s note: Wings in the World is a monthly blog, and this month’s is by Renée Riley-Adams. Renée is a Wings graduate in our Facilitator-in-Training program, and she and her family recently donated $5,000 through the Riley Family Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation to support the
Read more →Editor’s Note: Wings in the World is a monthly blog, and this month’s is by Cathy Merge-Martin, an organizational development specialist for CareOregon in Portland. We hope you will “like,” comment, share, and join in the conversation! “The range of what we think and do is limited
Read more →Editor’s Note: This month’s blog is by Ed Owens, a trainer for the Bend, Oregon-based Grief Recovery Institute. In coming months we will feature writing from other grads who are taking what they learned in Wings into the world. We hope you will “like,” comment, share, and
Read more →Editor’s Note: We are happy to debut a new blog, this month featuring Di Strachan, one of the facilitators for our upcoming Women with Wings Leadership Seminar. We caught up with Di recently and asked her a few questions about how Wings has impacted her over the
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